Category in Different Languages
Discover 'Category' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Category
Afrikaans kategorie | ||
Albanian kategori | ||
Amharic ምድብ | ||
Arabic الفئة | ||
Armenian կատեգորիա | ||
Assamese শ্ৰেণী | ||
Aymara kasta | ||
Azerbaijani kateqoriya | ||
Bambara suguya | ||
Basque kategoria | ||
Belarusian катэгорыя | ||
Bengali বিভাগ | ||
Bhojpuri श्रेणी | ||
Bosnian kategorija | ||
Bulgarian категория | ||
Catalan categoria | ||
Cebuano kategorya | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 类别 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 類別 | ||
Corsican categuria | ||
Croatian kategorija | ||
Czech kategorie | ||
Danish kategori | ||
Dhivehi ކެޓަގަރީ | ||
Dogri वर्ण | ||
Dutch categorie | ||
English category | ||
Esperanto kategorio | ||
Estonian kategooria | ||
Ewe hatsotso | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) kategorya | ||
Finnish kategoria | ||
French catégorie | ||
Frisian kategory | ||
Galician categoría | ||
Georgian კატეგორია | ||
German kategorie | ||
Greek κατηγορία | ||
Guarani hendápe | ||
Gujarati વર્ગ | ||
Haitian Creole kategori | ||
Hausa rukuni | ||
Hawaiian waeʻano | ||
Hebrew קטגוריה | ||
Hindi वर्ग | ||
Hmong qeb | ||
Hungarian kategória | ||
Icelandic flokkur | ||
Igbo udi | ||
Ilocano kategoria | ||
Indonesian kategori | ||
Irish chatagóir | ||
Italian categoria | ||
Japanese カテゴリー | ||
Javanese kategori | ||
Kannada ವರ್ಗ | ||
Kazakh санат | ||
Khmer ប្រភេទ | ||
Kinyarwanda icyiciro | ||
Konkani वर्ग | ||
Korean 범주 | ||
Krio kayn | ||
Kurdish liq | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) جۆر | ||
Kyrgyz категория | ||
Lao ປະເພດ | ||
Latin genus | ||
Latvian kategorijā | ||
Lingala lolenge | ||
Lithuanian kategorija | ||
Luganda olubu | ||
Luxembourgish kategorie | ||
Macedonian категорија | ||
Maithili वर्ग | ||
Malagasy sokajy | ||
Malay kategori | ||
Malayalam വിഭാഗം | ||
Maltese kategorija | ||
Maori kāwai | ||
Marathi श्रेणी | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯀꯥꯡꯂꯨꯞ | ||
Mizo bithliahna | ||
Mongolian ангилал | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အမျိုးအစား | ||
Nepali कोटि | ||
Norwegian kategori | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) gulu | ||
Odia (Oriya) ବର୍ଗ | ||
Oromo ramaddii | ||
Pashto کټګورۍ | ||
Persian دسته بندی | ||
Polish kategoria | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) categoria | ||
Punjabi ਸ਼੍ਰੇਣੀ | ||
Quechua ñiqichana | ||
Romanian categorie | ||
Russian категория | ||
Samoan vaega | ||
Sanskrit कोटी | ||
Scots Gaelic roinn-seòrsa | ||
Sepedi legoro | ||
Serbian категорија | ||
Sesotho sehlopha | ||
Shona chikamu | ||
Sindhi قسم | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) වර්ගය | ||
Slovak kategórie | ||
Slovenian kategoriji | ||
Somali qaybta | ||
Spanish categoría | ||
Sundanese kategori | ||
Swahili jamii | ||
Swedish kategori | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) kategorya | ||
Tajik категория | ||
Tamil வகை | ||
Tatar категориясе | ||
Telugu వర్గం | ||
Thai ประเภท | ||
Tigrinya ምደባ | ||
Tsonga xiyenge | ||
Turkish kategori | ||
Turkmen kategoriýasy | ||
Twi (Akan) ɔfa | ||
Ukrainian категорії | ||
Urdu قسم | ||
Uyghur تۈرى | ||
Uzbek toifasi | ||
Vietnamese thể loại | ||
Welsh categori | ||
Xhosa udidi | ||
Yiddish קאַטעגאָריע | ||
Yoruba ẹka | ||
Zulu isigaba |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | Afrikaans adopted "kategorie" from Dutch "categorie", which derives from Latin "categorema" (statement), and Greek "kategoria" (accusation). |
| Albanian | The word 'kategori' is also used to refer to a place where something is kept, such as a storage room or a filing cabinet. |
| Amharic | In Amharic, the word "ምድብ" also means "group" or "type". |
| Arabic | The word الفئة can also mean 'group', 'party', or 'sect' in Arabic. |
| Armenian | The Armenian word "կատեգորիա" (category) is derived from the Greek word "κατηγορία", meaning "accusation, charge, or indictment"} |
| Azerbaijani | In Azerbaijani, "kateqoriya" is derived from the Greek word "kategoria", meaning "accusation" or "predicate" in logic and philosophy. |
| Basque | The Basque word 'kategoria' is also used to refer to a 'rank' or 'order' in a hierarchy. |
| Belarusian | Усе славянские языки имеют слово "категория" для обозначения философского понятия |
| Bengali | বিভাগ can also refer to a political or administrative division, a class or group of people, or a subject or area of study. |
| Bosnian | Kategorija in Bosnian comes from the Greek word "kategoria" meaning "accusation". |
| Bulgarian | The word "категория" is derived from the Greek word "kategoria", which means "accusation" or "charge", and was later used by Aristotle to refer to a class of things sharing common characteristics. |
| Catalan | "Categoria" also means "class" or "rank" in Catalan. |
| Cebuano | Kategorya may also refer to a type of food in Cebuano, a dish made with meat, vegetables, and spices. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The word 类别 (lèibie) was derived from the combination of two Chinese characters, 类 (lèi), meaning “kind or type,” and 别 (bié), meaning “to distinguish” or “to differentiate.” |
| Chinese (Traditional) | "類" in "類別" means "a type" and "別" means "separating" in Chinese. |
| Corsican | Corsican categuria ('category') derives from Greek κατηγορία (kategoria) meaning 'accusation', 'charge' or 'predicate'. |
| Croatian | The word kategorija is derived from the Ancient Greek word κατηγορία, meaning 'predicate'. |
| Czech | In Czech, "kategorie" can also refer to a type of sports event |
| Danish | The Danish word "kategori" can also mean "kind", "sort", or "type". |
| Dutch | Dutch "categorie" stems from Ancient Greek "kategoria," meaning "accusation," "charge," and "predication." |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word "kategorio" comes from the Ancient Greek word "kategoria" and also means "accusation". |
| Estonian | The Estonian word "kategooria" derives from the Greek word "kategoria", meaning "statement" or "accusation." |
| Finnish | The Finnish word 'kategoria' also has the meanings of 'article' and 'category', 'genre' or 'class' in philosophical and logical contexts. |
| French | The word catégory can also mean "category" in English. It can also mean "accusation" or "blame". |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "kategory" originates from the Greek "kategoria", meaning "accusation" or "predicate". |
| Georgian | The word "კატეგორია" comes from the Greek word "κατηγορία" (kategoria), which means "accusation" or "charge". In Georgian, the word has also acquired the meaning of "class" or "group". |
| German | The German word 'Kategorie' is derived from the Greek word 'kategoria', which originally meant 'accusation'. |
| Greek | "Κατηγορία" also means "accusation" in Greek, a meaning that is not present in the English word "category." |
| Gujarati | "વર્ગ" also means "class" or "grade" in Gujarati. |
| Haitian Creole | The Haitian Creole word "kategori" is derived from the French word "catégorie", which itself comes from the Greek word "kategoria", meaning "accusation" or "charge". The word "kategoria" was used in Greek to refer to a formal accusation made in a court of law. |
| Hausa | A rukuni can be a category of something, a department, or a group of people. |
| Hawaiian | The word “waeʻano” also means a “class of students” in Hawaiian. |
| Hindi | Hindi "वर्ग" (category), also meaning "class" in the context of grade level in school. |
| Hmong | The word "qeb" in Hmong can also mean "kind" or "type". |
| Hungarian | In Greek it refers to an accusation and a prosecutor's office. |
| Icelandic | In Old Norse, flokkur also meant 'army' or 'troop'. |
| Igbo | The Igbo word "ụdị" can also refer to "type," "kind," or "sort," and can be applied to a wide range of things. |
| Indonesian | In Indonesian, the word "kategori" is also used to refer to a specific type of traditional Javanese puppet known as a "lakon". |
| Irish | The Irish word "chatagóir" ultimately derives from the Ancient Greek word "kategoria," meaning "accusation, predicate, or quality." |
| Italian | The Italian word "categoria" derives from the Ancient Greek "kategoria," meaning "accusation" or "predicate." |
| Japanese | The Japanese word "カテゴリー" derives from the Greek "κατηγορία" meaning "condition, accusation". |
| Javanese | In Javanese, kategori also means a type of traditional dance. |
| Kannada | ವರ್ಗ also means a 'row' which is a set of data arranged in a horizontal row in a table. "ವರ್ಗ" (row) comes from Sanskrit "वर्गः (vargah)" - to turn, to place in rows. |
| Kazakh | In Kazakh, "санат" can also refer to a rank or an occupation, similar to the English word "profession." |
| Khmer | ប្រភេទ (category) is cognate with the term "type" (a kind or class) in Thai, Lao and Burmese, and may have been borrowed via Sanskrit. |
| Korean | In addition to "category", "범주" also means "predicate" and is derived from the Sanskrit word "pra-da-ju", meaning "to put forth". |
| Kurdish | In some Kurdish dialects, liq can also refer to a type of poem or a group of people sharing a common identity. |
| Kyrgyz | "Категория" in Kyrgyz can also mean "condition" or "situation". |
| Latin | The Latin word "genus" can also refer to birth, descent, kind, race, or stock. |
| Latvian | Derived from Greek "kategoria", meaning both "statement" and "accusation". |
| Lithuanian | In English, the word "category" has the same root as the Greek word "kategoria," meaning "accusation." |
| Luxembourgish | In Luxembourgish the word "Kategorie" also means "box" or "drawer". |
| Macedonian | The word "категорија" is derived from Ancient Greek "κατηγορία", meaning "accusation" or "predicate" but has changed meanings over time and now commonly means "category" in Macedonian. |
| Malagasy | The word "sokajy" in Malagasy derives from the Arabic word "suq" (market), indicating its historical association with trade and exchange. |
| Malay | The Indonesian borrowing 'kategori' derives from Greek 'kategoria' (accusation, charge) via Latin. |
| Malayalam | The word "വിഭാഗം" may also be used in the senses of "class" or "division". |
| Maltese | The word "kategorija" is derived from the Greek word "kategoria", meaning "predication" or "statement". |
| Maori | In Maori, 'kāwai' can also refer to a particular type of mullet fish or a traditional Maori dance accompanied by a chorus. |
| Marathi | The Marathi word श्रेणी (shreNI) also means 'rank', 'grade', 'step', or 'class'. |
| Mongolian | The word "ангилал" can also mean "classification" or "order" in Mongolian. |
| Nepali | While 'कोटि' typically means 'category', it also holds other meanings like 'type' and 'class' |
| Norwegian | The word 'kategori' stems from the Greek word 'katēgoría' which means 'accusation, charge, allegation' and is related to 'katēgoreō', which means 'accuse' |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The Nyanja word 'gulu' is also used to refer to a group or type of people. |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "کټګورۍ" is derived from the Greek word "κατηγορία", which means "accusation" or "charge". |
| Polish | The word "Kategoria" in Polish is derived from the Greek word "kategoria", meaning "accusation" or "predicate" and can also refer to a broader classification or division of things. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, 'categoria' can also refer to a class, rank, or type. |
| Punjabi | The word "ਸ਼੍ਰੇਣੀ" ("category") in Punjabi is derived from the Sanskrit word "श्रेणी" ("series"), which itself is derived from the root "शृ" ("to go"). |
| Romanian | Romanian "categorie" is derived from Greek "κατηγορία" ("charge, accusation"). |
| Russian | The word "категория" can also refer to a class or rank in a hierarchy or classification system. |
| Samoan | The etymology of "vaega" is "to be a part of" or "to make up a whole". |
| Serbian | The word "категорија" can also refer to a philosophical category or to a class of people. |
| Sesotho | 'Sehlopha', a Sesotho term meaning 'category', also refers to a group or type of people, animals or things sharing similar characteristics. |
| Shona | "Chikamu" can also mean "a group of people with similar characteristics" or "a type of thing." |
| Sindhi | The word "قسم" comes from the Arabic word "قسم", meaning "to divide" or "to distribute". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "වර්ගය" (category) in Sinhala also means "kind" or "type". |
| Slovak | The word "kategórie" in Slovak can also refer to a grammatical category or a rank in a hierarchical system. |
| Slovenian | The word “kategoriji” derives from the Greek word “kategoria,” which means “assertion” or “predicate.” |
| Somali | The word "qaybta" can also refer to a group of people sharing similar characteristics or interests. |
| Spanish | “Categoría” ultimately derives from the Ancient Greek word “katēgoría” meaning “accusation”. |
| Sundanese | The Sundanese word "kategori" is borrowed from Javanese and also means "type". |
| Swahili | "Jamii" can also mean "society" or "community" in Swahili. |
| Swedish | The word "kategori" derives from Ancient Greek "κατηγορία", meaning "accusation" or "predicate". |
| Tajik | In Tajik, “категория” also means “rank”. |
| Tamil | The Tamil term "வகை" can also refer to a type, kind, or variety. |
| Telugu | The word "వర్గం" (category) in Telugu is derived from the Sanskrit word "वर्ग" (class, variety), which is also the root of the word "वर्गिकरण" (classification). |
| Thai | Originally an honorific or polite address in Thai, the word "ประเภท" later came to mean "category" through a metonymic shift. |
| Turkish | While 'kategori' (category) comes from French 'catégorie', 'katar' originates in Arabic and denotes 'row, level, layer'. |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word «категорії» is derived from the Ancient Greek word «κατηγορία» (kategoria), which means «accusation» or «charge». |
| Urdu | The word قِسْم originates from the Arabic word قَسم, meaning division, portion, or classification. |
| Uzbek | Uzbek 'toifasi' is derived from the Persian word 'taifeh', which means 'class' or 'group' |
| Vietnamese | The word "thể loại" literally means "body of something" in Vietnamese and can also refer to "style" or "genre" in various contexts. |
| Welsh | Categori means both 'category' and 'chair' in Welsh, coming from the French 'categorie' and Latin 'cathedra', respectively. |
| Xhosa | "Udi di" also means 000, i.e. nothing, and can be used to indicate something that does not exist or to indicate that something is impossible or not worth considering. |
| Yoruba | 'Eka' is an ordinal number that means 'first' when it's followed by names of months, and 'only' when followed by other nouns. |
| Zulu | The Zulu word "isigaba" shares a root with the word "isigaba sabakhwezeli", meaning "the category of the deceased". |
| English | "Category" comes from 'kategoria,' Greek for 'to accuse,' from 'katēgorein,' 'to make a charge against,' ultimately from 'agora,' meaning 'marketplace' and 'assembly.'" |