Act in Different Languages
Discover 'Act' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Act
Afrikaans daad | ||
Albanian veproj | ||
Amharic እርምጃ | ||
Arabic فعل | ||
Armenian գործել | ||
Assamese অভিনয় | ||
Aymara aktu | ||
Azerbaijani hərəkət et | ||
Bambara kɛwale | ||
Basque jardun | ||
Belarusian дзейнічаць | ||
Bengali আইন | ||
Bhojpuri कारज | ||
Bosnian djelovati | ||
Bulgarian действай | ||
Catalan actuar | ||
Cebuano buhat | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 法案 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 法案 | ||
Corsican agisce | ||
Croatian djelovati | ||
Czech akt | ||
Danish handling | ||
Dhivehi ޢަމަލު | ||
Dogri ऐक्ट | ||
Dutch handelen | ||
English act | ||
Esperanto akto | ||
Estonian tegutsema | ||
Ewe wɔ nu | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) kumilos | ||
Finnish toimia | ||
French acte | ||
Frisian handeling | ||
Galician actuar | ||
Georgian მოქმედება | ||
German handlung | ||
Greek υποκρίνομαι | ||
Guarani apo | ||
Gujarati કાર્ય | ||
Haitian Creole aji | ||
Hausa yi aiki | ||
Hawaiian hana | ||
Hebrew פעולה | ||
Hindi कार्य | ||
Hmong ua | ||
Hungarian törvény | ||
Icelandic framkvæma | ||
Igbo mee | ||
Ilocano aramid | ||
Indonesian bertindak | ||
Irish gníomh | ||
Italian atto | ||
Japanese 行為 | ||
Javanese tumindak | ||
Kannada ವರ್ತಿಸಿ | ||
Kazakh әрекет ету | ||
Khmer ធ្វើសកម្មភាព | ||
Kinyarwanda gukora | ||
Konkani कृती | ||
Korean 행위 | ||
Krio akt | ||
Kurdish ewlekarî | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) کردار | ||
Kyrgyz иш | ||
Lao ປະຕິບັດ | ||
Latin agere | ||
Latvian tēlot | ||
Lingala mosala | ||
Lithuanian aktas | ||
Luganda okukola | ||
Luxembourgish handelen | ||
Macedonian дејствува | ||
Maithili नाटक करनाइ | ||
Malagasy zavatra | ||
Malay bertindak | ||
Malayalam പ്രവർത്തിക്കുക | ||
Maltese jaġixxi | ||
Maori mahi | ||
Marathi कार्य | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯊꯧꯑꯪꯡ | ||
Mizo thilti | ||
Mongolian үйлдэл | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) လုပ်ရပ် | ||
Nepali कार्य | ||
Norwegian handling | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) chitani | ||
Odia (Oriya) କାର୍ଯ୍ୟ | ||
Oromo akkaataa | ||
Pashto عمل | ||
Persian عمل کردن | ||
Polish działać | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) aja | ||
Punjabi ਕੰਮ | ||
Quechua kamachiy | ||
Romanian act | ||
Russian действовать | ||
Samoan gaioi | ||
Sanskrit विधि | ||
Scots Gaelic achd | ||
Sepedi molao | ||
Serbian деловати | ||
Sesotho nka khato | ||
Shona chiito | ||
Sindhi عمل ڪريو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) පනත | ||
Slovak konať | ||
Slovenian deluje | ||
Somali fal | ||
Spanish actuar | ||
Sundanese kalakuan | ||
Swahili tenda | ||
Swedish spela teater | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) kumilos | ||
Tajik амал | ||
Tamil நாடகம் | ||
Tatar акт | ||
Telugu చర్య | ||
Thai พระราชบัญญัติ | ||
Tigrinya ፍፃመ | ||
Tsonga nawu | ||
Turkish davranmak | ||
Turkmen hereket et | ||
Twi (Akan) yɛ | ||
Ukrainian діяти | ||
Urdu عمل | ||
Uyghur ھەرىكەت | ||
Uzbek harakat qilish | ||
Vietnamese hành động | ||
Welsh act | ||
Xhosa isenzo | ||
Yiddish שפּילן | ||
Yoruba sise | ||
Zulu isenzo |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "daad" in Afrikaans can trace its etymology back to the Dutch word "daad" and the Middle Dutch word "daet," both meaning "act." |
| Albanian | "Veproj" can also mean "deed" and originates from the Latin word "operari". |
| Amharic | The word "እርምጃ" can also refer to a "step" or a "measure". |
| Arabic | The Arabic word "فعل" also refers to a verb, as in the grammatical term for a word that describes an action or occurrence |
| Armenian | The verb "գործել" (gorcel) in Armenian can also mean "work", "function", or "perform a task." |
| Azerbaijani | The verb `hərəkət et` is etymologically related to the Arabic word `harakat` (movement), and retains some of that word's semantic range in modern Azerbaijani. |
| Basque | The word "jardun" also means "task" or "work" in Basque. |
| Belarusian | The Belarusian word "дзейнічаць" is derived from the Old East Slavic verb "деяти", meaning "to do" or "to work." |
| Bengali | আইন is a homograph which refers to both a physical statute as well as an event or performance |
| Bosnian | The word "djelovati" also means "to work" in Bosnian. |
| Bulgarian | The Bulgarian word "действай" comes from the Church Slavonic word "дѣиство", which means "action" or "deed." |
| Catalan | The verb "actuar" also means "to behave" and derives from the Latin "agere," which can have a similar meaning or mean "to do". |
| Cebuano | The word "buhat" can also refer to a "deed" or a "work" in Cebuano. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "法案" (fǎ'àn) means "statute" in Chinese but is a homophone of another word that means "lawsuit". |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 法案 (pronounced 'fǎ àn') also means 'bill' or 'draft law' in Chinese. |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "agisce" also means "to take place" or "to happen". |
| Croatian | The Slavic verb "dělati" ("to make, to do") also derives from "*dělъ" and is cognate with the Latin "facere." |
| Czech | In Czech, "akt" can also mean "figure drawing" or "painting" |
| Danish | The Danish word "håndtering", meaning "handling", also has the alternate meaning of "action" or "deed" |
| Dutch | The Dutch cognate of "handle" means "trade" or "bargain" in archaic or literary usage. |
| Esperanto | Esperanto's "akto" derives from Latin's "actus," and can also mean "deed," "performance," or "law passed by legislature." |
| Estonian | The word 'tegutsema' is derived from the Estonian word 'tegu', which means 'deed' or 'action'. |
| Finnish | "Toimia" can also refer to "to function" or "to operate." |
| French | French "acte" (act) originated with Latin "actum," meaning either "done" or "a thing done." Its legal sense of "instrument in writing" comes from medieval scribes. |
| Frisian | In West-Frisian, the term "handeling" can also refer to a transaction or a procedure. |
| Galician | In Galician, the verb "actuar" derives from the Latin "actus," meaning "done" or "deed," and also retains its original meaning of "to put into action" or "to perform. |
| German | The German word "Handlung" is derived from the Old High German word "handlunga," meaning "something done with the hand." |
| Greek | The Greek word "υποκρίνομαι" (act) can also refer to pretending to do something or to assuming a role in a play, often as a professional actor. |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "કાર્ય" can also mean "task" or "deed". |
| Haitian Creole | In Haitian Creole, "aji" can also refer to a theatrical performance or a legal action. |
| Hausa | In Hausa, "yi aiki" can also mean "to work" or "to do something." |
| Hawaiian | Hana is also a Hawaiian name meaning "work" or "craft". |
| Hebrew | The term פעולה also denotes an action or activity in Hebrew, as in, "פעולת הזרקה" (injection). |
| Hindi | "कार्य" can also mean "office work" or "duty" in Hindi. |
| Hmong | "Ua" can also mean 'behavior' in Hmong. |
| Hungarian | The word "törvény" originated from the Proto-Ugric root *tör "to break" and originally meant "custom, rule, law". |
| Icelandic | In Icelandic, the word "framkvæma" originates from the Old Norse word "framkvæmi," meaning "performance" or "action." |
| Igbo | The Igbo word 'mee' can also refer to a type of traditional Igbo music and dance. |
| Indonesian | The Indonesian word "bertindak" also means "to behave" and "to function". |
| Irish | The word "gníomh" is derived from the Old Irish word "gnime" meaning "deed, action". |
| Italian | The Italian word "atto" can also refer to a document, a deed, or a legal instrument. |
| Japanese | The Chinese character 行 in 行為 is used in various Japanese words with meanings like 'row', 'school grade' (学年), and 'school year' (學年). |
| Javanese | In Javanese, "tumindak" originates from the root word "indak", meaning "to move" or "to walk." |
| Kannada | The Kannada verb 'ವರ್ತಿಸಿ' can also mean 'to behave' or 'to conduct oneself'. |
| Kazakh | The word "әрекет ету" can also mean "to do" or "to make" in Kazakh. |
| Khmer | The word ធ្វើសកម្មភាព can also mean to 'take action' or 'perform an action'. It is derived from the Sanskrit word 'kri', meaning 'to do'. |
| Korean | In Korean, 행위 can also refer to a performance or work of art, such as dance or music. |
| Kurdish | The word "ewlekarî" can also refer to a play, performance, show, drama, deed, work, or task in Kurdish. |
| Kyrgyz | The word "иш" can also refer to a job, work, or business. |
| Latin | In Latin, "agere" not only means "act" but also "to do" or "to drive." |
| Latvian | The word "tēlot" also means "to pretend" or "to feign". |
| Lithuanian | In Turkish, "aktas" also means "washed" or "clear". |
| Luxembourgish | Handel or handelen in Dutch or Luxembourgish refers to "acting" but also to "selling" and "dealing". |
| Macedonian | The Macedonian word "дејствува" (act) originates from the Proto-Slavonic word *дѣjati, meaning "to do" or "to make." |
| Malagasy | The term 'zavatra' is also used in Malagasy to mean 'thing' or 'object'. |
| Malay | In Javanese, "bertindak" means to do, but in Malay it means to act. |
| Malayalam | പ്രവർത്തിക്കുക may also refer to a function or operation in mathematics or an undertaking or deed involving action and result |
| Maltese | The etymology of "jaġixxi" is uncertain, but it may derive from the Arabic "فعل" (fiʿl, "deed"), or from the Latin "agere" (act). |
| Maori | The Maori word "mahi" also means "work" in some dialects, highlighting the inherent connection between doing and being in Maori culture. |
| Marathi | In Sanskrit, “कार्य” means “cause” or “effect”, and can also refer to religious rituals or ceremonies. |
| Mongolian | "Үйлдэл" can also refer to performance or deed. |
| Nepali | The word "कार्य" comes from the Sanskrit word "कृ" meaning "to do" and can also mean "work" or "deed". |
| Norwegian | The Norwegian word "handling" can also mean "to manage" or "to deal with". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "chitani" likely derives from the Proto-Bantu root "-tana," meaning "to do" or "to make." |
| Pashto | In Pashto, "عمل" is also used in the sense of "deed" or "result" |
| Persian | In Persian, the word "عمل کردن" can also mean "to work" or "to function". |
| Polish | In Polish, the verb "działać" can also mean "to work" or "to function", extending its range of meanings beyond simply "acting". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The verb "Aja" (pronounced a-jha) in Portuguese originated from the Latin word "ago", meaning action. |
| Punjabi | The word "ਕੰਮ" also means "work" in Punjabi, derived from the Sanskrit word "karma." |
| Romanian | In Romanian, "act" does not mean "act" but instead "record" or "document" |
| Russian | The word "действовать" can also mean "to be in force" or "to have an effect". |
| Samoan | The word "gaioi" can also refer to playing a role in a play or movie. |
| Scots Gaelic | "Achd" in Scots Gaelic is cognate with "act" in English, stemming from the Old English word "æht". It can also refer to a formal record or agreement. |
| Serbian | The verb "деловати" is derived from the noun "дело" (deed), meaning "to perform an action". It also has a figurative meaning of "to participate in a matter" or "to have a role in something." |
| Sesotho | In Sesotho, "nka khato" also means "to be in trouble" or "to have a problem." |
| Shona | The word "chiito" in Shona also means "dance" or "performance." |
| Sindhi | The word "عمل ڪريو" has a dual etymology, with one interpretation deriving from "عمل" ("deed") and the other from "عمل" ("act, act, perform"). |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The Sinhala word 'පනත' originates from the Sanskrit word 'प्रणीत' (pranīta), meaning 'ordained' or 'established' |
| Slovak | The word "konať" in Slovak can also mean "to assemble" or "to hold a meeting". |
| Slovenian | The verb 'deluje' can also mean 'to operate' or 'to function'. |
| Somali | Fal, meaning 'act' or 'deed' in Somali, originated from the Arabic word 'fi'l' |
| Spanish | "Actuar'' also means 'to sue' due to sharing its etymology with the word for "actor." |
| Sundanese | "Kalakuan" can also mean "behavior" or "manner". |
| Swahili | The verb 'tenda' in Swahili also means 'to look after' or 'to care for'. |
| Swedish | The Swedish word "spela teater" also translates to "to play theatre" in English. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "kumilos" also means "to move" or "to perform an action." |
| Tajik | The word "амал" (act) in Tajik is derived from the Persian word "amal" which means "action" or "work". It can also refer to a "religious practice" or a "procedure". |
| Tamil | நாடகம் also has an alternate meaning of 'play or dramatic performance.' |
| Telugu | The word "చర్య" also means "attitude" or "behavior" in Telugu. |
| Thai | The word "พระราชบัญญัติ" comes from Sanskrit through Pali and literally means "order of the king." |
| Turkish | "Davranmak" is derived from the Persian word "davranış" meaning "behavior, conduct" and also shares cognates with the Russian word "поведение" (behavior). |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word "діяти" (act) is derived from the Proto-Slavic root "дѣjь", which also means "to do" or "to perform an action." |
| Urdu | The word "عمل" also means "deed" and "labor" in Urdu. |
| Uzbek | The Uzbek word "harakat qilish" also means "to move" and is derived from the Persian word "harakat" meaning "movement". |
| Vietnamese | In Vietnamese, "hành động" (act) derives from "hành" (action) + "động" (noun suffix), emphasizing the result or consequence of the action. |
| Welsh | Welsh word "act" comes from the Latin word "actus", meaning "a doing or deed" and is also related to the English words "action" and "agent". |
| Xhosa | "Isenzo" in Xhosa has alternative meanings such as "behavior" and "nature". |
| Yiddish | The word 'shpiln' ('act' in Yiddish) can also refer to "playing instruments" and is related to German 'spielen' (play), Dutch, 'speeln', Old Norse 'spila,' Gothic "jispan", Greek 'spao' (draw, tear) or 'spaein' (pull). |
| Yoruba | The word 'sise' in Yoruba, besides meaning 'act', is also related to the concept of 'law' or 'duty' |
| Zulu | "Isenzo" can also mean an "intention" or a "plan" when used with the prefix "um-" or "uku-" |
| English | The word "act" derives from the Latin "agere," meaning not only "to perform" but also "to conduct, drive, or lead." |