Debate in Different Languages
Discover 'Debate' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Debate
Afrikaans debat voer | ||
Albanian debat | ||
Amharic ክርክር | ||
Arabic النقاش | ||
Armenian բանավեճ | ||
Assamese তৰ্ক | ||
Aymara aruskipawi | ||
Azerbaijani mübahisə | ||
Bambara sɔsɔli | ||
Basque eztabaida | ||
Belarusian дыскусія | ||
Bengali বিতর্ক | ||
Bhojpuri बहस | ||
Bosnian debata | ||
Bulgarian дебат | ||
Catalan debat | ||
Cebuano debate | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 辩论 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 辯論 | ||
Corsican dibattitu | ||
Croatian rasprava | ||
Czech rozprava | ||
Danish debat | ||
Dhivehi ބަހުސްކުރުން | ||
Dogri बैहस | ||
Dutch debat | ||
English debate | ||
Esperanto debato | ||
Estonian arutelu | ||
Ewe nyahehe | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) debate | ||
Finnish keskustelu | ||
French débat | ||
Frisian debat | ||
Galician debate | ||
Georgian დებატი | ||
German debatte | ||
Greek δημόσια συζήτηση | ||
Guarani ñembohovake | ||
Gujarati ચર્ચા | ||
Haitian Creole deba | ||
Hausa muhawara | ||
Hawaiian paio | ||
Hebrew עימות | ||
Hindi बहस | ||
Hmong sib cav tswv yim | ||
Hungarian vita | ||
Icelandic rökræður | ||
Igbo arụmụka | ||
Ilocano debate | ||
Indonesian perdebatan | ||
Irish díospóireacht | ||
Italian discussione | ||
Japanese ディベート | ||
Javanese debat | ||
Kannada ಚರ್ಚೆ | ||
Kazakh пікірталас | ||
Khmer ការជជែកវែកញែក | ||
Kinyarwanda impaka | ||
Konkani वादविवाद | ||
Korean 논쟁 | ||
Krio agyu | ||
Kurdish berhevdan | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) دیبەیت | ||
Kyrgyz дебат | ||
Lao ການໂຕ້ວາທີ | ||
Latin disputandum | ||
Latvian debates | ||
Lingala lisolo | ||
Lithuanian diskusijos | ||
Luganda okuwakana | ||
Luxembourgish debatt | ||
Macedonian дебата | ||
Maithili वाद-विवाद | ||
Malagasy adihevitra | ||
Malay perbahasan | ||
Malayalam ചർച്ച | ||
Maltese dibattitu | ||
Maori tautohe | ||
Marathi वादविवाद | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯃꯔꯩ ꯌꯦꯠꯅꯕ | ||
Mizo inhnialna | ||
Mongolian мэтгэлцээн | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အငြင်းအခုန် | ||
Nepali बहस | ||
Norwegian debatt | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kutsutsana | ||
Odia (Oriya) ବିତର୍କ | ||
Oromo falmii | ||
Pashto بحث | ||
Persian مناظره | ||
Polish debata | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) debate | ||
Punjabi ਬਹਿਸ | ||
Quechua rimanakuy | ||
Romanian dezbate | ||
Russian дебаты | ||
Samoan finauga | ||
Sanskrit विवादः | ||
Scots Gaelic deasbad | ||
Sepedi ngangišano | ||
Serbian расправа | ||
Sesotho ngangisano | ||
Shona gakava | ||
Sindhi بحث | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) විවාදය | ||
Slovak debata | ||
Slovenian razprava | ||
Somali dood | ||
Spanish debate | ||
Sundanese debat | ||
Swahili mjadala | ||
Swedish debatt | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) debate | ||
Tajik мубоҳиса | ||
Tamil விவாதம் | ||
Tatar бәхәс | ||
Telugu చర్చ | ||
Thai อภิปราย | ||
Tigrinya ኽትዕ | ||
Tsonga njekanjekisano | ||
Turkish tartışma | ||
Turkmen jedel | ||
Twi (Akan) gye kyin | ||
Ukrainian дебати | ||
Urdu بحث | ||
Uyghur مۇنازىرە | ||
Uzbek munozara | ||
Vietnamese tranh luận | ||
Welsh dadl | ||
Xhosa mpikiswano | ||
Yiddish דעבאַטע | ||
Yoruba ijiroro | ||
Zulu mpikiswano |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | "Debat voer" is actually also a term used to describe animal feed. |
| Albanian | The word |
| Amharic | In Amharic, the word "ክርክር" also means "research" or "investigation." |
| Arabic | The word 'النقاش' (al-niqash) can also refer to 'decoration' or 'engraving'. |
| Armenian | The word "բանավեճ" has two other meanings: it can mean "contention" and "dispute". |
| Azerbaijani | The word "mübahisə" is derived from the Arabic word "mubahasa", which means "discussion" or "argumentation". It can also mean "dispute" or "quarrel". |
| Basque | In 16th-century Lapurdian Basque literature, "eztabaida" was used for "dispute", "trial", "judgment", and "sentence". |
| Belarusian | The word дыскусія has two roots in Old Belarusian, дышаць “breathe” and кут “angle” which gives a meaning similar to “a conversation from two opposing angles.” |
| Bengali | The word 'বিতর্ক' can also mean 'argument', 'dispute', 'controversy' or 'discussion'. |
| Bosnian | Debata also means 'squabble' or 'argument' in Bosnian, while the verb 'debatirati' means 'to squabble', 'to argue', or 'to debate'. |
| Bulgarian | In Bulgarian, "дебат" can also mean "dispute" or "argumentation". |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "debat" evolved from the Occitan word "debat", meaning a public dispute or discussion, itself derived from the Latin "debattuere", meaning to beat down, or to fight. |
| Cebuano | "Debate" is derived from the Latin word "battere", which means "to strike" or "to beat". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 辩论 can also mean 'argument' or 'discourse' |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The word "辯論" originally meant "to judge" but came to mean "debate" during the Qing dynasty. |
| Corsican | The word "dibattitu" is directly derived from the Italian word "dibattito". |
| Croatian | "Rasprava" can also mean "liquidation" or "reprisal", reflecting the violent political climate of Croatian history. |
| Czech | The Czech word "rozprava" also refers to a type of legal proceeding or trial. |
| Danish | "Debat" can also mean "floor covering". |
| Dutch | In Dutch, "debat" can also refer to a "debate club" or a "disputation". |
| Esperanto | The term "debato" in Esperanto also translates to "argument" or "dispute" in English. |
| Estonian | "Arutelu" is a derived word from "aru", meaning "mind". |
| Finnish | "Keskustelu" is also used colloquially in Finnish to refer to a casual conversation or a chat, not just a formal or structured debate. |
| French | "Débat" derives from the Old French "debatre," meaning "to fight" or "to dispute." |
| Frisian | De term debat komt in het Fries ook voor in de betekenis van 'strijd'. |
| Galician | "Debate" in Galician comes from the Latin "debattuere" (to beat down) and is used to describe an argument or contest. |
| Georgian | Another meaning of "debate" is "deposit". |
| German | Debatte is the German counterpart of the French word 'débat' and thus ultimately derived from the Latin word 'debattuere' (to beat down, fight, struggle). Today, the word refers to a public or formal dispute about a particular issue. |
| Greek | The Greek word "δημόσια συζήτηση" comes from the words "δημόσια" (public or common) and "συζήτηση" (conversation), referring to a public or group conversation where ideas are exchanged and discussed. |
| Gujarati | The word "ચર્ચા" (debate) in Gujarati originates from the Sanskrit word "चर्चा" (carcha), meaning "a discussion or conversation". |
| Haitian Creole | In Haitian Creole, 'deba' also means 'dispute' or 'quarrel'. |
| Hausa | The Hausa word "muhawara" also means "conversation" or "argument". |
| Hawaiian | "Paio" also refers to a traditional form of chanting and poetry in ancient Hawaii. |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "עימות" is derived from the verb "עָמַת" which means "to face", "to confront", or "to oppose". |
| Hindi | In Hindi, "बहस" also means "discussion" or "argumentation". |
| Hmong | The phrase "sib cav tswv yim" can also refer to a group of people or an institution charged with carrying out a debate. |
| Hungarian | The word 'vita' also means 'life' or 'fate' in Hungarian. |
| Icelandic | The word "rökræður" comes from the Old Norse word "rókr" meaning "smoke" and "ræða" meaning "conversation" or "speech", possibly referring to the smoke from fires burning during debates in halls. |
| Igbo | "Arụmụka" (debate) is derived from the word "ọnụ" (mouth), suggesting the importance of verbal exchange and articulation in a debate. |
| Indonesian | The Indonesian word "perdebatan" is derived from the Sanskrit word "vivaada", meaning "dispute" or "quarrel". |
| Irish | The word "díospóireacht" also means "dispute" and may derive from a pre-Celtic *dis-pat- which means to "divide". |
| Italian | The Italian word "discussione" derives from Latin, where it meant to scatter, shake, or jolt something. |
| Japanese | The word "ディベート" (debate) is derived from the Latin word "debattuere," meaning "to beat down or thresh out." |
| Javanese | The Javanese word "debat" can also refer to a traditional Javanese dance. |
| Kannada | The word 'ಚರ್ಚೆ' is not native to Kannada, it is a recent borrowing from English or Hindi. |
| Kazakh | The first element means "to search" and the second one refers to a "word". |
| Korean | The word '논쟁' (debate) in Korean can also mean 'argument' or 'dispute'. |
| Kurdish | The term 'berhevdan' may also refer to 'controversy', 'argument', 'disagreement', or an 'intellectual confrontation'. |
| Kyrgyz | 'Дебат' is a loanword from French that first appeared in Kyrgyz in the early 20th century. |
| Lao | The Lao word for 'debate', ການໂຕ້ວາທີ, is closely related to the Thai word 'vitavat', which has a similar meaning but can also refer to a 'controversy' or a 'dispute'. |
| Latin | Disputandum (debate) is also used to refer to a formal academic exercise involving argumentation and disputation. |
| Latvian | The word "debates" in Latvian, "debates", also means "discussions" or "arguments" |
| Lithuanian | The word "diskusijos" finds its roots in the term "discutio," a Latin verb meaning "to scatter, separate, or divide." |
| Luxembourgish | The Luxembourgish word "Debatt" also historically meant "fight" or "quarrel". |
| Macedonian | The word "дебата" in Macedonian also has the meaning of "discussion". |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "adihevitra" shares its roots with the verb "hevitra", meaning "to think" or "to ponder". |
| Malay | Perbahasan, derived from the Sanskrit word 'paribhasa', originally meant 'explanation' or 'exposition' before acquiring its current meaning in Malay. |
| Malayalam | The Malayalam word "ചർച്ച" is also used to refer to a "religious lecture". |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "dibattitu" may derive from Arabic's "dabat", meaning "striking". |
| Maori | The word 'tautohe' can also refer to a 'disagreement, dispute, or disagreement'. |
| Marathi | The word 'वादविवाद' in Marathi comes from 'Vaad', meaning a case, argument, or lawsuit, and 'Vivad', meaning a dispute or quarrel. |
| Nepali | "बहस" is derived from the Sanskrit word "वाद" (vāda), which means "argument" or "discussion" |
| Norwegian | The word "debatt" in Norwegian can also refer to a discussion or conversation. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | 'Kutsutsana' is derived from the verb 'kutsutsuka,' meaning 'to argue' or 'to dispute'. |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "بحث" can also refer to a 'dissertation' or a 'disputation' |
| Persian | "مناظره" originates from Persian word "نزاع" ("struggle") or Arabic word "نظر" ("view") and originally meant "argument" or "opinion". |
| Polish | In Polish, "debata" may refer to a formal dispute between opposing viewpoints or to the discussion of a topic in public. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | From Latin debattuere, meaning to “beat down,” debatendo, debating, arguing |
| Punjabi | "Bahs" or "debate" in Punjabi came to be during the 19th century and is ultimately of Persian origin, deriving from "bahs", meaning the act or art of argument or discussion of a subject to establish truth |
| Romanian | In Romanian, "dezbate" can also refer to a type of traditional folk dance. |
| Russian | The Russian word "дебаты" (debate) originates from the Old Slavonic "дьбати," meaning "dispute" or "controversy." |
| Samoan | The word 'finauga' may derive from 'finau' (to compete) and 'ga' (collective noun), suggesting a competitive discussion or contest of ideas. |
| Scots Gaelic | The word 'deasbad' is derived from the Old Irish 'deisiud' meaning 'to decide' and 'bad' meaning 'to strike' or 'to kill'. |
| Serbian | The word "расправа" can also mean "massacre" in Serbian, highlighting its dual nature of both intellectual discourse and violence. |
| Sesotho | The Sesotho word "ngangisano" derives from the verb "nganga" (to argue), and can also refer to a dispute or disagreement. |
| Shona | The word 'gakava' in Shona also means 'to make a noise' or 'to shout'. |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "بحث" can also refer to a discussion, inquiry, or investigation. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | විවාදය comes from the Sanskrit word 'vividha', meaning 'different' or 'varied', and refers to a discussion involving different opinions or arguments. |
| Slovak | "Debata" also means "talk" in Slovak. |
| Slovenian | "Razprava" also denotes an execution in Slovenian. |
| Somali | "Dood" also means "discussion", "argument", or "discourse" in Somali. |
| Spanish | The Spanish word "debate" also means "fight" or "dispute". |
| Sundanese | The Sundanese word "débat" comes from the Indonesian "debat", which is itself a loan from French "débattre", which ultimately means "to fight". |
| Swahili | The word "mjadala" can also mean "a discussion between two or more people who have different opinions, especially in a formal setting". |
| Swedish | "Debatt" can also mean a small pond in Swedish. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The Tagalog word "debate" is derived from the Spanish word "debate", which in turn is derived from the Latin word "debattere", meaning "to fight down." |
| Tajik | The verb “мубоҳиса” comes from the Middle Persian verb “mōhītan” which means “to make clear”. |
| Tamil | The Tamil word "விவாதம்" is derived from Sanskrit "विवाद" (vivid), meaning "to know" or "to distinguish." |
| Telugu | The word "చర్చ" (debate) in Telugu can also mean "discussion". |
| Thai | อภิปราย originates from Sanskrit word "abhiprāy" which means intention, purpose and opinion. |
| Turkish | Tartışma comes from the Arabic word "tarh", meaning "to throw out" or "to propose". |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word "дебати" has multiple meanings, including "debate", "dispute", and "discussion". |
| Urdu | The word "بحث" (bahs) also carries the meaning of "dissertation" or "investigation" in the context of academic research. |
| Uzbek | The Uzbek word "munozara" can also refer to a "discussion" or "conversation". |
| Vietnamese | "Tranh" means "to fight" and "luận" means "to discuss". |
| Welsh | The word "dadl" also derives from the Proto-Indo-European root "*dʰeh₁-", meaning "to put, set, do". |
| Xhosa | The term "mpikiswano" in Xhosa can also mean "controversy" or a "dispute". |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word “דעבאטן” (“debatan”) is derived from the French word “débattre,” meaning "to discuss". |
| Yoruba | "Ijiroro" is a Yoruba word that can also mean "argument" or "dispute." |
| Zulu | The Zulu word "mpikiswano" can also refer to a verbal contest, argument, or quarrel. |
| English | The word "debate" derives from the Old French word "debatre," meaning "to fight." |