Cast in Different Languages
Discover 'Cast' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Cast
Afrikaans gooi | ||
Albanian hedhura | ||
Amharic ተዋንያን | ||
Arabic المصبوب | ||
Armenian դերասանական կազմը | ||
Assamese ঢলা | ||
Aymara ilinku | ||
Azerbaijani tökmə | ||
Bambara ka yelen | ||
Basque aktore | ||
Belarusian акцёрскі склад | ||
Bengali নিক্ষেপ | ||
Bhojpuri फेंकल | ||
Bosnian cast | ||
Bulgarian гласове | ||
Catalan repartiment | ||
Cebuano cast | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 投 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 投 | ||
Corsican cast | ||
Croatian cast | ||
Czech obsazení | ||
Danish støbt | ||
Dhivehi ކާސްޓް | ||
Dogri ढालना | ||
Dutch gips | ||
English cast | ||
Esperanto rolantaro | ||
Estonian valatud | ||
Ewe da | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) cast | ||
Finnish heittää | ||
French jeter | ||
Frisian cast | ||
Galician reparto | ||
Georgian მსახიობი | ||
German besetzung | ||
Greek εκμαγείο | ||
Guarani poi | ||
Gujarati કાસ્ટ | ||
Haitian Creole jete | ||
Hausa 'yan wasa | ||
Hawaiian hoʻolei | ||
Hebrew ללהק | ||
Hindi कास्ट | ||
Hmong pov | ||
Hungarian öntvény | ||
Icelandic leikarahópur | ||
Igbo nkedo | ||
Ilocano iwalin | ||
Indonesian pemeran | ||
Irish caitheadh | ||
Italian cast | ||
Japanese キャスト | ||
Javanese pemeran | ||
Kannada ಎರಕಹೊಯ್ದ | ||
Kazakh актерлік құрам | ||
Khmer ដេញ | ||
Kinyarwanda abakinnyi | ||
Konkani नमुनो | ||
Korean 캐스트 | ||
Krio plasta | ||
Kurdish avdan | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) تیم | ||
Kyrgyz гипс | ||
Lao ຫລໍ່ | ||
Latin cast | ||
Latvian cast | ||
Lingala kobwaka | ||
Lithuanian mesti | ||
Luganda okuwayo | ||
Luxembourgish goss | ||
Macedonian фрлија | ||
Maithili भूमिका देनाइ | ||
Malagasy ario | ||
Malay pelakon | ||
Malayalam കാസ്റ്റുചെയ്യുക | ||
Maltese mitfugħa | ||
Maori kaiwhakaari | ||
Marathi कास्ट | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯍꯩꯕ | ||
Mizo tilang | ||
Mongolian цутгамал | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) သွန်း | ||
Nepali जात | ||
Norwegian rollebesetning | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) osewera | ||
Odia (Oriya) କାଷ୍ଟ | ||
Oromo ofirraa darbachuu | ||
Pashto کاسټ | ||
Persian قالب | ||
Polish odlew | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) fundida | ||
Punjabi ਪਲੱਸਤਰ | ||
Quechua riqsichiy | ||
Romanian distribuție | ||
Russian бросать | ||
Samoan lafo | ||
Sanskrit क्षेप | ||
Scots Gaelic tilgeadh | ||
Sepedi lahla | ||
Serbian цаст | ||
Sesotho cast | ||
Shona cast | ||
Sindhi فنڪار | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) වාත්තු කරන්න | ||
Slovak obsadenie | ||
Slovenian igralska zasedba | ||
Somali tuuray | ||
Spanish emitir | ||
Sundanese matak | ||
Swahili kutupwa | ||
Swedish kasta | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) cast | ||
Tajik андохтанд | ||
Tamil நடிகர்கள் | ||
Tatar кастинг | ||
Telugu తారాగణం | ||
Thai นักแสดง | ||
Tigrinya ምስሊ | ||
Tsonga katsa | ||
Turkish oyuncular | ||
Turkmen rol | ||
Twi (Akan) to | ||
Ukrainian акторський склад | ||
Urdu کاسٹ | ||
Uyghur cast | ||
Uzbek gips | ||
Vietnamese diễn viên | ||
Welsh cast | ||
Xhosa cast | ||
Yiddish געשטאַלט | ||
Yoruba olukopa | ||
Zulu sakaza |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | In addition to meaning "cast," "gooi" can also refer to a "type of traditional Afrikaans dance" or a "type of sweet pastry filled with jam or other sweet ingredients." |
| Albanian | The Albanian word "hedhura" can also refer to a group of singers or musicians |
| Amharic | The word "ተዋንያን" can also refer to the act of scattering or distributing something. |
| Arabic | The Arabic word "المصبوب" also means "poured" in the context of liquids. |
| Armenian | In medieval times, to cast a play meant to assign the roles |
| Azerbaijani | "Tökmə" also means "embroidery" or "embossment" in Azerbaijani. |
| Basque | "Aktore" can also refer to a person who acts or performs on stage. |
| Belarusian | The word “акцёрскі склад” can mean “staff” or “troupe,” and it comes from the Old Slavonic word “akьtorь,” meaning “actor”. |
| Bengali | The word 'নিক্ষেপ' (cast) derives from the Sanskrit root 'kship', meaning to 'throw' or 'hurl'. |
| Bosnian | The word "cast" comes from the Old English word "castan", which means "to throw". |
| Bulgarian | The word "гласове" can also refer to "voters" or "voices" in Bulgarian. |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "repartiment" can also mean "distribution" or "lot". |
| Cebuano | The Cebuano word "cast" can also mean "to throw" or "to hurl". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The word "投" also means "to defect" or "to join an enemy side". |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The pictograph of "投" depicts a hand near a cliff, which may suggest the act of throwing something or giving up. |
| Corsican | In Corsican, 'cast' also refers to a type of cheese, 'casgiu'. |
| Croatian | The word "cast" also means "to throw" in Croatian. |
| Czech | The word "obsazení" in Czech also means "occupation" and "siege". |
| Danish | The word 'støbt' means 'cast' in Danish and comes from the Old Norse word 'støypa', meaning 'to pour'. |
| Dutch | In Dutch, "gips" can also refer to plaster used for building or sculpting. |
| Esperanto | The suffix -aro is used to make collective nouns, and -ant- is used to make nouns that describe someone who does something; so rolantaro can also mean either a group of casts or the collective of those who make casts. |
| Estonian | "Valatud" derives from "valama," which also means 'to pour,' 'to melt,' and 'to shed.' |
| Finnish | "Heittää" also means to abandon, leave, or reject. |
| French | The word 'jeter' (cast) in French can also mean 'to throw' or 'to shoot'. |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "cast" is also used to refer to a "sprinkler" or a "watering can". |
| Galician | In Galician, "reparto" has a double meaning. It can mean "cast" in the theater or "district". |
| German | Besetzung is also a military term meaning "occupation" |
| Greek | The word "εκμαγείο" comes from the Greek "εκμαγείον" meaning "mold" or "impression". |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "કાસ્ટ" can also refer to a mould used for casting, or to the act of forming something in a mould. |
| Haitian Creole | The word "jete" in Haitian Creole can also mean "to throw" or "to put away." |
| Hausa | The word "'yan wasa" in Hausa has an alternate meaning of "players". |
| Hawaiian | "Hoʻolei" in Hawaiian also means "to abandon" or "to give up". |
| Hebrew | In Hebrew, the word "ללהק" not only means to cast, but can also refer to the act of welding or joining something together. |
| Hindi | The Hindi word "कास्ट" (cast) derives from the Portuguese "casta" and originally referred to a group of people with shared ancestry or social status. |
| Hmong | 'Pov' can also mean 'to speak' or 'to shout'. |
| Hungarian | Hungarian "öntvény" comes from the verb "önt" ("to pour") and thus can also refer to "liquids" as well as "casts". |
| Icelandic | The word "leikarahópur" has multiple meanings and can also refer to a theater company or a group of actors. |
| Igbo | In Igbo, the word "nkedo" can also mean "to put something down" or "to drop something." |
| Indonesian | The word ''pemeran'' in Indonesian originally meant ''to play a role'', referring to actors. Later, it was extended to include all members of a production crew involved in bringing a story to life. |
| Irish | The Irish word "caitheadh" can also refer to 'spending' or 'consuming'. |
| Italian | The Latin word "castus" originally meant "pure, holy, chaste", and it is the root of the Italian word "casto" "chaste". |
| Japanese | "キャスト" (cast) in Japanese can also mean "distribution" or "assignment". |
| Javanese | In Javanese folklore, 'pemeran' can also refer to a supernatural entity known as a 'jurig' that protects a sacred place. |
| Kannada | The word "ಎರಕಹೊಯ್ದ" can also mean "to sow" or "to scatter" in Kannada. |
| Kazakh | Английское слово "cast" первоначально означало "бросить" или "попасть", и оно все еще сохраняет это значение в контексте рыбалки или охоты (например, заброс лески или попадание стрелой в цель). |
| Khmer | The word "ដេញ" can also mean "to chase" or "to drive away". |
| Korean | The word "캐스트" in Korean can also refer to a mold or impression made from a mold. |
| Kurdish | The word "avdan" in Kurdish also means "to remove" or "to take away". |
| Kyrgyz | The word "гипс" in Kyrgyz can also refer to plaster, a material used in construction and art. |
| Lao | The Lao word "ຫລໍ່" (cast) is cognate with the Thai word "หล่อ" (cast, pour, mold, forge), both derived from Proto-Tai *laːw. |
| Latin | The Latin word "mitto" is the root of the English word "cast" and also means "send." |
| Latvian | The Latvian word "mest" comes from the Old German "werfan" or the Old Teutonic "werpan," meaning "to make fly through the air." |
| Lithuanian | The word "mesti" can also refer to the act of throwing something or to the process of casting a vote. |
| Luxembourgish | Goss is likely related to the Proto-Indo-European root *gheu- meaning “pour out, gush,” which is found in other Indo-European languages like Lithuanian, Sanskrit, and Welsh. |
| Macedonian | The word "фрлија" "cast" in Macedonian can also mean "the act of throwing" or "the distance covered by a thrown object". |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "ario" also means "to be born" in the northern dialects. |
| Malay | The Malay word 'pelakon' also has the secondary meaning of 'actor', derived from the root word 'lakon' meaning 'drama' |
| Maltese | "Mitfugħa" originally meant "throw" in Maltese, but over time, it also came to mean "cast", as in a cast of a play or film. |
| Maori | The word "kaiwhakaari" can also refer to a performer, actor, or entertainer. |
| Marathi | The word "कास्ट" in Marathi also has the alternate meaning of "throw" or "to hurl". |
| Mongolian | "Цутгамал" is derived from the Mongolian word "цацгаг" (meaning "scatter" or "spread"). |
| Nepali | The Nepali word 'जात' (cast) also refers to species, genus, or class in a biological classification system. |
| Norwegian | The word "rollebesetning" can also refer to the process of selecting actors for a film or play. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | "Osewera" is also a synonym for "game" in Nyanja, highlighting its connection to the concept of play and entertainment. |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "کاسټ" can also refer to a tribe or ethnic group. |
| Persian | The Persian word "قالب" (cast) also means "body" or "framework". |
| Polish | In Polish, "odlew" also refers to a cast of a broken or damaged limb; a mold used in metalworking or pottery; or a decorative plaster molding. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | Fundida is also the name of a famous Portuguese dessert made with a combination of eggs, sugar, and milk, cooked in a water bath and served cold. |
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| Romanian | The Romanian term "distribuţie" can also refer to the act of distributing goods or resources. |
| Russian | Бросать also means to leave, to abandon, and to throw in Russian. |
| Samoan | The Samoan word "lafo" can also mean "to throw" or "to send". |
| Scots Gaelic | The Gaelic word "tilgeadh" can also mean "to throw" or "to fling". |
| Serbian | The word "цаст" is also used in Serbian to refer to a group of people sent on a mission or a body of actors. |
| Sesotho | The word "cast" in Sesotho can also mean "to throw" or "to put on clothing." |
| Shona | "Kasta" (cast) means "to throw" in Shona, but also has a separate meaning: "to vote your ballot." |
| Sindhi | The word 'فنڪار' in Sindhi can also mean 'artist' or 'craftsman' but is primarily used to refer to a person's caste. |
| Slovak | The term 'obsadenie' in Slovak can also refer to the allocation of roles or responsibilities within an organization or group. |
| Slovenian | A cast is a group of actors in a play, film, or television show, or a list of the actors and their roles. |
| Somali | The Somali word |
| Spanish | Spanish "emitir" comes from Latin "emittere," which means "to send out" or "to publish." |
| Sundanese | The word 'matak' in Sundanese can also mean 'eye' or 'look'. |
| Swahili | The word "kutupwa" can also refer to something that is broken or smashed. |
| Swedish | The word "kasta" in Swedish can also refer to a type of wooden box, a throw in bowling, or a cast of a mold. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The Tagalog word "cast" can also refer to a mold or a plaster cast used in medicine. |
| Tajik | The word "андохтанд" (cast) in Tajik is derived from the Persian word "انداختن" (to throw, to cast). |
| Telugu | The word "తారాగణం" (tārāgaṇam) in Telugu can also refer to a group of actors in a play or movie. |
| Thai | The word "นักแสดง" can also mean "actor" or "performer". |
| Turkish | The Turkish word "oyuncular" also means a "group of people acting as a team in a game or sport". |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word "акторський склад" also means "group of actors". |
| Urdu | The word "کاسٹ" can also refer to a type of performing art, such as a play or a movie. |
| Uzbek | "Gips" also means "chalk" in Uzbek. |
| Vietnamese | "Diễn viên" (cast) also has the meaning “performer". |
| Welsh | "Cast" is cognate to the Welsh word "castio", which originates from the Proto-Indo-European root "*kast-", meaning "to cast, throw". |
| Xhosa | In Xhosa, 'cast' can also refer to a group of people in a specific role or function. |
| Yiddish | The word "געשטאַלט" (cast) originates from German and can also refer to a pattern of behavior or a figure. |
| Yoruba | "Olukopa" also refers to "a small piece of charcoal that is left to smolder in an ember to be later blown into flame for use". |
| Zulu | The word "sakaza" also means "to overturn, upset, or to ruin something" in Zulu. |
| English | "Cast" can mean to throw or hurl, to assign a role to an actor, to transmit by broadcasting, or to shape by pouring molten material into a mold. |