Dangerous in Different Languages
Discover 'Dangerous' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Dangerous
Afrikaans gevaarlik | ||
Albanian e rrezikshme | ||
Amharic አደገኛ | ||
Arabic خطير | ||
Armenian վտանգավոր | ||
Assamese বিপদজনক | ||
Aymara asxarkaya | ||
Azerbaijani təhlükəli | ||
Bambara faratima | ||
Basque arriskutsua | ||
Belarusian небяспечны | ||
Bengali বিপজ্জনক | ||
Bhojpuri खतरनाक | ||
Bosnian opasno | ||
Bulgarian опасно | ||
Catalan perillós | ||
Cebuano kuyaw | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 危险的 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 危險的 | ||
Corsican periculosu | ||
Croatian opasno | ||
Czech nebezpečný | ||
Danish farligt | ||
Dhivehi ނުރައްކާތެރި | ||
Dogri खतरनाक | ||
Dutch gevaarlijk | ||
English dangerous | ||
Esperanto danĝera | ||
Estonian ohtlik | ||
Ewe dziŋᴐ | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) mapanganib | ||
Finnish vaarallinen | ||
French dangereux | ||
Frisian gefaarlik | ||
Galician perigoso | ||
Georgian საშიში | ||
German gefährlich | ||
Greek επικίνδυνος | ||
Guarani iñangave'ỹva | ||
Gujarati ખતરનાક | ||
Haitian Creole danjere | ||
Hausa mai hadari | ||
Hawaiian weliweli | ||
Hebrew מְסוּכָּן | ||
Hindi खतरनाक | ||
Hmong txaus ntshai | ||
Hungarian veszélyes | ||
Icelandic hættulegt | ||
Igbo dị ize ndụ | ||
Ilocano delikado | ||
Indonesian berbahaya | ||
Irish contúirteach | ||
Italian pericoloso | ||
Japanese 危険な | ||
Javanese mbebayani | ||
Kannada ಅಪಾಯಕಾರಿ | ||
Kazakh қауіпті | ||
Khmer គ្រោះថ្នាក់ | ||
Kinyarwanda biteje akaga | ||
Konkani हानीकारक | ||
Korean 위험한 | ||
Krio denja | ||
Kurdish talûkeyî | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) مەترسیدار | ||
Kyrgyz коркунучтуу | ||
Lao ອັນຕະລາຍ | ||
Latin periculo | ||
Latvian bīstams | ||
Lingala likama | ||
Lithuanian pavojinga | ||
Luganda akabi | ||
Luxembourgish geféierlech | ||
Macedonian опасно | ||
Maithili खतरनाक | ||
Malagasy nampidi-doza | ||
Malay berbahaya | ||
Malayalam അപകടകരമാണ് | ||
Maltese perikolużi | ||
Maori mōrearea | ||
Marathi धोकादायक | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯈꯨꯗꯣꯡꯊꯤꯅꯤꯡꯉꯥꯏ ꯑꯣꯏꯕ | ||
Mizo hlauhawm | ||
Mongolian аюултай | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အန္တရာယ်ရှိသော | ||
Nepali खतरनाक | ||
Norwegian farlig | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) owopsa | ||
Odia (Oriya) ବିପଜ୍ଜନକ | | ||
Oromo balaafamaa | ||
Pashto خطرناک | ||
Persian خطرناک | ||
Polish niebezpieczny | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) perigoso | ||
Punjabi ਖਤਰਨਾਕ | ||
Quechua manchachikuq | ||
Romanian periculos | ||
Russian опасно | ||
Samoan mataʻutia | ||
Sanskrit भयंकरं | ||
Scots Gaelic cunnartach | ||
Sepedi kotsi | ||
Serbian опасно | ||
Sesotho kotsi | ||
Shona zvine ngozi | ||
Sindhi خطرناڪ | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) භයානකයි | ||
Slovak nebezpečné | ||
Slovenian nevarno | ||
Somali khatar ah | ||
Spanish peligroso | ||
Sundanese bahaya | ||
Swahili hatari | ||
Swedish farlig | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) mapanganib | ||
Tajik хатарнок | ||
Tamil ஆபத்தானது | ||
Tatar куркыныч | ||
Telugu ప్రమాదకరమైనది | ||
Thai อันตราย | ||
Tigrinya ሓደገኛ | ||
Tsonga nghozi | ||
Turkish tehlikeli | ||
Turkmen howply | ||
Twi (Akan) hu | ||
Ukrainian небезпечний | ||
Urdu خطرناک | ||
Uyghur خەتەرلىك | ||
Uzbek xavfli | ||
Vietnamese nguy hiểm | ||
Welsh peryglus | ||
Xhosa yingozi | ||
Yiddish געפערלעך | ||
Yoruba ewu | ||
Zulu kuyingozi |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | Afrikaans "gevaarlik" derives from Middle Dutch "ghevaer" meaning "risk" and "liik" meaning "body". Hence, literally "body at risk." |
| Albanian | The word 'e rrezikshme' is derived from the Latin word 'risicus', meaning 'danger'. It can also be used in a more general sense to refer to anything that is potentially harmful. |
| Amharic | The word አደገኛ ('dangerous') is derived from the root አደግ ('to be difficult') and can also mean 'difficult' or 'obstructive'. |
| Arabic | The word "خطير" is derived from the root "خطر" which also means "risk" or "hazard". |
| Armenian | The Armenian word "վտանգավոր" (vtangavor) comes from the Proto-Indo-European root *wet- "to blow" and is related to the words "wind" and "danger" in other Indo-European languages. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "təhlükəli" is derived from the Persian word "tahlukeh", which means "danger" or "risk". |
| Basque | "arriskutsua" is the gerund of the verb "arriskatu", which means "to risk". |
| Belarusian | The Belarusian word "небяспечны" is derived from the word "бяда" (misfortune, trouble) and literally means "not safe from trouble". |
| Bengali | The word "বিপজ্জনক" (bipôjjônnôk) originates from the Sanskrit word "विपद्" (vipad), meaning "calamity" or "disaster". |
| Bosnian | "Opasno" is a loanword from Turkish that also means "cautious" in Bosnian. |
| Bulgarian | The word "опасно" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *opasъ, meaning "to fall" or "to stumble". |
| Catalan | The word "perillós" also means "risky" or "hazardous" in Catalan and comes from the Latin word "periculosus" with the same meaning. |
| Cebuano | The word "kuyaw" in Cebuano means 'dangerous' but also can refer to a spirit that brings bad luck or harm. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "危险的" (wēixiǎn de) literally means "precariously inclined" and can also refer to something that is "unstable" or "risky." |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 危险的 (wēixiǎnde) derives from the term "險" (xiǎn), meaning "unstable" and "perilous." |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "periculosu" ultimately derives from the Latin word "periculosus", but it also carries the connotation of "suspicious" or "untrustworthy". |
| Croatian | "Opasno" comes from the Proto-Slavic root "*opasъ", meaning "dangerous" or "harmful." |
| Czech | The word "nebezpečný" is derived from the Proto-Slavic root *nebъg-, meaning "not safe" or "not secure". |
| Danish | The word 'farligt' originated in Old Norse and is related to the words 'fær' (fear) and 'lige' (like), suggesting that something dangerous is something that is both fearful and similar to something else. |
| Dutch | Dutch "gevaarlijk" literally translates to "travelling-full" in English, where "travelling" refers to the act of travelling, and "full" refers to the completeness of the act. |
| Esperanto | "Danĝera" is based on "danger" but is more akin to the French word "dangereux", which has connotations of forbidden, harmful, or evil. |
| Estonian | The Estonian word "ohtlik" is thought to be derived from the Proto-Finnic word *ohtana, which meant "danger" or "fear". |
| Finnish | "vaarallinen" can also be translated as "hazardous" or "perilous". |
| French | The French word "dangereux" derives from the Latin "damnosus," meaning "harmful" or "destructive." |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "gefaarlik" not only means "dangerous" but also "poisonous" and "malicious". |
| Galician | In Galician, "perigoso" can also mean "difficult" or "complex". |
| Georgian | The word "საშიში" ("dangerous") in Georgian comes from the ancient Georgian word "შიში" ("fear"), which is related to the Proto-Indo-European word "*ḱei-" ("to fear"). |
| German | The root word "Gefahr" comes from the old high german "gafara", which means deceit or ambush. |
| Greek | "Επικίνδυνος" comes from the ancient Greek "επί" (epi, "on") and "κίνδυνος" (kindunos, "risk"), meaning "risky" or "perilous". |
| Gujarati | The word 'ખતરનાક' is derived from the Sanskrit word 'khatar', which means 'risk' or 'hazard'. |
| Haitian Creole | "Danjere" is the Haitian Creole word for "dangerous," derived from the French "dangereux". |
| Hausa | Mai hadari (dangerous) literally means "who dares challenge" in Hausa. |
| Hawaiian | Weliweli may also refer to something that is "treacherous" or "wicked" in Hawaiian. |
| Hebrew | 'מסוכן' can also refer to a type of tree or the name of a place. |
| Hindi | The Hindi word "खतरनाक" (khatarnaak) originally meant "harmful to the body," but now it generally means "dangerous". |
| Hmong | "txaus ntshai" can refer to a ferocious animal, a malevolent spirit, or something ominous in Hmong. |
| Hungarian | The word "veszélyes" originates from the Slavic word "veselije", which originally meant "joyful, cheerful". |
| Icelandic | The word 'hættulegt' in Icelandic is derived from the Old Norse word 'hǫttr,' meaning 'hatred,' and is related to the Old English word 'hatol,' which also means 'hatred.' |
| Igbo | The Igbo word "dị ize ndụ" can also refer to someone who is unpredictable or unstable. |
| Indonesian | "Berbahaya" originates from the word "bahaya," which means "peril" in Arabic. |
| Irish | The word 'contúirteach' can also mean 'difficult' or 'demanding'. |
| Italian | The word "pericoloso" comes from the Latin word "periculum," which means "risk" or "hazard." |
| Japanese | The second meaning of 危険 is "bad at", meaning "not good at" something |
| Javanese | The word "mbebayani" is not a single word in Javanese; it is a phrase that translates to "something that is hazardous or dangerous". |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word “қауіпті” means “dangerous”, but it also means “bad” and “ugly”. |
| Korean | The Chinese characters used to write 위험 are 危 "risk" and 險 "dangerous, formidable," and thus the word can be translated as "extremely dangerous." |
| Kurdish | The word "talûkeyî" comes from the Arabic word "talaka", meaning "to divorce". |
| Kyrgyz | The word "коркунучтуу" can also refer to something that is awe-inspiring or formidable. |
| Lao | In Thai 'อันตราย' also shares the meanings of 'disaster' and 'harm', likely from Pali 'antarāya' with similar meanings. |
| Latin | Periculo also means "trial" in Latin, as it is derived from the verb "perire" (to perish), suggesting that taking risks can either lead to success or failure. |
| Latvian | The word "bīstams" comes from the Old Prussian word "bīstan", which means "to fear". |
| Lithuanian | The word "pavojinga" is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *per-, meaning "to cross". |
| Luxembourgish | The word 'geféierlech' is derived from the Old High German word 'gefaehrlich', which means 'full of peril'. |
| Macedonian | Oпасно can also mean "carefully" when used as an adverb, often in a sarcastic tone. |
| Malagasy | The word "NAMPIDI-DOZA" can also mean "brave" or "fearless" in Malagasy. |
| Malay | The word "berbahaya" in Malay shares its root with the word "bahaya" which means "disaster" or "calamity." |
| Malayalam | In Sanskrit, the word “अप” (apa) means away or off, while “कर” (kara) means to do or make. Thus, “अपकर” (apakara) means to do away with, harm or injure. |
| Maltese | The word "perikolużi" is derived from the Italian word "pericoloso", which means "dangerous". |
| Maori | The Maori word "mōrearea" also signifies "dreadful, fearful, horrible". |
| Marathi | 'धोकादायक' means 'dangerous' in Marathi and comes from the Sanskrit word 'dhoka', meaning 'fraud' or 'deception'. |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word "аюултай" also refers to something or someone that causes fear or apprehension. |
| Nepali | "खतरनाक" (dangerous) has the same root as "खतरा" (risk), and can also mean "risky" or "hazardous". |
| Norwegian | The word "farlig" comes from the Old Norse word "farligr" and is related to the words "fær" (travel) and "lag" (law), suggesting a sense of danger associated with breaking the law or traveling far from home. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "owopsa" can also mean "evil" or "harmful". |
| Pashto | خطرناک also means "brave" in Pashto; related to Persian "khatar" meaning "danger". |
| Persian | The word "خطرناک" can also mean "hazardous" or "risky" in Persian. |
| Polish | The word "niebezpieczny" in Polish originates from the Proto-Slavic word "ne-bezpečenъ", meaning "not safe" or "not secure". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "perigoso" comes from the Greek word "περίγιος" (perigios), which means "around the sea" or "near the shore". |
| Punjabi | The word also refers to a feeling of unease or apprehension that something bad may happen. |
| Romanian | "Periculos" in Romanian has the alternate meaning of "careful" or "cautious". |
| Russian | The Russian word "опасно" ("dangerous") is cognate with the Old Church Slavonic word "опась" which meant "care" or "fear". |
| Samoan | The word "mataʻutia" in Samoan literally translates to "eyes that look out". |
| Scots Gaelic | The word "cunnartach" can also refer to a "snare" or "trap". |
| Serbian | The word "опасно" in Serbian also means "dangerous" in other Slavic languages, such as Russian and Bulgarian. |
| Sesotho | In Sesotho, the term 'kotsi' carries an etymological link and alternative connotation related to 'fear' and 'caution', suggesting a sense of imminent threat. |
| Shona | Zvine ngozi can be broken into two Shona words, zvinhu meaning 'things' and ngozhi meaning 'skin', which translates to 'things with skin'. |
| Sindhi | خطرناڪ (khatarnak) is the Sindhi equivalent of the Persian word 'khaṭarnāk,' which literally means 'full of danger' |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The Sinhalese word "භයානකයි" also means "awful" or "terrible" and is derived from the Sanskrit word "भयानक" (bhayānaka). |
| Slovak | "Nebezpečné" comes from the Proto-Slavic word *nebezpečenъ, meaning "without carefulness". |
| Slovenian | The word "nevarno" in Slovenian has an alternate meaning of "unusually" |
| Somali | The word "khatar ah" (dangerous) in Somali, derives from the Arabic word "khaṭar" (danger). |
| Spanish | Peligroso originates from Latin word "periculosus" meaning "full of perils". |
| Sundanese | In Sundanese, "bahaya" originates from Sanskrit and can also refer to "a large animal" or "a powerful person". |
| Swahili | The word "hatari" is also used to denote a challenge or risk, or to express caution or warning. |
| Swedish | The word "farlig" originally meant "travelling" or "wandering" in Swedish, and still retains that meaning in some dialects. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Mapanganib" (dangerous) is related to the root word "pangamba" (fear) and can also mean "threatening" or "foreboding." |
| Tajik | The word comes from the Persian word |
| Tamil | ஆபத்தானது (pronounced “aa-path-thaa-na-thu”) is a Tamil word that, when translated into English, means “dangerous”. |
| Thai | “อันตราย” may have originated from Sanskrit “antaraaya” meaning “obstacle or delay.” |
| Turkish | Tehlikeli is derived from the Persian word |
| Ukrainian | Небезпечний (nebezpechnyi) comes from the Proto-Slavic word *nebėgъ, meaning "careless" or "negligent". |
| Urdu | "خطرناک" is ultimately derived from the Persian word "خطر" which refers to "a calamity, disaster, or fatal accident." |
| Uzbek | The Uzbek word "xavfli" is thought to be related to the Persian words "khaufnak" and "khabarnak," both of which mean "dangerous". It may also be related to the Turkish word "korkunç," which means "terrible" or "frightening." |
| Vietnamese | "Nguy hiểm" originates from the Chinese word "危險" (yīxiǎn), which means "dangerous". |
| Welsh | The Welsh word "peryglus" also means "peril" and "hazard". |
| Xhosa | The Xhosa word "yingozi" also means "hyena" or "evil spirit" and is thought to be onomatopoeic, derived from the sound made by hyenas. |
| Yiddish | The word "געפערלעך" in Yiddish can also mean "hazardous" or "risky". |
| Yoruba | Ewu is also the Yoruba word for the domestic goat, which are well known as a livestock in Yoruba land. |
| Zulu | The word "kuyingozi" is derived from the Zulu word "ingozi", meaning "danger" or "risk". |
| English | The word 'dangerous' has French roots: 'aventureux' meaning 'enterprising' and 'dangier' meaning 'harm'. |