Drive in Different Languages
Discover 'Drive' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Drive
Afrikaans ry | ||
Albanian ngas | ||
Amharic መንዳት | ||
Arabic قيادة | ||
Armenian քշել | ||
Assamese চলোৱা | ||
Aymara apnaqaña | ||
Azerbaijani sürmək | ||
Bambara ka boli | ||
Basque gidatu | ||
Belarusian дыск | ||
Bengali ড্রাইভ | ||
Bhojpuri गाड़ी चलावऽ | ||
Bosnian voziti | ||
Bulgarian карам | ||
Catalan conduir | ||
Cebuano pagdrayb | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 驾驶 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 駕駛 | ||
Corsican cunduce | ||
Croatian voziti | ||
Czech řídit | ||
Danish køre | ||
Dhivehi ދުއްވުން | ||
Dogri ड्राइव | ||
Dutch rit | ||
English drive | ||
Esperanto stiri | ||
Estonian sõitma | ||
Ewe ku ʋu | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) magmaneho | ||
Finnish ajaa | ||
French conduire | ||
Frisian ride | ||
Galician conducir | ||
Georgian მართვა | ||
German fahrt | ||
Greek οδηγώ | ||
Guarani mboguataha | ||
Gujarati ડ્રાઇવ | ||
Haitian Creole kondwi | ||
Hausa tuƙi | ||
Hawaiian kalaiwa | ||
Hebrew נהיגה | ||
Hindi चलाना | ||
Hmong tsav | ||
Hungarian hajtás | ||
Icelandic keyra | ||
Igbo ụgbọala | ||
Ilocano agmaneho | ||
Indonesian mendorong | ||
Irish tiomáint | ||
Italian guidare | ||
Japanese ドライブ | ||
Javanese drive | ||
Kannada ಡ್ರೈವ್ | ||
Kazakh жүргізу | ||
Khmer ដ្រាយ | ||
Kinyarwanda gutwara | ||
Konkani चलोवप | ||
Korean 드라이브 | ||
Krio drayv | ||
Kurdish ajotin | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) لێخوڕین | ||
Kyrgyz айдоо | ||
Lao ຂັບ | ||
Latin coegi | ||
Latvian braukt | ||
Lingala kokumba | ||
Lithuanian vairuoti | ||
Luganda okuvuga | ||
Luxembourgish fueren | ||
Macedonian возење | ||
Maithili चलेनाइ | ||
Malagasy fiara | ||
Malay memandu | ||
Malayalam ഡ്രൈവ് ചെയ്യുക | ||
Maltese issuq | ||
Maori taraiwa | ||
Marathi ड्राइव्ह | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯊꯣꯕ | ||
Mizo khalh | ||
Mongolian жолоодох | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) မောင်း | ||
Nepali ड्राइभ | ||
Norwegian kjøre | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kuyendetsa | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଡ୍ରାଇଭ୍ | ||
Oromo oofuu | ||
Pashto چلول | ||
Persian راندن | ||
Polish napęd | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) dirigir | ||
Punjabi ਚਲਾਉਣਾ | ||
Quechua pusay | ||
Romanian conduce | ||
Russian водить машину | ||
Samoan tietiega | ||
Sanskrit वह् | ||
Scots Gaelic draibhidh | ||
Sepedi otlela | ||
Serbian погон | ||
Sesotho kganna | ||
Shona kutyaira | ||
Sindhi ڊرائيو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) ධාවකය | ||
Slovak riadiť | ||
Slovenian pogon | ||
Somali wadid | ||
Spanish manejar | ||
Sundanese nyetir | ||
Swahili kuendesha | ||
Swedish kör | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) magmaneho | ||
Tajik рондан | ||
Tamil இயக்கி | ||
Tatar диск | ||
Telugu డ్రైవ్ | ||
Thai ไดรฟ์ | ||
Tigrinya ምግናሕ | ||
Tsonga chayela | ||
Turkish sürücü | ||
Turkmen sürmek | ||
Twi (Akan) twi | ||
Ukrainian привід | ||
Urdu ڈرائیو | ||
Uyghur drive | ||
Uzbek haydash | ||
Vietnamese lái xe | ||
Welsh gyrru | ||
Xhosa ukuqhuba | ||
Yiddish פאָר | ||
Yoruba wakọ | ||
Zulu ukushayela |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | "Ry" in Afrikaans is not an alternate spelling of "drive", but rather means "ride" or "travel on horseback." |
| Albanian | "Ngac" has also the meaning of "run" in a sentence like "Ngac në krahun e tij" which means "Run to his arm" (while swimming). |
| Amharic | The word "መንዳት" can also refer to "leading" or "directing" someone or something. |
| Arabic | The word "قيادة" (drive) in Arabic derives from the root meaning "to push," and also denotes "leadership, guidance, or management." |
| Armenian | In addition to its primary meaning of "drive," "քշել" can also mean "to banish" or "to expel." |
| Azerbaijani | In Azerbaijani, "sürmək" also means "to wear" or "to put on" an item of clothing, derived from the Persian word "sormak" with the same meaning. |
| Basque | The alternate meaning of “gidatu” is a guide that accompanies travellers in the mountains in exchange for payment. |
| Belarusian | The word "дыск" derives from the Old East Slavic "дискъ" meaning "plate" and has alternate meanings such as "disk" or "disc" in English. |
| Bengali | In Bengali, "ড্রাইভ" can also refer to a campaign or a movement. |
| Bosnian | In other Slavic languages like Russian, "voziti" implies "transporting", while in Bosnian it exclusively means driving a vehicle. |
| Bulgarian | Карам (karam) also means to punish or scold someone in Bulgarian. |
| Catalan | The verb "conduir" in Catalan originates from the Latin "conducere," meaning "to lead" or "to accompany." |
| Cebuano | "Pagdrayb" likely comes from the Spanish word "paseo", meaning "leisurely walk", hence the sense of "taking a drive" rather than just "driving". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 驾驶 can also mean "to control" or "to master". |
| Chinese (Traditional) | "駕駛" can also refer to the act of riding or controlling a horse. |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "cunduce" also means "accompany" and comes from the Latin word "conducere," which means "to lead." |
| Croatian | Voziti' also has alternate meanings like to "take" and "to transport" in Croatian. |
| Czech | In Czech, "řídit" can also mean "direct" or "manage" a vehicle or organization. |
| Danish | "Køre" has various meanings beyond driving, including "run" and "sail." |
| Dutch | In some dialects, "rit" also means "rides". |
| Esperanto | Although "stiri" means "drive" in Esperanto, it can also mean "to be at the helm" or "to lead by example". |
| Estonian | In nautical usage, "sõitma" in Estonian means "to sail or row a boat or ship". |
| Finnish | "Ajaa" can also mean "to chase", as in "to chase away an animal" or "to pursue a goal." |
| French | "Conduire" also means "to lead" in French. |
| Frisian | "Ride" can also be used to describe riding an animal or a bicycle in Frisian. |
| Galician | In Galician, "conducir" also means "to conduct" or "to guide." |
| Georgian | The word "მართვა" in Georgian also shares a root meaning with "direction" and "management". |
| German | The German word "Fahrt" also means "trip" or "journey", not just the act of driving. |
| Greek | The verb "οδηγώ" originally meant "to lead the way, to guide", deriving from the noun "οδηγός" ("guide"). |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "ડ્રાઇવ" also refers to a water mill or a machine that grinds grains. |
| Haitian Creole | The word "kondwi" in Haitian Creole is derived from the French verb "conduire", meaning "to lead" or "to guide." |
| Hausa | The Hausa word "tuƙi" can also mean "to ride" or "to carry something on the back of an animal." |
| Hawaiian | Kalaiwa also means 'to urge or force' and was likely used to refer to driving cattle before there were automobiles in Hawaii. |
| Hebrew | The word נהיגה (driving) also has the alternate meanings of "leadership", "guidance" and "conducting (a choir)." |
| Hindi | In Hindi, the word "चलाना" (drive) can also mean to operate any vehicle or mechanical device, or even to manage or control something. |
| Hmong | The word "tsav" also means "push" in Hmong. |
| Hungarian | In Hungarian, the word "hajtás" can also refer to a sprout, growth, branch, lineage, impulse, motivation or an assembly, mechanism or machine component that transmits power. |
| Icelandic | In Icelandic, "keyra" derives from the Old Norse verb "keyra" meaning "to drive animals" or "to go by ship." |
| Igbo | The Igbo word "ụgbọala" can also refer to a car or vehicle, highlighting its close association with the act of driving. |
| Indonesian | The word "mendorong" is derived from the Proto-Austronesian word *duŋuŋ, which also means "to push" or "to thrust". |
| Irish | "Tiomáint" comes from the Old Irish "teim", meaning "course" or "direction", and is also used to refer to "steering", "guidance", or "control" in various contexts. |
| Italian | The word "guidare" is cognate with the French word "guider" and the English word "guide", all deriving from the Latin word "ducere", meaning "to lead". |
| Japanese | ドライブ also means "movie theater", a fact reflected by the use of the same character for "film" (フィルム). |
| Javanese | In Javanese, the word "drive" also means "to control" or "to lead". |
| Kannada | The Kannada word 'ಡ್ರೈವ್' (drive) can also refer to an agricultural field or a military campaign. |
| Kazakh | The word "жүргізу" also means "to carry out" or "to implement" in Kazakh. |
| Khmer | The Khmer word "ដ្រាយ" can also mean "take one's leave". |
| Korean | "드라이브" is a loanword from English, and it can also mean 'a strong impulse' or 'a force that pushes someone to do something'. |
| Kurdish | "Ajotin" also refers to the motion of water, wind, or other fluids, conveying the sense of "flowing" or "moving rapidly". |
| Kyrgyz | The Kyrgyz word "айдоо" also means "to chase" or "to pursue". |
| Lao | The Lao word “ຂັບ” derives from Sanskrit, a parent language to Lao, from its root word “KRAM,” a general verb meaning either to “walk” or “to go.” |
| Latin | Coegi may also mean `congeal', and is related to the word `coagulate'. |
| Latvian | The Latvian word "braukt" not only means "drive", but also "to go", "to travel" and "to ride". |
| Lithuanian | The cognate of the word “vairuoti” in many Slavic languages means “to turn”. |
| Luxembourgish | Although etymologically related to the German word "fahren," the Luxembourgish "fueren" does not mean "to go" but rather "to drive". |
| Macedonian | "Возење" derives from the Slavonic "voziti" meaning "to carry". |
| Malagasy | The word 'fiara' is derived from the French term 'voiture', referring to an automobile. |
| Malay | "Memandu" in Malay can mean both "drive (a vehicle)" and "lead (a group)", reflecting the shared concept of direction and control. |
| Malayalam | The Malayalam term ദ്രിവ് ("drive") can also refer to pushing, moving forward or forcing something to move in a specific direction. |
| Maltese | The word "issuq" in Maltese comes from the Arabic word "sa'a" which means "hour," possibly due to the notion that a "drive" is measured in terms of the time spent behind the wheel. |
| Maori | "Taraiwa" also means "to guide" and "to direct" in Maori. |
| Marathi | The Marathi word ड्राइव्ह is the same as the English "drive" and also means "drive a vehicle". |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word "жолоодох" can be literally translated as "to cause to go," and is cognate with "жорлон," meaning "to send on an errand." |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | In Burmese, "မောင်း" not only denotes "driving" a vehicle or animal but also implies "leading" or "guiding" a group or organization. |
| Nepali | The word 'ड्राइभ' is derived from the Old English word 'drīfan', which means 'to urge or impel' |
| Norwegian | The Norwegian word "kjøre" can also mean "to ride" an animal or a bicycle. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "kuyendetsa" can also mean "to go" or "to lead". |
| Pashto | In Pashto, the word "چلول" also refers to a "horse-rider" and "a person who drives a horse or a camel". |
| Persian | The word "راندن" comes from Middle Persian "rāy", cognate with Sanskrit "rādh" meaning "to progress, to advance". |
| Polish | The word "napęd" in Polish can also refer to a drive as a mechanism that transmits power to a machine. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The Portuguese word "dirigir" comes from the Latin "dirigere," meaning "to direct" or "to guide," and retains these meanings in modern Portuguese. |
| Punjabi | ਚਲਾਉਣਾ also means to operate, work, or run something, such as a machine or a business. |
| Romanian | In Romanian, the word "conduce" also means "lead" or "guide." |
| Russian | The verb "водить машину" literally means "to lead a car" and is related to the verb "водить" meaning "to lead". |
| Samoan | The Samoan word "tietiega" can also refer to a traditional Samoan song that tells stories of ancestors or events. |
| Scots Gaelic | "Draibhidh" shares its root with "drift" and "dreabh," implying a sense of being carried or impelled forward. |
| Serbian | The word "погон" in Serbian means "drive" and it is also used in the context of livestock and animal husbandry. |
| Sesotho | A cognate of "kganna" - "ganna" - appears similarly in other Bantu languages, like Luganda, and refers to a "drive, way, passage, means, or habit (of doing)" |
| Shona | The word "kutyaira" in Shona can also refer to the act of guiding or leading someone. |
| Sindhi | "ڊرائيو" (drive) in Sindhi can also refer to "a small hole in a wall or roof to let in air or light." |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "ධාවකය" also means "runner" or "person who runs quickly" in Sinhala. |
| Slovak | The word “riadiť” in Slovak does not only mean “drive” in English, but also “to lead” or “to guide”. |
| Slovenian | Pogon means 'beard' in Greek, and it also means 'a team of draft animals, especially oxen' in Slovene. |
| Somali | The Somali word "wadid" can also mean "to be stubborn" or "to insist on something." |
| Spanish | In Spain, "manejar" can also mean "to handle" in a general sense, while in Mexico it means "to manage". |
| Sundanese | In Indonesian, "nyetir" also means "to drive", likely due to Sundanese influence. |
| Swahili | The Swahili word "kuendesha" also means "to guide" or "to lead". |
| Swedish | The word "kör" can also mean "choir" in Swedish. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "magmaneho" is derived from the root word "maneho," which means "act of driving." |
| Tajik | The Tajik word "рондан" ultimately derives from the Old Persian word "*rad-", meaning "to ride". |
| Tamil | The word 'இயக்கி' ('drive') in Tamil can also mean 'to set in motion' or 'to operate'. |
| Telugu | The Telugu word 'డ్రైవ్' ('drive') also means a bullock-cart road |
| Thai | The word ไดรฟ์, which means "drive", comes from the verb "DRIVE" and its various forms. |
| Turkish | The Turkish word "sürücü" can also refer to a motor vehicle driver. |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word "привід" can also mean "cause" or "reason". |
| Urdu | The word "ڈرائیو" (drive) in Urdu can also refer to a road or path, highlighting its dual meaning in transportation. |
| Uzbek | The word "haydash" in Uzbek also means "to go out" or "to leave". |
| Vietnamese | A rare alternate meaning of 'lái xe' translates to 'steer a ship' in English. |
| Welsh | The Welsh word "gyrru" can also mean "to lead" or "to direct". |
| Xhosa | The Xhosa word "ukuqhuba" can also mean "to lead" or "to manage". |
| Yiddish | The word "פאָר" is derived from the German "fahren". The word also means "to carry" in Yiddish. |
| Yoruba | The Yoruba word "wakọ" also means "to lead" or "to guide". |
| Zulu | 'Ukushayela' can also mean 'to take someone for a ride' in a figurative sense. |
| English | The word "drive" can also refer to an area of flat land where people can practice golf or other sports. |