Choice in Different Languages
Discover 'Choice' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Choice
Afrikaans keuse | ||
Albanian zgjedhje | ||
Amharic ምርጫ | ||
Arabic خيار | ||
Armenian ընտրություն | ||
Assamese পচন্দ | ||
Aymara chhijllawi | ||
Azerbaijani seçim | ||
Bambara ɲɛnata | ||
Basque aukera | ||
Belarusian выбар | ||
Bengali পছন্দ | ||
Bhojpuri पसंद | ||
Bosnian izbor | ||
Bulgarian избор | ||
Catalan elecció | ||
Cebuano pagpili | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 选择 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 選擇 | ||
Corsican scelta | ||
Croatian izbor | ||
Czech výběr | ||
Danish valg | ||
Dhivehi ގޮތް | ||
Dogri पसंद | ||
Dutch keuze | ||
English choice | ||
Esperanto elekto | ||
Estonian valik | ||
Ewe tiatia | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) pagpili | ||
Finnish valinta | ||
French choix | ||
Frisian kar | ||
Galician elección | ||
Georgian არჩევანი | ||
German wahl | ||
Greek επιλογή | ||
Guarani jeporavo | ||
Gujarati પસંદગી | ||
Haitian Creole chwa | ||
Hausa zabi | ||
Hawaiian koho | ||
Hebrew בְּחִירָה | ||
Hindi पसंद | ||
Hmong xaiv | ||
Hungarian választás | ||
Icelandic val | ||
Igbo nhọrọ | ||
Ilocano taban | ||
Indonesian pilihan | ||
Irish rogha | ||
Italian scelta | ||
Japanese 選択 | ||
Javanese pilihan | ||
Kannada ಆಯ್ಕೆ | ||
Kazakh таңдау | ||
Khmer ជម្រើស | ||
Kinyarwanda guhitamo | ||
Konkani पसंती | ||
Korean 선택 | ||
Krio disayd | ||
Kurdish helbijartî | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) بژاردە | ||
Kyrgyz тандоо | ||
Lao ທາງເລືອກ | ||
Latin arbitrium | ||
Latvian izvēle | ||
Lingala liponi | ||
Lithuanian pasirinkimas | ||
Luganda okusalawo | ||
Luxembourgish wiel | ||
Macedonian избор | ||
Maithili पसंद | ||
Malagasy safidy | ||
Malay pilihan | ||
Malayalam ചോയിസ് | ||
Maltese għażla | ||
Maori whiringa | ||
Marathi निवड | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯑꯄꯥꯝꯕ | ||
Mizo duhthlanna | ||
Mongolian сонголт | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ရွေးချယ်မှု | ||
Nepali छनौट | ||
Norwegian valg | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kusankha | ||
Odia (Oriya) ପସନ୍ଦ | ||
Oromo filannoo | ||
Pashto انتخاب | ||
Persian انتخاب | ||
Polish wybór | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) escolha | ||
Punjabi ਚੋਣ | ||
Quechua akllay | ||
Romanian alegere | ||
Russian выбор | ||
Samoan filifiliga | ||
Sanskrit चयनं | ||
Scots Gaelic roghainn | ||
Sepedi kgetho | ||
Serbian избор | ||
Sesotho kgetho | ||
Shona sarudzo | ||
Sindhi پسند | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) තේරීම | ||
Slovak výber | ||
Slovenian izbira | ||
Somali doorashada | ||
Spanish elección | ||
Sundanese pilihan | ||
Swahili uchaguzi | ||
Swedish val | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) pagpipilian | ||
Tajik интихоб | ||
Tamil தேர்வு | ||
Tatar сайлау | ||
Telugu ఎంపిక | ||
Thai ทางเลือก | ||
Tigrinya ምርጫ | ||
Tsonga hlawula | ||
Turkish tercih | ||
Turkmen saýlamak | ||
Twi (Akan) ɔpɛ | ||
Ukrainian вибір | ||
Urdu انتخاب | ||
Uyghur تاللاش | ||
Uzbek tanlov | ||
Vietnamese sự lựa chọn | ||
Welsh dewis | ||
Xhosa ukhetho | ||
Yiddish ברירה | ||
Yoruba yiyan | ||
Zulu ukukhetha |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "keuse" in Afrikaans originates from the Dutch word "keuze", and also means "test" or "exam". |
| Albanian | The word "zgjedhje" can also mean "election" or "selection". |
| Amharic | The word "ምርጫ" is also used in Amharic to refer to the act of choosing or making a decision. |
| Arabic | The Arabic word "خيار" also means "cucumber", and is related to the Persian word "khiyâr" meaning "green" |
| Azerbaijani | "Seçim" also means "the ability to choose" and "the elected person". |
| Basque | The word "aukera" comes from the Basque word "auk", meaning "opening" or "opportunity". |
| Bengali | "পছন্দ" is a cognate of the Hindi word "pasand" and ultimately comes from the Persian word "pasandīdan" meaning "to approve or like." |
| Bosnian | The word "izbor" can also refer to an electoral district or constituency, a legislative election, or a selected number of people or things. |
| Bulgarian | Избор (choice) has the same root as the word 'to choose ( избирам)', but it also means 'selected (избран)' or 'gathering (събрание)'. |
| Catalan | The word "elecció" derives from the Latin "electio", meaning "a picking out" or "a selection". |
| Cebuano | Pagpili also refers to the act or process of selecting, and is derived from the root word 'pili' meaning 'to select'. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | In ancient Chinese, "選擇" also meant "to eliminate", |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The word "選擇" literally means "to use the leftover". |
| Corsican | In Corsican, "scelta" can also mean "selection" or "collection". |
| Croatian | The word 'izbor' derives from the Old Church Slavonic term 'izbyrati', meaning 'to separate out' or 'to select'. |
| Czech | "Výběr" can also mean "extract" or "selection" in Czech. |
| Danish | {"text": "Valg's alternate meaning is "corpse" and it derives from the Old Norse val, "slain warrior," from PIE *wel- "to be strong."}" |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "keuze" shares its etymology with the English word "cow". Early Indo-European speakers used the word *keus- as a general term for "possession" or "cattle". |
| Esperanto | The word elekto comes from the Greek word eklektikos, meaning "select" or "chosen". |
| Estonian | Valik shares a root with the word 'to choose,' which is 'valema.' |
| Finnish | "Valinta" also means "selection" in Finnish. |
| French | In French, "choix" also refers to a pile of hay. |
| Frisian | The word "kar" also means "fate" or "lot" in Frisian. |
| Galician | In Galician, "elección" also refers to the process of nominating a parish priest through popular vote. |
| German | The word "Wahl" is derived from the Old High German word "walan," which means "to select" or "to choose." |
| Greek | The ancient Greek verb "επιλέγειν" means both "to choose" and "to collect". |
| Gujarati | "પસંદગી" (pasandagi) originates from the Persian word "پسند" (pasand) meaning "approval" or "liking". |
| Haitian Creole | The Haitian Creole word "chwa" (choice) is derived from the French word "choix" and also has the additional meaning of "fate" or "destiny". |
| Hausa | Hausa 'zabi' is cognate with Arabic 'dhabīḥ' (slaughtered animal), but this sense is not found in most Hausa dialects. |
| Hawaiian | Although the Hawaiian word "koho" translates to "choice" in English, it can also mean "desire" or "will." |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "בחירה" (behira) originally meant "freedom" and is related to the Arabic word "bara'a" (innocent). |
| Hindi | The word 'पसंद' also means 'love' or 'affection' when used as a noun. |
| Hmong | "Xaiv" can also mean to select, prefer, vote, or elect in Hmong. |
| Hungarian | The Hungarian word "választás" can also mean "election" or "decision". |
| Icelandic | In Old Norse, "val" could also refer to the slain on the battlefield, likely stemming from the Proto-Germanic root *wal- meaning "corpse." |
| Igbo | In Igbo culture, the word 'nhọrọ' encompasses not only the act of choosing but also the profound responsibility and accountability that comes with it. |
| Indonesian | In Indonesian, "pilihan" means not just "choice" but also "opinion" or "alternative." |
| Irish | It stems from Old Irish ‘roghaim’ meaning ‘pick’, cognate with Old Norse ‘rekja’ and Latin ‘regula’ meaning ‘straighten’. |
| Italian | The Italian word "scelta" comes from the Latin word "selecta" which means "picked" or "selected". |
| Japanese | "選択" is a loanword from Dutch, where it means "selection" or "collection". |
| Javanese | In Javanese, "pilihan" also refers to a type of traditional cake made of rice flour and coconut. |
| Kannada | The Kannada word 'ಆಯ್ಕೆ' also denotes a specific type of jasmine flower |
| Kazakh | "Таңдау" comes from the verb "таңда", meaning "to pick out" or "to choose." |
| Khmer | The word "ជម្រើស" can also refer to "an opinion" or "a preference." |
| Korean | 선택(選擇)의 선택은 '골라내기' 외에 '선택해 뽑기'의 뜻도 갖습니다. |
| Kurdish | The word helbijartî also means 'to pick' in the Kurdish language. |
| Kyrgyz | The word "тандоо" (choice) in Kyrgyz originates from the Turkic word "tangu" meaning "to seize, grab, choose". |
| Latin | From the same root comes arbiter (‘judge’), indicating the judge’s role in deciding between two options. |
| Latvian | "Izvēle" (choice) comes from the Slavic root *izvol- which means "select," "call out," "summon," and has cognates in many other Slavic languages. |
| Lithuanian | The word "pasirinkimas" in Lithuanian comes from the verb "rinktis" ("to choose, to select"), which in turn is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *hreg- ("to cut off, to tear apart"). This suggests that the concept of "choice" in Lithuanian originated from the idea of separating or selecting something from a larger whole. |
| Luxembourgish | The word "Wiel" can also refer to an elected official or representative. |
| Macedonian | "Избор" can also mean "election" in Macedonian. |
| Malagasy | SAFIDY shares the root 'Fidy' with 'Fidiovana' meaning 'to choose'. |
| Malay | Pilihan also means 'option' or 'selection' in Malay and shares the same root word 'pilih' meaning 'to pick' or 'to choose'. |
| Malayalam | The word "ചോയിസ്" in Malayalam is derived from "ശ്രേയസ്" (śreyas), which means "what is good" or "the best". |
| Maltese | The word "għażla" is derived from the Arabic word "ghazwah", meaning "military expedition" or "raid", and has also been used to refer to a "choice" or "option". |
| Maori | Whiringa is also an alternative spelling of the Maori word "whiranga" meaning "to twist or wind" |
| Marathi | Nivad also refers to a type of flower garland made of jasmine buds. |
| Mongolian | The word "сонголт" can also refer to the process of choosing or making a decision. |
| Nepali | The word “छनौट” (“choice”) in Nepali originates from the Sanskrit word “छंद” or “छंदना,” meaning a cut or slice. |
| Norwegian | The term "valg" not only means "choice" but also "election," "ballot," and can even describe the act of being selective (especially with regards to food), "picky." |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "kusankha" in Nyanja also means "to prefer" or "to love". |
| Pashto | Pashto "انتخاب" is also used to refer to "election". |
| Persian | The word 'انتخاب' (choice) in Persian also means 'selection', 'decision', 'option', 'preference', and 'vote'. |
| Polish | The word 'wybór' can also mean 'extraction' or 'selection', and comes from the Old Polish verb 'wybrać', meaning 'to take out'. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The Portuguese word "escolha" (choice) comes from the Latin "ex-colligere" (to pick out), sharing the same etymological root as the French word "cueillir" (to gather). |
| Punjabi | The Punjabi word "ਚੋਣ" originates from the Sanskrit word "चयन" meaning "to select" or "to choose" and is also related to the Hindi term "चुनाव" with the same meaning. |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "alegere" derives from the Latin verb "eligere," meaning "to choose" or "to select." |
| Russian | The word "выбор" is derived from the Proto-Slavic root *bir-, meaning "to take" or "to choose". |
| Samoan | The word "filifiliga" is derived from the Proto-Polynesian word *fili* meaning "to select" and the suffix *-liga* meaning "process or result of." |
| Scots Gaelic | The word "roghainn" in Scots Gaelic has its origins in the Proto-Celtic root "rog-," meaning "to choose" or "to ask." |
| Serbian | The Serbian word “избор” may also refer to a collection of texts, e.g., “Избор настављања” meaning “a selection of sermons”. |
| Sesotho | "Kgetha" can alternately indicate a type of grass that grows in swampy areas. |
| Shona | The Shona word "sarudzo" can mean both "choice" and "vote"," with the latter being a more recent usage. |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "پسند" also means "consent" or "approval". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | It is related to the Sanskrit word "teerne", meaning "to pass across" or "to choose". |
| Slovak | "Výber" also means a collection of short stories in Slovak. |
| Slovenian | The word 'izbira' can also mean a special type of apple tree or the fruit it bears, similar to 'crab apples' or 'wild apples' in English. |
| Somali | The Somali term doorashada, meaning "choice," derives from the Arabic word durāʾa, meaning "to last." |
| Spanish | In Spanish, "elección" can also refer to a political contest or the act of choosing a religious leader. |
| Sundanese | In Old Sundanese, pilihan means 'decision', 'choice', or 'judgment' |
| Swahili | The word "uchaguzi" can also refer to a political election. |
| Swedish | "Val" can also refer to the selection process to make a choice, as in "att göra val" (to make a selection). |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The Tagalog word "pagpipilian" can also refer to a menu or a ballot, reflecting the act of choosing from a list of options. |
| Tajik | The word "интихоб" in Tajik can also refer to the process of selecting a bride or groom. |
| Tamil | The word "தேர்வு" in Tamil can also mean "examination" or "the act of choosing". |
| Telugu | ఎంపిక can also mean 'the act of sorting out or selecting', 'variety', 'option', 'classification', 'category', or 'alternative'. |
| Thai | In Thai, "ทางเลือก" can also refer to an "alternative", "option", "way out", or a "chance". |
| Turkish | The word 'tercih' is derived from the Arabic word 'tarjih' (preference), which also means 'to incline or lean'. |
| Ukrainian | "Вибір" can also mean 'extract' in Ukrainian. |
| Urdu | The Urdu word "انتخاب" is derived from the Arabic word "انتخاب" meaning "selection", and is also used in Persian, Pashto, and Punjabi. |
| Uzbek | The word 'tanlov' is derived from the Persian word 'talan', meaning 'plunder', and also shares a root with the Turkish word 'tanlamak', meaning 'to choose from, to select'. |
| Vietnamese | The Vietnamese word "sự lựa chọn" can also refer to a person's preferences or tastes. |
| Welsh | In Middle Welsh, 'dewis' refers to a 'divine choice', a destiny or fate decreed by God. |
| Xhosa | 'Ukhetho' can also mean "election" or "voting" |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "ברירה" is also a term in Jewish law referring to an obligation or requirement. |
| Yoruba | In Yoruba, "yiyan" can refer to a decision, act of choosing, or food that accompanies a main dish, such as fufu or pounded yam. |
| Zulu | 'Ukukhetha' is also a Zulu idiom that means 'to separate or distinguish'. |
| English | The word 'choice' originates from the Old French word 'choisir', meaning 'to select' or 'to choose' |