Afrikaans skep | ||
Albanian krijoj | ||
Amharic ፍጠር | ||
Arabic خلق | ||
Armenian ստեղծել | ||
Assamese সৃষ্টি কৰা | ||
Aymara uñstayaña | ||
Azerbaijani yaratmaq | ||
Bambara ka dilan | ||
Basque sortu | ||
Belarusian стварыць | ||
Bengali সৃষ্টি | ||
Bhojpuri बनावल | ||
Bosnian stvoriti | ||
Bulgarian създайте | ||
Catalan crear | ||
Cebuano paghimo | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 创造 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 創造 | ||
Corsican creà | ||
Croatian stvoriti | ||
Czech vytvořit | ||
Danish skab | ||
Dhivehi ތައްޔާރުކުރުން | ||
Dogri बनाना | ||
Dutch creëren | ||
English create | ||
Esperanto krei | ||
Estonian luua | ||
Ewe wᴐ | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) lumikha | ||
Finnish luoda | ||
French créer | ||
Frisian meitsje | ||
Galician crear | ||
Georgian შექმნა | ||
German erstellen | ||
Greek δημιουργώ | ||
Guarani mboypy | ||
Gujarati બનાવો | ||
Haitian Creole kreye | ||
Hausa halitta | ||
Hawaiian hana | ||
Hebrew לִיצוֹר | ||
Hindi सृजन करना | ||
Hmong tsim | ||
Hungarian teremt | ||
Icelandic búa til | ||
Igbo kee | ||
Ilocano agaramid | ||
Indonesian membuat | ||
Irish cruthaigh | ||
Italian creare | ||
Japanese 作成する | ||
Javanese nggawe | ||
Kannada ರಚಿಸಿ | ||
Kazakh жасау | ||
Khmer បង្កើត | ||
Kinyarwanda kurema | ||
Konkani निर्माण करचें | ||
Korean 창조하다 | ||
Krio mek | ||
Kurdish xûliqandin | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) دروستکردن | ||
Kyrgyz түзүү | ||
Lao ສ້າງ | ||
Latin partum | ||
Latvian izveidot | ||
Lingala kosala | ||
Lithuanian sukurti | ||
Luganda okutonda | ||
Luxembourgish kreéieren | ||
Macedonian создаваат | ||
Maithili बनाउ | ||
Malagasy manangana | ||
Malay buat | ||
Malayalam സൃഷ്ടിക്കാൻ | ||
Maltese toħloq | ||
Maori hanga | ||
Marathi तयार करा | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯁꯦꯝꯕ | ||
Mizo siam | ||
Mongolian бий болгох | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ဖန်တီး | ||
Nepali सिर्जना गर्नुहोस् | ||
Norwegian skape | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) pangani | ||
Odia (Oriya) ସୃଷ୍ଟି କରନ୍ତୁ | | ||
Oromo uumuu | ||
Pashto جوړول | ||
Persian ایجاد کردن | ||
Polish stwórz | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) crio | ||
Punjabi ਬਣਾਓ | ||
Quechua paqarichiy | ||
Romanian crea | ||
Russian создайте | ||
Samoan faia | ||
Sanskrit निर्मियताम् | ||
Scots Gaelic cruthaich | ||
Sepedi hlama | ||
Serbian креирај | ||
Sesotho bopa | ||
Shona gadzira | ||
Sindhi ٺاهيو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) සාදන්න | ||
Slovak vytvoriť | ||
Slovenian ustvariti | ||
Somali abuur | ||
Spanish crear | ||
Sundanese nyiptakeun | ||
Swahili kuunda | ||
Swedish skapa | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) lumikha | ||
Tajik эҷод кардан | ||
Tamil உருவாக்கு | ||
Tatar булдыру | ||
Telugu సృష్టించండి | ||
Thai สร้าง | ||
Tigrinya ፍጠር | ||
Tsonga vumba | ||
Turkish oluşturmak | ||
Turkmen döretmek | ||
Twi (Akan) yɛ | ||
Ukrainian створити | ||
Urdu بنانا | ||
Uyghur قۇرۇش | ||
Uzbek yaratmoq | ||
Vietnamese tạo nên | ||
Welsh creu | ||
Xhosa yenza | ||
Yiddish שאַפֿן | ||
Yoruba ṣẹda | ||
Zulu dala |
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | "Skep" in Afrikaans also refers to the act of forming or shaping something. |
| Albanian | The Albanian word "krijoj" is derived from the Proto-Albanian *krijō, which is cognate with the Latin "creo" and the Greek "κτίζω". |
| Amharic | In Amharic, "ፍጠር" also means "to produce" or "to generate". |
| Arabic | The word 'خلق' has two different roots in Arabic, meaning both 'to separate' and 'to bring into being'. |
| Armenian | "Ստեղծել", which derives from the root "ստեղծ-", implies not only creation, but also establishment, invention, and bringing about a change in reality. |
| Azerbaijani | "Yaratmaq" also means "to love" and has a root in "yar" meaning "friend." |
| Basque | Basque "sortu" is cognated with "sortu" in many other languages, like Romanian, Catalan or Italian, and might be related to Basque "sortu" (to burn). |
| Belarusian | The word |
| Bengali | The word "সৃষ্টি" is derived from the Sanskrit word "sṛṣṭi" meaning "to create" and can also mean "a thing created". |
| Bosnian | The verb "stvoriti" also means "to make", "to produce", "to bring into being" |
| Bulgarian | "Създайте" is also the Bulgarian word for "make". Unlike English, the word has feminine and masculine forms. |
| Catalan | "Crear" derives from Latin "creare" but can also mean "to filter" in Catalan. |
| Cebuano | The word "paghimo" comes from the Old Cebuano term "himo" which means "make" "build" or "form". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | As '创造', it also means to 'forge', to 'make', and to 'invent'. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | "創造" can also mean 'invention' or 'achievement' in Chinese. |
| Corsican | Corsican "creà" can also mean "grow", "increase" or "give birth to something new". |
| Croatian | In some Slavic languages "stvoriti" means "to create," and in Ancient Slavic it originally meant "to make a whole." |
| Czech | The Czech word "vytvořit" also refers to the process of making something visible, such as turning on lights or showing a film. |
| Danish | The word "skab" in Danish may also refer to a "cupboard" or a "closet". |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "creëren" is derived from the French word "créer" and originally meant "to give birth to" or "to procreate". |
| Esperanto | Esperanto “krei” derives from Old Norse and shares connections with words like “grow” and “beget". |
| Estonian | The word "luua" in Estonian is also used to refer to a "creature" or a "being". |
| Finnish | The Finnish word 'luoda' is ultimately derived from the Proto-Finnic word *luwtā, meaning 'to bend'. |
| French | Créer comes from the Latin "creare" meaning "to make, to produce, to bring into existence" and also means "to believe, to suppose" in French. |
| Frisian | The word "meitsje" in Frisian can also mean "to make" or "to form". |
| Galician | "Crear" also means "to believe" in Galician, from the Latin "credere". |
| Georgian | The Georgian word 'შექმნა' is also used in the sense of 'to build' or 'to construct'. |
| German | Erstellen originates from the Latin "creare" (to produce) and also shares connections to the English "establish." |
| Greek | In ancient Greek, "δημιουργώ" also means "to work with the hands," likely deriving from the root "δημος," meaning "people" or "community." |
| Gujarati | બનાવો (banavo) is related to the Sanskrit word 'ban', which means "weave" and "join together." |
| Haitian Creole | In the Haitian Vodoun lexicon the term "kreye" refers to the power of the Loa (deities) to "create" or manifest things. |
| Hausa | Hausa "halitta" has cognates in Gwandara, Angas, and other nearby languages, implying an older origin in a West African substrate. |
| Hawaiian | The Hawaiian word "hana" derives from the Proto-Polynesian *fana meaning "to shape" or "to mold". |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew verb ליצור (līṭsōr), "to create," also means "to form, shape, or produce." |
| Hindi | It can refer to the bringing something into existence, as well as the artistic act of making something new and unique. |
| Hmong | Tsim can also refer to the action of putting things in order or making something work properly. |
| Hungarian | Hungarian word "teremt" (create) originates from Proto-Turkic "türem" (creation, birth), cognate with "tur" (life), found in "tör" (law) and "ter" (land, nature) |
| Icelandic | The Old Norse equivalent, "búa," had a broader meaning, including "to cultivate," "to dwell," and "to build a nest." |
| Igbo | In Mbaise dialect of Igbo, 'kee' also means 'put up with, endure'. |
| Indonesian | Membuat's root verb 'buat' has various meanings like 'do,' 'cause' or 'shape' depending on its affix. |
| Irish | The Irish word "cruthaigh" can mean "create, form, compose" and is thought to be derived from the Proto-Celtic word "krew" meaning "to gather together". |
| Italian | The Italian word "creare" derives from the Latin verb "creare," meaning "to bring into being, make, produce." |
| Japanese | The word "作成する" (sakusei suru) can also refer to "to produce" or "to write". |
| Javanese | The word "nggawe" in Javanese can also mean "to form", "to make", or "to construct". |
| Kannada | The term "ರಚಿಸಿ" is also used in a figurative sense to describe composition and arrangement in writing. |
| Kazakh | The word «жасау» also means "to build" and "to compose" in Kazakh. |
| Khmer | The word "បង្កើត" also has the meaning of "to cause to happen" or "to bring about" in Khmer. |
| Korean | 창조하다 can also mean "to bring into being," "to make," or "to cause to exist." |
| Kurdish | xûliqandin is thought to derive from the Indo-European word *kʷer-, 'to make, to create'. |
| Kyrgyz | The word "түзүү" can also mean "to draw up or compose, as a document or a contract" in Kyrgyz. |
| Lao | The Lao word for "create" (ສ້າງ) is cognate with the Khmer word "srang" and the Thai word "sang". |
| Latin | The Latin word 'partum' ('to bring forth') also translates as 'to conceive', 'to suffer', or (as an archaic term) 'an offspring'. |
| Latvian | The word "izveidot" is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *krei-, meaning "to make, create, separate". It is also related to the English word "creative". |
| Lithuanian | Sukurti derives from the root of the Slavic verb *konstrukti and is a cognate of the modern Russian word for "construct" or "build". |
| Luxembourgish | "Kreéieren" is derived from the French word "créer" and originally meant "to grow", "to form", or "to produce". |
| Macedonian | The Macedonian verb "создаваат" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *sъzdati, which also means "to put together" or "to build". |
| Malagasy | The word "MANANGANA" also means "to write" or "to draw" in Malagasy, highlighting the connection between creation and expression. |
| Malay | The word 'buat' can also mean 'do' or 'make' in Malay. |
| Malayalam | The word "സൃഷ്ടിക്കാൻ" comes from the Sanskrit root "srj", meaning "to spread out, emit, or set free", and is also related to the word "srijana", meaning "creation". |
| Maltese | "Toħloq" is also used figuratively to mean "bring about" or "cause to happen" |
| Maori | 'Hanga' also means 'to build' and 'to establish' in Maori, highlighting the interconnectedness of creation, building, and establishment in Maori culture. |
| Marathi | The Marathi word "तयार करा" is derived from Sanskrit, where "तयार" means "prepared" and "करा" means "to do." |
| Mongolian | The literal translation of "бий болгох" is "to make be". |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The word “ဖန်တီး” can also mean to design, make, or bring something into existence. |
| Nepali | The verb 'सिर्जना गर्नुहोस्' ('create') is derived from the Sanskrit word 'srj' meaning 'to let go, emit, produce, or create'. |
| Norwegian | Skape is a Proto-Germanic word shared with other languages like Swedish, Danish, and English, where it means 'shape'. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "pangani" also means "to be born" in Nyanja (Chichewa). |
| Pashto | The Pashto verb "جوړول" (jorol) also means "to prepare" or "to make ready". |
| Persian | The Persian word "ایجاد کردن" is also used in the sense of "to invent" or "to establish". |
| Polish | The word "Stwórz" can also refer to a mythical creature or a deity in Polish mythology. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Brazil, "crio" can also refer to a person of mixed African and European descent, while in Portugal, it can mean "boy" or "young man" |
| Punjabi | The word 'बनाओ' ('create') is also used to refer to the act of decorating or beautifying something. |
| Romanian | In addition to "create," "crea" can also mean "grow" or "raise." |
| Russian | Создать (Russian) shares its etymology with создавать (sozdat' - to create) in Bulgarian and створити (stvoriti - to create) in Serbian, all of which mean "to produce something new." |
| Samoan | The Samoan word 'faia' can also mean 'make' or 'do'. |
| Scots Gaelic | Scots Gaelic term 'cruthaich', meaning 'create', originates from Old Irish 'cruthaigid' referring to 'forming' or 'shaping'. |
| Serbian | The word "Креирај" in Serbian is derived from the French word "créer," which means "to create" or "to bring into existence." |
| Sesotho | "Bopa" also means "come forth," "be created" and "arise." |
| Shona | "Gadzira" also means "to shape," "to fabricate," and "to form." |
| Sindhi | In Sindhi, ٺاهيو (create) is often used to describe a process or the result of it, such as an event or a product. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word සාදන්න (create) in Sinhala can also mean 'to make' or 'to produce'. |
| Slovak | "Vytvoriť" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word "tvoriti", which also means "to fashion" or "to shape". |
| Slovenian | The word 'ustvariti' is derived from the Proto-Slavic word 'tvarь', meaning 'creature' or 'formation'. |
| Somali | "Abuur" can also mean "cause to appear or emerge" or "make manifest". |
| Spanish | Crear originally meant 'to grow' or 'to develop' in Spanish, but its meaning has since evolved to include 'to create' or 'to bring into existence'. |
| Sundanese | The word "nyiptakeun" in Sundanese can also mean "to make", "to produce", or "to cause". |
| Swahili | In Swahili, "kuunda" can also refer to forming or bringing into being non-physical things, such as ideas or organizations. |
| Swedish | The Swedish word "skapa" is related to the English word "shape". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Lumikha" may also mean "form" or "make". |
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| Tamil | The word உருவாக்கு is derived from the root word உரு 'form' and can also mean 'to form' or 'to shape'. |
| Telugu | The Telugu word "సృష్టించండి" is derived from the Sanskrit word "सृज्" (srij), which means "to bring into being, to produce, or to create." |
| Thai | สร้าง (s̄̄ạ̀ng) comes from the Khmer word សាង (saṅ) and it can also mean 'to establish' in Thai. |
| Turkish | "Oluşturmak" has the same root as "olmak" meaning "to be", implying that creation is the act of bringing something into existence. |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word "створити" comes from the Proto-Slavic root "*tvoriti", meaning "to form, to shape, to create". |
| Urdu | The word "بنانا" can also mean "to write" or "to compose" in Urdu. |
| Uzbek | The Uzbek word "yaratmoq" can also mean "make" or "produce." |
| Vietnamese | "Tạo nên" in Vietnamese can also mean "to make up", "to invent", or "to establish". |
| Welsh | In Welsh, "creu" means "create," but it can also refer to "shape" or "form," emphasizing the active process of bringing something into existence. |
| Xhosa | The word "yenza" can also refer to "making" or "doing" something. |
| Yiddish | "שאַפֿן" derives from Middle High German "schaffen" meaning "form, create" in the sense of making something tangible, similar to modern English "shaping". |
| Yoruba | The word "ṣẹda" in Yoruba also means "to open" or "to initiate". |
| Zulu | In Zulu, "dala" can also refer to "generate" or "produce". |
| English | The word "create" comes from the Latin word "creare," meaning "to bring into being, produce, or cause to exist." |