Delivery in Different Languages
Discover 'Delivery' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Delivery
Afrikaans aflewering | ||
Albanian dorëzimi | ||
Amharic ማድረስ | ||
Arabic توصيل | ||
Armenian առաքում | ||
Assamese বিলি কৰা | ||
Aymara churaña | ||
Azerbaijani çatdırılma | ||
Bambara jiginni | ||
Basque entrega | ||
Belarusian дастаўка | ||
Bengali বিতরণ | ||
Bhojpuri बच्चा दिहल | ||
Bosnian dostava | ||
Bulgarian доставка | ||
Catalan lliurament | ||
Cebuano paghatud | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 交货 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 交貨 | ||
Corsican cunsegna | ||
Croatian dostava | ||
Czech dodávka | ||
Danish levering | ||
Dhivehi ޑެލިވަރީ | ||
Dogri सपुर्दगी | ||
Dutch levering | ||
English delivery | ||
Esperanto livero | ||
Estonian kohaletoimetamine | ||
Ewe vidzidzi | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) paghahatid | ||
Finnish toimitus | ||
French livraison | ||
Frisian befalling | ||
Galician entrega | ||
Georgian მიწოდება | ||
German lieferung | ||
Greek διανομή | ||
Guarani me'ẽ | ||
Gujarati ડિલિવરી | ||
Haitian Creole livrezon | ||
Hausa bayarwa | ||
Hawaiian ka hoʻouna ʻana | ||
Hebrew מְסִירָה | ||
Hindi वितरण | ||
Hmong tus me nyuam | ||
Hungarian szállítás | ||
Icelandic afhendingu | ||
Igbo nnyefe | ||
Ilocano panangipaw-it | ||
Indonesian pengiriman | ||
Irish seachadadh | ||
Italian consegna | ||
Japanese 配達 | ||
Javanese pangiriman | ||
Kannada ವಿತರಣೆ | ||
Kazakh жеткізу | ||
Khmer ការចែកចាយ | ||
Kinyarwanda gutanga | ||
Konkani डिलिवरी | ||
Korean 배달 | ||
Krio go lɛf | ||
Kurdish şandinî | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) گەیاندن | ||
Kyrgyz жеткирүү | ||
Lao ການຈັດສົ່ງ | ||
Latin partum | ||
Latvian piegāde | ||
Lingala kopesa | ||
Lithuanian pristatymas | ||
Luganda okutusa | ||
Luxembourgish liwwerung | ||
Macedonian испорака | ||
Maithili वितरण | ||
Malagasy delivery | ||
Malay penghantaran | ||
Malayalam ഡെലിവറി | ||
Maltese kunsinna | ||
Maori tuku | ||
Marathi वितरण | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯄꯤꯊꯣꯛꯄ | ||
Mizo sem | ||
Mongolian хүргэлт | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ပေးပို့ခြင်း | ||
Nepali वितरण | ||
Norwegian leveranse | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kutumiza | ||
Odia (Oriya) ବିତରଣ | ||
Oromo qaqqabsiisuu | ||
Pashto تحویلي | ||
Persian تحویل | ||
Polish dostawa | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) entrega | ||
Punjabi ਡਿਲਿਵਰੀ | ||
Quechua quy | ||
Romanian livrare | ||
Russian доставка | ||
Samoan tilivaina | ||
Sanskrit वितरण | ||
Scots Gaelic lìbhrigeadh | ||
Sepedi thomelo | ||
Serbian испорука | ||
Sesotho pelehi | ||
Shona dhirivahari | ||
Sindhi پهچائڻ | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) භාරදීම | ||
Slovak dodávka | ||
Slovenian dostava | ||
Somali gaarsiinta | ||
Spanish entrega | ||
Sundanese pangiriman | ||
Swahili utoaji | ||
Swedish leverans | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) paghahatid | ||
Tajik расонидан | ||
Tamil டெலிவரி | ||
Tatar тапшыру | ||
Telugu డెలివరీ | ||
Thai จัดส่ง | ||
Tigrinya ምብፃሕ | ||
Tsonga dilivhara | ||
Turkish teslimat | ||
Turkmen gowşurmak | ||
Twi (Akan) de kɔma | ||
Ukrainian доставка | ||
Urdu ترسیل | ||
Uyghur delivery | ||
Uzbek etkazib berish | ||
Vietnamese chuyển | ||
Welsh danfon | ||
Xhosa ukuhanjiswa | ||
Yiddish עקספּרעס | ||
Yoruba ifijiṣẹ | ||
Zulu ukulethwa |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | In Afrikaans, "aflewering" can also refer to an episode of a television show or a chapter of a book. |
| Albanian | The word "dorëzimi" in Albanian can also mean "surrender" or "resignation". |
| Amharic | ማድረስ (madräs) is an Amharic word that means 'delivery' and can also refer to a 'school' or 'institute'. |
| Arabic | The word "توصيل" has multiple meanings, including "connection" and "communication". |
| Armenian | The Armenian word "առաքում" can also refer to the act of sending or dispatching something. |
| Azerbaijani | "Çatdırılma" (delivery) in Azerbaijani also means "delivery room" in a hospital context. |
| Basque | In Basque, "entrega" means "gift" and "surrender", but it does not mean "delivery". |
| Belarusian | In Belarusian, “дастаўка” also refers to the means by which something is delivered. |
| Bengali | বিতরণ (বিতরন) can mean "to spread" in Bengali. |
| Bosnian | The word "dostava" in Bosnian can also mean "fate" or "destiny". |
| Bulgarian | The word "доставка" also means "supply" or "provision" in Bulgarian. |
| Catalan | In Catalan, "lliurament" also means "surrender" or "betrayal". |
| Cebuano | The word "paghatud" can also refer to the act of sending or conveying something, or the act of giving birth. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 交货 (jiāohuò) is a compound word meaning 'hand over goods' (交 jiāo = hand over, and 货 huò = goods). |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 交貨 (Jiāo huò) can also mean 'to hand over', 'to exchange' or 'to deliver goods'. |
| Corsican | In Corsican, "cunsegna" is also used to mean "shipment" or "cargo." |
| Croatian | While the Croatian word "dostava" means delivery, it is also short for the phrase "dostava na kućnu адресу" (home delivery). |
| Czech | The word "dodávka" can also refer to a van or delivery vehicle in Czech. |
| Danish | The Danish noun "levering" is etymologically related to the verb "at leve", meaning "to deliver", but its meaning has shifted over time, taking on the additional senses of "delivery" and "loading." |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "levering" can also refer to a lever or the action of lifting something. |
| Esperanto | Livero in Esperanto also means "to deliver a baby". |
| Estonian | The Estonian word "kohaletoimetamine" is derived from "kohale" meaning "to the place", and "toimetamine" meaning "execution" or "fulfillment". It can also refer to "distribution" or "consignment". |
| Finnish | Toimitus is related to the Estonian word "toimetus", meaning "editorial office". In the 19th century, this term was used for the delivery of newspapers and magazines, hence its current meaning. |
| French | The word "livraison" comes from the Latin "liberatio" meaning "to free". It can also mean "handout" or "distribution". |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "befalling" also means "happening" or "event". |
| Galician | The Galician word for "delivery" is "entrega", which is also used to refer to the transfer of property or surrender to an enemy. |
| Georgian | The word in Georgian is derived from the Greek word “παράδοση” (“paradosis”), which means “transfer” |
| German | The word "Lieferung" comes from the Middle High German "lifern" meaning "to give" and has the alternate meaning of "issue" in the sense of a periodical. |
| Greek | In its Ancient Greek roots, διανομή also had the meaning of "division, distribution." |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "ડિલિવરી" can also refer to "childbirth" or "a consignment of goods". |
| Haitian Creole | The Haitian Creole term "livrezon" derives from the French word "livraison", which also signifies "dispatch". |
| Hausa | The word "bayarwa" in Hausa can also mean "to hand over" or "to give up". |
| Hawaiian | "Ka hoʻouna ʻana" literally means "the sending forth" in Hawaiian, reflecting a nuanced interpretation of "delivery" in the Hawaiian language. |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "מְסִירָה" can also mean "betrayal" or "surrender". |
| Hindi | The word "वितरण" also means "distribution" or "dispersal" in Hindi. |
| Hmong | The word "tus me nyuam" can also refer to a type of blessing performed on a newborn child in Hmong culture. |
| Hungarian | The word "szállítás" can also refer to the act of transporting goods or people, or to the process of delivering a service. |
| Icelandic | The word 'afhendingu' also means 'disposition' and comes from the verb 'afhýða', meaning 'to dispose of something'. |
| Igbo | Igbo "nnyefe" derives from "nwata", meaning child, and "ife", meaning birth or arrival, symbolizing the act of bringing a child into the world. |
| Indonesian | "Pengiriman" can mean "delivery" or "sending" in Indonesian. |
| Irish | "Seachadadh" also refers to the process of bringing forth ideas and the act of giving birth. |
| Italian | The word "consegna" also means "surrender" or "assignment" in Italian. |
| Japanese | "配達" was originally a polite term used to describe a servant's actions. |
| Javanese | In the Indonesian loanword 'pengiriman' in Javanese, 'pang-' can also mean 'to order'. |
| Kannada | The word 'ವಿತರಣೆ' can have multiple meanings including 'distribution', 'supply', 'delivery of goods', and 'expression of an idea'. |
| Kazakh | The term "жеткізу" in Kazakh also carries the meaning of "fulfillment" or "accomplishment". |
| Khmer | The term ការចែកចាយ is also used in the context of distribution of goods and services. |
| Korean | The word 배달 can also mean 'a tray', which is a reference to the food delivery trays used by servants in historic Korean palaces. |
| Kurdish | The word "şandinî" derives from the root "şand" ('to send') and the suffix "-inî" (-ion), meaning 'the act of sending' |
| Kyrgyz | The verb "жеткирүү" (" to deliver") can also take on the meaning of "to provide assistance" or "to help out" in Kyrgyz. |
| Latin | The word |
| Latvian | The word "piegāde" also means "the act of bringing something to someone" in Latvian. |
| Lithuanian | The word "pristatymas" also translates as "introduction" in Lithuanian. |
| Luxembourgish | "Liwwerung" is derived from the Middle High German "līverunge" meaning "supply", and a cognate of the English word "livery" (delivery). |
| Macedonian | The word "испорака" can also refer to the act of handing over or transferring something. |
| Malagasy | In Malagasy, "delivery" also means "to give birth" or "to offer". |
| Malay | The word "penghantaran" can also mean "transmission" or "transfer" in Malay, indicating the broad range of its meaning. |
| Malayalam | The Malayalam word "ഡെലിവറി" (delivery) is derived from the English word "deliver", which means to convey something or to set something free |
| Maltese | Maltese "kunsinna" is of Italian origin and shares the same Latin root as "consign". |
| Maori | The word "tuku" can also refer to the act of sending someone away or releasing something. |
| Marathi | In Marathi, "वितरण" (distribution) has an alternate meaning of "division" of the inheritance in the case of death of the owner among the legal heirs. |
| Mongolian | The word 'хүргэлт' can also mean 'conveyance', 'transport', or 'carriage'. |
| Nepali | The term 'Vitran', derived from Sanskrit, also refers to the distribution of resources or services. |
| Norwegian | The word "leveranse" is derived from the French word "livraison," also meaning delivery, and "lever," to raise or lift. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "kutumiza" can also mean "to be responsible for" or "to take care of" in Nyanja (Chichewa). |
| Pashto | The word تحویلي also means "transfer" or "assignment". |
| Persian | The Persian word تحویل (taḥvīl) can also mean "reception" or "transformation". |
| Polish | Polish word 'dostawa' ('delivery') likely comes from the Latin verb 'do' ('to give') or from Middle High German term 'dos' ('something offered'). |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The Portuguese word "entrega" can also mean "surrender" or "dedication" |
| Punjabi | The word ਡਿਲਿਵਰੀ (delivery) is derived from the Latin word 'liberare', which means 'to free, or to deliver'. |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "livrare" ultimately derives from the Latin "liberare" meaning "to free," suggesting the act of passing something on or making it available. |
| Russian | Доставка derives from the verb доставить (dostavit), which in addition to 'to deliver' can also mean 'to bring/convey' and 'to cause/provide'. |
| Samoan | In Sāmoan, "tilivaina" has been used to convey the concept of delivery since the late 19th century. |
| Scots Gaelic | The word "lìbhrigeadh" also means "to distribute" or "to hand out" in Scots Gaelic. |
| Serbian | The word "испорука" (delivery) is derived from the verb "испра́вить" (to correct, to fix), indicating the act of fulfilling a promise or completing a task. |
| Sesotho | In Sesotho, the verb 'pelehi' means 'to escape', but is often used as an idiom for 'to give birth' |
| Shona | The word 'dhirivahari' is derived from the Proto-Bantu word *li-leka-la-ki-li-la-ka*, meaning 'to carry something' |
| Sindhi | The word "پهچائڻ" is derived from the Persian verb "رساندن (rasāndan)", meaning "to cause to reach" or "to deliver." |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | භාරදීම originates from Sanskrit and translates to 'to hold' or 'to transfer to someone's care'. |
| Slovak | In English, "dodávka" can also mean a small van or truck. |
| Slovenian | The word "dostava" in Slovenian can also refer to a person who delivers something. |
| Somali | The Somali word "gaarsiinta" also means "to send" or "to deliver something to someone". |
| Spanish | "Entrega" comes from the Latin word "intrare," meaning "to enter," and refers to the act of putting something into someone's possession. |
| Sundanese | The word "pangiriman" can also refer to the act of sending something away or getting rid of something. |
| Swahili | Utoaji can also refer to the act of giving something to someone, or the thing that is given. |
| Swedish | The word 'leverans' is derived from the French word 'livraison', which means 'delivery' or 'handing over'. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "paghahatid" in Tagalog can also refer to the act of escorting or conveying someone or something. |
| Tajik | The Tajik word "расонидан" can also mean "to bring" or "to send". |
| Tamil | The Tamil word டெலிவரி also refers to a type of classical South Indian dance. |
| Telugu | The word "డెలివరీ" (delivery) can also refer to "to set up a camp" or "to free someone" in Telugu. |
| Thai | The Thai word "จัดส่ง" can also refer to the process of sending or transmitting something. |
| Turkish | The word "teslimat" is also used to refer to a religious surrender or submission. |
| Ukrainian | The word "доставка" comes from the Old Church Slavonic word "доставити", meaning "to bring" or "to convey". |
| Urdu | ترسیل can also mean "sending money or goods through a bank" or "transfer of property" in Urdu. |
| Uzbek | The Uzbek word "etkazib berish" can also mean "to deliver a speech" or "to give a lecture." |
| Vietnamese | The word "chuyển" can also mean "to transform" or "to change". |
| Welsh | The word "danfon" can also mean "to give birth" or "to deliver a baby" in Welsh. |
| Xhosa | The word "ukuhanjiswa" can also refer to "being transferred" or "being handed over" in Xhosa. |
| Yiddish | The word עקספּרעס (express) originates from the Latin word exprimere, which means "to press out" or "to utter." |
| Yoruba | The term 'ifijiṣẹ' also refers to a woman's giving birth for the first time, which is seen as a significant milestone in Yoruba culture. |
| Zulu | The Zulu word "ukulethwa" can also refer to the act of being brought or taken somewhere. |
| English | The word 'delivery' stems from Old French 'delivrer,' meaning 'to free or release.' It has various meanings, including the act of giving or transferring something, the manner of presentation, and the process of giving birth. |