Employment in Different Languages
Discover 'Employment' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Employment
Afrikaans indiensneming | ||
Albanian punësimi | ||
Amharic ሥራ | ||
Arabic توظيف | ||
Armenian զբաղվածություն | ||
Assamese কৰ্মসংস্থান | ||
Aymara irnaqawi | ||
Azerbaijani məşğulluq | ||
Bambara baara | ||
Basque enplegua | ||
Belarusian працаўладкаванне | ||
Bengali কর্মসংস্থান | ||
Bhojpuri रोजगार | ||
Bosnian zapošljavanje | ||
Bulgarian назначаване на работа | ||
Catalan ocupació | ||
Cebuano trabaho | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 就业 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 就業 | ||
Corsican impiegu | ||
Croatian zapošljavanje | ||
Czech zaměstnanost | ||
Danish beskæftigelse | ||
Dhivehi ވަޒީފާ | ||
Dogri रुजगार | ||
Dutch werkgelegenheid | ||
English employment | ||
Esperanto dungado | ||
Estonian tööhõive | ||
Ewe dɔwɔɖua | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) trabaho | ||
Finnish työllisyys | ||
French emploi | ||
Frisian wurkgelegenheid | ||
Galician emprego | ||
Georgian დასაქმება | ||
German beschäftigung | ||
Greek εργασία | ||
Guarani mba'apoha | ||
Gujarati રોજગાર | ||
Haitian Creole travay | ||
Hausa aiki | ||
Hawaiian ka hana | ||
Hebrew תעסוקה | ||
Hindi रोज़गार | ||
Hmong kev ua haujlwm | ||
Hungarian foglalkoztatás | ||
Icelandic atvinnu | ||
Igbo ọrụ | ||
Ilocano panagtarabaho | ||
Indonesian pekerjaan | ||
Irish fostaíocht | ||
Italian occupazione | ||
Japanese 雇用 | ||
Javanese padamelan | ||
Kannada ಉದ್ಯೋಗ | ||
Kazakh жұмыспен қамту | ||
Khmer ការងារ | ||
Kinyarwanda akazi | ||
Konkani रोजगार | ||
Korean 고용 | ||
Krio wok | ||
Kurdish kar | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) کار | ||
Kyrgyz жумушка орношуу | ||
Lao ການຈ້າງງານ | ||
Latin laboris | ||
Latvian nodarbinātību | ||
Lingala mosala | ||
Lithuanian užimtumas | ||
Luganda okukola | ||
Luxembourgish beschäftegung | ||
Macedonian вработување | ||
Maithili रोजगार | ||
Malagasy asa | ||
Malay pekerjaan | ||
Malayalam തൊഴിൽ | ||
Maltese impjieg | ||
Maori mahi | ||
Marathi रोजगार | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯊꯕꯛ ꯐꯪꯕ | ||
Mizo hna | ||
Mongolian ажил эрхлэлт | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အလုပ်အကိုင် | ||
Nepali रोजगार | ||
Norwegian arbeid | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) ntchito | ||
Odia (Oriya) ରୋଜଗାର | ||
Oromo hojii | ||
Pashto کارموندنه | ||
Persian استخدام | ||
Polish zatrudnienie | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) emprego | ||
Punjabi ਰੁਜ਼ਗਾਰ | ||
Quechua llamkay | ||
Romanian angajare | ||
Russian занятость | ||
Samoan galuega | ||
Sanskrit व्यवसाय | ||
Scots Gaelic cosnadh | ||
Sepedi thwalo | ||
Serbian радни однос | ||
Sesotho mosebetsi | ||
Shona basa | ||
Sindhi روزگار | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) රැකියා | ||
Slovak zamestnanie | ||
Slovenian zaposlitev | ||
Somali shaqaalaynta | ||
Spanish empleo | ||
Sundanese padamelan | ||
Swahili ajira | ||
Swedish sysselsättning | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) trabaho | ||
Tajik шуғл | ||
Tamil வேலைவாய்ப்பு | ||
Tatar эш белән тәэмин итү | ||
Telugu ఉపాధి | ||
Thai การจ้างงาน | ||
Tigrinya ምቑጻር ስራሕ | ||
Tsonga ntirho | ||
Turkish iş | ||
Turkmen iş bilen üpjün etmek | ||
Twi (Akan) adwumafa | ||
Ukrainian працевлаштування | ||
Urdu روزگار | ||
Uyghur ئىشقا ئورۇنلىشىش | ||
Uzbek ish bilan ta'minlash | ||
Vietnamese việc làm | ||
Welsh cyflogaeth | ||
Xhosa ingqesho | ||
Yiddish באַשעפטיקונג | ||
Yoruba oojọ | ||
Zulu ukuqashwa |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | "Indiensneming" in Afrikaans, which literally translates to "Indian taking" in English, has a separate and distinct meaning from its English counterpart. |
| Albanian | "Punësimi" is an Albanian word that can also refer to "occupation," "task" or "mission." |
| Amharic | The word "ሥራ" can also refer to a task or a duty. |
| Arabic | The word "توظيف" means "employment", but can also mean "the act of allocating resources". |
| Azerbaijani | "Məşğulluq" köken olarak "meşğul etmek" anlamına gelen "meşğul" sözcüğünden türemiştir. |
| Basque | The word "enplegua" is a loan from the French word "emploi", meaning both employment and function. |
| Bengali | The Bengali word "কর্মসংস্থান" (employment) literally means "setting up of work" or "organization of work." |
| Bosnian | The word "zapošljavanje" also has the alternate meaning of "getting ready for work" in Bosnian. |
| Bulgarian | The Bulgarian word "работа" (work or labor) has the same Indo-European root as the Latin "labor" and the Old English "weorc". |
| Catalan | The Catalan noun "ocupació" comes from the Latin verb "occupare" meaning "to seize" or "to hold". |
| Cebuano | In the Philippines, the word 'trabaho' also means 'hard work' or 'diligence'. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "就业" is an abbreviation of "就业机会", meaning "job opportunity". |
| Chinese (Traditional) | In Chinese, 就業 is a compound of 就 ("take up"), and 業, meaning both "work" and, archaically, "karma". |
| Corsican | The word "impiegu" in Corsican derives from the Latin word "impetum", meaning "attack, onslaught". |
| Croatian | The word "zapošljavanje" derives from the verb "zaposliti" meaning "to employ" which in turn comes from the noun "posao" meaning "job" or "work". |
| Czech | The word "zaměstnanost" is derived from the Old Czech word "zamastatnost" meaning "busyness" or "occupation". |
| Danish | The word beskæftigelse means 'employment' in Danish, but it can also refer to 'occupation', 'activity', or 'engagement'. |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "werkgelegenheid" literally means "work created" or "opportunity to work". |
| Esperanto | Esperanto's "dungado" also means "fertilizer". In English, "employer" and "fertilize" both derive from Latin "-plicare", to fold. |
| Estonian | Tööhõive derives from the words 'töö' (work) and 'hõivata' (to occupy), meaning to occupy oneself with work |
| Finnish | The word "työllisyys" is derived from the Old Norse word "þjóð," meaning "nation," and "lýs," meaning "shelter" or "light." |
| French | "Emploi" also means "use, usage" in French. |
| Frisian | The Old Frisian word |
| Galician | "Emprego" comes from the Latin "implicare", which also means "to wrap" or "to engage." |
| German | "Beschäftigung" can also mean "occupation" or "activity" in German. |
| Greek | "Εργασία" (employment) derives from the verb "εργάζομαι," meaning "to work" and ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *werg- "to do, make." |
| Gujarati | The word "રોજગાર" also means "daily work" and is derived from the Sanskrit word "रोजगार" (rojagāra), meaning "daily earning". |
| Haitian Creole | The Haitian Creole word "travay" ultimately derives from the French term "travail" meaning "work" and "toil". |
| Hausa | The word "aiki" can also refer to the act of working or a person's job or occupation. |
| Hawaiian | The word "ka hana" in Hawaiian also refers to a task, work, or job. |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word תעסוקה, or 'employment,' is derived from the root ע-ס-ק, which means 'to be busy' or 'to engage in an activity'. |
| Hindi | The word "रोज़गार" (employment) comes from the Persian word "रोज़" meaning "day" and "गार" meaning "work". |
| Hmong | The Hmong word “kev ua haujlwm” not only translates to employment, but it also carries the idea of work or task. |
| Hungarian | "Foglalkoztatás" originates from the Hungarian word "foglalkozás" (occupation), which stems from the verb "foglalkozik" (to occupy oneself with something). Originally, it referred to any activity that occupied one's time and attention, including leisure activities and hobbies. |
| Icelandic | "Atvinna" is derived from the Old Norse word "atvinna," which also meant "gain, income, profit, livelihood." |
| Igbo | Ọrụ, meaning "work" or "job" in Igbo, also has the connotation of "service" or "ministry." |
| Indonesian | Although "pekerjaan" primarily means "employment", it can also refer to "work", "labor", or "task". |
| Irish | Fostaíocht can also refer to a 'hiring' or 'recruiting' and is derived from the verb 'fostaigh' meaning 'to hire' or 'to engage'. |
| Italian | The Italian word "occupazione" comes from the Latin word "occupatio", which means "occupation", "seizure", or "possession". |
| Japanese | "雇用" is a Japanese word that means "employment," but it can also mean "hiring" or "recruitment." |
| Javanese | The word 'padamelan' is derived from the Javanese words 'pada' (with) and 'damelan' (work), and can also refer to a place of work. |
| Kannada | The word "ಉದ್ಯೋಗ" can also refer to "enterprise", "occupation", "profession", or "business" in Kannada. |
| Kazakh | The word "жұмыспен қамту" can also refer to providing someone with a job or a task. |
| Khmer | The word "ការងារ" can also refer to a person's occupation, job, or profession. |
| Korean | "고용" originally meant "hiring" but has been widely used to mean "employment" |
| Kurdish | In addition to its meaning of "employment", the Kurdish word "kar" also refers to the act of plowing or tilling. |
| Latin | In Latin, the word "laboris" is etymologically connected to the concept of pain or hardship. |
| Latvian | The word "nodarbinātību" derives from the root "nodarboties", meaning "to engage in an activity" or "to work." |
| Lithuanian | "Užimtumas" also refers to the state of having one or several jobs. |
| Macedonian | Вработување primarily means employment, but may also refer to employment for a limited period of time, such as seasonal work. |
| Malagasy | ASA can be used to denote not only work but also business or activity in which someone has an interest. |
| Malay | "Pekerjaan" is a loanword from the Javanese word "pekerjan" which means "work" or "job". |
| Malayalam | The term തൊഴിൽ in Malayalam has multiple origins, including the word 'to work' and the term 'to cultivate' |
| Maltese | The word "impjieg" in Maltese originates from the Italian word "impiego", which has the same meaning. |
| Maori | The Māori word "mahi" has roots in both Polynesian and pre-Polynesian origins and originally meant "to strike or to beat". |
| Marathi | The word "रोजगार" comes from the Sanskrit word "रोज" meaning "day" and "गार" meaning "to do", so it literally means "daily work". |
| Mongolian | Ажил юс хэлнээ жзэйний ъблелдений багий для "ажил" могдагий ьяглад углан людий аратай пофигов ыбц ниймэдий гадагдал, популярности шинелий ажилной задачигой и тэмэм ажлог, задолжилгаад, ялалтий и белик щинэъ аролигадал дараганий арат когтов или ажиллат ниймэдий гадагдал, можно багий аратай ажилбат еръосъог над цельюлей аратай ажиллат ниймэдий гадагдал. |
| Nepali | The word रोजगार can also mean 'earning wages on a daily basis' or 'temporary employment'. |
| Norwegian | The word "arbeid" stems from the Old Norse word "arbeið," meaning "effort" or "toil." |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word 'ntchito' can also refer to a job or task, and is related to the verb 'kuchita', meaning 'to work'. |
| Pashto | The word کارموندنه (employment) derives from the Persian word کار (work) and the suffix -مند (possessing), meaning "possessing work" or "engaged in work." |
| Persian | The word "استخدام" (employment) in Persian is derived from the Arabic word "استخدم", which literally means "to use" or "to utilize". |
| Polish | The word "zatrudnienie" also means "difficulty" or "trouble" in Polish. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "emprego" derives from the Latin word "prehendere," meaning "to grasp" or "to seize." |
| Punjabi | The word 'ਰੁਜ਼ਗਾਰ' is a loanword from Persian; in Urdu, it can be used for 'livelihood' or 'work' in a general sense. |
| Romanian | The word "angajare" in Romanian is a cognate of "engagement" in French, meaning an obligation to do something. |
| Russian | The word "занятость" in Russian derives from the verb "занимать" meaning "to occupy". |
| Samoan | The Samoan word for 'employment', 'galuega', has its origins in the Proto-Austronesian word 'galawa', which means 'work' or 'occupation'. |
| Scots Gaelic | Cosnadh derives from the Old Gaelic cosnaim (to assist) and is cognate with the Welsh cynnal (to support). |
| Serbian | The Serbian word "радни однос" also means "labor relations". |
| Sesotho | "Mosebetsi" is derived from the word "sebetsi" which means "work" and the prefix "mo-" which denotes a noun class. |
| Shona | In Shona, "basa" can also refer to a "burden" or a "burden-bearer". |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "روزگار" originates from the Arabic word "روز" meaning "day", hence its extended meaning of a "day's work" or "job". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | In Sinhala, "රැකියා" (employment) is derived from the word "රැකීම" (guarding, protection), as employment provides financial security and protection against economic hardship. |
| Slovak | "Zamestnanie" in Slovak is a cognate of the word "employment" in English and shares the same etymology through the Proto-Indo-European word *gʷʰen-. |
| Slovenian | "Zaposlitev" is also used to refer to the act of getting a job. |
| Somali | In the past, 'shaqaalaynta' was used to refer only to paid work but has since been broadened to include both paid and unpaid work. |
| Spanish | The Spanish word "empleo" derives from the Latin "implicare" meaning "to entangle" or "to implicate". |
| Sundanese | Padamelan is cognate with padamekar, meaning 'to live'. |
| Swahili | The word 'ajira' in Swahili also means 'work', 'job', or 'occupation'. |
| Swedish | "Sysselsättning" is a Swedish word that also means "engagement" and derives from the verb "sysselsätta" ("to engage"). |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Trabaho" also means "suffering" in Tagalog, perhaps arising from the difficulty of the early Filipinos in finding a job. |
| Tajik | The word "шуғл" meaning "employment" in Tajik has its derivations in Old Persian with alternate definitions such as "diversion" and "business". |
| Tamil | The term "வேலைவாய்ப்பு" can also refer to the availability of a job or the opportunity to earn a living. |
| Telugu | The word "ఉపాధి" ("employment") derives from the Sanskrit term "upajivi," meaning "dependent on something for a living." |
| Thai | Alternate meanings of "การจ้างงาน" in Thai include "recruitment" and "hiring" |
| Turkish | The word "iş" also has the meaning of "work", "job", or "business" in Turkish. |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word "працевлаштування" is derived from the word "праця" (work) and the word "владити" (to manage, to rule). |
| Urdu | The word 'روزگار' (employment) also derives from Sanskrit roots and initially held the meaning of 'fate, fortune, good luck'. |
| Uzbek | The word "ish bilan ta'minlash" can also mean "recruitment" in Uzbek |
| Vietnamese | Việc làm in Vietnamese is directly translated as "make something work" but also holds the meaning of a paid occupation. |
| Welsh | "Cyflogaeth" derives from "cyflog" (salary) and, ultimately, from the Latin "stipendium" (pay). |
| Xhosa | The word "ingqesho" in Xhosa can also refer to labour, work, service, or occupation. |
| Yiddish | The word "באַשעפטיקונג" also means "occupation" in Yiddish, indicating the active state of being engaged in work or other activities. |
| Yoruba | The word "ọ̀jọ" has its roots in the Yoruba verb "jọ̀," meaning "to gather". Its original context was "to gather for a purpose". |
| Zulu | "Ukuqashwa" in Zulu also refers to the process of harvesting or reaping, as in agriculture. |
| English | The word 'employment' can also mean the act of keeping someone busy or the state of being busy. |