German in Different Languages
Discover 'German' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
German
Afrikaans duits | ||
Albanian gjermanisht | ||
Amharic ጀርመንኛ | ||
Arabic ألمانية | ||
Armenian գերմանական | ||
Assamese জাৰ্মান | ||
Aymara alemán aru | ||
Azerbaijani alman | ||
Bambara alemaɲikan na | ||
Basque alemana | ||
Belarusian нямецкая | ||
Bengali জার্মান | ||
Bhojpuri जर्मन भाषा के बा | ||
Bosnian njemački | ||
Bulgarian немски | ||
Catalan alemany | ||
Cebuano aleman | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 德语 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 德語 | ||
Corsican tedescu | ||
Croatian njemački | ||
Czech němec | ||
Danish tysk | ||
Dhivehi ޖަރުމަނު ބަހުންނެވެ | ||
Dogri जर्मन | ||
Dutch duitse | ||
English german | ||
Esperanto germana | ||
Estonian saksa keel | ||
Ewe germanygbe me tɔ | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) aleman | ||
Finnish saksan kieli | ||
French allemand | ||
Frisian dútsk | ||
Galician alemán | ||
Georgian გერმანული | ||
German deutsche | ||
Greek γερμανός | ||
Guarani alemán ñe’ẽ | ||
Gujarati જર્મન | ||
Haitian Creole alman | ||
Hausa bajamushe | ||
Hawaiian alemania | ||
Hebrew גֶרמָנִיָת | ||
Hindi जर्मन | ||
Hmong german | ||
Hungarian német | ||
Icelandic þýska, þjóðverji, þýskur | ||
Igbo german | ||
Ilocano aleman nga aleman | ||
Indonesian jerman | ||
Irish gearmáinis | ||
Italian tedesco | ||
Japanese ドイツ人 | ||
Javanese jerman | ||
Kannada ಜರ್ಮನ್ | ||
Kazakh неміс | ||
Khmer អាឡឺម៉ង់ | ||
Kinyarwanda ikidage | ||
Konkani जर्मन भास | ||
Korean 독일 사람 | ||
Krio jaman langwej | ||
Kurdish almanî | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) ئەڵمانی | ||
Kyrgyz немисче | ||
Lao ເຢຍລະມັນ | ||
Latin germanica | ||
Latvian vācu | ||
Lingala allemand | ||
Lithuanian vokiečių kalba | ||
Luganda omugirimaani | ||
Luxembourgish däitsch | ||
Macedonian германски | ||
Maithili जर्मन | ||
Malagasy anarana | ||
Malay bahasa jerman | ||
Malayalam ജർമ്മൻ | ||
Maltese ġermaniż | ||
Maori tiamana | ||
Marathi जर्मन | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯖꯔꯃꯅꯤꯒꯤ ꯑꯣꯏꯕꯥ꯫ | ||
Mizo german tawng a ni | ||
Mongolian герман | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ဂျာမန် | ||
Nepali जर्मन | ||
Norwegian tysk | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) chijeremani | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଜର୍ମାନ୍ | ||
Oromo jarmanii | ||
Pashto جرمني | ||
Persian آلمانی | ||
Polish niemiecki | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) alemão | ||
Punjabi ਜਰਮਨ | ||
Quechua alemán simipi | ||
Romanian limba germana | ||
Russian немецкий | ||
Samoan siamani | ||
Sanskrit जर्मन | ||
Scots Gaelic gearmailteach | ||
Sepedi sejeremane | ||
Serbian немачки | ||
Sesotho sejeremane | ||
Shona chijerimani | ||
Sindhi جرمني | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) ජර්මානු | ||
Slovak nemecky | ||
Slovenian nemško | ||
Somali jarmal | ||
Spanish alemán | ||
Sundanese jérman | ||
Swahili kijerumani | ||
Swedish tysk | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) aleman | ||
Tajik олмонӣ | ||
Tamil ஜெர்மன் | ||
Tatar немец | ||
Telugu జర్మన్ | ||
Thai เยอรมัน | ||
Tigrinya ጀርመንኛ | ||
Tsonga xijarimani | ||
Turkish almanca | ||
Turkmen nemes | ||
Twi (Akan) german kasa | ||
Ukrainian німецька | ||
Urdu جرمن | ||
Uyghur german | ||
Uzbek nemis | ||
Vietnamese tiếng đức | ||
Welsh almaeneg | ||
Xhosa isijamani | ||
Yiddish דײַטש | ||
Yoruba jẹmánì | ||
Zulu isijalimane |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "Duits" can also refer to the language of the Germans, or to Germany itself. |
| Albanian | The Albanian word for "German" is derived from the Illyrian word "Germani", which originally referred to farmers and herdsmen. |
| Amharic | The word "ጀርመንኛ" in Amharic also refers to the language of the Tigray and Tigre peoples, both of whom have a strong cultural affinity with the German people. |
| Arabic | كلمة ألمانية (German) في العربية مشتقة من كلمة |
| Armenian | The word "Գերմանական" originally referred to all Western nations (and not just the Germans), hence the name "Germany" for West Armenia |
| Azerbaijani | The word "Alman" also means "mute" in Azerbaijani. |
| Basque | Alemana is a Basque word derived from Latin Alemannus, meaning "German". It can also refer to a traditional Basque dance and a type of pie. |
| Belarusian | "Нямецкая" has a double meaning in Belarusian, referring to Germany and "mute" people. |
| Bengali | The word 'জার্মান' can also refer to a type of cloth made from a mixture of cotton and linen. |
| Bosnian | In the past, the word "njemački" was also used to refer to the Ottoman Empire because the Ottomans' ethnic origin was not known for sure. |
| Bulgarian | "Немски" in Bulgarian can also mean "mute" or "someone who cannot speak". |
| Catalan | The word 'Alemany' can also refer to the Alemany dialect group spoken in southern Italy, or to someone from that region. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 德语除了表示德语外，还可以表示美德和道义。 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 德語在中文裡原意為"美德"，後借用為"德國"的名稱。 |
| Corsican | In Corsican, "Tedescu" can also mean "foreigner", "non-Italian" or "unfamiliar". |
| Croatian | The word 'njemački' in Croatian can also refer to the German language or to someone who is from Germany. |
| Czech | The word "Němec" in Czech originally derived from "něm" - silent, with its original meaning being "the one who doesn't speak" in reference to German merchants who often didn't know Czech. |
| Danish | The Danish word "tysk" originates from the Old Norse word "þýzkr", which originally referred to a people living in what is now northern Germany. |
| Dutch | Duitse is derived from the word "Duits", which means "people" in Old Dutch. |
| Estonian | The word "Saksa" in "Saksa keel" likely originates from the name of the Saxon tribes who inhabited parts of modern-day Germany centuries ago. |
| Finnish | Saksan kieli is a Finnish calque of the Latin word "lingua Saxonica," which refers to the language of the Saxons, who were a Germanic people. |
| French | In fencing, “l’allemande” refers to a guard position with the sword raised near the head. |
| Frisian | Besides 'German', the word 'Dútsk' can also mean 'Dutch' in Frisian |
| Galician | Alemán can also mean 'wild' or 'outside of the cultivated land' in Galician. |
| German | The word 'Deutsche' comes from the Old High German word 'diutisc', which originally meant 'the people'. It has evolved to mean 'German' but can also refer to 'the common people'. |
| Greek | The term originated in Latin from *Germānus, itself taken from a Celtic ethnonym; the root meaning is "neighbor", reflecting the fact that Celts living in Gaul considered *Germānus to refer to the peoples living just east of their territory, across the Rhine. |
| Haitian Creole | The word "Alman" in Haitian Creole can also refer to someone who is not Haitian, or to a foreigner. |
| Hausa | The Hausa word 'Bajamushe' is likely derived from the Hausa phrase 'Bajan Jamushi', meaning 'to kill a fly'. |
| Hawaiian | In Hawaiian, "Alemania" derives from the term "Alemaina", which referred to the country of Scotland. |
| Hebrew | גֶרמָנִיָת' is also the name of the Germanium element in Hebrew |
| Hindi | जर्मन शब्द की व्युत्पत्ति लैटिन शब्द 'जरमानी' से हुई है, जिसका अर्थ है 'सच्चे लोग'. |
| Hmong | Hmong derives the word “German” from the Chinese word 德意志 (Déyìzhì), which itself derives from the Latin word Teutonicus. |
| Hungarian | The verb "németek" in Hungarian can mean both "to become mute" and "to become German". |
| Icelandic | The term "Þjóðverji" in Icelandic ultimately derives from the Gothic word "þiudisks", which also gave rise to the English words "Dutch" and "Deutsch". |
| Igbo | The Igbo word |
| Indonesian | "Jerman" dalam bahasa Indonesia juga dapat merujuk pada "jerami" atau "rumput kering". |
| Irish | "Gearmáinis" is derived from the Latin word "Germanus", meaning "brother" or "closely related". |
| Italian | Italian 'Tedesco' meant 'native of Tyrol' before coming to mean 'German' |
| Japanese | In Japanese, "ドイツ人" (German) can also mean "Doitsu-jin", referring to a person from the Japanese city of Doitsu in Aichi Prefecture. |
| Javanese | "Jerman" in Javanese also means 'to make something worse', 'to deteriorate', or anything that worsens a situation. |
| Kazakh | The word "Неміс" can also refer to other Germanic nations, such as Sweden, Belgium, and the Netherlands. |
| Khmer | The word "អាឡឺម៉ង់" can also refer to a type of fabric or a particular shade of blue. |
| Korean | 독일 사람 in Korean, pronounced as Dok-il-sa-ram, means "a person from Germany" but also has an alternate meaning, "a person with blonde hair and blue eyes." |
| Kurdish | The word "Almanî" in Kurdish can also refer to the Alemanni tribe of Germany or generally to West Germanic peoples. |
| Kyrgyz | Also referred to as "Нимыс", the word originated from the ethnonym of the Volga Germans of the 18th century. |
| Latin | "Germanica" derives from the Celtic "Germanus," meaning "neighbor, brother-in-law," and the Germanic "Germ," meaning "neighbor or relative." |
| Latvian | The word “Vācu” in Latvian can also refer to a certain type of fabric. |
| Lithuanian | In Old Prussian, "vokis" meant "a stranger", and "vokitan" meant "to speak a foreign language". |
| Luxembourgish | In the Moselle region, 'Däitsch' can also refer to the Franconian dialect of Luxembourgish spoken there, while in the rest of the country it refers to Standard German. |
| Macedonian | The word "Германски" can also refer to the Germanic languages or the Germanic peoples. |
| Malagasy | The word "Anarana" in Malagasy is derived from the French word "Allemand", meaning "German". It also refers to the white population of Madagascar, regardless of their nationality. |
| Malay | In Malay, "Bahasa Jerman" translates to "German" but can also refer to the "German language" or "German people". |
| Maltese | The word 'Ġermaniż' can also refer to a type of flower, a species of geranium. |
| Maori | Tiamana is also the Maori word for the German state of Bavaria, after early immigrants from that region. |
| Mongolian | The word “Герман” also refers to an old Mongol name that was given to males and means “brave”. |
| Nepali | The word "जर्मन" in Nepali can also mean "germs" or "bacteria". |
| Norwegian | The word "tysk" can also refer to the Danish island of Tycho Brahe, whose Latin name is "insula Tychonis". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word 'Chijeremani' in Nyanja (Chichewa) is derived from the Swahili word 'jerumani', which in turn comes from the Arabic word 'al-ajam' meaning 'foreigners'. |
| Persian | آلمانی (Ālmāni) can also refer to an "inhabitant of the Alamut valley". |
| Polish | In the Polish language, the word 'Niemiecki' is used not only as an adjective ('German') but also as a noun meaning 'a German person'. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "alemão" (German) in Portuguese has other meanings, such as "fool" (in Portugal) and "mute" (in Brazil). |
| Romanian | The word "limba germana" can also refer to the English language in Romanian, as German was used as the language of trade and administration in Transylvania when the word was borrowed. |
| Russian | The word "Немецкий" derives from the Old Church Slavonic term "нѣмьць", meaning "mute, barbarian". |
| Samoan | The word 'Siamani' is thought to be derived from the word 'Germania' referring to Germany, or perhaps to the name of a 19th-century German settler family named Seemahn. |
| Scots Gaelic | The Scots Gaelic word 'Gearmailteach' is a phonetic adaptation of 'German' and is pronounced 'gear-mahl-teach'. |
| Serbian | Originally "Немачки" in Serbian meant "unable to speak" rather than referring specifically to the people of Germany. |
| Sesotho | The word "Sejeremane" can also refer to a type of dance popular in Lesotho, South Africa. |
| Shona | The word "ChiJerimani" in Shona may also refer to the color "grey" or "dark grey". |
| Sindhi | The term "جرمني" can also refer to the people and culture of Pakistan's northwest. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "ජර්මානු" (German) in Sinhala also refers to the German people and the German language. |
| Slovak | Alternately, "Nemecky" refers to the deaf and mute in Slovak sign language as German was the common language of instruction in schools for the deaf and mute in the former Czechoslovakia. |
| Slovenian | The Slovenian word 'Nemško' is derived from the old Germanic word 'Nemetes', which means 'the mute' or 'the foreigner'. This term was applied to the Germanic tribes by the Romans, who did not understand their language. |
| Somali | The word "Jarmal" in Somali may also refer to "Europe" or "Westerners" in general. |
| Spanish | The word "alemán" also means "mute" or "disabled" in Spanish, and is often used to describe someone who is unable to speak or move. |
| Sundanese | Jérman, a Sundanese word for 'German', may also refer to the color 'gray' or the 'smell of wet soil'. |
| Swahili | Kijerumani derives from the Arabic word jarman for "German" and is a related form of the word in various other languages, including Karmani, Jarmani, and Jarimani. |
| Swedish | Tysk is an abbreviation of tysker, the Swedish word for Germans, which stems from the Old Norse word for people. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "Aleman" in Tagalog is derived from the Spanish word "alemán". It can also refer to people from Germany or German-speaking countries. |
| Tajik | Олмонӣ also means "free, liberated, independent" in Tajik. |
| Tamil | In Tamil, "ஜெர்மன்" can also mean "one who is strong" or "a warrior". |
| Telugu | The word "జర్మన్" (German) may also refer to the language spoken in Germany or to the people of Germany. |
| Thai | คำว่า "เยอรมัน" ในภาษาไทยยังมีความหมายว่า "ใหญ่โต" หรือ "แข็งแรง" ด้วย |
| Turkish | Almanca kelimesi aynı zamanda 'dilsiz' anlamına da gelir. |
| Ukrainian | The word "Німецька" has its origin in the Old High German word "diutisc," which was used to refer to the language and culture of the Germanic tribes. |
| Urdu | The word "جرمن" can also refer to a strong or powerful person. |
| Uzbek | In Uzbek, |
| Vietnamese | Tiếng Đức còn có nghĩa là "mùi hôi" hoặc "vật có mùi hôi" trong tiếng Việt. |
| Welsh | In Welsh, 'Almaeneg' ('German') is an amalgamation of the words 'all' (foreign) and 'man' (people). |
| Xhosa | The word "IsiJamani" can also refer to something very good, especially if it is very modern or up to date. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "דײַטש" not only means "German", but is also synonymous with "Jewish" when used in a religious context. |
| Yoruba | While the word "Jẹmánì" commonly refers to "Germans" in Yoruba, it also denotes "people of the forest" or "fair-skinned people" in a broader sense. |
| Zulu | IsiJalimane literally means "the language of the Jalimani tribe". |
| English | The word "German" can also refer to the language spoken in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. |