Discovery in Different Languages
Discover 'Discovery' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Discovery
Afrikaans ontdekking | ||
Albanian zbulimi | ||
Amharic ግኝት | ||
Arabic اكتشاف | ||
Armenian հայտնագործություն | ||
Assamese আৱিষ্কাৰ | ||
Aymara jikxataña | ||
Azerbaijani kəşf | ||
Bambara sɔrɔli | ||
Basque aurkikuntza | ||
Belarusian адкрыццё | ||
Bengali আবিষ্কার | ||
Bhojpuri खोज के बारे में बतावल गइल बा | ||
Bosnian otkriće | ||
Bulgarian откритие | ||
Catalan descobriment | ||
Cebuano nadiskobrehan | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 发现 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 發現 | ||
Corsican scuperta | ||
Croatian otkriće | ||
Czech objev | ||
Danish opdagelse | ||
Dhivehi ހޯދުމެވެ | ||
Dogri खोज कर दी | ||
Dutch ontdekking | ||
English discovery | ||
Esperanto malkovro | ||
Estonian avastus | ||
Ewe nusi ŋu woke ɖo | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) pagtuklas | ||
Finnish löytö | ||
French découverte | ||
Frisian ûntdekking | ||
Galician descubrimento | ||
Georgian აღმოჩენა | ||
German entdeckung | ||
Greek ανακάλυψη | ||
Guarani descubrimiento rehegua | ||
Gujarati શોધ | ||
Haitian Creole dekouvèt | ||
Hausa samu | ||
Hawaiian loaʻa | ||
Hebrew תַגלִית | ||
Hindi खोज | ||
Hmong nrhiav pom | ||
Hungarian felfedezés | ||
Icelandic uppgötvun | ||
Igbo nchoputa | ||
Ilocano pannakatakuat | ||
Indonesian penemuan | ||
Irish fionnachtain | ||
Italian scoperta | ||
Japanese 発見 | ||
Javanese panemuan | ||
Kannada ಆವಿಷ್ಕಾರ | ||
Kazakh жаңалық | ||
Khmer ការរកឃើញ | ||
Kinyarwanda kuvumbura | ||
Konkani सोद घेवप | ||
Korean 발견 | ||
Krio diskovri we dɛn dɔn fɛn | ||
Kurdish kişfî | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) دۆزینەوە | ||
Kyrgyz ачылыш | ||
Lao ການຄົ້ນພົບ | ||
Latin inventa | ||
Latvian atklājums | ||
Lingala bokutani | ||
Lithuanian atradimas | ||
Luganda okuzuula | ||
Luxembourgish entdeckung | ||
Macedonian откритие | ||
Maithili खोज | ||
Malagasy nahitana | ||
Malay penemuan | ||
Malayalam കണ്ടെത്തൽ | ||
Maltese skoperta | ||
Maori kitenga | ||
Marathi शोध | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯗꯤꯁ꯭ꯀꯣꯚꯔꯤ ꯇꯧꯕꯥ꯫ | ||
Mizo hmuhchhuah a ni | ||
Mongolian нээлт | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ရှာဖွေတွေ့ရှိမှု | ||
Nepali आविष्कार | ||
Norwegian oppdagelse | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kupeza | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଆବିଷ୍କାର | | ||
Oromo argannoo | ||
Pashto کشف | ||
Persian کشف | ||
Polish odkrycie | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) descoberta | ||
Punjabi ਖੋਜ | ||
Quechua tariy | ||
Romanian descoperire | ||
Russian открытие | ||
Samoan mauaina | ||
Sanskrit आविष्कारः | ||
Scots Gaelic lorg | ||
Sepedi kutollo ya dilo | ||
Serbian откриће | ||
Sesotho sibollo | ||
Shona kuwanikwa | ||
Sindhi دريافت | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) සොයා ගැනීම | ||
Slovak objav | ||
Slovenian odkritje | ||
Somali daahfurid | ||
Spanish descubrimiento | ||
Sundanese pamanggihan | ||
Swahili ugunduzi | ||
Swedish upptäckt | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) pagtuklas | ||
Tajik кашфиёт | ||
Tamil கண்டுபிடிப்பு | ||
Tatar ачыш | ||
Telugu ఆవిష్కరణ | ||
Thai การค้นพบ | ||
Tigrinya ርኽበት ምዃኑ’ዩ። | ||
Tsonga ku tshuburiwa | ||
Turkish keşif | ||
Turkmen açyş | ||
Twi (Akan) ade a wɔahu | ||
Ukrainian відкриття | ||
Urdu دریافت | ||
Uyghur بايقاش | ||
Uzbek kashfiyot | ||
Vietnamese khám phá | ||
Welsh darganfyddiad | ||
Xhosa ukufumanisa | ||
Yiddish אנטדעקונג | ||
Yoruba awari | ||
Zulu ukutholakala |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "ontdekking" is derived from the Dutch word "ontdekken", meaning "to uncover" or "to disclose". |
| Albanian | The word "zbulimi" is derived from the Old Albanian "zbul", meaning "to unveil" or "to uncover". It is also related to the Latin "revelare", meaning "to reveal". |
| Amharic | The Amharic word "ግኝት" (discovery) is derived from the verb "ግኛ" (to find) and can also refer to a finding or observation. |
| Arabic | The word اكتشاف (discovery) comes from the root كشف, which means to uncover, disclose, or expose. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "kəşf" in Azerbaijani is derived from the Arabic word "Kashf," which also means "unveiling" or "disclosure." |
| Basque | Aurkikuntza, the Basque word for "discovery," also means "to find" and "to uncover." |
| Belarusian | It also means exposure to something previously hidden. |
| Bengali | The Bengali word "আবিষ্কার" (abiskar) originally meant "creation" or "invention" but has come to exclusively mean "discovery" in modern usage. |
| Bosnian | The term "otkriće" in Bosnian may also refer to a revelation or unravelling of a secret. |
| Bulgarian | "Открытие" came into Russian from Church Slavonic, where its original meaning was "uncovering" (a saint's relic). |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "descobriment" has roots in the Latin word "discooperire," meaning to remove a covering or to unveil. |
| Cebuano | The etymology of "nadiskobrehan" is unclear, but it might be linked to the Spanish word "descubrimiento" (discovery). |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 发现 comes from the Chinese idiom "盖棺始定", meaning "the truth will be revealed after someone dies". |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The Chinese characters in the word "發現" ("discovery") also mean "to open up" or "to disclose. |
| Corsican | Corsican "scuperta" also means "unveiling" and is related to the Italian "scoperta" with the same meaning, ultimately coming from the Latin "coopertus" for "covered". |
| Croatian | The Croatian word 'otkriće' has additional meanings of 'revelation', 'unveiling' or 'exposure' |
| Czech | The word "objev" is derived from the Latin word "obiectum", meaning "something that is thrown in the way". It can also refer to a "target" or an "object of desire". |
| Danish | The Danish word "opdagelse" is derived from "at opdage", which translates to "to uncover", also the base for the noun "afdækning" (uncovering, e.g. of a statue). |
| Dutch | The Dutch word 'ontdekking' also means 'revelation', 'disclosure', or 'unveiling'. |
| Esperanto | The word 'malkovro' is used in Esperanto to mean both 'discovery' and 'disclosure'. It is derived from the verb 'malkovri', meaning 'to discover or uncover'. |
| Estonian | In Finnish "avastus" originally referred to a sudden insight, but in the 20th century its usage shifted towards the discovery of something hidden. |
| Finnish | The word "löytö" can also refer to the object found, like a treasure or a lost item. |
| French | The word "découverte" also means "uncovering" in French, suggesting the act of revealing something hidden or obscured. |
| Frisian | A synonym for ûntdekking is "fine", and it can also mean "a thing found". |
| Galician | "Descubrimento" in Galician language also means "revelation" and "disclosure". |
| Georgian | The Georgian word "აღმოჩენა" originally meant "finding something by digging", which can be seen in its root "აღმო" and suffix "-ენა", which can be found in other verbs describing extracting something from underground, like "აღორება" (digging a trench, furrow, grave or hole). |
| German | In alchemy, 'Entdeckung' referred to the process of unveiling hidden, secret knowledge. |
| Greek | The Greek word "ανακάλυψη" not only means "discovery" but also the "unveiling" of a religious icon or a sacred relic. |
| Gujarati | "શોધ" also refers to a religious quest, a treasure hunt, or an investigation. |
| Haitian Creole | From the French décrouvrir, meaning both "to uncover" and "to be disappointed", the Haitian Creole "dekouvèt" can mean "discovery" or "disappointment". |
| Hausa | The word "samu" is an Arabic loanword which also means "to hear" in Hausa. |
| Hawaiian | The word "loaʻa" also has the meaning "to obtain" or "to find". |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "תגלית" (discovery) comes from the root "גלה" (reveal), and can also mean "revelation" or "unveiling". |
| Hindi | The word "खोज" derives from the Sanskrit word "kṣuṇ" meaning "to yearn", and is related to the Gujarati word "khoz" meaning "a longing desire for something". |
| Hmong | The Hmong word "nrhiav pom" also means "to inquire" or "to learn." |
| Hungarian | The Hungarian word "felfedezés" has the dual meaning of "discovery" and "exploration". |
| Icelandic | The Icelandic word "uppgötvun" also means "invention" or "creation". |
| Igbo | "Nchoputa" (discovery) could be related to the Igbo words "cho" (to find) and "puta" (to come out). |
| Indonesian | Penemuan, meaning "discovery" in Indonesian, comes from the Old Javanese word "panemon" meaning "to find" and shares a root with "temu" (friend) implying a reciprocal relationship between people and the new knowledge they discover. |
| Irish | The Irish word for 'discovery', 'fionnachtain', derives from 'fionnadh', meaning to find, and the suffix '-acht', denoting a noun of action. |
| Italian | The Italian word "scoperta" can also refer to uncovering something that was hidden or forgotten. |
| Japanese | The word "発見" (hakken) in Japanese is derived from the Chinese characters "發見" (fa xian), meaning "to find" or "to detect." |
| Javanese | Panemuan can also refer to a 'treasure' or a 'find'. |
| Kannada | The Kannada word "āvišhkāra" (ಆವಿಷ್ಕಾರ), derived from Sanskrit, also denotes "manifestation" or "bringing into reality". |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "жаңалық" can also refer to "news" or "novelty". |
| Khmer | The term "ការរកឃើញ" (discovery) in Khmer originates from the Sanskrit words "kar" ("to do, make, create") and "vid" ("to know, find"), implying the act of uncovering knowledge or gaining new insight. |
| Korean | '발견' can also mean 'to spot' or 'to perceive' something. |
| Kurdish | The word 'kişfî' is derived from the Arabic word 'kashf', meaning 'uncovering' or 'revealing', and is also used in Persian and Pashto. |
| Kyrgyz | "Ачылыш" also means "unveiling" and "opening" in Kyrgyz. |
| Latin | The Latin word "inventa" can also refer to inanimate objects like treasure or property that were found. |
| Latvian | The Latvian word “atklājums” originally meant “exposing.” |
| Lithuanian | The word "atradimas" comes from the Lithuanian verb "atrasti," meaning "to find" or "to uncover." |
| Luxembourgish | The word "Entdeckung" (discovery) is derived from the Old High German words "enten" (to reveal) and "decken" (to cover). |
| Macedonian | The word "откритие" in Macedonian can also refer to the act of opening something or the beginning of an event. |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "NAHITANA" can also mean "to open one's eyes", "to become aware", or "to gain knowledge". |
| Malay | Penemuan (discovery) is derived from the word temu (meet), as in "bertemu" (to meet), denoting the encounter with something new or unknown. |
| Malayalam | The term |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "skoperta" is derived from the Italian word "scoperta" (also meaning "discovery\”), itself originating from the Latin "cooperire", meaning "to cover". |
| Maori | The Maori word "kitenga" can also refer to an "awareness" or "revelation". |
| Marathi | In Marathi, "शोध" (discovery) also signifies "investigation" or "research", aligning with its Sanskrit origins. |
| Mongolian | The word "нээлт" is also used to refer to "opening" or "beginning" of an event or activity. |
| Nepali | The word "आविष्कार" (discovery) derives from the Sanskrit root "विष्" (to enter), denoting the initial entry into or uncovering of knowledge. |
| Norwegian | In Norwegian "oppdagelse" can mean both "discovery" and "invention". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | "Kupeza" may also mean "to buy" or "to acquire" in Chichewa and "to find" in Swahili. |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "کشف" can also mean "exploration" or "discernment." |
| Persian | کشف (kesh-f) is derived from Arabic and means “to uncover” or “to reveal,” and in Persian, it refers to a scientific, historical, or literary finding. |
| Polish | The Polish word "odkrycie" has its etymology in the Proto-Slavic word *otkrъti, meaning "to uncover" or "to unveil". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The Portuguese word "descoberta" can also refer to the act of removing hair, uncovering a secret, or unveiling a new idea. |
| Punjabi | The word "ਖੋਜ" is derived from the Sanskrit word "khoj", meaning "to search for" or "to investigate". |
| Romanian | In Romanian, "descoperire" also connotes an uncovering or revealing, as in "the uncovering of a hidden truth." |
| Russian | In Russian, "открытие" can also mean "opening" of a store, museum, etc. |
| Samoan | The Samoan word "mauaina" derives from the root "maua", meaning "to find" or "to seek out". |
| Scots Gaelic | The word "lorg" also means "spy" or "scout" in Scots Gaelic. |
| Serbian | The word "откриће" (discovery) in Serbian also means "revelation" or "disclosure". |
| Sesotho | The word "sibollo" also means "the act of revealing", "the act of opening", "the act of showing". |
| Shona | The verb "kuwanikwa" is derived from the noun "kuwana" (to find), and also means "to become known" or "to be revealed". |
| Sindhi | The word "دریافت" can also mean "receipt" or "income" in Sindhi. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word 'discovery' comes from the Latin word 'discooperire', which means 'to uncover'. |
| Slovak | The word "objav" in Slovak can also mean "revelation" or "disclosure". |
| Slovenian | The Slovenian word "odkritje" can also refer to a disclosure or revelation, suggesting uncovering something hidden or making something known that was previously unknown. |
| Somali | Daahfurid is an Arabic loanword derived from the root 'D-F-R', meaning 'to reveal' or 'to uncover'. |
| Spanish | Descubrimiento derives from the Latin verb 'dis-cooperire' meaning 'to uncover' or 'to remove the cover', and relates to the word 'to open' |
| Sundanese | "Pamanggihan" in Sundanese can also mean "to find something that was lost or hidden". |
| Swahili | The word "ugunduzi" also means the act of exploring or investigating in Swahili. |
| Swedish | "Upptäck" can also be translated to "disclose" or "lay open". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The root word of "pagtuklas" is "tuklas," which means "to detect" or "to find out." |
| Tajik | The word "кашфиёт" in Tajik comes from the Arabic root "كشف", meaning "to uncover" or "to reveal." |
| Tamil | "கண்டுபிடிப்பு" can also mean inventing something new, or finding something that was previously unknown or hidden. |
| Telugu | The word 'ఆవిష్కరణ' (discovery) comes from the Sanskrit word 'viskaroti', meaning 'to reveal'. In Telugu, it also refers to a 'new idea' or 'invention'. |
| Thai | The Thai word "การค้นพบ" can also refer to the process of finding or uncovering information. |
| Turkish | The word "keşif" can also refer to a legal inspection or survey. |
| Ukrainian | The word "відкриття" can also refer to an invention or innovation. |
| Urdu | The word "دریافت" in Urdu can also mean "receipt" or "collection" |
| Uzbek | The word "kashfiyot" comes from the Arabic word "kashf", meaning "to uncover" or "to make known". |
| Vietnamese | The word "khám phá" originates from the Chinese word " khám phá ", meaning "explore, seek out". |
| Welsh | The Welsh word 'darganfyddiad' shares a root with the word 'ganfod' (to find), ultimately stemming from the Proto-Indo-European root *gʰen- 'to know' |
| Xhosa | The Xhosa word 'ukufumanisa' is also used to mean 'to recover' or 'to gain back'. |
| Yiddish | "אנטדעקונג" also means "a way of thinking that is new" or "a change of mind" in Yiddish. |
| Yoruba | The word "Awari" can also refer to a type of divination performed by the Yoruba people |
| Zulu | The etymology of "ukutholakala" suggests it also refers to "regaining lost things, a sense of coming or falling upon something unexpectedly" |
| English | The word "discovery" comes from the Latin word "discooperire," which means "to uncover" or "reveal." It can also refer to the process of identifying something that was previously unknown or hidden. |