filename

See also: file name

English

Alternative forms

• file name

Etymology

file +‎ name

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: fīl′nām, IPA^(key): /ˈfaɪ.əl.neɪm/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: file‧name

Noun

filename (plural filenames)

1. (computing) The name assigned to a file in a file system.

   Hypernyms: name < identifier

   Hyponyms: long filename, LFN, short filename, SFN

   Holonyms: filespec, pathname

   Meronyms: filename extension, extension

   Comeronyms: filepath, path

   Near-synonym: basename

Related terms

• file format
• file size
• file system

Translations

name assigned to a file

Bulgarian: фа́йлово и́ме n (fájlovo íme) Chinese: Mandarin: 文件名 (wénjiàn míng) Esperanto: dosiernomo Finnish: tiedostonimi French: nom de fichier m German: Dateiname (de) m Greek: όνομα αρχείου (el) n (ónoma archeíou) Indonesian: nama berkas Japanese: ファイル名 (fairu-mei) Korean: 파일 이름 (pail ireum), 파일명 (ko) (pailmyeong) Polish: nazwa pliku f Portuguese: nome de arquivo m (Brazil), nome de ficheiro m (Portugal) Russian: (please verify) и́мя фа́йла n (ímja fájla) Serbo-Croatian: naziv datoteke m Spanish: nombre de archivo m Swedish: filnamn (sv) n Turkish: dosya adı/ismi

See also

• 8.3

References

• filename on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• leafmine