Clear in Different Languages
Discover 'Clear' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Clear
Afrikaans duidelik | ||
Albanian qartë | ||
Amharic ግልፅ | ||
Arabic واضح | ||
Armenian պարզ | ||
Assamese পৰিষ্কাৰ | ||
Aymara qhana | ||
Azerbaijani aydın | ||
Bambara jɛman | ||
Basque argi | ||
Belarusian ясна | ||
Bengali পরিষ্কার | ||
Bhojpuri साफ | ||
Bosnian jasno | ||
Bulgarian ясно | ||
Catalan clar | ||
Cebuano tin-aw | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 明确 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 明確 | ||
Corsican chjaru | ||
Croatian čisto | ||
Czech průhledná | ||
Danish klar | ||
Dhivehi ސާފުކޮށް | ||
Dogri साफ | ||
Dutch doorzichtig | ||
English clear | ||
Esperanto klara | ||
Estonian selge | ||
Ewe me kᴐ | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) malinaw | ||
Finnish asia selvä | ||
French clair | ||
Frisian opklearje | ||
Galician claro | ||
Georgian ნათელია | ||
German klar | ||
Greek σαφή | ||
Guarani hesakã | ||
Gujarati ચોખ્ખુ | ||
Haitian Creole klè | ||
Hausa bayyanannu | ||
Hawaiian mōakāka | ||
Hebrew ברור | ||
Hindi स्पष्ट | ||
Hmong ntshiab | ||
Hungarian egyértelmű | ||
Icelandic skýrt | ||
Igbo doo anya | ||
Ilocano nalawag | ||
Indonesian bersih | ||
Irish soiléir | ||
Italian chiaro | ||
Japanese 晴れ | ||
Javanese bening | ||
Kannada ಸ್ಪಷ್ಟ | ||
Kazakh анық | ||
Khmer ច្បាស់ | ||
Kinyarwanda bisobanutse | ||
Konkani नितळ | ||
Korean 맑은 | ||
Krio klia | ||
Kurdish zelal | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) ڕوون | ||
Kyrgyz ачык | ||
Lao ຈະແຈ້ງ | ||
Latin liquet | ||
Latvian skaidrs | ||
Lingala polele | ||
Lithuanian aišku | ||
Luganda okumalawo | ||
Luxembourgish kloer | ||
Macedonian јасен | ||
Maithili साफ | ||
Malagasy mazava | ||
Malay jelas | ||
Malayalam വ്യക്തമാണ് | ||
Maltese ċar | ||
Maori mārama | ||
Marathi स्पष्ट | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯑꯁꯦꯡꯕ | ||
Mizo fiah | ||
Mongolian тодорхой | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ရှင်းလင်းသော | ||
Nepali स्पष्ट | ||
Norwegian klar | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) chotsani | ||
Odia (Oriya) ସଫା | ||
Oromo ifaa | ||
Pashto پاک | ||
Persian روشن | ||
Polish jasny | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) claro | ||
Punjabi ਸਾਫ | ||
Quechua pichay | ||
Romanian clar | ||
Russian чисто | ||
Samoan manino | ||
Sanskrit स्पष्टः | ||
Scots Gaelic soilleir | ||
Sepedi tloša | ||
Serbian јасно | ||
Sesotho hlakile | ||
Shona zvakajeka | ||
Sindhi صاف | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) පැහැදිලිව | ||
Slovak jasný | ||
Slovenian jasno | ||
Somali cad | ||
Spanish claro | ||
Sundanese jelas | ||
Swahili wazi | ||
Swedish klar | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) malinaw | ||
Tajik равшан | ||
Tamil தெளிவானது | ||
Tatar чиста | ||
Telugu క్లియర్ | ||
Thai ชัดเจน | ||
Tigrinya ንፁር | ||
Tsonga rivaleni | ||
Turkish açık | ||
Turkmen düşnükli | ||
Twi (Akan) wann | ||
Ukrainian ясно | ||
Urdu صاف | ||
Uyghur ئېنىق | ||
Uzbek aniq | ||
Vietnamese thông thoáng | ||
Welsh yn glir | ||
Xhosa kucace | ||
Yiddish קלאָר | ||
Yoruba ko o | ||
Zulu kucace |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "duidelik" in Afrikaans has the same root as the word "Deutsch" in German, meaning "German". This reflects the close historical and linguistic ties between the two languages. |
| Albanian | The word 'qartë' possibly comes from a PIE root *k̂er- or *qer- meaning 'to turn, to bend'. |
| Amharic | The Amharic word "ግልፅ" can mean "transparent," "obvious," "explicit," or "unambiguous." |
| Arabic | "واضح" is used to refer to something that is easy to understand, but it can also mean "bright" or "shining" in Arabic. |
| Armenian | The word "պարզ" also means "simple" or "plain" in Armenian. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "aydın" in Azerbaijani, meaning "clear", also has the figurative meaning of "enlightened" or "intellectual." |
| Basque | Argi is also occasionally used to refer to a clearing in the forest |
| Belarusian | "Ясная" также может означать "красивая", "светлая" или "радостная". |
| Bengali | "পরিষ্কার" could also mean "transparent" or "unadulterated" in Bengali. |
| Bosnian | Bosnian "jasno" shares a common origin with "yasan" in Old Turkic and "açık" in Turkish, all meaning "open" or "clear." |
| Bulgarian | In Bulgarian 'ясно' is an antonym to 'мътня' and 'тъмно' ('dark', 'murky', 'muddy'), and a synonym of 'светло', 'прозрачно' ('light', 'transparent'). |
| Catalan | "Clar" is also the name of a type of flute played in the northern regions of Catalonia. |
| Cebuano | The Cebuano word "tin-aw" is derived from the Proto-Austronesian word *tinaw, which also means "clean" or "pure." |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 明确 means 'explicit' in English, and is composed of 明 (bright) and 确 (true, fixed). |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The word "明確" is sometimes interpreted as having the connotation of "certainty" or "definiteness". |
| Corsican | "Chjaru" also means "beautiful" in Corsican, sharing a common root with the Italian word "chiaro". |
| Croatian | "Čisto" is also an archaic form of the word "čistiti" (to clean) in Croatian. |
| Czech | "Průhledná" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word "*prozorŭ", which also means "window". |
| Danish | The Danish word "klar" is derived from the Old Norse "klaarr", originally meaning "bright or shining", and has a related meaning in Swedish and Icelandic. |
| Dutch | "Doorzichtig" also means "transparent" and comes from the words "door" which means "through" and "zichtig" which means "visible". |
| Esperanto | "Klara" comes from Proto-Indo-European root "*ḱer-", meaning "to shine" or "to shimmer." |
| Estonian | The etymology of the Estonian word "selge" is unclear, and it also means "intelligible", "evident" and "distinct." |
| Finnish | The expression “asia selvä” (literally “the matter is clear”) is a common Finnish idiom for closing a matter or coming to an agreement. |
| French | It is derived from the Latin word “clarus,” meaning “bright” or “clear.” |
| Frisian | The word "opklearje" is related to "kljar" which means "cold" or "hard", and "op" meaning "on" or "up". |
| Galician | The Galician word "claro" can also mean "of course", "certainly" or "obviously". |
| German | Cognate with the English word 'clear', 'klar' also means 'ready' and 'bright'. |
| Greek | "Σαφή" or "Σαφής" means "clear" but can also mean "precise" or "distinct" in Greek. |
| Gujarati | The word "ચોખ્ખુ" is derived from the Sanskrit word "शुक्ल" (śukla), which also means "clear" or "white". It can also refer to the color "bright blue". |
| Haitian Creole | The word "klè" in Haitian Creole can also mean "bright" or "radiant". |
| Hausa | The Hausa word "bayyanannu" can also mean "to explain" or "to make known". |
| Hawaiian | "Mōakāka" can also refer to a light rain in Hawaiian. |
| Hebrew | The word "ברור" can also mean "it is obvious" or "it is certain". |
| Hindi | The Hindi word "स्पष्ट" (pronounced "spasht") can also mean "obvious" or "distinct" in English. |
| Hmong | "Ntshiab" is also used to describe other states of being, such as brightness, purity, or innocence. |
| Hungarian | The word "egyértelmű" comes from the Old Hungarian word "egy" (one) and the suffix "-értelmű" (meaning "clear"), meaning "unambiguous" or "obvious." |
| Icelandic | {"text": "The word skýrt, derived from the Old Norse word "skyrr," can also refer to the Icelandic fermented milk product known as skyr."} |
| Igbo | The word "doo anya" can also mean "to see clearly." |
| Indonesian | The word 'bersih' is also used to describe something that is pure or untainted, as in 'bersih hati' (pure of heart). |
| Irish | In the word |
| Italian | In music, 'chiaro' can also refer to a register of an instrument or voice that is light in tone or texture. |
| Japanese | The word 晴れ (''hare'') can also mean "special occasion" or "festival" in Japanese. |
| Javanese | In Old Javanese, the word "bening" also meant "beautiful". |
| Kannada | The word "ಸ್ಪಷ್ಟ" in Kannada is derived from the Sanskrit word "स्पष्ट" (spaṣṭa), which means "evident" or "distinct". |
| Kazakh | The word "анық" also means "evident" and "obvious" in Kazakh. |
| Khmer | In Thai, the word "แจ่มใส" is similar to the Khmer word ច្បាស់ because both words mean "clear" and contain the root word "แจ่ม" or "ចាម" which means "bright". |
| Korean | "맑은" (clear) is related to the word "맑다," meaning "to be bright" and is also associated with the idea of "clean. |
| Kurdish | The word "zelal" also means "transparency" or "purity" in Kurdish. |
| Kyrgyz | The Kyrgyz word "ачык" originally referred to the brightness of a clear sky, and later came to be used metaphorically to describe clarity of mind or understanding. |
| Latin | Liquet can also mean "it is evident" or "it is undisputed". |
| Latvian | The word "skaidrs" is cognate with the Old Prussian word "skaystan", meaning "light" or "bright". |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word "aišku" is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂ews-, meaning "to shine" or "to burn." |
| Luxembourgish | In Luxembourgish, "kloer" is related to the words "klor" (Dutch for chlorine) and "chlorine" (French), which both refer to the chemical element with the atomic number 17 and a green-yellow gaseous form. |
| Macedonian | The word "јасен" also referred to a species of tree, now known as Fraxinus excelsior, in addition to its meaning of "clear". |
| Malagasy | In some contexts, mazava can also mean 'evident' or 'certain'. |
| Malay | The word "jelas" can also mean "obvious" or "evident" in Malay. |
| Maltese | "Ċar" in Maltese derives ultimately from the Proto-Semitic root *ṣrr, meaning "to be bare, open, or pure." |
| Maori | The word mārama can also refer to the moon or knowledge. |
| Marathi | स्पष्ट also means 'transparent', 'lucid', 'explicit', 'distinct', 'conspicuous', 'obvious', 'unambiguous', 'intelligible', 'unveiled'. |
| Mongolian | The word "тодорхой" is also used to describe something that is definite, precise, or certain. |
| Nepali | "स्पष्ट" can also mean explicit in Nepali. |
| Norwegian | While 'klar' mostly means 'clear', it can also mean 'ready' or 'finished' in Norwegian. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "chotsani" in Nyanja (Chichewa) can also refer to a person who is intelligent or perceptive. |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "پاک" also has alternate meanings such as "pure", "holy", and "free from impurity". |
| Persian | "روشن" can also mean "beautiful" or "intelligent" in Persian. |
| Polish | In Polish, the word 'jasny' can also mean 'obvious' or 'bright'. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portugal, "Claro" also refers to a brand for telecommunication services and in Brazil, it's also a type of sugarcane spirit. |
| Punjabi | The Punjabi word "ਸਾਫ" ("clear") also means "clean, pure, unadulterated." |
| Romanian | "Clar" also means "dawn" in Romanian, coming from the Latin word "clarus", meaning both "clear" and "bright" |
| Russian | "Чисто" can also mean "nothing" or "clean" in Russian. |
| Samoan | The Samoan word "manino" can also refer to a clear path, such as the opening between clouds. |
| Scots Gaelic | The word "soilleir" can also be used to mean "free from impurities" or "pure". |
| Serbian | "Јасно" can also mean "of course" or "certainly" in Serbian. |
| Sesotho | The word 'hlakile' in Sesotho, while primarily meaning 'clear,' can also refer to 'transparency' or 'purity.' |
| Shona | The verb zvaka'je'ka can also mean "to be clean" or "to be neat". |
| Sindhi | صاف (Sāf), meaning clear, is derived from the Arabic صفا (Safā) that carries multiple meanings including purity, transparency and emptiness. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word “පැහැදිලිව” is also used to describe something that is understood or expressed easily. |
| Slovak | "Jasný" (clear) also means "sure" and comes from the Proto-Slavic word "*jьsnъ" meaning “bright, obvious". |
| Slovenian | The word 'jasno' also means 'of course' in Slovenian. |
| Somali | In Somali, the word 'cad' is also used to describe the sound made by thunder. |
| Spanish | In Spanish, "claro" can also refer to a glade in a forest or a clearing in dense vegetation. |
| Sundanese | "Jelas" in Sundanese also means "obvious" or "certain". |
| Swahili | The Swahili word "wazi" can also mean "open" or "plain," implying freedom from obstruction or ambiguity. |
| Swedish | The word "klar" has an alternative meaning of "ready" or "prepared." |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Malinaw" in Tagalog can also mean "pure" or "spotless". |
| Tajik | The word "равшан" in Tajik also refers to the planet Venus. |
| Tamil | The verb |
| Telugu | In Telugu, "క్లియర్" means "clear," but also refers to "to be open and honest." |
| Thai | In Thai, the word "ชัดเจน" (chat-jen) also means "certain" or "definite". |
| Turkish | The Turkish word "açık" derives from the Ottoman Turkish word "aşikâr" and can also mean "evident" or "manifest". |
| Ukrainian | The word "ясно" can also mean "obviously" or "undoubtedly" in Ukrainian. |
| Urdu | In Sufism, "صاف" also refers to a state of spiritual purity and clarity achieved through meditation and self-purification. |
| Uzbek | The word "aniq" can also mean "exact", "precise", or "definite". |
| Vietnamese | Thông thoáng in Vietnamese literally means "through-wind," conveying the sense of a place with good ventilation or ample space. |
| Welsh | "Yn glir" can also mean "to gleam" or "to shine". |
| Xhosa | The word 'kucace', which means 'to remove' in Xhosa, is derived from the concept of 'clearing', and thus signifies elimination of obstacles and the achievement of clarity. |
| Yiddish | In Yiddish, "קלāר" (klar) can also mean "ready" or "all set". |
| Yoruba | In the Ogbomoso dialect of Yorùbá, "ko o" means "to be empty, to be dry" while in Ẹ̀g̣ba, it means "to be light or bright". |
| Zulu | In Zulu, the word "kucace" also means "to make visible" or "to reveal". |
| English | "Clear" can also mean to free from blame or obstruction, as in 'to clear one's conscience' or 'the road is now clear'. |