Dramatic in Different Languages
Discover 'Dramatic' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Dramatic
Afrikaans dramaties | ||
Albanian dramatike | ||
Amharic ድራማዊ | ||
Arabic دراماتيكي | ||
Armenian դրամատիկ | ||
Assamese নাটকীয় | ||
Aymara dramatico ukhamawa | ||
Azerbaijani dramatik | ||
Bambara dramatique (drama) ye | ||
Basque dramatikoa | ||
Belarusian драматычны | ||
Bengali নাটকীয় | ||
Bhojpuri नाटकीय बा | ||
Bosnian dramaticno | ||
Bulgarian драматичен | ||
Catalan dramàtic | ||
Cebuano madanihon | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 戏剧性 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 戲劇性 | ||
Corsican drammatica | ||
Croatian dramatična | ||
Czech dramatický | ||
Danish dramatisk | ||
Dhivehi ޑްރާމާ ގޮތަކަށެވެ | ||
Dogri नाटकीय | ||
Dutch dramatisch | ||
English dramatic | ||
Esperanto drameca | ||
Estonian dramaatiline | ||
Ewe wɔ nuku ŋutɔ | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) madrama | ||
Finnish dramaattinen | ||
French spectaculaire | ||
Frisian dramatysk | ||
Galician dramática | ||
Georgian დრამატული | ||
German dramatisch | ||
Greek δραματικός | ||
Guarani dramático | ||
Gujarati નાટકીય | ||
Haitian Creole dramatik | ||
Hausa ban mamaki | ||
Hawaiian hana keaka | ||
Hebrew דְרָמָטִי | ||
Hindi नाटकीय | ||
Hmong txaus ntshai | ||
Hungarian drámai | ||
Icelandic dramatískt | ||
Igbo dị ịrịba ama | ||
Ilocano dramatiko nga | ||
Indonesian dramatis | ||
Irish drámatúil | ||
Italian drammatico | ||
Japanese 劇的 | ||
Javanese dramatis | ||
Kannada ನಾಟಕೀಯ | ||
Kazakh драмалық | ||
Khmer យ៉ាងខ្លាំង | ||
Kinyarwanda ikinamico | ||
Konkani नाटकीय अशें | ||
Korean 극적인 | ||
Krio dramatik wan | ||
Kurdish dramatîk | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) دراماتیک | ||
Kyrgyz драмалык | ||
Lao ຕື່ນເຕັ້ນ | ||
Latin luctuosa | ||
Latvian dramatisks | ||
Lingala dramatique | ||
Lithuanian dramatiškas | ||
Luganda katemba | ||
Luxembourgish dramatesch | ||
Macedonian драматичен | ||
Maithili नाटकीय | ||
Malagasy miavaka | ||
Malay dramatik | ||
Malayalam നാടകീയമാണ് | ||
Maltese drammatika | ||
Maori whakaari | ||
Marathi नाट्यमय | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯅꯥꯠꯀꯤ ꯑꯣꯏꯕꯥ꯫ | ||
Mizo dramatic tak a ni | ||
Mongolian гайхалтай | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) သိသိသာသာ | ||
Nepali नाटकीय | ||
Norwegian dramatisk | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) modabwitsa | ||
Odia (Oriya) ନାଟକୀୟ | ||
Oromo diraamaa ta’e | ||
Pashto ډراماتيکه | ||
Persian نمایشی | ||
Polish dramatyczny | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) dramático | ||
Punjabi ਨਾਟਕੀ | ||
Quechua dramatico nisqa | ||
Romanian dramatic | ||
Russian драматический | ||
Samoan maoaʻe | ||
Sanskrit नाटकीयः | ||
Scots Gaelic dràmadach | ||
Sepedi terama | ||
Serbian драматичан | ||
Sesotho e makatsang | ||
Shona zvinoshamisa | ||
Sindhi ڊرامائي | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) නාට්යමය | ||
Slovak dramatický | ||
Slovenian dramatično | ||
Somali riwaayado | ||
Spanish dramático | ||
Sundanese dramatis | ||
Swahili makubwa | ||
Swedish dramatisk | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) madrama | ||
Tajik драмавӣ | ||
Tamil வியத்தகு | ||
Tatar драматик | ||
Telugu నాటకీయ | ||
Thai ดราม่า | ||
Tigrinya ድራማዊ ምዃኑ’ዩ። | ||
Tsonga dramatic | ||
Turkish dramatik | ||
Turkmen dramatiki | ||
Twi (Akan) drama a ɛyɛ nwonwa | ||
Ukrainian драматичний | ||
Urdu ڈرامائی | ||
Uyghur دراماتىك | ||
Uzbek dramatik | ||
Vietnamese kịch tính | ||
Welsh dramatig | ||
Xhosa idrama | ||
Yiddish דראמאטיש | ||
Yoruba ìgbésẹ | ||
Zulu okuphawulekayo |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "dramaties" can also refer to a type of play or performance. |
| Albanian | The word dramatike entered the Albanian language from Greek, where it meant 'action' or 'play'. |
| Amharic | In Amharic, the word ድራማዊ can also mean theatrical or suspenseful. |
| Arabic | The word "دراماتيكي" is derived from the Greek word "drama," meaning "action" or "deed," and can also mean "melodramatic" or "sensationalized." |
| Armenian | The word “դրամատիկ” also means “related to money” in Armenian, deriving from the Greek word “δραχμή” (drachma), an ancient Greek coin. |
| Azerbaijani | In Azerbaijani, "dramatik" also refers to a theatrical performance or a movie, and is often used in the context of literature and cinema. |
| Basque | The word "dramatikoa" in Basque can mean "theatrical" or "pertaining to drama," as well as "dramatic." |
| Belarusian | The word “драматычны” is also used in Belarusian to describe something that is impressive or spectacular. |
| Bengali | "নাটকীয়" can mean "dramatic" in English, but it can also mean theatrical. |
| Bosnian | ‘Dramaticno’ in Bosnian also means ‘dramatic’ in English |
| Bulgarian | The word "драматичен" can also mean "theatrical" or "melodramatic". |
| Catalan | In Catalan, "dramàtic" can also mean "theatrical" or "melodramatic". |
| Cebuano | "Madanihon" is an archaic term which originally meant "public" or "civilized". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "戏剧性"也指戏剧化的情节、场景或事件，具有引人入胜和强烈情感冲击的特点。 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 「戲劇性」一詞源於古希臘語「drama」，意指「行動」或「表演」。 |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "drammatica" is often used to describe someone who is loud and boisterous. |
| Croatian | Croatian 'dramatična' comes from Greek 'drama' (play) and may also refer to the theater. |
| Czech | The Czech word "dramatický" comes from the Greek word "drama" and was first used in 18th century. |
| Danish | The Danish word "dramatisk" originates from the Greek word "drama", meaning "action". |
| Dutch | In addition to its most common sense of “overwrought, excessive,” "dramaatich” in Afrikaans can refer to events with serious potential consequences. |
| Estonian | The word "dramaatiline" in Estonian can also refer to a sudden or unexpected change, or to something that is exaggerated or over-the-top. |
| Finnish | The Finnish word "dramaattinen" can also have the meaning "theatrical" or "staged". |
| French | The word "spectaculaire" comes from the Latin "spectare," meaning "to look at" or "to observe." |
| Frisian | It is related to the word "drama" and was originally used to describe a theatrical performance. |
| Galician | No Galician, "dramática" can also mean "dramatic situation" or "exaggerated action or behavior". |
| Georgian | The Georgian word "დრამატული" ("dramatic") originates from Greek and, in addition to the typical theatrical meaning, can also mean "dynamic, lively, or engaging" in everyday speech. |
| German | The German word "dramatisch" can also mean "significant" or "radical". |
| Greek | The Greek word "δραματικός" (dramatic) originally referred to theatrical performances. |
| Gujarati | The word 'नाटकीय' is derived from the Sanskrit word 'नाट्य', meaning 'drama' or 'acting'. It can also refer to something that is highly emotional or exaggerated. |
| Haitian Creole | The Haitian Creole word "dramatik" can also mean "extravagant, showy." |
| Hausa | The word "ban mamaki" in Hausa can also mean "to amaze" or "to be startled". |
| Hawaiian | Hana keaka, which means "dramatic," also refers to a genre of traditional Hawaiian theater. |
| Hebrew | The word "דְרָמָטִי" is also used in Hebrew to describe something that is exaggerated or artificial, especially in a theatrical context. |
| Hindi | The Hindi word "नाटकीय" ("dramatic") also means "theatrical", "sensational", or "over the top". |
| Hmong | The word "txaus ntshai" in Hmong originally meant "to lose face", and is still used in this sense in some dialects. |
| Hungarian | The Hungarian word drámai derives from the Greek drama with the suffix -i. The term is commonly used in art to signify a heightened state of emotion or a performance so exaggerated that it verges on the melodramatic. |
| Icelandic | The Icelandic word "dramatískt" can also mean "significant", "important", or "effective". |
| Igbo | The word "dị ịrịba ama" (dramatic) in Igbo also has the alternate meaning of "unusual" or "extraordinary." |
| Indonesian | "Drama" comes from Greek words meaning "to do" and "to play"} |
| Irish | 'Drámatúil' is derived from the Greek word 'drama', meaning 'action' or 'deed'. |
| Italian | "Drammatico" can derive from the Greek "drân" (act), from "drama" (action, act) and from the Latin "dramaticus". |
| Japanese | In Japanese, the word "劇的" (dramatic) also means "sudden and drastic." |
| Javanese | In Javanese, “dramatis” not only means “dramatic” but also “exaggerated” or “affected”. |
| Kannada | ನಾಟಕೀಯ is derived from the Sanskrit word "नाट्य" (natya), which refers to both dance and drama. |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "драмалық" has the same meaning in Russian and is borrowed from French where it meant "theatrical", but later came to mean "dramatic". |
| Khmer | The word "យ៉ាងខ្លាំង" in Khmer is also a phrase with the same pronunciation that literally means "like strong." |
| Korean | In Korean, the term "극적인" also carries the meaning of "striking" or "eye-catching." |
| Kurdish | The word "dramatîk" is derived from the Greek word "drama", meaning "action" or "deed". |
| Kyrgyz | The Kyrgyz word "драмалык" also denotes "excessive", "flamboyant", "theatrical", and "ostentatious". |
| Latin | The word "luctuosa" in Latin can also mean "mournful" or "sad". |
| Latvian | “Dramatisks” can also refer to someone who engages in theatrics, making exaggerated gestures and speech. |
| Lithuanian | The word "dramatiškas" in Lithuanian can also mean "emotional" or "expressive." |
| Luxembourgish | The word "dramatesch" in Luxembourgish comes from the French word "dramatique" and has the same meaning. |
| Macedonian | In Macedonian "драматичен" can also mean "theatrical" or "melodramatic". |
| Malagasy | The word "miavaka" in Malagasy can also mean "theatrical" or "playful." |
| Malay | The word 'dramatik' in Malay can also mean 'sensational' or 'striking'. |
| Maltese | The word "drammatika" can also mean "theatrical" in Maltese. |
| Maori | "Whakaari" is derived from the root "haka," referring to both "dance" and "dramatic performance," highlighting the performative aspects of drama in Maori culture. |
| Marathi | The word "नाट्यमय" is derived from the Sanskrit word "नाट्य" meaning "drama". |
| Mongolian | "Гайхалтай" is the Mongolian spelling of the Russian word "гайхалтэй" which can mean either "dramatic" or "fearful" |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | "သိသိသာသာ" means "very clearly" in Burmese, and is used to describe things that are prominent and unmistakable, or things that are done with confidence and assurance. |
| Nepali | The word "नाटकीय" is derived from the Sanskrit word "नाट्य" meaning "dance, drama" and can also refer to something "theatrical" or "melodramatic." |
| Norwegian | The Norwegian word "dramatisk" can also describe something very bad, like a catastrophic event or a serious illness. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | Despite its connotations of seriousness, "modabwitsa" also denotes someone who is playful or amusing. |
| Pashto | The word "ډراماتيکه" also means "impactful" or "significant" in Pashto. |
| Persian | Although "نمایشی" may primarily mean "theatrical" or "stagelike," it can also refer to a style of writing or a type of play that evokes strong emotions or has a significant impact. |
| Polish | In Polish, "dramatyczny" can also mean "tragic" or "sensational." |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | Em Portugal, a palavra "dramático" também é utilizada para designar algo excessivo, exagerado. |
| Punjabi | The word "ਨਾਟਕੀ" (dramatic) in Punjabi has alternate meanings such as "theatrical" or "melodramatic". |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "dramatic" means "relating to the theater" or "exaggerated" and can also be used to describe a situation or event that is particularly intense or emotional. |
| Russian | The word "драматический" comes from the Greek word "δρᾶμα" (drama), which means "an action"} |
| Samoan | The word "maoaʻe" in Samoan can also mean "strange" or "unusual". |
| Serbian | The word 'драматичан' ('dramatic') in Serbian also means 'very'. |
| Sesotho | It is also used to describe someone who is prone to over-the-top behavior or emotions |
| Shona | The word "zvinoshamisa" can also mean something that is astonishing or surprising. |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "ڊرامائي" also refers to a type of folk theater performed in rural areas. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "dramatic" comes from the Greek word "drama," meaning play. |
| Slovak | The Slovak word "dramatický" can also mean exaggerated or exaggeratedly emotional. |
| Slovenian | The word "dramatično" comes from the Greek word "drama," meaning "action." |
| Somali | "Riwaayado" is also a term used to signify a form of traditional Somali theatrical performance with musical accompaniment. |
| Spanish | Dramático (dramatic) derives from the Greek word for action (drama), and originally meant lively or vigorous, now primarily referring to theatrical performance or intense emotion. |
| Sundanese | Sundanese "dramatis" has an alternate meaning of "theatrical" in a broader sense which is derived from the Greek word "drama" meaning "action". |
| Swahili | In Swahili, "makubwa" also refers to a type of traditional cloth wrapped around the chest, often worn by married women. |
| Swedish | "Dramatisk" comes from Greek "dran" (action), and is a false friend that doesn't mean "dramatic" in modern Swedish, but "theatrical" |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "madrama" is borrowed from the Spanish word "drama", which ultimately comes from the Greek word "drama", meaning "action" or "deed". |
| Tajik | The word "драмавӣ" in Tajik comes from the Greek word "dráma," meaning "action." In addition to its standard meaning of "dramatic," it can also mean "theatrical" or "pertaining to drama." |
| Telugu | నాటకీయ also means 'belonging to a drama or theatre performance' |
| Thai | The Thai word "ดราม่า" is derived from the Greek word "δράμα", which means "play" or "performance". |
| Turkish | In Turkish, "dramatik" can also mean "sensational" or "striking". |
| Ukrainian | The word ‘драматичний’ originates from the Greek term ‘drama’, which refers to action or a play. |
| Urdu | The word "ڈرامائی" comes from the Greek word "drama", meaning "action" or "play". It can also mean exaggerated or excessive, as in "a dramatic performance" or "a dramatic event." |
| Uzbek | Uzbek "dramatik" also means "a genre of literature". |
| Vietnamese | The word "kịch tính" originates from the Chinese word "ju xing", which literally means "play movement" or "theatrical action." |
| Welsh | In Welsh, "dramatig" also means "theatrical" and relates to the word "drama". |
| Xhosa | Idrama in Xhosa also means a place used for initiation ceremonies, a context in which drama is often performed. |
| Yiddish | In Yiddish, "דראמאטיש" also refers to a person who is overly dramatic or theatrical. |
| Yoruba | Ìgbésẹ can also refer to a dance performed at festivals and ceremonies, or to a person who excels in this dance. |
| Zulu | The Zulu word 'okuphawulekayo', meaning 'dramatic', is derived from the root 'phawula', which means 'to mark' or 'to emphasize'. |
| English | The word "dramatic" derives from the Greek word "drama," meaning "action." |