Afrikaans samewerking | ||
Albanian bashkëpunimi | ||
Amharic ትብብር | ||
Arabic تعاون | ||
Armenian համագործակցություն | ||
Assamese সহযোগ | ||
Aymara yanapt'iri | ||
Azerbaijani əməkdaşlıq | ||
Bambara tɛgɛdiɲɔgɔnma | ||
Basque lankidetza | ||
Belarusian супрацоўніцтва | ||
Bengali সহযোগিতা | ||
Bhojpuri सहयोग | ||
Bosnian saradnja | ||
Bulgarian сътрудничество | ||
Catalan cooperació | ||
Cebuano kooperasyon | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 合作 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 合作 | ||
Corsican cuuperazione | ||
Croatian suradnja | ||
Czech spolupráce | ||
Danish samarbejde | ||
Dhivehi ބައިވެރިވުން | ||
Dogri सैहयोग | ||
Dutch samenwerking | ||
English cooperation | ||
Esperanto kunlaboro | ||
Estonian koostöö | ||
Ewe alɔdodo | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) pagtutulungan | ||
Finnish yhteistyö | ||
French la coopération | ||
Frisian gearwurking | ||
Galician cooperación | ||
Georgian თანამშრომლობა | ||
German zusammenarbeit | ||
Greek συνεργασία | ||
Guarani ñopytyvõ | ||
Gujarati સહકાર | ||
Haitian Creole koperasyon | ||
Hausa hadin kai | ||
Hawaiian ka laulima ʻana | ||
Hebrew שיתוף פעולה | ||
Hindi सहयोग | ||
Hmong kev koom tes | ||
Hungarian együttműködés | ||
Icelandic samvinnu | ||
Igbo imekọ ihe ọnụ | ||
Ilocano pannakipaset | ||
Indonesian kerja sama | ||
Irish comhar | ||
Italian cooperazione | ||
Japanese 協力 | ||
Javanese kerja sama | ||
Kannada ಸಹಕಾರ | ||
Kazakh ынтымақтастық | ||
Khmer កិច្ចសហប្រតិបត្តិការ | ||
Kinyarwanda ubufatanye | ||
Konkani सहकार्य | ||
Korean 협력 | ||
Krio jɔyn an togɛda | ||
Kurdish hevkarî | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) هاوکاری | ||
Kyrgyz кызматташтык | ||
Lao ການຮ່ວມມື | ||
Latin cooperante | ||
Latvian sadarbība | ||
Lingala boyokani | ||
Lithuanian bendradarbiavimą | ||
Luganda okukolagana | ||
Luxembourgish zesummenaarbecht | ||
Macedonian соработка | ||
Maithili सहयोग | ||
Malagasy fiaraha-miasa | ||
Malay kerjasama | ||
Malayalam സഹകരണം | ||
Maltese kooperazzjoni | ||
Maori mahi tahi | ||
Marathi सहकार्य | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯇꯦꯡꯕꯥꯡꯅꯕ | ||
Mizo inlungrualna | ||
Mongolian хамтын ажиллагаа | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ပူးပေါင်းဆောင်ရွက်မှု | ||
Nepali सहयोग | ||
Norwegian samarbeid | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) mgwirizano | ||
Odia (Oriya) ସହଯୋଗ | ||
Oromo gamtoomina | ||
Pashto همکاري | ||
Persian مشارکت | ||
Polish współpraca | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) cooperação | ||
Punjabi ਸਹਿਯੋਗ | ||
Quechua yanapanakuy | ||
Romanian cooperare | ||
Russian сотрудничество | ||
Samoan felagolagomai | ||
Sanskrit सहयोग | ||
Scots Gaelic co-obrachadh | ||
Sepedi tšhomišano | ||
Serbian сарадња | ||
Sesotho tšebelisano | ||
Shona mushandirapamwe | ||
Sindhi تعاون | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) සහයෝගීතාව | ||
Slovak spolupráca | ||
Slovenian sodelovanje | ||
Somali iskaashi | ||
Spanish cooperación | ||
Sundanese gawé babarengan | ||
Swahili ushirikiano | ||
Swedish samarbete | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) kooperasyon | ||
Tajik ҳамкорӣ | ||
Tamil ஒத்துழைப்பு | ||
Tatar хезмәттәшлек | ||
Telugu సహకారం | ||
Thai ความร่วมมือ | ||
Tigrinya ሕብረት | ||
Tsonga ntirhisano | ||
Turkish işbirliği | ||
Turkmen hyzmatdaşlygy | ||
Twi (Akan) nkabomdie | ||
Ukrainian співпраця | ||
Urdu تعاون | ||
Uyghur ھەمكارلىق | ||
Uzbek hamkorlik | ||
Vietnamese hợp tác | ||
Welsh cydweithredu | ||
Xhosa intsebenziswano | ||
Yiddish קוואַפּעריישאַן | ||
Yoruba ifowosowopo | ||
Zulu ukubambisana |
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "samewerking" means "cooperation" and is derived from the Dutch word "samenwerken". |
| Albanian | The word "bashkëpunimi" in Albanian derives from the verb "bashkëpunoj" meaning "to work together" and the suffix "-im" indicating "action or result", ultimately coming from Proto-Indo-European roots "*kom" (together) and "*werg" (to do). |
| Amharic | Amharic "ትብብር" derives from "ትበብ" "to be together" and can also mean "association" or "partnership." |
| Arabic | In Arabic, the term “تعاون” can also refer to a collective or collaborative effort. |
| Armenian | From the Armenian roots "hama" (with, together) and "gortsi" (deed, action). |
| Azerbaijani | The word “əməkdaşlıq” in Azerbaijani is ultimately derived from the Arabic word “ʿumda” (meaning “support”) and the Persian suffix “-lıq” (meaning “ness”). |
| Basque | The word "lankidetza" also means "solidarity" or "mutual aid". |
| Belarusian | In a broad sense, the term "супрацоўніцтва" can be translated as "coordination" or "collaboration". |
| Bengali | In Sanskrit, 'sah' means 'with' and 'yog' means 'join', hence 'joining with' someone. |
| Bosnian | The word "saradnja" is derived from the Slavic root "rad", meaning "work" or "labor", and the prefix "sa-", meaning "with" or "together", indicating a joint effort or collaboration. |
| Bulgarian | In Bulgarian the word "сътрудничество" ("cooperation") comes from the root "сътруд" with the meaning of "to labor together" |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "cooperació" also means "coordination" and is derived from the Latin word "cooperatio", meaning "to work together". |
| Cebuano | "Kooperasyon" is derived from the Spanish "cooperación", which in turn comes from the Latin "cooperātiō", meaning "working together". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | This term is made up of two Chinese characters, 合, which means "together," and 作, which means "to act." |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 合作 (hé zuò) is also used to refer to a cooperative or joint venture. |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "cuuperazione" derives from the Italian "cooperazione", but also has the meaning of "help" or "assistance" in some contexts. |
| Croatian | The word 'suradnja' also has connotations of harmony and mutual understanding. |
| Czech | Spolupráce in Czech can also mean 'harmony' or 'coordination'. |
| Danish | The word "samarbejde" can be broken down into "sam-", meaning "together", and "arbejde", meaning "work". |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "samenwerking" (cooperation) literally means "working together" and is derived from the words "samen" (together) and "werken" (to work). |
| Esperanto | Kunlaboro is not a loanword; it is a compound of the word "kune" (together) and "laboro" (work). |
| Estonian | The word "koostöö" in Estonian is derived from the Finnish word "koostumus" meaning "composition". |
| Finnish | The word 'yhteistyö' is derived from the words 'yhdessä' ('together') and 'työ' ('work'), emphasizing the joint effort involved in cooperation. |
| French | Cooperation (derived from 'co-operari') originally meant working together to achieve a common end, but now it more broadly implies mutual help or assistance of any kind, regardless of whether it's toward a shared goal or not. |
| Frisian | Gearwurking is derived from the Old Frisian word 'geare', meaning 'ready', and 'wirk', meaning 'work'. |
| Galician | Cooperación derives from the Latin word "cooperari", which means "to work together." |
| German | The German word "Zusammenarbeit" literally translates to "working together" and is used in a variety of contexts to describe collaborative efforts and partnerships. |
| Greek | The word συνεργασία can also mean "working together" or "collaboration". |
| Gujarati | The word "સહકાર" (cooperation) is derived from the Sanskrit word "सह" (saha), meaning "together", and "कार" (kāra), meaning "action". |
| Haitian Creole | Koperasyon derives from the French "coopération" and can also mean 'association' |
| Hausa | In Hausa, the word "hadin kai" literally means "one hand", implying a collective effort accomplished by multiple individuals working together. |
| Hawaiian | Ka laulima ʻana is the joining of two or more hands and is a Hawaiian proverb about working together. |
| Hebrew | "שיתוף פעולה" derives from the root "פעל" (to do) and means "working together." |
| Hindi | The Hindi word "सहयोग" is derived from the Sanskrit word "सह" meaning "with" and "योग" meaning "joining", thus signifying "joining together". It has the alternate meaning of "assistance" or "support". |
| Hmong | The word "kev koom tes" is derived from the Hmong words "kev" (to work together), "koom" (to gather), and "tes" (to assist). |
| Hungarian | The word "együttműködés" in Hungarian comes from two words meaning "to do together" and has a similar meaning in other Finno-Ugric languages. |
| Icelandic | The word "samvinnu" is a compound of the words "sam" (together) and "vinna" (work) and thus means "working together". |
| Indonesian | The word "kerja sama" in Indonesian literally means "work together". |
| Irish | The word 'comhar' can also refer to 'assistance', 'aid', or 'help'. |
| Italian | The Italian word "cooperazione" also has the meaning of "co-opting", "incorporating", or "working together". |
| Japanese | "協力" is composed of the kanji for "work together" and "strength". |
| Javanese | In Javanese, 'kerja sama' is an archaic compound noun, with its root words 'kerja' (work) and 'sama' (together), although 'kerja sama' is commonly translated as 'cooperation', which is a newer concept. |
| Kannada | The Kannada word "ಸಹಕಾರ" is loosely based on the Sanskrit word "सहकार", which also means cooperation. |
| Korean | The word "협력" is also used to mean "collaboration" or "working together" in Korean, highlighting the importance of collective effort in Korean culture. |
| Kurdish | The word "hevkarî" originates from the Old Iranian word "ham-kar" meaning "together-work." |
| Latin | The Latin word "cooperante" also means "working together" or "helping out". |
| Latvian | Sadarbība can also mean 'coexistence' or 'association'. |
| Lithuanian | In Lithuanian, the word "bendradarbiavimą" also means "to cooperate," "to work together," and "to collaborate" |
| Luxembourgish | "Zesummenaarbecht" derives its origin from the German "Zusammenarbeit", meaning working or acting collectively or cooperatively. |
| Macedonian | The term “соработка” in Macedonian is derived from the Russian “сотрудничество”, which also means cooperation in English. |
| Malagasy | The etymology of the Malagasy word 'fiaraha-miasa' can be traced back to the Malay language where it means "to move together." |
| Malay | "Kerjasama" is a Malay word meaning 'cooperation' that stems from the Sanskrit and Javanese languages, and is also used in Indonesian, although it can have different meanings and connotations in different contexts and cultures and can also be translated into 'coordination,' 'joint effort,' or 'collaboration.' |
| Malayalam | The word 'സഹകരണം' also means 'working together in a friendly way'. |
| Maltese | Maltese "kooperazzjoni" means cooperation, from Italian "cooperazione" meaning cooperation, from Latin "cooperatio" with the same meaning, ultimately from "operari" (to work): "com-" (together) with "operari" (to work). |
| Maori | Mahi tahi is sometimes used to describe a meeting or workshop to build group consensus or make collective decisions. |
| Marathi | सहकार्य means "mutual aid" in Sanskrit, and is related to the word "सहचर" meaning "companion". |
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| Nepali | The Nepali word 'सहयोग' ('cooperation') derives from the Sanskrit word 'sahयोग', which means 'to work together' or 'mutual assistance'. |
| Norwegian | "Samarbeid" originates from Old Norse "sam-arfi", which means "co-inheritance" or "joint possession". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word mgwirizano is derived from the verb 'kugwirizana' (to unite) and the suffix '-ano', which denotes a state or condition. |
| Pashto | The word “همكاري” “cooperation” can also be used to refer to a partner in Persian. |
| Persian | The word "مشارکت" can also refer to the concept of "joint authorship" in Persian literature. |
| Polish | The word "współpraca" derives from the word "praca" which means "work", and the prefix "współ-" which means "together". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | A palavra "cooperação" deriva do latim "cooperari", que significa "trabalhar junto". |
| Punjabi | The word 'ਸਹਿਯੋਗ' is derived from the Sanskrit word 'सहयोग', which means 'mutual service' or 'working together'. |
| Romanian | The word "cooperare" in Romanian comes from the Latin word "cooperari" and has the alternate meaning of "to work together". |
| Russian | The word "сотрудничество" in Russian derives from the verb "сотрудничать", and in some contexts it can also mean "collaboration". |
| Samoan | As the word “feagaiga” (“covenant”) derives from the word “fealofa’i” (“to love one another”), so “felagolagomai” (“cooperation”) is built from the word “fagolago” (“to speak” or “to plan”). |
| Scots Gaelic | The Gaelic word `co-obrachadh` has a broader meaning than the English `cooperation`, encompassing ideas of unity and teamwork. |
| Serbian | The word "сарадња" comes from the Old Church Slavonic word "сърадѣти", meaning "to work together". |
| Sesotho | The word “tšebelisano” derives from the root word “tšebetso,” which means “work.” However, “tšebelisano” specifically refers to work done collectively. |
| Shona | It originated from the term, 'shanda', which means to hold and 'pamwe', meaning togetherness, to hold or do things together |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "تعاون" has its roots in Arabic and means "to work together" or "to assist another person." |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | සහයෝගීතාව can also refer to the act of helping others or working together with them. |
| Slovak | The word 'spolupráca' is formed of the Slovak words 'spolu' ('together') and 'práca' ('work'). |
| Slovenian | Sodelovanje also refers to the action of working or operating together toward some goal and the condition or quality of being able to work together effectively |
| Somali | Iskaashi can also mean 'to help' or 'to assist' in Somali. |
| Spanish | In Spanish, "cooperación" also means "assistance" or "help". |
| Sundanese | The term 'gawé babarengan' literally means 'mutual labor' and is related to the communal work practice called 'guguruitan', where villagers assist each other in various tasks. |
| Swahili | Ushirikiano is also a term used to describe the informal cooperation and sharing of resources among individuals in rural African communities. |
| Swedish | A synonym for samarbete in Swedish is "samverkan". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Kooperasyon" is the Tagalog word for "cooperation." It is derived from the Spanish word "cooperación," which is in turn derived from the Latin word "cooperATIO," meaning "to work together." |
| Tajik | The word "ҳамкорӣ" also means "mutual respect" and is derived from the Persian compound word "ham" (together) and "kâr" (work or deed). |
| Telugu | The word "సహకారం" also means "companionship" and "association" and derives from the Sanskrit roots सह (saha, "together") and कार्य (karya, "work"). |
| Thai | "ความ" is "the state or quality," "ร่วม" indicates being or doing together, or joining, and “มือ is hand or the action of using hand; thus, “ “ร่วม มือ“ can be translated "join the hand" or working closely together." |
| Turkish | The Turkish term 'işbirliği' (cooperation) is composed of the words 'iş' (work, business) + 'bir' (together) + 'liği' (suffix denoting a condition, state or relationship). |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word "співпраця" is a compound word derived from "спів" (together) and "праця" (labor). |
| Urdu | The word "تعاون" also means "mutual assistance" or "helping each other" in Urdu. |
| Uzbek | The word "hamkorlik" in Uzbek also refers to "mutual participation" or "joint efforts". |
| Vietnamese | The word 'hợp tác' is composed of two Chinese characters: 'hợp' meaning 'to join' and 'tác' meaning 'to act'. |
| Welsh | The word 'cydweithredu' literally translates to 'work together' and is used to describe the process of collaborating with others. |
| Xhosa | In Xhosa, the word “intsebenziswano” literally translates to “the making use of each other”. |
| Yoruba | 'Ifowosowopo' literally means 'two hands' or 'working together' in Yoruba, highlighting the importance of collaboration and unity. |
| Zulu | "Ukubambisana" (cooperation) draws its meaning from two Zulu words: "ukubamba" (to hold) and "isana" (together), capturing the notion of holding or working together. |
| English | The term derives from the Latin word “cooperari”, meaning “to work together” or "together" in the sense of "to cooperate" and "to work with each other." |