Data in Different Languages
Discover 'Data' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Data
Afrikaans data | ||
Albanian të dhëna | ||
Amharic መረጃ | ||
Arabic البيانات | ||
Armenian տվյալներ | ||
Assamese তথ্য | ||
Aymara tatunaka | ||
Azerbaijani məlumat | ||
Bambara kunnafoniw | ||
Basque datuak | ||
Belarusian дадзеныя | ||
Bengali তথ্য | ||
Bhojpuri आंकड़ा | ||
Bosnian podaci | ||
Bulgarian данни | ||
Catalan dades | ||
Cebuano datos | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 数据 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 數據 | ||
Corsican dati | ||
Croatian podaci | ||
Czech data | ||
Danish data | ||
Dhivehi މަޢުލޫމާތު | ||
Dogri डेटा | ||
Dutch gegevens | ||
English data | ||
Esperanto datumoj | ||
Estonian andmed | ||
Ewe na | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) datos | ||
Finnish tiedot | ||
French les données | ||
Frisian data | ||
Galician datos | ||
Georgian მონაცემები | ||
German daten | ||
Greek δεδομένα | ||
Guarani marandurenda | ||
Gujarati ડેટા | ||
Haitian Creole done | ||
Hausa bayanai | ||
Hawaiian ʻikepili | ||
Hebrew נתונים | ||
Hindi डेटा | ||
Hmong cov ntaub ntawv | ||
Hungarian adat | ||
Icelandic gögn | ||
Igbo data | ||
Ilocano datos | ||
Indonesian data | ||
Irish sonraí | ||
Italian dati | ||
Japanese データ | ||
Javanese data | ||
Kannada ಡೇಟಾ | ||
Kazakh деректер | ||
Khmer ទិន្នន័យ | ||
Kinyarwanda amakuru | ||
Konkani डेटा | ||
Korean 데이터 | ||
Krio data | ||
Kurdish jimare | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) داتا | ||
Kyrgyz маалыматтар | ||
Lao ຂໍ້ມູນ | ||
Latin notitia | ||
Latvian dati | ||
Lingala bansango | ||
Lithuanian duomenis | ||
Luganda eby'okunoonyereza | ||
Luxembourgish donnéeën | ||
Macedonian податоци | ||
Maithili डाटा | ||
Malagasy tahirin-kevitra | ||
Malay data | ||
Malayalam ഡാറ്റ | ||
Maltese dejta | ||
Maori raraunga | ||
Marathi डेटा | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯏ ꯄꯥꯎ | ||
Mizo thil pawimawh | ||
Mongolian өгөгдөл | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ဒေတာ | ||
Nepali डाटा | ||
Norwegian data | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) deta | ||
Odia (Oriya) ତଥ୍ୟ | ||
Oromo odeeffannoo funaaname | ||
Pashto ډاټا | ||
Persian داده ها | ||
Polish dane | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) dados | ||
Punjabi ਡਾਟਾ | ||
Quechua willakuy | ||
Romanian date | ||
Russian данные | ||
Samoan faʻamatalaga | ||
Sanskrit दत्तांश | ||
Scots Gaelic dàta | ||
Sepedi datha | ||
Serbian подаци | ||
Sesotho data | ||
Shona data | ||
Sindhi ڊيٽا | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) දත්ත | ||
Slovak údaje | ||
Slovenian podatkov | ||
Somali xogta | ||
Spanish datos | ||
Sundanese data | ||
Swahili data | ||
Swedish data | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) data | ||
Tajik маълумот | ||
Tamil தகவல்கள் | ||
Tatar мәгълүматлар | ||
Telugu సమాచారం | ||
Thai ข้อมูล | ||
Tigrinya ሰነድ | ||
Tsonga datara | ||
Turkish veri | ||
Turkmen maglumatlary | ||
Twi (Akan) nsɛm | ||
Ukrainian даних | ||
Urdu ڈیٹا | ||
Uyghur data | ||
Uzbek ma'lumotlar | ||
Vietnamese dữ liệu | ||
Welsh data | ||
Xhosa idatha | ||
Yiddish דאַטן | ||
Yoruba data | ||
Zulu idatha |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | In Afrikaans, 'data' can also refer to 'facts' or 'information'. |
| Albanian | "Të dhëna" comes from the verb "dhënë," which means "to give," indicating a transfer of information from one entity to another. |
| Amharic | "መረጃ" is an Amharic word derived from an Arabic noun that refers to a concept or knowledge. |
| Arabic | The word "البيانات" (data) is derived from the root word "بَانَ" (to become apparent, to be clear), and can also refer to information, knowledge, or evidence. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "məlumat" in Azerbaijani is also used to refer to information, knowledge, or intelligence. |
| Basque | The Basque word "datuak" has the sense of "in particular" or "specifically" in addition to "data". |
| Bengali | একসময় 'তথ্য' শব্দটি 'উপকারী' কিছুকে বোঝাতো। |
| Bosnian | The word 'podaci' is cognate with the Russian word 'даты' ('daty'), which in turn comes from the Greek word 'δεδομένα' ('dedomena'), meaning 'things given'. |
| Bulgarian | The Bulgarian word "данни" (data) is derived from the Persian word "دانه" (seed) and also has the meaning of "information". |
| Catalan | The word "dades" in Catalan, like its English cognate “data,” can also mean an appointed time or date. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 数据 can also mean 'situation' or 'circumstance'. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | "數據", etymologically, is made of the ideographs "事" (shi, event) and "數" (shu, number). It also means "evidence" in ancient Chinese. |
| Corsican | Corsican "dati" has a feminine form, "data", meaning "dates" in the calendar. |
| Croatian | The term 'podaci' derives from the Proto-Slavic root 'pъdati', meaning 'to fall' or 'to drop'. |
| Czech | The word "data" is related to the Czech word "dát" which means "to give". |
| Danish | In Danish, 'data' can also refer to 'events' in the sense of a computer logging information or a program recording user activity. |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "gegevens" can also refer to "circumstances" or "information". It is derived from "geven" (give) and "gezet" (set). |
| Esperanto | The word 'datumoj' in Esperanto is derived from the Latin word 'datum' and can also refer to a single piece of information. |
| Estonian | The Estonian word "andmed" is derived from "andma" meaning "to give" and refers to information that has been provided, collected, or recorded. |
| Finnish | "Tiedot" can also refer to knowledge or information in general in Finnish. |
| French | The French word "les données" can also refer to "personal information" or "facts" in a more general sense. |
| Frisian | Despite data being a loanword in Frisian, the word is not always used in the same way as in English: "data" can also refer to the physical infrastructure of a computer system. |
| Galician | The Galician word "datos" can also refer to "given" (something already known or granted). |
| German | The German word "Daten" can also refer to the "date" on a calendar, derived from the Latin "datum" meaning "something given". |
| Greek | The word "δεδομένα" also has the meaning of "facts" or "self-evident truths" in Greek. |
| Gujarati | Gujarati word "ડેટા" can also mean "Date" in English. |
| Haitian Creole | In Haitian Creole, "done" can also mean "done", "completed", or "finished". |
| Hausa | The word "bayanai" in Hausa can also refer to "speech" or "information." |
| Hawaiian | 'Ikepili' also means 'to make known' in Hawaiian, emphasizing the role of data in revealing knowledge. |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "נתונים" (data), derives from the root "נתן" which means "to give" or "to provide", suggesting that data is something that is imparted to the receiver. |
| Hindi | The Hindi word "डेटा" (dātā) derives from the Sanskrit word "दातृ" (dātṛ), meaning "giver". |
| Hmong | The Hmong word "cov ntaub ntawv" is derived from the Chinese phrase "数据库," meaning "database." |
| Hungarian | The Hungarian word "adat" can also mean "fact" or "information" and is related to the word "ad" meaning "to give". |
| Icelandic | Cognate with the German word "Gedanke" (thought) and related to the Old Norse word "gaugn" (attention). |
| Igbo | The Igbo word 'data' can also mean 'a group of people' or 'a gathering'. |
| Indonesian | The Indonesian word "data" specifically refers to data that has been sorted, processed, or summarized. |
| Irish | Sonraí comes from the Old Irish word "sonrad", which means "special, or peculiar". The "í" ending is the plural form, meaning that "sonraí" implies multiple pieces of special or peculiar information. |
| Italian | The Italian word 'dati' comes from the Latin word 'datum', which means 'something given' |
| Japanese | The Japanese word "データ" (data) comes from the English "datum" and the Portuguese "data," and also refers to "a story" or "plot" of a novel, film, or play. |
| Javanese | The word "data" in Javanese has additional meanings such as "fact" or "information". |
| Kannada | The Kannada word 'ಡೇಟಾ', besides meaning 'information', also means 'fate' and has a connotation of 'unpredictable'. |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "деректер" can also refer to the "materials" or "documents" related to a particular subject or event. |
| Khmer | The word “ទិន្នន័យ” comes from the Sanskrit word “datta” which means “given”. It can also mean “information” or “evidence”. |
| Korean | In Korean, the word “데나” ("data") also means “facts” or “pieces of evidence”. |
| Kurdish | The word "jimare" comes from the Arabic word "jamaal," which means "to gather". |
| Kyrgyz | The Kyrgyz word "маалыматтар" is derived from the Persian word "ma'lumāt" which means "things known", and ultimately from the Arabic word "ma'lūm" meaning "known". |
| Latin | The word 'notitia' (data) has various meanings, including knowledge, information, a memorandum, a notice, or a treatise. |
| Latvian | The Latvian word "dati" also means "facts", "information" or "evidence". |
| Lithuanian | "Duomenis" is a Lithuanian word meaning "data", but it also has the alternate meaning of "information". |
| Luxembourgish | Donnéeën is also used in Luxembourgish to refer to the information available to solve a problem or make a decision. |
| Macedonian | The word "податоци" can also refer to "input" or "information" in Macedonian. |
| Malagasy | The word **tahirin-kevitra** comes from the root "tahiry" (clear, clean) and "kevitra" (thought), hence the translation "data" (clear thoughts). |
| Malay | The word "data" in Malay also means "reasons" or "proof." |
| Malayalam | In Malayalam, "ഡാറ്റ" can also refer to a dowry or a fixed quantity of material or information. |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "dejta" derives from the Italian word "dati" and originally referred exclusively to dowry, but has since come to mean "data" as well. |
| Maori | "Raraunga" is an ancient term meaning "the act or state of tying" which in a more esoteric sense, refers to the tying or binding of information. |
| Marathi | The word "डेटा" in Marathi is derived from the Sanskrit word "दत्त" meaning "given" or "received". |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word "өгөгдөл" originally meant "something given," suggesting its connection to the concept of data. |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The word "ဒေတာ" in Myanmar (Burmese) is derived from the Sanskrit word "दत्ता" (datta), meaning "given" or "granted." |
| Nepali | The word "डाटा" in Nepali derives from the Sanskrit word "दत्त" (datta), meaning "given," and is cognate with the English word "datum," meaning "a single piece of information." |
| Norwegian | The word "data" in Norwegian has the additional meaning of "dates". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | Chichewa deta ('data'; also 'thing') ultimately derives from the Proto-Bantu root *-di- ('thing') and is likely cognate with Swahili data ('thing'). |
| Pashto | "ډاټا" (data) is originally a Pashto word meaning "account". The Pashto word "ډاټه" (data) means "one". The word "ډاټه" (data) is used in Pashto to mean "account" because accounts are usually kept in units of one. |
| Persian | In Persian, "داده ها" (data) is also used in the sense of "given", "provided", or "supplied". |
| Polish | In Polish, "dane" also refers to personal details such as name, address, and telephone number. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The Portuguese word 'dados' comes from the Latin word 'datum' meaning 'given', and can also refer to dice in the plural or a game of chance. |
| Punjabi | The word 'data' is derived from the Latin word 'datum', which means 'something given'. |
| Romanian | "Date" in Romanian can also refer to a "fruit". |
| Russian | The word "данные" can also refer to "facts" or "information" in Russian. |
| Samoan | The Samoan word "faʻamatalaga" also means "explanation" and "information." |
| Scots Gaelic | Scots Gaelic 'dàta' is cognate with English 'date', but can also mean 'datum' or 'data'. |
| Serbian | The word "подаци" in Serbian also means "details" or "information". |
| Sesotho | 'Data' comes from the Latin word 'datum', meaning 'something given'. In Sesotho, 'data' also means 'a gift'. |
| Shona | In Shona the word "data" is used to refer both to "data" and "information" and is the cognate form to the English words "data" and "datum." |
| Sindhi | The word ڊيٽا is derived from the Latin word 'datum', meaning 'something given'. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | "දත්ත" is related to the Sanskrit word "दत्त" (datta), meaning "given" or "bestowed". |
| Slovak | "Údaje" (data) has multiple meanings including details about someone/something and testimony from an official investigation. |
| Slovenian | "Podatki" (data) comes from the Slovene word "podati" (to give) and refers to information that is given or transferred. |
| Somali | The word "xogta" is derived from the Arabic word "khabar", which means "news" or "information". |
| Spanish | Datos derives from Latin "datum" and is cognate to "do" and "deed". |
| Sundanese | The Sundanese word “balaka” refers to something that someone said without realizing its truth value, as opposed to facts |
| Swahili | In Swahili, "data" also refers to a small traditional drum or a group of dancers performing to the sound of the drum. |
| Swedish | In Swedish, 'data' can also refer to a specific date or a computer file. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Data" in Tagalog also means "knowledge" or "information" depending on the context. |
| Tajik | The word "маълумот" in Tajik is derived from the Arabic word "معلومة", meaning "piece of information" or "knowledge." |
| Tamil | The Tamil word "தகவல்கள்" (data) is derived from the Sanskrit word "तत्व" (tattva), meaning "essence" or "that which is real." |
| Telugu | "సమాచారం" (data) is also the root word for "సమయం" (time) in Telugu, reflecting the idea that data is often collected and processed over time. |
| Thai | The word "ข้อมูล" is a modern Thai word derived from the Sanskrit "jñāta", meaning "known, familiar". |
| Turkish | "Veri" is a Turkish word meaning "data", which is derived from the Arabic word "warada" meaning "to give" or "to bring". |
| Ukrainian | "Дані" is cognate with "data" in English, as both words derive ultimately from the Latin "datum". |
| Urdu | The word "ڈیٹا" (data) in Urdu is derived from the Latin word "datum", meaning "something given" or "a fact". It can also refer to "information" or "knowledge". |
| Uzbek | The word "ma'lumotlar" in Uzbek can also mean "information" or "knowledge". |
| Vietnamese | "Dữ liệu" also refers to a woman's menstrual period or her ability to conceive. |
| Welsh | In Welsh, "data" originates from the Latin word "datum," meaning "something given" or "a fact." |
| Xhosa | "Idatha" in Xhosa is thought to derive from the Nguni word "ilitha", meaning "knowledge" or "news." |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "דאַטן" (data) can also refer to "facts" or "information." |
| Yoruba | In Yoruba, 'data' is also used to refer to a collection of items or facts. |
| Zulu | The Zulu word 'idatha' derives from '-dathula', meaning 'to count' or 'to enumerate'. |
| English | The word "data" is the plural of the Latin word "datum," which means "something given." |