Drawing in Different Languages
Discover 'Drawing' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Drawing
Afrikaans teken | ||
Albanian vizatim | ||
Amharic ስዕል | ||
Arabic رسم | ||
Armenian նկարչություն | ||
Assamese অংকন কৰি থকা | ||
Aymara jamuqa | ||
Azerbaijani rəsm | ||
Bambara desɛn | ||
Basque marrazketa | ||
Belarusian малюнак | ||
Bengali অঙ্কন | ||
Bhojpuri चित्रकारी | ||
Bosnian crtanje | ||
Bulgarian рисуване | ||
Catalan dibuix | ||
Cebuano pagguhit | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 画画 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 畫畫 | ||
Corsican disegnu | ||
Croatian crtanje | ||
Czech výkres | ||
Danish tegning | ||
Dhivehi ކުރެހުން | ||
Dogri चित्तर | ||
Dutch tekening | ||
English drawing | ||
Esperanto desegnado | ||
Estonian joonistamine | ||
Ewe nutata | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) pagguhit | ||
Finnish piirustus | ||
French dessin | ||
Frisian tekening | ||
Galician debuxo | ||
Georgian ნახაზი | ||
German zeichnung | ||
Greek σχέδιο | ||
Guarani ta'anga | ||
Gujarati ચિત્ર | ||
Haitian Creole desen | ||
Hausa zane | ||
Hawaiian kaha kiʻi | ||
Hebrew צִיוּר | ||
Hindi चित्रकारी | ||
Hmong daim duab | ||
Hungarian rajz | ||
Icelandic teikningu | ||
Igbo na-eru | ||
Ilocano panangiladawan | ||
Indonesian gambar | ||
Irish líníocht | ||
Italian disegno | ||
Japanese 図 | ||
Javanese nggambar | ||
Kannada ಚಿತ್ರ | ||
Kazakh сурет салу | ||
Khmer គំនូរ | ||
Kinyarwanda gushushanya | ||
Konkani रेखाटण | ||
Korean 그림 | ||
Krio drɔin | ||
Kurdish xet | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) وێنە کێشان | ||
Kyrgyz сүрөт тартуу | ||
Lao ຮູບແຕ້ມ | ||
Latin drawing | ||
Latvian zīmējums | ||
Lingala elilingi | ||
Lithuanian piešimas | ||
Luganda okukkuba ekifaananyi | ||
Luxembourgish zeechnen | ||
Macedonian цртање | ||
Maithili चित्रकारी | ||
Malagasy sary | ||
Malay melukis | ||
Malayalam ഡ്രോയിംഗ് | ||
Maltese tpinġija | ||
Maori tuhi | ||
Marathi रेखांकन | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯑꯌꯦꯛꯄ ꯂꯥꯏ | ||
Mizo thilziak | ||
Mongolian зураг | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ပုံဆွဲ | ||
Nepali रेखाचित्र | ||
Norwegian tegning | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kujambula | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଚିତ୍ରାଙ୍କନ | ||
Oromo fakkii | ||
Pashto انځورګري | ||
Persian نقاشی | ||
Polish rysunek | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) desenhando | ||
Punjabi ਡਰਾਇੰਗ | ||
Quechua siqisqa | ||
Romanian desen | ||
Russian рисование | ||
Samoan tusi ata | ||
Sanskrit आरेखण | ||
Scots Gaelic tarraing | ||
Sepedi sethalwa | ||
Serbian цртање | ||
Sesotho ho taka | ||
Shona kudhirowa | ||
Sindhi ڊرائنگ | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) ඇඳීම | ||
Slovak kresba | ||
Slovenian risanje | ||
Somali sawir | ||
Spanish dibujo | ||
Sundanese gambar | ||
Swahili kuchora | ||
Swedish teckning | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) pagguhit | ||
Tajik расмкашӣ | ||
Tamil வரைதல் | ||
Tatar рәсем | ||
Telugu డ్రాయింగ్ | ||
Thai การวาดภาพ | ||
Tigrinya ምስኣል | ||
Tsonga dirohwa | ||
Turkish çizim | ||
Turkmen çyzgy | ||
Twi (Akan) nyɛeɛ | ||
Ukrainian малювання | ||
Urdu ڈرائنگ | ||
Uyghur رەسىم سىزىش | ||
Uzbek rasm chizish | ||
Vietnamese đang vẽ | ||
Welsh arlunio | ||
Xhosa ukuzoba | ||
Yiddish צייכענונג | ||
Yoruba iyaworan | ||
Zulu umdwebo |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | "Teken" can also mean "tick" (an insect that sucks blood). |
| Albanian | The word "vizatim" is derived from the Italian word "disegno", meaning "drawing", and can also refer to a sketch or a diagram. |
| Amharic | The Amharic word "ስዕል" can also refer to a photograph, an image, or a figure. |
| Arabic | The word "رسم" in Arabic also has the meaning of "custom," "tradition," and "ceremony." |
| Azerbaijani | The word "rəsm" in Azerbaijani can also refer to a "tradition" or "custom". |
| Basque | The word 'marrazketa' in Basque derives from the verb 'marraztu' meaning 'to draw' or 'to sketch,' and is related to the noun 'marka' meaning 'sign' or 'mark'. |
| Belarusian | The verb "маляваць" means "to draw", but "малюнак" derives from "малюсенькі", meaning "tiny", which was used for small items and details in paintings. |
| Bengali | The word "অঙ্কন" can also refer to "arithmetic" or "mathematics" in Bengali, deriving from the Sanskrit root "ank" meaning "to mark or count". |
| Bosnian | The noun "crtanje" comes from the verb "crtati", which means "to draw". |
| Bulgarian | A variant of "рисуване" is used in Bulgarian to refer to "painting" while "drawing" is expressed by the word "чертане". |
| Catalan | "Dibuix" is also used in Catalan to name a dance performance, especially when it's about traditional dances. |
| Cebuano | Pagguhit, in Cebuano, is also used to describe the lines or figures formed by something, such as the hands of a clock or the furrows on a face. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 画 originally meant "to capture the spirit of something" and can also mean "an idea" or "a scene". |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The word "畫" (traditional Chinese for "drawing") also refers to a stroke in Chinese calligraphy. |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "disegnu" derives from the Latin word "designum", meaning "a drawing, a plan, or a project." |
| Croatian | The Croatian word "crtanje" can also mean "plot", "plan", or "design"} |
| Czech | "Výkres" comes from Latin "figura" (image) through German "Figur" (image). |
| Danish | "Tegning" is also a verb in Danish, meaning "to subscribe" or "to make a reservation". |
| Dutch | Tekening (Dutch for "drawing") also means "consumption" in archaic Dutch due to its historical connection to "toasting". |
| Esperanto | The word 'desegnado' also means 'designate' in Esperanto. |
| Estonian | Joonistamine is related to the words „joon“, meaning „line“, and „joon“, meaning „feat“ or „accomplishment“. |
| Finnish | "Piirustus" is also the Finnish noun for a sketch, or outline. |
| French | "Dessin" derives from the Latin "designare" (to mark out), and besides its meaning of "drawing," it can also refer to a "purpose, design, or plan." |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "tekening" can also be used to refer to a child that was born outside of marriage. |
| Galician | The term "debuxo" derives from Latin de- "away" and -ducere "to lead," meaning "to lead out of something," and came to mean "sketch, design" in Galician and Spanish. |
| German | In economics, the German word 'Zeichnung' can also mean 'subscription' or 'underwriting' of stocks or bonds. |
| Greek | "Σχέδιο" initially referred to a 'plan or scheme' and later evolved to its current artistic meaning, possibly influenced by its resemblance to the Italian word 'schizzo' meaning 'sketch'. |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "ચિત્ર" also refers to a literary composition or a picture in a book. |
| Haitian Creole | The Haitian Creole word "desen" is derived from the French word "dessin," which means "drawing" or "sketch." |
| Hausa | Zane shares a root with the word zana meaning "to design" or "to create". |
| Hawaiian | "Kaha kiʻi" can also mean "a small box or container" in Hawaiian. |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word צִיוּר (drawing) is also a poetic designation of the constellation Ursa Major |
| Hindi | The word 'चित्रकारी' comes from the Sanskrit word 'चित्र', meaning 'painted' or 'adorned'. |
| Hmong | The Hmong word "daim duab" can mean "to draw", as well as "to embroider" or "to write a poem". |
| Hungarian | In addition to 'drawing', 'rajz' also has a historical meaning of 'plan, blueprint' and is related to the verb 'rajzol' ('to draw'). |
| Icelandic | Teikningu is also the name of an independent Icelandic dance company. |
| Igbo | The Igbo word "na-eru" can also mean "to write" or "to paint". |
| Indonesian | "Gambar" has two roots: "gam" from Sanskrit meaning "to take" and "bar" from Austronesian meaning "to make". |
| Italian | In Renaissance Italian, 'disegno' also signified 'design' and thus artistic intention and creative genius. |
| Japanese | "図" can denote a chart, map, scheme, plan, or design, with "graphic art" being only one of its many definitions. |
| Javanese | The word "nggambar" in Javanese can also refer to the act of painting, sculpturing, or any other form of visual art. |
| Kannada | In Kannada, both the words "ಚಿತ್ರ" and "ಚಿತ್ರಣ" are used interchangeably to denote "drawing", "painting", or "image". |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "сурет салу" can also mean "to photograph" or "to take a picture of something". |
| Khmer | The Khmer word គំនូរ ('drawing') could also mean 'cartoon' or 'sketch' in English. |
| Korean | The word "그림" in Korean also has connotations of "picture", "painting", or "sketch". |
| Kurdish | In Ottoman Turkish, 'xet' also meant 'a mark, a sign'. |
| Lao | "ຮູບແຕ້ມ" may also be used figuratively; "to make a picture," "to portray," or "to draw a comparison." |
| Latin | The Latin verb "trahō" means "to drag or pull", which is related to the noun "ictus", meaning "a blow or stroke", suggesting that drawing was originally seen as an act of "pulling" a line across a surface. |
| Latvian | Derived from the verb 'zīmēt' 'to draw', which is cognate with Lithuanian 'žymėti' 'to mark'. |
| Lithuanian | "Piešimas" in Lithuanian also means "writing" or "sketching". |
| Luxembourgish | The word "Zeechnen" is derived from the Middle High German word "zeichen," meaning "to mark" or "to write." |
| Macedonian | The Macedonian word "цртање" can also refer to embroidery or the act of weaving |
| Malagasy | Sary also means "to write" and is related to the word "soratra" (script). |
| Malay | The word "melukis" in Malay also means "to describe" or "to depict". |
| Malayalam | In Malayalam, 'ഡ്രോയിംഗ്' means 'drawing' but is also used to refer to a 'raffle'. |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "tpinġija" comes from the Italian "disegno", which also means "design" or "sketch". |
| Maori | Tuhi is also used to refer to tattoos and carvings in Maori culture. |
| Marathi | The word "रेखांकन" can also refer to the act of outlining or sketching something. |
| Mongolian | The word "зураг" also means "image" or "picture" in Mongolian; it is derived from the Mongolian verb "зурах" meaning "to draw". |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The Burmese (Myanmar) word ပုံဆွဲ (pon hswei) originally meant "a mold or design for casting metal" as well as "drawing" in English. |
| Nepali | The word 'रेखाचित्र' has its roots in Sanskrit and carries different shades of meaning such as 'outline', 'sketch' or 'design'. |
| Norwegian | Norwegian "tegning" originally also meant "signature" like Swedish tecken "sign, mark, token". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | "Kujambula" in Nyanja is derived from the verb "kujambula," meaning "to write," suggesting the close connection between writing and drawing in the Nyanja cultural context. |
| Pashto | The Persian etymology of انځورګري means "to make a figure," highlighting the art of drawing as creating representations of objects. |
| Persian | The word "نقاشی" is derived from a Proto-Iranian term meaning "a design or image" and also a Proto-Semitic term meaning "to paint or carve". |
| Polish | In Polish, the word "rysunek" (''drawing'' in English) also means a "face-lift" or "beauty treatment." |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | Desenhando originated from "designar" in Latin, meaning "to mark out," and also has meanings such as "design" or "plan". |
| Punjabi | The word "ਡਰਾਇੰਗ" can also refer to the act of dragging or pulling something. |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "desen" comes from the Hungarian word "dessin" or the French word "dessin". In Romanian, "desen" can also refer to a design, a pattern, or a sketch. |
| Russian | The word "Рисование" comes from the Old Russian word "рисати", which means "to draw, to write, to paint". |
| Samoan | 'Tusi ata' ('drawing') derives its name from the Samoan word 'tusi' ('to write') and 'ata' ('morning'), reflecting the traditional practice of tattooing as a morning ritual. |
| Scots Gaelic | The word "tarraing" also has the alternate meaning of "attraction" or "pull" in Scots Gaelic. |
| Serbian | The Serbian word for "drawing" comes from the verb "цртати" (crtati), which means "to scratch or carve". |
| Sesotho | The Sesotho word "ho taka" can also refer to writing or sketching. |
| Shona | In Shona, 'kudhirowa' also means 'to carve' or 'to write'. |
| Sindhi | Drawing can also refer to the act of pulling or stretching something, or the result of this action. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | "ඇඳීම" also refers to writing poetry, a play, or similar artistic work or to sketching out or describing a concept. |
| Slovak | The word "kresba" also means "a line dividing a surface" in Slovak. |
| Slovenian | "Risanje" can also be used in the context of fortune telling, and is sometimes translated to "cartomancy" or "card reading." |
| Somali | The Somali word "sawir" can also refer to a photograph or a picture, highlighting the close connection between drawing and visual representation in the Somali language and culture. |
| Spanish | The Spanish word "dibujo" derives from the Latin word "debuxo," which means "to mark out" or "to delineate." |
| Sundanese | The Sundanese word "gambar" derives from the Old Javanese "gambar", itself cognate with Sanskrit "gambaraka" meaning "picture". |
| Swahili | The Swahili word "kuchora" can also mean "to scratch" or "to carve". |
| Swedish | The word "teckning" also means "cartoon" in Swedish. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | Pagguhit in Tagalog also means sketching or outlining and was derived from the Malay word 'tulis' which denotes 'writing'. |
| Tajik | 'Расмкашӣ' (drawing) has an alternative meaning of 'dividing up.' |
| Tamil | "வரைதல்" can also mean "to write" or "to describe" in Tamil. |
| Telugu | The Telugu word డ్రాయింగ్ (drawing) comes from the English word 'drawing' and originally referred to a type of textile design. |
| Thai | The Thai word "การวาดภาพ" (drawing) derives from the Sanskrit word "chitra" meaning "picture" or "painting". |
| Turkish | Çizim's etymology traces to the Proto-Turkic verb çizi, meaning 'to scratch' or 'to mark.' |
| Ukrainian | The word "малювання" in Ukrainian also refers to the act of painting, not just drawing. |
| Urdu | ڈرائنگ is derived from the Persian word 'diran', meaning 'to draw' or 'to paint.' |
| Uzbek | The word "rasm chizish" in Uzbek literally means "to draw a picture" or "to make a drawing." |
| Vietnamese | "Đang vẽ" literally translates to "in the process of creating a picture" or "in the process of painting" in Vietnamese, but it can also mean to compose a plan or to imagine a scenario. |
| Welsh | The word 'arlunio' also means 'to draft' and 'to delineate' |
| Xhosa | In Xhosa, the word 'ukuzoba' also means 'to mark' or 'to write on a surface'. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "צייכענונג" (drawing) is derived from the German word "Zeichnung" and can also refer to a lottery ticket. |
| Yoruba | In Yoruba, 'iyaworan' (drawing) also refers to the act of 'tracing' or 'copying' something. |
| Zulu | "Umdwebo" also means "a plan; a design." |
| English | The noun 'drawing' derives from the Old English 'dragan', meaning 'to drag' or 'to pull', referring to the action of pulling a pen or pencil across a surface. |