Able in Different Languages
Discover 'Able' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Able
Afrikaans bekwaam | ||
Albanian në gjendje | ||
Amharic መቻል | ||
Arabic قادر | ||
Armenian կարող | ||
Assamese সক্ষম | ||
Aymara kapasa | ||
Azerbaijani bacarır | ||
Bambara se | ||
Basque gai | ||
Belarusian здольны | ||
Bengali সক্ষম | ||
Bhojpuri काबिल | ||
Bosnian sposoban | ||
Bulgarian способен | ||
Catalan capaç | ||
Cebuano makahimo | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 能够 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 能夠 | ||
Corsican capace | ||
Croatian sposoban | ||
Czech schopný | ||
Danish i stand | ||
Dhivehi ކުރެވޭނެ | ||
Dogri काबल | ||
Dutch bekwaam | ||
English able | ||
Esperanto kapabla | ||
Estonian võimeline | ||
Ewe te ŋu | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) kaya | ||
Finnish pystyy | ||
French capable | ||
Frisian steat | ||
Galician capaz | ||
Georgian შეუძლია | ||
German imstande | ||
Greek ικανός | ||
Guarani katupyry | ||
Gujarati સક્ષમ | ||
Haitian Creole kapab | ||
Hausa iya | ||
Hawaiian hiki | ||
Hebrew יכול | ||
Hindi योग्य | ||
Hmong muaj peev xwm | ||
Hungarian képes | ||
Icelandic fær | ||
Igbo ike | ||
Ilocano addaan kabaelan | ||
Indonesian sanggup | ||
Irish ábalta | ||
Italian in grado | ||
Japanese できる | ||
Javanese saged | ||
Kannada ಸಮರ್ಥ | ||
Kazakh қабілетті | ||
Khmer អាច | ||
Kinyarwanda bashoboye | ||
Konkani सक्षम | ||
Korean 할 수 있는 | ||
Krio ebul | ||
Kurdish kêrhat | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) توانا | ||
Kyrgyz жөндөмдүү | ||
Lao ສາມາດ | ||
Latin potes | ||
Latvian spējīgs | ||
Lingala kokoka | ||
Lithuanian sugeba | ||
Luganda obusobozi | ||
Luxembourgish kënnen | ||
Macedonian способен | ||
Maithili योग्य | ||
Malagasy afaka | ||
Malay mampu | ||
Malayalam കഴിവുള്ള | ||
Maltese kapaċi | ||
Maori taea | ||
Marathi सक्षम | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯇꯧꯕ ꯉꯝꯕ | ||
Mizo thei | ||
Mongolian боломжтой | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) တတ်နိုင် | ||
Nepali सक्षम | ||
Norwegian i stand | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kuthekera | ||
Odia (Oriya) ସକ୍ଷମ | ||
Oromo danda'uu | ||
Pashto وړ | ||
Persian قادر | ||
Polish zdolny | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) capaz | ||
Punjabi ਯੋਗ | ||
Quechua uyakuy | ||
Romanian in stare | ||
Russian способный | ||
Samoan mafai | ||
Sanskrit सक्षमः | ||
Scots Gaelic comasach | ||
Sepedi kgona | ||
Serbian способан | ||
Sesotho khona | ||
Shona kukwanisa | ||
Sindhi قابل | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) පුළුවන් | ||
Slovak schopný | ||
Slovenian sposoben | ||
Somali awoodo | ||
Spanish poder | ||
Sundanese sanggup | ||
Swahili uwezo | ||
Swedish kapabel | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) nagagawa | ||
Tajik қодир | ||
Tamil முடியும் | ||
Tatar сәләтле | ||
Telugu సామర్థ్యం | ||
Thai สามารถ | ||
Tigrinya ምኽኣል | ||
Tsonga kota | ||
Turkish yapabilmek | ||
Turkmen başarýar | ||
Twi (Akan) tumi | ||
Ukrainian здатний | ||
Urdu قابل | ||
Uyghur ئىقتىدارلىق | ||
Uzbek qodir | ||
Vietnamese có thể | ||
Welsh galluog | ||
Xhosa nako | ||
Yiddish קענען | ||
Yoruba anfani | ||
Zulu uyakwazi |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word 'bekwaam' is derived from the Dutch word 'bekwaam', which also means 'able' or 'competent'. |
| Albanian | The word "në gjendje" is sometimes used to refer to being in a specific state or condition. |
| Amharic | The Amharic word "መቻል" can also mean "having the opportunity" or "being permitted". |
| Arabic | "قاد/قادر" (qādir) originates from the root word "ق-د-ر" (q-d-r), meaning "to be able, to have power, to measure, to decree." |
| Armenian | "Կարող" is derived from the Middle Armenian word "կար" meaning "ability" or "power" and can also mean "authority" or "right". |
| Azerbaijani | Bacarır, meaning 'able' in Azerbaijani, originates from the Persian word 'bakhār' meaning 'capable' or 'adequate'. |
| Basque | "Gai" is a common root meaning "to have" or "to be able to" that appears in various Basque verbs as well as the term "gaitasun," which means "ability" or "capacity." |
| Belarusian | "Здольны" means "capable" and comes from the Proto-Slavic root *dolguъ, which also meant "capable". |
| Bengali | সক্ষম can also mean 'capable of' or 'having the power to do something'. |
| Bosnian | The root of 'sposoban' is 'sposobe' which means 'to be capable' but it can also mean 'a method' or 'a way' in Bosnian. |
| Bulgarian | The word "способен" comes from the Old Church Slavonic word "съпобъ" (sъpobъ), meaning "suitable, capable." |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "capaç" can also mean capable of doing something |
| Cebuano | "Makahimo" comes from proto-Austronesian "*paŋarima" or "*paŋrima" meaning "ability" or "capability." |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "能够" originally meant "having the capacity to do something" and could also be used as a modal verb. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | In Classical Chinese, "能夠" had a more specific meaning of "capable of learning or comprehending". |
| Corsican | In Corsica, 'capace' can also mean 'rich' or 'wealthy'. |
| Croatian | The word "sposoban" also means "inclined" or "disposed". |
| Czech | The word 'schopný' also means 'capable', 'talented', or 'skilled' in Czech. |
| Danish | The word "kunne" in Danish means "able" and also comes from the Proto-Germanic word *kunnaną, which also means "to know". |
| Dutch | The word "bekwaam" is derived from the Old Dutch word "bequaem", which means "suitable" or "convenient". |
| Esperanto | The word "kapabla" in Esperanto is derived from the French word "capable", which means "able" or "competent." |
| Estonian | The word "võimeline" is derived from the Proto-Uralic word *wońi, meaning "power" or "ability." |
| Finnish | The word "pystyy" in Finnish has been borrowed from Swedish, where it means "vertically". In Finnish, it also has the alternate meaning of "able". |
| French | The French word "capable" originates from the Latin "capere", meaning "to hold" or "to seize". |
| Frisian | The word "steat" also means "sufficient" or "enough" and is related to the Dutch word "stade" with the same meaning. |
| Galician | The word "capaz" in Galician also means "container" or "vessel". |
| Georgian | The word "შეუძლია" can also mean "can't" in Georgian, depending on the context. |
| German | The word "imstande" is derived from the Old High German word "gistan," meaning "to stand" or "to be able." |
| Greek | "Ικανός" can also refer to adequacy, competence, or sufficiency. |
| Gujarati | "સક્ષમ" is derived from the Sanskrit word "sakta" meaning "powerful" or "capable" and also refers to "competence" or "authority". |
| Haitian Creole | The term "kapab" also denotes the condition or potential of being able. |
| Hausa | In Hausa, the word "iya" also means "to be possible" and is derived from the Arabic word "waqa`a" meaning "to happen". |
| Hawaiian | Derived from Proto-Austronesian *zaki, the word can also mean 'ready,' 'prepared,' 'set,' or 'to be about to'. |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "יכול" (yachol) originally meant "to be permitted" and evolved to also mean "to be possible" and "to be able to". |
| Hindi | The word "योग्य" in Hindi is derived from the Sanskrit word "योग्य," which means "worthy" or "suitable." |
| Hmong | The word "muaj peev xwm" in Hmong can also refer to "having the ability," "being capable," or "being competent." |
| Hungarian | The Hungarian word "képes" originally meant "painted" or "picture". |
| Icelandic | The Old Norse verb "færa" means "to go, carry, bring" or "to cause or make to go". "Fær" is its past participle, which also has passive and impersonal meaning, often corresponding with English words like "can", "may", "should" or "must". |
| Igbo | The word "ike" in Igbo can also refer to "skill", "power", or "authority." |
| Indonesian | The word "sanggup" can also mean "competent", "capable", or "willing". |
| Irish | The Irish word 'ábalta' also means 'disabled', suggesting an interesting semantic transformation over time. |
| Italian | “In grado” also means “within the capacity” or “with the ability”. |
| Japanese | "できる" means "able" in Japanese, but it can also mean "can" or "to do" and is the potential form of the verb. |
| Javanese | The term "saged" in Javanese has an etymology related to the concept of "being adept," "having the ability," and "possessing the competence." |
| Kannada | The word "ಸಮರ್ಥ" can also mean "competent" or "capable" in Kannada. |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "қабілетті" also has the meanings "capable" and "talented". |
| Khmer | In Khmer, "អាច" can also refer to power, authority, or permission. |
| Korean | The word 할 수 있는 (able) originates from the Proto-Korean *har-, meaning "to be able to, can". |
| Kurdish | The word "kêrhat" in Kurdish also refers to the ability to perform a task or the competence to do something. |
| Kyrgyz | The word "жөндөмдүү" can also mean "talented" or "capable" in Kyrgyz. |
| Lao | "ສາມາດ" can also be used to refer to the "measure" of one's abilities. |
| Latin | The term 'potes' is a nominative case in the 3rd person singular and plural of the present subjunctive, and the 2nd person singular and plural of the present indicative for the -potis conjugation of the verb possum, meaning 'to be able to'. |
| Latvian | The Latvian word "spējīgs" is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *speh₂-, meaning "to succeed, thrive". |
| Lithuanian | Lithuanian word "sugeba" (able) derives from the word "gebėti" (to be able to do), related to German "könne" (can) and "wissen" (to know). |
| Luxembourgish | The word "kënnen" in Luxembourgish can also mean "know" or "to know how to do something". |
| Macedonian | The word "способен" also means "capable" or "apt" in Macedonian. |
| Malagasy | The word "afaka" is also used to mean "to be able to" or "to have the ability to do something". |
| Malay | The Old Malay word “mampu” can also mean “to know how to” or “to have the skill”. |
| Malayalam | Although the word "കഴിവുള്ള" literally means "having ability" in Malayalam, an alternate term for "ability" in Malayalam is "കഴിവ്". |
| Maltese | The word 'kapaċi' in Maltese derives from the Arabic 'qādir' ( قادر ), which also means 'powerful'. |
| Maori | The word 'taea' in Maori also refers to the power or capability to do something. |
| Marathi | The word "सक्षम" in Marathi derives from the Sanskrit word "समर्थ ("samarth")", meaning "capable or competent" or from "सह ("sah")" meaning "with or together" and "क्षम ("ksham")" meaning "able or capable". It shares a root with the English word "capacity". |
| Mongolian | Боломжтой is the Mongolian word for the Tibetan "Dza", the last letter of the Tibetan alphabet, which is also used as the symbol for "ability". |
| Nepali | The word 'सक्षम' originates from the Sanskrit root 'क्षम्' meaning 'to be able' or 'to be capable'. |
| Norwegian | The Norwegian word "i stand" can also mean "to understand" or "to be able to". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | "Kuthekera" in Nyanja is a term used to describe someone or something that is physically strong or capable. |
| Pashto | The word "وړ" in Pashto means "brave" or "skilled" and is related to the Persian word "ور" meaning "strength". |
| Persian | The word "قادر" in Persian is derived from the Arabic word "قدر" meaning "to be able" or "to have power or authority." |
| Polish | 'Zdolny' comes from the Proto-Slavic root *dolgъ, which means 'long' or 'high'. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | "Capaz" in Portuguese can also mean "sufficient" or "adequate". |
| Punjabi | The word "ਯੋਗ" in Punjabi can also mean "suitable" or "appropriate". |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "în stare" has the same etymology as the French word "en état", both meaning "in a state". This suggests that the original meaning of the Romanian word was "in a state to do something", which evolved over time to its current meaning of "able". |
| Russian | The Russian слово способный can also mean 'qualified' or 'talented' |
| Samoan | Mafai in Samoan is also an antonym of the word mamafa or 'disobedient,' with both sharing the root fa'a meaning 'to do' or 'to make' |
| Scots Gaelic | The word 'comasach' is also used in Gaelic to refer to someone who is competent, efficient, or skilled. |
| Serbian | "Способан" also means "fit" or "suitable" and comes from the same root as the word "способ" (way, means, method). |
| Sesotho | The word "khona" in Sesotho can also refer to the possession or existence of something. |
| Shona | The Shona word "kukwanisa" can also refer to a "stick" or "something used in place of a hook" or a "prop". |
| Sindhi | "قابل" also means "acceptable" or "worthy" in Sindhi. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The Sinhalese word "පුළුවන්" derives from the Proto-Dravidian word *pul-, meaning "to be able" or "to be possible." |
| Slovak | The word "schopný" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *sopъ, meaning "fit" or "suitable". |
| Slovenian | The Slovenian word 'sposoben' initially denoted a husband or a spouse. |
| Somali | "Awoodo" is not only equivalent to "able" in English, but also refers to "ability," "skill," or "power." |
| Spanish | The Spanish word "poder" comes from the Latin word "possum", which also means "be able". |
| Sundanese | "Sanggup" in Indonesian also means "strong", while in Sundanese it means "able" or "sufficient". |
| Swahili | "Uwezo" also means "capacity, power, or authority" in Swahili. |
| Swedish | "kapabel" is derived from a word meaning "to get hold of" and used to mean "to be capable of holding oneself on a horse", but now it is only used in the sense "to be able to do something". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "nagagawa" is derived from the root word "gawa", meaning "to do" or "to make", and is used to indicate the ability to perform an action. |
| Tajik | }қодир” means “mighty” or “powerful” in Arabic. |
| Tamil | The Tamil verb 'mudiyum' also means 'to end' or 'to die'. |
| Telugu | The word "సామర్థ్యం" (sāmarthyam) in Telugu is derived from the Sanskrit word "समर्थ" (samartha), meaning "capable". It also has the alternate meaning of "power". |
| Thai | Thai "สามารถ" comes from Sanskrit "sam-arthah" and Pali "sama-attha" meaning "complete in meaning". |
| Turkish | The word "yapabilmek" ultimately derives from the verb "yapmak" (to make), and can also mean "to be able to do something". |
| Ukrainian | The word "здатний" can also mean "capable" or "talented". |
| Urdu | Urdu word "قابل" also refers to "deserving" and is used as a noun with the alternate spelling "قابلیّت" to mean "capability". |
| Uzbek | The word "qodir" in Uzbek derives from the Arabic word "qadir", which also means "powerful". |
| Vietnamese | The word "có thể" comes either from Chinese "可" (kě), meaning "can, may"; or from the native Vietnamese words "có" and "thể". |
| Welsh | In some dialects, 'galluog' also translates to 'strong, capable, efficient, or competent'. |
| Xhosa | The word 'nako' can also mean 'possible' or 'permissible' in Xhosa. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "קענען" (kenen) is cognate with the German word "können" (to be able), suggesting its Germanic origins and influence on Yiddish. |
| Yoruba | The word "anfani" can also be translated as "capacity" or "skill" in Yoruba. |
| Zulu | 'Uyakwazi' is formed from the verb 'ukukwazi' which also means 'to be able' or 'to have the power to do something'. |
| English | The word "able" derives from the French word "habile", meaning "capable". |