Distinct in Different Languages
Discover 'Distinct' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Distinct
Afrikaans onderskeidelik | ||
Albanian të dallueshme | ||
Amharic የተለየ | ||
Arabic خامد | ||
Armenian հստակ | ||
Assamese নিৰ্দিষ্ট | ||
Aymara mayja | ||
Azerbaijani fərqli | ||
Bambara kelen | ||
Basque bereiz | ||
Belarusian выразна | ||
Bengali স্বতন্ত্র | ||
Bhojpuri अलग | ||
Bosnian različit | ||
Bulgarian отличителен | ||
Catalan diferent | ||
Cebuano lahi | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 不同 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 不同 | ||
Corsican distintu | ||
Croatian različit | ||
Czech odlišný | ||
Danish tydelig | ||
Dhivehi ވަކި ޚާއްސަ | ||
Dogri नमायां | ||
Dutch onderscheiden | ||
English distinct | ||
Esperanto klara | ||
Estonian eristatav | ||
Ewe to vovo | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) naiiba | ||
Finnish erillinen | ||
French distinct | ||
Frisian ûnderskiede | ||
Galician distinta | ||
Georgian მკაფიო | ||
German deutlich | ||
Greek διακριτή | ||
Guarani ojoavýva | ||
Gujarati અલગ | ||
Haitian Creole distenk | ||
Hausa rarrabe | ||
Hawaiian ʻokoʻa | ||
Hebrew מוּבהָק | ||
Hindi अलग | ||
Hmong txawv | ||
Hungarian különböző | ||
Icelandic greinilegur | ||
Igbo iche | ||
Ilocano naidumduma | ||
Indonesian berbeda | ||
Irish ar leith | ||
Italian distinto | ||
Japanese 明確な | ||
Javanese beda | ||
Kannada ವಿಶಿಷ್ಟ | ||
Kazakh айқын | ||
Khmer ខុសគ្នា | ||
Kinyarwanda zitandukanye | ||
Konkani स्पश्ट | ||
Korean 뚜렷한 | ||
Krio spɛshal | ||
Kurdish diyar | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) جیا | ||
Kyrgyz айырмаланган | ||
Lao ແຕກຕ່າງ | ||
Latin distincta | ||
Latvian atšķirīgs | ||
Lingala ya kokesena | ||
Lithuanian ryškus | ||
Luganda kyanjawulo | ||
Luxembourgish ënnerscheet | ||
Macedonian различни | ||
Maithili विशिष्ट | ||
Malagasy miavaka | ||
Malay berbeza | ||
Malayalam വ്യത്യസ്തരായ | ||
Maltese distinti | ||
Maori motuhake | ||
Marathi वेगळे | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯇꯣꯉꯥꯟꯅ ꯇꯥꯕ | ||
Mizo danglam | ||
Mongolian ялгаатай | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ထူးခြားသည် | ||
Nepali भिन्न | ||
Norwegian tydelig | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) zosiyana | ||
Odia (Oriya) ପୃଥକ | ||
Oromo adda | ||
Pashto جدا | ||
Persian متمایز | ||
Polish odrębny | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) distinto | ||
Punjabi ਵੱਖਰਾ | ||
Quechua huk niraq | ||
Romanian distinct | ||
Russian отчетливый | ||
Samoan manino | ||
Sanskrit व्ययवच्छिन्नम् | ||
Scots Gaelic àraid | ||
Sepedi go itlhaola | ||
Serbian различит | ||
Sesotho khetholla | ||
Shona zvakasiyana | ||
Sindhi ڌار | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) වෙනස් | ||
Slovak odlišný | ||
Slovenian izrazit | ||
Somali kala duwan | ||
Spanish distinto | ||
Sundanese béda | ||
Swahili tofauti | ||
Swedish distinkt | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) naiiba | ||
Tajik равшан | ||
Tamil தனித்துவமானது | ||
Tatar аерылып тора | ||
Telugu విభిన్న | ||
Thai ชัดเจน | ||
Tigrinya ዝጠፈአ | ||
Tsonga hambana | ||
Turkish farklı | ||
Turkmen tapawutly | ||
Twi (Akan) nso | ||
Ukrainian виразний | ||
Urdu واضح | ||
Uyghur روشەن | ||
Uzbek aniq | ||
Vietnamese khác biệt | ||
Welsh gwahanol | ||
Xhosa eyahlukileyo | ||
Yiddish בוילעט | ||
Yoruba yàtọ | ||
Zulu ehlukile |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "onderskeidelik" traces its roots to the Dutch cognate "onderscheiden" which also carries the meaning of "distinguished". |
| Albanian | The Albanian word "të dallueshme" originates from the Proto-Indo-European root *delh-, meaning "to separate, to distinguish". |
| Arabic | خامد refers to something that is clear or evident, and can also be used to describe something that is dull or extinguished. |
| Azerbaijani | "Fərqli" can be traced back to the Iranian word "Fark" (divide, discriminate) and is synonymous with "fərqli" (different, divergent, disparate, dissimilar, divergent, unlike, unrelated, unidentical). |
| Basque | The word "bereiz" is a compound of "bere" meaning "alone" or "apart" and "-iz" a suffix indicating a passive state. |
| Belarusian | The Belarusian word "выразна" comes from the Proto-Slavic word "*vyrāznъ", meaning "clear" or "distinct", and is related to the Old Church Slavonic word "възразити" meaning “to declare.” |
| Bengali | The Sanskrit origin "su- + tanu" means "well drawn", reflecting the word's literal meaning: having lines or borders that differentiate an object from its surrounds. |
| Bosnian | "Različit" can also mean "discern" or "recognize" in Bosnian. |
| Bulgarian | The word "отличителен" can also mean "distinctive" or "peculiar" in Bulgarian. |
| Catalan | Catalan "diferent" comes from the Latin "differens," also meaning "different," but it only describes two things while "distint" denotes more than two. |
| Cebuano | The word "lahi" in Cebuano can also mean "origin" or "race". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "不同" can refer to a difference in views, opinions, or concepts. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 不同 (bùtóng) can also mean "different," "disagree," or "disparate." |
| Corsican | Corsican "distintu" is also used to mean "distant" or "separate" akin to Tuscan "distante". |
| Croatian | The Croatian word "različit" derives from the Proto-Slavic verb "različiti" meaning "to distinguish". |
| Czech | The word "odlišný" has another meaning of different or contrasting. |
| Danish | The word "tydelig" is derived from the Old Norse word "tyðligr," meaning "clear" or "visible." |
| Dutch | The word "onderscheiden" in Dutch can also mean "to distinguish" or "to discern". |
| Esperanto | The word "klara" comes from the Latin word "clarus", meaning "bright" or "clear". |
| Estonian | Eristata also denotes the ability to discern or distinguish. |
| Finnish | The word "erillinen" derives from the Proto-Finnic *erilline, which also means "separate". |
| French | In French, distinct can also mean "separate". |
| Frisian | "ûnderskiede" comes from the Proto-West-Germanic word "*undarskeidjan" and is likely related to the Sanskrit word "kṣipati" (to throw, hurl)" |
| Galician | The etymology of **distinta** (distinct) in Galician is from Latin **distincta** (distinct), from the verb **distinguere** (to distinguish). |
| Georgian | The word "მკაფიო" is derived from the Middle Persian word "kapyāft", meaning "clear, distinct." |
| German | "Deutlich" comes from the Proto-Germanic word "teuta" meaning "people" and shares an etymological root with "Deutsch" (German). |
| Greek | The adjective διακριτή is derived from the verb διακρίνω, meaning "to distinguish" or "to discern". |
| Gujarati | "અલગ" comes from Sanskrit "अलगः" which means "other" and also shares a root with the English word "alone" |
| Haitian Creole | Haitian Creole "distenk" (similar to the English "distinctive") can also mean "very clearly" or "very precisely"} |
| Hausa | The word "rarrabe" in Hausa is also used to describe the state of being unique or uncommon. |
| Hawaiian | ʻokoʻa also means 'different', 'separate', 'apart', 'strange', 'foreign', and 'other'. |
| Hebrew | The word "מוּבהָק" is derived from the Arabic word "مُبْهَق" (mubhaq), meaning "white" or "bright". |
| Hindi | The word "अलग" has evolved from the Sanskrit word "अलगच्" (alagach), meaning "separate, not joined, apart". |
| Hmong | The word "txawv" in Hmong can also mean "different" or "unlike." |
| Hungarian | The word "különböző" can also mean "miscellaneous" or "several" in Hungarian. |
| Icelandic | The word 'greinilegur' is derived from the Icelandic word 'greina' meaning 'distinguish' or 'make distinct' and the suffix '-legur' which indicates an agent, performer, or doer. |
| Igbo | "Iche" can also mean "clear" or "clean". |
| Indonesian | The Indonesian word "berbeda" also has the connotation of "being different" or "varying" in quantity, quality, or nature. |
| Irish | The word "ar leith" in Irish can also refer to being separate or apart. |
| Italian | "Distinto" can also mean "invoice" in Italian. |
| Japanese | In addition to "distinct", the Japanese word "明確な" can mean "definite", "unambiguous", or "precise"} |
| Javanese | The word "beda" in Javanese can also mean "different" or "not the same". |
| Kannada | The word 'ವಿಶಿಷ್ಟ' (distinct) in Kannada is derived from the Sanskrit word 'विशिष्ट' (specific, particular) and also means 'special', 'unique', or 'extraordinary' in Kannada. |
| Kazakh | Айқын in Kazakh can also mean 'clear', 'obvious', or 'prominent'. |
| Khmer | The word "ខុសគ្នា" ("distinct") in Khmer can also be used to mean "different" or "dissimilar". |
| Korean | The word "뚜렷한" also means "clear" or "evident" in Korean. |
| Kurdish | The word "diyar" is derived from the old Persian word "dīr" or "dež" meaning "land" or "country". |
| Kyrgyz | The word “айырмаланган” can refer to both a noun and an adjective in Kyrgyz, meaning "difference" and "distinct" respectively. |
| Latin | Latin "distincta" (or "distincte") also means "by intervals" or "in detail." |
| Latvian | The Latvian word "atšķirīgs" is derived from the verb "šķirt" meaning "to separate". |
| Lithuanian | From Proto-Baltic *rīk- (**see** *rykus**), from Proto-Indo-European *wrik-os (**see** Sanskrit vṛ́kas 'wolf', Avestan vərəka-, Latin lupus). |
| Macedonian | The word "различни" can also mean "different" or "various" in Macedonian. |
| Malagasy | "Miavaka" in Malagasy also means "unique" or "one of a kind". |
| Malay | A more literal use of the word "berbeza" is "to be cut off or separated", where "beza" refers to the act of cutting or separating. |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "distinti" comes from the Italian word "distinto", which means "distinct" or "markedly different from one another". |
| Maori | The word "motuhake" in Maori can also refer to an isolated or remote place. |
| Marathi | The word "वेगळे" comes from the Proto-Indo-European root *welg-, which also gave rise to the English word "walk". |
| Mongolian | The word ялгаатай is derived from the Mongolian word ялга, which means 'to distinguish' or 'to differentiate'. The suffix -тай added to this word creates an adjective meaning 'having the quality of being distinguished' or 'being different'. The word can also have the meaning of 'being special' or 'being unique'. |
| Nepali | The word "भिन्न" in Nepali can also mean "fraction" or "broken". |
| Norwegian | The Norwegian word 'tydelig' originates from the old Norse word 'tyðiligr', meaning 'clear' or 'evident'. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | Nyanja "zosiyana" also carries the meanings "different", "other", and "varied". |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "جدا" can also mean "apart" or "separate". |
| Persian | متمایز "distinct" derives from Arabic "tamīz", meaning separation or division |
| Polish | In Polish, "odrębny" can also mean private or separate. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | "Distinto" in Portuguese is related to the Latin word "distinguere" (to distinguish), which also gave rise to the English word "distinctive". |
| Punjabi | The word "ਵੱਖਰਾ" derives from the Sanskrit word "विश्रांत" meaning "rest" or "relaxation". |
| Romanian | In Romanian, "distinct" means both "different" and "clear" or "precise." |
| Russian | The Russian word «отчетливый» is cognate with the Serbian «очитати», «појачати» and means both «distinct» and «intensive». |
| Samoan | In Samoan, the word "manino" can also mean "single", "only", or "unique". |
| Scots Gaelic | Àraid, meaning 'distinct', derives from the Old Irish word 'araid' meaning 'noble, illustrious or excellent'. |
| Serbian | The word "различит" can also mean "to distinguish" or "to differentiate". |
| Sesotho | The Sesotho word "khetholla" also means "to choose" or "to select." |
| Shona | In addition to its primary meaning of "distinct," "zvakasiyana" can also mean "different" or "various" in Shona. |
| Sindhi | The word "ڌار" in Sindhi can also refer to a "riverbed" or a "stream". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "වෙනස්" has a broader use in Sinhala, it can also be used to refer to differences in quality, quantity, or degree. |
| Slovak | The Slovak word "odlišný" also means "different" or "separate". |
| Slovenian | Izrazit is the past active participle of the verb 'izraziti' (to express), which in turn comes from the Proto-Slavic word *izraziti, meaning 'to show forth'. |
| Somali | The word "kala duwan" can also mean "different" or "strange" in Somali. |
| Spanish | In Spanish, "distinto" can also mean "different", "separate", or "diverse". |
| Sundanese | Béda in Sundanese can also refer to the boundary or border of something. |
| Swahili | The Swahili word 'tofauti' shares the same etymology with the Arabic word 'tafawutu,' meaning 'difference' or 'variation.' |
| Swedish | "Distinkt" is a loanword from French "distinct" which means not only "distinct" but also "vague" or "blurry" in Swedish. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Naiiba" is cognate with the Malay "lain", meaning "other, different". |
| Tajik | The word "равшан" (pronounced "ravshan") in Tajik is also used as a male name. |
| Telugu | "విభిన్న" means "distinct" in Telugu, and can also mean "different" or "diverse". |
| Thai | The Thai word "ชัดเจน" (distinct) is also used informally as a slang word to describe something as "clear" or "obvious". |
| Turkish | "Farklı" also means "crazy" in Turkish slang. |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word "виразний" can also mean "expressive" or "articulate". |
| Urdu | The word "واضح" (distinct) is derived from the Arabic root "وضح", meaning "to become clear or manifest". |
| Uzbek | The word "aniq" can also mean "clear", "evident", or "plain" |
| Vietnamese | In Vietnamese, "khác biệt" can also mean "difference" or "variety". |
| Welsh | "Gwahanol" is derived from the Middle Welsh "gwahanu" meaning "to separate or divide." |
| Xhosa | The word "eyahlukileyo" in Xhosa is derived from the verb "ahlula", which means "to separate" or "to divide". |
| Yiddish | Some speculate "בוילעט" originates from the Yiddish term "בולעט" or "בולט" which means "a protrusion". |
| Yoruba | The word "yàtọ" is an antonym of "dúdú" in the Yoruba language, but both are adjectives that can be translated to "dark" in English. |
| Zulu | The Zulu word "ehlukile" refers to both distinction and exceptionality, indicating something that is different from the norm. |
| English | 'Distinct' derives from Latin 'distinguere,' meaning to mark apart, separate, or set apart. |