Carry in Different Languages
Discover 'Carry' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Carry
Afrikaans dra | ||
Albanian mbart | ||
Amharic ተሸከም | ||
Arabic احمل | ||
Armenian կրել | ||
Assamese কঢ়িওৱা | ||
Aymara apaña | ||
Azerbaijani daşımaq | ||
Bambara ka ta | ||
Basque eraman | ||
Belarusian несці | ||
Bengali বহন | ||
Bhojpuri ढोअल | ||
Bosnian nositi | ||
Bulgarian носете | ||
Catalan portar | ||
Cebuano pagdala | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 携带 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 攜帶 | ||
Corsican purtà | ||
Croatian nositi | ||
Czech nést | ||
Danish bære | ||
Dhivehi އުފުލުން | ||
Dogri लेई जाओ | ||
Dutch dragen | ||
English carry | ||
Esperanto porti | ||
Estonian kandma | ||
Ewe tsᴐ | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) dalhin | ||
Finnish kantaa | ||
French porter | ||
Frisian drage | ||
Galician levar | ||
Georgian ტარება | ||
German tragen | ||
Greek μεταφέρω | ||
Guarani raha | ||
Gujarati વહન | ||
Haitian Creole pote | ||
Hausa kawo | ||
Hawaiian hāpai | ||
Hebrew לשאת | ||
Hindi कैरी | ||
Hmong nqa | ||
Hungarian visz | ||
Icelandic bera | ||
Igbo buru | ||
Ilocano awiten | ||
Indonesian membawa | ||
Irish iompar | ||
Italian trasportare | ||
Japanese 運ぶ | ||
Javanese nggawa | ||
Kannada ಒಯ್ಯಿರಿ | ||
Kazakh тасу | ||
Khmer កាន់ | ||
Kinyarwanda gutwara | ||
Konkani व्हरप | ||
Korean 나르다 | ||
Krio kɛr | ||
Kurdish hilgirtin | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) هەڵگرتن | ||
Kyrgyz ташуу | ||
Lao ແບກ | ||
Latin gesturum | ||
Latvian nest | ||
Lingala komema | ||
Lithuanian nešiotis | ||
Luganda okusitula | ||
Luxembourgish droen | ||
Macedonian носат | ||
Maithili ल चलू | ||
Malagasy entana | ||
Malay membawa | ||
Malayalam ചുമക്കുക | ||
Maltese iġorru | ||
Maori kawe | ||
Marathi वाहून नेणे | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯄꯨꯕ | ||
Mizo phur | ||
Mongolian авч явах | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) သယ်ဆောင်သည် | ||
Nepali बोक्नु | ||
Norwegian bære | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kunyamula | ||
Odia (Oriya) ବହନ କର | | ||
Oromo baachuu | ||
Pashto وړل | ||
Persian حمل | ||
Polish nieść | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) carregar | ||
Punjabi ਲੈ | ||
Quechua apay | ||
Romanian transporta | ||
Russian нести | ||
Samoan amoina | ||
Sanskrit वहति | ||
Scots Gaelic giùlan | ||
Sepedi rwala | ||
Serbian носити | ||
Sesotho jara | ||
Shona takura | ||
Sindhi کڻڻ | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) රැගෙන යන්න | ||
Slovak niesť | ||
Slovenian nositi | ||
Somali qaado | ||
Spanish llevar | ||
Sundanese mawa | ||
Swahili kubeba | ||
Swedish bära | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) dalhin | ||
Tajik бардоштан | ||
Tamil எடுத்துச் செல்லுங்கள் | ||
Tatar алып бару | ||
Telugu తీసుకువెళ్ళండి | ||
Thai พก | ||
Tigrinya ተሸከም | ||
Tsonga rhwala | ||
Turkish taşımak | ||
Turkmen götermek | ||
Twi (Akan) soa | ||
Ukrainian нести | ||
Urdu لے جانا | ||
Uyghur ئېلىپ يۈرۈش | ||
Uzbek olib yurmoq | ||
Vietnamese mang | ||
Welsh cario | ||
Xhosa thwala | ||
Yiddish פירן | ||
Yoruba gbee | ||
Zulu thwala |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | Although 'dra' is pronounced the same in Afrikaans as in Dutch, it is probably derived from Malay rather than Dutch. |
| Albanian | The Albanian word "mbart" derives from the Proto-Indo-European root "*bher-," meaning "to bear, carry." |
| Amharic | The Amharic word "ተሸከም" can also mean "to shoulder" or "to bear a burden". |
| Arabic | The word "احمل" (carry) also means "to bear the burden of something"} |
| Armenian | The verb "կրել" can also mean "to endure" or "to bear" a burden or responsibility. |
| Azerbaijani | The verb "daşımaq" is derived from the Persian word "daštan","which also means to have or to contain." |
| Basque | The verb "eraman" also means "to give birth" or "to gain revenue" |
| Belarusian | Belarusian word "несці" comes from the same Proto-Slavic root as "нести" in Russian and "nieść" in Polish, meaning "to carry" or "to bear". It can also mean "to endure" or "to suffer". |
| Bengali | বহন (carry) also means 'tolerate' or 'suffer'. |
| Bosnian | In Bosnian, "nositi" comes from the Proto-Indo-European root "nes-," meaning "to bear" or "to carry." |
| Bulgarian | The word "носете" can also mean "to bear" or "to sustain" in some contexts. |
| Catalan | In Catalan, "portar" also means "to wear" or "to have on oneself", similar to its origins in Latin "portare". |
| Cebuano | "Pagdala" can also mean "to fetch," "to bring," or "to transport." |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 携带 (xiedai) can also mean a "container for things" such as a "briefcase" or a "bag" or a "suitcase". |
| Chinese (Traditional) | In ancient Chinese, 攜帶 meant 'carry a child on one's back'. The character 攜 combines 'hand' and 'clothes' to represent a child on one's back. |
| Corsican | Purtà also means 'to take' in Corsican, in the sense of 'to take away' or 'to bring with you'. |
| Croatian | "Nosi" also refers to a person with a distinctive feature or quality, such as "žuta nosi": a blonde, or "crna nosi": a brunette |
| Czech | The Czech word "nést" originally meant "to endure" and was related to the Sanskrit word "ni-bar" with the same meaning. |
| Danish | "Bære" is also used figuratively in Danish, e.g. to "bære en byrde" (bear a burden). |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "dragen" is derived from Old High German "tragan", meaning "to carry" or "to wear". |
| Esperanto | The word "porti" also has the alternate meanings "to have on oneself", "to wield a weapon", or "to carry out in thought". |
| Estonian | "Kandma" is also used in Estonia to mean bearing or holding up something heavy. |
| Finnish | The word "kantaa" in Finnish shares a common etymology with "kantti" (edge), suggesting a connection between carrying and the boundaries of something. |
| French | Porter comes from the Latin portare and has several alternate meanings in French, including « porter » (to wear), « porter » (to behave), and « porter » (to propose). |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "drage" also means to pull, draw, or drag. |
| Galician | Galician “levar” is cognate with Portuguese and Catalan “levar”, meaning “take”, from Latin “levare” (“lift”, “remove”, “take away”). |
| Georgian | The Georgian word "ტარება" also refers to emotional or physical suffering or hardship. |
| German | German "tragen" relates to "drag" and "trudge" from Old High German "dragan" and Indo-European "dhergh" "long". |
| Greek | In ancient Greek, "μεταφέρω" could mean "to translate" or "to use a metaphor." |
| Gujarati | In Gujarati, the word "વહન" ("carry") can also refer to "bear" or the act of "transferring or taking something from one place to another." |
| Haitian Creole | Pote is derived from the French word "porter", meaning "to carry". |
| Hausa | The word "kawo" in Hausa, meaning to transport or bear something, also denotes an offering that is presented to a higher power or authority. |
| Hawaiian | While usually associated with carrying people, "hāpai" can also mean "to raise" in the sense of raising a child or tending a crop. |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew verb 'לשאת' ('lasa't') carries the additional connotation of 'bearing' or 'tolerating' a burden, extending beyond physical transportation to encompass emotional or psychological weight. |
| Hindi | The Hindi word "कैरी" can also refer to a type of raw mango. |
| Hmong | The Hmong word "nqa" can also mean "to raise" or "to support". |
| Hungarian | "Visz" also means "transport", "take" and even "lead" depending on context. |
| Icelandic | Icelandic 'bera' carries connotations of enduring a burden or responsibility and alludes to 'bar' in 'barricade'. |
| Igbo | The verb "buru" in Igbo can be used to refer to carrying physically, taking, or leading. |
| Indonesian | "Membawa" can also refer to the concept of "taking over" a role, responsibility, or possession. |
| Irish | Iomaireacht (the state of being carried) is the word used in Irish for 'pregnancy'. |
| Italian | In Italian, "trasportare" also means "to move" or "to transfer". |
| Japanese | 運ぶ can also mean 'to work' or 'to operate' when used with certain objects (e.g. 運ぶ when used with 機械 means 'to operate machinery'). |
| Javanese | The Javanese word “nggawa” (pronounced [ŋgawa]) also means “take place” referring to holding events. |
| Kannada | ಒಯ್ಯಿರಿ (oyyari) also means 'to transport' or 'to move something from one place to another'. |
| Kazakh | The word 'тасу' also refers to the movement of animals in a herd. |
| Khmer | The Khmer word "កាន់" (kaan) also means to hold, support, or maintain something. |
| Korean | "나르다◆ (nanda) is derived from an old Korean word 왜복력 ("n완인rda"), which was synonymous with 가소 ("육세", “move", "change location") and 알리 ("찾개", "convey", “deliver" or "transmit")◇. |
| Kurdish | The word 'hilgirtin' in Kurdish can also mean 'to lift up' or 'to elevate' something. |
| Kyrgyz | In the Kypchak language, ташуу means both "carry" and "to take something into account", implying that taking responsibility for carrying is a form of accounting. |
| Lao | The word "แบก" (แบก) can also mean to support or endure something difficult in Lao. |
| Latin | The word "gesturum" is derived from the Latin verb "gero, gerere," meaning "to carry, to bear, or to conduct." |
| Latvian | "Nests" may also refer to a "nest pocket" in an article of clothing, where an armhole would connect in garment-making. |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word "nešiotis", meaning "to carry", also has the archaic meaning of "to wear" as clothing or accessories. |
| Luxembourgish | In the Middle Ages the word "droen" also had the meaning of "to bear the costs". |
| Macedonian | The word "носат" can also refer to a person who carries something. |
| Malagasy | The word “entana” can either mean “to carry” or “to transport” (people or things) in the Malagasy language. |
| Malay | Membawa, meaning "carry" in Malay, is also used to express the notion of "bring" or "wear" (clothes, shoes, jewelry, etc.). |
| Malayalam | The word 'ചുമക്കുക' can also mean 'to bear a burden' or 'to endure something difficult'. |
| Maltese | The word "iġorru" can also refer to the act of supporting or protecting someone or something. |
| Maori | The Maori word "kawe" also refers to the act of taking someone with you or bringing something to someone. |
| Marathi | The word 'वाहून नेणे' in Marathi is derived from the Sanskrit word 'वाहन' (vehicle) and literally means 'to make ride' |
| Mongolian | The word "авч явах" in Mongolian can also mean "to transport" or "to convey". |
| Nepali | The word "बोक्नु" can also mean "to bear the weight of responsibility" or "to endure". |
| Norwegian | The Old Norse word "bera" has the same root as the word "bear". In Norwegian "bære" is a cognate of the English "birth". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "kunyamula" can also mean "to pick up" or "to hold". |
| Pashto | The word "وړل" ("carry") in Pashto can also be used to mean "manage" or "take care of". |
| Persian | حمـل (hamal) is also the name of the first of the twelve signs of the zodiac, also known as Aries. |
| Polish | The verb "nieść" (carry) was originally a variant of "nosić" (wear), which explains its dual meaning: bearing an object, and giving birth. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The Portuguese word "carregar" (from the Latin "carricare") also means "to load" or "to recharge" batteries. |
| Punjabi | In Punjabi, the word "ਲੈ" not only means "to carry" but also serves as a form of address, signifying intimacy or respect. |
| Romanian | The word "transporta" also has the archaic meaning of "to transform". |
| Russian | The word "нести" can also mean "to lay eggs" in Russian. |
| Samoan | In Samoan, 'amoina' can also mean 'to support' or 'to protect'. |
| Serbian | The verb "носити" also means "wear" or "dress" in Serbian. |
| Sesotho | The word 'jara' also denotes the concept of 'carrying' a person's reputation. |
| Shona | The Shona word 'takura' can also refer to the act of planning or plotting. |
| Sindhi | In Sindhi, the word "کڻڻ" also means "to transport" or "to convey". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word 'රැගෙන යන්න' ('carry') in Sinhala (Sinhalese) also carries the meanings of 'to bring,' 'to take,' and 'to lead'. |
| Slovak | In Slovak, the word niesť has an Old Slavic origin (нести), but also an alternate meaning "to lay (an egg)." |
| Slovenian | It is derived from Proto-Slavic *nositi, from *nesti, with the derivational suffix *-iti |
| Somali | "Qaado" also means "to transport" or "to take something with you." |
| Spanish | The verb "llevar" in Spanish also means "to wear" or "to take (someone) somewhere". |
| Sundanese | The word "mawa" in Sundanese also means "to take" or "to bring". |
| Swahili | "Kubeba" also means "to be on the move" or "to travel"} |
| Swedish | The Swedish word "bära" can also mean "to give birth". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The Tagalog word "dalhin" is also used to mean "to bring" or "to take" something somewhere. |
| Tajik | The word "бардоштан" in Tajik is derived from the Persian word "برداشتن" (bardāštan), meaning "to carry, to lift, to take up". |
| Thai | พก (phák) can also refer to something that is included, attached, or accompanies something else. |
| Turkish | The word 'Taşımak' also means 'to move' or 'to transport' in Turkish. |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian term "нести" not only means "to carry," but also "to bear," "to endure," "to suffer," or "to undergo." |
| Urdu | "لے جانا" can also mean to lead, guide, or take away from a place. |
| Uzbek | The word "olib yurmoq" can mean to carry physically, to tolerate, or to fulfill a duty or responsibility. |
| Vietnamese | Mang derives from Proto-Mon-Khmer, and is cognate with Khmer 'mong and Proto-Austronesian *baŋaŋ. |
| Welsh | The word 'cario' can also mean 'to bear or endure', as in the phrase 'cario bawb' (to endure hardship). |
| Xhosa | In Xhosa, 'thwala' also means to bear a burden, endure, withstand, sustain, tolerate, or handle something difficult. |
| Yiddish | Yiddish "פירן" also means "to lead" (a group or an orchestra), "to take" (oneself somewhere), and "to bring" (a guest or a dish). |
| Yoruba | The word "gbee" in Yoruba can also mean "to lead" or "to guide." |
| Zulu | Thwala means "carry" in Zulu. However, the Zulu word "thwala" also has a figurative meaning, referring to "bearing" a burden or responsibility. |
| English | The word 'carry' derives from the Middle English term 'carien', meaning 'to transport' or 'to bring'. It also has connotations of 'supporting' or 'bearing'. |