Afrikaans uitstalling | ||
Albanian ekspozojnë | ||
Amharic ኤግዚቢሽን | ||
Arabic عرض | ||
Armenian ցուցադրել | ||
Assamese প্ৰদৰ্শন | ||
Aymara aniksu | ||
Azerbaijani sərgi | ||
Bambara ka jira | ||
Basque erakusketa | ||
Belarusian выстава | ||
Bengali প্রদর্শন | ||
Bhojpuri प्रदर्शनी | ||
Bosnian izlagati | ||
Bulgarian излагам | ||
Catalan exposar | ||
Cebuano pasundayag | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 展示 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 展示 | ||
Corsican mostra | ||
Croatian izlagati | ||
Czech exponát | ||
Danish udstille | ||
Dhivehi އެގްޒިބިޓް | ||
Dogri दस्सना | ||
Dutch exposeren | ||
English exhibit | ||
Esperanto ekspoziciaĵo | ||
Estonian näitus | ||
Ewe ɖe ɖe go | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) eksibit | ||
Finnish näyttely | ||
French exposition | ||
Frisian útstalle | ||
Galician exposición | ||
Georgian გამოფენა | ||
German ausstellungsstück | ||
Greek έκθεμα | ||
Guarani hechauka | ||
Gujarati પ્રદર્શન | ||
Haitian Creole ekspoze | ||
Hausa nuna | ||
Hawaiian hōʻikeʻike | ||
Hebrew לְהַצִיג | ||
Hindi एक्ज़िबिट | ||
Hmong daim ntawv pov thawj | ||
Hungarian kiállítás | ||
Icelandic sýna | ||
Igbo gosipụta | ||
Ilocano ipakita | ||
Indonesian pameran | ||
Irish taispeántas | ||
Italian mostra | ||
Japanese 示す | ||
Javanese pameran | ||
Kannada ಪ್ರದರ್ಶನ | ||
Kazakh экспонат | ||
Khmer ពិព័រណ៍ | ||
Kinyarwanda imurikagurisha | ||
Konkani प्रदर्शन | ||
Korean 전시회 | ||
Krio sho | ||
Kurdish pêşkêşkirin | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) نمایشکردن | ||
Kyrgyz экспонат | ||
Lao ງານວາງສະແດງ | ||
Latin vesalius | ||
Latvian izstāde | ||
Lingala kolakisa | ||
Lithuanian eksponatas | ||
Luganda okwolesa | ||
Luxembourgish ausstellen | ||
Macedonian изложба | ||
Maithili प्रकट केनाइ | ||
Malagasy fampirantiana | ||
Malay pameran | ||
Malayalam പ്രദർശിപ്പിക്കുക | ||
Maltese juru | ||
Maori whakakitenga | ||
Marathi प्रदर्शन | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯎꯠꯊꯣꯛꯂꯤꯕ ꯄꯣꯠꯂꯝ | ||
Mizo entir | ||
Mongolian үзэсгэлэн | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ပြပွဲ | ||
Nepali प्रदर्शन | ||
Norwegian utstilling | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) onetsani | ||
Odia (Oriya) ପ୍ରଦର୍ଶନ | ||
Oromo agarsiisuu | ||
Pashto ښودل | ||
Persian نمایشگاه | ||
Polish eksponować | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) exibir | ||
Punjabi ਪ੍ਰਦਰਸ਼ਤ | ||
Quechua qawachiy | ||
Romanian expoziţie | ||
Russian выставлять | ||
Samoan faʻaaliga | ||
Sanskrit समुद्वह् | ||
Scots Gaelic taisbeanadh | ||
Sepedi pontšho | ||
Serbian изложба | ||
Sesotho pontso | ||
Shona ratidza | ||
Sindhi نمائش | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) ප්රදර්ශනය | ||
Slovak exponát | ||
Slovenian razstaviti | ||
Somali soo bandhigid | ||
Spanish exposición | ||
Sundanese paméran | ||
Swahili onyesha | ||
Swedish utställning | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) exhibit | ||
Tajik намоиш | ||
Tamil கண்காட்சி | ||
Tatar экспонат | ||
Telugu ప్రదర్శన | ||
Thai จัดแสดง | ||
Tigrinya ምርኢት | ||
Tsonga kombisa | ||
Turkish sergi | ||
Turkmen sergi | ||
Twi (Akan) da no adi | ||
Ukrainian виставка | ||
Urdu نمائش | ||
Uyghur كۆرگەزمە | ||
Uzbek ko'rgazma | ||
Vietnamese triển lãm | ||
Welsh arddangos | ||
Xhosa umboniso | ||
Yiddish ויסשטעלונג | ||
Yoruba ifihan | ||
Zulu umbukiso |
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "uitstalling" comes from the Dutch word "uitstalling" which means "étalage" in French or "display" in English, and is often used to refer to a display of goods or artwork in a store or gallery. |
| Albanian | "Ekspozojnë" (exhibit) comes from the Latin word "exponere" (put forward), which also gives us "expose" and "exposition" in English. |
| Amharic | The word “ኤግዚቢሽን” (exhibit) comes from the Latin word “exhibere,” meaning “to show forth” or “to display.” |
| Arabic | The word "عرض" also means "display" or "presentation" in Arabic. |
| Azerbaijani | In some dialects “sergi” also denotes a large tray on which food is served. |
| Basque | The Basque word "erakusketa" also means "sign" or "signal". |
| Belarusian | In Russian, "выставка" also means "exhibition" in the sense of a building or space where exhibits are displayed. |
| Bengali | The word প্রদর্শন derives from the Sanskrit word 'pradarshana', meaning 'display' or 'manifestation'. It can also refer to a performance, demonstration, or presentation. |
| Bosnian | "Izlagati" also means "deduce" in Bosnian. |
| Bulgarian | Излагам can also mean "to express one's opinion". Example: "Излагам личното си мнение." ("I'm expressing my own opinion") |
| Catalan | "Exposar" in Catalan comes from the Latin word "exponere," meaning "to put out" or "to expose." |
| Cebuano | The Cebuano word 'pasundayag' comes from the Proto-Austronesian word *pasunday 'to cause to become seen', and is cognate with the Tagalog word 'pagpapakita'. In the context of a Cebuano 'pasundayag', the object or objects on display have been caused to be seen by the person or persons who put them on display. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 展示 can also mean 'to show off' or 'to display'. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 展示 can be used for both physical exhibitions and intangible presentations, as in '展示才藝 (to show one's talent)'. |
| Corsican | In Corsican, "mostra" can also refer to a "demonstration" or a "review" of something. |
| Croatian | The Croatian word "izlagati" has additional meanings such as "to speak out", "to give a lecture", and "to disclose information". |
| Czech | "Exponát" comes from the Latin word "exponere", meaning "to put on display". |
| Danish | The word "udstille" in Danish can also refer to the act of putting something aside or storing it. |
| Dutch | The word "exposeren" in Dutch can also mean "to show off" or "to display ostentatiously". |
| Esperanto | "Ekspoziciaĵo" derives from the Latin "expositio," meaning "explanation, exposition," and can also mean anything exposed to view as a show or display and not just the act of exhibiting it. |
| Estonian | The Estonian word "näitus" is derived from the German word "Ausstellung" and is cognate with the English word "exhibition" |
| Finnish | "Näyttely" is derived from "näyttää," meaning "to show." |
| French | In French, "exposition" has the additional meaning "orientation" and is also used in a theological context. |
| Frisian | The first element of the word, úút, means “out”, and derives from a Proto-Germanic word *ūt, which also forms the basis of the English word out. |
| Galician | In Galician, "exposición" also retains its original Spanish meaning of "exposure" to the elements. |
| German | In the German language, "Ausstellungsstück" refers not only to an exhibit, but also to an "odd person" or "exceptional weirdo" in a figurative sense. |
| Greek | The word 'έκθεμα' also refers to an exposed part of the body, particularly a wound or lesion. |
| Gujarati | "પ્રદર્શન" (exhibit) in Gujarati can also mean a display of goods or artwork. |
| Haitian Creole | The word "ekspoze" in Haitian Creole originates from the French word "exposition", meaning "showing" or "displaying". It can also refer to a public disclosure or revelation. |
| Hausa | The Hausa word "nuna" also means "to show" or "to demonstrate". |
| Hawaiian | Hōʻikeʻike also means to expose, reveal, or to showcase something. |
| Hebrew | The word "לְהַצִיג" also means "to introduce" in Hebrew. |
| Hindi | "एक्ज़िबिट" शब्द लैटिन शब्द "एक्सहिबिटस" से आया है, जिसका अर्थ है "दिखाया गया" या "प्रदर्शित किया गया"। |
| Hmong | In this context, "daim" means "to show" or "to display", "ntawv" means "book" or "document", and "pov thawj" means "first" or "initial". |
| Hungarian | The word "kiállítás" can also mean "presentation" or "lecture" in Hungarian. |
| Icelandic | The Icelandic word "sýna" can also mean "to appear or seem". |
| Igbo | In Owerri, “Gosipụta,” besides the meaning “exhibit”, may mean “show off”, “display ostentatiously” or “boast.” |
| Indonesian | The word "pameran" can also refer to a "display" or "show" in Indonesian. |
| Italian | Mostra can also mean 'muster', 'review', 'parade', 'muster of troops', or 'show', coming from the medieval Latin 'monstra'. |
| Japanese | 示す means to "show" in its original sense, and also holds meanings such as "to point out" and "to explain." |
| Javanese | In Javanese, "pameran" can also mean "to show off" or "to boast". |
| Kannada | "ಪ್ರದರ್ಶನ" also means "show up" (in front of the authorities) in another context. |
| Kazakh | Слово "экспонат" происходит от латинского слова "expono", что означает "выставлять на всеобщее обозрение", и имеет общее происхождение со словом "экспозиция". |
| Khmer | ពិព័រណ៍ is also used in Khmer to describe a type of traditional Khmer dance that is performed as an offering to the spirits. |
| Korean | The Korean word "전시회" comes from the Chinese word "展览会" and also means "fair" or "exposition" in English. |
| Kurdish | The word "pêşkêşkirin" in Kurdish originally meant "to present" or "to offer", but now also means "to exhibit" or "to display". |
| Kyrgyz | The word "экспонат" in Kyrgyz can also mean "a person who exhibits something, an exhibitor." |
| Latin | The Latin word "Vesalius" also refers to a Belgian physician and anatomist known for pioneering anatomical studies through dissections. |
| Latvian | "Izstāde" is derived from the word "stāvēt" (to stand), as exhibits are typically displayed upright. |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word "eksponatas" is derived from the Latin word "exponere," which means "to place or put outside or before; to expose. |
| Luxembourgish | "Ausstellen" (Luxembourgish) comes from the French "exposer" and can also mean "to postpone" or "to defer". |
| Macedonian | The word "изложба" (exhibit) in Macedonian also means "exposition", "fair", "exhibition", and "display". |
| Malagasy | The word "fampirantiana" in Malagasy literally means "causing to be seen." |
| Malay | The word "pameran" can also refer to a parade or procession. |
| Malayalam | "പ്രദർശിപ്പിക്കുക" means 'display' in English. The word is a combination of "pra" meaning "forth" or "forward" and "darś" meaning "to see" or "to show". |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "juru" is derived from the Arabic word "jurh", meaning "wound" or "injury". |
| Maori | The word "whakakitenga" can also mean "to show" or "to display" in Maori. |
| Marathi | In Marathi, the word प्रदर्शन means not only an exhibition, but also a performance or a demonstration. |
| Mongolian | The word «үзэсгэлэн» can also mean a display item or a model. |
| Nepali | "प्रदर्शन" in Nepali can also refer to a public meeting or event. |
| Norwegian | "Utstilling" means "display" in Norwegian and can refer to a showcase, exposition, or exhibition of objects or works. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "onetsani" is derived from the verb "onetsa", which means "to show" or "to display". |
| Pashto | The word "ښودل" can also mean to "show" or to "make known". |
| Persian | "نمایشگاه" can also mean "performance" or "a place for putting on a show". |
| Polish | The word "eksponować" derives from Latin "exponere" and can also mean "to present" or "to explain". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, "exibir" also means "to show off" or "to boast about something." |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "expoziţie" derives from the Latin "expositio" meaning "display" or "exposition". |
| Russian | The verb "выставлять" in Russian can also mean "to display", "to put on", or to "to expose". |
| Samoan | The original meaning of "faʻaaliga" is "act" or "deed." |
| Scots Gaelic | The Gaelic word "taisbeanadh" derives from the verb "taisbean" meaning "to show" and shares its root with "teach", meaning "house". |
| Serbian | The Serbian word "Изложба" also means "exposition" or "exhibition" in English. |
| Sesotho | The word "pontso" can also refer to an occasion or an event. |
| Shona | The word "ratidza" in Shona is derived from the root "ratir" which means "show" and in other dialects this word is pronounced as "ratisa". |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "نمائش" can also refer to a performance or spectacle. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The term ''pradarsanaya'' is likely derived from the Sanskrit term ''pradarshana'', meaning 'to show' or 'to display'. |
| Slovak | Slovak word "exponát" can also mean an exposed person in case of an event. |
| Slovenian | “Razstaviti” is an example of a causative verb in Slovene; its base, “staviti”, means “to put”. |
| Somali | The Somali word "soo bandhigid" can also mean "to present" or "to display". |
| Spanish | Exposición means 'revelation' or 'outright' in Spanish, while in English it refers to a display of artifacts. |
| Sundanese | The term "paméran" is also used for a traditional performing art that displays the diversity and beauty of Sundanese dance. |
| Swahili | The word "onyesha" in Swahili derives from the verb "kuonyesha" which means "to show". |
| Swedish | ‘Utställning’ comes from ‘utställa’ meaning ‘to expose’, ‘to show’ and ‘ställa’ meaning ‘to place’. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | In Tagalog, "exhibit" can also mean "to reveal" or "to display something for all to see". |
| Tajik | The word "намоиш" also means "demonstration" and has its roots in the Persian word "namoyesh". |
| Tamil | The word "கண்காட்சி" (exhibit) in Tamil has alternate meanings such as a scene or a spectacle. |
| Thai | จัดแสดง is a Thai word that can mean either "exhibit" or "to arrange or prepare something for display"} |
| Turkish | "Sergi" comes from the Persian word "serk", meaning "head". This is because exhibitions were originally held in courtyards and the heads of the people attending were the main thing on display. |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word "виставка" also has the meaning "display" in the context of computer interfaces. |
| Urdu | The word "نمائش" also means "pretend" in Urdu. |
| Uzbek | The word "ko'rgazma" in Uzbek is derived from the Persian word "kar" meaning "work" and "gaz" meaning "place". |
| Vietnamese | Triển lãm is derived from the Chinese characters 展覽, which means to display or exhibit something. |
| Welsh | The Welsh word "arddangos" also means "to demonstrate or show". |
| Xhosa | Umboniso can also refer to a dowry or a display of something. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "ויסשטעלונג" also means "exposition" in English. |
| Yoruba | The word "ifihan" in Yoruba has alternative meanings such as "demonstration" and "presentation". |
| Zulu | 'Umbukiso' comes from the verb 'ukubukisa', to cause to emerge or come forth. |
| English | The word "exhibit" is both a noun and a verb, coming from the Latin "exhibēre," meaning to display or present. |