Credit in Different Languages
Discover 'Credit' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Credit
Afrikaans krediet | ||
Albanian kredi | ||
Amharic ክሬዲት | ||
Arabic ائتمان | ||
Armenian վարկային | ||
Assamese কৃতিত্ব | ||
Aymara mayt'awi | ||
Azerbaijani kredit | ||
Bambara juru | ||
Basque kreditua | ||
Belarusian крэдыт | ||
Bengali ক্রেডিট | ||
Bhojpuri करज | ||
Bosnian kredit | ||
Bulgarian кредит | ||
Catalan crèdit | ||
Cebuano kredito | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 信用 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 信用 | ||
Corsican creditu | ||
Croatian kreditna | ||
Czech kredit | ||
Danish kredit | ||
Dhivehi ކްރެޑިޓް | ||
Dogri दुहार | ||
Dutch credit | ||
English credit | ||
Esperanto kredito | ||
Estonian krediiti | ||
Ewe gadodo | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) pautang | ||
Finnish luotto | ||
French crédit | ||
Frisian kredyt | ||
Galician crédito | ||
Georgian საკრედიტო | ||
German anerkennung | ||
Greek πίστωση | ||
Guarani ijeroviaha | ||
Gujarati જમા | ||
Haitian Creole kredi | ||
Hausa daraja | ||
Hawaiian ʻaiʻē | ||
Hebrew אַשׁרַאי | ||
Hindi श्रेय | ||
Hmong kev siv credit | ||
Hungarian hitel | ||
Icelandic inneign | ||
Igbo ebe e si nweta | ||
Ilocano utang | ||
Indonesian kredit | ||
Irish creidmheas | ||
Italian credito | ||
Japanese クレジット | ||
Javanese kredit | ||
Kannada ಕ್ರೆಡಿಟ್ | ||
Kazakh несие | ||
Khmer ឥណទាន | ||
Kinyarwanda inguzanyo | ||
Konkani क्रेडिट | ||
Korean 신용 | ||
Krio krɛdit | ||
Kurdish krêdî | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) کرێدیت | ||
Kyrgyz кредит | ||
Lao ການປ່ອຍສິນເຊື່ອ | ||
Latin fidem | ||
Latvian kredīts | ||
Lingala nyongo | ||
Lithuanian kreditas | ||
Luganda akagoba | ||
Luxembourgish kredit | ||
Macedonian кредитен | ||
Maithili उधार | ||
Malagasy bola | ||
Malay kredit | ||
Malayalam ക്രെഡിറ്റ് | ||
Maltese kreditu | ||
Maori nama | ||
Marathi जमा | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯃꯅꯥ ꯄꯤꯕ | ||
Mizo leiba | ||
Mongolian зээл | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အကြွေး | ||
Nepali क्रेडिट | ||
Norwegian kreditt | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) ngongole | ||
Odia (Oriya) କ୍ରେଡିଟ୍ | ||
Oromo liqaa | ||
Pashto کریډیټ | ||
Persian اعتبار | ||
Polish kredyt | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) crédito | ||
Punjabi ਕ੍ਰੈਡਿਟ | ||
Quechua manu | ||
Romanian credit | ||
Russian кредит | ||
Samoan aitalafu | ||
Sanskrit श्रेय | ||
Scots Gaelic creideas | ||
Sepedi khrediti | ||
Serbian кредит | ||
Sesotho mokitlane | ||
Shona chikwereti | ||
Sindhi ڪريڊٽ | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) ණය | ||
Slovak úver | ||
Slovenian kredit | ||
Somali amaah | ||
Spanish crédito | ||
Sundanese kiridit | ||
Swahili mikopo | ||
Swedish kreditera | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) kredito | ||
Tajik қарз | ||
Tamil கடன் | ||
Tatar кредит | ||
Telugu క్రెడిట్ | ||
Thai เครดิต | ||
Tigrinya ልቓሕ | ||
Tsonga xikweleti | ||
Turkish kredi | ||
Turkmen karz | ||
Twi (Akan) mfasoɔ | ||
Ukrainian кредит | ||
Urdu کریڈٹ | ||
Uyghur ئىناۋەت | ||
Uzbek kredit | ||
Vietnamese tín dụng | ||
Welsh credyd | ||
Xhosa ityala | ||
Yiddish קרעדיט | ||
Yoruba kirẹditi | ||
Zulu isikweletu |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "krediet" also refers to a credit entry in an accounting system or ledger. |
| Albanian | The Albanian word "kredi" originates from the Latin "creditum", meaning "a loan", "a thing believed", or "trust". |
| Amharic | The Amharic word ክሬዲት (credit) is derived from the English word 'credit' and has the alternate meaning of 'reputation' or 'honor'. |
| Arabic | The word "ائتمان" (credit) in Arabic is derived from the root "أمن" (security) and can also refer to trust, reliability, or dependability. |
| Azerbaijani | The Azerbaijani word “kredit” is borrowed from Russian, where it is originally derived from the Latin word “creditum”, meaning “trust”. |
| Basque | The Basque word "kreditua" derives from the Latin "credere", meaning "to believe" or "to trust". |
| Belarusian | The Belarusian word "крэдыт" derives from the Latin word "credere", meaning to believe or trust, and the related word "credibilis", meaning credible or believable. |
| Bengali | The Bengali word "ক্রেডিট" is derived from the French word "crédit" and the Latin word "credere", meaning "to believe" or "to trust". |
| Bosnian | The word 'kredit' is derived from the Latin word 'creditum', meaning 'thing entrusted'. |
| Bulgarian | In Bulgarian, the word "credit" (кредит) is derived from the French word "crédit", which in turn originates from the Latin word "credere" (to believe), suggesting a sense of trust or confidence in the recipient of credit. |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "crèdit" can also mean "belief" or "trust" in a non-monetary sense. |
| Cebuano | Kredito can also refer to an individual or company that lends money, or the act of borrowing money. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 信用 also refers to 'trust' or 'reliability', as in a trustworthy person. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 信用 (credit) derives from the words 信 (belief, faith) and 用 (meaning, purpose), and can also mean trust or belief based on experience. |
| Corsican | In Corsican, 'creditu' can also mean 'reputation'. |
| Croatian | The word 'Kreditna' comes from the Latin 'creditum,' meaning 'something entrusted or trusted to someone.' |
| Czech | Czech "kredit" originally referred to the honor of soldiers, and survives as an idiom "ztratit na kreditu" (to lose credit), meaning to lose prestige or authority. |
| Danish | The word "kredit" in Danish can also mean "trust" or "reputation". |
| Dutch | In Dutch, "credit" can also mean "debt" or "belief". |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word "kredito" comes from the Latin word "credere," meaning "to believe" or "to trust." |
| Estonian | "Krediiti" in Estonian also means "credibility" and derives from the word for "trust". |
| Finnish | In addition to the financial meaning of “credit”, “luotto” also signifies an agreement, pledge, or trust in spoken Finnish. |
| French | In French, "crédit" can also refer to a short period of time, such as a moment or an instant. |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "kredyt" also means "belief" or "trust". |
| Galician | "Crédito" can also mean "testimony" or "authority" in Galician. |
| German | "Anerkennung" in German can also mean "appreciation" or "acknowledgement". |
| Greek | The Greek word "πίστωση" can also refer to a type of accounting entry or a form of financial trust. |
| Gujarati | The word "જમા" in Gujarati can also mean "deposit", "balance", or "addition". |
| Haitian Creole | The word "kredi" in Haitian Creole also means "trust" or "confidence." |
| Hausa | In Hausa, "daraja" originates from the Arabic "daraja" meaning "step" or "rank" and also signifies "esteem" or "worth". |
| Hawaiian | While the word commonly refers to credit in the sense of borrowing, it was extended to apply to a borrower's obligation to work for the lender. |
| Hebrew | The word "אַשׁרַאי" (credit) in Hebrew is derived from the root "אש" (fire), indicating the idea of burning away debt or obligations. |
| Hindi | In Sanskrit, "श्रेय" also refers to a spiritual or ethical principle, a path of righteousness or well-being. |
| Hmong | Credit is borrowed from the English word "credit" and is used to refer to a positive balance in a financial account. |
| Hungarian | In Hungarian, "hitel" can also refer to faith or belief, highlighting the connection between financial trust and religious devotion in the language's historical evolution. |
| Icelandic | "Inneign" is an Icelandic word meaning "credit" and is likely derived from the Old Norse word "innegn," which referred to a "pledge" or "guarantee." |
| Igbo | In Igbo, the word "Ebe E Si Nweta" also means "a place where one can get." |
| Indonesian | In Indonesian, the word "kredit" also has the meaning of "mortgage" or "loan". |
| Italian | The word "credito" in Italian also means "belief" or "trust". |
| Japanese | "クレジット" is an English loanword in Japanese and can also mean "roll credits" or "the credits" in the context of films or videos. |
| Javanese | In Javanese, "kredit" can also refer to a system of lending and borrowing between neighbors or within a community. |
| Kannada | In ancient Roman context, credit comes from Latin "credere" meaning "to believe, have faith, trust"} |
| Kazakh | The term "несие" in Kazakh holds additional meanings such as "trust" and "delay". |
| Khmer | "ឥណទាន" comes from Sanskrit, where "ṛṇa" means debt and "dāna" means giving. |
| Korean | The word "신용" (credit) comes from the Chinese word "信用", which means "trust" or "faith." |
| Kurdish | The word "krêdî" can also mean "trust" or "belief" in Kurdish. |
| Kyrgyz | The Kyrgyz word for "credit", "кредит", derives from the French word "crédit", ultimately from the Latin word "credere", meaning "to believe" |
| Latin | The word 'fidem' also means 'faith' or 'trust' in Latin. |
| Latvian | The word "kredīts" also means "belief" or "trust" in Latvian. |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word "kreditas" (credit) comes from the German word "Kredit" which in turn has its roots in the Latin word "credere" (to believe). |
| Luxembourgish | In Luxembourgish, "Kredit" can also refer to a loan or an advance payment. |
| Macedonian | The word "кредитен" comes from the Latin word "creditum", meaning "something entrusted". |
| Malagasy | The word "bola" in Malagasy can also mean "debt" or "owe". |
| Malay | "Kredit" in Malay is sometimes used to refer to a credit system, such as the one used in the education system, where students receive credits for completing courses. |
| Malayalam | The Malayalam word 'ക്രെഡിറ്റ്' is derived from the English word 'credit' and can also mean 'reputation' or 'fame'. |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "kreditu" is borrowed from Italian "credito" and ultimately from Latin "credere" (to believe). |
| Maori | This Maori word means not only 'credit' but can also mean 'debt' |
| Marathi | The word “जमा” in Marathi, meaning “credit”, comes from the Hindi word “जमा करना” which means “to collect or accumulate”. |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word "зээл" is derived from the Old Turkic word "söl" meaning "promise". |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The Myanmar word "အကြွေး" can also refer to a debt or a loan that is owed by one party to another. |
| Nepali | The word 'credit' has its origins in the Latin word 'credere,' meaning 'to trust' or 'to believe,' indicating the underlying notion of reliability and trustworthiness associated with the concept of giving or receiving credit. |
| Norwegian | The word "kreditt" is a loanword from French, where it means "belief" or "trust". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word comes from the verb 'kwenga,' meaning: to become crooked in posture, bent, twisted, askew. |
| Pashto | The word "کریډیټ" also means "to believe" in Pashto. |
| Persian | While "اعتبار" mostly translates to "credit", its original Arabic definition is "belief", "trust", "respect", or "faith". |
| Polish | The Polish word 'kredyt' originates from the Latin word 'credere' ('to believe') and shares its etymology with its English cognate, and has also acquired the secondary meaning of 'chalk' in Polish. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | "Crédito", in Portuguese, derives from "credo", meaning belief or faith, as it initially referred to the trust placed in a debtor to pay a debt. |
| Punjabi | The word "credit" comes from the Latin word "credere", meaning "to trust" or "to believe". |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "credit" has multiple meanings, including "belief", "trust", and "value". |
| Russian | The Russian word "кредит" originally meant "trust" or "faith" and is related to the verb "верить" (to believe). |
| Samoan | The word "aitalafu" can also mean "debt" in Samoan, depending on the context. |
| Scots Gaelic | Creideas originates from the Latin word 'credere', meaning to trust or believe. |
| Serbian | In Serbian, "кредит" can also mean "loan" or "debt". |
| Sesotho | The word "mokitlane" in Sesotho originates from the verb "ho kitla", meaning "to borrow" and also "to trust". |
| Shona | The term "chikwereti" in Shona originally referred to a system of informal loans, often granted with an understanding of a future favor in return. |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "ڪريڊٽ" can also mean "reputation" or "esteem." |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | "ණය" can also mean "debt", indicating the reciprocal aspect of a lending transaction |
| Slovak | The word "úver" in Slovak is derived from the Latin word "credere," meaning "to trust" |
| Slovenian | Besides "credit," "kredit" also means "creed" in Slovenian. |
| Somali | The term "amaah" also denotes the act of "trusting" something or someone in Somali. |
| Spanish | In Spanish, the word "crédito" can also refer to credibility or reputation. |
| Sundanese | The Sundanese word "kiridit" is derived from the Sanskrit word "kridita", meaning "loan" or "debt", and it can also mean "to give" or "to receive" something. |
| Swahili | In Swahili, "mikopo" can also refer to "funds" or "resources" |
| Swedish | The Swedish word "kreditera" derives from the Latin word "credere", meaning "to believe" or "to trust". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Kredito" is derived from the Latin word "creditum", meaning "trust" or "belief". |
| Tajik | The Tajik word "қарз" has the same meaning as the English word "loan". |
| Tamil | The Tamil word "கடன்" can also mean "debt" or "loan". |
| Telugu | The Telugu word క్రెడిట్ (kredittu) is borrowed from the English word "credit", which ultimately derives from the Latin word "credere", meaning "to believe" or "to trust". |
| Thai | This word derives from the Latin creditus, meaning 'something believed' and from credere, meaning 'to believe' or 'to trust'. |
| Turkish | The word 'kredi' (credit) comes from the French word 'crédit' (creditor). |
| Ukrainian | The word "кредит" in Ukrainian can also refer to a period of time during which taxes are not collected. |
| Urdu | The word 'credit' derives from the Latin word 'credere,' meaning 'to trust or believe,' emphasizing the concept of reliability and trust associated with financial credit. |
| Uzbek | In Uzbek, "kredit" can also refer to a loan or debt, similar to its financial meaning in other languages. |
| Vietnamese | "Tín dụng" also means "reputation" or "loyalty" in Vietnamese. |
| Welsh | "Credyd" comes from the Latin "credere" and can also mean "belief" or "trust". |
| Xhosa | "Ityala" (credit) is derived from the verb "tyala" (to pay) and can also refer to debts. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word קרעדיט, “credit”, relates to the notion of trust or belief, as implied in its Hebrew origin, אמונה, or its German origin, Glaube. |
| Yoruba | The word 'kirẹditi' derives from the English word 'credit', which in turn derives from the Latin word 'credere', meaning 'to believe'. |
| Zulu | The word "isikweletu" in Zulu likely derives from the Proto-Bantu root *-leka-, meaning "to borrow" or "to owe". |
| English | From the Latin word 'credere', to believe, credit refers to trust or the capacity to borrow money. |