Brush in Different Languages
Discover 'Brush' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Brush
Afrikaans kwas | ||
Albanian furçë | ||
Amharic ብሩሽ | ||
Arabic فرشاة | ||
Armenian խոզանակ | ||
Assamese বাছ | ||
Aymara sipillaña | ||
Azerbaijani fırça | ||
Bambara bɔrɔsi | ||
Basque eskuila | ||
Belarusian пэндзаль | ||
Bengali ব্রাশ | ||
Bhojpuri कूंची | ||
Bosnian četkom | ||
Bulgarian четка | ||
Catalan pinzell | ||
Cebuano brush | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 刷 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 刷 | ||
Corsican spazzola | ||
Croatian četka | ||
Czech štětec | ||
Danish børste | ||
Dhivehi ބްރަޝް | ||
Dogri बुरश | ||
Dutch borstel | ||
English brush | ||
Esperanto peniko | ||
Estonian harja | ||
Ewe aɖuklɔnu | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) brush | ||
Finnish harjata | ||
French brosse | ||
Frisian boarstel | ||
Galician pincel | ||
Georgian ფუნჯი | ||
German bürste | ||
Greek βούρτσα | ||
Guarani kytyha | ||
Gujarati બ્રશ | ||
Haitian Creole bwòs | ||
Hausa goga | ||
Hawaiian palaki | ||
Hebrew מִברֶשֶׁת | ||
Hindi ब्रश | ||
Hmong txhuam | ||
Hungarian kefe | ||
Icelandic bursta | ||
Igbo ahịhịa | ||
Ilocano idamgis | ||
Indonesian sikat | ||
Irish scuab | ||
Italian spazzola | ||
Japanese みがきます | ||
Javanese rerumput | ||
Kannada ಬ್ರಷ್ | ||
Kazakh щетка | ||
Khmer ជក់ | ||
Kinyarwanda brush | ||
Konkani ब्रश | ||
Korean 브러시 | ||
Krio brɔsh | ||
Kurdish firçe | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) فڵچە | ||
Kyrgyz щетка | ||
Lao ແປງ | ||
Latin setis | ||
Latvian birste | ||
Lingala brose | ||
Lithuanian teptuku | ||
Luganda okusenya | ||
Luxembourgish biischt | ||
Macedonian четка | ||
Maithili ब्रुश | ||
Malagasy brush | ||
Malay berus | ||
Malayalam ബ്രഷ് | ||
Maltese pinzell | ||
Maori paraihe | ||
Marathi ब्रश | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯈꯦꯠꯄ | ||
Mizo hru | ||
Mongolian сойз | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ဖြီး | ||
Nepali ब्रश | ||
Norwegian børste | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) burashi | ||
Odia (Oriya) ବ୍ରଶ୍ | ||
Oromo burushii | ||
Pashto برش | ||
Persian قلم مو | ||
Polish szczotka | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) escova | ||
Punjabi ਬੁਰਸ਼ | ||
Quechua ñaqcha | ||
Romanian perie | ||
Russian щетка | ||
Samoan pulumu | ||
Sanskrit भृष्ट | ||
Scots Gaelic bhruis | ||
Sepedi poraše | ||
Serbian четком | ||
Sesotho borashe | ||
Shona bhurasho | ||
Sindhi برش | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) බුරුසුව | ||
Slovak kefa | ||
Slovenian krtačo | ||
Somali caday | ||
Spanish cepillo | ||
Sundanese sikat | ||
Swahili brashi | ||
Swedish borsta | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) magsipilyo | ||
Tajik хасу | ||
Tamil தூரிகை | ||
Tatar щетка | ||
Telugu బ్రష్ | ||
Thai แปรง | ||
Tigrinya ብሩሽ | ||
Tsonga burhachi | ||
Turkish fırça | ||
Turkmen çotga | ||
Twi (Akan) twitwi | ||
Ukrainian кисть | ||
Urdu برش | ||
Uyghur چوتكا | ||
Uzbek cho'tka | ||
Vietnamese chải | ||
Welsh brwsh | ||
Xhosa ibrashi | ||
Yiddish באַרשט | ||
Yoruba fẹlẹ | ||
Zulu ibhulashi |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "kwas" shares its root with the word "kwets", meaning "wound" in Afrikaans. |
| Albanian | The Albanian word "furçë" is derived from the Latin "furca", meaning "fork", and is also used to refer to a type of cooking utensil. |
| Amharic | The word 'brush' in Amharic is also used to refer to a type of grass used for making ropes and mats. |
| Arabic | The word "فرشاة" is derived from the Persian word "فرش" (meaning "carpet") and originally referred to a whisk used to clean carpets. |
| Armenian | The Armenian word "խոզանակ" derives from the Armenian word "խոզ" (pig) and signifies the bristles of a pig due to its resemblance to the brush's bristles. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "fırça" also means "spanking" in Turkish, which derives from the Proto-Turkic word meaning "to brush or comb." |
| Basque | Etymology: Basque, from escu (oak) + ila (tool) |
| Belarusian | In addition to its primary meaning of "brush," "пэндзаль" can also refer to a paintbrush, a makeup brush, or a hairbrush. |
| Bengali | The word 'ব্রাশ' ('brush') derives from the Sanskrit word 'वृश' ('vrsh'), which also means to 'cut' or 'trim' |
| Bosnian | In Slavic languages, "četka" (brush) is also related to "četa" (comb) and "čistiti" (clean), all sharing the root "*ket-" (to comb), ultimately originating from the Proto-Indo-European root "*kens-" (to comb, card). |
| Bulgarian | The word "четка" also refers to a type of prayer beads used in Orthodox Christianity. |
| Catalan | The word "pinzell" is derived from the Latin word "penicillus", meaning "small tail" or "small brush", hence its meaning in Catalan.} |
| Cebuano | In Cebuano, "brush" can also refer to a broom or a whisk. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The character "刷" can also refer to the act of scrolling or swiping on a computer or phone screen. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The character "刷" also means "to swipe," "to scrub," or "to card." |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "spazzola" is derived from the Latin word "spatium", meaning "space", and originally referred to a small broom used to sweep floors. |
| Croatian | "Četka" can also mean "comb" or "hairbrush" in Croatian. |
| Czech | The word "štětec" is also used to refer to a type of insect that resembles a brush, known as a "painter's brushfly". |
| Danish | The word 'børste' can also refer to a hedgehog's bristles or the bristles on a paintbrush. |
| Dutch | The word "borstel" in Dutch is derived from the Latin "pilus" (hair) and can also refer to a toothbrush or a paintbrush. |
| Esperanto | "Peniko" shares root word "pen" with "penetrate", hence its name means tool that "penetrates" ink into paper |
| Estonian | Estonian word "harja" also refers to "bristle", particularly those of a horse's mane or pig's hide. |
| Finnish | The word "harja" in Finnish likely derives from the Proto-Uralic word "*harja" meaning "to comb". In addition to "brush", it can also mean "a row" or "a strip". |
| French | Brosse, in French, also refers to a large and stiff shaving brush, a pastry brush used for butter or egg wash and a toothbrush. |
| Frisian | Boarstel can also refer to a whisk or a bundle of bristles used for cleaning bottles. |
| Galician | In Galician, the word 'pincel' can also refer to a small paintbrush or a pencil used for drawing. |
| Georgian | The Georgian word “ფუნჯი” (“brush”) is likely related to the Persian word “پنجه” (“hand”), referring to the brush’s resemblance to a hand with its bristles acting like fingers. |
| German | In the Swabian dialect Bürste also refers to an old, broken down car. |
| Greek | The word 'βούρτσα' likely originated from the Old Bulgarian word 'врѣдъ', which meant 'to thresh'. |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "બ્રશ" (brush) comes from the Sanskrit word "बुर्ज" (brush) or "वृष्टि" (to sprinkle), and can also mean a paintbrush, broom, or eyelash. |
| Haitian Creole | It has alternate meanings such as "a bundle of straw used for thatching" in Jamaican Patwa and "a piece of cloth" in Mauritian Creole. |
| Hausa | The Hausa word 'goga' is derived from the Proto-Chadic form *gɔ́gɔ́n, and is cognate with the Yoruba word 'gbàgà'. |
| Hawaiian | Palaki can also refer to a broom made of coconut leaves used to sweep dirt and rubbish. |
| Hebrew | The word 'מִברֶשֶׁת' literally means 'a small broom' and is related to the word 'מטאטא' (broom). |
| Hindi | The word "ब्रश" can also refer to a sudden gust of wind or a short, heavy downpour. |
| Hmong | The word "txhuam" derives from Proto-Hmong-Mien *C-r̥wam, meaning "broom, brush, feather." |
| Hungarian | Etymology: Hungarian "kefe" likely derives from Turkish "kefe" (brush), itself possibly from Persian "kaf" (foam). |
| Icelandic | Bursta in Icelandic can also be a woman who has given birth recently or is currently pregnant. |
| Igbo | The Igbo word `ahịhịa` also means `grass`, `weeds`, or `shrubs`. |
| Indonesian | The word "sikat" can also refer to a broom or to the act of brushing |
| Irish | The word "scuab" in Irish is cognate with the Welsh word "ysgub" ("barn"), further related to the Latin word "scopa" ("broom") and the Greek word "skοpē" ("observation"). |
| Italian | The Italian word "spazzola" derives from the Latin "spatula", meaning "flat wooden instrument". |
| Japanese | '磨く' can also mean to refine or polish (eg. skills) rather than simply scrubbing something. |
| Javanese | "Rerumput" can also mean "grass" or "vegetation". |
| Kannada | The word "ಬ್ರಷ್" in Kannada, meaning brush, is also used to refer to a small broom made of grass or coconut fibers used for cleaning delicate surfaces. |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "щетка" can also refer to a type of bird or a tool used for cleaning floors. |
| Khmer | The word "ជក់" can also refer to a type of Cambodian dance, with a graceful and expressive style. |
| Korean | In Korean, "브러시" can also refer to a kind of hairstyle or a type of calligraphy brush |
| Kurdish | In Kurdish, the word "firçe" can also refer to hair or feathers that are bristly or coarse. |
| Kyrgyz | The word "щетка" originates from the Russian word "щётка" and means "brush" in Kyrgyz. |
| Lao | The Lao word for "brush" (ແປງ) can also mean "powder" or "flour". |
| Latin | The Latin word "setis" can also refer to bristles or a mane of hair. |
| Latvian | Latvian word "burste" (brush) likely derives from the German word "Bürste". "Burste" also has a meaning "bribe", whereas in Latvian "birste" is sometimes used for a bribe. |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word "teptuku" also refers to a hairbrush. |
| Luxembourgish | The Luxembourgish word "Biischt" may have originated from the Proto-Germanic word *bursta, which also meant "bristle" and "brush." |
| Macedonian | The word "четка" in Macedonian can also mean a type of prayer beads used in Eastern Orthodox Christianity. |
| Malagasy | In Malagasy, the word "borosy" can refer to both a "brush" and a "broom." |
| Malay | In Javanese, 'berus' also refers to a type of broom or whisk. |
| Malayalam | The word |
| Maltese | The word "pinzell" is derived from the Italian word "pennello" and can also refer to a fine paintbrush. |
| Maori | Paraihe can also refer to a 'comb' or 'broom', sharing the same root word as 'para' meaning 'to scratch'. |
| Marathi | The word 'ब्रश' can also refer to the action of touching or grazing something lightly. |
| Mongolian | Soyz is a Mongolian word derived from the Middle Mongolian 'soyur', which also means 'to paint' and 'to draw' |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The word "ဖြီး" (brush) in Myanmar can also refer to a whisp, a gentle breeze, or a light touch. |
| Nepali | The word "ब्रश" in Nepali can also mean "toothbrush" or "paintbrush." |
| Norwegian | The word "børste" also refers to the bristles of a brush, or to a thick, bristly hair or fiber. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The Nyanja word "burashi" can also refer to a broom or a person who sweeps. |
| Pashto | The word "برش" can also mean "broom" or "paintbrush". |
| Persian | In addition to its primary meaning, "brush," "قلم مو" can also mean "pencil" in Persian. |
| Polish | "Szczotka" originally referred to a branch of a tree used for sweeping or brushing. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The noun "escova" in Portuguese has many meanings, such as "brush", "scrub", and "hatchet". |
| Punjabi | The word "ਬੁਰਸ਼" (brush) in Punjabi is derived from the Sanskrit word "varṣa" (to sprinkle or rain), which is also the origin of the English word "verse". |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "perie" (brush) derives from the Latin word "pilus" (hair), which also gave rise to the English word "pile" (a nap on a fabric). |
| Russian | The Russian word for "brush," щетка (shchetka), is derived from the Proto-Slavic word "čьstiti," meaning "to clean". |
| Samoan | The Samoan word 'pulumu' also means 'to rub' or 'to scratch'. |
| Scots Gaelic | The Gaelic word "bhruis" is a cognate of the English word "brushwood", meaning undergrowth or shrubs. |
| Serbian | The word "четком" can also be used to refer to a person who is particularly meticulous or attentive to detail. |
| Sesotho | The Sesotho word "borashe" comes from the Proto-Sotho word "*borase", which meant "to brush away". |
| Shona | The word "bhurasho" in Shona can also refer to a broom or a whisk. |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "brush" derives from the Persian word " برس " (bors), meaning "a small broom or a brush." |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | In Sinhala, the word "බුරුසුව" can also mean "besom" or "sweepings" and is cognate with the Sanskrit word "bharuk" meaning "broom" or "bristle." |
| Slovak | The Slovak word kefka is derived from the Czech word kef and ultimately from the German word Kehrbesen, which literally means 'sweeper'. |
| Slovenian | "Krtačo" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *krta, meaning "wool-carding tool". The term "krta" was probably borrowed from Proto-Germanic *karđuz or *kardōn. In some Slovenian dialects, the word "krtačo" can also refer to a rake, indicating the shared etymological root of these grooming and gardening implements. |
| Somali | The Somali word for brush, "caday," is a loanword from the Arabic word "qadaha," which also means "a pen." |
| Spanish | In Spain, "cepillo" can also refer to a collection box passed around in churches or a bribe. |
| Sundanese | The Sundanese word "sikat" can also be used to describe the process of sweeping or brushing something, as well as the act of scrubbing. |
| Swahili | "Brashi" is also the name of the Swahili dance that originated on the coast of Kenya. |
| Swedish | The Swedish word "borsta" meaning "brush" derives from the Proto-Indo-European root *bhrus- meaning "bristle", also the origin of the Latin word "frons" meaning "hair", "leaf" and "foliage". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The Tagalog word "magsipilyo" can also mean "to brush one's teeth" or "to comb one's hair."} |
| Tajik | The Tajik word "хасу" (brush) also refers to a type of coarse woolen cloth used for making winter clothing. |
| Tamil | The Tamil word 'தூரிகை' (brush) is also used to refer to a 'tuft' or 'small cluster' in some contexts. |
| Telugu | The word "brush" in Telugu can also mean a type of broom or a paintbrush. |
| Thai | แปรง derives from the Khmer word ប្រណាំង (branaṃŋ) and cognates with the Malay word "beranang" meaning "to swim". |
| Turkish | In Turkish, "fırça" can also mean a "lash", a "bristle", or an "insulting remark." |
| Ukrainian | The word "кисть" can also mean "wrist" due to its similar appearance to a paintbrush handle |
| Urdu | The Urdu word "برش" (brush) also means "a stroke made with a brush" |
| Uzbek | The word "cho'tka" also refers to a hairbrush or a shaving brush in Uzbek. |
| Vietnamese | "Chải" also colloquially refers to the activity of combing or grooming, reflecting the shared action of combing through or brushing over something. |
| Welsh | The Welsh word "brwsh" can mean either "brush" or "broom" depending on context. |
| Xhosa | "Ibrashi" is derived from the Zulu word "ibhulashi," which also means "paint brush". |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "באַרשט" ("borsht") is derived from the Slavic word "борщ" ("beetroot soup"), but it can also refer to a type of brush used for painting or cleaning. |
| Yoruba | A type of divination made on a board using a powdered charcoal paste |
| Zulu | Ibhuhulashi, loosely translated as "whisk" or "brush", can also mean "the one who shakes". |
| English | As a noun, "brush" can also refer to a low-growing shrub or undergrowth. |