Discover in Different Languages
Discover 'Discover' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Discover
Afrikaans ontdek | ||
Albanian zbuloj | ||
Amharic ያግኙ | ||
Arabic اكتشف | ||
Armenian հայտնաբերել | ||
Assamese আৱিষ্কাৰ কৰা | ||
Aymara katjaña | ||
Azerbaijani kəşf etmək | ||
Bambara ka ye | ||
Basque ezagutu | ||
Belarusian выявіць | ||
Bengali আবিষ্কার | ||
Bhojpuri खोज निकालल | ||
Bosnian otkriti | ||
Bulgarian откривам | ||
Catalan descobrir | ||
Cebuano madiskobrehan | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 发现 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 發現 | ||
Corsican scopre | ||
Croatian otkriti | ||
Czech objevit | ||
Danish opdage | ||
Dhivehi ފާހަގަވުން | ||
Dogri खोज करना | ||
Dutch ontdek | ||
English discover | ||
Esperanto malkovri | ||
Estonian avastama | ||
Ewe ʋu go | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) matuklasan | ||
Finnish löytää | ||
French découvrir | ||
Frisian ûntdekke | ||
Galician descubrir | ||
Georgian აღმოაჩინე | ||
German entdecken | ||
Greek ανακαλύπτω | ||
Guarani juhu | ||
Gujarati શોધો | ||
Haitian Creole dekouvri | ||
Hausa gano | ||
Hawaiian ʻike | ||
Hebrew לְגַלוֹת | ||
Hindi डिस्कवर | ||
Hmong nrhiav pom | ||
Hungarian felfedez | ||
Icelandic uppgötva | ||
Igbo chọpụta | ||
Ilocano sukain | ||
Indonesian menemukan | ||
Irish fáil amach | ||
Italian scoprire | ||
Japanese 発見する | ||
Javanese nemokake | ||
Kannada ಅನ್ವೇಷಿಸಿ | ||
Kazakh табу | ||
Khmer រកឃើញ | ||
Kinyarwanda kuvumbura | ||
Konkani सोद | ||
Korean 발견하다 | ||
Krio kam no | ||
Kurdish kişfkirin | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) دۆزینەوە | ||
Kyrgyz табуу | ||
Lao ຄົ້ນພົບ | ||
Latin discover: | ||
Latvian atklāt | ||
Lingala komona | ||
Lithuanian atrasti | ||
Luganda okuzuula | ||
Luxembourgish entdecken | ||
Macedonian открие | ||
Maithili पता लगेनाइ | ||
Malagasy discover | ||
Malay menemui | ||
Malayalam കണ്ടെത്തുക | ||
Maltese skopri | ||
Maori kitea | ||
Marathi शोधा | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯊꯤꯗꯣꯛꯄ | ||
Mizo hmuchhuak | ||
Mongolian олж мэдэх | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ရှာဖွေတွေ့ရှိ | ||
Nepali पत्ता लगाउनुहोस् | ||
Norwegian oppdage | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) pezani | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଆବିଷ୍କାର କରନ୍ତୁ | | ||
Oromo argachuu | ||
Pashto کشف | ||
Persian كشف كردن | ||
Polish odkryć | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) descobrir | ||
Punjabi ਖੋਜ | ||
Quechua tariy | ||
Romanian descoperi | ||
Russian обнаружить | ||
Samoan mauaina | ||
Sanskrit परिनयन | ||
Scots Gaelic faigh a-mach | ||
Sepedi utolla | ||
Serbian откријте | ||
Sesotho sibolla | ||
Shona tsvaga | ||
Sindhi ڳوليو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) සොයා ගන්න | ||
Slovak objaviť | ||
Slovenian odkrijte | ||
Somali ogaato | ||
Spanish descubrir | ||
Sundanese mendakan | ||
Swahili gundua | ||
Swedish upptäck | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) matuklasan | ||
Tajik кашф кардан | ||
Tamil கண்டுபிடி | ||
Tatar ачу | ||
Telugu కనుగొనండి | ||
Thai ค้นพบ | ||
Tigrinya ረኸበ | ||
Tsonga ku kuma | ||
Turkish keşfetmek | ||
Turkmen tap | ||
Twi (Akan) pɛhunu | ||
Ukrainian відкрити | ||
Urdu دریافت | ||
Uyghur بايقاش | ||
Uzbek kashf qilish | ||
Vietnamese khám phá | ||
Welsh darganfod | ||
Xhosa fumanisa | ||
Yiddish אַנטדעקן | ||
Yoruba iwari | ||
Zulu thola |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "ontdek" in Afrikaans ultimately derives from the Dutch word "ontdecken," meaning "to uncover" or "to reveal." |
| Albanian | The Albanian word "zbuloj" also means "to uncover" or "to reveal". |
| Amharic | The word "ያግኙ" can also mean "to find" or "to get" in Amharic. |
| Arabic | The word "اكتشف" in Arabic is derived from the root "ك-ش-ف", which means "to uncover" or "to reveal". |
| Armenian | The stem of the Armenian word “հայտնաբերել” (“discover”) was an adjective meaning 'apparent', while the original meaning of the verb itself was 'to make apparent' or 'to manifest'. |
| Azerbaijani | "Kəşf etmək" is the nominal infinitive of the verb "kəşf etmək" which itself comes from the Arabic "الكشف" which means "uncovering". |
| Basque | The Basque word "ezagutu" is also used to mean "to meet" or "to know". |
| Belarusian | The word " выявіць" can also mean "to determine" or "to define" in Belarusian. |
| Bengali | The word 'আবিষ্কার' (discover) comes from the Sanskrit word 'विष्कृत' (viskrta), meaning 'to unfold' or 'to reveal'. |
| Bosnian | The word 'otkriti' is derived from the Proto-Slavic root *otkryti, meaning 'to open', and is related to the word 'otvarati' ('to open') and 'otvor' ('hole'). |
| Bulgarian | The Bulgarian word “откривам” can also mean “to open”. |
| Catalan | The Catalan word 'descobrir' also means to uncover, reveal, or expose. |
| Cebuano | The word "madiskobrehan" in Cebuano comes from the Spanish word "descubrir", which means "to uncover" or "to reveal". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The word "发现" can also mean "to find out" or "to learn". |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 發現's root is '現', which means 'appear', 'show up', and 'be revealed'. '發' adds the meaning of 'begin', 'start', and 'initiate'. '現' and '發' together suggest 'the act of revealing something that already exists.' |
| Corsican | The word "scopre" also means "uncover", "reveal", or "lay bare" in Corsican. |
| Croatian | The word 'otkriti' can also mean 'reveal' or 'disclose' in Croatian. |
| Czech | The word 'objevit' also has the alternate meaning of 'to appear' in Czech. |
| Danish | "Opdage" stems from the Old Norse word "opdagi", meaning "to open the eyes to something hidden or unknown." |
| Dutch | 'Ontdekken' comes from the word 'dek' meaning 'that which is concealed or covered' and the prefix 'ont', meaning 'to remove', thereby 'to uncover'. |
| Esperanto | The word 'malkovri' is derived from the Esperanto root 'mal-' meaning 'bad' or 'opposite' and '-kovri' meaning 'cover', thus literally translating to 'uncover' or 'reveal'. |
| Estonian | The word "avastama" can also mean to find something out or to realize something. |
| Finnish | "Löytää" can also mean "to find" or "to come across" something. |
| French | In French, "découvrir" can also mean "to uncover" or "to reveal," and is related to the Latin "cooperire," meaning "to cover." |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "ûntdekke" is derived from the Middle Dutch word "ontdecken" which means to unveil or expose. |
| Galician | Galician "descubrir" originally meant "to open something that is hidden or covered", from Latin "discooperire". |
| German | "Entdecken" can also mean "to invent" or "to detect". |
| Greek | Ανακαλύπτω is formed from the words 'ανά' (again) and 'καλύπτω' (to cover), alluding to removing the cover or something covered. |
| Gujarati | "શોધો" is derived from the Sanskrit word "sudh" meaning "to rectify" or "to attain". |
| Haitian Creole | The verb "dekouvri" is derived from the French verb "découvrir" and has the alternate meanings of "to reveal" or "to disclose". |
| Hausa | Hausa 'gano' also means 'to make clear' or 'to find out'. |
| Hawaiian | 'Ike' also means 'knowledge', 'understanding', 'wisdom', 'vision', and 'insight' in Hawaiian. |
| Hebrew | The verb "לְגַלוֹת" also means to shave, reveal, uncover, bare, expose, or remove, depending on context. |
| Hindi | हिंदी में "डिस्कवर" का एक अन्य अर्थ "संकट या कठिनाई" भी है, जो मूल रूप से लैटिन "ऑपेरिया" ("ढकना") से निकला है। |
| Hmong | The word "nrhiav pom" literally means "to come upon and seize" in Hmong, suggesting the act of discovering something that was previously hidden or unknown. |
| Hungarian | The verb "felfedez" is related to the words "fedez" (cover) and "fel" (up), implying the action of uncovering or bringing something to light. |
| Icelandic | The Icelandic word "uppgötva" is etymologically related to the verb "átgötvun" meaning "the pouring of liquid" and can also refer to "unveiling" or "detecting". |
| Igbo | The verb “chọpụta” (discover) derives from “chọ” (market) and “pụta” (exit), hence the original meaning of “exiting the market”. |
| Indonesian | The word “menemukan” can also mean “to find”, “to obtain”, or “to encounter” something. |
| Irish | The Irish word "fáil amach" literally means "to find out" and is used to express "discover". |
| Italian | "Scoprire" also means "to uncover" and comes from the Latin verb "cooperire," meaning "to cover." |
| Japanese | "発見" は、本来は「見つけ出す」という意味の漢語。「目覚める、気付く」の意もある。 |
| Javanese | Nemokake is derived from the Proto-Austronesian root *temu, meaning 'to meet or find', and is also related to the Javanese word temu, meaning 'a meeting'. |
| Kannada | The word "ಅನ್ವೇಷಿಸಿ" (anveshishi) in Kannada is derived from the Sanskrit word "अन्वेषण" (anvesḥaṇa), which means "investigation, search, or exploration." |
| Kazakh | The word "табу" in Kazakh also means "taboo" or "forbidden". |
| Khmer | រកឃើញ also has a special idiomatic meaning, which is to 'to get to the root of something'. |
| Korean | The word '발견하다' can also mean 'to invent' or 'to create', and is derived from the Chinese character '見', meaning 'to see'. |
| Kurdish | It also means "to make something apparent"} |
| Kyrgyz | The word "табуу" in Kyrgyz also means "to open" or "to reveal". |
| Latin | The English word "discover" comes from the Latin "discooperire," meaning to uncover or reveal. |
| Latvian | The verb “atklāt” in Latvian is related to the word “klajš” meaning “naked” or “empty,” suggesting that to discover is to uncover or expose that which is concealed or hidden. |
| Lithuanian | "Atrasti" can also mean "to unveil", "to reveal", or "to expose". |
| Luxembourgish | "Entdecken" in Luxembourgish originally meant "to unroof" or "to uncover", as in "removing the roof or cover from something." |
| Macedonian | The verb "открие" in Macedonian can also mean "to open" or "to begin". |
| Malagasy | In Malagasy, the word "discover" is "tahiry", which also means "to be revealed" or "to be disclosed." |
| Malay | "Menemui" also means to face, encounter, experience, or find. |
| Malayalam | The Malayalam word 'കണ്ടെത്തുക' ('discover') is derived from the Proto-Dravidian root *kaṇ-, meaning 'to see' or 'to find'. |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "skopri" comes from the ancient Greek "skopeein", which means to view, examine, or scrutinize. |
| Maori | The Maori word "kitea" shares its root with "kite" ("to seek, to gaze") and "kito" ("to see"). |
| Marathi | The word "शोधा" can also mean "investigation" or "research". |
| Mongolian | "Олж мэдэх" can also mean "to find out" or "to learn" |
| Nepali | The Nepali word 'पत्ता लगाउनुहोस्' literally translates to 'apply leaf' and carries the figurative meaning of 'discovering' or 'uncovering' something. |
| Norwegian | "Oppdage" is derived from the German "aufdecken" and Old Norse "upp" and "dekja". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | In Nyanja, the word "pezani" can also mean "to find out," "to learn," or "to understand." |
| Pashto | The word "کشف" in Pashto also means "to open" or "to reveal". |
| Persian | 'كشف كردن' derives from Arabic and literally means 'to remove a cover. |
| Polish | The word odkryć derives from proto-Slavic meaning "to open". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, "descobrir" not only means to find something new or unknown, but it also means to uncover or reveal something that was hidden. |
| Punjabi | The word "khoj" is derived from the Sanskrit word "kṣoj", meaning "to seek" or "to search". |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "descoperi" is derived from the Latin word "discoopereō," meaning "to uncover" or "to lay bare." |
| Russian | "Обнаружить" is derived from the Old Russian word "обънаружити", meaning "to expose, to open up". |
| Samoan | The word "mauaina" originates from the Polynesian root word "maua," which means to find or search. |
| Scots Gaelic | The Gaelic word "faigh a-mach" can also mean "to be victorious" or "to win". |
| Serbian | The Serbian word "Откријте" can also mean "to uncover" or "to reveal". |
| Sesotho | The word "sibolla" is also used to refer to the act of unravelling or peeling off something, such as a thread or a tape. |
| Shona | "Tsvaga" can also mean "examine" or "inspect". |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word ڳوليو 'discover' is derived from the Sanskrit word गुह 'to conceal, hide,' with the prefix ڳو 'un-.' |
| Slovak | The verb "objaviť" in Slovak is also used to refer to the act of publishing or making something known. |
| Slovenian | "Odkrijte" is the imperative form of the verb "odkriti", which derives from the Proto-Slavic word "*otkryti" and is related to the Serbian word "otkriti". |
| Somali | Ogaato can also mean to expose or unveil something that was previously hidden. |
| Spanish | The word "descubrir" can also mean "to uncover" or "to reveal". |
| Sundanese | The word "mendakan" in Sundanese also means "to search for" or "to explore". |
| Swahili | "Gundua" is derived from the Arabic word "kashf," meaning "to uncover" or "to reveal." |
| Swedish | The Swedish word "upptäckt" also has the meaning of "invention" and derives from the Middle Low German word "uppendecken," meaning "to uncover." |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word may have come from Tagalog "matok" (sweet) to suggest the pleasure of unearthing knowledge. |
| Tajik | The Tajik word “кашф кардан” (“discover”) derives from the Persian word “کشف کردن” (“to uncover, to reveal”). |
| Tamil | The word "கண்டுபிடி" can also mean "to invent" or "to create" in Tamil. |
| Telugu | కనుగొనండి shares the root word with కన్ను, meaning "eye," and conveys a sense of observing something with your own eyes. |
| Thai | The word "ค้นพบ" also means "to find something that was previously unknown or hidden". |
| Turkish | Keşfetmek traces back to the Arabic word 'Kashf' which means 'to uncover' or 'to reveal'. |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word "відкрити" can also mean to "open" or "to unlock". |
| Urdu | دریافت is also used to mean understanding or comprehension and is related to the Sanskrit word dr̥shṭi, meaning ‘sight’ or ‘view’. |
| Uzbek | The Uzbek word "kashf qilish" also means "to reveal" or "to unveil." |
| Vietnamese | The word "khám phá" in Vietnamese originates from Chinese and means both "to discover" and "to spy". |
| Welsh | "Darganfod" is derived from "dar" (oak) and "canfod" (to find) and originally meant "to find acorns". |
| Xhosa | The word "fumanisa" is derived from the verb "fuma", which means "to smell". |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "אַנטדעקן" is derived from the German word "entdecken" and the Slavic word "odkryć", both meaning "to uncover" or "to reveal" |
| Yoruba | 'Ìwà rere' means 'good character' in the Yoruba language, hence 'iwari' connotes the act of getting to know someone's good character |
| Zulu | The word "thola" in Zulu can also mean "to find" or "to get" something. |
| English | The word 'discover' derives from the Latin 'discooperire', meaning 'to uncover' or 'to reveal'. |