Eye in Different Languages
Discover 'Eye' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Eye
Afrikaans oog | ||
Albanian syri | ||
Amharic አይን | ||
Arabic عين | ||
Armenian աչք | ||
Assamese চকু | ||
Aymara nayra | ||
Azerbaijani göz | ||
Bambara ɲɛ | ||
Basque begi | ||
Belarusian вока | ||
Bengali চক্ষু | ||
Bhojpuri आँख | ||
Bosnian oko | ||
Bulgarian око | ||
Catalan ull | ||
Cebuano mata | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 眼 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 眼 | ||
Corsican ochju | ||
Croatian oko | ||
Czech oko | ||
Danish øje | ||
Dhivehi ލޯ | ||
Dogri अक्ख | ||
Dutch oog | ||
English eye | ||
Esperanto okulo | ||
Estonian silma | ||
Ewe ŋku | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) mata | ||
Finnish silmä | ||
French œil | ||
Frisian each | ||
Galician ollo | ||
Georgian თვალი | ||
German auge | ||
Greek μάτι | ||
Guarani tesa | ||
Gujarati આંખ | ||
Haitian Creole je | ||
Hausa ido | ||
Hawaiian maka | ||
Hebrew עַיִן | ||
Hindi आंख | ||
Hmong qhov muag | ||
Hungarian szem | ||
Icelandic auga | ||
Igbo anya | ||
Ilocano mata | ||
Indonesian mata | ||
Irish súil | ||
Italian occhio | ||
Japanese 眼 | ||
Javanese mripat | ||
Kannada ಕಣ್ಣು | ||
Kazakh көз | ||
Khmer ភ្នែក | ||
Kinyarwanda ijisho | ||
Konkani दोळो | ||
Korean 눈 | ||
Krio yay | ||
Kurdish çav | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) چاو | ||
Kyrgyz көз | ||
Lao ຕາ | ||
Latin oculus | ||
Latvian acs | ||
Lingala liso | ||
Lithuanian akis | ||
Luganda eriiso | ||
Luxembourgish aen | ||
Macedonian око | ||
Maithili आँखि | ||
Malagasy maso | ||
Malay mata | ||
Malayalam കണ്ണ് | ||
Maltese għajn | ||
Maori karu | ||
Marathi डोळा | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯃꯤꯠ | ||
Mizo mit | ||
Mongolian нүд | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) မျက်လုံး | ||
Nepali आँखा | ||
Norwegian øye | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) diso | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଆଖି | ||
Oromo ija | ||
Pashto سترګه | ||
Persian چشم | ||
Polish oko | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) olho | ||
Punjabi ਅੱਖ | ||
Quechua ñawi | ||
Romanian ochi | ||
Russian глаз | ||
Samoan mata | ||
Sanskrit नेत्र | ||
Scots Gaelic sùil | ||
Sepedi leihlo | ||
Serbian око | ||
Sesotho leihlo | ||
Shona ziso | ||
Sindhi اکيون | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) ඇස | ||
Slovak oko | ||
Slovenian oko | ||
Somali isha | ||
Spanish ojo | ||
Sundanese panon | ||
Swahili jicho | ||
Swedish öga | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) mata | ||
Tajik чашм | ||
Tamil கண் | ||
Tatar күз | ||
Telugu కన్ను | ||
Thai ตา | ||
Tigrinya ዓይኒ | ||
Tsonga tihlo | ||
Turkish göz | ||
Turkmen göz | ||
Twi (Akan) ani | ||
Ukrainian око | ||
Urdu آنکھ | ||
Uyghur eye | ||
Uzbek ko'z | ||
Vietnamese con mắt | ||
Welsh llygad | ||
Xhosa iliso | ||
Yiddish אויג | ||
Yoruba oju | ||
Zulu iso |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | In 17th century Dutch, "oog" meant "appearance" or "aspect". |
| Albanian | The word "syri" has the alternate meaning of "a magical source or object believed to cause harm, typically in the form of a gaze or stare." |
| Amharic | "አይን" means the same thing as "eye" but it can mean "spring water". |
| Arabic | The word "عين" in Arabic can also refer to a spring of water or a source of knowledge. |
| Armenian | The Armenian word "աչք" (achk) has cognates in other Indo-European languages: Latin "oculus," Greek "ὀφθαλμός," and Sanskrit "akṣi." |
| Azerbaijani | The word |
| Basque | The word "begi" can also refer to a "spring" or "source" in Basque, reflecting the idea of water as the "eye" of a landscape. |
| Belarusian | The word "вока" originated from the Proto-Slavic word *oko, which also means "window". |
| Bengali | "চক্ষু" can also mean a circular hole or opening for passing light or air |
| Bosnian | “OKO” is also used figuratively to refer to a person’s vigilance or insight, or to a flaw or defect. |
| Bulgarian | In Bulgarian "oko" also means ringlet or curl. |
| Catalan | In the Aranese dialect of Catalan, "ull" also means "egg". |
| Cebuano | The word 'mata' is a cognate of the Malay 'mata', which means 'eye'. It is also the root word for the Cebuano word 'matagbaw', which means 'to be blind'. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The word "眼" can also mean "to look" or "to see". |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The character 眼 literally means a door of the face. |
| Corsican | "Ochju" comes from the Proto-Indo-European root *akʷ- meaning "to see" and shares a common etymological origin with the Italian word "occhio". |
| Croatian | The Croatian word 'oko' shares a common root with the Latin 'oculus' and the English 'ocular' |
| Czech | The Czech word "oko" can also refer to a window, a loop, or the hole in a needle. |
| Danish | "Øje" also means "moment" in Danish. |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "oog" is of Indo-European origin and is related to the English word "eye" and the German word "Auge". |
| Esperanto | *Okulo* might be connected to Ancient Latin *ocularis* and Modern Italian *oculare* or Romanian *ochi* ( |
| Estonian | The Estonian word "silma" is derived from an ancient Finno-Ugric word for "to look", which also has meanings of "bud" or "eye" in other Uralic languages such as Hungarian. |
| Finnish | Finnish word "silmä" also means "a bud" or "a sprout", etymologically related to English "seed". |
| French | "Œil" comes from the Latin word "oculus," which also means "eye". |
| Frisian | The Frisian word 'each' not only means 'eye', but is also used in a figurative sense to refer to something very important or dear. |
| Galician | "Ollo" is also used to refer to the hole or opening of certain things, like a needle or a key. |
| Georgian | თვალი refers to an opening as well as an eye and is related to the word "gap". |
| German | The word "Auge" in German is also used in the sense of a "bud" (of a plant) or a "loop" (in a rope). |
| Greek | The word "μάτι" (eye) in Greek also means "evil eye" or "envy". |
| Gujarati | Gujarati "આંખ" originally meant "hook or needle" and is the source of the word "aanaa" (to bring or fetch). |
| Haitian Creole | Je, in Haitian Creole, shares its etymology with the French word for "eye", "oeil". It also has an alternate meaning of "to see". |
| Hausa | "Ido" is also the Hausa word for a "seed" (particularly a shea nut or melon seed). |
| Hawaiian | The word "maka" in Hawaiian can also mean "a source of knowledge or wisdom". |
| Hebrew | Besides its primary meaning as "eye," "עַיִן" in Hebrew can also signify a spring, a source, or a point of focus. |
| Hindi | The word "आंख" is derived from the Sanskrit word "अक्षि" meaning "to see" and also refers to "knowledge" and "vision". |
| Hmong | Derived from Middle Chinese 'kəʔ-mwaʔ', meaning 'eye' or 'to see'. |
| Hungarian | Hungarian "szem" can also refer to the pupil of the eye or a seed of grain. |
| Icelandic | The Icelandic word "auga" has cognates in other Germanic languages, such as "auge" in German or "eye" in English, and derives from the Proto-Indo-European root "*h₃ekʷ-“, meaning "to see". |
| Igbo | The word "anya" is also used to refer to a person's appearance or physical features. |
| Indonesian | Mata can also mean 'spring' in Indonesian, originating from the Old Javanese word 'mata air' ('water source'). |
| Irish | The term 'súil' in Irish is also used metaphorically to refer to a person's watchfulness or attention. |
| Italian | "Occhio" also means "loop", "hole" and, figuratively, "attention", "care", "notice", "regard", "thought". |
| Japanese | The character "眼" can also mean "hole" or "spot" |
| Javanese | "Mripat" in Javanese also denotes a source or means to perceive, including spiritually. |
| Kannada | In Sanskrit, "eye" is "चक्षु" (chakshu) which evolved to "akshu" in Prakrit and "kan" in Kannada. |
| Kazakh | "Көз" also refers to a spring, a hole, or the eye of a needle |
| Khmer | The Khmer word "ភ្នែក" for "eye" is also used to refer to the Buddhist concept of the third eye. |
| Korean | In addition to its primary meaning of "eye," the Korean word "눈" can also refer to a hole, a knot, or a bud. |
| Kurdish | The Kurdish word "çav" can also refer to the "face of a watch" or the "head" of a nail or other object. |
| Kyrgyz | The Kyrgyz word “көз” also means a source, a spring, a lake, a well, a hollow, a hole, an opening, and a cavity. |
| Lao | The word ຕາ "ตา" is also used to refer to the sun and planets when appearing near or at the horizon; this latter usage is borrowed from the Khmer word ដែក "dæk". |
| Latin | Besides meaning "eye," "oculus" can also mean "window," "opening," or "gemstone." |
| Latvian | The word "acs" is also used to refer to the eye of a needle or the loop on a button. |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word "akis" also has the metaphorical meanings of "spring", "bud", "eye of a needle" and "a sharp point". |
| Luxembourgish | The Luxembourgish word "Aen" is derived from the Old High German word "ouga", meaning "eye", and is related to the English word "eye". It can also refer to the "pupil of the eye" or "iris". |
| Macedonian | The word "око" (eye) in Macedonian shares a common etymology with the Latin word "oculus" and the Proto-Indo-European word "*h₃ekʷ-", meaning "to see". |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "maso" is derived from the Proto-Austronesian word for "eye," "*mata". |
| Malay | The Malay word for 'eye', 'mata', can also mean the 'edge' of a forest. |
| Malayalam | In Malayalam, the word 'കണ്ണ്' not only refers to the organ of vision but also metaphorically represents 'knowledge' or 'intuition'. |
| Maltese | The word 'għajn' derives from the Arabic word 'ayn', meaning 'gushing泉' or 'well', and can also refer to a water source or spring. |
| Maori | The Maori word 'karu' not only means 'eye', but also refers to a type of shellfish. |
| Marathi | The word "डोळा" also refers to a "loop", or a "circle" |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | မျက်လုံး is the anatomical term for "eye" and is found in most compounds meaning "eye", but is also used in religious texts to mean "insight, supernatural vision, divine knowledge, etc." |
| Nepali | The word 'आँखा' in Nepali originates from the Sanskrit word 'अक्षि', which also means 'eye' or 'vision'. |
| Norwegian | "Øye" in Norwegian also refers to a small, narrow opening or hole. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The Nyanja word "diso" can also refer to the "sun" or "moon" in the context of astrology. |
| Pashto | سترګه is related to the Persian 'cheshm' and the Sanskrit 'cakṣus', both denoting organs of sight. |
| Persian | The word "چشم" in Persian also means "expectation, hope, care". |
| Polish | "Oko" can also mean "window" in Polish (when referring to a small one in a door). |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, "olho" can also refer to the center of a flower, the knob of a door, or the knot in a piece of wood. |
| Punjabi | "ਅੱਖ" can also mean the bud of a plant or a spring in the ground. |
| Romanian | "Ochi" can also mean "mesh" or "loop" in Romanian. |
| Russian | The word "глаз" also denotes "a bud" on a plant. |
| Samoan | "Mata" also refers to any of the following: the mesh of a net, a window, the face of a cliff, the mouth of a river, a door, the edge of a knife blade, the point of a spear or a fishhook, the hole for inserting the lashing for the outrigger float, the eye of a cyclone or hurricane, the nucleus of a coconut or other fruit surrounded by a fibrous husk or skin, or the core of a tree. |
| Scots Gaelic | It can also mean "needle", and is related to the Irish "súil na bó" (cow's eye), a type of flower. |
| Serbian | The Serbian word 'oko' not only means 'eye' but also 'loop' or 'circle'. |
| Sesotho | While 'leihlo' is Sesotho for 'eye', it can also refer to a spring, a type of stone used for grinding, and a hole or cavity. |
| Shona | The word 'ziso' in Shona is cognate with the word 'iso' meaning 'sun' in several other Bantu languages. |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word “اکيون” (“eye”) has been traced back to the Prakrit word “akkhi”. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The Sinhala word “ඇස” ('eye') is also used to refer to a hole, such as the eye of a needle, a keyhole, or a window. |
| Slovak | The Slovak word "oko" originally meant "window" and is related to the Latin word "oculus." |
| Slovenian | The word "oko" can also refer to a circle or oval and is related to the word "okroglo" (round). |
| Somali | The word "isha" (eye) in Somali also has the alternate meaning of "pupil". |
| Spanish | The word "ojo" in Spanish can also refer to the center of a storm or to a type of bean. |
| Sundanese | The term also refers to the face, the head, the source, the center or the origin of something. |
| Swahili | Swahili 'jicho' also means 'goal' or 'objective', derived from the Arabic 'ajal' for 'due date' |
| Swedish | In Old Norse, 'auga' was used to mean both 'eye' and 'hole' or 'opening'. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "mata" also relates to the concepts of "observation" and "awareness" in Tagalog. |
| Tajik | In Farsi, "чашм” (chashm) can also refer to a "source" or "spring", as in the term "chashm-e zendeh", meaning "living spring." |
| Tamil | The Tamil word "கண்", meaning "eye", has a secondary meaning as a verb, meaning "to guard" or "to watch over". |
| Telugu | "కన్ను" in Telugu is also used to denote "pupil", "iris" or "the faculty of sight" in the context of medicine or anatomy. |
| Thai | "ตา" also means "grandparent" in Thai |
| Turkish | In Turkish, "göz" can also refer to a type of knot used in traditional Turkish embroidery. |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word "око" originally referred to a window, then to an eye in the human face, and later to an eye in general. |
| Urdu | In Urdu, the word "آنکھ" also refers to a type of grain disease. |
| Uzbek | The word "ko'z" in Uzbek also means "mirror", and is related to the Persian word "cheshm" and the Turkish word "göz". |
| Vietnamese | "Con mắt" can also mean a roundish shaped fruit such as avocado, pear or mango due to their resemblance to an eye shape. |
| Welsh | In addition to "eye," "llygad" also means "source" or "spring." |
| Xhosa | The word “iliso” also refers to a spirit who protects one from seeing unpleasant things, thus safeguarding their mental health. |
| Yiddish | In the expression "dos oyg tsumakhn", "oyg" means "lid". This is from German "Auge" meaning "eye", as well as "eyelid" |
| Yoruba | The word "oju" in Yoruba, meaning "eye," also has other meanings, such as "view," "aspect," or "direction." |
| Zulu | The Zulu word "iso" also means "a hole" or "a space," and is related to the word "isikhala," meaning "space" or "room." |
| English | The word 'eye' derives from the Old English 'eage', which also meant 'island' and is related to 'eyot'. |