Body in Different Languages
Discover 'Body' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Body
Afrikaans liggaam | ||
Albanian trupi | ||
Amharic አካል | ||
Arabic الجسم | ||
Armenian մարմին | ||
Assamese শৰীৰ | ||
Aymara janchi | ||
Azerbaijani bədən | ||
Bambara farikolo | ||
Basque gorputza | ||
Belarusian цела | ||
Bengali শরীর | ||
Bhojpuri देह | ||
Bosnian tijelo | ||
Bulgarian тяло | ||
Catalan cos | ||
Cebuano lawas | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 身体 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 身體 | ||
Corsican corpu | ||
Croatian tijelo | ||
Czech tělo | ||
Danish legeme | ||
Dhivehi ހަށިގަނޑު | ||
Dogri शरीर | ||
Dutch lichaam | ||
English body | ||
Esperanto korpo | ||
Estonian keha | ||
Ewe ŋutilã | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) katawan | ||
Finnish runko | ||
French corps | ||
Frisian lichem | ||
Galician corpo | ||
Georgian სხეული | ||
German körper | ||
Greek σώμα | ||
Guarani tete | ||
Gujarati શરીર | ||
Haitian Creole kò | ||
Hausa jiki | ||
Hawaiian kino | ||
Hebrew גוּף | ||
Hindi तन | ||
Hmong lub cev | ||
Hungarian test | ||
Icelandic líkami | ||
Igbo ahụ | ||
Ilocano bagi | ||
Indonesian tubuh | ||
Irish comhlacht | ||
Italian corpo | ||
Japanese 体 | ||
Javanese awak | ||
Kannada ದೇಹ | ||
Kazakh дене | ||
Khmer រាងកាយ | ||
Kinyarwanda umubiri | ||
Konkani कूड | ||
Korean 신체 | ||
Krio bɔdi | ||
Kurdish beden | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) جەستە | ||
Kyrgyz дене | ||
Lao ຮ່າງກາຍ | ||
Latin corporis | ||
Latvian ķermeņa | ||
Lingala nzoto | ||
Lithuanian kūnas | ||
Luganda omubiri | ||
Luxembourgish kierper | ||
Macedonian тело | ||
Maithili देह | ||
Malagasy -kevi-pitantanana | ||
Malay badan | ||
Malayalam ശരീരം | ||
Maltese ġisem | ||
Maori tinana | ||
Marathi शरीर | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯍꯛꯆꯥꯡ | ||
Mizo taksa | ||
Mongolian бие | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ကိုယ်ခန္ဓာ | ||
Nepali जीउ | ||
Norwegian kropp | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) thupi | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଶରୀର | ||
Oromo qaama | ||
Pashto بدن | ||
Persian بدن | ||
Polish ciało | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) corpo | ||
Punjabi ਸਰੀਰ | ||
Quechua kurku | ||
Romanian corp | ||
Russian тело | ||
Samoan tino | ||
Sanskrit शरीरं | ||
Scots Gaelic bodhaig | ||
Sepedi mmele | ||
Serbian тело | ||
Sesotho mmele | ||
Shona muviri | ||
Sindhi جسم | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) සිරුර | ||
Slovak telo | ||
Slovenian telo | ||
Somali jirka | ||
Spanish cuerpo | ||
Sundanese awak | ||
Swahili mwili | ||
Swedish kropp | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) katawan | ||
Tajik бадан | ||
Tamil உடல் | ||
Tatar тән | ||
Telugu శరీరం | ||
Thai ร่างกาย | ||
Tigrinya ሰውነት | ||
Tsonga miri | ||
Turkish vücut | ||
Turkmen beden | ||
Twi (Akan) nipadua | ||
Ukrainian тіло | ||
Urdu جسم | ||
Uyghur body | ||
Uzbek tanasi | ||
Vietnamese thân hình | ||
Welsh corff | ||
Xhosa umzimba | ||
Yiddish גוף | ||
Yoruba ara | ||
Zulu umzimba |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "liggaam" is also used in Dutch to refer to certain types of fabric or cloth. |
| Albanian | The word "trup" is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ḱer-p-, meaning "corpse" or "body." |
| Amharic | The word "አካል" has additional meanings beyond "body", including "person", "soul", and "corpse". |
| Arabic | The word "الجسم" (al-jism) in Arabic derives from the root word "ج س م" (j-s-m), which signifies "firmness" or "solidity." |
| Armenian | "մարմին" traces back to the Indo-European root "*mer-/*mor-", meaning "to shine, to sparkle, to glitter". |
| Azerbaijani | "Bədən" is derived from the Proto-Turkic word "beden", meaning "entity, substance, core". |
| Basque | "Gorputza" (body) originates from the Proto-Basque *gorputz, *korputz "body, flesh", from the PIE root *gʷer- "to swallow, consume, eat." |
| Belarusian | The word "цела" goes back to Proto-Slavic *tělo and Indo-European *ḱḗlos meaning "wholeness, health, life" and can refer to a person's physical health and well-being. |
| Bengali | The word "শরীর" (body) in Bengali is derived from the Sanskrit word "शरीर" (cuerpo) and can also mean "corpse". |
| Bosnian | "Tijelo" can also mean "corpse" or "cadaver" in Bosnian. |
| Bulgarian | The Bulgarian word "тяло" can also mean "substance" or "matter". |
| Catalan | ‘Cos’ has the literal meaning of ‘body’ but can also mean ‘case’, ‘envelope’, ‘shell’ or ‘universe’ |
| Cebuano | The word "lawas" is also used figuratively to refer to a person's stature or appearance. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "身体" comes from "体格", meaning external form, hence body. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The character 身 (shēn) in 身體 (shēntǐ) originally meant 'a pregnant woman,' while 體 (tǐ) meant 'a child in the womb.' |
| Corsican | The word "corpu" in Corsican is derived from the Latin word "corpus" and also refers to a legal entity or a group of people. |
| Croatian | The word 'tijelo' in Croatian is derived from the Proto-Slavic word 'tьjelo', which also means 'corpse'. |
| Czech | The word "tělo" can also refer to the fuselage of an aircraft or the body of a musical instrument. |
| Danish | The word "legeme" in Danish originally referred to the physical body and its organs |
| Dutch | The word 'lichaam' is derived from Old Dutch 'līkhamo', meaning 'corpse', and is related to the English word 'lych' (a funeral procession). |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word "korpo" is derived from the Latin word "corpus" meaning "body" and is related to the English word "corpse". |
| Estonian | The word "keha" has other meanings besides "body", including "case" and "corpus". |
| Finnish | Runko, meaning 'body' in Finnish, can also refer to the main structural part of a vehicle or a ship's hull. |
| French | The French word "corps" has alternate meanings including a military unit and a collection of works by a particular author. |
| Frisian | The word "lichem" in Frisian is derived from the Proto-Germanic word "*likamą", meaning "body" or "corpse". |
| Galician | The word "corpo" can also refer to a group of people, such as a council or a guild. |
| Georgian | The word 'სხეული' originated from the Old Georgian word 'სხუ', which referred to a 'corpse'. The word has also acquired the meaning of 'a solid object' or a 'container'. |
| German | In anatomy, 'Körper' also refers to a corpse. |
| Greek | The word σώμα (sōma) in Greek has been used to refer to the physical body, the corpse, and the totality of a person. |
| Gujarati | Derived from Sanskrit 'शरीर' (śarīra), 'body' or 'corpse' |
| Haitian Creole | The word "kò" in Haitian Creole can also mean "corpse" or "cadaver". |
| Hausa | The Hausa word "jiki" can also refer to "oneself" or "a person's integrity and self-worth." |
| Hawaiian | In the Hawaiian language, 'kino' may refer to either the physical body or one's spirit or essence. |
| Hebrew | In Hebrew, the word "גוף" (body) not only refers to the physical form but also encompasses the emotional and spiritual aspects of a person |
| Hindi | The word 'तन' also means 'cloth' or 'sheet' in Hindi, related to the Sanskrit word 'तनु' meaning 'thin', 'spread out'. |
| Hmong | The Hmong word "lub cev" can also refer to the self or the person themselves, emphasizing their physicality or embodiment. |
| Hungarian | The Hungarian word 'test' can also refer to the shape of an object. |
| Icelandic | Líkami has ancient Germanic connections with the Old English lichoma (corpse), Old High German lihho (body), and Old Saxon lichamo, all derived from the Proto-Germanic *likô (body), a possible cognate of the Latin corpus. |
| Igbo | Ahụ" can also refer to the "essence" of a person, their "soul" or their "spirit". |
| Indonesian | The word 'tubuh' also means 'shape' or 'form' in Indonesian, reflecting the concept of the body as a physical manifestation of the self. |
| Irish | The word "comhlacht" can also mean "company" or "troop" in Irish, reflecting its literal meaning of "together-lying". |
| Italian | The Italian word "corpo" originally meant "corpse" but gained the additional meaning of "body" from the 14th century onward. |
| Japanese | 体 (tai) can also refer to the physical form of a character in a work of fiction or the substance or essence of something. |
| Javanese | In the Javanese language, the word "awak" can also mean "being" or "self". |
| Kannada | The word "ದೇಹ" (body) in Kannada can also refer to a corpse or a cadaver. |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "дене" also means "self" or "personality". |
| Khmer | In some contexts, "body" can also refer to a person's identity, such as in the phrase "my body, my rules." |
| Korean | Originally, '신체' meant the mind or spirit, but its meaning gradually changed to refer to the physical body. |
| Kurdish | In Kurdish, "beden" may also refer to a corpse that has not yet been buried or a living creature that has just died. |
| Kyrgyz | The word "дене" is derived from Proto-Turkic word "ten" meaning "skin". |
| Lao | The Lao word "ຮ່າງກາຍ" is often used to mean "body" or "shape" but also has a more figurative meaning of "essence" or "nature" of something. |
| Latin | Corporis is also the dative or ablative singular form of the Latin word corpus, which means "body." |
| Latvian | The word "ķermeņa" may also refer to a person's figure or the human form in general in Latvian. |
| Lithuanian | The word "kūnas" in Lithuanian is derived from the Proto-Baltic root *koynas, meaning "shape" or "form". |
| Luxembourgish | Kierper likely originates from the Old High German word "karpar", meaning "vessel" or "container". |
| Macedonian | The word "тело" in Macedonian originally meant "the whole", but now it mostly refers to the human body. |
| Malagasy | The word "-kevi-pitantanana" can also refer to a person's appearance, health, or condition. |
| Malay | In Indonesian, 'badan' also refers to an organization or institution. |
| Malayalam | The word "ശരീരം" in Malayalam is derived from the Sanskrit word "शरीर" (śarīra), which also means "body" and is related to the Latin word "corpus". |
| Maltese | The word "ġisem" is also used in Maltese to refer to a corpse, and is derived from the Arabic "jasad" (جسد). |
| Maori | Maori 'tinana' originates from older Polynesian words with similar meanings, including 'tino' (body), 'tina' (mother), and 'tangata' (person). |
| Marathi | "शरीर" in Marathi ultimately derives from the Sanskrit word "शरीरम्" (śarīram), meaning "body" or "substance," which in turn comes from the root "शृ" (śṛ), meaning "to divide" or "to separate." |
| Mongolian | 'Бие' means 'body,' which comes from 'бю', meaning 'bone,' as well as 'biege,' which means 'belly' and 'womb' and is related to other Altaic terms for animal reproduction, such as Russian 'беременная,' Korean '배', and Japanese '腹'. |
| Nepali | The word "जीउ" derives from the Sanskrit word "जीव" meaning "life" or "soul". |
| Norwegian | The word "kropp" is cognate with the English "crop" and "craw" |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "thupi" in Nyanja is also used to refer to a corpse or a dead body. |
| Pashto | In Pashto, بدن can also mean "corpse" or "cadaver". |
| Persian | The Persian word "بدن" (badan) can also mean 'corpse', 'figure', 'shape', or 'form' in addition to 'body'. |
| Polish | "Ciało" also refers to a dough for certain types of traditional Polish pastries. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | Corpo can also mean 'corpse' or 'body of liquid' while 'body' in this context translates to 'esqueleto'. |
| Punjabi | The word 'ਸਰੀਰ' (sarīra) has the alternate meaning of 'substance' in Sanskrit and is also the root of the Hindi word 'सिर' (sir) which means 'head'. |
| Romanian | In Romanian, the word "corp" can also refer to a legal entity such as a corporation or a military unit. |
| Russian | The word "тело" also has the meaning of "mass" or "corpse" |
| Samoan | "Tino" also means "the self" in Samoan. |
| Scots Gaelic | "Bodhaig" can also be used to refer to a person's physical appearance. |
| Serbian | The Serbian word "тело" can also refer to a corpse or cadaver. |
| Sesotho | 'Mmele' can also refer to a 'person' or 'corpse'. |
| Shona | The word "muviri" is not only used to refer to a body, but can also be used in a figurative sense to refer to the "essence" or "core" of something. |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "جسم" (jasam) originally referred to a corpse, but over time its meaning expanded to encompass the living body as well. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "සිරුර" (body) is derived from the Proto-Sinhalese word "*kiru" meaning "shape" or "form." |
| Slovak | The Slovak word "telo" derives from the Proto-Slavic root *tel-e-, meaning "body" or "physical frame". |
| Slovenian | The word 'telo' in Slovenian shares its etymology with the word 'toil' in English, highlighting the strenuous effort the body requires. |
| Somali | The word 'jirka' is the diminutive of 'jir' meaning 'tree trunk or limb' |
| Spanish | The Spanish word 'cuerpo' can also mean 'group' or 'team', as in 'cuerpo de bomberos' (fire brigade) |
| Sundanese | The word "awak" in Sundanese can also refer to a person's physical appearance or to their personality and character. |
| Swahili | Mwili also means 'flesh' and might be connected to the Kinyamuzi word 'mwiri', which means 'dead body'. |
| Swedish | The Swedish word "kropp" derives from the Old Norse word "kroppr", which originally meant "hump" or "bulge". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Katawan" can also refer to the fuselage of an aircraft or the body of knowledge in a field of study. |
| Tajik | The word "бадан" in Tajik can also refer to the plant Bergenia crassifolia, commonly known as elephant ear or Siberian tea. |
| Tamil | "உடல்" can also refer to "a particular part/organ of the body" as well as a "corpse or a dead body" |
| Telugu | The word శరీరం ('body') comes from the Sanskrit word 'sariram', which also means 'essence' or 'substance'. |
| Thai | The word "ร่างกาย" literally means "form-existence", from the Sanskrit "rūpa" (form) and "kāya" (existence). |
| Turkish | The word "vücut" also means "occurrence" or "existence" in Turkish. |
| Ukrainian | У слова "тіло" існує додаткове значення - речовина, матеріал |
| Urdu | The word “جسم” derives from Arabic and in Urdu is often used also to refer to an “entity” that is composed of physical or abstract elements and has a distinct identity, or to a “substance”, material or immaterial, having certain characteristics. |
| Uzbek | The word "tanasi" in Uzbek can also refer to a corpse or a dead person. |
| Vietnamese | The word "thân hình" can also refer to a person's figure or appearance. |
| Welsh | The Welsh word "corff" also means "corpse", likely stemming from an earlier meaning of "a living body laid out straight or stretched forth" |
| Xhosa | 'Umzimba' is also the name used for a type of traditional beer that is prepared by brewing sorghum or maize and is common during cultural celebrations. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "גוף" (body) derives from the Hebrew word גּוּף (body, matter, substance), and also means "corpse" in Yiddish. |
| Yoruba | "Ara" also means"a thing" or "a being" in Yoruba. |
| Zulu | The Zulu word "umzimba" can also refer to a clan or family group. |
| English | The word "body" derives from Old English "bodig" and Proto-Germanic "bodjaz," meaning "frame" or "abode." |