Contribute in Different Languages
Discover 'Contribute' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Contribute
Afrikaans bydra | ||
Albanian kontribuojnë | ||
Amharic አስተዋፅዖ ያድርጉ | ||
Arabic مساهمة | ||
Armenian աջակցել | ||
Assamese বৰঙণি দিয়া | ||
Aymara yanpaña | ||
Azerbaijani töhfə vermək | ||
Bambara ka bolomafara di | ||
Basque lagundu | ||
Belarusian спрыяць | ||
Bengali অবদান | ||
Bhojpuri जोगदान कयिल | ||
Bosnian doprinijeti | ||
Bulgarian допринесе | ||
Catalan contribuir | ||
Cebuano pag-amot | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 有助于 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 有助於 | ||
Corsican cuntribuisce | ||
Croatian doprinijeti | ||
Czech přispět | ||
Danish bidrage | ||
Dhivehi ޙިއްސާވުން | ||
Dogri जोगदान | ||
Dutch bijdragen | ||
English contribute | ||
Esperanto kontribui | ||
Estonian panustama | ||
Ewe dzᴐ nu | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) mag-ambag | ||
Finnish osallistua | ||
French contribuer | ||
Frisian bydrage | ||
Galician contribuír | ||
Georgian წვლილი შეიტანოს | ||
German beitragen | ||
Greek συμβάλλει | ||
Guarani pytyvõkuaa | ||
Gujarati ફાળો | ||
Haitian Creole kontribye | ||
Hausa ba da gudummawa | ||
Hawaiian kōkua | ||
Hebrew לתרום | ||
Hindi योगदान | ||
Hmong pab txhawb | ||
Hungarian hozzájárul | ||
Icelandic leggja sitt af mörkum | ||
Igbo nye aka | ||
Ilocano agited | ||
Indonesian menyumbang | ||
Irish cur | ||
Italian contribuire | ||
Japanese 助ける | ||
Javanese nyumbang | ||
Kannada ಕೊಡುಗೆ ನೀಡಿ | ||
Kazakh жәрдемдесу | ||
Khmer ចូលរួមចំណែក | ||
Kinyarwanda umusanzu | ||
Konkani योगदान | ||
Korean 기여하다 | ||
Krio gi | ||
Kurdish paraxwe dayin | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) بەشداریکردن | ||
Kyrgyz салым кошуу | ||
Lao ປະກອບສ່ວນ | ||
Latin contribuere | ||
Latvian dot savu ieguldījumu | ||
Lingala kopesa | ||
Lithuanian prisidėti | ||
Luganda okuwaayo | ||
Luxembourgish bäidroen | ||
Macedonian придонесе | ||
Maithili योगदान | ||
Malagasy mandray anjara | ||
Malay menyumbang | ||
Malayalam സംഭാവന ചെയ്യുക | ||
Maltese tikkontribwixxi | ||
Maori takoha | ||
Marathi योगदान | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯁꯔꯨꯛ ꯇꯝꯕ | ||
Mizo thawh | ||
Mongolian хувь нэмэр оруулах | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ကူညီသည် | ||
Nepali योगदान दिनुहोस् | ||
Norwegian bidra | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) perekani | ||
Odia (Oriya) ସହଯୋଗ କରନ୍ତୁ | | ||
Oromo gumaachuu | ||
Pashto ونډه اخیستل | ||
Persian مشارکت | ||
Polish przyczynić się | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) contribuir | ||
Punjabi ਯੋਗਦਾਨ | ||
Quechua quy | ||
Romanian a contribui | ||
Russian способствовать | ||
Samoan saofaga | ||
Sanskrit सहयोग | ||
Scots Gaelic cuir ris | ||
Sepedi na le seabe | ||
Serbian доприносе | ||
Sesotho tlatsetsa | ||
Shona batsira | ||
Sindhi حصو ڏيڻ | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) දායක වන්න | ||
Slovak prispieť | ||
Slovenian prispevati | ||
Somali wax ku darsado | ||
Spanish contribuir | ||
Sundanese nyumbang | ||
Swahili kuchangia | ||
Swedish bidra | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) magbigay ng kontribusyon | ||
Tajik саҳм гузоштан | ||
Tamil பங்களிப்பு | ||
Tatar өлеш кертү | ||
Telugu సహకరించండి | ||
Thai มีส่วนร่วม | ||
Tigrinya ኣዋፅእ | ||
Tsonga nghenisa | ||
Turkish katkıda bulunmak | ||
Turkmen goşant goşuň | ||
Twi (Akan) boa | ||
Ukrainian внести свій внесок | ||
Urdu شراکت | ||
Uyghur تۆھپە قوشۇڭ | ||
Uzbek hissa qo'shmoq | ||
Vietnamese góp phần | ||
Welsh cyfrannu | ||
Xhosa negalelo | ||
Yiddish ביישטייערן | ||
Yoruba ṣe alabapin | ||
Zulu ukufaka isandla |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "bydra" can also mean "assist" or "support". |
| Albanian | "Kontribuojnë" (contribute) derives from the Latin "contribuere," meaning "to bring together" or "to share." |
| Arabic | مساهمة is also used in Arabic to refer to a contribution to a fund or a cause, or to a person's share in a company or partnership. |
| Azerbaijani | The term "töhfə" in Azerbaijani also denotes a gift, while the verb "vermək" means "to give", hence the literal translation of "töhfə vermək" is "to give a gift". |
| Basque | The word "lagundu" also means "help". |
| Belarusian | The word "спрыяць" also means "to favor" or "to promote". |
| Bengali | The word ‘অবদান’ in Bengali, originating from the Sanskrit term ‘अपदान’, can also refer to an individual's departure or demise. |
| Bosnian | The word "doprinijeti" is derived from the Proto-Slavic root *dоpьrьnьti, meaning "to bring". It is also related to the word "doprinos", meaning "a contribution". |
| Bulgarian | The word “допринесе” can also mean “to add to” or “to enhance” in Bulgarian. |
| Catalan | The word "contribuir" has the additional meaning of "to attribute" or "to assign" in Catalan. |
| Cebuano | Derived from the root word "amot" (to carry), "pag-amot" can also refer to "carrying a burden". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 有助于 (yǒu yú zhù) can also mean 'to be conducive to' or 'to help'. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The word "有助於", meaning "contribute", is a combination of the words "助" (help) and "有" (have). |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "cuntribuisce" also means "to help out" or "to assist". |
| Croatian | The verb 'doprinijeti' can also refer to making something impure by adding external elements. |
| Czech | The Czech word "přispět" originates from the Old Czech word "přísti", which meant "to spin" or "to lend", referring to the act of adding to something or giving support. |
| Danish | Bidrage shares an etymology with the English words 'bid' and 'bidding'. |
| Dutch | In addition to its literal meaning of 'contribute', 'bijdragen' can also mean 'to assist' or 'to help'. |
| Esperanto | "Kontribui" comes from the Latin word "contribuere" and the Esperanto form was borrowed from Russian. |
| Estonian | The word is likely derived from “panustama”, which means “to bet”, implying an element of risk or speculation. |
| Finnish | "Osallistua" is a compound word in Finnish, derived from the words "osa" (part) and "listata" (to add). Hence, it literally means "to add a part". |
| French | "Contribuer" is derived from the Latin word "contribuere", which originally meant to give or offer, but has also been used in French to refer to providing money or resources. |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "bydrage" is cognate with the Dutch "bijdrage" and the German "Beitrag". |
| Galician | The Galician word "contribuír" has the same meaning as the Spanish word "contribuir," but it can also mean "to help" or "to cooperate." |
| German | "Beitragen" originates from the Old High German "bitragan", which itself formed from "bi" (meaning "near, by, at, to") and "tragen" (meaning "to carry"). |
| Greek | The Greek verb "συμβάλλει" has an additional meaning of "agree": in this sense, we find it in the phrase "the city's citizens agreed to a truce" (συνέθεντο οἱ τῆς πόλεως πρὸς τοὺς πολεμίους σπονδάς). |
| Gujarati | ফালায় (phalaa), ফালাইয়া (phalaaiyaa) - to burst (a sore), to be torn, to be rent |
| Haitian Creole | Kontribye in Haitian Creole comes from the French word |
| Hausa | In many Chadic languages, ''ba da gudummawa'' means to ''add'' or ''put together'' |
| Hawaiian | Kōkua means "to assist" as well as "to carry on the back," indicating the Hawaiian cultural emphasis on mutual support and family. |
| Hebrew | "לתרום" means also "to sow, cultivate" (from Aramaic), and "to raise, elevate, exalt, support, lift up, assist" (from Latin). |
| Hindi | The word "योगदान" (contribute) in Hindi also means "addition" and originates from Sanskrit "योजयति" (yojayati), meaning "to join, to add". |
| Hmong | The Hmong word "pab txhawb" literally means "to give in return". |
| Hungarian | "Hozzájárul" originates from the Hungarian word "járul," meaning "to approach," "to come close." In the Middle Ages, this word was commonly used to mean "to give help," "to provide support."} |
| Icelandic | "Leggja sitt af mörkum" literally means "to lay something of the dark", possibly referring to the tradition of offering something from the darkness (e.g., food) during the winter solstice." |
| Igbo | ''Aka'' (hand) is used to describe the action of giving or providing, and ''nye'' (give) signifies the transfer of an object from one person to another. |
| Indonesian | "Menyumbang" means "to contribute", but can also refer to giving a donation. |
| Irish | The word "cur" also means "hound" and is thought to be related to "coy". |
| Italian | The Italian word "contribuire" comes from the Latin word "contribuere," meaning "to come together." |
| Japanese | "助ける" (tasukeru) originally meant "to save or help someone," but now also means "to contribute." |
| Javanese | "Nyumbang" is taken from a Javanese word that originally meant to give something in a form of food or money to someone who is in a trouble or in a need |
| Kazakh | The word "жәрдемдесу" also means "to provide assistance" or "to help out" in Kazakh. |
| Korean | 기여하다 derives from the Chinese word |
| Kurdish | "Paraxwe" is a Kurdish verb meaning "provide" or "bring about" and "dayin" translates to "debt" and when they are combined in the phrase "parexwe dayin" it means to pay a debt or help someone in need to the point that the action becomes a debt. |
| Kyrgyz | The word "салым кошуу" in Kyrgyz also refers to the practice of collecting money or goods from a community to support a particular cause or individual. |
| Latin | "Contribuere" is derived from "com-" (with) and "tribuere" (offer), originally referring to a gift or a payment to the state and the community. |
| Latvian | The word "dot savu ieguldījumu" in Latvian was originally a loanword from German "Steuern" (taxes) and has since shifted in meaning. |
| Lithuanian | The word "prisidėti" is derived from the verb "sidėti", meaning "to sit" or "to stay", and the prefix "pri-", meaning "to add" or "to join". Therefore, the literal meaning of "prisidėti" is "to add oneself" or "to join in". |
| Luxembourgish | The verb bäidroen ('to contribute') comes from German 'beitrage', which in turn stems from French 'apport' ('to bring in'). |
| Macedonian | The word "придонесе" can also mean "to bring" or "to offer" in Macedonian. |
| Malagasy | Mandray anjara contains an alternate meaning, 'offer one's service,' in the context of offering oneself (as a worker or assistant) to someone who needs it. |
| Malay | The word "menyumbang" also means "to lend money", a meaning it shares with its Indonesian counterpart "menyumbang". |
| Maltese | The etymology of "tikkontribwixxi" is uncertain, but it may derive from the Italian "contribuire" or the French "contribuer." |
| Maori | Takoha means 'to contribute', but can also refer to a gift or a payment in return for something. |
| Marathi | The word "योगदान" in Marathi can also mean "a share" or "a donation." |
| Mongolian | The term хувь нэмэр оруулах can also mean "to add, to put in" in Mongolian. |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The word ကါြခာ် မျိနိင်ပးအရှ ("contribute") derives from Pali, and means "to help." |
| Nepali | The Nepali word "योगदान दिनुहोस्" is a loanword from English that means to contribute, but it can also be used more broadly to mean "help" or "assist." |
| Norwegian | The word "bidra" is derived from the Old Norse word "biðja," which means "to ask for" or "to request." |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The Nyanja (Chichewa) word 'perekani' can also refer to the act of donating or giving to somebody in need. |
| Persian | The word "مشارکت" is derived from the Arabic word "شركة", meaning "partnership" or "association". |
| Polish | The Polish word "przyczynić się" was derived from the Old Polish "czynić się", meaning "to be active" or "to take action." |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, 'contribuir' can also mean 'help', 'aid', or 'cooperate'. |
| Punjabi | The word "ਯੋਗਦਾਨ" (contribute) in Punjabi is derived from Sanskrit and has the alternate meaning of "offering" or "gift." |
| Romanian | In Romanian, "a contribui" also means to "take part in"} |
| Russian | "Способствовать" can also mean "to promote" or "to assist". |
| Samoan | The word 'saofaga' also means 'to help' or 'to support' in Samoan. |
| Scots Gaelic | The word "cuir ris" can also mean "to add" or "to put together" in Scots Gaelic. |
| Serbian | Derived from the Old Church Slavonic word “допринести,” meaning “to carry” or “to bring.” |
| Sesotho | The word "tlatsetsa" is derived from the verb "latsa," meaning "to carry or support." |
| Shona | The word "batsira" in Shona can also refer to "the act of joining or uniting with others." |
| Sindhi | In some Sindh dialects, حصو ڏيڻ can also mean 'to agree' or 'to accept'. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The Sinhala word “දායක වන්න” also means “to give aid”, “to support”, "to help", and “to assist.” |
| Slovak | "Prispieť" is derived from "prispievať" (to hasten, hurry), meaning to "add to" or "help along". |
| Slovenian | The Slavic word 'prispevati', meaning 'to bring something near', is also related to the German word 'erschaffen', meaning 'to create'. |
| Somali | The Somali verb "wax ku darsado" can also mean "to add" or "to supplement." |
| Spanish | The verb "contribuir" also means "to subscribe" in archaic Spanish (e.g. "Contribuir con una cantidad a favor de una causa") |
| Sundanese | "Nyumbang" also means "to add something to a collection or group," like adding wood to a fire or adding money to a donation fund. |
| Swahili | The Swahili verb 'kuchangia' means 'to contribute,' but it may also refer to adding to an existing quantity or to joining an existing group or organization. |
| Swedish | The word bidraga comes from the Scandinavian root |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "magbigay ng kontribusyon" is derived from the Spanish word "contribuir", which means "to contribute". |
| Tajik | The Tajik word "саҳм гузоштан" is derived from the Persian phrase "sahm guzashtan" which means "to give a share". |
| Tamil | "பங்களிப்பு" (contribute) is derived from the Tamil word "பங்கு" (share), meaning "to add a part to a whole or to share a common purpose or goal." |
| Telugu | This word derives from the Sanskrit words "saha" (with), "kri" (to do), and "ta" (a suffix); other meanings include "unite to do something" and "work together." |
| Thai | The Thai word "มีส่วนร่วม" can also mean "participate" or "be involved". |
| Turkish | The word "katkıda bulunmak" in Turkish has the same root as "katkı" which means "additive" or "contribution", and "bulunmak" which means "to be located" or "to exist". |
| Urdu | The word "شراکت" can also mean "partnership" or "collaboration". |
| Uzbek | The Uzbek word "hissa qo'shmoq" also means "participate" or "take part". |
| Vietnamese | The word "Góp phần" in Vietnamese also means "to do one's part" or "to participate". |
| Welsh | Cyfrannu's original meaning was 'to deliver or share property' but, by the 16th century, it began to be used more in a moral sense. |
| Xhosa | The Xhosa word "negalelo" is also used to refer to a contribution made towards a specific purpose. |
| Yiddish | The word "ביישטייערן" is derived from the German "beisteuern," meaning "to contribute" or "to provide." |
| Yoruba | "Ṣe alabapin" can also mean "to participate" or "to partake (in something)". |
| Zulu | The Zulu word 'ukufaka isandla' literally means 'to put a hand in' and connotes offering help or assistance. |
| English | "Contribute" derives from Latin "contribuere," meaning "to work together". |