Date in Different Languages
Discover 'Date' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
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Afrikaans datum | ||
Albanian data | ||
Amharic ቀን | ||
Arabic تاريخ | ||
Armenian ամսաթիվը | ||
Assamese তাৰিখ | ||
Aymara uru | ||
Azerbaijani tarix | ||
Bambara don | ||
Basque data | ||
Belarusian дата | ||
Bengali তারিখ | ||
Bhojpuri तारीख | ||
Bosnian datum | ||
Bulgarian дата | ||
Catalan data | ||
Cebuano petsa | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 日期 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 日期 | ||
Corsican data | ||
Croatian datum | ||
Czech datum | ||
Danish dato | ||
Dhivehi ތާރީޚް | ||
Dogri तरीक | ||
Dutch datum | ||
English date | ||
Esperanto dato | ||
Estonian kuupäev | ||
Ewe ŋkeke | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) petsa | ||
Finnish päivämäärä | ||
French date | ||
Frisian datum | ||
Galician data | ||
Georgian თარიღი | ||
German datum | ||
Greek ημερομηνία | ||
Guarani fecha | ||
Gujarati તારીખ | ||
Haitian Creole dat | ||
Hausa kwanan wata | ||
Hawaiian lā | ||
Hebrew תַאֲרִיך | ||
Hindi दिनांक | ||
Hmong hnub tim | ||
Hungarian dátum | ||
Icelandic dagsetningu | ||
Igbo ụbọchị | ||
Ilocano petsa | ||
Indonesian tanggal | ||
Irish dáta | ||
Italian data | ||
Japanese 日付 | ||
Javanese tanggal | ||
Kannada ದಿನಾಂಕ | ||
Kazakh күн | ||
Khmer កាលបរិច្ឆេទ | ||
Kinyarwanda itariki | ||
Konkani तारीख | ||
Korean 데이트 | ||
Krio det | ||
Kurdish rojek | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) ڕێکەوت | ||
Kyrgyz дата | ||
Lao ວັນທີ | ||
Latin diem | ||
Latvian datums | ||
Lingala dati | ||
Lithuanian data | ||
Luganda olunaku olw'omweezi | ||
Luxembourgish datum | ||
Macedonian датум | ||
Maithili तारीख | ||
Malagasy daty | ||
Malay tarikh | ||
Malayalam തീയതി | ||
Maltese data | ||
Maori rā | ||
Marathi तारीख | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯇꯥꯡ | ||
Mizo tarikh | ||
Mongolian огноо | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ရက်စွဲ | ||
Nepali मिति | ||
Norwegian dato | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) tsiku | ||
Odia (Oriya) ତାରିଖ | ||
Oromo guyyaa | ||
Pashto نیټه | ||
Persian تاریخ | ||
Polish data | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) encontro | ||
Punjabi ਤਾਰੀਖ਼ | ||
Quechua imay pacha | ||
Romanian data | ||
Russian свидание | ||
Samoan aso | ||
Sanskrit दिनाङ्कः | ||
Scots Gaelic ceann-latha | ||
Sepedi letšatšikgwedi | ||
Serbian датум | ||
Sesotho letsatsi | ||
Shona zuva | ||
Sindhi تاريخ | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) දිනය | ||
Slovak dátum | ||
Slovenian datum | ||
Somali taariikhda | ||
Spanish fecha | ||
Sundanese kaping | ||
Swahili tarehe | ||
Swedish datum | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) petsa | ||
Tajik сана | ||
Tamil தேதி | ||
Tatar дата | ||
Telugu తేదీ | ||
Thai วันที่ | ||
Tigrinya ዕለት | ||
Tsonga siku | ||
Turkish tarih | ||
Turkmen senesi | ||
Twi (Akan) da | ||
Ukrainian дата | ||
Urdu تاریخ | ||
Uyghur چېسلا | ||
Uzbek sana | ||
Vietnamese ngày | ||
Welsh dyddiad | ||
Xhosa umhla | ||
Yiddish דאַטע | ||
Yoruba ọjọ | ||
Zulu usuku |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "datum" comes from the Latin word "datum", meaning "given". It can also mean "a fact" or "a piece of information". |
| Albanian | In Albanian, "data" is derived from Italian and Latin, meaning "given," but can also refer to "destiny" or "fate. |
| Amharic | The Amharic word "ቀን" can mean either "date" referring to a specific day of the month, or "appointment". |
| Arabic | The word "تاريخ" (date) in Arabic also means "history". This is because the Arabic word for "date" is derived from the root word "wrkh", which means "to mark" or "to record". Thus, the word "تاريخ" can refer to both the fruit and the act of recording events. |
| Armenian | The word “ամքաինիզա” ("date") can also mean the month of a person's birth in Armenian. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "Tarix" in Azerbaijani originates from the Persian word "Takvim", meaning "calendar", and also refers to the "era, period, or time". |
| Basque | The Basque word "data" also means "giving", likely related to the Latin root "dare" meaning "to give". |
| Belarusian | In Belarusian, "дата" also means "given", "presented", "assigned", "set", and "appointed". |
| Bengali | তারিখ শব্দটি ফার্সি শব্দ |
| Bosnian | In Bosnian, "datum" also refers to a piece of information or a measurement. |
| Bulgarian | In Bulgarian, "дата" can also refer to a holiday, anniversary, or other important day. |
| Catalan | The plural forms of "data" in Catalan ("dades" / "dates") mean both "dates" and "information"} |
| Cebuano | The word "petsa" in Cebuano can also refer to a specific day or time. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 日期 (Date): 日 (Day) + 期 (Period), representing a specific day and time period |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 日期 in Chinese refers to both a calendar date and an appointment. |
| Corsican | In Corsican, "data" can also mean "given". |
| Croatian | "Datum" in Croatian can also refer to "fact" or "information" |
| Czech | In Czech, the plural of "datum" is "data" and means both "data" and "dates". |
| Danish | The word "dato" can also mean "fact" or "information" in Danish, which is a cognate of the English word "data". |
| Dutch | In Dutch "datum" can also mean "fact" or "piece of information". |
| Esperanto | "Dato" also means "given" in Esperanto, coming from the Latin "datum," or "thing given." |
| Estonian | The Estonian word "kuupäev" is composed of "kuu" (month) and "päev" (day), hence meaning "day of the month". |
| Finnish | "Päivämäärä" derives from the word "päivä" (day), but can also refer to a period of time. |
| French | In French, "date" can also mean "fruit" or "destiny", deriving from Latin "datum" (given). |
| Frisian | In Frisian, "datum" primarily means "fact" or "piece of information", but can also refer to a specific event or occasion. |
| Galician | In Galician, the word "data" can also refer to the "birth date" of a person or animal. |
| Georgian | "თარიღი" in Georgian also means "epoch" or "era". This is similar to the word "date" in the English language, which can also refer to a specified point in history or to a period of time. |
| German | "Datum" (date) is also a technical term in German, meaning "data". The plural is "Daten". |
| Greek | The word "ημερομηνία" is derived from the Greek words "ημέρα" (day) and "μήνας" (month), and in addition to its meaning of "date," it also refers to the day of the month. |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "તારીખ" is derived from the Persian word "tārīkh", which means "history" or "era". |
| Haitian Creole | The word "dat" in Haitian Creole also means "today" and "now". |
| Hausa | The word "kwanan wata" in Hausa can also refer to a specific day of the month (the day on which the new moon is first sighted). |
| Hawaiian | The Hawaiian word "lā" means "day" and is also used to refer to the fruit of the date palm. |
| Hebrew | 'Date,' meaning 'fruit,' derives from a root meaning 'round' (like a circle) but also applies, in the feminine, to a menstrual time. |
| Hindi | In Sanskrit, 'दिनांक' also means 'part of a day', 'period of time', and 'period' as in menstruation. |
| Hmong | The word 'hnub tim' can also mean 'meeting' or 'appointment' in Hmong. |
| Hungarian | In Hungarian, "dátum" comes from the Latin word "datum," which means "something given" or "a fact." |
| Icelandic | Dagsetning (date) stems from "dagr" (day), and "setning" (setting) and referred to "the setting of the sun" as the end of day. |
| Igbo | The Igbo word |
| Indonesian | The word 'tanggal' also means 'to pay' in Indonesian, derived from Old Javanese 'tanggel' ('debt'). |
| Irish | The Irish word 'dáta' is a homophone of both 'date' in English, and 'data' in English. |
| Italian | "Data" in Italian can also refer to an assignment or task, especially in a school or academic setting. |
| Japanese | 日付 (hijitsuke) literally means "day stamp" in Japanese. |
| Javanese | "Tanggal" also refers to a Javanese traditional calendar day. |
| Kannada | "ದಿನಾಂಕ" not only means "date" in Kannada but is also a loanword from Sanskrit meaning "mark, sign, evidence." |
| Kazakh | The word "күн" in Kazakh can also be translated to "day" or "sun". |
| Korean | The Korean word "데이트" can also mean "to arrange or make an appointment," derived from the English word "date." |
| Kurdish | The Kurdish word "rojek" is also used to refer to a "special day" or a "day of celebration". |
| Kyrgyz | The Kyrgyz word "дата" ("date") can also refer to a "file" or "dossier" |
| Lao | The Lao word |
| Latin | The word "diem" in Latin also means "day" or "point in time." |
| Latvian | The Latvian word "datums" also means "data" or "fact". |
| Lithuanian | In Lithuanian, "data" also refers to the concept of "date". |
| Luxembourgish | Datum's Luxembourgish homograph and homophone, 'Datum', is a synonym for the French 'faite' and English 'ridge'. |
| Macedonian | In Russian, the word "датум" (datum) originally meant "a gift" and was derived from the Greek word "δοτός" (dotos), meaning "given". |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "daty" can also mean "appointment" or "schedule". |
| Malay | The word 'Tarikh' is derived from Arabic and refers to a period of time rather than a specific day |
| Malayalam | The word 'തീയതി' ('date') in Malayalam can also mean 'fire' or 'flame', a reference to the ancient practice of marking time by observing the position of the sun and stars. |
| Maltese | The Maltese word 'data' is often used to describe a specific date but can also refer to information or facts more generally. |
| Maori | The word "rā" can also mean "sun", "daytime", "light", or a period of time. |
| Marathi | तारीख is derived from the Arabic word "tarikh" meaning "time" or "day". It is also colloquially used to refer to a "historical event" or a "period of time". |
| Mongolian | The word "огноо" also means "fireplace" and derives from the verb "огнох" ("to make fire"). |
| Nepali | The Nepali word "मिति" (date) is derived from the Sanskrit word "मिथि" (measurement) and can also refer to "quantity" or "amount". |
| Norwegian | In Norwegian, "dato" can also refer to a piece of paper on which a date is written, similar to the usage of "slip" in English. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | Tsiku is also the Chichewa word for 'day', cognate to 'siku' in Swahili, but specifically means a 'day' as a unit of time, as opposed to 'masiku' (days). |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "نیټه" also means "day" and can refer to a specific day of the week or a day of the month. |
| Persian | The word "تاریخ" in Persian also means "history" and is derived from the Arabic word "tarikh", which originally referred to a record of events. |
| Polish | In Polish, "data" also means "given", "granted" or "awarded". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The Portuguese word "encontro" (date) comes from the Latin word "incontrum", meaning "a meeting of two persons." |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "dată" has a double meaning: "date" and "data" (information), which is due to the Latin origin of the word "datum" (given). |
| Russian | The word "свидание" can also mean "appointment" or "trial". |
| Samoan | The Samoan word 'aso' can also refer to a day of the week or a period of time. |
| Scots Gaelic | "Ceann-latha" is a Scottish Gaelic cognate of the English word "calendar" and the Gaulish "calend", from the Latin word "calendae", meaning “first of the month”. |
| Serbian | The word "датум" also means "fact" in Serbian. |
| Sesotho | The word "letsatsi" in Sesotho also means "sun", likely due to the sun's importance in marking the passage of time. |
| Shona | The word "zuva" also denotes "day" or "time" depending on the context in which it is used. |
| Sindhi | In Sindhi, "تاريخ" can additionally mean "knowledge, history, or record of events". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "දිනය" (date) in Sinhala can also refer to a period of time, a day, or an event. |
| Slovak | The Slovak word "dátum" is derived from the Latin word "datum", which means "something given". |
| Slovenian | "Datum" also means "fact" or "piece of information", especially one used as a basis for reasoning, discussion, or calculation. |
| Somali | Somali word "taariikhda" also means "calendar" and derives from the Arabic "tarīkh". |
| Spanish | The Spanish word 'fecha' derives from the Latin 'facta', which meant 'fact' and was used in Medieval Europe for historical accounts or deeds, and by the 14th century had acquired the specific meaning of 'date'. |
| Sundanese | The Sundanese word "kaping" comes from the Sanskrit word "kapi"," which means "monkey." |
| Swahili | The word 'tarehe' in Swahili also means 'history' or 'era'. |
| Swedish | Datum in Swedish can also refer to a place or occasion, derived from the Latin word "datum" meaning "given". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "petsa" in Tagalog can also refer to a period of time, such as a week or a month. |
| Tajik | This word comes from Persian and is also related to the words "year" and "time" in Dari Persian. |
| Tamil | The Tamil word 'தேதி' can also refer to fate or destiny. |
| Telugu | Alternate meanings: the time a transaction or event takes place. |
| Thai | The Thai word "วันที่" also means "day of the month". |
| Turkish | The word "tarih" is derived from the Arabic word "tāʾrīkh", which originally meant "history" or "chronology". |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word "дата" comes from the French "date" and the Latin "data" and can also refer to a fruit, such as a date. |
| Urdu | The word "tarikh" in Urdu also means "history" and originated from the Persian word "tarikh" meaning "determination of time". |
| Uzbek | Sana is also the word for 'year' in Uzbek, deriving from the Persian word 'sal'. |
| Vietnamese | The word “ngày” in Vietnamese can also refer to a specific day, a time period, or even a specific era in history. |
| Welsh | The word "dyddiad" in Welsh can also mean "appointment" or "engagement." |
| Xhosa | The word "umhla" in Xhosa can also refer to an appointment or engagement. |
| Yiddish | In Yiddish, the word "דאַטע" also means "reason". |
| Yoruba | "Ọjọ" in Yoruba also refers to a period, time, or occasion. |
| Zulu | The Zulu word 'usuku' also refers to a day, time, or season |
| English | The word 'date' can also refer to the fruit, a period of time, or an appointment. |