Afrikaans ontwikkel | ||
Albanian duke u zhvilluar | ||
Amharic በማደግ ላይ | ||
Arabic تطوير | ||
Armenian զարգացող | ||
Assamese বিকাশশীল | ||
Aymara nayrar sartaña | ||
Azerbaijani inkişaf etməkdədir | ||
Bambara ka yiriwa | ||
Basque garatzen | ||
Belarusian развіваецца | ||
Bengali বিকাশ | ||
Bhojpuri विकसित हो रहल बा | ||
Bosnian u razvoju | ||
Bulgarian развиваща се | ||
Catalan desenvolupament | ||
Cebuano pagpalambo | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 发展 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 發展 | ||
Corsican sviluppendu | ||
Croatian razvijajući se | ||
Czech rozvíjející se | ||
Danish udvikler sig | ||
Dhivehi ތަރައްޤީވަމުންނެވެ | ||
Dogri विकास करदे होई | ||
Dutch ontwikkelen | ||
English developing | ||
Esperanto evoluanta | ||
Estonian arenev | ||
Ewe si le tsitsim | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) umuunlad | ||
Finnish kehittää | ||
French développement | ||
Frisian ûntwikkeljen | ||
Galician desenvolvendo | ||
Georgian ვითარდება | ||
German entwicklung | ||
Greek ανάπτυξη | ||
Guarani oñemoakãrapu’ãva | ||
Gujarati વિકાસશીલ | ||
Haitian Creole devlope | ||
Hausa bunkasa | ||
Hawaiian hoʻomohala | ||
Hebrew מתפתח | ||
Hindi विकसित होना | ||
Hmong tsim | ||
Hungarian fejlesztés | ||
Icelandic þróast | ||
Igbo na-emepe emepe | ||
Ilocano dumakdakkel | ||
Indonesian mengembangkan | ||
Irish ag forbairt | ||
Italian sviluppando | ||
Japanese 現像 | ||
Javanese berkembang | ||
Kannada ಅಭಿವೃದ್ಧಿ | ||
Kazakh дамуда | ||
Khmer ការអភិវឌ្ឍ | ||
Kinyarwanda gutera imbere | ||
Konkani विकसीत जावपी | ||
Korean 개발 중 | ||
Krio divεlכp | ||
Kurdish pêşve diçin | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) گەشەپێدان | ||
Kyrgyz өнүгүп жатат | ||
Lao ພັດທະນາ | ||
Latin developing | ||
Latvian attīstās | ||
Lingala kokola | ||
Lithuanian besivystanti | ||
Luganda okukulaakulanya | ||
Luxembourgish entwéckelen | ||
Macedonian развој | ||
Maithili विकासशील | ||
Malagasy fampandrosoana | ||
Malay berkembang | ||
Malayalam വികസിക്കുന്നു | ||
Maltese jiżviluppaw | ||
Maori whanake | ||
Marathi विकसनशील | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯗꯤꯕꯦꯂꯞ ꯇꯧꯕꯥ꯫ | ||
Mizo hmasawn zel | ||
Mongolian хөгжиж байна | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ဖွံ့ဖြိုးဆဲ | ||
Nepali विकास गर्दै | ||
Norwegian utvikler seg | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kukula | ||
Odia (Oriya) ବିକାଶ | ||
Oromo guddachaa jira | ||
Pashto وده ورکول | ||
Persian در حال توسعه | ||
Polish rozwijający się | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) em desenvolvimento | ||
Punjabi ਵਿਕਾਸਸ਼ੀਲ | ||
Quechua wiñariy | ||
Romanian în curs de dezvoltare | ||
Russian развивающийся | ||
Samoan atinae | ||
Sanskrit विकासशीलः | ||
Scots Gaelic a ’leasachadh | ||
Sepedi go hlabolla | ||
Serbian развијајући се | ||
Sesotho ho ntshetsa pele | ||
Shona kukura | ||
Sindhi ترقي ڪرڻ | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) සංවර්ධනය වෙමින් පවතී | ||
Slovak rozvoj | ||
Slovenian razvija | ||
Somali horumarinaya | ||
Spanish desarrollando | ||
Sundanese mekarkeun | ||
Swahili zinazoendelea | ||
Swedish utvecklande | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) pagbuo | ||
Tajik рушд карда истодааст | ||
Tamil வளரும் | ||
Tatar үсеш | ||
Telugu అభివృద్ధి చెందుతున్న | ||
Thai กำลังพัฒนา | ||
Tigrinya ዝምዕብል ዘሎ | ||
Tsonga ku hluvukisa | ||
Turkish gelişen | ||
Turkmen ösýär | ||
Twi (Akan) nkɔso a ɛrenya nkɔso | ||
Ukrainian що розвивається | ||
Urdu ترقی پذیر | ||
Uyghur تەرەققىي قىلماقتا | ||
Uzbek rivojlanmoqda | ||
Vietnamese đang phát triển | ||
Welsh datblygu | ||
Xhosa ukuphuhlisa | ||
Yiddish דעוועלאָפּינג | ||
Yoruba idagbasoke | ||
Zulu asathuthuka |
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word 'ontwikkel' is derived from the Dutch word 'ontwikkelen', which means 'to unfold' or 'to evolve'. |
| Albanian | The word "duke u zhvilluar" (developing) can also refer to the process of growth and change in someone's character or behavior. |
| Amharic | In Amharic, the word "በማደግ ላይ" can refer not only to the physical act of growing, but also to the metaphorical sense of progressing or evolving. |
| Arabic | تطوير (developing) comes from the root word طور (to improve, to develop). |
| Basque | Garat is a Basque word meaning “mind” in Old French. As a synonym for “develop,” garatzen appears by the early 20th century. |
| Bengali | "বিকাশ" can also mean "growth" or "evolution" in Bengali, emphasizing the process of gradual change and improvement. |
| Bosnian | The word "u razvoju" in Bosnian can also mean "under construction". |
| Bulgarian | Развиващ се is a word derived from "развиваться," which in Russian means "develop or evolve" or "unfold." |
| Catalan | The Catalan verb "desenvolupament" (developing) is derived from the Latin word "evolvere", meaning "to unroll", and can also refer to the process of progress or growth. |
| Cebuano | The Cebuano word "pagpalambo" can also refer to the process of improving or enhancing something. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | In Chinese, "发展" (fā zhǎn) also means "evolution", "progress", or "expansion". |
| Chinese (Traditional) | In addition to "developing," 發展 (fǎ zhǎn) can also refer to "evolution". |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "sviluppendu" also means "developing (a photographic film)" or "unrolling". |
| Croatian | The Croatian word "razvijajući se" also means "unfolding" or "evolving". |
| Czech | "Rozvíjející se" in Czech can also be interpreted as "unveiling" or "elaborating". |
| Danish | The Danish word "udvikler sig" is derived from the verb "udvikle", meaning "to develop" or "to evolve", and the reflexive pronoun "sig", indicating that the subject is undergoing the action itself. |
| Dutch | "Ontwikkelen" can also mean to unfold or unravel in Dutch. |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word "evoluanta" comes from the Latin word "evolutio", which means "unrolling" or "development". |
| Estonian | The word "arenev" is derived from the Proto-Uralic root *arVn-, meaning "to grow". Other cognates include the Finnish word "aro", meaning "field", and the Hungarian word "arat", meaning "to harvest". |
| Finnish | "Kehittää" originally meant 'to spin' or 'to reel'. |
| French | In French, the word "développement" also means "growth" in a range of contexts such as agriculture, business, and art. |
| Frisian | "Ûntwikkeljen" is related to the word "wjerk" (work) and originally meant "to work on" or "to improve". |
| Galician | The Galician word "desenvolvendo" originates from Latin "disinvolvere" and can also mean "unpacking" or "unrolling". |
| German | In the context of Hegel's philosophy, "Entwicklung" is sometimes translated to "unfolding" to capture its dialectic aspect. |
| Greek | The Greek word "ανάπτυξη" can also mean "unfolding", "expansion", or "growth". |
| Gujarati | વિકાસશીલ (vikasashil) can also refer to something 'in the process of being formed' or 'growing'. |
| Haitian Creole | In Haitian Creole, `devlope` can also mean `to grow` or `to increase`. |
| Hausa | "Bunkasa" is of Arabic origin, meaning "growth" or "flourishing" and was introduced to Hausa by Islamic scholars in the 13th century. |
| Hawaiian | The verb **hoʻomohala** can also mean 'to spread out, disperse; to distribute, share, apportion' and 'to expand, increase, grow,' as well as 'to be scattered, dispersed, divided' and 'to branch out, to spread, to grow luxuriantly.' |
| Hebrew | "מתפתח" can also mean "twisting" or "unfolding". |
| Hindi | The Hindi word "विकसित" ("vikasit") also means "to evolve" or "to manifest". |
| Hmong | The verb tsim can also mean to cultivate land. |
| Hungarian | The Hungarian word "fejlesztés" derives from the verb "fejlik", which means "to become, to grow". |
| Icelandic | The word "þróast" also has a second meaning, which is "to grow" or "to increase in size" |
| Igbo | It is also the perfect progressive form of 'emepe' (to develop or build). |
| Indonesian | Mengembangkan can also mean "to spread" or "to extend", such as in the phrase mengembang sayap (to spread one's wings). |
| Irish | "Ag forbairt" can also mean to be getting better, improving. |
| Italian | The Italian word "sviluppando" also means "stirring" and "unfurling". |
| Japanese | 現像 translates literally as "making the latent image apparent". |
| Javanese | The word "berkembang" in Javanese can also mean "growing", "increasing", or "progressing". |
| Kannada | In addition to 'developing,' the word 'ಅಭಿವೃದ್ಧಿ' can also refer to growth, evolution, or progress. |
| Kazakh | The word "дамуда" in Kazakh also means "to establish" or "to found". |
| Khmer | (Khmer) គិភាក្ម្ងៅ comes from អភិ+វឌ្ឍនា meaning "to become good", "to prosper", "to thrive"} |
| Korean | The Korean word "개발 중" can also mean "under construction" or "in progress". |
| Kurdish | The word also means 'to mature' in Kurdish. |
| Lao | The word 'ພັດທະນາ' ('developing') may have originated with the concept of a 'raft crossing a river,' or it might have come from a concept similar to 'the spreading or unfolding of a leaf.' |
| Latin | The Latin word "developing" comes from the verb "devolvere," meaning "to roll down" or "to unfold." |
| Latvian | The word "attīstās" in Latvian also has the connotation of "unfolding" or "progressing". |
| Lithuanian | The verb "besivystanti" can also be defined as "being in the process of emerging". |
| Luxembourgish | The Luxembourgish word "entwéckelen" derives from the Old High German root "wickeln", meaning "to twist" or "to wrap up." |
| Macedonian | The word "развој" can also mean "progress" or "evolution" in Macedonian. |
| Malagasy | The word "fampandrosoana" can also mean "development" or "growth". |
| Malay | The word 'berkembang' also has alternate meanings, such as 'to progress' or 'to flourish'. |
| Malayalam | The word വിഴുന്നു ('developing') in Malayalam comes from the Sanskrit root 'vic' meaning 'to expand' or 'to grow'. |
| Maltese | "Jiżviluppaw" ultimately derives from Latin roots "e-" (out of) and "volvo" (to roll) and thus shares an etymology with "evolution", from "e-volare" (to fly out of). |
| Maori | The Maori word 'whanake' has additional meanings, including 'to grow' and 'to nurture'. |
| Marathi | It is related to the word 'विकास' and shares its root with the English word 'velocity'. |
| Mongolian | Хөгжиж байна is a Mongolian word that can also mean "to expand" or "to grow". |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | This word also means 'under construction' or 'under development'. It can also be used to refer to a person's 'growth' or 'progress'. |
| Nepali | The word "विकास गर्दै" can also mean "evolving" or "progressing." |
| Norwegian | The word "utvikler seg" in Norwegian can also refer to the process of something happening, or the process of becoming, or the process of moving or growing. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word kukula in Nyanja (Chichewa) also means 'to grow' or 'to ripen', suggesting a broad concept of development beyond just physical growth. |
| Pashto | "وده ورکول" is derived from "وده ور" (help, work), suggesting "help in progress" or "work in development". |
| Persian | The word "در حال توسعه" is a compound of "در حال" (in the process of) and "توسعه" (development). It literally means "in the process of development" and can refer to both physical and cognitive development. |
| Polish | Rozwijający się means not only developing (in the context of something evolving), but also unfolding as in expanding or unfolding something (like a piece of cloth). |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The Portuguese word "em desenvolvimento" can also mean "under construction" or "in progress". |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "în curs de dezvoltare" is derived from the Latin phrase "in cursu" and the French word "développement". It can also refer to a project or process that is still in progress. |
| Russian | Развивающийся is related to the verb |
| Samoan | "Atinae" is derived from the Proto-Polynesian root *atina-, meaning "to be in a state of growth or development". |
| Scots Gaelic | The word "a ’leasachadh" can also refer to "expanding", "spreading" or "progressing." |
| Serbian | The word 'развијајући се' can also refer to something that is evolving or progressing. |
| Sesotho | In a Sesotho context, "ho ntshetsa pele" can also refer to personal or economic growth and progress. |
| Shona | *Kukura* comes from the word *kura* (to grow). |
| Sindhi | The word "ترقي ڪرڻ" in Sindhi can also mean "to improve" or "to progress." |
| Slovak | The word "rozvoj" originally meant "unfolding", reflecting its etymological root in the verb "rozvinúť" (to unfold). |
| Slovenian | The word "razvija" in Slovenian can also mean "unfolding" or "evolving". |
| Somali | Horumarinaya is derived from the ancient Somali word 'horumud', meaning 'progress' and 'advancement'. |
| Spanish | In Spanish, "desarrollando" can have connotations of "unveiling" or "disclosing" beyond its primary meaning of "developing" |
| Sundanese | In some Sundanese dialects, "mekarkeun" can also mean "expanding," "flourishing," or "growing." |
| Swahili | The word "zinazoendelea" is derived from the verb "kuendelea," meaning "to continue," and is used to describe processes or situations in progress. |
| Swedish | The Swedish word "utvecklande" can also mean "cultivating" or "educating". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Pagbuo" is also used in other contexts, like when describing the formation of a group or organization. |
| Tamil | The word "வளரும்" in Tamil can also mean "to grow" or "to increase". |
| Thai | The word "กำลังพัฒนา" also means "under construction" or "in progress" in Thai. |
| Turkish | In linguistics, the Turkish word "gelişen" may also refer to the progressive tense or aspect of a verb, indicating an ongoing or incomplete action. |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word "що розвивається" can also refer to something that is in the process of being created or formed. |
| Urdu | The Urdu word "ترقی پذیر" can also refer to "capable of advancing," or "progressive." |
| Uzbek | The word "rivojlanmoqda" can also mean "to progress" or "to evolve". |
| Vietnamese | "Đang phát triển" also means "under construction" or "being built" in Vietnamese. |
| Welsh | The Welsh word "datblygu" can also refer to "developing (a photograph) in a darkroom". |
| Xhosa | The term "ukuphuhlisa" is also used to describe the process of raising a family or nurturing a community. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "develeaping" is ultimately derived from the Old English "dēaf." As a result, develeaping can sometimes refer to deafness. |
| Yoruba | "I dagbasoke" or "ida gb'osoke" refers to both the process of personal development and the rise of the moon. |
| Zulu | "Asathuthuka" also means to cause to expand, develop rapidly or cause to be spread out. |
| English | The word "developing" can also refer to the process of creating or producing something new. |