Collect in Different Languages
Discover 'Collect' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Collect
Afrikaans versamel | ||
Albanian mbledh | ||
Amharic መሰብሰብ | ||
Arabic تجميع | ||
Armenian հավաքել | ||
Assamese সংগ্ৰহ | ||
Aymara apthapiña | ||
Azerbaijani toplamaq | ||
Bambara ka cɛ | ||
Basque bildu | ||
Belarusian збіраць | ||
Bengali সংগ্রহ | ||
Bhojpuri इकट्ठा करऽ | ||
Bosnian skupiti | ||
Bulgarian събирам | ||
Catalan recollir | ||
Cebuano pagkolekta | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 收藏 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 收藏 | ||
Corsican raccoglia | ||
Croatian prikupiti | ||
Czech sbírat | ||
Danish indsamle | ||
Dhivehi ހަވާލުވުން | ||
Dogri किट्ठा करना | ||
Dutch verzamelen | ||
English collect | ||
Esperanto kolekti | ||
Estonian koguma | ||
Ewe lɔ | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) mangolekta | ||
Finnish kerätä | ||
French collecte | ||
Frisian sammelje | ||
Galician recoller | ||
Georgian შეგროვება | ||
German sammeln | ||
Greek συλλέγω | ||
Guarani mbyaty | ||
Gujarati એકત્રિત કરો | ||
Haitian Creole kolekte | ||
Hausa tara | ||
Hawaiian ʻohiʻohi | ||
Hebrew לאסוף | ||
Hindi कलेक्ट | ||
Hmong sau | ||
Hungarian gyűjt | ||
Icelandic safna | ||
Igbo nakọta | ||
Ilocano agkolekta | ||
Indonesian mengumpulkan | ||
Irish bhailiú | ||
Italian raccogliere | ||
Japanese 収集する | ||
Javanese nglumpukake | ||
Kannada ಸಂಗ್ರಹಿಸಿ | ||
Kazakh жинау | ||
Khmer ប្រមូល | ||
Kinyarwanda gukusanya | ||
Konkani एकठांय करप | ||
Korean 수집 | ||
Krio gɛda | ||
Kurdish berhevkirin | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) کۆکردنەوە | ||
Kyrgyz чогултуу | ||
Lao ເກັບ ກຳ | ||
Latin oratio | ||
Latvian savākt | ||
Lingala kosangisa | ||
Lithuanian rinkti | ||
Luganda okukungaanya | ||
Luxembourgish sammelen | ||
Macedonian соберат | ||
Maithili जमा | ||
Malagasy manangona | ||
Malay mengumpul | ||
Malayalam ശേഖരിക്കുക | ||
Maltese tiġbor | ||
Maori kohikohi | ||
Marathi गोळा | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯈꯣꯝꯖꯤꯟꯕ | ||
Mizo khawlkhawm | ||
Mongolian цуглуулах | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) စုဆောင်း | ||
Nepali स .्कलन | ||
Norwegian samle inn | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) sonkhanitsa | ||
Odia (Oriya) ସଂଗ୍ରହ କରନ୍ତୁ | | ||
Oromo funaanuu | ||
Pashto ټولول | ||
Persian جمع کردن | ||
Polish zbierać | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) recolher | ||
Punjabi ਇਕੱਠਾ ਕਰੋ | ||
Quechua huñu | ||
Romanian colectarea | ||
Russian собирать | ||
Samoan aoina | ||
Sanskrit संग्रह | ||
Scots Gaelic cruinnich | ||
Sepedi kgoboketša | ||
Serbian сакупљати | ||
Sesotho bokella | ||
Shona unganidza | ||
Sindhi گڏ ڪرڻ | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) එකතු කරන්න | ||
Slovak zbierať | ||
Slovenian zbirati | ||
Somali ururi | ||
Spanish recoger | ||
Sundanese ngumpulkeun | ||
Swahili kukusanya | ||
Swedish samla | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) mangolekta | ||
Tajik ҷамъ кардан | ||
Tamil திரட்டுதல் | ||
Tatar җыю | ||
Telugu సేకరించండి | ||
Thai เก็บ | ||
Tigrinya ምእካብ | ||
Tsonga landza | ||
Turkish toplamak | ||
Turkmen ýygnamak | ||
Twi (Akan) gye | ||
Ukrainian збирати | ||
Urdu جمع | ||
Uyghur يىغىش | ||
Uzbek yig'moq | ||
Vietnamese sưu tầm | ||
Welsh casglu | ||
Xhosa qokelela | ||
Yiddish זאַמלען | ||
Yoruba gba | ||
Zulu qoqa |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "versamel" ultimately derives from the Dutch verb "verzamelen" meaning "to collect" or "to assemble". |
| Albanian | The word "mbledh" in Albanian, derived from Proto-Indo-European root "*melǵʰ-", also carries meanings of "gather" and "assemble". |
| Amharic | The word "መሰብሰብ" can also mean "to gather" or "to assemble". |
| Arabic | تجميع (جمع) - gathering, uniting, bringing together |
| Armenian | The word |
| Azerbaijani | "toplamaq" sözü köken olarak Eski Türkçe "topla-" ("toplamak, derlemek") fiil kökünden türemiştir. |
| Basque | The word "bildu" can also refer to an assembly or meeting, or to a collection of people. |
| Belarusian | The word "збіраць" can also mean "to harvest" or "to assemble" in Belarusian. |
| Bengali | "সংগ্রহ" is also sometimes used with the meaning of "treasure" or "hoard". |
| Bosnian | Skupiti can also mean to pinch, clutch, or gather. |
| Bulgarian | The Bulgarian word “събирам” (“collect”) comes from the Proto-Slavic word “*sъbirati”, which also meant “gather” or “assemble”. |
| Catalan | The verb "recollir" is derived from the Latin verb "colligere" meaning "to gather, collect or harvest". |
| Cebuano | Pagkolekta' is ultimately derived from Spanish 'colectar' ('to collect') but can be used in various Cebuano contexts to mean 'gathering,' 'collection,' 'tax,' 'contribution,' or 'donation.' |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 收藏 (collect) can also mean "hide" or "keep secret". |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 收藏 (traditional Chinese) also means "to hide" or "to store". |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "raccoglia" can also mean "harvest" or "vintage". |
| Croatian | The Slavic root of "prikupiti" also appears in Russian "prikupit'" and Polish "przykupić" with the same meaning. |
| Czech | The verb "sbírat" is derived from the Old Slavic word "bъrati" which means "to take" or "to gather" and is related to the words "beru" (I take) and "brát" (to take) in modern Czech. |
| Danish | The word "indsamle" can also mean "to gather" or "to assemble". |
| Dutch | "Verzamelen" derives from "ver" (to) + "zamelen" (gather), related to the word "samen" (together). |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word 'kolekti' is derived from the French word 'collecter' and also means 'to gather' or 'to assemble'. |
| Estonian | Etymology: from Vulgar Latin *colligare, "to bind, tie together." |
| Finnish | "Kerätä" derives from an old Estonian word "kera", meaning a heap, and it originally meant "to bring together into a pile". |
| French | The word "collecte" in French can also mean a church collection of money or other items. |
| Frisian | The word "sammelje" can also mean "gather" or "accumulate" in Frisian. |
| Galician | The Galician verb "recoller" is derived from the Latin "recolligere" and originally meant "to gather" or "to recover". |
| Georgian | The word "შეგროვება" can also mean a meeting or assembly in Georgian, while in English "collect" can also mean to gather information or thoughts. |
| German | The word "sammeln" is derived from the Middle High German word "samenen", which means "to gather together". |
| Greek | Συλλέγω originates from the verb 'λέγω' (pick, gather; select by speech) and the prefix 'συν' (together). |
| Gujarati | The word "collect" comes from the Latin word "colligere," which means "to gather." |
| Haitian Creole | Haitian Creole "kolekte" can also mean "collection of items" or "assembly of people". |
| Hausa | The word derives from the Arabic 'tara' (to take, seize) |
| Hawaiian | ʻOhiʻohi is a Hawaiian word that also means 'to gather', 'to assemble', 'to accumulate', or 'to bring together'. |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "לאסוף" can also mean "to gather" or "to assemble". |
| Hindi | Hindi 'कलक्ट' (collect) originates from the Latin word 'collectus', meaning 'brought together' or 'gathered'. |
| Hmong | The 'sau' in 'sau ntawv' has the same root as the 'sau' of 'tsau rau' which means to clean. |
| Hungarian | The word "gyűjt" is derived from the Proto-Uralic root *kɜːj- meaning "to gather" or "to collect". |
| Icelandic | In Icelandic, "safna" also means "to assemble, gather, or accumulate." |
| Igbo | The word "nakọta" in Igbo has etymological links to "nkota" (gather) and "kọta" (heap), emphasizing the act of bringing together dispersed items. |
| Indonesian | Mengumpulkan derives from the Old Javanese word kumpul, meaning "to gather" or "to assemble." |
| Italian | The verb 'raccogliere' in Italian is derived from the Latin word 'colligere', meaning 'to gather' or 'to bring together'. |
| Japanese | The word 「収集する」 originally meant "to gather" or "to pick up" in Japanese. |
| Javanese | The root word "glumpuk" means "to be in one place" or "to gather". |
| Kannada | The word "collect" comes from the Latin word "colligere," which means "to gather" or "to bring together." |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "жинау" can also refer to "collecting" or "gathering" something together, like a group of people or animals. |
| Khmer | ប្រមូល (Collect) in Khmer comes from the Pali word "pamula" meaning "the beginning" or "the root." |
| Korean | The Korean word 수집 (collect) originates from the Chinese character "蒐", meaning "to gather". |
| Kurdish | The term 'berhevkirin' can also refer to 'gathering together' or 'amassing' in Kurdish. |
| Kyrgyz | The Kyrgyz word "чогултуу" can also refer to assembling an object from its components. |
| Lao | "เก็บ กำ" in Lao may also refer to the act of storing, especially food and other resources, to provide against future needs. |
| Latin | The Latin word "oratio" (prayer) is derived from "orare" (to speak) and can also refer to a speech or oration. |
| Latvian | Latvian "savākt" is related to "sabiedrība" ("society"), as it originally referred to gathering people. |
| Lithuanian | The word "rinkti" is of Baltic origin and cognates exist in Latvian, Old Prussian and Russian. |
| Luxembourgish | The word "sammelen" in Luxembourgish is derived from Middle High German "samenen", meaning "to bring together" or "to gather". |
| Macedonian | The word "соберат" can also mean "to gather" or "to assemble" in Macedonian. |
| Malagasy | "Manangona" also means "to find" or "to get" in Malagasy. |
| Malay | Mengumpul in Malay is derived from the Old Javanese word |
| Malayalam | ശേഖരിക്കുക comes from the Sanskrit word **ṅṇḎḤṤṉṃ** meaning "to gather or collect together" |
| Maltese | The verb "tiġbor" in Maltese is thought to derive from the Arabic verb "ǧaba", meaning "to bring". |
| Maori | The word "kohikohi" comes from the root word "kohi," meaning "to gather" or "to seek." |
| Marathi | In Marathi, "गोळा" (collect) also means "round" or "spherical." |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian verb "цуглуулах" can also mean "to gather" or "to assemble." |
| Nepali | The word "स .्कलन" in Nepali, derived from Sanskrit, also refers to a type of poetry that presents a collection of short verses on a specific theme or subject. |
| Norwegian | In Nynorsk, "samle inn" shares a root with "samling", which means "collection", highlighting the act of gathering and preserving. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "sonkhanitsa" is derived from the verb "sonkhanitsa," meaning "to gather together". |
| Pashto | The Pashto word ټولول ("collect") also means "assemble" or "put together" as a single unit. |
| Persian | The word "جمع کردن" can also mean "to gather" or "to assemble" in Persian. |
| Polish | The verb "zbierać" can also mean "to gather", "to harvest", or "to compile". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "recolher" originally meant "to gather" or "to bring together", and it can still be used in this sense today. |
| Punjabi | "Ikathha karo," when broken into component words, can also mean "do together" |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "colectarea" derives from the Latin word "colligere", which means "to gather together". |
| Russian | The Russian word "собирать" can have the additional meaning of "to pick up" or "to gather." |
| Samoan | "Aoina" also means "to gather" in Samoan. |
| Scots Gaelic | The Gaelic word 'cruinnich' translates to 'collect' in English. |
| Serbian | "Сакупљати" literally means to "gather together" or "assemble," and is related to the word "сакупљач" (collector). |
| Sesotho | The word "bokella" in Sesotho derives from the Nguni language word for "to pick" or "to gather". |
| Shona | It is the same word in Ndau and means "to be at the same place at the same time". |
| Slovak | The verb “zbierať“ is a derivative word of the noun „zber“ meaning "harvest" which is also where the term for collective farms “jednotné roľnícke družstvá” ("unified farmers’ cooperative"), known colloquially as “JRD” is taken from, as “zber” was often the main purpose for these cooperatives. |
| Slovenian | The word "zbirati" can also refer to "gathering" or "assembling" something. |
| Somali | The word "ururi" in Somali may have connections to the Arabic word "wuriq" meaning "leaf". |
| Spanish | The verb "recoger" traces its roots to the Latin verb "recolligere," meaning "to gather" or "to collect." |
| Sundanese | "Ngumpulkeun" shares a root word with "kumpul" which means "gather" or "assemble". |
| Swahili | The word "kukusanya" (collect) in Swahili comes from the verb "kusanya" (gather) and is related to the noun "kusanyiko" (assembly). |
| Swedish | The word "samla" derives from the old Norse word "samla", meaning "to gather" and "to assemble". It is related to the German word "sammeln" and the English word "assemble". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "mangolekta" in Tagalog can also refer to a church service where money is collected. |
| Tajik | In addition to its primary meaning of "to collect," "ҷамъ кардан" can also mean "to gather," "to assemble," or "to accumulate." |
| Tamil | The word "collect" comes from the Latin "colligere", meaning "gather" or "assemble." |
| Telugu | The word "సేకరించండి" (collect) is derived from the Latin word "colligere", which means "to gather together". |
| Thai | "เก็บ" in Thai can also mean "to store" or "to keep" something. |
| Turkish | The word 'toplamak' in Turkish is derived from the verb 'toplamak', meaning 'to gather', but can also carry connotations of 'to conquer' or 'to dominate'. |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word 'збирати' shares the same Proto-Slavic root with 'birati', a Polish verb meaning to select, take, or harvest. |
| Urdu | In Urdu, "جمع" ("collect") can also refer to "addition", "summation", "collection", or "gathering". |
| Uzbek | The Uzbek word "yig'moq" originally meant "to summon" and is related to the word "yig'in" meaning "assembly or gathering". Over time, its meaning shifted to "to collect" or "to gather" objects.} |
| Vietnamese | The word "sưu tầm" is derived from Chinese and can also mean "to investigate" or "to research". |
| Welsh | In addition to meaning "collect," casglu can also mean "gather" and "assemble." |
| Xhosa | The word "qokelela" may also mean "to beg" or "to borrow" in Xhosa. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "זאַמלען" derives from the German "sammeln," which also means "gather" or "accumulate." |
| Yoruba | In Yoruba, 'gba' can mean 'to receive,' 'to accept,' 'to obtain,' or 'to take' depending on the context. |
| Zulu | The Zulu word 'qoqa' also means 'collect', 'gather' or 'summon'. |
| English | The word "collect" originally meant "to gather together" and is related to the Latin word "colligere," meaning "to assemble." |