Filip

See also: filip

Azerbaijani

Proper noun

Filip (definite accusative Filipi, plural Filiplər)

1. a transliteration of the English male given name Philip

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central, Valencia, Northwestern) [fiˈlip]
• Rhymes: -ip

Proper noun

Filip m

1. a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Philip

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɪlɪp]

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

Filip m anim

1. a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Philip
2. a male surname

Declension

Declension of Filip (hard masculine animate)

	singular	plural
nominative	Filip	Filipové
genitive	Filipa	Filipů
dative	Filipovi	Filipům
accusative	Filipa	Filipy
vocative	Filipe	Filipové
locative	Filipovi	Filipech
instrumental	Filipem	Filipy

Further reading

• “Filip”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)

Danish

Alternative forms

• Philip, Phillip (given name)

Proper noun

Filip

1. (biblical) Philip
2. a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Philip

Related terms

• feminine form: Filippa

Faroese

Proper noun

Filip m

1. a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Philip

Usage notes

Matronymics

• Filip's son: Filipsson
• Filip's daughter: Filipsdóttir

Declension

	singular
	indefinite
nominative	Filip
accusative	Filip
dative	Filipi
genitive	Filips

German

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

Proper noun

Filip

1. a male given name of rare usage, variant of Philipp

Middle English

Proper noun

Filip

1. Philip
   • 1407, The Testimony of William Thorpe, pages 40–41:

     And herfore grete men of kunnynge and other also drowen myche to him, and comownede ofte with him. And thei sauouriden so his loore that thei wroten it bisili and enforsiden hem to rulen hem theraftir […] Maister Ion Aston taughte and wroot acordingli and ful bisili, where and whanne and to whom he myghte, and he vsid it himsilf, I gesse, right perfyghtli vnto his lyues eende. Also [Filip of Repintoun] whilis he was a chanoun of Leycetre, Nycol Herforde, dane Geffrey of Pikeringe, monke of Biland and a maistir dyuynyte, and Ioon Purueye, and manye other whiche weren holden rightwise men and prudent, taughten and wroten bisili this forseide lore of Wiclef, and conformeden hem therto.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Norwegian

Alternative forms

• Philip (given name)

Proper noun

Filip

1. (biblical) Philip
2. a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Philip

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfi.lip/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ilip
• Syllabification: Fi‧lip
• Homophone: filip

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *bʰil-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *bʰil-o-s

Ancient Greek φίλος (phílos)

Ancient Greek φιλο- (philo-)

Proto-Indo-European *HéHḱus

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éḱwos

Proto-Hellenic *íkkʷos

Ancient Greek ἵππος (híppos)

Ancient Greek φίλιππος (phílippos)

Ancient Greek Φίλιππος (Phílippos)lbor.

Polish Filip

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Φίλιππος (Phílippos).

Proper noun

Filip m pers (female equivalent Filipa or Filipina)

1. a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Philip
2. a male surname

Declension

Declension of Filip

	singular	plural
nominative	Filip	Filipowie
genitive	Filipa	Filipów
dative	Filipowi	Filipom
accusative	Filipa	Filipów
instrumental	Filipem	Filipami
locative	Filipie	Filipach
vocative	Filipie	Filipowie

Proper noun

Filip f (indeclinable)

1. a female surname

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Proper noun

Filip f

1. genitive plural of Filipa

Further reading

• “Filip”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[1] (in Polish)
• “Filip”, in Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce [Internet dictionary of surnames in Poland], 2025–2030

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Φῐ́λῐππος (Phĭ́lĭppos).

Proper noun

Filip m anim (Cyrillic spelling Филип)

1. a male given name from Greek, equivalent to English Philip

Declension

Declension of Filip

	singular	plural
nominative	Filip	-
genitive	Filipa	-
dative	Filipu	-
accusative	Filipa	-
vocative	Filipe	-
locative	Filipu	-
instrumental	Filipom	-

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fiʎip/, (high register) [ˈfiʎip], (common) [ˈfilip]
• Rhymes: -iʎip
• Hyphenation: Fi‧lip

Proper noun

Filip m pers

1. a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Philip
2. a male surname transferred from the given name

Declension

Declension of Filip
(pattern chlap)

	singular	plural
nominative	Filip	Filipovia
genitive	Filipa	Filipov
dative	Filipovi	Filipom
accusative	Filipa	Filipov
locative	Filipovi	Filipoch
instrumental	Filipom	Filipmi

Derived terms

• Filipko
• Fiľko
• Fiľo

Further reading

• “Filip”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026

Swedish

Alternative forms

• Fille (diminutive)

Etymology

Ancient Greek origin. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1581 as Philip.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Interjection

Filip

1. The letter "F" in the Swedish spelling alphabet; not to be confused with "P" (due to the alternative spelling Philip)

Proper noun

Filip c (genitive Filips)

1. a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Philip

Related terms

• (biblical form) Filippos
• (feminine form) Filippa
• (surnames) Filipsson

References

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• [2] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 23 675 males with the given name Filip (compared to 14 688 named Philip) living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1990s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.