Afrikaans toewys | ||
Albanian caktoj | ||
Amharic ይመድቡ | ||
Arabic تعيين | ||
Armenian նշանակել | ||
Assamese নিযুক্ত কৰা | ||
Aymara chhijllaña | ||
Azerbaijani təyin etmək | ||
Bambara ka baara di | ||
Basque esleitu | ||
Belarusian прызначыць | ||
Bengali বরাদ্দ | ||
Bhojpuri सौंपी | ||
Bosnian dodijeliti | ||
Bulgarian възлага | ||
Catalan assignar | ||
Cebuano itudlo | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 分配 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 分配 | ||
Corsican assignà | ||
Croatian dodijeliti | ||
Czech přiřadit | ||
Danish tildele | ||
Dhivehi އެސައިން | ||
Dogri सपुर्द करना | ||
Dutch toewijzen | ||
English assign | ||
Esperanto asigni | ||
Estonian määrama | ||
Ewe de dɔ asi | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) italaga | ||
Finnish antaa | ||
French attribuer | ||
Frisian tawize | ||
Galician asignar | ||
Georgian დანიშნოს | ||
German zuordnen | ||
Greek αναθέτω | ||
Guarani me'ẽ | ||
Gujarati સોંપો | ||
Haitian Creole asiyen | ||
Hausa sanyawa | ||
Hawaiian hoʻokau | ||
Hebrew לְהַקְצוֹת | ||
Hindi असाइन | ||
Hmong muab | ||
Hungarian hozzárendelni | ||
Icelandic úthluta | ||
Igbo ekenye | ||
Ilocano idutok | ||
Indonesian menetapkan | ||
Irish sannadh | ||
Italian assegnare | ||
Japanese 割当 | ||
Javanese nemtokake | ||
Kannada ನಿಯೋಜಿಸಿ | ||
Kazakh тағайындау | ||
Khmer ចាត់តាំង | ||
Kinyarwanda umukoro | ||
Konkani नेमून दिवप | ||
Korean 양수인 | ||
Krio gi wok | ||
Kurdish cîrêdan | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) دیاری کردن | ||
Kyrgyz дайындоо | ||
Lao ມອບ ໝາຍ | ||
Latin assignato | ||
Latvian piešķirt | ||
Lingala kopesa mosala | ||
Lithuanian paskirti | ||
Luganda okugereka | ||
Luxembourgish zougewisen | ||
Macedonian додели | ||
Maithili काम देनाइ | ||
Malagasy manome | ||
Malay memberi | ||
Malayalam നിയോഗിക്കുക | ||
Maltese assenja | ||
Maori toha | ||
Marathi असाइन करा | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯊꯕꯈ ꯄꯤꯕ | ||
Mizo ruat | ||
Mongolian оноох | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) တာဝန်ပေး | ||
Nepali तोक्नुहोस् | ||
Norwegian tildele | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) perekani | ||
Odia (Oriya) ନ୍ୟସ୍ତ କରନ୍ତୁ | | ||
Oromo ramaduu | ||
Pashto ټاکل | ||
Persian اختصاص دادن | ||
Polish przydzielać | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) atribuir | ||
Punjabi ਨਿਰਧਾਰਤ ਕਰੋ | ||
Quechua qumuy | ||
Romanian atribui | ||
Russian назначать | ||
Samoan tofi | ||
Sanskrit दिश् | ||
Scots Gaelic sònrachadh | ||
Sepedi beela | ||
Serbian доделити | ||
Sesotho abela | ||
Shona govera | ||
Sindhi ذميواري ڏيو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) පවරන්න | ||
Slovak priradiť | ||
Slovenian dodeliti | ||
Somali ku wareeji | ||
Spanish asignar | ||
Sundanese napelkeun | ||
Swahili pea | ||
Swedish tilldela | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) magtalaga | ||
Tajik таъин кунед | ||
Tamil ஒதுக்க | ||
Tatar бирегез | ||
Telugu కేటాయించవచ్చు | ||
Thai กำหนด | ||
Tigrinya ምምዳብ | ||
Tsonga nyika ntirho | ||
Turkish atamak | ||
Turkmen bellemek | ||
Twi (Akan) fa ma | ||
Ukrainian призначити | ||
Urdu تفویض | ||
Uyghur assign | ||
Uzbek tayinlamoq | ||
Vietnamese chỉ định | ||
Welsh aseinio | ||
Xhosa yabela | ||
Yiddish באַשטימען | ||
Yoruba sọtọ | ||
Zulu nika |
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "toewys" is derived from the Dutch word "toewijzen". |
| Albanian | Albanian "caktoj" (assign), from Latin "cacare" (defecate), originally "assign one's toilet"} |
| Amharic | Its root word is 'መድብ', meaning 'to fix by hammering', hence it's also used for allocating or appointing people to specific duties. |
| Arabic | The word "تعيين" in Arabic can also mean "to fix" or "to define". |
| Azerbaijani | The word "təyin etmək" also means "define" or "appoint". |
| Basque | The word "esleitu" comes from the Basque verb "esle" (to give), but it can also mean "to choose" or "to select". |
| Belarusian | The word "прызначыць" also means to appoint or name someone to a position. |
| Bengali | বরাদ্দ (baradd) derives from Arabic and literally means "the act of delivering". |
| Bosnian | The word "dodijeliti" in Bosnian derives from the Old Slavic word "deliti" meaning "to divide". |
| Bulgarian | The word "възлага" is also used in the context of entrusting a task or responsibility to someone. |
| Catalan | The verb "assignar" in Catalan is a derivative of the Latin word "assignare", which means "to mark out" or "appoint". |
| Cebuano | "Itudlo" may also refer to "to point" or "to indicate." |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 分配在漢語詞彙中還有其他含義,如分發、安排、指派等。 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 分配 (fēnpèi) can also mean "allocate" or "distribute". |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "assignà" can also mean "to allocate", "to attribute", or "to give". |
| Croatian | The Croatian verb 'dodijeliti' originates from the Serbian verb 'dijeliti' and also means 'distribute'. |
| Czech | The verb "přiřadit" shares the same Proto-Slavic root "*radu" as the verb "řadit" ("to order"). |
| Danish | The word "tildele" can also mean "to assign a duty or responsibility to". |
| Dutch | The verb "toewijzen" is also used in a religious context, meaning "to devote or dedicate something to God." |
| Esperanto | The word `asigni` has a similar etymology to assign and assignation and is related to the signation and signature. |
| Estonian | Määrama is related to the Finnish word määrä, meaning number or amount. |
| Finnish | In addition to meaning "assign," "antaa" also means "give," "donate," or "offer." |
| French | The term “attribuer” is derived from the Latin word “attribuere” which means “to grant” or “bestow”. |
| Frisian | Tawize can also mean to 'sign over, give, confer'. |
| Galician | En galego, "asignar" significa "asignar" ou "destinar". |
| Georgian | The Georgian word "დანიშნოს" can refer to either "assigning" something or setting a "deadline" for something to be done. |
| German | "Zuordnen" also means to coordinate, to associate, or to attribute something to something else. |
| Greek | The Greek verb αναθέτω (anathétō) also means to offer to a god or deity. |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "સોંપો" (assign) is thought to be derived from the Sanskrit word "समर्पण" (surrender) and can have alternate meanings such as "dedicate" or "entrust". |
| Haitian Creole | The word "asiyen" in Haitian Creole can also mean "to invite" or "to summon". |
| Hausa | 'Sany' means 'to be given' or 'to be presented'. 'Awa', on the other hand, means 'belong to' or 'owned by'. |
| Hawaiian | In some contexts, "hoʻokau" can be used to convey the idea of giving something to someone else, rather than assigning it. |
| Hebrew | The word "לְהַקְצוֹת" in Hebrew also means "to determine a date" or "to set apart or distinguish." |
| Hindi | In Hindi, the word 'असाइन' can also mean 'to order' or 'to entrust' something to someone. |
| Hmong | Muab can also mean "give" or "place" in Hmong. |
| Hungarian | The word "hozzárendelni" is derived from the Hungarian verb "hozzárendel", meaning "to assign" or "to attribute". In addition to its primary meaning, "hozzárendelni" can also be used metaphorically to describe the process of "adding" or "attaching" something to something else. |
| Icelandic | "Úthluta" also means "to provide" and is related to the verb "hlaða" ("to load"). |
| Igbo | The Igbo word 'ekenye' can also mean 'appoint', 'delegate', 'hand over', 'entrust', or 'commit to'. |
| Indonesian | Can also mean 'to determine' or 'to fix'. |
| Irish | The Irish word "sannadh" comes from the Proto-Indo-European root "*sed-," meaning "to sit" and is related to "sedan," "session" and "sedentary." |
| Italian | The Italian verb 'assegnare' comes from the Latin 'assignare', meaning 'to mark out' or 'to point out' |
| Japanese | The character "割" means "divide" or "portion", and "当" means "allot" or "share", thus combining to give the overall meaning of allotment. |
| Javanese | In modern Javanese, the word "nemtokake" means "assign" but in old Javanese it meant "to put in the middle". |
| Kannada | The word "ನಿಯೋಜಿಸಿ" is derived from the Sanskrit word "नियोग", meaning "an order or command". |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "тағайындау" can also mean "to appoint" or "to designate". |
| Khmer | The word "ចាត់តាំង" can also mean to appoint or to order something. |
| Korean | The second Hanja character of "양수인" literally means "water" but is also used in the sense of "receiving". |
| Kurdish | The term comes from 'ser' in Proto-Indo-European, meaning to watch over or protect. |
| Kyrgyz | The word "дайындоо" in Kyrgyz can also mean "to prepare", "to get ready", or "to make ready". |
| Lao | The word "assign" comes from the Latin word "assignare", meaning "to subscribe to". |
| Latin | In Medieval Latin, 'assignato' also meant 'appointed' or 'destined' |
| Latvian | The word "piešķirt" also means "to allocate" in Latvian. |
| Lithuanian | The word "paskirti" in Lithuanian is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *deks-, meaning "to point towards" or "to designate." |
| Luxembourgish | The verb "zougewisen" can also mean "to allocate" or "to allot". |
| Macedonian | The verb 'додели' ('assign') is of Slavic origin, and can also mean 'grant', 'reward, or 'bestow'. |
| Malagasy | The word "manome" in Malagasy can also mean "to allot" or "to distribute." |
| Malay | The Malay word "memberi" (assign) is related to the word "memberi" (give), highlighting the semantic overlap between giving and assigning. |
| Malayalam | The Malayalam word "നിയോഗിക്കുക" not only means 'assign' but also has the alternate meaning of 'to give a task to someone'. |
| Maltese | "Assenja" in Maltese can also mean "to give a sign" or "to indicate". |
| Maori | The word "toha" in Māori can also mean "to give" or "to bestow". |
| Marathi | Assign also means 'to appoint someone on a temporary duty' and 'to specify a particular place or position for someone'. |
| Mongolian | "Оноох" is also the verb stem for the verb "to be" in all tenses of the Mongolian language, except for in the aorist ("өгч"). |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The word ဂင်ြမဲပှ (ta waan pe) can also mean "order" or "command" in Myanmar (Burmese). |
| Nepali | The verb "तोक्नुहोस्" is the transitive form of the intransitive verb "तक्नु," which means "to guess" or "to estimate." |
| Norwegian | The term "tildele" is cognate with the Swedish word "dela", meaning "to divide." |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | In Nyanja, the word "perekani" can also mean "to hand over" or "to give something to someone else." |
| Pashto | The word "assign" comes from the Latin word "assignare," which means "to mark out" or "to appoint." |
| Persian | اختصاص دادن can also mean to 'assign' or 'to attribute' in Persian. |
| Polish | The word 'przydzielać' comes from the Proto-Slavic word *priděliti, which also meant 'to add' or 'to give'. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | Atribuir shares its origin with the Latin term "attribuere", meaning both “assign” and “contribute to.” |
| Punjabi | The word 'assign' comes from the Latin word 'assignare', meaning 'to mark out or appoint'. |
| Romanian | «Atribui» derives from Latin «attribuo», meaning «to assign, to attribute» or «to bestow». |
| Russian | The verb "назначать" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word "*nazъnati", meaning "to appoint" or "to designate." |
| Samoan | The word "tofi" in Samoan also means "to give up" or "to surrender". |
| Scots Gaelic | The Gaelic word 'sònrachadh' is cognate with the Irish and Welsh 'sonraigh' and 'honi' (specialise), respectively, all derived from the Proto-Celtic form '*son-rag-yo-.' |
| Serbian | The verb "доделити" can also mean to "grant" or "bestow" something to someone. |
| Sesotho | Sesotho 'abela' is ultimately from Arabic and also means 'send', 'dispatch'. |
| Shona | The noun `govera` can mean `ruler/governor`, `government`, `duty`, `office` or `district. |
| Sindhi | The compound word is derived from the words ذميو (to fix) and واري (a suffix indicating action), and can also mean to appoint. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word “පවරන්න” is derived from the Sanskrit word 'pra-var', meaning “to put forward or propose”. |
| Slovak | The Slovak word "priradiť" can also mean "to associate", "to attribute", "to impute", or "to ascribe". |
| Slovenian | The word "dodeliti" also means "to award" in Slovenian. |
| Somali | The word "ku wareeji" derives from the Arabic word "warid" meaning "to come, arrive, or inherit." |
| Spanish | The Spanish word "asignar" derives from the Latin word "assignare", meaning "to sign" or "to mark out". |
| Sundanese | "Napelkuan" also means "to teach" or "to instruct" in Sundanese. |
| Swahili | "Pea" also means "make" or "do" in Swahili. |
| Swedish | In some contexts, "tilldela" can also mean "reward" or "grant". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "magtalaga" in Tagalog can also mean to designate, appoint, or entrust someone with a task or responsibility. |
| Tajik | The original meaning of the word "таъин кунед" is "to put in an order". |
| Tamil | The Tamil word "ஒதுக்க" (assign) is derived from the root "ஒது" (to separate), indicating the act of setting apart or designating something. |
| Thai | The Thai word "กำหนด" can also mean "to determine" or "to fix". |
| Turkish | The Turkish word "atamak" is cognate with the Mongolian "otak" ("hearth, dwelling"), alluding to the assignment of a specific place of residence. |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word "призначити" can also mean "appoint" or "nominate." |
| Urdu | The word تفویض can also mean 'delegate' or 'entrust'. |
| Uzbek | The word 'tayinlamoq' ('assign' in Uzbek) also means 'to appoint' or 'to send on a mission'. |
| Vietnamese | "Chỉ định" also means "to appoint". |
| Welsh | The word "aseinio" derives from the Latin word "assignare," meaning "to mark out" or "to appoint." |
| Xhosa | The term 'yabela' is an extension of the verb 'yeba' (meaning 'to know') and thus signifies 'to make known' or 'to inform'. |
| Yiddish | The word "באַשטימען" also has the meanings "to appoint" and "to decree". |
| Yoruba | The word "sọtọ" also means "to appoint" or "to delegate" in Yoruba. |
| Zulu | Zulu word 'nika' also means 'to appoint' or 'to delegate' |
| English | The word 'assign' derives from the Latin 'assignare', meaning 'mark out' or 'allot.' |