Buyer in Different Languages
Discover 'Buyer' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Buyer
Afrikaans koper | ||
Albanian blerësi | ||
Amharic ገዢ | ||
Arabic مشتر | ||
Armenian գնորդ | ||
Assamese ক্ৰেতা | ||
Aymara alasiri | ||
Azerbaijani alıcı | ||
Bambara sannikɛla | ||
Basque eroslea | ||
Belarusian пакупнік | ||
Bengali ক্রেতা | ||
Bhojpuri खरीददार के बा | ||
Bosnian kupac | ||
Bulgarian купувач | ||
Catalan comprador | ||
Cebuano pumapalit | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 买方 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 買方 | ||
Corsican cumpratore | ||
Croatian kupac | ||
Czech kupující | ||
Danish køber | ||
Dhivehi ގަންނަ ފަރާތެވެ | ||
Dogri खरीददार | ||
Dutch koper | ||
English buyer | ||
Esperanto aĉetanto | ||
Estonian ostja | ||
Ewe nuƒlela | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) mamimili | ||
Finnish ostaja | ||
French acheteur | ||
Frisian keaper | ||
Galician comprador | ||
Georgian მყიდველი | ||
German käufer | ||
Greek αγοραστής | ||
Guarani ojoguáva | ||
Gujarati ખરીદનાર | ||
Haitian Creole achtè | ||
Hausa mai siye | ||
Hawaiian mea kūʻai mai | ||
Hebrew קוֹנֶה | ||
Hindi क्रेता | ||
Hmong tub lag luam | ||
Hungarian vevő | ||
Icelandic kaupandi | ||
Igbo asịwo | ||
Ilocano gumatang | ||
Indonesian pembeli | ||
Irish ceannaitheoir | ||
Italian acquirente | ||
Japanese 買い手 | ||
Javanese panuku | ||
Kannada ಖರೀದಿದಾರ | ||
Kazakh сатып алушы | ||
Khmer អ្នកទិញ | ||
Kinyarwanda umuguzi | ||
Konkani खरेदीदार | ||
Korean 사는 사람 | ||
Krio pɔsin we de bay | ||
Kurdish kirrîvan | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) کڕیار | ||
Kyrgyz сатып алуучу | ||
Lao ຜູ້ຊື້ | ||
Latin emit | ||
Latvian pircējs | ||
Lingala mosombi | ||
Lithuanian pirkėjas | ||
Luganda omuguzi | ||
Luxembourgish keefer | ||
Macedonian купувачот | ||
Maithili खरीदार | ||
Malagasy mpividy | ||
Malay pembeli | ||
Malayalam വാങ്ങുന്നയാൾ | ||
Maltese xerrej | ||
Maori kaihoko | ||
Marathi खरेदीदार | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯀ꯭ꯔꯦꯇꯥ꯫ | ||
Mizo lei duhtu | ||
Mongolian худалдан авагч | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ဝယ်သူ | ||
Nepali खरीददार | ||
Norwegian kjøper | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) wogula | ||
Odia (Oriya) କ୍ରେତା | ||
Oromo bitaa kan ta’e | ||
Pashto پیرودونکی | ||
Persian خریدار | ||
Polish kupujący | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) comprador | ||
Punjabi ਖਰੀਦਦਾਰ | ||
Quechua rantiq | ||
Romanian cumpărător | ||
Russian покупатель | ||
Samoan tagata faʻatau | ||
Sanskrit क्रेता | ||
Scots Gaelic ceannaiche | ||
Sepedi moreki | ||
Serbian купац | ||
Sesotho moreki | ||
Shona mutengi | ||
Sindhi خريد ڪندڙ | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) ගැනුම්කරු | ||
Slovak kupujúci | ||
Slovenian kupec | ||
Somali iibsade | ||
Spanish comprador | ||
Sundanese nu meuli | ||
Swahili mnunuzi | ||
Swedish köpare | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) mamimili | ||
Tajik харидор | ||
Tamil வாங்குபவர் | ||
Tatar сатып алучы | ||
Telugu కొనుగోలుదారు | ||
Thai ผู้ซื้อ | ||
Tigrinya ዓዳጊ | ||
Tsonga muxavi | ||
Turkish alıcı | ||
Turkmen alyjy | ||
Twi (Akan) adetɔfo | ||
Ukrainian покупець | ||
Urdu خریدار | ||
Uyghur سېتىۋالغۇچى | ||
Uzbek xaridor | ||
Vietnamese người mua | ||
Welsh prynwr | ||
Xhosa umthengi | ||
Yiddish קוינע | ||
Yoruba eniti o fe ra | ||
Zulu umthengi |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | "Koper" (buyer) derives from the Old Dutch "coper", meaning "tradesman" or "merchant". |
| Albanian | The word "blerësi" in Albanian also has the alternate meaning of "customer" or "patron". |
| Amharic | ገዢ can also refer to the owner of a house or the seller of a product. |
| Arabic | The Arabic word "مشتر" can also refer to a participant or a shareholder in an enterprise. |
| Armenian | The Armenian word գնորդ, meaning buyer, also has historical connotations of purchasing property and is related to the word գին, meaning price. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "alıcı" in Azerbaijani also has the alternate meaning of "receiver". |
| Basque | (The word eroslea is cognate with erosi "to buy" and erosi da "to buy something") |
| Belarusian | In the Vitebsk dialect, "пакупнік" also means "a customer", while in other dialects it means specifically "a wholesale customer". |
| Bengali | The word "ক্রেতা" (buyer) is derived from the Sanskrit word "कृत" (done) and the suffix "-তা" (-ness), thus indicating a person who has performed the act of buying. |
| Bosnian | 'Kupac' derives from the Proto-Indo-European root *keup- 'to buy, trade' and is cognate with words for 'buyer' in other Slavic languages. |
| Bulgarian | "Купувач" derives from the old Slavic root "kupъ", meaning to "buy" or "trade". |
| Catalan | In Catalan, "comprador" also means a person who is paid to carry out business transactions on behalf of a foreign company. |
| Cebuano | The word "pumapalit" also means "to succeed" or "to replace" in Cebuano. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 买方 (mai1 fang1) is the Chinese term for buyer and can also mean "purchaser" or "consumer". |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 買方 originally meant "to receive" in the "Shi Jing", the ancient Chinese classic collection of poems |
| Corsican | In Corsican, "cumpratore" also has the archaic meaning of "guarantor" or "bondsman". |
| Croatian | The Croatian word 'kupac' is derived from the Old Slavonic word 'kupiti', meaning 'to buy' or 'to acquire', and is closely related to the Polish word 'kupić' and the Russian word 'купить'. |
| Czech | Kupující is derived from the Slavic root |
| Danish | In Danish, "køber" can also be used figuratively to refer to a person who acquires something through an exchange, such as knowledge or experience. |
| Dutch | The word "koper" in Dutch also refers to a type of onion. |
| Esperanto | The word "aĉetanto" can also mean "acceptor" in some contexts. |
| Estonian | The word "ostja" ("buyer" in Estonian) is derived from the verb "ostma" ("to buy"), which in turn is related to the Proto-Finnic word "*okst-," meaning "to buy, to trade, or to exchange." |
| Finnish | "Ostaa" is a verb meaning "to buy." The noun "ostaja" is derived from "ostaa." |
| French | The word "acheteur" in French also refers to a person who buys goods or services for resale. |
| Frisian | In Frisian, "keaper" also refers to a person who attends a funeral or a person who buys on behalf of another. |
| Galician | In Galician, "comprador" can also refer to a person who makes purchases for others on a regular basis. |
| Georgian | The Georgian term |
| German | The German word for 'buyer' is 'Käufer', which comes from the Middle High German word 'koufen', meaning 'to purchase'. |
| Greek | The word "αγοραστής" (buyer) derives from the Greek word "αγορά" (marketplace), and originally referred to someone who frequented marketplaces. |
| Gujarati | The word "kharijdar" can also mean someone who wins an auction. |
| Haitian Creole | The word "achtè" is derived from French "acheter" meaning "to buy", and is cognate with Haitian Creole "achte" and Jamaican Patois "akti". |
| Hausa | In Hausa, "mai siye" can also mean "customer" or "purchaser". |
| Hawaiian | The phrase 'mea kūʻai mai' in Hawaiian literally refers to 'the person acquiring' or 'the person receiving', emphasizing the active process of acquiring something. |
| Hebrew | The word "קוֹנֶה" is derived from the root "קנה" which means "to acquire" or "to possess". It can also refer to a "buyer" or "purchaser" in the context of a transaction. |
| Hindi | क्रेता is derived from the Sanskrit word 'kri', meaning 'to buy', and is also used to refer to a creditor or someone who has a claim on another. |
| Hmong | The word "tub lag luam" in Hmong can also mean "customer" or "client." |
| Hungarian | The word vevő is also used in Hungarian to refer to a recipient or a viewer. |
| Icelandic | The word 'kaupandi' originates from the Old Icelandic word 'kaupa,' which means 'trade' or 'exchange.' |
| Igbo | Asịwo in Igbo also means someone who does not take anything from anybody and who does not allow anybody take anything from others. |
| Indonesian | The Old Javanese word ``pembeli`` originates from the term “membli”, which means to obtain the ownership of an object by giving something to its former owner. |
| Irish | The Irish word "ceannaitheoir" has various alternate meanings, including "purchaser," "customer," and "consumer." |
| Italian | In Italian, 'acquirente' is derived from 'acquirere,' meaning 'to gain possession.' |
| Japanese | In Japanese, "買い手" (kaite) can also mean "customer" or "client", expanding its semantic range beyond just "buyer". |
| Javanese | In Javanese, the word "panuku" can also refer to a customer or a client. |
| Kannada | The word ಖರೀದಿದಾರ is used in a few different contexts in Kannada; when used in the context of a purchase, it means "buyer," but it can also refer to a "customer," a "patron," or even a "debtor." |
| Kazakh | The word "сатып алушы" in Kazakh also has the alternate meaning of "purchaser". |
| Khmer | The word 'អ្នកទិញ' can also be a euphemism for a person who is being taken advantage of. |
| Korean | The word "사는 사람" also means "customer" or "purchaser". |
| Kurdish | Kirrîvan in Kurdish also means "one who is interested in" or "one who is in need of something" |
| Kyrgyz | The word "сатып алуучу" literally means "the buyer", but it's also often used to refer to a customer, client, or purchaser. |
| Lao | }ຜູ້ຊື້} can also refer to the person who orders a song to be played at a party or karaoke. |
| Latin | "Emit" derives from Latin "emere," meaning "to take," especially in exchange for payment, hence "to buy." |
| Latvian | The Latvian word "pircējs" is cognate with the Lithuanian "pirkti" and the German "verkaufen", all meaning "to buy". |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word "pirkėjas" derives from the Proto-Indo-European root "*perḱ-" meaning "to ask, to seek, to acquire". |
| Luxembourgish | The word 'Keefer' has been used since the early 19th century, possibly an adaptation of the term 'Kafmann'. |
| Macedonian | The word "купувачот" is derived from the verb "купувам," which means "to buy" in Macedonian. |
| Malagasy | "Mpividy" in Malagasy can also refer to someone who purchases a good or service for later resale. |
| Malay | In Malay, "pembeli" also refers to a "purchaser" or "customer" in a commercial transaction. |
| Malayalam | The word "വാങ്ങുന്നയാൾ" means "buyer" in Malayalam and the term literally translates to "the one who acquires". |
| Maltese | The word "xerrej" can also refer to a "consumer" or a "customer". |
| Maori | In Maori mythology, 'kaihoko' also refers to a type of water sprite. |
| Marathi | The word खरेदीदार comes from the Marathi word खरेदी (purchase), and also refers to a person who acts as an agent or representative in a business transaction. |
| Mongolian | 'худалдан авагч' is the Mongolian word for 'buyer'. It literally translates to 'receiver of purchases' |
| Nepali | The word "खरीददार" derives from the Sanskrit word "kree", meaning "to buy". |
| Norwegian | The word "kjøper" is derived from the Old Norse word "kaupa," which means "to buy, trade, or bargain." |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "wogula" in Nyanja (Chichewa) is also a derivative of the verb "kugula" which means "to buy." |
| Pashto | The word "پیرودونکی" can also refer to a person who is in charge of purchasing or managing supplies within an organization. |
| Persian | The Persian word "خریدار" (buyer) can also refer to a "customer" or "patron" in the context of business transactions. |
| Polish | In Ukrainian, "kupujący" also means "buying". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word 'comprador' also refers to an intermediary agent in international trade in some countries, especially those in Asia |
| Romanian | The word "cumpărător" is derived from the Latin word "comparare", meaning "to compare" or "to procure". |
| Russian | The word "покупатель" can also mean "customer" or "client" in Russian. |
| Samoan | The Samoan word "tagata faʻatau" literally means "a person who buys things," but can also refer to a customer or shopper. |
| Scots Gaelic | Ceannaiche originates from the Proto-Celtic word "kenh-", which also gave rise to terms for "head" or "first" in several languages |
| Serbian | 'Купац' is derived from the Old Slavic word 'kupiti', meaning 'to acquire' or 'to buy'. It can also refer to a customer or a client. |
| Sesotho | Moreki originates from the word 'hoka', which means 'to buy'. |
| Shona | Mutengi, meaning "buyer" in Shona, shares a root with the word "tenga," meaning "need" or "desire."} |
| Sindhi | The word "خريد ڪندڙ" (buyer) in Sindhi also means "purchaser" or "customer." |
| Slovak | The Slovak word "kupujúci" is derived from the verb "kupovať" (to buy), and its stem "kupuj-" (of the buying). |
| Slovenian | Kupec also means 'merchant' in Slovenian, derived from the Proto-Slavic *kupьcь, denoting a person who buys or sells goods. |
| Somali | "Iibsade" is also used as a term of endearment for a loved one, especially a child. |
| Spanish | In the Philippines, "comprador" can refer to a wealthy Chinese-Filipino middleman who handles business dealings between foreign companies and local firms. |
| Sundanese | Sundanese "nu meuli" is derived from Proto-Austronesian *beR-beli "to buy" and literally means "the one who buys". |
| Swahili | The word 'mnunuzi' is derived from the verb 'kununua' (to buy) and means 'one who buys' or 'purchaser'. |
| Swedish | The word "köpare" in Swedish is derived from the Old Norse word "kaupamaðr," meaning "trader" or "merchant." |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | Mamimili in Tagalog can also refer to someone who is a patron, a customer, or a purchaser. |
| Tajik | The word "харидор" derives from the Persian word "харид" which means "purchase". |
| Tamil | வாங்குபவர் (Vangupavar) literally means 'one who takes', also used to refer to a 'customer' or 'client'. |
| Thai | The Thai word "ผู้ซื้อ" can also mean "the purchaser" or "the consumer". |
| Turkish | The word "alıcı" can also mean "receiver" in Turkish. |
| Ukrainian | "Покупець" comes from the same Proto-Slavic root as "купка" (pile, heap), implying someone who accumulates something (typically by buying it). |
| Urdu | The Urdu word "خریدار" not only means "buyer" but also "admirer, lover" and "customer, client". |
| Uzbek | "xarid" means "to buy" in Uzbek. |
| Vietnamese | In Vietnamese, "người mua" is a compound word derived from "người" (person) and "mua" (to buy), thus literally meaning "the person who buys." |
| Welsh | In Middle Welsh, "prynwr" could also mean "prince". |
| Xhosa | The word "umthengi" (buyer) also has the alternate meaning of "customer" in Xhosa. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "קוינע" (buyer) shares a root with the German word "kaufen" (to buy), and like the German word, can have the derogatory meaning of "one who is easily duped". |
| Yoruba | The Yoruba word "eniti o fe ra" also means "one who desires to acquire". |
| Zulu | The word "umthengi" in Zulu is also used to refer to a customer or a person who purchases goods or services. |
| English | The word "buyer" is derived from the Old French word "boieur," meaning "one who cries out or bids." |