Buy in Different Languages
Discover 'Buy' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Buy
Afrikaans koop | ||
Albanian blej | ||
Amharic ይግዙ | ||
Arabic يشترى | ||
Armenian գնել | ||
Assamese ক্ৰয় কৰা | ||
Aymara alaña | ||
Azerbaijani almaq | ||
Bambara ka san | ||
Basque erosi | ||
Belarusian купіць | ||
Bengali কেনা | ||
Bhojpuri किनायिल | ||
Bosnian kupiti | ||
Bulgarian купува | ||
Catalan comprar | ||
Cebuano pagpalit | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 购买 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 購買 | ||
Corsican cumprà | ||
Croatian kupiti | ||
Czech koupit | ||
Danish købe | ||
Dhivehi ގަތުން | ||
Dogri खरीदो | ||
Dutch kopen | ||
English buy | ||
Esperanto aĉeti | ||
Estonian osta | ||
Ewe ƒle | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) bumili | ||
Finnish ostaa | ||
French acheter | ||
Frisian keapje | ||
Galician mercar | ||
Georgian ყიდვა | ||
German kaufen | ||
Greek αγορά | ||
Guarani jogua | ||
Gujarati ખરીદી | ||
Haitian Creole achte | ||
Hausa saya | ||
Hawaiian kūʻai | ||
Hebrew לִקְנוֹת | ||
Hindi खरीद | ||
Hmong yuav | ||
Hungarian megvesz | ||
Icelandic kaupa | ||
Igbo zụta | ||
Ilocano gatangen | ||
Indonesian membeli | ||
Irish cheannach | ||
Italian acquistare | ||
Japanese 購入 | ||
Javanese tuku | ||
Kannada ಖರೀದಿಸಿ | ||
Kazakh сатып алу | ||
Khmer ទិញ | ||
Kinyarwanda buy buy | ||
Konkani विकतें घेवप | ||
Korean 구입 | ||
Krio bay | ||
Kurdish kirrîn | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) کڕین | ||
Kyrgyz сатып алуу | ||
Lao ຊື້ | ||
Latin buy | ||
Latvian pirkt | ||
Lingala kosomba | ||
Lithuanian pirkti | ||
Luganda okugula | ||
Luxembourgish kafen | ||
Macedonian купи | ||
Maithili खरीदू | ||
Malagasy buy | ||
Malay beli | ||
Malayalam വാങ്ങാൻ | ||
Maltese jixtru | ||
Maori hoko | ||
Marathi खरेदी | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯂꯩꯕ | ||
Mizo lei | ||
Mongolian худалдан авах | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ဝယ်ပါ | ||
Nepali किन्नुहोस् | ||
Norwegian kjøpe | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) gula | ||
Odia (Oriya) କିଣ | | ||
Oromo bituu | ||
Pashto وپیرئ | ||
Persian خریدن | ||
Polish kup | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) comprar | ||
Punjabi ਖਰੀਦੋ | ||
Quechua rantiy | ||
Romanian cumpără | ||
Russian купить | ||
Samoan faatau | ||
Sanskrit क्रीडातु | ||
Scots Gaelic ceannaich | ||
Sepedi reka | ||
Serbian купити | ||
Sesotho reka | ||
Shona tenga | ||
Sindhi خريد | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) මිලදී ගන්න | ||
Slovak kúpiť | ||
Slovenian kupi | ||
Somali iibso | ||
Spanish comprar | ||
Sundanese ngagaleuh | ||
Swahili nunua | ||
Swedish köpa | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) bumili ka | ||
Tajik харидан | ||
Tamil வாங்க | ||
Tatar сатып ал | ||
Telugu కొనుగోలు | ||
Thai ซื้อ | ||
Tigrinya ግዛእ | ||
Tsonga xava | ||
Turkish satın almak | ||
Turkmen satyn al | ||
Twi (Akan) tɔ | ||
Ukrainian купити | ||
Urdu خریدنے | ||
Uyghur سېتىۋېلىش | ||
Uzbek sotib olish | ||
Vietnamese mua | ||
Welsh prynu | ||
Xhosa thenga | ||
Yiddish קויפן | ||
Yoruba ra | ||
Zulu thenga |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "koop" derives from the Dutch word "kopen," which can also mean "to bargain" or "to acquire." |
| Albanian | The word "blej" is derived from the Proto-Albanian word "bleo", which means "to take" or "to acquire". |
| Amharic | The word ይግዙ can also mean 'to take' or 'to seize' in Amharic. |
| Arabic | The word "يشترى" can also mean "to hire" or "to rent" in Arabic. |
| Armenian | The word "գնել" comes from the Proto-Indo-European root "*genh-," meaning "to take" or "to acquire." |
| Azerbaijani | The word "almaq" derives from the Arabic word "إشترى" (ishtara), meaning "to buy". |
| Basque | 'Erosi' in Basque is also used to refer to a fine paid as compensation for a murder. |
| Belarusian | The word купіць also means "to obtain" in Belarusian. |
| Bengali | The word "কেনা" also means "to gain" or "to acquire" something. |
| Bosnian | The verb 'kupiti' derives from the Proto-Slavic word 'kupiti', meaning 'to collect' or 'to trade'. |
| Bulgarian | "Купува" comes from the Proto-Slavic "kupiti" which also means "to beg" or "to beseech". |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "comprar" derives from the Latin "comparare," meaning "to gather" or "to put together." |
| Cebuano | "Pagpalit" can also mean "exchange" or "barter" in Cebuano. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 购买's (买) original meaning is to exchange goods with other goods, not necessarily with money. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | "購買" in Traditional Chinese can also mean "to purchase, procure, procure goods, purchase property, or obtain." |
| Corsican | Corsican "cumprà" ultimately comes from Latin "comperare" meaning "to buy" or "to acquire". |
| Croatian | The word 'kupiti' in Croatian also means 'take' or 'receive' in some contexts, as in 'kupiti knjigu' or 'kupiti platu'. |
| Czech | The word "koupit" originally meant "to strike" or "to beat", and it is still used in this sense in some contexts. |
| Danish | The Danish word "købe" originally meant "to barter" or "to trade," and is related to the English word "cheap." |
| Dutch | The verb 'kopen' is cognate with the English 'cheap', with both originating from the Proto-Germanic word 'kaupon' |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word "aĉeti" is derived from the Latin "accipere," meaning "to receive" or "to accept." |
| Estonian | Osta is derived from the Proto-Finnic word *ostaa, which means "to obtain" or "to acquire". |
| Finnish | "Ostaa" is derived from "ostu", which refers to something gained through effort or compensation. |
| French | The French word "acheter" (to buy) comes from the Old French word "achater," which in turn is derived from the Latin word "captare" (to seize, to catch). |
| Frisian | The word 'keapje' is derived from the Old Frisian word 'keapa', meaning 'barter'. It can also refer to a purchase made at a market or fair. |
| Galician | "mercar" is derived from Latin "mercari" (to trade) and can also mean "to trade" or "to barter" in Galician |
| Georgian | The word "ყიდვა" can also refer to the act of receiving something in exchange for money or other goods. |
| German | The word "Kaufen" is derived from the Old High German word "koufon", which means "to receive or take possession of something." |
| Greek | The word "αγορά" also refers to a marketplace or assembly in ancient Greece. |
| Gujarati | The word "ખરીદી" can also mean "purchase" or "procurement" in Gujarati. |
| Haitian Creole | Alternate meanings of "achte" include "to obtain" and "to acquire". |
| Hausa | In Hausa, 'saya' can also refer to 'payment' or 'bribery'. |
| Hawaiian | In Hawaiian, the word “kūʻai” has an additional meaning of “to trade, exchange, or barter.” |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word 'liknot' is related to the Aramaic 'kenei,' as well as the Akkadian and Ugaritic roots 'kn' and 'knr,' which all have to do with weight, property, and goods |
| Hindi | "खरीद" can also refer to the act of obtaining something by giving something in return or in exchange. |
| Hmong | The Hmong word "yuav" can also mean "spend" or "consume". |
| Hungarian | The Hungarian word "megvesz" can also mean "to deceive" or "to trick". |
| Icelandic | "Kaupa" in Icelandic also refers to "goods" or "merchandise" and derives from the Old Norse word "kaupa", meaning "bargain" or "trade". |
| Igbo | In informal Igbo, "zụta" can also mean "steal" or "appropriate something without permission." |
| Indonesian | The word "membeli" originates from the Proto-Austronesian word "*be[C]eli" meaning "to trade". |
| Irish | The word 'cheannach' in Irish is derived from the Proto-Celtic word 'kemb', meaning 'to take' or 'to seize'. |
| Italian | The Italian word 'acquistare' ultimately derives from the Latin 'ad quaerere', meaning 'to seek', and originally meant 'to acquire'. |
| Japanese | 購入 is also used to mean "to obtain" or "to acquire" something that is not necessarily purchased with money. |
| Javanese | In Javanese, "tuku" also means "to trade" or "to barter". |
| Kannada | "ಖರೀದಿಸಿ" is derived from "ಖರೀ" (purchase) and "ದಿ" (suffix indicating action). It can also mean "to acquire" or "to obtain". |
| Kazakh | The word "сатып алу" can also mean "to gain" or "to acquire" in Kazakh. |
| Khmer | "ទិញ" can also mean "to borrow" in Khmer. |
| Korean | 구입 is an abbreviation of 구해 오는 입, which means 'to fetch something'. |
| Kurdish | The word "kirrîn" comes from the Persian word "kharidan" and also means "purchase". |
| Kyrgyz | Сатып алуу can also mean to acquire or obtain something. |
| Lao | The word "ຊື້" can also mean "to hire" in Lao. |
| Latin | Latin word "emere" also signifies to take or receive, like the English word "buy". |
| Latvian | The Latvian word "pirkt" not only means "to buy," it is also derived from the word "pirce," which means "glove."} |
| Lithuanian | Pirkti also means to get or to take, similar to how "take" or "get" can mean "buy" in English |
| Luxembourgish | The verb "kafen" can also mean "to catch" or "to get" in Luxembourgish. |
| Macedonian | The word "купи" also means "to buy" in Bulgarian, so it is often used in Macedonian colloquial speech to refer to the act of buying something. |
| Malagasy | The word "Buy" in Malagasy can also refer to the act of renting or borrowing something. |
| Malay | In Old Malay, 'beli' also referred to the act of stealing or acquiring something without permission. |
| Malayalam | The word "വാങ്ങാൻ" in Malayalam has an alternative meaning, which is "to accept" or "to take" something. |
| Maltese | The word "jixtru" is derived from the Italian word "comprare" which also means "to buy". |
| Maori | Hoko can also mean to obtain, procure, get, or receive. |
| Marathi | The word "खरेदी" in Marathi is derived from the Sanskrit word "krī" meaning "to do" or "to make". |
| Mongolian | No information about the etymology or alternate meanings of "худалдан авах" were found. The literal meaning is "to buy." |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The word "ဝယ်ပါ" can also be used as a polite request to someone to do something. |
| Nepali | 'किन्नुहोस्' (buy) is derived from Sanskrit 'krinai' (to buy) but can also mean 'to acquire' or 'to obtain' |
| Norwegian | The word "kjøpe" is derived from the Old Norse word "kaupa, |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word gula is also used in some contexts to mean 'acquire or obtain', not necessarily through purchase. |
| Pashto | The word "وپیرئ" also means "to take as a spouse". |
| Persian | In Persian, "خریدن" not only means "to buy" but also "to acquire" or "to obtain". |
| Polish | Kup in Polish can also refer to a stack of hay or straw. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word 'Comprar' may derive from the Latin 'comperare', whose root refers to 'to get or acquire'. |
| Punjabi | ਖਰੀਦੋ (buy) is derived from the Sanskrit word 'krīṇa' which also means 'to purchase'. |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "cumpără" derives from the pre-Slavic root *kump- (to buy, to gather). |
| Russian | "Купить" derives from the Proto-Slavic root "*kup-iti", which means both "to buy" and "to trade". |
| Samoan | The Samoan word "faatau" can also refer to a market or a shop. |
| Scots Gaelic | Cèannaich, meaning 'buy', comes from Old Irish 'cennach', to bargain or haggle. |
| Serbian | The word "купити" can also mean "to acquire" or "to receive" in Serbian. |
| Sesotho | "Reka" also means "to get" or "to obtain". |
| Shona | The Shona word 'tenga' can also refer to a purchase or an acquisition. |
| Sindhi | The word "خريد" can also refer to a "purchase" or "transaction" in Sindhi. |
| Slovak | The word "kúpiť" is derived from the Old Czech word "kúpiti", which in turn comes from the Proto-Slavic word "*kupiti" meaning "to gather, collect". |
| Slovenian | "Kupi" can refer to a purchase made on credit, as well as one paid for in cash. |
| Somali | The word "iibso" in Somali can also mean "to purchase" or "to acquire". |
| Spanish | The word 'comprar' in Spanish comes from the Latin 'comparare,' meaning 'to put together or make a pair.' |
| Sundanese | The word "ngagaleuh" in Sundanese also means "to bring" or "to fetch". |
| Swahili | The Swahili word 'nunua' is derived from the Proto-Bantu root '-nuna', with additional meanings of 'get', 'obtain', and 'acquire'. |
| Swedish | The Swedish word "köpa" also means "to strike" or "to beat" in a physical sense. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "bumili ka" is derived from the Proto-Austronesian word *beli, meaning "to buy" or "to trade". |
| Tajik | The word "харидан" can also mean "to take" or "to receive" in Tajik. |
| Tamil | The word "வாங்க" in Tamil, besides meaning "buy," also means "come in" or "welcome." |
| Thai | "ซื้อ" (to buy) derives from Old Khmer "cu" (to buy, to take) and has the alternate meaning of "to take" in some dialects of Thai. |
| Turkish | The verb "satın almak" originates from the Arabic word "štirāʾ" meaning "to buy" and its Turkish suffix "-mak" indicating the infinitive form. |
| Ukrainian | The word "купити" comes from the Proto-Slavic word *kupiti, which also meant "to acquire" or "to get". |
| Urdu | The word "خریدنے" can also mean "to acquire" or "to obtain" in Urdu. |
| Uzbek | “Sotib olish” comes from the Persian word “kharid”, meaning “purchase” or “acquisition”. |
| Vietnamese | The Vietnamese word "mua" also refers to the act of hiring something or someone. |
| Welsh | The word 'prynu' can also be used to mean 'purchase' or 'procure'. |
| Xhosa | The word "thenga" in Xhosa can also mean "to get" or "to receive". |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "קויפן" ultimately derives from the Proto-Semitic root *K-P-N, meaning to acquire or possess, and is related to the Hebrew word "קנות" (kenot), which also means to acquire or possess. |
| Yoruba | The Yoruba word "ra" is cognate with other Niger-Congo languages, such as the Igbo word "re," and also means "receive". |
| Zulu | The Zulu word 'thenga' also means 'to acquire' or 'to earn'. |
| English | The term 'buy' derives from the Old Norse word 'bya,' meaning to exchange one's property for something of value. |