Capital in Different Languages
Discover 'Capital' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Capital
Afrikaans kapitaal | ||
Albanian kapitali | ||
Amharic ካፒታል | ||
Arabic رأس المال | ||
Armenian կապիտալ | ||
Assamese ৰাজধানী | ||
Aymara kapitala | ||
Azerbaijani kapital | ||
Bambara faaba | ||
Basque kapitala | ||
Belarusian сталіца | ||
Bengali মূলধন | ||
Bhojpuri पूंजी | ||
Bosnian kapitala | ||
Bulgarian капитал | ||
Catalan capital | ||
Cebuano kapital | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 首都 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 首都 | ||
Corsican capitale | ||
Croatian kapital | ||
Czech hlavní město | ||
Danish kapital | ||
Dhivehi ރައުސުލްމާލު | ||
Dogri राजधानी | ||
Dutch kapitaal | ||
English capital | ||
Esperanto ĉefurbo | ||
Estonian kapitali | ||
Ewe toxɔdu | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) kabisera | ||
Finnish iso alkukirjain | ||
French capitale | ||
Frisian haadstêd | ||
Galician capital | ||
Georgian კაპიტალი | ||
German hauptstadt | ||
Greek κεφάλαιο | ||
Guarani tavaguasu | ||
Gujarati પાટનગર | ||
Haitian Creole kapital | ||
Hausa babban birni | ||
Hawaiian kapikala | ||
Hebrew עיר בירה | ||
Hindi राजधानी | ||
Hmong peev | ||
Hungarian főváros | ||
Icelandic fjármagn | ||
Igbo isi obodo | ||
Ilocano kapital | ||
Indonesian modal | ||
Irish caipitil | ||
Italian capitale | ||
Japanese 資本 | ||
Javanese modal | ||
Kannada ಬಂಡವಾಳ | ||
Kazakh капитал | ||
Khmer ដើមទុន | ||
Kinyarwanda umurwa mukuru | ||
Konkani राजधानी | ||
Korean 자본 | ||
Krio kapital | ||
Kurdish paytext | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) پایتەخت | ||
Kyrgyz капитал | ||
Lao ນະຄອນຫຼວງ | ||
Latin capitis | ||
Latvian kapitāls | ||
Lingala mboka-mokonzi | ||
Lithuanian kapitalo | ||
Luganda kapitaali | ||
Luxembourgish haaptstad | ||
Macedonian капитал | ||
Maithili राजधानी | ||
Malagasy renivohitr'i | ||
Malay modal | ||
Malayalam മൂലധനം | ||
Maltese kapital | ||
Maori whakapaipai | ||
Marathi भांडवल | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯀꯣꯅꯨꯡ | ||
Mizo khawpui ber | ||
Mongolian капитал | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) မြို့တော် | ||
Nepali पूंजी | ||
Norwegian hovedstad | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) likulu | ||
Odia (Oriya) ପୁଞ୍ଜି | ||
Oromo magaalaa guddicha | ||
Pashto پانګه | ||
Persian سرمایه، پایتخت | ||
Polish kapitał | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) capital | ||
Punjabi ਪੂੰਜੀ | ||
Quechua kuraq | ||
Romanian capital | ||
Russian капитал | ||
Samoan laumua | ||
Sanskrit राजनगर | ||
Scots Gaelic calpa | ||
Sepedi letlotlo | ||
Serbian главни град | ||
Sesotho motse-moholo | ||
Shona guta guru | ||
Sindhi سرمايو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) ප්රාග්ධනය | ||
Slovak kapitál | ||
Slovenian kapitala | ||
Somali raasumaal | ||
Spanish capital | ||
Sundanese ibukota | ||
Swahili mtaji | ||
Swedish huvudstad | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) kabisera | ||
Tajik пойтахт | ||
Tamil மூலதனம் | ||
Tatar капитал | ||
Telugu రాజధాని | ||
Thai เมืองหลวง | ||
Tigrinya ሃብቲ | ||
Tsonga mali | ||
Turkish başkent | ||
Turkmen maýa | ||
Twi (Akan) kɛseɛ | ||
Ukrainian капітал | ||
Urdu دارالحکومت | ||
Uyghur كاپىتال | ||
Uzbek poytaxt | ||
Vietnamese thủ đô | ||
Welsh cyfalaf | ||
Xhosa ikomkhulu | ||
Yiddish קאפיטאל | ||
Yoruba olu | ||
Zulu inhlokodolobha |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | "Kapitaal" in Afrikaans also means "capital punishment" as in the English usage "he was sentenced to kapitaal." |
| Albanian | "Kapitali" in Albanian also means "capitalism". |
| Amharic | In Amharic, "ካፒታል" (capital) can also refer to "wealth" or "principal". |
| Arabic | The word "رأس المال" ("capital") in Arabic originally meant "head of the herd". |
| Azerbaijani | "Kapital" in Azerbaijani also means "thick" in Turkish and "heavy" in Arabic. |
| Basque | "Kapitala" can also refer to a "chapter" in a book, "a chunk of land" or a "head" in Basque. |
| Belarusian | The word "сталіца" in Belarusian comes from the Old East Slavic word "столъ", meaning "throne" or "table," and is cognate with the Russian word "стол" and the Polish word "stół." |
| Bengali | The word "মূলধন" is also used in Bengali with the alternate meaning of "principal (sum of money lent)" which is not found in English. |
| Bosnian | The word "kapitala" in Bosnian can also refer to a sum of money invested in a business or other venture. |
| Bulgarian | The Bulgarian word "капитал" also translates to "equity" and is etymologically rooted in the Latin word "capitalis" from "caput" meaning "head". |
| Catalan | The word "capital" ("capital") in Catalan can also mean "chief" or "head of a family". |
| Cebuano | The Cebuano “kapital” means both capital, as in a capital of a nation, and is a colloquial way of saying “head of the household.” |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "首都" was originally only used for the capital of a country, and later extended to the capital of a province or a municipality. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 首都 (capital) was originally written as 京师, meaning the capital of a state or dynasty. |
| Corsican | In Corsican, 'capitale' can also refer to the top of a mountain peak. |
| Croatian | The Croatian word "kapital" can also refer to a large letter, or a capital punishment. |
| Czech | The Czech word “hlavní město” is a calque from German “Hauptstadt” (head town), which is also the origin of English “capital”. |
| Danish | In Danish, "kapital" can also refer to a capital letter or upper case character in the alphabet. |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "kapitaal" is derived from the Latin word "capitalis", which originally referred to the head of a person or a column. |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word "ĉefurbo" is borrowed from the Polish word "czelny" meaning "leading" and "first". |
| Estonian | The Estonian word "kapitali" is derived from the German "Kapital", which itself is derived from the Latin "caput", meaning "head" or "chief". |
| Finnish | In Estonian, the word for "capital" is "kapital," and is likely also where the Finnish word originates from. |
| French | In French, 'Capitale' also means an upper case letter, a person who writes in capital letters, as well as 'capital' as an adjective. |
| Frisian | The word 'haadstêd' in Frisian originally meant 'hearth stead' and is related to the Dutch word 'haardstede' which means 'fireplace' or 'hearth'. |
| Galician | In Galician, "capital" can also refer to a person's head, or their skull. |
| Georgian | The Georgian word "კაპიტალი" derives from the Latin word "caput", meaning "head", and can also refer to livestock or personal fortune. |
| German | The word "Hauptstadt" in German is derived from the Middle High German word "houbetstat", which means "head city" or "chief town". |
| Greek | The Greek word "κεφάλαιο" can also mean "head": the physical head, the top or the beginning of something, or more figuratively, the chief point. |
| Gujarati | The word "પાટનગર" can also refer to a city or town that is the seat of government or administration. |
| Haitian Creole | In Haitian Creole, "kapital" can also describe something as being "first-rate" |
| Hausa | The Hausa word "babban birni" ("capital") originally meant "large city." |
| Hawaiian | The Hawaiian word "kapikala" also means "head" and "crown". |
| Hebrew | The term “עיר בירה” (“capital”) literally means “a city that selects,” suggesting the ancient practice of choosing a site for a city by casting lots. |
| Hindi | The word ''राजधानी'' also means, literally, ''kingdom's lap''. |
| Hmong | The word "peev" in Hmong can also mean "chief" or "elder." |
| Hungarian | The word 'főváros' in Hungarian is a compound of two words, 'fő' and 'város', meaning 'main' and 'town', so it originally meant any major town. |
| Icelandic | The word "fjármagn" originally meant "livestock" in Old Norse and still carries this meaning in Icelandic. |
| Igbo | In Igbo, “isi obodo” can also mean the “head of a community” or the “most important person in a group.” |
| Indonesian | The word "modal" in Indonesian can also refer to a "primary element," "basic ingredient," or "main component." |
| Irish | The word "caipitil" in Irish can also refer to a "head tax" or "poll tax". |
| Italian | "Capitale" in Italian also means "capital crime" (punishable by death) and "capital sin" (a grave sin). |
| Japanese | The Chinese characters of "資本" were also used in Japan during the Edo period to mean "funds borrowed by a feudal lord from merchants". |
| Javanese | Modal in Javanese also means "basic material, capital, foundation, principal, essence, substance, basis, stock, funds, resource, raw material" |
| Kannada | The word "ಬಂಡವಾಳ" in Kannada can also refer to "wealth" or "stock-in-trade". |
| Kazakh | "Капитал", наряду с прямым значением, также используется в смысле "постоянный, устойчивый, прочный" |
| Khmer | "ដើមទុន" can also be used to refer to the money used in a transaction or the amount invested in a business. |
| Korean | In Korean, '자본' can also refer to the capital of a company, or a person's financial assets. |
| Kurdish | In finance, it is also the initial amount invested to establish or operate a business, or a fund used to earn a return. |
| Kyrgyz | The word "капитал" in Kyrgyz can also refer to property or wealth. |
| Latin | The Latin word "capitis" (genitive of "caput"), meaning "head," is etymologically related to English "capital" as a "principal city." |
| Latvian | The word "kapitāls" can also mean "assets" or "wealth" in Latvian. |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word "kapitalo" is also used figuratively to describe an individual who possesses significant financial wealth. |
| Macedonian | The word "капитал" can also refer to a sum of money or property used for investment or to generate income. |
| Malagasy | In Malagasy, RENIVOHITR'I also denotes the "king's dwelling place" or "king's palace". |
| Malay | In Malay, "modal" also means "principal" or "capital" in the financial sense. |
| Malayalam | The word "മൂലധനം" can also mean "origin" or "base" in Malayalam, indicating its fundamental nature as the foundation of wealth or enterprise. |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "kapital" is derived from the Proto-Semitic word "*kaptar", meaning "money" or "wealth". It is also used in a figurative sense to mean "power" or "influence". |
| Maori | The word "whakapaipai" also means "to adorn" or "to embellish" in Maori. |
| Marathi | The word "भांडवल" (capital) in Marathi can also refer to a dowry, suggesting its importance in securing a bride's future. |
| Mongolian | In Mongolian, the word "капитал" can also mean "assets" or "wealth." |
| Nepali | The Nepali word "पूंजी" (capital) is derived from the Sanskrit "पुंजी" and has the additional meaning of "stock" |
| Norwegian | The word "hovedstad" in Norwegian can also refer to a "headquarters" or "main office". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | Likulu, meaning "capital", also refers to the "head" of a chief, village, or household in Nyanja (Chichewa). |
| Pashto | The word "پانګه" is derived from the Persian word "پادگان" meaning a military camp or garrison. |
| Persian | The word "capital" derives from the Latin word "caput", meaning "head". |
| Polish | In Polish, the word "kapitał" can also refer to personal assets or human capital. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, "capital" can also refer to the letter "C" in upper case or to a person or thing of prime importance. |
| Punjabi | The word "ਪੂੰਜੀ" (capital) in Punjabi also means "money to start a business" or "funds". |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "capital" is derived from the Latin word "capitalis" and also means "head" or "chief" |
| Russian | "Капитал" is derived from the Latin word "caput", meaning "head" or "top" and refers to essential resources or assets, often associated with financial wealth, in Russian. |
| Samoan | The word "laumua" in Samoan also means "head" or "summit". |
| Scots Gaelic | In Scottish Gaelic, "calpa" has alternate meanings such as "a great misfortune or loss" or "a period of time". |
| Serbian | "Главни" in "главни град" means "main". |
| Sesotho | "Motse-moholo" means "big village" or "place of the chief". |
| Shona | The word "guta guru" can also mean "the head of a family" or "the leader of a clan" in Shona. |
| Sindhi | In Sindhi, the word "سرمايو" (capital) also means "head investment" or "initial expenses". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | ප්රාග්ධනය can also mean 'interest' or 'profit' as a noun derived from 'ප්රාග්' meaning 'before' and 'ධනය' meaning 'wealth'. It can also be used as a verb to mean 'to lend money with interest' or 'to finance something'. |
| Slovak | In Slovak, "kapitál" also means "equity" or "assets". |
| Slovenian | The word "kapitala" in Slovenian derives from the Latin "caput" meaning "head". |
| Somali | The Somali word "raasumaal" is derived from the Arabic word for "capital", but it also means "wealth" or "property". |
| Spanish | The Spanish word «capital» can also refer to the main town of a jurisdiction or district. |
| Sundanese | "Ibukota" secara harfiah berarti "ibu kota" dalam bahasa Sunda, yang mencerminkan konsep ibu kota sebagai pusat dan sumber kewenangan serta pengaruh suatu wilayah. |
| Swahili | Swahili word "mtaji" derives from Arabic and originally referred to a share or stake in a business venture. |
| Swedish | Huvudstad's literal translation is "main place". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Kabisera" also means "head" or "top". |
| Tajik | The word "пойтахт" in Tajik derives from the Persian word "پایتخت" (pāytakht), meaning "foot of the throne", referring to the location of the sovereign's residence. |
| Tamil | The Tamil word "மூலதனம்" (capital), derived from Sanskrit, also refers to the base of a tree or plant. |
| Telugu | The Telugu word 'రాజధాని' can also be translated to 'head of the dynasty' and can be used to refer to the main branch or ruling house of a royal lineage. |
| Thai | The Thai word "เมืองหลวง" ("capital") originated from the Sanskrit word "nagara", meaning "city" or "town." |
| Turkish | "Başkent" derives from the words "baş" (head) and "kent" (city), meaning "chief city" or "capital". |
| Ukrainian | The word "капітал" also means "equity" or "principal" in Ukrainian. |
| Urdu | The word "دارالحکومت" is derived from Persian and literally means "house of the ruler." |
| Uzbek | The word "poytaxt" is derived from the Persian word "pāye-taxt", meaning "throne foot" or "seat of government". |
| Vietnamese | The word "thủ đô" derives from the Chinese term "首府", meaning "head office" or "central administration". |
| Welsh | Alternatively, the word 'cyfalaf' can also refer to a small amount of money or a dowry. |
| Xhosa | The word 'ikomkhulu' in Xhosa literally means 'big chief' or 'senior chief,' reflecting the traditional role of chiefs as leaders and administrators. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "קאפיטאל" can also mean "head" or "chapter". |
| Yoruba | "Olori" means "head," hence its use for "capital" and the title for "queen." |
| Zulu | The word 'inhlokodolobha' is derived from the Zulu words 'inhloko' (head) and 'idolobha' (city), and literally means 'the head of the city'. |
| English | The word "capital" comes from the Latin word "caput," meaning "head" or "chief." |