Afrikaans demonstreer | ||
Albanian demonstroj | ||
Amharic አሳይ | ||
Arabic يتظاهر | ||
Armenian ցույց տալ | ||
Assamese প্ৰদৰ্শন | ||
Aymara uñacht'ayaña | ||
Azerbaijani nümayiş etdirmək | ||
Bambara ka jira | ||
Basque erakutsi | ||
Belarusian прадэманстраваць | ||
Bengali প্রদর্শন | ||
Bhojpuri कुछ देखावल | ||
Bosnian demonstrirati | ||
Bulgarian демонстрирайте | ||
Catalan demostrar | ||
Cebuano ipakita | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 演示 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 演示 | ||
Corsican dimustrà | ||
Croatian demonstrirati | ||
Czech prokázat | ||
Danish demonstrere | ||
Dhivehi ދެއްކުން | ||
Dogri जलूस कड्ढना | ||
Dutch demonstreren | ||
English demonstrate | ||
Esperanto pruvi | ||
Estonian demonstreerima | ||
Ewe ɖe fia | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) ipakita | ||
Finnish osoittaa | ||
French démontrer | ||
Frisian demonstrearje | ||
Galician demostrar | ||
Georgian დემონსტრირება | ||
German zeigen | ||
Greek επιδεικνύω | ||
Guarani hechauka | ||
Gujarati નિદર્શન | ||
Haitian Creole demontre | ||
Hausa nuna | ||
Hawaiian hōʻikeʻike | ||
Hebrew לְהַפְגִין | ||
Hindi प्रदर्शन करना | ||
Hmong ua qauv qhia | ||
Hungarian demonstrálja | ||
Icelandic sýna fram á | ||
Igbo gosi | ||
Ilocano ipasirmata | ||
Indonesian mendemonstrasikan | ||
Irish léiriú | ||
Italian dimostrare | ||
Japanese デモンストレーション | ||
Javanese nduduhake | ||
Kannada ಪ್ರದರ್ಶಿಸಿ | ||
Kazakh көрсету | ||
Khmer បង្ហាញ | ||
Kinyarwanda kwerekana | ||
Konkani प्रदर्शन | ||
Korean 증명하다 | ||
Krio sho | ||
Kurdish xwepişandan | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) نمایشکردن | ||
Kyrgyz көрсөтүү | ||
Lao ສະແດງໃຫ້ເຫັນ | ||
Latin demonstrabo | ||
Latvian demonstrēt | ||
Lingala kolakisa | ||
Lithuanian pademonstruoti | ||
Luganda okugezesa | ||
Luxembourgish demonstréieren | ||
Macedonian демонстрираат | ||
Maithili प्रदर्शन करनाइ | ||
Malagasy mampiseho | ||
Malay menunjukkan | ||
Malayalam പ്രകടമാക്കുക | ||
Maltese juru | ||
Maori whakaatu | ||
Marathi प्रात्यक्षिक | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯎꯠꯄ | ||
Mizo entir | ||
Mongolian үзүүлэх | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) သရုပ်ပြပါ | ||
Nepali प्रदर्शन | ||
Norwegian demonstrere | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) onetsani | ||
Odia (Oriya) ପ୍ରଦର୍ଶନ | ||
Oromo agarsiisuu | ||
Pashto ښودل | ||
Persian نشان دادن | ||
Polish wykazać | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) demonstrar | ||
Punjabi ਪ੍ਰਦਰਸ਼ਨ | ||
Quechua qawachiy | ||
Romanian demonstra | ||
Russian продемонстрировать | ||
Samoan faʻaali | ||
Sanskrit प्रमाणय् | ||
Scots Gaelic taisbeanadh | ||
Sepedi laetša | ||
Serbian демонстрирати | ||
Sesotho bonts'a | ||
Shona ratidza | ||
Sindhi مظاهرو ڪيو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) නිරූපණය | ||
Slovak demonštrovať | ||
Slovenian demonstrirati | ||
Somali bandhigid | ||
Spanish demostrar | ||
Sundanese nunjukkeun | ||
Swahili onyesha | ||
Swedish demonstrera | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) magpakita | ||
Tajik намоиш додан | ||
Tamil ஆர்ப்பாட்டம் | ||
Tatar күрсәтү | ||
Telugu ప్రదర్శించండి | ||
Thai สาธิต | ||
Tigrinya ምርኣይ | ||
Tsonga kombisa | ||
Turkish göstermek | ||
Turkmen görkezmek | ||
Twi (Akan) da no adi | ||
Ukrainian продемонструвати | ||
Urdu مظاہرہ | ||
Uyghur كۆرسەت | ||
Uzbek namoyish qilmoq | ||
Vietnamese chứng minh | ||
Welsh arddangos | ||
Xhosa bonisa | ||
Yiddish דעמאָנסטרירן | ||
Yoruba iṣafihan | ||
Zulu bonisa |
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | In Afrikaans, "demonstreer" also has the archaic meaning of "to preach". |
| Albanian | Demonstroj is the Albanian version of the English word “demonstrate”, both deriving from the Latin verb “demonstrare” (to show). |
| Amharic | አሳይ can also mean 'to make an attempt', 'to test' or 'to check'. |
| Arabic | The word "يتظاهر" (demonstrates) also means to 'pretend' or 'feign'. |
| Armenian | "Ցույց տալ" in Armenian is also used figuratively to mean "to point out" or "to show (something)" in a non-visual sense. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "nümayiş etdirmək" comes from the French word "manifester", meaning "to show" or "to make known", and is cognate with the English word "manifest". |
| Basque | The Basque word "erakutsi" also means "to teach" or "to show". |
| Belarusian | "Прадэманстраваць" is also used to mean "to show off" or "to display" in Belarusian. |
| Bengali | "প্রদর্শন" can mean "to show" or "to display" in Bengali. |
| Bosnian | The Bosnian word "demonstrirati" also means "to participate in a demonstration" or "to show". |
| Bulgarian | In Bulgarian, the noun "демонстрация" ("demonstration") can also refer to a musical performance. |
| Catalan | The Catalan verb "demostrar" was inherited from the Latin "demonstrare," which evolved from the noun "de-monstratio," meaning both "demonstration" and "evidence," further evolving from the verb "monstrare," meaning "to show or point out." |
| Cebuano | "Ipakita" originally meant "to point out" in Cebuano, from "pakita" (to point or show) |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 演示 (yǎnshì) also means "to show", "to present", "to perform", "to prove", "to explain", "to illustrate", "to manifest", "to exhibit", "to display", or "to reveal". |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 演示 (yǎnshì) is also used to describe giving someone a tour or showing them how to do something. |
| Corsican | Etymology: Late Latin "demonstrare" (to indicate), ultimately from the Latin prefix "de" (from) + "monstrare" (to show). |
| Croatian | In its original meaning, 'demonstrirati' referred to showing an evil spirit or devil (demon). |
| Czech | Prokázat in Czech also means 'to prove', 'to attest', or 'to certify'. |
| Danish | The word 'demonstrere' comes from the Latin word 'demonstrare', which means 'to point out' or 'to show'. |
| Dutch | Dutch "demonstreren" can also mean "to display something". |
| Esperanto | Pruvi is a back-formation from pruvo, which is a loanword from the French "prouver" (to prove) |
| Estonian | The verb “demonstreerima” is an Estonian borrowing from German, derived from French.“} |
| Finnish | The word "osoittaa" also means "to show" or "to indicate". |
| French | The term “démontrer” is ultimately derived from the ancient Greek verb "deiknumi" - “show", "point out". |
| Frisian | In Frisian, 'demonstrearje' also means 'perform a religious service'. |
| Galician | In Galician, "demostrar" can also refer to pointing or indicating something visually, like on a map or a screen. |
| German | "Zeigen" also has the meaning of "to show" in German, not only "to demonstrate". |
| Greek | The word "επιδεικνύω" derives from the Ancient Greek words "ἐπί" (epi), meaning "upon" or "over", and "δεικνύω" (deiknuō), meaning "to show" or "to point out". |
| Haitian Creole | In Haitian Creole, "demontre" can also mean "to prove" or "to expose". |
| Hausa | The Hausa word "nuna" can also mean "perform" or "make a display of". |
| Hawaiian | The word "hōʻikeʻike" in Hawaiian can also mean "to point out" or "to show". |
| Hebrew | The verb "to demonstrate" in Hebrew, "לְהַפְגִין", also carries the meaning of "to show off", originating from the biblical term "להתפאר" |
| Hindi | The word "प्रदर्शन करना" can also mean "to display" or "to exhibit". |
| Hmong | "Ua qauv qhia" is a compound word composed of the individual words "ua," "qauv," and "qhia," which together carry the combined meaning of "to show" something to someone else. |
| Hungarian | The word 'demonstrálja' also means 'to show off' or 'to boast' or 'to prove' in modern Hungarian language. |
| Icelandic | The verb "sýna fram á" originally meant "to point out" or "to show forth" (cf. "sýna"), but it now also means "to demonstrate" (in the sense of "to make clear by proof or example"). |
| Igbo | The word 'gosi' is derived from the Igbo word 'gosi ikwu' meaning 'to show one's strength or power' |
| Indonesian | "Mendemonstrasikan" is commonly used to refer to public protests, while in other contexts it retains the original meaning of demonstrating something." |
| Irish | Léiriú also means 'to clear up' or 'to explain' in Irish, showcasing its versatile use in conveying clarity and understanding. |
| Italian | The Italian word "dimostrare" originally meant "to indicate with the finger," from Latin "monstrare." |
| Japanese | The word "デモンストレーション" has two pronunciations in Japanese: "デモンストレーション" and "デモ". "デモ" is used in the context of a political demonstration, while "デモンストレーション" is used in the context of a product demonstration. |
| Javanese | Nduduhake in Javanese can also mean "to prove" or "to show". |
| Kannada | The Kannada word "ಪ್ರದರ್ಶಿಸಿ" can also mean "to prove", "to exhibit", "to display", "to manifest", and "to show clearly". |
| Kazakh | In Kazakh, the word "көрсету" can also refer to "proof" or "evidence". |
| Khmer | The word "បង្ហាញ" can also mean "to exhibit" or "to display". |
| Korean | 증명하다 is also an abbreviation of 증거를 보이다 (to show evidence) |
| Kurdish | "Xwepişandan" is also used to mean "to take out" or "to get out" something. |
| Kyrgyz | "Көрсөтүү" may refer to displaying something as an example or to offering or providing something for people to use. |
| Latin | Demonstrabo ('show or demonstrate') is an example of a verb that means something and its negative (non-demonstrabo, 'fail to show or fail to demonstrate'). |
| Latvian | Demonstrēt can also mean to show or prove something |
| Lithuanian | Pademonstruoti is derived from Latin word |
| Macedonian | In Macedonian, the verb "демонстрираат" can also mean "to parade" or "to march". |
| Malagasy | The word "mampiseho" in Malagasy comes from the French word "montrer" and has the same meaning. |
| Malay | The word "menunjukkan" also means "to point out" in Malay. |
| Malayalam | "പ്രകടമാക്കുക" (praktamaakkuk) derives from the Proto-South-Dravidian verb *paṟu- 'to speak, say' and means 'to show' or 'to proclaim' in Malayalam. |
| Maltese | The word "juru" can also mean "to move", "to shake", or "to wag" in Maltese. |
| Maori | "Whakaatu" derives from the Proto-Polynesian word "fakatū", which means "to set up". |
| Marathi | The word "प्रात्यक्षिक" can also mean "demonstration" in Marathi. |
| Mongolian | Үзүүлэх also means to present, show, prove, illustrate, or clarify. |
| Nepali | The word प्रदर्शन (pradarshan) in Nepali comes from the Sanskrit words pra (meaning 'forth') and darshan (meaning 'to see'), and it also has the connotation of 'exhibiting' or 'displaying'. |
| Norwegian | In addition to the meaning "demonstrate", "demonstrere" can mean "show", "prove", or "make something known." |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "onetsani" can also mean "to show" or "to display" in Nyanja (Chichewa). |
| Pashto | The word "ښودل" in Pashto can also mean "to show", "to indicate", or "to point out". |
| Persian | The word نشان دادن can also mean to exhibit, display, or show. |
| Polish | "Wykazać" comes from Old Polish "kazati," meaning "to show," and can also mean "to prove" or "to deduce" |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | Portuguese "demonstrar" can also mean to "show" or "indicate" and stems from a Greek word referring to a "teacher". |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "demonstra" also means "to exhibit" or "to show off". |
| Russian | Продемонстрировать also means to prove or show someone something. |
| Samoan | "Faʻaali" can also mean "to act out" or "to perform a play". |
| Scots Gaelic | The word "taisbeanadh" derives from the Old Irish "taisben", meaning "to show" or "to make known". |
| Serbian | The word ''демонстрирати'' can also mean ''to express'' in Serbian. |
| Sesotho | The word "bonts'a" also means "to show off" or "to make a spectacle of oneself" in Sesotho. |
| Shona | The word 'ratidza' originally meant 'to point out' or 'to show'. |
| Sindhi | The word 'مظاهرو ڪيو' in Sindhi is derived from the Persian word 'مظهر' meaning 'appearance, manifestation'. |
| Slovak | The etymology of "demonštrovať" in Slovak is from the Latin word "dēmonstrāre", originally meaning to point out or show something clearly. |
| Slovenian | "Demonstrirati" means "to demonstrate" in Slovenian and its root can be traced to the Latin word "demonstrare", meaning "to point out". |
| Somali | Bandhigid in Somali can also mean performing an action or exhibiting something. |
| Spanish | Also used in Spanish to mean "prove, evidence," especially in a legal context, as in “demostrar inocencia” (to prove innocence). |
| Sundanese | "Nunjukkeun" in Sundanese also means "to show" or "to present". |
| Swahili | The Swahili word "onyesha" comes from the Arabic word "an-nazza", meaning "to look" or "to show". |
| Swedish | In Swedish, "demonstrera" means "demonstrate" but can also mean "to show" or "to explain". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "magpakita" in Tagalog can also mean "to appear" or "to show oneself." |
| Tajik | The word "намоиш додан" can also mean "to show" or "to display". |
| Thai | Thai word "สาธิต" is derived from the Pali Sanskrit word "sadhaka" meaning "a person who can demonstrate by making it clearly understandable" or "perform or accomplish." |
| Turkish | The verb 'göstermek' also means 'to present', 'to reveal' or 'to expose' in Turkish. |
| Ukrainian | The word "продемонструвати" can also mean "to show off" or "to display" in Ukrainian. |
| Urdu | The word مظاهرة ("demonstrate") in Urdu originates from the Arabic word مظاهر ("appearance, manifestation") which also implies "public display, exhibition, show". |
| Uzbek | In Uzbek, the word "namoyish qilmoq" can also mean "to reveal", while the word "ko'rsatmoq" is more commonly used for the act of "showing" or "demonstrating" something. |
| Vietnamese | "Chứng minh" in Vietnamese can also mean "to prove" or "to provide evidence for something." |
| Welsh | The Welsh word "arddangos" also means "to show" or "to exhibit". |
| Xhosa | The term 'bonisa' is also used to mean 'to reveal' or 'to make known'. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word דעמאָנסטרירן can also mean "to attend a political rally or march." |
| Yoruba | The word 'iṣafihan' in Yoruba also means 'to show' or 'to exhibit'. |
| Zulu | Bonisa is a word that can be traced back to the Nguni language, where it means 'to make something known'. |
| English | "Demonstrate" comes from the Latin monstrare meaning "to show" and is related to the word "monster". |