Economics in Different Languages
Discover 'Economics' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Economics
Afrikaans ekonomie | ||
Albanian ekonomi | ||
Amharic ኢኮኖሚክስ | ||
Arabic اقتصاديات | ||
Armenian տնտեսագիտություն | ||
Assamese অৰ্থনীতি | ||
Aymara economía uka tuqita | ||
Azerbaijani iqtisadiyyat | ||
Bambara sɔrɔko siratigɛ la | ||
Basque ekonomia | ||
Belarusian эканоміка | ||
Bengali অর্থনীতি | ||
Bhojpuri अर्थशास्त्र के बारे में बतावल गइल बा | ||
Bosnian ekonomija | ||
Bulgarian икономика | ||
Catalan economia | ||
Cebuano ekonomiya | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 经济学 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 經濟學 | ||
Corsican ecunumia | ||
Croatian ekonomija | ||
Czech ekonomika | ||
Danish økonomi | ||
Dhivehi އިކޮނޮމިކްސް އެވެ | ||
Dogri अर्थशास्त्र | ||
Dutch economie | ||
English economics | ||
Esperanto ekonomio | ||
Estonian majandus | ||
Ewe ganyawo ŋuti nunya | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) ekonomiya | ||
Finnish taloustiede | ||
French économie | ||
Frisian ekonomy | ||
Galician economía | ||
Georgian ეკონომიკა | ||
German wirtschaft | ||
Greek οικονομικά | ||
Guarani economía rehegua | ||
Gujarati અર્થશાસ્ત્ર | ||
Haitian Creole ekonomi | ||
Hausa tattalin arziki | ||
Hawaiian hoʻokele waiwai | ||
Hebrew כלכלה | ||
Hindi अर्थशास्त्र | ||
Hmong kev khwv noj khwv haus | ||
Hungarian közgazdaságtan | ||
Icelandic hagfræði | ||
Igbo akụnụba | ||
Ilocano ekonomia | ||
Indonesian ekonomi | ||
Irish eacnamaíocht | ||
Italian economia | ||
Japanese 経済 | ||
Javanese ekonomi | ||
Kannada ಅರ್ಥಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ | ||
Kazakh экономика | ||
Khmer សេដ្ឋកិច្ច | ||
Kinyarwanda ubukungu | ||
Konkani अर्थशास्त्रांतलें | ||
Korean 경제학 | ||
Krio ikɔnomi | ||
Kurdish aborî | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) ئابووری | ||
Kyrgyz экономика | ||
Lao ເສດຖະກິດ | ||
Latin oeconomica | ||
Latvian ekonomika | ||
Lingala nkita ya nkita | ||
Lithuanian ekonomika | ||
Luganda eby’enfuna | ||
Luxembourgish wirtschaft | ||
Macedonian економија | ||
Maithili अर्थशास्त्र | ||
Malagasy toekarena | ||
Malay ekonomi | ||
Malayalam സാമ്പത്തിക ശാസ്ത്രം | ||
Maltese ekonomija | ||
Maori ohanga | ||
Marathi अर्थशास्त्र | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯏꯀꯣꯅꯣꯃꯤꯛꯁꯇꯥ ꯌꯨꯝꯐꯝ ꯑꯣꯏꯕꯥ꯫ | ||
Mizo economics lam a ni | ||
Mongolian эдийн засаг | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) စီးပွားရေး | ||
Nepali अर्थशास्त्र | ||
Norwegian økonomi | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) zachuma | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଅର୍ଥନୀତି | ||
Oromo dinagdee | ||
Pashto اقتصاد | ||
Persian اقتصاد | ||
Polish ekonomia | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) economia | ||
Punjabi ਅਰਥ ਸ਼ਾਸਤਰ | ||
Quechua economía nisqamanta | ||
Romanian economie | ||
Russian экономика | ||
Samoan tamaoaiga | ||
Sanskrit अर्थशास्त्रम् | ||
Scots Gaelic eaconamas | ||
Sepedi tša boiphedišo | ||
Serbian економија | ||
Sesotho moruo | ||
Shona economics | ||
Sindhi معاشيات | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) ආර්ථික විද්යාව | ||
Slovak ekonomika | ||
Slovenian ekonomija | ||
Somali dhaqaalaha | ||
Spanish ciencias económicas | ||
Sundanese ékonomi | ||
Swahili uchumi | ||
Swedish ekonomi | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) ekonomiya | ||
Tajik иқтисодиёт | ||
Tamil பொருளாதாரம் | ||
Tatar икътисад | ||
Telugu ఆర్థిక శాస్త్రం | ||
Thai เศรษฐศาสตร์ | ||
Tigrinya ስነ-ቑጠባ | ||
Tsonga ikhonomi | ||
Turkish ekonomi | ||
Turkmen ykdysadyýet | ||
Twi (Akan) sikasɛm ho adesua | ||
Ukrainian економіка | ||
Urdu معاشیات | ||
Uyghur ئىقتىساد | ||
Uzbek iqtisodiyot | ||
Vietnamese kinh tế học | ||
Welsh economeg | ||
Xhosa ezoqoqosho | ||
Yiddish עקאנאמיק | ||
Yoruba aje | ||
Zulu ezomnotho |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | Afrikaans "ekonomie" originates from Greek "oikonomia," meaning "management of a household." |
| Amharic | The word 'ኢኮኖሚክስ' is derived from the Greek word 'oikonomia', which means 'household management'. |
| Arabic | The Arabic word "اقتصاديات" can also refer to the financial aspects of a company or household. |
| Azerbaijani | "Iqtisadiyyat" is also used colloquially to refer to a person who is frugal or stingy. |
| Basque | The Basque word "ekonomia" originally referred to the "management of a household". |
| Bengali | The word "অর্থনীতি" (economics) is derived from the Greek words "οἶκος" (house) and "νόμος" (law or custom), referring to the management of household resources. |
| Bosnian | The term 'ekonomija' derives from Greek 'oikonomia' - household management. |
| Bulgarian | Икономика is derived from the Greek word "oikonomia," which means "management of a household". |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "economia" comes from the Greek word "oikonomia," meaning "household management". |
| Cebuano | The Cebuano word 'ekonomiya', meaning 'economics', comes from the Spanish word 'economía', which in turn comes from the Greek word for household management. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "经济学"源于古希腊语，意为"家庭管理之道"，与现代意义的"经济学"含义相去甚远。 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 「經濟學」來自「經濟」與「學」兩字，「經濟」源自「經世濟民」，意為管理國家、使人民富足，而「學」指研究、探討，故「經濟學」可理解為探討國家管理、人民富裕之學問。 |
| Corsican | "Ecunumia" is borrowed from Ancient Greek and is related to the words "oikos" (house) and "nomos" (law), referring to the management of a household.} |
| Croatian | 'Ekonomija' shares an etymology with the Greek word 'oikos', meaning 'house or household', which also relates to the words ecology and ecosystem. |
| Czech | Ekonomika in Czech can refer to the broad concept of "economy" or the narrower "economics". |
| Danish | Økonomi is used in the sense of 'management', 'prudence', 'thrifty', and 'economy' and is derived from Old Norse 'œkonnomia,' from the Greek 'oikonomia', from 'oikos, "house" + nemein, "manage, distribute"'. |
| Dutch | "Economie" means not only "economics," but also a small "kitchen cabinet" (usually containing spices or sugar). |
| Esperanto | It comes from the Greek word "oikonomia", which originally referred to the management of a household rather than a nation or business. |
| Estonian | In Estonian, the word "majandus" originally referred to the provision of food, and is related to the verb "majandama," meaning to manage or maintain. |
| Finnish | Taloustajia referred to both the members of households or families and economics students as the word talous was used to describe householding. |
| French | The French word "économie" derives from the Ancient Greek word "oikonomia" meaning "household management". |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "ekonomy" is derived from the Greek word "oikonomia", meaning "household management". |
| German | The German word "Wirtschaft" originally referred to a place where food and drink were served, and its economic meaning developed from the sense of "household management." |
| Greek | "Οικονομικά" is Greek for "Economics", but is also used in a broader sense of "household management". |
| Gujarati | The term comes from the Sanskrit words "artha" (wealth) and "shastra" (science or doctrine). |
| Haitian Creole | The word 'ekonomi' also means 'money' or 'wealth' |
| Hausa | The Hausa word "tattalin arziki" has been used since at least the 19th century. |
| Hawaiian | The Hawaiian word for economics, “ho'okele waiwai”, literally means "to steer wealth or resources". |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "כלכלה" (economics) also means "nurturing" and "providing for one's needs." |
| Hindi | The term "अर्थशास्त्र" has a broader meaning in Sanskrit, encompassing not just "economics" but also philosophy, ethics, and political science. |
| Hmong | The word "kev khwv noj khwv haus" is derived from the Chinese word "经济学" (jīngjì xué), meaning "the science of economics". |
| Hungarian | The Hungarian word "közgazdaságtan" (economics) is derived from the German word "Volkswirtschaft" (national economy). |
| Icelandic | The Icelandic word "hagfræði" originally referred to the science of housekeeping but gained its current meaning in the 18th century when it was coined by the Icelandic scholar and poet Jón Þorkelsson as a translation of the Danish word "økonomi" and the English word "economics." |
| Igbo | The word 'akụnụba' in Igbo also refers to the system of allocating resources within a household or community. |
| Indonesian | The word 'ekonomi' is derived from the Greek word 'oikonomia', meaning 'household management' |
| Irish | "Eacnamaíocht" derives from an Old Irish word that referred to "hospitality" or "a gift". |
| Italian | "Economia" comes from the Greek oikonomia, "household management" and is related to the words oikos, "household" and nomos, "law, custom" |
| Japanese | The ateji 'keizai' can be read as 'tsumori' ('budget'), and its original meaning was 'management of the family economy'. |
| Javanese | In Javanese "ekonomi" traditionally means "housekeeping" rather than "economics". |
| Kannada | The word "ಅರ್ಥಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ" is derived from the Sanskrit words "artha" (wealth, meaning) and "shastra" (science, treatise), so it literally means "science of wealth or meaning." |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "экономика" is derived from the Greek word "οἰκονομία" which means "household management". |
| Khmer | The Khmer word សេដ្ឋកិច្ច also means "the economy", in the sense of a "political or social system". |
| Korean | The Korean word 경제학 (gyeongjehak) is derived from the Chinese word 经济学 (jīngjìxué), which means "the study of the economy" or "the science of economic management." |
| Kurdish | "Aborî" is a Kurdish word with roots in the Akkadian word 'epru' (interest) and the Persian word 'ber' (burden), suggesting its ancient connections to financial and taxation matters. |
| Lao | The origin of the Lao word ແສງທ້ອງ has been traced back to the Sanskrit root word which meant light or sunshine, and also to Thai language. |
| Latin | The Greek term 'oikonomia' meant 'household management' and was the root for the Latin 'oeconomica' and the English 'economics'. |
| Latvian | Ekonomika, the Latvian word for economics, also refers to an economy's state, with a good economy called a 'laba ekonomika' and a poor economy called a 'slikta ekonomika'. |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word "ekonomika" is derived from the Greek word "oikonomia", meaning "household management" or "stewardship". |
| Luxembourgish | In Luxembourgish the word "Wirtschaft" originally refers to the rural economy, whereas the word "Ekonomie" is used for general economics. |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "toekarena" is derived from the French word "économie" and the Malagasy word "karena", meaning "to manage" or "to govern". |
| Malay | In Malay, “ekonomi” also encompasses meanings related to thriftiness and prudence. |
| Malayalam | The term "Economics" derives from the Greek word "oikonomia," which originally referred to the management of a household. |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "ekonomija" originally meant "regulation" or "management". |
| Maori | The word 'ohanga' is also used in Māori to mean a bag/purse for holding valuables. |
| Marathi | The word "अर्थशास्त्र" in Marathi can also refer to the ancient Indian treatise on politics and economics written by Kautilya, which is considered one of the earliest and most influential works on the subject. |
| Nepali | "अर्थशास्त्र" (economics) is also known as the "science of material welfare" and was originally interpreted as a system of "material arts" involving politics, military strategy, and trade, from the Sanskrit root **artha**. |
| Norwegian | Økonomi derives from the Greek words 'oikos' meaning 'house' and 'nomos', meaning 'law', 'order' or 'rule', thus literally meaning "household management" in Norwegian. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word “zachuma” also refers to household budgeting and money management |
| Pashto | The word "اقتصاد" in Pashto can also mean "thrift" or "frugal |
| Persian | In Persian, «اقتصاد» can mean both "economics" and "saving; frugal living". |
| Polish | Ekonomia in Polish can also refer to 'economy' or 'farming'. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | "Economia" in Portuguese can also mean "saving" or "thrift". |
| Punjabi | "ਅਰਥ ਸ਼ਾਸਤਰ" शब्द संस्कृत के "अर्थ" (धन) और "शास्त्र" (विज्ञान) शब्दों से बना है। |
| Romanian | "Economie" can also mean "economy of movement" in the context of ballet. |
| Samoan | The Samoan word "tamaoaiga" literally translates to "family provider" and is associated with the idea of providing for one's family through economic means. |
| Scots Gaelic | Economics in Scots Gaelic is 'eaconamas', which also means 'economy', 'management' or 'household'. |
| Serbian | The Serbian word "економија" is derived from the Greek word "οικονομία", which originally meant "household management" or "administration of a household's resources". This meaning is still reflected in the modern Serbian usage of the word "економија". However, the word "економија" has also taken on the specialized meaning of "economics" in Serbian, referring to the study of how societies allocate scarce resources. |
| Sesotho | The word 'moruo' is derived from the Proto-Bantu word '*mu-lw-' which also means 'economics or trade'. |
| Shona | In Shona, the word 'hupfumi' which is an alternate for 'economics' is derived from the verb 'kuhuva' meaning 'to grow'. |
| Sindhi | The word "معاشيات" is derived from the Arabic word "معاش" meaning "livelihood" and is also used in the context of "financial management". |
| Slovak | The word ekonomika comes from the Greek word oikonomia, which means 'management of household affairs'. |
| Slovenian | "Ekonomija" is also used in Slovenian to describe a household or a farm, reflecting its historical usage in the Balkans. |
| Somali | The word 'dhaqaalaha' is derived from the Arabic word 'iqtisad', meaning 'economy' or 'moderation'. |
| Spanish | In Spanish, "ciencias económicas" literally translates to "economic sciences", implying a broader scope than just "economics" |
| Sundanese | Sundanese word "ékonomi" originally meant "household management". |
| Swahili | "Uchumi" in Swahili also refers to a marketplace or commercial enterprise |
| Swedish | Ordet 'ekonomi' i svenskan kommer från grekiskans 'oikos' ('hus') och 'nomos' ('lag'). |
| Tajik | The word "иқтисодиёт" ultimately derives from the Greek word "oikonomia" meaning "household management". |
| Telugu | The word "ఆర్థిక శాస్త్రం" is derived from the Greek words "oikos" (house) and "nomos" (law), referring to the management of a household or the rules that govern economic activity. |
| Thai | The Thai word เศรษฐศาสตร์ combines the Sanskrit word अर्थ ( |
| Turkish | In Turkish, 'ekonomi' can also refer to the economy of a specific region, sector, or household. |
| Ukrainian | The term "економіка" in Ukrainian comes from the Greek root "oikos", meaning "house" or "home", indicating the study of household management. |
| Urdu | The word "معاشیات" also means "livelihood" and derives from the Arabic word for "to live". |
| Uzbek | The word "iqtisodiyot" also refers to the "rational use" of something. |
| Vietnamese | Kinh tế học (economics) có nguồn gốc từ tiếng Hy Lạp oikonomia, có nghĩa đen là 'quản lý gia đình' hoặc 'quản lý tài sản'. |
| Welsh | The origin of the Welsh word 'economeg' remains shrouded in uncertainty, with hypotheses linking it to Greek, Latin, and even Welsh roots. |
| Xhosa | Ezoqoqosho originates from the word 'qoqo', meaning 'to calculate', suggesting a deep-rooted understanding of numerical reasoning within the Xhosa vocabulary. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "עקאנאמיק" ("economics") also means "stinginess". |
| Yoruba | The word "aje" in Yoruba is derived from the verb "aje," meaning "to be wealthy" or "to have money." |
| Zulu | The word "ezomnotho" derives from the verb "ukunotha," meaning "to increase," and implies the management of resources to achieve financial growth. |
| English | The English word "economics" derives from the Greek word "oikonomia" meaning "management of a household". |