Destroy in Different Languages
Discover 'Destroy' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Destroy
Afrikaans vernietig | ||
Albanian shkatërroj | ||
Amharic አጥፋ | ||
Arabic هدم | ||
Armenian ոչնչացնել | ||
Assamese ধ্বংস কৰা | ||
Aymara t'unjaña | ||
Azerbaijani məhv etmək | ||
Bambara ka halaki | ||
Basque suntsitu | ||
Belarusian знішчыць | ||
Bengali ধ্বংস | ||
Bhojpuri नष्ट कईल | ||
Bosnian uništiti | ||
Bulgarian унищожи | ||
Catalan destruir | ||
Cebuano gubaon | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 破坏 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 破壞 | ||
Corsican distrugge | ||
Croatian uništiti | ||
Czech zničit | ||
Danish ødelægge | ||
Dhivehi ހަލާކުކުރުން | ||
Dogri तबाह् करना | ||
Dutch vernietigen | ||
English destroy | ||
Esperanto detrui | ||
Estonian hävitama | ||
Ewe gblẽ | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) sirain | ||
Finnish tuhota | ||
French détruire | ||
Frisian ferneatigje | ||
Galician destruír | ||
Georgian განადგურება | ||
German zerstören | ||
Greek καταστρέφω | ||
Guarani mbyai | ||
Gujarati નાશ | ||
Haitian Creole detwi | ||
Hausa halaka | ||
Hawaiian luku | ||
Hebrew להרוס | ||
Hindi नष्ट | ||
Hmong txov | ||
Hungarian elpusztítani | ||
Icelandic eyðileggja | ||
Igbo bibie | ||
Ilocano dadaelen | ||
Indonesian menghancurkan | ||
Irish scrios | ||
Italian distruggere | ||
Japanese 破壊 | ||
Javanese nyirnakake | ||
Kannada ನಾಶ | ||
Kazakh жою | ||
Khmer បំផ្លាញ | ||
Kinyarwanda kurimbura | ||
Konkani नाश | ||
Korean 멸하다 | ||
Krio pwɛl | ||
Kurdish wêrankirin | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) تێکشکاندن | ||
Kyrgyz жок кылуу | ||
Lao ທຳ ລາຍ | ||
Latin perdere | ||
Latvian iznīcināt | ||
Lingala koboma | ||
Lithuanian sunaikinti | ||
Luganda okuyonoona | ||
Luxembourgish zerstéieren | ||
Macedonian уништи | ||
Maithili नष्ट | ||
Malagasy handringana | ||
Malay memusnahkan | ||
Malayalam നശിപ്പിക്കുക | ||
Maltese jeqred | ||
Maori whakangaro | ||
Marathi नष्ट | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯊꯨꯒꯥꯏꯕ | ||
Mizo tichhia | ||
Mongolian устгах | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ဖျက်ဆီးပစ် | ||
Nepali नष्ट | ||
Norwegian ødelegge | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kuwononga | ||
Odia (Oriya) ବିନାଶ କର | | ||
Oromo balleessuu | ||
Pashto ویجاړول | ||
Persian از بین رفتن | ||
Polish zniszczyć | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) destruir | ||
Punjabi ਨਸ਼ਟ ਕਰੋ | ||
Quechua chinkachiy | ||
Romanian distruge | ||
Russian уничтожить | ||
Samoan faʻaleaga | ||
Sanskrit विनश् | ||
Scots Gaelic sgrios | ||
Sepedi senya | ||
Serbian уништити | ||
Sesotho senya | ||
Shona kuparadza | ||
Sindhi تباهه ڪيو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) විනාශ කරන්න | ||
Slovak zničiť | ||
Slovenian uničiti | ||
Somali burburin | ||
Spanish destruir | ||
Sundanese ngancurkeun | ||
Swahili haribu | ||
Swedish förstöra | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) sirain | ||
Tajik нобуд кардан | ||
Tamil அழிக்க | ||
Tatar юк итү | ||
Telugu నాశనం | ||
Thai ทำลาย | ||
Tigrinya ምጥፋእ | ||
Tsonga hlasela | ||
Turkish yok etmek | ||
Turkmen ýok etmek | ||
Twi (Akan) sɛe | ||
Ukrainian знищити | ||
Urdu تباہ | ||
Uyghur بۇزۇش | ||
Uzbek yo'q qilish | ||
Vietnamese hủy hoại | ||
Welsh dinistrio | ||
Xhosa ukutshabalalisa | ||
Yiddish צעשטערן | ||
Yoruba run | ||
Zulu bhubhisa |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "vernietig" derives from the Dutch word "vernietigen", which means "to destroy" or "to annihilate". |
| Albanian | The Albanian word "shkatërroj" is derived from the Vulgar Latin word "excaterare", meaning "to dig out", and is related to the Italian word "scavare" and the French word "creuser". |
| Amharic | The word "አጥፋ" can also mean "to ruin" or "to waste" in Amharic. |
| Arabic | In the Quran, "هدم" has the alternate meaning of "to humiliate". |
| Azerbaijani | The verb "məhv etmək" is derived from the Persian word "مَحو کردن" (mahv kardan), which means "to erase, to wipe out". |
| Basque | Suntsitu derives also from the word |
| Belarusian | The word "знішчыць" is derived from the Proto-Slavic root *nit-, meaning "to take away" or "to remove". |
| Bengali | The word "ধ্বংস" is derived from the Sanskrit word "ध्वंस (dhvansa)", which also means "collapse" or "ruin". |
| Bosnian | The Bosnian term "uništiti" is thought to derive from the Proto-Slavic word "*nuštiti", meaning "to perish". |
| Bulgarian | The word "унищожи" comes from the Proto-Slavic root *orb-/*orz- meaning "to crush". |
| Catalan | In Catalan, "destruir" also means "to raze" or "to tear down", and it shares its etymology with the French word "détruire". |
| Cebuano | The word 'gubaon' in Cebuano comes from the root word 'guba,' which means ruins, destruction, or damage. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | Besides meaning "destroy," "破坏" can also mean "damage," "spoil," or "corrupt." |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 破壞 is also used in the sense of "break" and "damage". |
| Corsican | The word distrugge in Corsican also means "to scatter", "to break up", or "to ruin". |
| Croatian | The word "uništiti" comes from the Old Slavic word "uštiti", meaning "to diminish" or "to damage". |
| Czech | Zničit is cognate with the German word zerstören "to destroy", which ultimately derives from Latin struere "to build". |
| Danish | The word 'ødelægge' can also refer to the act of wasting or squandering something, such as 'ødelægge mad' (to waste food). |
| Dutch | The word "vernietigen" in Dutch stems from the word "nietig" meaning "null, void, of no value". |
| Esperanto | "Detrui" comes from the Latin word "destruere," meaning to break down or demolish. |
| Estonian | "Hävitama" shares its Estonian root word with the word "häving" which means "demise". |
| Finnish | The word "tuhota" is also cognate with the Estonian word "tuhka" (ash), and the Finnish word "tuhka" is derived from the verb "tuhtoa" meaning "to burn". |
| French | The French word "détruire" originates from the Latin "destruere," meaning "to pull down, break up, or overthrow." |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "ferneatigje" is thought to be derived from the Old Saxon word "farnothian," which means "to consume." |
| Galician | In Galician, "destruír" can also mean "demolition" or "ruin". |
| Georgian | 'Gananadgureva' comes from the Persian 'ganad' (treasure) and the Georgian verb 'dagureva' (to break). |
| German | "Zerstören" also means to "disperse", "dissipatate" or "dissolve" and is related to words like "stören" (disturb) and "störenfried" (troublemaker). |
| Greek | The Greek word "καταστρέφω" means "to utterly defeat", "to ruin completely." |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word 'નાશ' (destroy) comes from Sanskrit 'naash', meaning to die, perish or be annihilated. |
| Haitian Creole | The word "detwi" can be traced back to the French word "détruire" (destroy), and it is also used in a figurative sense to mean "to defeat" or "to ruin". |
| Hausa | The word "halaka" is also related to the concept of "wiping out" or "eradicating" something. |
| Hawaiian | In Hawaiian, "luku" can also refer to "counting" or "reading," as in the chant or prayer form "mele luku". |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word להרוס (leharos) originated from the concept of uprooting and can also mean “to demolish” or “to annul”. |
| Hindi | The word "नष्ट" also means "to go away" or "to cease to exist" in Hindi. |
| Hmong | "Txov" can also mean "to break apart" or "to separate", depending on the context. |
| Hungarian | "Elpusztítani" is related to the word "puszta" (meaning "wasteland"), so destroying something is literally "turning it into a wasteland." |
| Icelandic | Eyðileggja traces back to the Old Norse verb eyða, meaning "to lay waste, destroy, or empty out". |
| Igbo | The Igbo word "bibie" can also refer to the act of disassembling or dismantling something. |
| Indonesian | "Menghancurkan" can also mean "to humiliate" or "to defeat". |
| Irish | The word 'scrios' may also be derived from the Old Irish verb 'scrithim', which means to scratch or scrape. |
| Italian | The Italian word "distruggere" derives from the Latin "destruere," meaning "to demolish" or "to pull down." |
| Japanese | The verb "破壊" can mean "to break" or "to destroy" and shares the same root as the noun "破れ" (yabure), meaning "tear" or "defeat". |
| Javanese | The Javanese word "nyirnakake" can also mean "to break apart into pieces" or "to disassemble." |
| Kannada | ನಾಶ (nāśa) comes from the Sanskrit root नाश (nāś), meaning 'perish', 'decay'. |
| Kazakh | "Жою" can mean both "to destroy" and "to defeat" in Kazakh. |
| Korean | "멸하다" can also mean "to be extinguished" or "to be annihilated". |
| Kurdish | The Kurdish word "wêrankirin" can also mean "to ravage" or "to decimate". |
| Kyrgyz | The word "жок кылуу" is derived from the Kyrgyz word "жок", meaning "nothing" or "non-existence", and the verb "кылуу", meaning "to make" or "to cause to be." |
| Latin | The Latin word "perdere" can also mean "to lose" or "to ruin". |
| Latvian | The Latvian word "iznīcināt" is derived from the Proto-Balto-Slavic word *iz-ni-k-, meaning "to perish, pass away, or be destroyed." |
| Lithuanian | The word "sunaikinti" is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *swe-ik- "to pierce, to cut" and is related to the Sanskrit word "sunaiti" ("to cut, to destroy"). |
| Luxembourgish | The word "zerstéieren" ultimately derives from the Proto-Indo-European root "*dher-", meaning "to cut off" or "to split in two". |
| Macedonian | "Уништи" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word "*ǫtinъ" meaning "father" or "fatherhood". |
| Malagasy | The word "handringana" comes from the Proto-Austronesian word "*daŋaŋ", meaning "to cut or break." |
| Malay | From the Javanese root word "musnah", meaning "nothingness". "Memusnahkan" in Malay conveys a sense of total annihilation or erasure. |
| Maltese | The word jeqred is also used to describe a sudden and violent outburst of anger or frustration. |
| Maori | In pre-European Māori culture, whakangaro carried a broader meaning of 'making something different', including destroying in battle or reshaping an existing object. |
| Marathi | The Marathi word नष्ट (destroy) is cognate with the Sanskrit word नष्ट (lost, destroyed), which in turn is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *nes- (to be lost). |
| Mongolian | The word "устгах" can also mean "to extinguish" or "to put out" in Mongolian. |
| Nepali | Some alternate forms of the word नष्ट are नाश, नष्ट, and नाशवान. |
| Norwegian | The word "ødelegge" can also mean "to spoil" or "to wreck". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | Kuwononga, meaning to destroy, can also mean to eliminate, annihilate, or abolish |
| Pashto | The word "ویجاړول" can also refer to the act of ruining someone's reputation or causing them pain. |
| Polish | The Polish word "zniszczyć" can also mean "to annihilate" or "to ruin". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | "Destruir" comes from the Latin "destruere", which means "to take apart, to break down". |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "distruge" originated from the Latin word "destruere," meaning "to break down or demolish." |
| Russian | "Уничтожить" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word "ničiti" meaning "to bring to nothing". |
| Samoan | The word “faʻaleaga” can also mean “to damage” or “to spoil”. |
| Scots Gaelic | Sgrios derives from the Proto-Celtic root *krese-, meaning "to cut" or "to sever". |
| Serbian | The verb 'уништити' can also be used to mean 'to annihilate' or 'to wipe out'. |
| Sesotho | The Sesotho word "senya" can also mean "to beat" or "to crush" with the hand or a weapon. |
| Shona | The word 'kuparadza' also has a figurative meaning, such as to 'destroy' one's reputation. |
| Sindhi | The word "تباهه ڪيو" in Sindhi also means "to ruin" or "to spoil". |
| Slovak | The word "zničiť" derives from the Proto-Slavic form "sъnititi", meaning "to bring down". |
| Slovenian | The word 'uničiti' is derived from the Proto-Slavic root *ničiti, meaning 'to bring to nothing', and is related to the Russian word 'ničtoženie' (annihilation). |
| Somali | The word "burburin" can also mean "to smash" or "to break" in Somali. |
| Spanish | The Spanish verb "destruir" derives from Latin "destruere", meaning "to pull down" or "demolish." |
| Sundanese | The Sundanese word "ngancurkeun" is related to the Sanskrit word "hancura", which also means "to destroy". |
| Swahili | In Swahili, the word 'haribu' can also describe a state of ruin or devastation. |
| Swedish | Despite its meaning - to destroy - the word "förstöra" also has the old meaning of "to disturb". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The Tagalog word "sirain" is also used in other Philippine languages, such as Cebuano and Hiligaynon, and means "to destroy, to break, to spoil, to ruin, to tear down, to demolish." |
| Tajik | The word "нобуд кардан" in Tajik can also have the alternate meaning "terminate, finish". |
| Tamil | The word 'அழிக்க' ('azhikka') in Tamil can also mean 'to remove' or 'to erase'. |
| Telugu | "నాశనం" is a derivative of the Sanskrit word "nashta" meaning "lost" or "perished"} |
| Thai | "ทำลาย" can also mean "remove", "take away" or "dismantle". |
| Turkish | Yok etmek also means "to get rid of" in Turkish. |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word "знищити" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word "*nizъ", meaning "down" or "low". |
| Urdu | The word "تباہ" can also mean "ruin" or "devastate". |
| Uzbek | The word "yo'q qilish" in Uzbek also means "to eliminate" or "to abolish". |
| Vietnamese | The word "hủy hoại" is derived from the Chinese word "毀壞", meaning "to demolish" or "to ruin". |
| Welsh | The Welsh word "dinistrio" is derived from the Latin word "destruere," meaning "to destroy". |
| Xhosa | The word "ukutshabalalisa" also means to spoil or ruin something. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "צעשטערן" also means "to disturb" or "to make trouble." |
| Yoruba | The Yoruba word "run" comes from the verb "ru," meaning "to break" or "to spoil." |
| Zulu | Bhubhisa (destroy) is also an idiomatic phrase meaning "to be filled with anger or rage". |
| English | The word 'destroy' is a Middle English borrowing from the Old French destruire, and is derived from the Latin destruere, formed from the base of struere ('put together'). |