Accept in Different Languages
Discover 'Accept' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Accept
Afrikaans aanvaar | ||
Albanian pranoj | ||
Amharic ተቀበል | ||
Arabic قبول | ||
Armenian ընդունել | ||
Assamese গ্ৰহণ কৰা | ||
Aymara iyawsaña | ||
Azerbaijani qəbul et | ||
Bambara ka sɔn | ||
Basque onartu | ||
Belarusian прыняць | ||
Bengali গ্রহণ | ||
Bhojpuri मान लीं | ||
Bosnian prihvati | ||
Bulgarian приемете | ||
Catalan acceptar | ||
Cebuano dawata | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 接受 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 接受 | ||
Corsican accettà | ||
Croatian prihvatiti | ||
Czech akceptovat | ||
Danish acceptere | ||
Dhivehi ޤަބޫލުކުރުން | ||
Dogri मंजूर करो | ||
Dutch aanvaarden | ||
English accept | ||
Esperanto akcepti | ||
Estonian aktsepteerima | ||
Ewe lɔ̃ ɖe edzi | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) tanggapin | ||
Finnish hyväksyä | ||
French j'accepte | ||
Frisian oannimme | ||
Galician aceptar | ||
Georgian მიიღოს | ||
German akzeptieren | ||
Greek αποδέχομαι | ||
Guarani moneĩ | ||
Gujarati સ્વીકારો | ||
Haitian Creole aksepte | ||
Hausa karba | ||
Hawaiian ʻae | ||
Hebrew לְקַבֵּל | ||
Hindi स्वीकार करना | ||
Hmong lees txais | ||
Hungarian elfogad | ||
Icelandic samþykkja | ||
Igbo nabata | ||
Ilocano awaten | ||
Indonesian menerima | ||
Irish glacadh | ||
Italian accettare | ||
Japanese 受け入れる | ||
Javanese nampa | ||
Kannada ಒಪ್ಪಿಕೊಳ್ಳಿ | ||
Kazakh қабылдау | ||
Khmer ទទួលយក | ||
Kinyarwanda emera | ||
Konkani स्विकार | ||
Korean 동의하기 | ||
Krio gri | ||
Kurdish baweranîn | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) پەسەندکردن | ||
Kyrgyz кабыл алуу | ||
Lao ຍອມຮັບ | ||
Latin accipit | ||
Latvian pieņemt | ||
Lingala kondima | ||
Lithuanian priimti | ||
Luganda okukkiriza | ||
Luxembourgish akzeptéieren | ||
Macedonian прифати | ||
Maithili स्वीकार | ||
Malagasy manaiky | ||
Malay terima | ||
Malayalam അംഗീകരിക്കുക | ||
Maltese taċċetta | ||
Maori whakaae | ||
Marathi स्वीकारा | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯌꯥꯕ | ||
Mizo pawm | ||
Mongolian хүлээн авах | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) လက်ခံသည် | ||
Nepali स्वीकार्नुहोस् | ||
Norwegian aksepterer | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kuvomereza | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଗ୍ରହଣ କର | ||
Oromo simachuu | ||
Pashto ومنه | ||
Persian تایید کنید | ||
Polish zaakceptować | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) aceitar | ||
Punjabi ਸਵੀਕਾਰ | ||
Quechua uyakuy | ||
Romanian accept | ||
Russian принять | ||
Samoan talia | ||
Sanskrit स्वीकरोतु | ||
Scots Gaelic gabh ris | ||
Sepedi amogela | ||
Serbian прихвати | ||
Sesotho amohela | ||
Shona gamuchira | ||
Sindhi قبول ڪريو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) පිළිගන්න | ||
Slovak súhlasiť | ||
Slovenian sprejeti | ||
Somali aqbal | ||
Spanish aceptar | ||
Sundanese narima | ||
Swahili kubali | ||
Swedish acceptera | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) tanggapin | ||
Tajik қабул кардан | ||
Tamil ஏற்றுக்கொள் | ||
Tatar кабул итү | ||
Telugu అంగీకరించండి | ||
Thai ยอมรับ | ||
Tigrinya ተቀበል | ||
Tsonga amukela | ||
Turkish kabul etmek | ||
Turkmen kabul et | ||
Twi (Akan) gye to mu | ||
Ukrainian прийняти | ||
Urdu قبول کریں | ||
Uyghur قوبۇل قىلىڭ | ||
Uzbek qabul qilish | ||
Vietnamese chấp nhận | ||
Welsh derbyn | ||
Xhosa yamkela | ||
Yiddish אָננעמען | ||
Yoruba gba | ||
Zulu yemukela |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | "Aanvaar" in Afrikaans is a false friend of the Dutch word "aanvaarden", which means "to accept". It actually means "to collide" in Afrikaans. |
| Albanian | The word "pranoj" also means "give" in Albanian depending on the context. |
| Amharic | The Amharic word "ተቀበል" can also mean "to receive" or "to welcome". |
| Arabic | قبول also means 'to kiss' or 'to receive' in Arabic. |
| Armenian | In the word ընդունել (accept) the prefix ընդ (through, under) indicates that something has passed a threshold, or been brought inside. |
| Azerbaijani | In Azerbaijani, "qəbul et" can also mean "to receive," "to take," or "to admit." |
| Basque | The word "onartu" also means "to consent" or "to agree". |
| Belarusian | In Old Belarusian “прыняць” meant “to take, seize, capture”. |
| Bengali | গ্রহণ in Bengali derives from Sanskrit ग्रहण (grahaṇa), meaning "seizing, grasping, taking," related to grab, clutch, conceive, and grasp. |
| Bosnian | The verb "prihvati" can also be translated as "receive, take, hold." |
| Bulgarian | The word "приемете" can also mean "welcome" or "receive" in Bulgarian. |
| Catalan | In Catalan, "acceptar" also means "to agree to" or "to allow". |
| Cebuano | The word "dawata" in Cebuano can also mean "to agree" or "to consent". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The Chinese character 接受 literally means to receive (接) while understanding and comprehending (受), thus meaning in its entirety to 'accept'. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | "接受" is the Chinese equivalent of the English word "accept", but it can also mean to "undergo" or "experience". |
| Corsican | In Corsican, "accettà" can also mean "to consent" or "to agree to". |
| Croatian | The verb 'prihvatiti' comes from the noun 'hvat' (meaning 'hold'), and its original meaning is 'to take or seize' (something) |
| Czech | Akceptovat can also mean to accept a bet or to agree to a proposal. |
| Danish | The word "acceptere" is derived from the Latin word "accipere", meaning "to take" or "to receive". |
| Dutch | In old Dutch, "aanvaarden" also meant "to attack."} |
| Esperanto | The English word "accept" comes from the Latin word "accipere," which means "to take." Other related forms include "except" ("to take out") and "intercept" ("to take between"). |
| Estonian | "Aktsepteerima" is derived from the French word "accepter", which means to receive or take something willingly. |
| Finnish | "Hyväksyä" also means "to approve", and "to agree to or assent to" in Finnish. |
| French | "J'accepte" also means "I accept" in French. |
| Frisian | The word "oannimme" can also mean "to receive" or "to take" in Frisian. |
| Galician | In Galician, "aceptar" also means "to agree" or "to consent". |
| Georgian | მიიღოს is also a term in Georgian literature meaning "to get" or "to receive". |
| German | The word "akzeptieren" is derived from the Latin word "accipere", meaning "to take" or "to receive". |
| Greek | The Greek verb "αποδέχομαι" is derived from the prefix "ἀπό" (away) and "δέχομαι" (to receive), originally meaning "to receive something from a distance" or "to welcome". |
| Gujarati | The word "સ્વીકારો" has religious connotations and is related to a person accepting religion and its teachings. |
| Haitian Creole | Accepte, like many words in Haitian Creole, is derived from French. |
| Hausa | The Hausa word "karba" is derived from Arabic and has various meanings including "to agree" or "to be willing to take something." |
| Hawaiian | The word ʻae, meaning "accept," also has a meaning of "it is so," implying agreement or affirmation. |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "לְקַבֵּל" can also mean "to receive" or "to welcome." |
| Hindi | The Hindi word 'स्वीकार करना' also means to 'admit' or 'confess'. |
| Hmong | The term "lees txais" (accept) in Hmong can also mean "to receive with gratitude." |
| Hungarian | The word "elfogad" is thought to have originated from the Proto-Uralic word "*elke-'" meaning to take or receive. |
| Icelandic | The word "samþykkja" originally meant "to think together" or "to agree". |
| Igbo | The Igbo word "nabata" translates to "accept" in English and also connotes "receiving with open arms." |
| Indonesian | "Menerima" means "to accept" in Indonesian, but it can also mean "to receive", "to take", or "to obtain". |
| Irish | "Glacadh" can also refer to an act of receiving something. |
| Italian | The Italian word "accettare" comes from the Latin "accipio", meaning "receive". |
| Japanese | 受け入れる (ukeru) literally means "to receive" or "to take in" in Japanese, but it also carries the connotation of "to accept" or "to tolerate." |
| Javanese | The word "nampa" in Javanese also has the meaning of "to receive" or "to take something" in a non-physical sense. |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "қабылдау" comes from the Arabic "قبول" meaning "to accept" or "to receive". |
| Khmer | The Khmer word ទទួលយក (accept) originally meant 'to receive' or 'to greet'. |
| Korean | The verb 동의하다 (tonguihada) comes from the Chinese word 同意 (tongyi), which means "to think the same." |
| Kurdish | The term "baweranîn" can refer to "belief" as well as "acceptance" in Kurdish. |
| Kyrgyz | Кабыл алуу also refers to a bride price paid to the bride's family by the groom's family in traditional Kyrgyz marriages. |
| Latin | The word 'accipit' is derived from the Latin verb 'accipere', meaning 'to take', and can also refer to a hawk or other bird of prey in Latin. |
| Latvian | The word pieņemt is also used in the sense of "to adopt". |
| Lithuanian | "Priimti" in Lithuanian also has the meaning of "to embrace" or "to adopt". |
| Luxembourgish | The Luxembourgish word 'akzeptéieren' is derived from the French word 'accepter', which in turn comes from the Latin word 'accipere', meaning 'to receive'. |
| Macedonian | The word "прифати" may also refer to "seize" or "hold firmly". |
| Malagasy | The word "MANAIKY" can also mean "to agree" or "to consent" in Malagasy. |
| Malay | The word "terima" is derived from the Sanskrit word "tri" meaning "three" and "ma" meaning "to take", and it originally meant "to receive three things" as a sign of acceptance. |
| Malayalam | "അംഗീകരിക്കുക" means to accept something in Malayalam and has alternate meanings such as to allow, sanction, permit, approve and concede |
| Maltese | "Taċċetta" is derived from the Sicilian word "tacitari" or from the Italian "tacitare", both meaning to silence or calm. |
| Maori | "Whakaae" comes from the Proto-Polynesian root “whaka” which means "to make, cause, perform," and “ae” which means "consent, allow." |
| Marathi | The Marathi word "स्वीकारा" (svīkārā) is derived from the Sanskrit word "स्वीकृत" (svīkṛta), which means "accepted, taken, or received." |
| Nepali | स्वीकार्नुहोस् (swIkrnuhos) is also a term used in Buddhism to refer to accepting the teachings of the Buddha. |
| Norwegian | The word "aksepterer" derives from the Latin "accipere", meaning "to take". Another meaning of "aksepterer" is to "acknowledge". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "kuvomereza" comes from the root word "vomera" which means "to be willing". |
| Pashto | "ومنه" in Pashto can also mean “to agree” or “to consent”. |
| Polish | The word 'zaakceptować' comes from the Latin word 'acceptus', meaning 'received' or 'approved'. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, "aceitar" means "to accept" and also "to polish with oil or grease". |
| Punjabi | The word "ਸਵੀਕਾਰ" (accept) in Punjabi is derived from the Sanskrit word "स्वीकर" (to admit or acknowledge), and also means "to confess" in Punjabi. |
| Romanian | In Romanian, "accept" can also mean "to agree to", "to take delivery of", or "to approve of." |
| Russian | "Принять" также может означать "принимать (лекарство), потреблять (пищу), принимать (гостей), усыновлять (ребенка) или принимать (закон)". |
| Samoan | Samoan "talia" can also mean "to see," "to view," or "to look at." |
| Scots Gaelic | "Gabh ris" can mean 'receive,' 'take,' or 'submit' |
| Serbian | The Serbian word "прихвати" also has the alternate meaning of "to seize" or "to take hold of". |
| Sesotho | The word amohela in Sesotho originates from the Proto-Bantu language root -am, and is cognate with the word for "receive". |
| Shona | Derived from the Proto-Bantu root *-tɛma, meaning "to take or receive". |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "قبول ڪريو" can also mean "to acknowledge" or "to recognize". |
| Slovak | The verb "súhlasiť" is derived from the noun "súhlas" ("consent"), which in turn comes from the Old Slavic word *sodobiti sę* ("to be in agreement with"). |
| Slovenian | The Slovene word "sprejeti" has the same root as the English word "preach" |
| Somali | The Somali word "aqbal" can also mean "arrive" or "come." |
| Spanish | The word 'aceptar' derives from the Latin 'acceptare', meaning 'to receive', and can also carry the meaning of 'to agree' or 'to consent'. |
| Sundanese | The word "narima" in Sundanese also means "to receive" or "to take in". |
| Swahili | The word "kubali" in Swahili can also mean "to agree" or "to consent" |
| Swedish | The Swedish verb "acceptera" also means "to acquiesce" or "to be resigned to" something. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | Tanggapin shares a root word with the concept of receiving something, or 'tanggap'. |
| Tajik | The word "қабул кардан" can also mean "to receive" or "to take in". |
| Tamil | ஏற்றுக்கொள் is an umbrella term meaning |
| Thai | The word "ยอมรับ" can also mean "to acknowledge", "to admit", or "to agree with". |
| Turkish | "Kabul etmek" (to accept) derives from Arabic "qabila" (tribe) and means to "take into the tribe." |
| Ukrainian | “Прийняти” means “to accept” but is also colloquial for “to drink alcohol”. |
| Urdu | قبول کریں is derived from the Persian word "قبول" which means "to agree to". It can also mean "to receive". |
| Uzbek | The word "qabul qilish" in Uzbek can also mean "to receive" or "to admit to a place or an institution." |
| Vietnamese | Chấp nhận in Vietnamese can also mean to resign (oneself to something) and to concede (someone else is better at doing or being something). |
| Welsh | The word "derbyn" can also mean "receive", "obtain" or "take". |
| Xhosa | The word "Yamkela" in Xhosa is derived from the word "mkela", which means "to take hold of" or "to receive". |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "אָננעמען" can also mean "to adopt" or "to embrace". |
| Yoruba | In some contexts, "gba" can also mean "to receive", "to take", or "to collect". |
| Zulu | The Zulu word "yemukela" also means "to welcome" or "to receive hospitality". |
| English | The word "accept" can also refer to an exchange or transfer (of bills, cheques, etc.) |