Adventure in Different Languages
Discover 'Adventure' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Adventure
Afrikaans avontuur | ||
Albanian aventurë | ||
Amharic ጀብዱ | ||
Arabic مغامرة | ||
Armenian արկած | ||
Assamese এডভেঞ্চাৰ | ||
Aymara awintura | ||
Azerbaijani macəra | ||
Bambara taama | ||
Basque abentura | ||
Belarusian прыгоды | ||
Bengali দু: সাহসিক কাজ | ||
Bhojpuri साहसिक काम | ||
Bosnian avantura | ||
Bulgarian приключение | ||
Catalan aventura | ||
Cebuano panimpalad | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 冒险 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 冒險 | ||
Corsican avventura | ||
Croatian avantura | ||
Czech dobrodružství | ||
Danish eventyr | ||
Dhivehi އެޑްވެންޗަރ | ||
Dogri हिम्मती कम्म | ||
Dutch avontuur | ||
English adventure | ||
Esperanto aventuro | ||
Estonian seiklus | ||
Ewe numetoto | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) pakikipagsapalaran | ||
Finnish seikkailu | ||
French aventure | ||
Frisian aventoer | ||
Galician aventura | ||
Georgian თავგადასავალი | ||
German abenteuer | ||
Greek περιπέτεια | ||
Guarani tembiasapyreita | ||
Gujarati સાહસ | ||
Haitian Creole avanti | ||
Hausa kasada | ||
Hawaiian hoʻāʻo | ||
Hebrew הַרפַּתקָה | ||
Hindi साहसिक | ||
Hmong taug txuj kev nyuaj | ||
Hungarian kaland | ||
Icelandic ævintýri | ||
Igbo njem | ||
Ilocano gasang-gasat | ||
Indonesian petualangan | ||
Irish eachtraíochta | ||
Italian avventura | ||
Japanese 冒険 | ||
Javanese ngulandara | ||
Kannada ಸಾಹಸ | ||
Kazakh приключение | ||
Khmer ដំណើរផ្សងព្រេង | ||
Kinyarwanda adventure | ||
Konkani साहस | ||
Korean 모험 | ||
Krio travul | ||
Kurdish serpêhatî | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) سەرکەشی | ||
Kyrgyz укмуштуу окуя | ||
Lao ການຜະຈົນໄພ | ||
Latin adventum | ||
Latvian piedzīvojums | ||
Lingala kosakana | ||
Lithuanian nuotykis | ||
Luganda okunyumirwa | ||
Luxembourgish abenteuer | ||
Macedonian авантура | ||
Maithili साहसिक काज | ||
Malagasy traikefa nahafinaritra | ||
Malay pengembaraan | ||
Malayalam സാഹസികത | ||
Maltese avventura | ||
Maori mōrearea | ||
Marathi साहस | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯅꯨꯡꯉꯥꯏꯕ ꯊꯧꯑꯣꯡ | ||
Mizo tawnhriat ropui | ||
Mongolian адал явдал | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) စွန့်စားခန်း | ||
Nepali साहस | ||
Norwegian eventyr | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) ulendo | ||
Odia (Oriya) ସାହସିକତା | ||
Oromo sodaachisaa | ||
Pashto جرت | ||
Persian ماجرا | ||
Polish przygoda | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) aventura | ||
Punjabi ਸਾਹਸ | ||
Quechua aventura | ||
Romanian aventură | ||
Russian приключение | ||
Samoan faigamalaga | ||
Sanskrit साहस | ||
Scots Gaelic dànachd | ||
Sepedi bohlagahlaga | ||
Serbian авантура | ||
Sesotho tobogan | ||
Shona ushingi | ||
Sindhi مهم | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) ත්රාසජනක | ||
Slovak dobrodružstvo | ||
Slovenian pustolovščina | ||
Somali tacabur | ||
Spanish aventuras | ||
Sundanese pangumbaraan | ||
Swahili adventure | ||
Swedish äventyr | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) pakikipagsapalaran | ||
Tajik саёҳат | ||
Tamil சாகச | ||
Tatar маҗаралар | ||
Telugu సాహసం | ||
Thai การผจญภัย | ||
Tigrinya ሰቓሊ ልቢ | ||
Tsonga valanga | ||
Turkish macera | ||
Turkmen başdan geçirmeler | ||
Twi (Akan) suhunu soronko | ||
Ukrainian пригода | ||
Urdu مہم جوئی | ||
Uyghur تەۋەككۈلچىلىك | ||
Uzbek sarguzasht | ||
Vietnamese cuộc phiêu lưu | ||
Welsh antur | ||
Xhosa ukonwaba | ||
Yiddish פּאַסירונג | ||
Yoruba ìrìn | ||
Zulu ukuzijabulisa |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | "Avontuur" comes from the Dutch word "avontuur" and can also mean "risk" or "hazard". |
| Albanian | The word "aventurë" in Albanian also means "chance" or "luck". |
| Amharic | In Tigrinya, the verb 'ጀቡኤ' is similarly used for 'being in trouble'. |
| Arabic | مغامرة shares an original root, ghamar, to plunge deeply (as in the ocean), with swimming fish (ghamr) |
| Armenian | Արկած (arkats) derives from Middle Persian word "Arkātak" (meaning attack), and has also been used in the sense of a "battle". |
| Azerbaijani | The word "macəra" is also used to refer to a "risk" or "gamble" in Azerbaijani. |
| Basque | The Basque word "abentura" is derived from the Latin word "adventura", meaning "thing that will happen". |
| Belarusian | The word "pryhody" also means "events" or "incidents" in Belarusian. |
| Bengali | The Bengali word "দু: সাহসিক কাজ" literally means "twice courageous", implying the need for exceptional boldness in undertaking an adventure. |
| Bosnian | The word "avantura" can also mean "affair" or "adventure story" in Bosnian. |
| Bulgarian | The word "приключение" is derived from the Old Church Slavonic word "приключити сѧ", meaning "to happen to" or "to befall". |
| Catalan | The word "aventura" is derived from Latin "adventura", meaning "what is about to happen" or "what will come". The alternate meaning of "aventura" in Catalan is "event". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 冒险 also means 'to take risks' or 'to dare to do something dangerous'. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | "冒" in 冒險 means "to risk" or "to dare", while "險" means "danger" or "peril". |
| Corsican | In Corsican, avventura can also refer to a meeting or gathering. |
| Croatian | The etymology of avantura can be traced back to 12th and 13th centuries French literature and folklore through Middle Latin, referring to unexpected incidents of fate and good fortune. |
| Czech | The Czech word "dobrodružství" is derived from the Old Czech words "dobro" (good) and "družiti" (to accompany), thus implying a positive and social experience. |
| Danish | In Danish, the word "eventyr" can also refer to fairy tales, as in the famous collection "H.C. Andersens Eventyr". |
| Dutch | In Dutch, the word "avontuur" can also mean "misfortune" or "mishap" |
| Esperanto | "Aventuro" is the Esperantified version of the Italian "aventura" and the Spanish "aventura", and means "chance". In some cases, this meaning has become its own word: "aveniuros". Hence there exist two Esperanto words that both translate to the English "adventure": "avanturon" and "aveniuros". The former stresses the thrill, the latter the risk. |
| Estonian | Estonian "seiklus" has a close cognate meaning "confusion" in Finnish, "seikkailu"} |
| Finnish | In Finnish, the word "seikkailu" also refers to a misadventure or mishap. |
| French | "Aventure" also means "mishap" in French, coming from the Latin "adventura," meaning "what happens." |
| Frisian | "Aventoer" in Frisian can also mean "experience" or "risk". |
| Galician | The Galician word "aventura" also means "destiny" or "fate". |
| German | The word "Abenteuer" derives from the Middle High German word "âventiure" which means "something that happens" or "an experience". |
| Greek | The Greek word 'περιπέτεια' originally meant 'an unexpected turn of events' or 'a reversal of fortune', not necessarily implying a thrilling experience. |
| Gujarati | The word "સાહસ" ("sāhas") comes from the Sanskrit word "sahasa" which means "violence," "force," "energy," or "boldness." |
| Haitian Creole | The word "avanti" in Haitian Creole also means "forward" or "go ahead". |
| Hausa | The word "kasada" can also mean "journey" or "campaign" in Hausa. |
| Hawaiian | "Hoʻāʻo" also means "to try" or "to attempt". |
| Hebrew | The word "הַרפַּתקָה" also means "trepidation" in Hebrew, signifying the inherent risk and excitement associated with adventure. |
| Hindi | The word 'साहसिक' can also mean 'bold' or 'daring' in Hindi. |
| Hmong | There is no word with the etymology or alternate meaning in the English language for 'taug txuj kev nyuaj' in Hmong. |
| Hungarian | The word "kaland" in Hungarian is cognate with the German word "Kalender" and originally meant "calendar" or "almanac". |
| Icelandic | Historically, ævintýri also referred to a specific subgenre of historical legend or folktale, and it is also used to describe an individual episode of some larger work, such as a saga. |
| Igbo | The Igbo word "njem" also refers to a type of dance performed by women. |
| Indonesian | As an alternative, 'petualangan' can mean a 'story' or 'experience' in Indonesian. |
| Irish | The Irish word eachtraíochta derives from the Old Irish "echtra", meaning "expedition" or "journey", and ultimately from the Proto-Celtic root "*eks-treb-os", meaning "to go outside". |
| Italian | The word "avventura" in Italian derives from the Latin word "adventura", meaning "something that is about to happen" or "an event that is uncertain". |
| Japanese | The word "冒険" (bōken), meaning "adventure", originates from the Chinese word "冒険" (ぼうけん), which referred to "putting oneself in danger" or "trying something risky." |
| Javanese | The word 'ngulandara' also refers to a kind of gamelan music performed at weddings and circumcision ceremonies in Banyumas, Central Java. |
| Kannada | In some contexts, the term "ಸಾಹಸ" can also refer to a military campaign or an undertaking that involves risk. |
| Kazakh | The word "приключение" is derived from the Kazakh word "приключ" meaning "to happen". |
| Khmer | The word ដំណើរផ្សងព្រេង (adventure) likely comes from the Sanskrit word 'damaru', which refers to a small drum, and 'phasana', which means 'story', suggesting the drum's use in accompanying storytelling and legends. |
| Korean | 모험 can also mean 'to go outside' or 'to experience the world'. |
| Kurdish | The Kurdish word "serpêhatî" has an alternate meaning of "experience" or "incident" and is etymologically related to the Persian word "sargozasht" with a similar meaning. |
| Kyrgyz | The Kyrgyz word "укмуштуу окуя" also means "an event that shakes one's mind or soul". |
| Latin | The Latin word "adventum" also refers to the "arrival" or "coming" of a person or thing. |
| Latvian | The word "piedzīvojums" is derived from the verb "iedzīvot" (to inhabit) and means "a journey or experience that involves risks or challenges" in Latvian. |
| Lithuanian | The word "nuotykis" originates from the Proto-Indo-European root "newd-", which also means "new" and "unknown". |
| Luxembourgish | The word 'Abenteuer' comes from the Old French word 'aventure', which itself comes from the Latin word 'adventura', meaning 'something that is about to happen'. |
| Macedonian | "Авантура" means something risky, and even has a negative connotation, but also refers to a fun escapade. |
| Malagasy | The word "traikefa nahafinaritra" originally meant "joyful experience" but has evolved to mean "adventure". |
| Malay | The word "pengembaraan" in Malay has roots in the Sanskrit word "gambhiranta", meaning "deep contemplation" or "pilgrimage". |
| Malayalam | The Malayalam word 'സാഹസികത' comes from the Sanskrit word 'sahasa' which means 'boldness' or 'daring'. |
| Maltese | The word "avventura" in Maltese can also mean "fortune" or "luck". |
| Maori | Mōrearea can also refer to a group of people who share a common goal or purpose, such as a hunting party or a war party. |
| Marathi | The word "साहस" (adventure) in Marathi also means "strength" or "fortitude". |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word “адал явдал” also means “misfortune” in English. |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The word စွန့်စားခန်း is derived from the Pali word "saṃsāra", meaning "endless cycle of birth, death, and rebirth". It can also refer to a journey or pilgrimage, especially one undertaken for religious or spiritual purposes. |
| Nepali | Nepali “sahas”, besides “adventure,” also refers to “boldness” or “bravery,” likely cognate to Sanskrit “sahasram” and Latin “audax”, all meaning “bold”. |
| Norwegian | The Proto-Norse word for "eventyr" was "âventiure," meaning "extraordinary experience, unusual happening, strange story." |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "ulendo" also means "trip" or "journey" in Nyanja |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "جرت" ('adventure') is also used to describe an experience or trial, as in a "life adventure." |
| Persian | The word "ماجرا" is also used in Persian to refer to a "story" or "incident". |
| Polish | The verb "przygodzić" ("to encounter") has the same root as the noun "przygoda" ("adventure"). |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "aventura" comes from the Latin "adventura, |
| Punjabi | The Punjabi word "ਸਾਹਸ" (sahas) has an etymological link to the Sanskrit word "saahas" (courage), implying the presence of courage and determination in adventure. |
| Romanian | The Romanian word 'aventură' is derived from the French word 'aventure' meaning 'a happening or adventure', ultimately via Latin 'adventura', meaning 'that which is about to happen' or 'chance'. |
| Russian | The word приключение is related to the word прибывать, meaning to “arrive”. This root meaning is also found in the English words “advent” and “adventus”. The Russian word приключение can also mean “accident” or “mishap”. |
| Samoan | The term 'faigamalaga' also carries the connotation of 'a journey to discover something new', highlighting the exploratory and curious nature of Samoan adventurers. |
| Scots Gaelic | The word "dànachd" is derived from the Old Irish word "dán", meaning "bold" or "fierce". |
| Serbian | The word "авантура" in Serbian can also refer to a risky or uncertain undertaking, as well as an affair or secret relationship. |
| Sesotho | Sesotho does not use the word “toboggan” to mean “adventure,” but rather refers to a sled on which people can slide down snow-covered hills. |
| Shona | The word "ushingi" in Shona can also refer to "a journey" or "a quest" |
| Sindhi | The etymology of "مهم" is from Persian, meaning "task, business, work, affair, concern, problem, matter, question". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | In Sinhalese, the word ත්රාසජනක not only means "adventure" but also conveys a sense of "excitement" or "thrill." |
| Slovak | The Slavic word "dobrodružstvo" originally meant "good brotherhood" or "good company." |
| Slovenian | The word 'pustolovščina' in Slovenian is derived from the word 'pust', meaning 'empty' or 'wilderness', and suggests a journey into the unknown. |
| Somali | The word "tacabur" is derived from the Arabic word "taqalib", meaning "turning" or "reversal". |
| Spanish | The word "aventuras" is derived from the Latin word "adventurare," meaning "to happen by chance". |
| Sundanese | The root word "panga" means "to go", suggesting an element of movement and exploration. |
| Swahili | The word "adventure" comes from the Latin word "adventura," which means "to come upon" or "to happen," and from the French word "aventure," which means "chance" or "luck." |
| Swedish | The word "äventyr" is derived from the Old French word "aventure", meaning "occurrence, event, or experience". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word 'pakikipagsapalaran' literally translates to 'getting into danger' in English. |
| Tajik | The word “саёҳат” (adventure) originates from the Arabic “sayyah” which means “explorer” or “traveler”. |
| Tamil | சாகச (adventure) comes from the Sanskrit word 'sahasa', meaning 'courage' or 'boldness' |
| Telugu | சாகஸம் is also a Tamil word for 'bold' or 'brave'. |
| Thai | การผจญภัย shares the same root as 'พจน์', which means 'to speak' |
| Turkish | In Turkish, "macera" also means "experience" or "incident". |
| Ukrainian | The word "пригода" is also used to describe an incident or a mishap in Ukrainian. |
| Urdu | مہم جوئی comes from the Persian word "مهما" meaning "great" or "important" and "جوئی" meaning "search" or "quest", and can also refer to "crusade" or "campaign". |
| Uzbek | The word "sarguzasht" originally referred to a diary in which travellers wrote down their experiences. |
| Vietnamese | The word "cuộc phiêu lưu" also means "the experience of a strange and exciting life or journey." |
| Welsh | The word 'antur' in Welsh also means 'luck' or 'fortune', and is related to the word 'anterth' meaning 'nature' or 'fate'. |
| Xhosa | The word 'ukonwaba' in Xhosa derives from the verb 'ukonwaba', meaning to enjoy, and can also refer to pleasure, happiness, or fun. |
| Yiddish | The word "פּאַסירונג" also has the alternate meaning of "experience" in Yiddish. |
| Yoruba | In Yoruba, 'ìrìn' refers to not only physical travel but also the 'life journey' or 'mission' that individuals undertake. |
| Zulu | In Zulu, "ukuzijabulisa" also means "amusement," "recreation," or "entertainment. |
| English | The word "adventure" comes from the Latin word "adventurare," meaning "to happen." |