Dream in Different Languages
Discover 'Dream' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Dream
Afrikaans droom | ||
Albanian enderroj | ||
Amharic ህልም | ||
Arabic حلم | ||
Armenian երազել | ||
Assamese সপোন | ||
Aymara amta | ||
Azerbaijani yuxu | ||
Bambara sugon | ||
Basque ametsa | ||
Belarusian мара | ||
Bengali স্বপ্ন | ||
Bhojpuri सपना | ||
Bosnian san | ||
Bulgarian мечта | ||
Catalan somiar | ||
Cebuano damgo | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 梦想 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 夢想 | ||
Corsican sognu | ||
Croatian san | ||
Czech sen | ||
Danish drøm | ||
Dhivehi ހުވަފެން | ||
Dogri सुखना | ||
Dutch droom | ||
English dream | ||
Esperanto revo | ||
Estonian unistus | ||
Ewe drɔ̃e | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) pangarap | ||
Finnish unelma | ||
French rêver | ||
Frisian dream | ||
Galician soñar | ||
Georgian ოცნება | ||
German traum | ||
Greek όνειρο | ||
Guarani kerecha | ||
Gujarati સ્વપ્ન | ||
Haitian Creole rèv | ||
Hausa mafarki | ||
Hawaiian moeʻuhane | ||
Hebrew חולם | ||
Hindi ख्वाब | ||
Hmong kev npau suav | ||
Hungarian álom | ||
Icelandic draumur | ||
Igbo nrọ | ||
Ilocano tagtagainep | ||
Indonesian mimpi | ||
Irish aisling | ||
Italian sognare | ||
Japanese 夢 | ||
Javanese ngimpi | ||
Kannada ಕನಸು | ||
Kazakh арман | ||
Khmer សុបិន្ត | ||
Kinyarwanda kurota | ||
Konkani सपन | ||
Korean 꿈 | ||
Krio drim | ||
Kurdish xewn | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) خەون | ||
Kyrgyz кыял | ||
Lao ຝັນ | ||
Latin somnium | ||
Latvian sapnis | ||
Lingala ndoto | ||
Lithuanian sapnuoti | ||
Luganda okuloota | ||
Luxembourgish dreemen | ||
Macedonian сон | ||
Maithili स्वप्न | ||
Malagasy manonofy | ||
Malay impian | ||
Malayalam സ്വപ്നം | ||
Maltese ħolma | ||
Maori moemoea | ||
Marathi स्वप्न | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯃꯪ | ||
Mizo mumang | ||
Mongolian мөрөөдөх | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အိမ်မက် | ||
Nepali सपना | ||
Norwegian drøm | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) lota | ||
Odia (Oriya) ସ୍ୱପ୍ନ | ||
Oromo abjuu | ||
Pashto خوب | ||
Persian رویا | ||
Polish marzenie | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) sonhe | ||
Punjabi ਸੁਪਨਾ | ||
Quechua puñuy | ||
Romanian vis | ||
Russian мечтать | ||
Samoan miti | ||
Sanskrit स्वप्न | ||
Scots Gaelic bruadar | ||
Sepedi toro | ||
Serbian сањати | ||
Sesotho lora | ||
Shona kurota | ||
Sindhi خواب | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) සිහින | ||
Slovak sen | ||
Slovenian sanje | ||
Somali riyo | ||
Spanish sueño | ||
Sundanese ngimpi | ||
Swahili ndoto | ||
Swedish dröm | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) pangarap | ||
Tajik орзу | ||
Tamil கனவு | ||
Tatar хыял | ||
Telugu కల | ||
Thai ฝัน | ||
Tigrinya ሕልሚ | ||
Tsonga norho | ||
Turkish rüya | ||
Turkmen düýş gör | ||
Twi (Akan) daeɛ | ||
Ukrainian мрія | ||
Urdu خواب | ||
Uyghur چۈش | ||
Uzbek orzu qilish | ||
Vietnamese mơ | ||
Welsh breuddwyd | ||
Xhosa phupha | ||
Yiddish חלום | ||
Yoruba ala | ||
Zulu phupha |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | In Afrikaans "droom" can also refer to a ghost or phantom. |
| Albanian | The word "enderroj" in Albanian is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *en- + *der- (to sleep). |
| Amharic | The Amharic word 'ህልም' (dream) also denotes a 'vision' or 'wish'. |
| Arabic | حلم also means 'wisdom, good sense, or sound judgment' and comes from the root ح ل م meaning 'to be patient or forbearing'. |
| Armenian | The word "երազել" can trace its roots to the Middle Iranian word "āz" meaning "wish, desire". |
| Azerbaijani | The word 'yuxu', meaning 'dream,' originates from a Turkic source and holds alternate meanings such as 'hope' and 'wish'. |
| Basque | Amets is a Basque word that can also mean 'aim', 'desire', or 'intention'. |
| Belarusian | The word "мара" derives from the Proto-Slavic root "*mar-", meaning "phantom" or "delusion", and is related to the Latvian word "mûrs" ("nightmare"). |
| Bengali | স্বপ্ন is a cognate of the Sanskrit word 'swapna' and can also mean 'hope' or 'aspiration' in Bengali. |
| Bosnian | The word "san" in Bosnian is of Slavic origin and also used to describe a state of drowsiness or an experience of sleeplessness. |
| Bulgarian | The word "мечта" is derived from the Slavic word "metati", which means "to throw" or "to cast". |
| Catalan | "Somiar" shares roots with the word "somni" (also meaning "dream") and the Latin word "somnus" (meaning "sleep") |
| Cebuano | Damgo is also a type of Filipino bread roll, made with eggs and flour. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "梦想" (dream) literally means "thinking of longing". |
| Chinese (Traditional) | In Chinese, "夢想" can also refer to a "hope" or "aspiration." |
| Corsican | "Sognu" also means "sign" or "omen" in Corsican. |
| Croatian | The word "san" in Croatian is derived from a Proto-Slavic word meaning "shadow" and is also related to the word "sanja" meaning "to dream". |
| Czech | The noun sen has a root word in Old Church Slavonic "sonъ" and is cognate with the Polish sen, Russian "сон", Bulgarian "сън" and Serbo-Croatian "сан". |
| Danish | The word "drøm" in Danish is cognate with the English word "dream", both deriving from the Proto-Germanic word *draugmaz, meaning "deception" or "phantom." |
| Dutch | In addition to "dream", "droom" can also mean "room" in Dutch and originate from the Old Dutch word "dram", meaning "space". |
| Esperanto | The word "revo" may stem from various Esperanto and international roots, potentially meaning "revelation" or bearing connections to the concept of "revealing" something. |
| Estonian | Derived from the Proto-Finnic word *uni, meaning "slumber", "sleep", or "nap" |
| Finnish | The word "unelma" also means "goal" or "ambition" in Finnish. |
| French | The word "rêver" comes from the Latin word "ravidus," meaning "wild" or "furious," and was originally used to describe the delirium or hallucinations caused by illness, particularly malaria. |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "dream" can also mean "joy" or "happiness." |
| Galician | In Galician, 'soñar' can also mean 'to have a nightmare' or 'to worry'. |
| German | The word 'Traum' is also used in German to refer to a 'vision' or 'fantasy'. |
| Greek | The Greek word "όνειρο" can also refer to the state of being dazed or absent-minded |
| Gujarati | The word "સ્વપ્ન" (svapn) derives from the Sanskrit word "svapna," meaning "sleep" or "state of sleeping," and is related to the word "swap" (to breathe) |
| Haitian Creole | In Haitian Creole, the word "rèv" also means a "secret" or a "private matter". |
| Hausa | In Hausa, the word "mafarki" can also refer to a visionary experience or a revelation. |
| Hawaiian | The Hawaiian word "moeʻuhane" is a cognate of the Māori word "moe" meaning "to sleep". |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "חולם" can also refer to a certain kind of vowel marking in the Hebrew alphabet with a shape similar to two dots. |
| Hindi | The word ख्वाब originated from the Arabic word 'khwab' meaning 'sleep' or 'nap'. |
| Hmong | In addition to meaning "dream," "kev npau suav" can also refer to "soul" |
| Hungarian | The Hungarian word "álom" comes from the Proto-Finno-Ugric word *unelma, meaning "hope" or "expectation." |
| Icelandic | The word "draumur" also refers to a type of poem about mythological events and heroes. |
| Igbo | In Igbo, "nrọ" can also signify "thought" or "desire". |
| Indonesian | The Indonesian word "mimpi" can also refer to a nightmare. |
| Irish | The Irish "aisling" derives through Middle Irish "adsuain" from "an suan " - "the sleep". |
| Italian | The Italian word "sognare" also means "to imagine" or "to hope for". |
| Japanese | The word "夢" can also mean "ambition" or "illusion" in Japanese, depending on the context. |
| Javanese | The Javanese word "ngimpi" is derived from the Proto-Austronesian word "*kanipay" meaning "to see in one's sleep or to have a vision." |
| Kannada | In Kannada, the word "ಕನಸು" not only refers to dreams, but also to thoughts, aspirations, or imagination. |
| Kazakh | The word «Арман» derives from the ancient Türkic words «ар» (to think) and «ман» (existence). Originally, it meant not only «мечта» (dream), but also «надежда» (hope). |
| Khmer | The word "សុបិន្ត" can also mean "to hope" or "to wish". |
| Korean | The word "꿈" in Korean can also refer to "thought" or "idea". |
| Kurdish | The Kurdish word “xewn” is thought to derive from an Indo-European root *sweh2-n, which also appears in Sanskrit svapna-, Greek húpnos, and Slavic sonъ, among others. |
| Kyrgyz | The Kyrgyz word "кыял" also means "imagination" or "vision." |
| Lao | In Thai and Lao, the word for "dream" is " ฝัน ", but it can also mean "illusion" or "false belief". |
| Latin | Derived from the ancient Proto-Indo-European word “swépnos,” Somnium also refers to sleep or slumber in Latin. |
| Latvian | The word "sapnis" in Latvian is derived from the verb "sapņot" meaning "to dream", and is cognate with the Slavic word "son" meaning "sleep". |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word "sapnuoti" is possibly derived from the Proto-Indo-European root "*sop-no-/*sop-nu-", meaning "to fall asleep" or "to sleep". |
| Macedonian | In certain western dialects of Macedonian, "сон" can also mean "sleep" while in the eastern dialects it means solely "dream". |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "manonofy" also means "expectation" or "vision". |
| Malay | The word 'impian' is also used figuratively to refer to an 'ambition' or 'aspiration' in Malay. |
| Malayalam | The word "സ്വപ്നം" in Malayalam can also mean 'hope' or 'wish', suggesting that dreams are not just nocturnal experiences but aspirations that shape our reality. |
| Maltese | "Ħolma" in Maltese is also the female form of the surname "Holm". |
| Maori | In Maori mythology, 'moemoea' also designates the spirit of a deceased person, who watches over the living from the underworld. |
| Marathi | "स्वप्न" in Marathi is said to be derived from the Sanskrit word "स्वप्न", which means "to sleep". |
| Mongolian | "Мөрөөдөх" means "to dream" but it can also mean "to think about" or "to imagine". |
| Nepali | "Sapna" is a word of Sanskrit origin that has many different meanings, including a wish, desire, hope, or expectation. |
| Norwegian | The Norwegian word "drøm" is related to the Swedish "drömma" and Danish "drømme", and is derived from a common Germanic root meaning "to make a buzzing sound" or "to whisper". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "lota" in Nyanja (Chichewa) is also used to refer to the act of dreaming or the state of being asleep and dreaming. |
| Pashto | The word "خوب" in Pashto also means "good" or "beautiful". |
| Persian | "رویا" can also refer to a vision or a goal. |
| Polish | The word "marzenie" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word "merznǫti", meaning "to freeze", and is related to the word "mróz" ("frost") and "marznąć" ("to get cold"). |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "sonhe" in Portuguese is derived from the Latin "somnium," and also means "sleep." |
| Punjabi | The word "ਸੁਪਨਾ" (dream) in Punjabi is derived from the Sanskrit word "swapna" meaning "sleep" or "to see". |
| Romanian | In Latin, "vis" refers to a force or power. |
| Russian | Мечта́ть in Russian shares a root with меч (mêč) - "sword" and is used metaphorically to describe "swords swinging" in someone's head. |
| Samoan | In Samoan, "miti" can also refer to a tree, connecting the concepts of dreams and nature. |
| Scots Gaelic | 'Bruadar' has multiple meanings in Scots Gaelic, including 'dream', 'illusion', and 'fantasy'. |
| Serbian | "Сањати" is derived from the Proto-Slavic root *sъnъ, meaning both "sleep" and "dream." |
| Sesotho | The Sesotho word "lora" also means "thought" or "mind". |
| Shona | The word "kurota" in Shona also means "to hope" and is related to the word "kuronga," which means "to plan" or "to intend." |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "خواب" (khwāb) derives from the Persian word "خواب" (khāb), meaning both "sleep" and "dream." |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The Sinhala word සිහින (dream) is related to the Sanskrit word स्मृति (memory) and also means 'memory'. |
| Slovak | The word "sen" is also used figuratively to mean an ideal or aspiration. |
| Slovenian | "Sanje" derives from the Proto-Slavic "sъnъ", meaning "shadow" or "phantom." |
| Somali | The word "riyo" in Somali also refers to a state of unconsciousness or a vision. |
| Spanish | The noun "sueño" can be etymologically linked to the Latin term "somnium", which refers to dreams, and the verb "dormir", which means "to sleep". |
| Sundanese | Although the Sundanese word "ngimpi" primarily translates to "dream" in English, it can also mean "to imagine" or "to wish for something." |
| Swahili | The Swahili word "ndoto" can also refer to a vision or an illusion. |
| Swedish | In Swedish, the word "dröm" can also refer to a "longing" or an "aspiration". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "pangarap" in Tagalog is derived from the Sanskrit word "prapti" meaning "to attain" or "to achieve". |
| Tajik | The word "орзу" has other meanings, such as "thought" or "will". |
| Tamil | The Tamil word 'கனவு' ('dream') also refers to 'thought,' 'imagination,' or 'expectation,' |
| Telugu | The word "కల" also means "thought" or "idea" in Telugu. |
| Thai | The verb 'ฝัน' can mean not only to dream, but also to create a belief system or to imagine a vision. |
| Turkish | "Rüya" also means "vision" or "illusion" in Turkish. |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word |
| Urdu | "خواب" can also mean "a nap" or "a siesta" in Urdu. |
| Uzbek | "Orzu qilish" in Uzbek also means "to wish" or "to desire". |
| Vietnamese | The word "mơ" in Vietnamese can also mean "apricot" or "plum". |
| Welsh | The Welsh word "breuddwyd" is also etymologically related to the word "breuddwydion" which means "phantoms" or "apparitions" |
| Xhosa | The word "phupha" has a rich history and is derived from the Proto-Bantu root "-fup-", meaning "to blow", and suggests an underlying connection between dreams and the movement of air during respiration. |
| Yiddish | In Yiddish, the word "חלום" can also mean an illusion or fantasy. |
| Yoruba | "Ala" also refers to a Yoruba deity and a type of musical rhythm. |
| Zulu | The word 'phupha' is also used to refer to 'the afterlife' in Zulu. |
| English | The word "dream" comes from the Old English word "drēam," which originally meant "joy" or "music." |