Afrikaans bevat | ||
Albanian përmbajnë | ||
Amharic ይዘዋል | ||
Arabic يحتوي | ||
Armenian պարունակել | ||
Assamese অন্তৰ্ভুক্ত | ||
Aymara ch'amachaña | ||
Azerbaijani ehtiva edir | ||
Bambara ka ku | ||
Basque eduki | ||
Belarusian ўтрымліваць | ||
Bengali ধারণ | ||
Bhojpuri सामिल कईल | ||
Bosnian sadrže | ||
Bulgarian съдържат | ||
Catalan contenir | ||
Cebuano sulud | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 包含 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 包含 | ||
Corsican cuntene | ||
Croatian sadrže | ||
Czech obsahovat | ||
Danish indeholde | ||
Dhivehi އެކުލެވިގެންވުން | ||
Dogri शामल | ||
Dutch bevatten | ||
English contain | ||
Esperanto enhavi | ||
Estonian sisaldama | ||
Ewe le eme | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) naglalaman ng | ||
Finnish sisältää | ||
French contenir | ||
Frisian befetsje | ||
Galician conter | ||
Georgian შეიცავს | ||
German enthalten | ||
Greek περιέχω | ||
Guarani oreko ipype | ||
Gujarati સમાવે છે | ||
Haitian Creole genyen | ||
Hausa ƙunsa | ||
Hawaiian paʻa | ||
Hebrew לְהַכִיל | ||
Hindi शामिल | ||
Hmong muaj | ||
Hungarian tartalmaz | ||
Icelandic innihalda | ||
Igbo nwere | ||
Ilocano aglaon | ||
Indonesian berisi | ||
Irish bhfuil | ||
Italian contenere | ||
Japanese 含む | ||
Javanese ngemot | ||
Kannada ಒಳಗೊಂಡಿರುತ್ತದೆ | ||
Kazakh қамтуы керек | ||
Khmer មាន | ||
Kinyarwanda birimo | ||
Konkani आसपावता | ||
Korean 있다 | ||
Krio gɛt | ||
Kurdish bêdengman | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) لەخۆگرتن | ||
Kyrgyz камтыйт | ||
Lao ບັນຈຸ | ||
Latin quae | ||
Latvian satur | ||
Lingala kozala na | ||
Lithuanian turėti | ||
Luganda okubeeramu | ||
Luxembourgish enthalen | ||
Macedonian содржат | ||
Maithili नियंत्रण | ||
Malagasy misy | ||
Malay berisi | ||
Malayalam അടങ്ങിയിട്ടുണ്ട് | ||
Maltese fihom | ||
Maori kei roto | ||
Marathi असणे | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯌꯥꯎꯕ | ||
Mizo huap | ||
Mongolian агуулах | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ဆံ့ | ||
Nepali समावेश | ||
Norwegian inneholde | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) muli | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଧାରଣ କରନ୍ତୁ | | ||
Oromo qabaachuu | ||
Pashto لري | ||
Persian حاوی | ||
Polish zawierać | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) conter | ||
Punjabi ਰੱਖਦਾ ਹੈ | ||
Quechua winay | ||
Romanian conține | ||
Russian содержать | ||
Samoan aofia ai | ||
Sanskrit परिभवते | ||
Scots Gaelic gabh a-steach | ||
Sepedi na le | ||
Serbian садржати | ||
Sesotho na le | ||
Shona zvine | ||
Sindhi شامل ڪريو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) අඩංගු | ||
Slovak obsahovať | ||
Slovenian vsebujejo | ||
Somali ka koobnaan | ||
Spanish contiene | ||
Sundanese ngandung | ||
Swahili vyenye | ||
Swedish innehålla | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) maglagay | ||
Tajik дар бар гирад | ||
Tamil கொண்டிருக்கும் | ||
Tatar эчендә | ||
Telugu కలిగి | ||
Thai มี | ||
Tigrinya ይሕዝ | ||
Tsonga khontheni | ||
Turkish içerir | ||
Turkmen öz içine alýar | ||
Twi (Akan) ɛwɔ | ||
Ukrainian містять | ||
Urdu پر مشتمل ہے | ||
Uyghur مەزمۇننى ئۆز ئىچىگە ئالىدۇ | ||
Uzbek o'z ichiga oladi | ||
Vietnamese lưu trữ | ||
Welsh cynnwys | ||
Xhosa ziqulathe | ||
Yiddish אַנטהאַלטן | ||
Yoruba ni ninu | ||
Zulu aqukethe |
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "bevat" can also mean "bear fruit", coming from the Latin verb "ferre" (to bear). |
| Albanian | The Albanian word "përmbajnë" derives from Latin, ultimately stemming from *per-*- + *habere* "to have". |
| Amharic | The word "ይዘዋል" can also mean "to hold", "to keep", or "to have" in Amharic. |
| Arabic | "يحتوي (yahtwī)" shares an origin with "حوت (ḥūt)", meaning "whale", suggesting its original meaning might have been "to hold a large amount like a whale does". |
| Armenian | The word "պարունակել" is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bher-, meaning "to bear". It is also related to the Latin word "ferre", meaning "to carry". |
| Azerbaijani | The word "ehtiva edir" in Azerbaijani is often used to describe the containment of an object, but it can also refer to the inclusion of something in a larger set. |
| Basque | The Basque word "eduki" means "to contain", "to have", "to hold", or "to keep". |
| Belarusian | The word "ўтрымліваць" in Belarusian can also mean "to restrain" or "to hold back". |
| Bengali | "ধারণ" has an alternate meaning of "wearing, holding" and a derivative meaning of "understanding." |
| Bosnian | The word "sadrže" comes from the Arabic word "ṣadra" (صدر), meaning "chest" or "heart." |
| Bulgarian | "Съдържа" is derived from the Proto-Slavic "sъdьrati", which also meant "to support, to endure, to sustain". |
| Catalan | The Catalan verb "contenir" can also mean "to restrain" or "to hold back". |
| Cebuano | The word "sulud" has roots in Sanskrit, and also denotes an interior or inside portion |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 包含 can also mean to include something in a larger entity, such as a book or a speech. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 包含 originally referred to holding something and is also used in a mathematical context to describe a set that includes another. |
| Corsican | In Corsican, 'cuntene' ('contain') originally meant 'hold back a river' in Latin. |
| Croatian | The word 'sadrže' has the same Indo-European root as 'heart', meaning 'to hold in' or 'to keep inside' |
| Czech | "Obsahovat" comes from the Czech word "obsahovati", meaning "contain," but also means "to contain" in Russian and other Slavic languages. |
| Danish | Danish "indeholde" and Swedish "innehålla" are both derived from Proto-Germanic *(i)nahaliþō, meaning "fill" or "hold within". |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "bevatten" can also mean "to occupy" or "to hold". |
| Esperanto | The word "enhavi" is derived from the Esperanto root "hav-", meaning "to have". |
| Estonian | The word "sisaldama" can also mean "to have" or "to possess". |
| Finnish | The verb 'sisältää' has an alternative meaning of 'include', and is related to the Estonian 'sisaldama', which has a similar meaning. |
| French | "Contente" is the feminine form of "content". |
| Frisian | The verb |
| Galician | The verb "conter" in Galician also means "to hold back" and "to refrain from doing something" |
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| German | The word "enthalten" in German is derived from the Proto-Germanic word "*haldanan", which means "to hold" or "to keep". |
| Greek | The Greek word περιέχω (periéchō) can also mean 'comprise' or 'include'. |
| Gujarati | Contains (સમાવે છે) is derived from the Latin word 'continere' meaning 'to hold together'. |
| Haitian Creole | "Genyen" is derived from the French word "contenir" (to contain) and also means "to hold" or "to possess". |
| Hausa | 'Ƙunsa' in Hausa can also mean 'to hold', 'to keep', or 'to possess'. |
| Hawaiian | In Hawaiian, the word "paʻa" also refers to an area marked off as a shrine or place of ritual. |
| Hebrew | The verb לְהַכִיל can also mean 'to comprehend' or 'to receive, e.g. a guest'. Both in Aramaic and Arabic its root denotes 'space'. |
| Hindi | The word "शामिल" is used in the context of inclusion, participation, and involvement and can also refer to the composition of a mixture or the presence of something within a space. |
| Hmong | The Hmong word "muaj" can also mean "have" or "possess". |
| Hungarian | In Hungarian, "tartalmaz" also means "to preserve" or "to protect". |
| Icelandic | "Innihalda" likely relates to "halda" (to hold), and could be seen as "to hold inside". |
| Igbo | The Igbo word "nwere" also means "own" or "possess". |
| Indonesian | "Berisi" is thought to be derived from Proto-Austronesian *busliS which also means "to bear fruit or produce, to be pregnant" |
| Irish | The Irish word "bhfuil" originates from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰu- meaning "to be". |
| Italian | In addition to its primary meaning, "contenere" can also refer to a type of vessel or container. |
| Japanese | The kanji in "含む" can also mean "hold" or "include". |
| Javanese | The word "ngemot" in Javanese also refers to the act of holding something in one's mouth or between one's teeth. |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "қамтуы керек" can also be used to refer to the obligation or necessity of including something. |
| Khmer | The word "មាន" can also mean "present" or "have" in Khmer, and is related to the Thai word "มี" with the same meaning. |
| Korean | "있다" also means "exist", a usage dating back to at least the 15th century. |
| Kurdish | The word "bêdengman" is rooted in the Persian word "band", meaning "to bind" or "to imprison." |
| Kyrgyz | The word "камтыйт" also means "to cover" or "to protect" in Kyrgyz. |
| Lao | ບັນຈຸ (banchu) in Lao, can also refer to a kind of Lao soup made from chopped pig's organs, pork skin, and herbs. |
| Latin | Quae may also refer to a kind of fruit, the quince. |
| Latvian | The word "satur" is derived from the Latin word "satur," which means "full." |
| Lithuanian | The word "turėti" is commonly mistaken for meaning "to hold", which it can, but is not its only meaning; "turėti" can also mean "own" or "possess." |
| Luxembourgish | The word "enthalen" is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ten-, meaning "to stretch" or "to extend". |
| Macedonian | The Macedonian word "содржат" also has the alternate meaning of "protect". |
| Malagasy | The word "misy" in Malagasy can also mean "be there". |
| Malay | Berisi can also refer to the contents of something, like a book or container. |
| Malayalam | 'അടങ്ങിയിട്ടുണ്ട്,' which means 'contains,' is made up of three Malayalam syllables. First is "a-da-(n),"; in this case, its root form, 'A-du-', translates more precisely to "contain," "cover," and "encompasse." Second comes, "-kki-", |
| Maltese | "Fihom" originally meant "understand" or "comprehend" in Maltese, but it has since evolved to mean "contain" or "include". |
| Maori | The word "kei roto" can also refer to the idea of being within a physical or conceptual space. |
| Marathi | “असणे” in Marathi is etymologically related to the Sanskrit verb “अस्” (as) meaning “to live". |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word "агуулах" can also mean "to restrain," "to hold back," or "to keep in check." |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | ဆံ့ is also used to refer to the act of holding or carrying something in one's hand. |
| Nepali | The word "समावेश" derives from the Sanskrit root "विश," meaning "to enter," and has secondary meanings of "include" and "incorporate." |
| Norwegian | "Inneholde" is an Old Norse word that originally referred to holding something in one's hand or under one's protection. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | 'Muli' is a variant of the Nyanja verb 'kubisika', meaning 'to be contained' or 'to be included' |
| Pashto | "لري" can also mean "to have" or "to take" in Pashto. |
| Persian | The word "حاوی" comes from the Arabic root "حوی" which means "to enclose" or "to surround". |
| Polish | The Polish word "zawierać" also denotes entering into an agreement. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | "Conter" may also come from the Latin verb "computare" (or "computare") which means to put together, to add up, to compute. |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "conține" originates from the Latin word "continere," meaning "to hold together" or "to enclose." |
| Russian | The word "содержать" can also mean "to support" or "to keep" in Russian. |
| Samoan | It derives form the compound noun: afio + ai meaning "to hold back water". |
| Scots Gaelic | The word "gabh a-steach" is derived from the Gaelic words "gabh" (to take) and "a-steach" (inwards), and can also mean "to take in" or "to absorb." |
| Serbian | The verb "садржати" can also mean "to hold" or "to have" something. |
| Sesotho | It can be used to say "hold in the hand" or "hold in the mouth" |
| Shona | The term "zvine" in Shona can also refer to enclosing or encompassing something. |
| Sindhi | The verb شامل ڪريو ultimately goes back to the root شمل which also means 'to include' and 'to embrace'. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | අඩංගු is often used as a more formal or literary equivalent of the more common word ගන්න ('take') with the same meaning. |
| Slovak | The word "obsahovať" derives from the Proto-Slavic root *ob-saḫъ, which also means "to envelop, surround". |
| Slovenian | The word "vsebujejo" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word "*vьsь" meaning "all" and the suffix "-ejo" indicating plurality. |
| Somali | The word "ka koobnaan" can also mean "to consist of" or "to be made up of". |
| Spanish | In Spanish, "contiene" can also refer to the preservation or storage of something. |
| Sundanese | "Ngandung" in Sundanese can also mean "to be pregnant" or "to hold something in one's arms". |
| Swahili | The word "vyenye" in Swahili can also mean "to hold" or "to have". |
| Swedish | Innehålla is cognate with the English word 'in hold' and can also mean 'to embody' or 'to involve'. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "maglagay" is derived from the proto-Austronesian root *lagaj, which also means "to put in" or "to place". |
| Tajik | The Tajik word "дар бар гирад" can also mean "to include" or "to comprise". |
| Telugu | The word "కలిగి" (contain) shares roots with the word "కల" (mix) and the noun "కలయిక" (mixture), suggesting its broad semantic range. |
| Thai | The Thai word "มี" can also mean "to have" or "to exist". |
| Turkish | "İçerir" also refers to "including" in English, indicating the presence of something as part of a whole. |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word "містять" ultimately comes from the Proto-Indo-European root *meh₁- "to measure or divide". |
| Uzbek | The Uzbek word "o'z ichiga oladi" can also mean "to incorporate" or "to include". |
| Vietnamese | "Lưu trữ" also means "to archive, to preserve, to store". |
| Welsh | "Cynhwys" comes from "cyn", meaning together or united, and "gwisg", meaning clothing; thus, it originally referred to the contents of a cloth bag. |
| Xhosa | The word "ziqulathe" in Xhosa also means "to conceal" or "to cover up". |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "אַנטהאַלטן" (enthaltn) is derived from the Middle High German word "enthalten" and shares its meaning of "to hold back" or "to prevent". |
| Yoruba | The Yoruba word "ni ninu" can also mean "to live in" or "to belong to". |
| Zulu | The word 'aqukethe' is also used to describe the act of 'holding something' or 'keeping something in place'. |
| English | As a verb, 'contain' also means to hold or keep something within a specific space or area. |