Construct in Different Languages
Discover 'Construct' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Construct
Afrikaans konstrueer | ||
Albanian ndërtoj | ||
Amharic መገንባት | ||
Arabic بناء | ||
Armenian կառուցել | ||
Assamese কনষ্ট্ৰাক্ট | ||
Aymara luraña | ||
Azerbaijani qurmaq | ||
Bambara jɔli | ||
Basque eraiki | ||
Belarusian пабудаваць | ||
Bengali নির্মাণ | ||
Bhojpuri निर्माण करे के बा | ||
Bosnian konstruisati | ||
Bulgarian конструирам | ||
Catalan construir | ||
Cebuano pagtukod | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 构造 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 構造 | ||
Corsican custruisce | ||
Croatian konstruirati | ||
Czech postavit | ||
Danish konstruere | ||
Dhivehi ކޮންސްޓްރަކްޓް ކުރާށެވެ | ||
Dogri निर्माण करना | ||
Dutch construeren | ||
English construct | ||
Esperanto konstrui | ||
Estonian ehitama | ||
Ewe xɔtutu | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) bumuo | ||
Finnish rakentaa | ||
French construction | ||
Frisian konstruearje | ||
Galician construír | ||
Georgian მშენებლობა | ||
German bauen | ||
Greek κατασκευάσει | ||
Guarani omopu’ã | ||
Gujarati બાંધવું | ||
Haitian Creole konstwi | ||
Hausa yi | ||
Hawaiian kūkulu | ||
Hebrew לִבנוֹת | ||
Hindi निर्माण | ||
Hmong txua | ||
Hungarian konstrukció | ||
Icelandic byggja | ||
Igbo rụọ | ||
Ilocano mangbangon | ||
Indonesian membangun | ||
Irish thógáil | ||
Italian costruire | ||
Japanese 構築する | ||
Javanese mbangun | ||
Kannada ನಿರ್ಮಿಸಿ | ||
Kazakh салу | ||
Khmer សាងសង់ | ||
Kinyarwanda kubaka | ||
Konkani बांदकाम करप | ||
Korean 구성하다 | ||
Krio kɔnstrɔkt | ||
Kurdish avakirin | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) بنیات بنێن | ||
Kyrgyz куруу | ||
Lao ກໍ່ສ້າງ | ||
Latin officinarum | ||
Latvian konstruēt | ||
Lingala kotonga | ||
Lithuanian sukonstruoti | ||
Luganda okuzimba | ||
Luxembourgish konstruéieren | ||
Macedonian конструирај | ||
Maithili निर्माण करब | ||
Malagasy manambatra | ||
Malay membina | ||
Malayalam നിർമ്മിക്കുക | ||
Maltese tibni | ||
Maori hanga | ||
Marathi बांधकाम | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯀꯟꯁꯠꯔꯛꯁꯟ ꯇꯧꯕꯥ꯫ | ||
Mizo siam a ni | ||
Mongolian барих | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ဆောက်လုပ်ရေး | ||
Nepali निर्माण | ||
Norwegian konstruere | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kumanga | ||
Odia (Oriya) ନିର୍ମାଣ | ||
Oromo ijaaruu | ||
Pashto جوړول | ||
Persian ساختن | ||
Polish zbudować | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) construir | ||
Punjabi ਨਿਰਮਾਣ | ||
Quechua ruway | ||
Romanian construi | ||
Russian строить | ||
Samoan fausiaina | ||
Sanskrit निर्माणम् | ||
Scots Gaelic thogail | ||
Sepedi aga | ||
Serbian конструисати | ||
Sesotho haha | ||
Shona kuvaka | ||
Sindhi ٺاهيو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) ඉදි කරන්න | ||
Slovak konštrukt | ||
Slovenian konstruirati | ||
Somali dhisid | ||
Spanish construir | ||
Sundanese ngawangun | ||
Swahili kujenga | ||
Swedish konstruera | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) bumuo | ||
Tajik сохтан | ||
Tamil கட்டமைக்க | ||
Tatar төзү | ||
Telugu నిర్మించండి | ||
Thai สร้าง | ||
Tigrinya ምህናጽ | ||
Tsonga ku aka | ||
Turkish inşa etmek | ||
Turkmen gurmak | ||
Twi (Akan) construct | ||
Ukrainian побудувати | ||
Urdu تعمیر | ||
Uyghur قۇرۇلۇش | ||
Uzbek qurish | ||
Vietnamese xây dựng | ||
Welsh llunio | ||
Xhosa yakha | ||
Yiddish בויען | ||
Yoruba kọ | ||
Zulu ukwakha |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | In Afrikaans, "konstrueer" is derived from the Dutch word "construeren," meaning "to build" or "to make." |
| Albanian | Ndërtoj is the Albanian word for "construct," "build," "arrange," and "compose." |
| Amharic | In Amharic, "መገንባት" can also refer to the process of setting up a business or organization. |
| Arabic | The Arabic word "بناء" also means "structure". In the context of computer science, it can refer to data structures like trees or graphs. |
| Armenian | The word "կառուցել" is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root "*ker-," meaning "to make" or "to put together." |
| Azerbaijani | The word "qurmaq" in Azerbaijani is derived from the Persian word "kurmak," which also means "to build" or "to construct" |
| Basque | The word "eraiki" derives from the Proto-Basque word *eraik-, meaning "building". It is used to form nouns denoting buildings or structures, such as "eraikin" ("building"), "etxe" ("house"), and "zubi" ("bridge"). |
| Belarusian | The word "пабудаваць" is derived from the Proto-Slavic root "*bud-/*bъd-", meaning "to be" or "to become". It is related to the English word "build" and the Russian word "строить". |
| Bengali | The Bengali word "নির্মাণ" comes from the Sanskrit word "निर्माण" which also means "construct." |
| Bosnian | The verb "konstruisati" can also mean "to devise" or "to create". |
| Bulgarian | The word "конструирам" also means "to interpret" or "to explain" in Bulgarian. |
| Catalan | "Construir" in Catalan does not mean "to build", it means "to interpret" or "to form an opinion" |
| Cebuano | The term "pagtukod" also signifies the idea of "building" or "erecting" something tangible. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The Chinese character "构" (gou) originally meant "framework", and "造" (zao) meant "to build". |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 構造 is used in traditional Chinese medical texts, especially in reference to a person's physical constitution. |
| Corsican | The verb "custruisce" in Corsican also means "to raise cattle" in some areas of the island and comes from the Latin "constituisco". |
| Croatian | Konstruirati can also mean "to interpret" or "to deduce" in Croatian. |
| Czech | Postavit in Czech also means 'to place', 'to build' or 'to erect'. |
| Danish | The Danish verb 'konstruere' (to construct) is derived from the Latin word 'construere', which also means to build or assemble. |
| Dutch | In Dutch, the word "construeren" has alternate meanings such as "to build" or "to compose". |
| Esperanto | "Konstrui" is based on the Latin word "construere" which means "to build". The Esperanto word is also used to mean "to devise" or "to fabricate". |
| Estonian | "Ehitama" (literally: "to animate") shares the same Proto-Uralic root with its English cognate "animate". |
| Finnish | The word "rakentaa" is derived from the word "rakenne", which means "structure". |
| French | "Construction" also means "sentence" in French. |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "konstruearje" comes from the Latin "construere", which means "to build". The word can also be used to describe the building of a sentence or an argument. |
| Galician | The Galician word "construír" comes from the Latin word "construere", meaning "to build" or "to assemble". |
| German | The word "bauen" in German is related to the English word "bower", meaning a shaded retreat or shelter. |
| Greek | The Greek word "κατασκευάσει" (construct) shares an etymology with the word "σκευάζω" (prepare or equip), implying a process of assembling or arranging. |
| Gujarati | The word "બાંધવું" (construct) is derived from the Sanskrit root "bandh", which means "to bind" or "to tie". |
| Haitian Creole | In Haitian Creole, "konstwi" derives from the French word "construire" and means "to build, to make" as well as "to assemble" or "to establish" |
| Hausa | The word "yi" in Hausa can also mean "formulate", "make", "build", or "manufacture". |
| Hawaiian | The word "kūkulu" in Hawaiian can also mean "to build" or "to raise". |
| Hebrew | The same root is used to refer to "bricks" (levēnim) in the Bible, as a building material. |
| Hindi | The word निर्माण (nirman) also means creation, formation, or organization in Hindi. |
| Hmong | The Hmong word "txua" also means a "frame for a trap, fence, or building" |
| Hungarian | The Hungarian word "konstrukció" also has the meaning of "construction" and is used in engineering and architecture to refer to the process of putting together various elements of a structure |
| Icelandic | In Icelandic, byggja also means to establish, found, or inhabit a place, as in place names like Reykjavík (meaning 'Smoky Bay'). |
| Igbo | Rụọ is also used to describe the action of creating an object. |
| Indonesian | The verb "membangun" can also mean "to develop" or "to cultivate", and is derived from the root word "bangun" which means "to wake" or "to rise". |
| Italian | "Costruire" also figuratively means to "make up a lie" in slang Italian. |
| Japanese | '構築する' can also mean establish, develop, build up, or fabricate. |
| Javanese | In some contexts, "mbangun" can also mean "to establish" or "to build (a relationship)". |
| Kannada | The Kannada word 'ನಿರ್ಮಿಸಿ' also has the meanings 'to build', 'to create' and 'to establish'. |
| Kazakh | In Kazakh, the word "салу" not only means "to construct," but it can also refer to an architectural design, the shape or formation of something, and the act of arranging or placing things in a certain order. |
| Khmer | "សាងសង់" is derived from the Sanskrit word "saṃskāra", meaning "to prepare or make ready". |
| Korean | "구성하다" can also mean "to constitute" or "to form". |
| Kurdish | The word "avakirin" (construct) also has the alternate meaning of "to create" or "to make". |
| Kyrgyz | The Proto-Turkic form of the Kyrgyz word “куруу” may have meant “to fix” or “to cover”. |
| Latin | The Latin word "officinarum" also means "shops" or "workshops". |
| Latvian | The word "konstruēt" also means "to design" or "to make" in Latvian. |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word "sukonstruoti" is derived from the Latin word "construere," meaning "to build" or "to assemble." |
| Macedonian | The verb "конструирај" is derived from the Latin word "construere", meaning "to put together" or "to build." |
| Malagasy | The word "manambatra" also means "to prepare" or "to establish." |
| Malay | "Membina" is also used to describe building relationships and strengthening institutions. |
| Malayalam | The word can also mean 'constitute' or 'make up'. |
| Maltese | "Tibni" can also mean "to be pregnant" in a figurative sense, as in "a nation tibni" (a nation that is about to give birth). |
| Maori | The word "hanga" also means "to make" or "to build" in Maori. |
| Marathi | The Marathi word "बांधकाम" comes from the Sanskrit root "bandh," meaning "to bind" or "to fasten," and refers to the act of creating or assembling something by putting together its individual parts or components. |
| Mongolian | The word 'барих' also refers to 'building', or a 'foundation'. |
| Nepali | "निर्माण" also means "construction" and "formation" in Nepali. |
| Norwegian | The Norwegian word "konstruere" can also mean to compose or create something, especially in a musical context. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | In Nyanja, the word "kumanga" also means "to build a house". |
| Pashto | "جوړول" is derived from the Pashto word "جوړ" meaning "together" or "formed" and can also mean "to gather" or "to compose". |
| Persian | The Persian word "ساختن" means to build or construct something, and is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root "*tek-," meaning "to produce or make" |
| Polish | "Zbudować" is a verb that means "to construct" in Polish. It is derived from the Old Polish verb "budować", which had a broader meaning of "to create" or "to form". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | Portuguese "construir" can also mean "to interpret, to understand", like the French verb "construire". |
| Romanian | Romanian verb "construi" has Latin roots and is cognate with "construct" and "construe" in English. |
| Russian | The word "строить" also means "to build," "to create," or "to form." |
| Samoan | The word "fausiaina" can also refer to a type of traditional Samoan song. |
| Scots Gaelic | The term 'thogail' can also refer to the act of establishing a building, farm, or other settlement. |
| Serbian | The verb "конструисати" can also mean "to interpret" or "to deduce" in Serbian. |
| Sesotho | The word "haha" in Sesotho is not only used for "construct", but also for "building", "house", "structure", and "edifice". |
| Shona | The word 'kuvaka' in Shona also refers to the assembly of a structure, or to the physical process of constructing something. |
| Sindhi | The word "ٺاهيو" in Sindhi can also mean "to invent", "to create"", "to build", "to make", "to establish". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | 'ඉදි කරන්න' in Sinhala also means 'to build' or 'to create' and can be used in similar contexts. |
| Slovak | In Slovak, "konštrukt" can also refer to a theoretical concept or construct in the field of social sciences or philosophy. |
| Slovenian | In Slovene, konstruirati can also mean 'to design' or 'to invent'. |
| Somali | The Somali word 'dhisid' is derived from the Arabic word 'dhisa' meaning 'to build' and also means 'to repair' or 'to establish'. |
| Spanish | "Construir" in Spanish can also mean to build, compose, or create. |
| Sundanese | The word 'ngawangun' also means 'to create' or 'to bring into existence', highlighting the creative aspect of constructing something. |
| Swahili | The word 'kujenga' also means 'to create' or 'to build' in Swahili. |
| Swedish | In Swedish, "konstruera" also means "to design" or "to plan". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | 'Bumuo' may have originated from the term 'buo' (whole, complete), indicating the act of making something whole or assembling it. |
| Tajik | The word сохтан, can also mean “to burn” when used in a literal sense to mean a structure being physically burnt and turned to ashes, in the way that burning wood might. |
| Thai | "สร้าง" can also mean "to make" or "to establish" depending on the context. |
| Turkish | In Turkish, 'inşa etmek' also means 'to write' or 'to form something', derived from the Arabic word 'ansha' with the same meanings. |
| Ukrainian | "Побудувати" also has a figurative meaning "to plan, to propose to do" (e.g. "побудувати план", "побудувати теорію"). |
| Urdu | The word "تعمیر" is also used in Farsi and Arabic, and has the additional meanings of "repair" or "maintenance". |
| Uzbek | "Qurish" (construct) also means "to make up" or "to compose". |
| Vietnamese | "Xây dựng" literally means "to build up" or "to raise up", and also refers to the construction of buildings, roads, and other structures. |
| Welsh | In Middle Welsh, `llunio` is cognate with Breton `lunia` (`forge, weld, join`), Irish `linim` (`melt`) and Gaulish `lonno-` (`ship` or perhaps `lake, water`), suggesting the notion of `joining by heating`. |
| Xhosa | The word "yakha" also means "to build" or "to create" in Xhosa. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "בויען" is also used to describe the process of growing and raising children. |
| Yoruba | "Kọ" can also mean "to establish" or "to make" in Yoruba. |
| Zulu | "Ukukwakha" in Zulu can also refer to the process of developing something, such as a plan or an idea. |
| English | The word "construct" derives from the Latin word "construere," meaning "to build," and also has the connotation of "to imagine" or "to form an idea." |