Aim in Different Languages
Discover 'Aim' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Aim
Afrikaans mik | ||
Albanian synoj | ||
Amharic ዓላማ | ||
Arabic هدف | ||
Armenian նպատակ | ||
Assamese লক্ষ্য | ||
Aymara chiqapt'ayaña | ||
Azerbaijani məqsəd | ||
Bambara taabolo | ||
Basque helburua | ||
Belarusian мэта | ||
Bengali লক্ষ্য | ||
Bhojpuri निशाना | ||
Bosnian naciljati | ||
Bulgarian прицелвам се | ||
Catalan objectiu | ||
Cebuano tumong | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 目标 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 目標 | ||
Corsican scopu | ||
Croatian cilj | ||
Czech cíl | ||
Danish sigte | ||
Dhivehi އުންމީދުކުރާ | ||
Dogri मकसद | ||
Dutch doel | ||
English aim | ||
Esperanto celi | ||
Estonian eesmärk | ||
Ewe taɖodzi | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) pakay | ||
Finnish tavoite | ||
French objectif | ||
Frisian doel | ||
Galician obxectivo | ||
Georgian მიზანი | ||
German ziel | ||
Greek σκοπός | ||
Guarani monguatia | ||
Gujarati ધ્યેય | ||
Haitian Creole vize | ||
Hausa nufin | ||
Hawaiian pahuhopu | ||
Hebrew מַטָרָה | ||
Hindi लक्ष्य | ||
Hmong aim | ||
Hungarian cél | ||
Icelandic miða | ||
Igbo nzube | ||
Ilocano panggep | ||
Indonesian tujuan | ||
Irish aidhm | ||
Italian scopo | ||
Japanese 目的 | ||
Javanese tujuane | ||
Kannada ಗುರಿ | ||
Kazakh мақсат | ||
Khmer គោលបំណង | ||
Kinyarwanda intego | ||
Konkani ध्येय | ||
Korean 목표 | ||
Krio plan | ||
Kurdish armanc | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) مەبەست | ||
Kyrgyz максат | ||
Lao ຈຸດປະສົງ | ||
Latin aim | ||
Latvian mērķis | ||
Lingala mokano | ||
Lithuanian tikslas | ||
Luganda okufuba | ||
Luxembourgish zielen | ||
Macedonian цел | ||
Maithili लक्ष्य | ||
Malagasy tanjona | ||
Malay tujuan | ||
Malayalam ലക്ഷ്യം | ||
Maltese għan | ||
Maori whāinga | ||
Marathi ध्येय | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯄꯥꯟꯗꯝ | ||
Mizo tin | ||
Mongolian зорилго | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ရည်ရွယ်ချက် | ||
Nepali लक्ष्य | ||
Norwegian mål | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) cholinga | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଲକ୍ଷ୍ୟ | ||
Oromo kaayyoo | ||
Pashto موخه | ||
Persian هدف | ||
Polish cel | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) alvo | ||
Punjabi ਉਦੇਸ਼ | ||
Quechua objetivo | ||
Romanian scop | ||
Russian цель | ||
Samoan sini | ||
Sanskrit लक्ष्य | ||
Scots Gaelic amas | ||
Sepedi maikemišetšo | ||
Serbian циљати | ||
Sesotho sepheo | ||
Shona vavariro | ||
Sindhi مقصد | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) ඉලක්කය | ||
Slovak cieľ | ||
Slovenian meriti | ||
Somali ujeedadiisu tahay | ||
Spanish objetivo | ||
Sundanese udagan | ||
Swahili lengo | ||
Swedish syfte | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) pakay | ||
Tajik ҳадаф | ||
Tamil நோக்கம் | ||
Tatar максат | ||
Telugu లక్ష్యం | ||
Thai จุดมุ่งหมาย | ||
Tigrinya ዕላማ | ||
Tsonga korola | ||
Turkish amaç | ||
Turkmen maksat | ||
Twi (Akan) botaeɛ | ||
Ukrainian мета | ||
Urdu مقصد | ||
Uyghur نىشان | ||
Uzbek maqsad | ||
Vietnamese mục đích | ||
Welsh nod | ||
Xhosa injongo | ||
Yiddish ציל | ||
Yoruba ifọkansi | ||
Zulu inhloso |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | In Zulu, 'mik' is associated with aiming or targeting rather than a desire. |
| Albanian | The word "synoj" in Albanian can also mean "intention", "purpose", or "goal". |
| Amharic | The word "ዓላማ" in Amharic can also mean "hope" or "intention". |
| Arabic | The word "هدف" in Arabic is a loanword from Persian and it means "target" as well as "aim". |
| Azerbaijani | The etymology of the Azerbaijani word "məqsəd" ("aim") is Arabic, ultimately deriving from the Persian word "غرض" ("purpose"). "Məqsəd" also has alternate meanings in Azerbaijani, including "goal," "intention," and "objective." |
| Basque | The word "helburua" in Basque is sometimes used as a synonym for "ambition" or "objective". |
| Belarusian | The word "мэта" in Belarusian comes from the Proto-Slavic word *metъ, meaning "throw, cast, shoot". |
| Bengali | The word 'লক্ষ্য' is derived from the Sanskrit word 'lakshya,' which can also mean 'mark' or 'target'. |
| Bosnian | The word "naciljati" derives from the Turkish "nişanlamak". |
| Bulgarian | "Прицелвам се" ("aim") comes from the Turkish word "perçinlemek" ("to rivet"), which originally meant "to fix something in place". The word "прицел" ("sight") is also derived from "perçinlemek". |
| Catalan | "Objectiu" comes from Latin "objectum" and also means "object" in Catalan. |
| Cebuano | Tumong in Cebuano can also refer to the act of aiming a projectile, such as throwing a ball. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 目标 can also be a noun, meaning 'target'. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 目標 is a compound of the Chinese characters '目' ('eye') and “標' ('target'). |
| Corsican | The word `scopu` can also mean `look` or `watch`. |
| Croatian | The Croatian word 'cilj' is derived from the Latin word 'caelum', meaning 'sky' or 'heaven', and originally referred to the highest point or target to be reached. |
| Czech | "Cíl" means "aim" in Czech but can also represent a place where a ball or puck ends its movement. |
| Danish | "Sigte" also means "sight", as in "the sense of sight" or "the organ of sight". |
| Dutch | "Doel" can also refer to a town in Belgium and a brand of margarine. |
| Esperanto | "Celi" in Esperanto also means "to make a fist" or "to grip tightly". |
| Estonian | Eesmärk, or "aim" in Estonian, shares similar roots and connotations with its Finnish and Hungarian counterparts |
| Finnish | Derived from Proto-Finnic *tavoida ('direction') and Proto-Finnic *tavo ('path, direction') |
| French | The word "objectif" in French also means "lens", as in the lens of a camera or telescope. |
| Frisian | The Frisian "doel" comes from the French "douelle", a barrel stave. |
| Galician | The Galician word "obxectivo", meaning "aim", derives from the Latin "objectivus" |
| Georgian | "მიზანი" is borrowed from Persian and also means 'weighing, balance' in Persian. |
| German | The word "Ziel" derives from the Middle High German "ziel" meaning "goal" or "destination" and is cognate with the English word "sill". |
| Greek | The word 'σκοπός' in Greek can also refer to 'a person on a mission', 'a watchman', 'an observer', or 'a lookout', highlighting its multifaceted semantic range. |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "ધ્યેય" comes from the Sanskrit word "ध्येय" (dhyeya), which means "to be meditated upon" or "object of contemplation". |
| Haitian Creole | The word "vize" in Haitian Creole can also mean "purpose" or "objective". |
| Hausa | The Hausa word "nufin" can also refer to the "act of aiming" or the "path that an arrow or projectile follows". |
| Hawaiian | Pahuhopu can also mean to make something known, or point |
| Hebrew | The word מַטָרָה can also refer to a target, purpose, or goal in Hebrew. |
| Hindi | The word "लक्ष्य" also means "object, mark, target, sight, point, place, purpose, intention, desire" in Hindi. |
| Hmong | The Hmong word "aim" can also mean "to think" or "to consider". |
| Hungarian | The word "cél" can also refer to a goal, target, purpose, objective, or destination. |
| Icelandic | In Old Norse, "miða" also meant "to intend" or "to plan." |
| Igbo | The word "nzube" in Igbo also means "intention" or "purpose". |
| Indonesian | "Tujuan" can also mean "destination" or "goal". |
| Irish | The word 'aidhm' can also mean 'goal' or 'purpose' in Irish, further emphasizing the focus on direction and achievement implied by its primary meaning as 'aim'. |
| Italian | The Italian word "scopo" derives from the Greek word "skopós", meaning both "aim" and "watchman" |
| Japanese | 目的 means "aim" in Japanese, but originally referred to a bow's target in archery. |
| Javanese | The word 'tujuane' originated from the Old Javanese 'tujuhané', which carries similar sense of the word 'tujuan' ( |
| Kannada | ಗುರಿ can also mean 'tip' or 'point' in Kannada. |
| Kazakh | The word "мақсат" in Kazakh also means "goal", "intention", and "purpose". |
| Khmer | The word "គោលបំណង" also has the meaning of 'desire' in addition to 'aim' |
| Korean | "목표" (aim) originally meant "to gaze upward" (목 + 표: eyes + to point), then came to mean "to aim". |
| Kurdish | In Kurdish, the word "armanc" can also mean "desire" or "goal", with a slightly different connotation to the literal translation of "aim". |
| Kyrgyz | The word "максат" also means "purpose" or "goal" in Kyrgyz. |
| Latin | The word "aim" is derived from the Latin word "aestimare," meaning "to estimate," and can also refer to a goal or aspiration. |
| Latvian | In the expression "mērķis ir sasniegts" (the goal has been achieved), "mērķis" literally means "target". |
| Lithuanian | "Tiklas" can alternately refer to a target, destination, or purpose. |
| Luxembourgish | The word "zielen" in Luxembourgish comes from the Old High German word "zilen", meaning "to strive" or "to go towards". |
| Macedonian | Macedonian "цел" ("aim") also means "whole, entire" and comes from the Proto-Slavic word "*cělu", meaning "whole, undamaged". |
| Malagasy | The word "tanjona" can mean "direction", "goal", or "objective" |
| Malay | The Malay word "tujuan" (aim) is also used colloquially to refer to a destination, and is related to the Sanskrit word "ujjana" (a place of exile). |
| Malayalam | The word 'ലക്ഷ്യം' (lakṣyam) comes from the Sanskrit word 'लक्ष्य' (lakṣya), which means 'target' or 'object' to be aimed at. |
| Maltese | The word "għan" can also refer to a song or chant, a target or object of pursuit, or a goal or purpose. |
| Maori | The word whāinga also means "reason" indicating that the target of an action is the reason or purpose for doing it. |
| Marathi | The Marathi word "ध्येय" is derived from the Sanskrit word "ध्याना", which means "meditation" or "contemplation". It can also refer to the object or goal of one's meditation or contemplation. |
| Mongolian | The word "зорилго" has the additional meaning of "target" and comes from the verb "зoрих", meaning "to see" or "to look at." |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | Derived from Pali word 'ariyā', meaning noble or worthy. |
| Nepali | In Sanskrit, "लक्ष्य" also means "mark" or "goal", and is related to the word "लक्ष" meaning "to see". |
| Norwegian | In chess or other board games, "mål" also means "stalemate". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | "Cholinga" originates from the word "cholinga" in Swahili, meaning "to aim" or "to point". |
| Pashto | موخه" also means "target" or "destination" in Pashto. |
| Persian | "هدف" (aim) has a dual meaning: "purpose" or "target. |
| Polish | The word "cel" also means "cell" in Polish. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The Portuguese word "alvo" can also mean "target" or "goal." |
| Punjabi | In addition to the primary meaning of "aim," the word "ਉਦੇਸ਼" can also mean "purpose," "objective," or "goal". |
| Romanian | In Romanian, «scop» also means «goal» or «objective». |
| Russian | The word "цель" derives from the Proto-Slavic word *цѣль, meaning "whole" or "complete". |
| Samoan | Sini is an uncommon Samoan word commonly used in formal settings, and is cognate with the Maori word 'whiti'. Its etymology may derive from the Proto-Oceanic word *qini. |
| Scots Gaelic | In Scots Gaelic "amas" also means "heap" or "pile", and is related to the Irish word "amais" meaning "heap". |
| Serbian | The word "циљати" can also mean "to target" or "to strive for" in Serbian. |
| Sesotho | 'Sepheo' also means 'to try' or 'to attempt' something in Sesotho. |
| Shona | The word "vavariro" in Shona can also refer to "a person who aims" or "a target". |
| Sindhi | The word "مقصد" in Sindhi is derived from the Arabic word "قصد" meaning "intention" or "purpose". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word ඉලක්කය ("aim") derived from the Proto-Indo-Aryan *lakṣás, meaning "mark, spot, or goal". |
| Slovak | The Slovak word "cieľ" is also used to describe the endpoint of a journey, or a destination. |
| Slovenian | A derivative of the root "mer" found in words like "smrt" (death) and "umreti" (to die), it could signify the final point in the target's life trajectory. |
| Somali | "Ujeedadiisu tahay" is sometimes used figuratively to refer to a person's goal in life. |
| Spanish | The term "objetivo" (aim) derives from the Latin word "obiectum" (an object positioned before someone). |
| Sundanese | The word "udagan" also means "target" or "goal" in Sundanese. |
| Swahili | The word 'lengo' also means 'target' in Swahili, emphasizing its connection to the end goal or desired outcome. |
| Swedish | The Swedish word "syfte" is cognate with "sight" in English, and originally referred to the act of seeing or observing. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Pakay" in Filipino can also mean "to seek" or "to strive for," stemming from the Malay word "kapakai." |
| Tajik | The word "ҳадаф" can also mean "target" or "purpose" in Tajik. |
| Tamil | நோக்கம், which originated from the Proto-Tamil word *nuːk-, also means 'to look' or 'to watch'. |
| Telugu | It can also mean "objective", "goal", or "purpose", depending on the context. |
| Thai | "จุดมุ่งหมาย" can also refer to a destination, a goal, a purpose, or a point of view. |
| Turkish | Amac is a Turkish word that derives from the Arabic word hamq, which means "goal" or "purpose". |
| Ukrainian | Ukrainian "мета" (aim) derives from Proto-Slavic "medja" (boundary), retaining meanings of "boundary" and "purpose." |
| Urdu | The word "مقصد" in Urdu also means "purpose", "intention" and "destination" |
| Uzbek | The word "maqsad" in Uzbek is derived from the Arabic word "maqsad" (مقصد) and also means "purpose" or "intention". |
| Vietnamese | "Mục đích" is derived from Middle Vietnamese "mục" meaning "eye" or "target", and "chì" meaning "intention" or "direction." |
| Welsh | Nod can also mean 'a nod of the head' |
| Xhosa | In the Xhosa language, 'injongo' can carry meanings of 'intent', 'purpose', or 'goal'. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "ציל" also means "goal" or "target" and is related to the German word "Ziel" with the same meaning. |
| Yoruba | "Ifọkansi" also means "plan" or "intention" |
| Zulu | "Inhloso" can also refer to intention, purpose, objective, target, ambition, goal, aspiration, or design. |
| English | The word "aim" derives from the Old French "esmer", meaning "to estimate". |