Afrikaans bevestig | ||
Albanian konfirmoj | ||
Amharic አረጋግጥ | ||
Arabic تؤكد | ||
Armenian հաստատել | ||
Assamese নিশ্চিত | ||
Aymara iyawsaña | ||
Azerbaijani təsdiq edin | ||
Bambara sɛmɛntiya | ||
Basque berretsi | ||
Belarusian пацвердзіць | ||
Bengali নিশ্চিত করুন | ||
Bhojpuri पक्का कयिल | ||
Bosnian potvrdite | ||
Bulgarian потвърдете | ||
Catalan confirmar | ||
Cebuano sa pagmatuod sa | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 确认 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 確認 | ||
Corsican cunfirmà | ||
Croatian potvrdi | ||
Czech potvrdit | ||
Danish bekræfte | ||
Dhivehi ޔަޤީންކުރުން | ||
Dogri तसदीक | ||
Dutch bevestigen | ||
English confirm | ||
Esperanto konfirmi | ||
Estonian kinnita | ||
Ewe ɖo kpe edzi | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) kumpirmahin | ||
Finnish vahvistaa | ||
French confirmer | ||
Frisian befestigje | ||
Galician confirmar | ||
Georgian დაადასტურო | ||
German bestätigen | ||
Greek επιβεβαιώνω | ||
Guarani moneĩ | ||
Gujarati ખાતરી કરો | ||
Haitian Creole konfime | ||
Hausa tabbatar | ||
Hawaiian e hoʻokūpaʻa | ||
Hebrew לְאַשֵׁר | ||
Hindi पुष्टि करें | ||
Hmong paub meej | ||
Hungarian megerősít | ||
Icelandic staðfesta | ||
Igbo gosi | ||
Ilocano kumpirmaen | ||
Indonesian konfirmasi | ||
Irish dheimhnigh | ||
Italian confermare | ||
Japanese 確認 | ||
Javanese konfirmasi | ||
Kannada ಖಚಿತಪಡಿಸಿ | ||
Kazakh растау | ||
Khmer បញ្ជាក់ | ||
Kinyarwanda kwemeza | ||
Konkani निश्चीत | ||
Korean 확인 | ||
Krio mek wi biliv | ||
Kurdish tesdîqkirin | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) دڵنیاکردنەوە | ||
Kyrgyz ырастоо | ||
Lao ຢືນຢັນ | ||
Latin augete | ||
Latvian apstiprināt | ||
Lingala kondimisa | ||
Lithuanian patvirtinti | ||
Luganda okukakasa | ||
Luxembourgish bestätegen | ||
Macedonian потврди | ||
Maithili पुष्टि करु | ||
Malagasy manamarina | ||
Malay mengesahkan | ||
Malayalam സ്ഥിരീകരിക്കുക | ||
Maltese ikkonferma | ||
Maori whakaū | ||
Marathi पुष्टी | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯌꯥꯕ | ||
Mizo nemnghet | ||
Mongolian баталгаажуулах | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အတည်ပြုပါ | ||
Nepali निश्चित गर्नुहोस् | ||
Norwegian bekrefte | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) tsimikizani | ||
Odia (Oriya) ନିଶ୍ଚିତ କର | | ||
Oromo mirkaneessuu | ||
Pashto تایید کړئ | ||
Persian تایید | ||
Polish potwierdzać | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) confirme | ||
Punjabi ਪੁਸ਼ਟੀ ਕਰੋ | ||
Quechua yuyachiy | ||
Romanian a confirma | ||
Russian подтвердить | ||
Samoan faʻamaonia | ||
Sanskrit दृढी करोतु | ||
Scots Gaelic dearbhadh | ||
Sepedi tiišetša | ||
Serbian потврди | ||
Sesotho netefatsa | ||
Shona simbisa | ||
Sindhi تصديق ڪريو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) තහවුරු කරන්න | ||
Slovak potvrdiť | ||
Slovenian potrdite | ||
Somali xaqiiji | ||
Spanish confirmar | ||
Sundanese mastikeun | ||
Swahili thibitisha | ||
Swedish bekräfta | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) kumpirmahin | ||
Tajik тасдиқ кунед | ||
Tamil உறுதிப்படுத்தவும் | ||
Tatar расла | ||
Telugu నిర్ధారించండి | ||
Thai ยืนยัน | ||
Tigrinya ኣረጋግፅ | ||
Tsonga tiyisisa | ||
Turkish onaylamak | ||
Turkmen tassykla | ||
Twi (Akan) si pi | ||
Ukrainian підтвердити | ||
Urdu تصدیق کریں | ||
Uyghur جەزملەشتۈرۈڭ | ||
Uzbek tasdiqlang | ||
Vietnamese xác nhận | ||
Welsh cadarnhau | ||
Xhosa qinisekisa | ||
Yiddish באַשטעטיקן | ||
Yoruba jẹrisi | ||
Zulu qinisekisa |
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "bevestig" is derived from the Dutch "bevestigen", meaning both "to confirm" and "to attach". |
| Albanian | The Albanian word "konfirmoj" also means "to make firm" or "to strengthen". |
| Amharic | It is also a noun meaning 'proof' but can refer to 'the act or process of confirming' in the sense of 'validating'. |
| Arabic | The Arabic word "تؤكد" can also mean "to affirm" or "to corroborate". |
| Armenian | The Armenian word "հաստատել" means "to confirm," but it can also mean "to establish," "to appoint," or "to strengthen." |
| Azerbaijani | The word "təsdiq edin" can also mean "to approve" or "to verify" in Azerbaijani. |
| Basque | The Basque word |
| Belarusian | The word "пацвердзіць" comes from the Polish word "potwierdzić" which means "to confirm, to verify." |
| Bengali | The word "নিশ্চিত করুন" comes from the Sanskrit word "निश्चित" meaning "certain, fixed, or settled." |
| Bosnian | In Bosnian, "potvrdite" can also mean to verify, corroborate, or authenticate |
| Bulgarian | The word "потвърдете" (confirm) in Bulgarian also has the alternate meaning of "to christen". |
| Catalan | **Confirmar** can also mean to verify or check. |
| Cebuano | Sa pagmatuod sa is derived from the root word 'tuod', meaning 'tree stump', and signifies a firm foundation for something that is being asserted. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | '确认' originally meant to establish something, then later came to mean 'to check' and 'to prove'. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 確認 can mean either 'verify' or 'acknowledge' depending on the context. |
| Corsican | "Cunfirmà" in Corsican comes from Latin "confirmare," meaning "to make firm or strong." |
| Croatian | The word "potvrdi" in Croatian is derived from the Slavic root *potvrъdь*, meaning "certain", and shares the same etymology with the Russian word "podтверждать". |
| Czech | In Czech, the word "potvrdit" can also mean "to harden" or "to make more durable." |
| Danish | "Bekræfte" comes from the Old Norse word "krefta," meaning "to strengthen or make firm." |
| Dutch | The verb "bevestigen" derives from the Middle Dutch "bevestigen" and "vesten," meaning "to confirm" and "to fasten," respectively. |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word 'konfirmi' also means 'to be strengthened' and is related to 'firm.' |
| Estonian | The Estonian word "kinnita" shares the same linguistic origin with the Finnish word "kiinnittää" and the Hungarian word "köt" which both mean "bind" or "fasten." |
| Finnish | "Vahvistaa" is also used in the context of sealing. |
| French | Confirmer is derived from the Latin word 'confirmare', meaning 'to make firm' or 'to strengthen'. |
| Frisian | The word "befestigje" in Frisian derives from the Old Frisian word "befestigia", meaning to strengthen or establish. |
| Galician | "Confirmar" can also mean "to agree" or "to strengthen" in Galician. |
| Georgian | The Georgian word "დაადასტურო" ("confirm") is derived from the Arabic word "صراط" (sirat), meaning "path" or "way", and the Persian word "راه" (rah), also meaning "path" or "way". |
| German | The German word "bestätigen" comes from the Old High German "bestaten", meaning "to support" or "to make firm". |
| Greek | The Greek word "επιβεβαιώνω" (epiveveono), meaning "confirm," originally meant "to call upon or invoke as a witness" from an oath ritual, where one person called upon another to testify or confirm their oath. |
| Gujarati | The word |
| Haitian Creole | The word "konfime" is the Haitian Creole version of "confirmer" which means "to make strong, to reinforce, to approve, to ratify, to validate" in French. |
| Hausa | Hausa "tabbatar" and Arabic "tabatta" share a similar root meaning "steadfast, fixed, sealed, or protected". |
| Hawaiian | "E hoʻokūpaʻa" derives its meaning from "to hold the breath" or "to make steadfast" in Old Hawaiian. |
| Hebrew | לְאַשֵׁר is the piel stem of the verb יָשַׁר meaning "straighten" or "make straight". |
| Hindi | पुष्टि करें is derived from the Sanskrit word puṣṭi, which means 'nourishment' or 'strengthening'. |
| Hmong | The word "paub meej" can also mean "understand" or "make sense of" in Hmong. |
| Hungarian | In addition to "confirm", the verb "megerősít" can also mean "to strengthen" or "to fortify". |
| Icelandic | In Icelandic, staðfesta also means 'to state' or 'to assert'. |
| Igbo | The Igbo word "gosi" primarily means "make complete" and is often used in religious contexts to signify "confirm." It can also mean "establish" or "fulfil." |
| Indonesian | The Indonesian word "Konfirmasi" is derived from the Portuguese word "Confirmar," which in turn comes from the Latin "Confirmare." |
| Irish | "Dheimhnigh" is derived from the Old Irish word *dam-nigid*, meaning "to bind by an oath". |
| Italian | The Italian word "Confermare" derives from the Latin verb "Confirmare", meaning "to make firm, strengthen, or establish." |
| Japanese | The Japanese word "確認" is also used to mean "examination" or "inspection". |
| Javanese | In Javanese, 'konfirmasi' can also mean 'the official approval or recognition of someone's status or position'. |
| Kannada | The word "ಖಚಿತಪಡಿಸಿ" in Kannada can also mean "to make certain" or "to verify". |
| Kazakh | "Растау" созвучен со словами "справедливый" и "правда" в других тюркских языках, а также имеет синоним "тiкелеу", который переводится как "ставить в прямое положение" |
| Khmer | The word "បញ្ជាក់" can also mean "to declare" or "to state clearly". |
| Korean | "확인" literally means "to fix truth" in Korean. |
| Kurdish | Tesdîqkirin ('confirm') shares an etymology with the phrase 'to make true', but can also reference a concept of 'to hold as true'. |
| Kyrgyz | "Ырастоо" also means "to prove" or "to verify". |
| Latin | Augere's original meaning was to 'increase,' 'make more abundant,' 'nourish,' or 'add to' |
| Latvian | The word "Apstiprināt" in Latvian, meaning "confirm", shares its etymological roots with the word "Apstiprināt" in Lithuanian, which means "to accept" or "to consent". |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word patvirtinti comes from the Latin verb 'patiri' meaning "to suffer". It can also mean "to establish", "to make firm", or "to strengthen". |
| Luxembourgish | Bestätegen comes from the word bestätigen in German, which means to affirm or ratify something. |
| Macedonian | This verb could also mean 'to be present, occur', 'to become' and 'to allow'. |
| Malagasy | The word "Manamarina" finds its origin in the Indonesian word "amarma" meaning "to speak". |
| Malay | "Mengesahkan" also means "to validate" or "to verify" in Malay. |
| Maltese | The word 'ikkonferma' in Maltese is not derived from Italian, but from 'conferma', a noun of action in Latin meaning 'strengthening'. |
| Maori | "Whakaū" (confirm) comes from "ū" (to agree), with the prefix "whaka" indicating a causative meaning. |
| Marathi | The word "पुष्टी" is derived from Sanskrit "पुष्ट", meaning "strong" or "firm". |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word "баталгаажуулах" can also mean "to establish" or "to approve." |
| Norwegian | The Norwegian word "bekrefte" (confirm) comes from the Old Norse word "krefja" (to strengthen). |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "tsimikizani" in Nyanja (Chichewa) can also mean "to make sure of something" or "to verify". |
| Pashto | The word "تایید کړئ" derives from the Arabic root "ثبت", meaning "to establish" or "to make firm". |
| Persian | The Persian word 'تایید' is derived from the Arabic root 'أيد' (aid), meaning 'to help' or 'to support', and carries the connotation of 'validation' or 'approbation'. |
| Polish | Potwierdzać in Polish, besides its primary meaning of “to confirm”, also means “to verify”, “to check”, “to corroborate”, and “to support with evidence”. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The Portuguese verb "confirmar" is descended from the Late Latin "confirmare", meaning "to make firm" or "strengthen". |
| Romanian | The word 'a confirma' also means 'to strengthen' or 'to validate' in Romanian. |
| Russian | The Russian verb подтвердить (“confirm”) comes from the Latin word confirmare (“to make strong, strengthen”), which derives from firmus (“firm”). |
| Samoan | Confirming something as certain in Samoan can also mean to verify it. |
| Scots Gaelic | The word "dearbhadh" in Scots Gaelic also means "to make sure" or "to prove". |
| Serbian | The verb "потврдити" literally means "to make firm" and originates from the Proto-Slavic root *tvьrdъ, meaning "hard" or "firm". |
| Sesotho | The word "netefatsa" also means "to make sure" or "to ascertain" in Sesotho. |
| Shona | The etymology of "simbisa" is likely from the Proto-Bantu root "-simb-, -sumb- "to support, be firm" |
| Sindhi | The word تصديق ڪريو, which translates to 'confirm' in English, originates from Arabic where its root 'صادق' (ṣ-d-q) signifies 'truthfulness' or 'honesty'. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word තහවුරු කරන්න is derived from the Sanskrit word 'thavara', meaning 'fixed' or 'stable', thus indicating a sense of certainty or confirmation. |
| Slovak | In Slovak, "potvrdiť" also means to "greet" (with a handshake) |
| Slovenian | The word 'potrdite' (confirm) also means 'support' or 'approve' in Slovenian. |
| Somali | The word "xaqiiji" is derived from the Arabic word "saqafa", which means "to verify". |
| Spanish | Confirmar derives from the Latin word "confirmare" meaning "to make firm" or "to strengthen". |
| Sundanese | The word "mastikeun" in Sundanese has an alternate meaning of "to make sure" or "to ascertain". |
| Swahili | "Thibitisha" also means "to prove" in Swahili, further underlining its association with establishing the certainty or veracity of something. |
| Swedish | "Bekräfta" comes from the Middle Low German word "bekreftigen," meaning "to strengthen". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Kumpirmahin" in Tagalog comes from the Spanish word "comprobar" meaning "to verify" or "to check". |
| Thai | The word "ยืนยัน" is derived from the Sanskrit word "sthira" meaning "firm" or "stable". It can also mean "to establish" or "to make sure". |
| Turkish | The word 'onaylamak' is derived from the Arabic word 'anlamaq', meaning 'to understand' or 'to comprehend'. |
| Ukrainian | "Підтвердити" is derived from the Proto-Slavic *tьvьrditi, meaning "to strengthen, to make firm," and is related to the Ukrainian word "твердий" (tverdyi), meaning "hard, firm." |
| Uzbek | The word "tasdiqlang" also means "to declare" in Uzbek. |
| Vietnamese | The word "xác nhận" in Vietnamese can also mean "to witness" or "to acknowledge". |
| Welsh | The word "cadarnhau" is related to the Latin word "certus" (certain) and shares its root with the French word "certain". |
| Xhosa | Derived from Proto-Bantu -qin- - make firm in place, -isek- - cause to do, and -a - infinitive marker. |
| Yiddish | באַשטעטיקן can also mean to approve or affirm. |
| Yoruba | "Jẹrisi" (confirm) is derived from the verb "je ire si," meaning "to say goodness"} |
| Zulu | The word 'qinisekisa' is a verb derived from the noun 'iqiniso' meaning 'truth'. |
| English | Both the English word 'confirm' and the French word 'confirmer' come from the Medieval Latin word 'confirmare', which means to 'strengthen', 'make firm', or 'establish'. |