Copy in Different Languages
Discover 'Copy' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Copy
Afrikaans kopie | ||
Albanian kopjoj | ||
Amharic ቅጅ | ||
Arabic نسخ | ||
Armenian պատճենել | ||
Assamese কপি কৰক | ||
Aymara copia | ||
Azerbaijani surəti | ||
Bambara kopi kɛ | ||
Basque kopiatu | ||
Belarusian копія | ||
Bengali অনুলিপি | ||
Bhojpuri कॉपी कइल जा सकेला | ||
Bosnian kopiraj | ||
Bulgarian копие | ||
Catalan còpia | ||
Cebuano kopya | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 复制 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 複製 | ||
Corsican cupià | ||
Croatian kopirati | ||
Czech kopírovat | ||
Danish kopi | ||
Dhivehi ކޮޕީ | ||
Dogri नकल की | ||
Dutch kopiëren | ||
English copy | ||
Esperanto kopii | ||
Estonian koopia | ||
Ewe kɔpi | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) kopya | ||
Finnish kopio | ||
French copie | ||
Frisian kopy | ||
Galician copiar | ||
Georgian ასლი | ||
German kopieren | ||
Greek αντίγραφο | ||
Guarani copia | ||
Gujarati નકલ | ||
Haitian Creole kopi | ||
Hausa kwafa | ||
Hawaiian kope | ||
Hebrew עותק | ||
Hindi प्रतिलिपि | ||
Hmong daim ntawv theej | ||
Hungarian másolat | ||
Icelandic afrita | ||
Igbo oyiri | ||
Ilocano kopiaen | ||
Indonesian salinan | ||
Irish cóip | ||
Italian copia | ||
Japanese コピー | ||
Javanese nyalin | ||
Kannada ನಕಲಿಸಿ | ||
Kazakh көшірме | ||
Khmer ចម្លង | ||
Kinyarwanda kopi | ||
Konkani प्रत करप | ||
Korean 부 | ||
Krio kɔpi | ||
Kurdish kopî | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) کۆپی بکە | ||
Kyrgyz көчүрүү | ||
Lao ສຳ ເນົາ | ||
Latin exemplum | ||
Latvian kopija | ||
Lingala kopi ya kopi | ||
Lithuanian kopija | ||
Luganda okukoppa | ||
Luxembourgish kopéieren | ||
Macedonian копија | ||
Maithili प्रतिलिपि | ||
Malagasy dika mitovy | ||
Malay salinan | ||
Malayalam പകർത്തുക | ||
Maltese kopja | ||
Maori tārua | ||
Marathi प्रत | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯀꯣꯄꯤ ꯇꯧꯕꯥ꯫ | ||
Mizo copy rawh | ||
Mongolian хуулбарлах | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ကူးယူပါ | ||
Nepali कापी | ||
Norwegian kopiere | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kutengera | ||
Odia (Oriya) କପି କରନ୍ତୁ | | ||
Oromo waraabuu | ||
Pashto کاپي | ||
Persian کپی 🀄 | ||
Polish kopiuj | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) cópia de | ||
Punjabi ਕਾੱਪੀ | ||
Quechua copia | ||
Romanian copie | ||
Russian копировать | ||
Samoan kopi | ||
Sanskrit प्रतिलिपि | ||
Scots Gaelic leth-bhreac | ||
Sepedi khopi | ||
Serbian копија | ||
Sesotho kopitsa | ||
Shona kopi | ||
Sindhi ڪاپي | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) පිටපත | ||
Slovak kópia | ||
Slovenian kopirati | ||
Somali nuqul | ||
Spanish copiar | ||
Sundanese nyalin | ||
Swahili nakala | ||
Swedish kopiera | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) kopya | ||
Tajik нусха | ||
Tamil நகல் | ||
Tatar күчереп алу | ||
Telugu కాపీ | ||
Thai สำเนา | ||
Tigrinya ቅዳሕ | ||
Tsonga kopi ya kona | ||
Turkish kopya | ||
Turkmen göçürmek | ||
Twi (Akan) copy | ||
Ukrainian копію | ||
Urdu کاپی | ||
Uyghur كۆپەيتىلگەن | ||
Uzbek nusxa ko'chirish | ||
Vietnamese sao chép | ||
Welsh copi | ||
Xhosa ikopi | ||
Yiddish קאָפּיע | ||
Yoruba ẹda | ||
Zulu ikhophi |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "kopie" in Afrikaans is derived from the Dutch word "copie" meaning "copy", and can also refer to a ranch or farm. |
| Albanian | The Albanian word "kopjoj" is derived from the Latin "copia," meaning "abundance" or "plenty." |
| Amharic | The word 'ቅጅ' has an alternate meaning of 'tracing paper'. |
| Arabic | The word "نسخ" also means "to cancel" or "to repeal" in Arabic. |
| Azerbaijani | The Azerbaijani word "surəti" originates from the Arabic "ṣūrah", meaning "form" or "image", and can also refer to a "portrait", "picture". |
| Basque | The Basque word "kopiatu" is derived from the Latin "copiare," meaning "to make a copy" or "to imitate." |
| Belarusian | The word "копія" in Belarusian can also be a synonym for "duplicate" and "reproduction". |
| Bengali | "অনুলিপি" also means "manuscript" in Bengali. |
| Bosnian | The word "kopiraj" is also derived from the French word "copier", meaning "to imitate" or "to transcribe" |
| Bulgarian | The word "копие" also means "spear" in Bulgarian. |
| Catalan | Catalan "còpia" also means "abundance" or "plenty". |
| Cebuano | Kopya can refer to either a copy or a photocopy in Cebuano. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 复制 (fù zhì) can also mean 'reproduction' or 'replication' in a biological or technical context. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The Chinese character 複製 can also mean 'to multiply', 'to duplicate', or 'to reproduce'. |
| Corsican | Corsican "cupià" derives from Italian "copiare" (to copy), and also means "to transcribe" or "to translate". |
| Croatian | The Croatian word "kopirati" is derived from the Latin word "copia", meaning "abundance" or "plenty." |
| Czech | Czech "kopírovat" comes from "ko" („with”) and píra ("quill") meaning "to write using quill". |
| Danish | The Danish word "kopi" can also refer to a book printed from movable type that is a facsimile or imitation of an early manuscript that is handwritten. |
| Dutch | The word "kopiëren" in Dutch derives from the Latin "copia," meaning "abundance," and has evolved to also mean "to reproduce" something. |
| Esperanto | "Kopii" is a rare word from the roots "ko" and "pii," the latter of which is a rarer root that also appears in the words "kopii", "kupi", and "kupli". |
| Estonian | The word "koopia" comes from the Greek word "kopos", meaning "to cut" or "to strike", and refers to the creation of a duplicate by incision or stamping. |
| Finnish | "Kopio" also means "feces" in the dialect of southwestern Finland. |
| French | The French word "copie" can also refer to a student's written work, a musical score, or a painting. |
| Frisian | The word "kopy" in Frisian, meaning "a copy", is derived from the Latin word "copia", meaning "abundance" or "wealth". |
| Galician | The Galician word "copiar" evolved from Latin "copiare", meaning "to provide" or "to furnish". |
| Georgian | The word "ასლი" also means "prototype" or "model" in Georgian. |
| German | Etymologically derived from 'koppen', meaning 'to strike' or 'to cut off', 'Kopieren' also refers to 'to imitate' or 'to fake'. |
| Greek | The word „αντίγραφο“ derives from the Ancient Greek noun „άντίγραφο“ meaning „writer” or „scribe”, but was used to describe both the writer and the writings themselves. |
| Gujarati | A 'nakal' is not just a physical or digital imitation, it's also an embodiment, an alternative expression or an impersonation. |
| Haitian Creole | The word "kopi" can also refer to a "counterfeit" or "duplicate" in Haitian Creole. |
| Hausa | The word "kwafa" also means "to steal" in Hausa. |
| Hawaiian | In Hawaiian, "kope" also means "to cut" or "to break something off". |
| Hebrew | עותק in Hebrew derives from the root עתק, meaning "to transplant" or "to duplicate", and can also refer to a "specimen" or "exemplar." |
| Hindi | The word 'प्रतिलिपि' is derived from the Sanskrit word 'प्रति' (meaning 'towards') and 'लिपि' (meaning 'mark'), suggesting 'a mark made towards something'. |
| Hmong | Daim ntawv theej, a compound of three words that means 'to make write again', has an implied subject that is the person copying. |
| Hungarian | In Hungarian, "másolat" (which means "copy") also conveys the notion of "second", and can be used to refer to a subordinate or assistant. |
| Icelandic | The word "afrita" in Icelandic stems from the Latin word "scribere" and originally referred to the art of writing. |
| Igbo | In the Igbo language, "oyiri" can mean either "copy" or "trace". |
| Indonesian | The word "salinan" in Indonesian can also mean "carbon copy" or "photocopy". |
| Irish | Cóip, a loanword from English, has an alternate meaning in Irish, 'a tuft or lock of wool or hair' |
| Italian | "Copia" derives from the Latin word "copia," meaning "abundance" or "plenty," and has also been used to refer to an amount of food served at a meal in the past. |
| Japanese | The word "コピー" (kopi) originated from the Dutch word "kopie" which means "duplicate" or "imitation", and was originally used in Japanese to refer to handwritten or mechanical copies of documents. |
| Javanese | The Javanese word |
| Kannada | ನಕಲಿಸಿ derives from the root ನಕಲ್, meaning 'to copy, imitate, or reproduce,' and can also refer to a duplicate or forgery. |
| Kazakh | The word "көшірме" can also mean "reproduction" or "imitation" in Kazakh. |
| Khmer | The word "ចម្លង" is derived from the Sanskrit word "chamlong", meaning "to draw" or "to trace over". |
| Korean | "부(copy)" originally meant "to write after seeing." This meaning is still used in some compounds, such as 부자(copyist) or 부서(department). |
| Kurdish | In Farsi, the word "kopî" (کپی) means both "copy" and "monkey." |
| Kyrgyz | "Көчүрүү" can also refer to an "expedience", or a way for a nomadic society to overcome a hardship by using a temporary, portable, or indirect approach. |
| Lao | This word is borrowed from Thai and derives from the Sanskrit word "samjna," which means "name" or "mark." |
| Latin | Late Latin exemplum "copy" is a derivative of Latin exemplare "model, specimen" (ultimately from eximere "to take out"). |
| Latvian | "Kopija" can be used as a synonym for "duplicate", "counterfeit", "simulation", or "fabrication" in Latvian. |
| Lithuanian | In Lithuanian, the word "kopija" can also mean "carbon copy", "duplicate", or "imitation". |
| Macedonian | The word "копија" originates from the Latin word "copia", meaning "abundance" or "plenty". |
| Malagasy | The word "dika mitovy" in Malagasy can also mean "make a copy", "reproduce", or "imitate". |
| Malay | Salinan can also refer to a loan agreement, a document, or a manuscript. |
| Malayalam | "പകർത്തുക" means to "spread" or "transmit", for example a disease or rumour. |
| Maltese | The word "kopja" is derived from the Latin word "copia", meaning "abundance" or "plenty". |
| Maori | The word tārua has several additional meanings, including 'example', 'pattern', and 'type'. |
| Marathi | The word "प्रत" can also mean "duplicate" or "instance" in Marathi. |
| Mongolian | The verb хуулбарлах can also mean 'to imitate' or 'to mimic'. |
| Nepali | The word "कापी" in Nepali can also refer to a notebook or exercise book, and is derived from the Sanskrit word "कापिक", meaning "cloth to write on". |
| Norwegian | The word "kopiere" in Norwegian can also mean "to make a model" or "to reproduce something." |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "kutengera" in Nyanja can also mean "to buy" or "to borrow", suggesting the idea of acquiring something that already exists. |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "کاپي" can also refer to a type of traditional Afghan headwear made of sheepskin. |
| Persian | کپی 🀄 is also an informal Persian term for a photocopy or Xerox copy. |
| Polish | The word "kopiuj" in Polish originated from the German word "kopieren", meaning "to copy". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Brazilian Portuguese, "cópia de" can also mean "transcript of" or "extract from" when referring to official documents. |
| Punjabi | The word 'ਕਾੱਪੀ' is also used in Punjabi to refer to a small earthenware cup for holding liquids. |
| Romanian | "Copie" in Romanian can also refer to a handwritten document or a script. |
| Russian | The Russian word "копировать" (copy) is derived from the Latin word "copia" (abundance). |
| Samoan | The word 'kopi' in Samoan also means 'to imitate' or 'to mimic'. |
| Scots Gaelic | The word "leth-bhreac" in Scots Gaelic can also mean "left-handed" or "unlucky." |
| Serbian | The word "копија" also has an alternate meaning of "bastard". |
| Sesotho | The word "kopitsa" is sometimes used to refer to a pile of hay.} |
| Shona | Shona "kopi" can also refer to the act of copying. |
| Sindhi | The word "ڪاپي" in Sindhi can also mean "cloth" or "fabric". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | From Sanskrit पटपत्रिकापत्र (paṭapatrakāpatra, "a copy of a document"). |
| Slovak | The Slovak word "kópia" also has the alternate meaning of "cheat sheet". |
| Slovenian | The word 'kopirati' is derived from the French word 'copier', which means 'to make a copy'. |
| Somali | In Arabic, the word "nuqul" also means "moving" or "transferring". |
| Spanish | The Spanish word "copiar" originates from the Latin "copia," which means "abundance" or "plenty." |
| Sundanese | The word "nyalin", meaning "copy", is derived from the root word "alin" which means "to match or follow". |
| Swahili | The word "nakala" in Swahili can also mean "a written statement" or "a record of events." |
| Swedish | The word "kopiera" is derived from the Latin word "copia", meaning "abundance" or "wealth". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The Tagalog word "kopya" can also refer to plagiarism or an imitation. |
| Tajik | The word "nuskha" is derived from the Arabic word "naskh," meaning "to copy or transcribe." |
| Tamil | நகல் (nakal) also means 'replica' or 'imitation' in Tamil. |
| Telugu | The Telugu word "కాపీ" (kāpī) is borrowed from the English word "copy" and can also mean "tea". |
| Thai | The word "สำเนา" can also mean "photocopy" or "duplicate." |
| Turkish | The Turkish word "kopya" can also mean "duplicate" or "imitation", and is derived from the Greek word "kopos" meaning "toil" or "labor". |
| Ukrainian | The word "копію" in Ukrainian can also refer to a document that has been certified as an authentic copy of the original. |
| Urdu | The word "کاپی" in Urdu can also refer to a small notebook or a type of Indian bread. |
| Uzbek | The Uzbek word "nusxa ko'chirish" originally meant "to rewrite a book" but now also means "to copy". |
| Vietnamese | The Vietnamese word "sao chép" originally meant "imitation" or "copying a mold", reflecting the traditional techniques of making copies from existing sources. |
| Welsh | The Welsh word "copi" can also refer to a "group" or a "copyhold tenure". |
| Xhosa | The word "ikopi" in Xhosa also means "to trace" or "to follow". |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "קאָפּיע" (kopye) also means "document" as opposed to "original" and is used in the expression "קאָפּיע פֿון אַ פֿאַקט" (kopye fun a fakt) "a certified copy (of a document)" |
| Yoruba | In addition to "copy," ẹda or ìdá can also mean "likeness," "image," or "representation." |
| Zulu | Its variant form 'ikofi' can mean either 'a copy' or 'to pretend to eat'. |
| English | The word 'copy' originates from the Latin 'copia' meaning 'abundance' or 'plenty'. |