# Filip
## Azerbaijani
### Proper noun

Filip (definite accusative Filipi, plural Filiplər)
* A transliteration of the English male given name Philip

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [fiˈlip]
* Rhymes: -ip

### Proper noun

Filip m
* a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Philip

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfɪlɪp]

### Proper noun

Filip m anim
* a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Philip
* a male surname

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “Filip”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)

## Danish
### Alternative forms

* Philip, Phillip (given name)

### Proper noun

Filip
* (biblical) Philip
* a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Philip

#### Related terms

* feminine form: Filippa

## Faroese
### Proper noun

Filip m
* a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Philip

#### Usage notes

* son of Filip: Filipsson
* daughter of Filip: Filipsdóttir

#### Declension
## German
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Proper noun

Filip
* a male given name of rare usage, variant of Philipp

## Middle English
### Proper noun

Filip
* 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
* (biblical) Philip
* a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Philip

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfi.lip/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ilip
* Syllabification: Fi‧lip
* Homophone: filip

### Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Φίλιππος (Phílippos).

#### Proper noun

Filip m pers (female equivalent Filipa or Filipina)
* a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Philip
* a male surname

##### Declension
#### Proper noun

Filip f (indeclinable)
* a female surname

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Proper noun

Filip f
* genitive plural of Filipa

### Further reading

* Filip in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* “Filip”, in Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce [Internet dictionary of surnames in Poland], 2022

## Serbo-Croatian
### Proper noun

Filip m (Cyrillic spelling Филип)
* a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Philip

#### Declension
## Slovak
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfiʎip]

### Proper noun

Filip m pers (genitive singular Filipa, nominative plural Filipovia, declension pattern of chlap)
* a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Philip
* a male surname transferred from the given name

#### 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, 2003–2025

## 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
* 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)
* 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
* 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.