Afrikaans genereer | ||
Albanian gjenerojnë | ||
Amharic ማመንጨት | ||
Arabic انشاء | ||
Armenian առաջացնում | ||
Assamese সৃষ্টি কৰা | ||
Aymara jilxatayaña | ||
Azerbaijani yaratmaq | ||
Bambara ka dilan | ||
Basque sortu | ||
Belarusian генераваць | ||
Bengali উত্পন্ন করা | ||
Bhojpuri उपजावल | ||
Bosnian generirati | ||
Bulgarian генериране | ||
Catalan generar | ||
Cebuano makamugna | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 生成 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 生成 | ||
Corsican generà | ||
Croatian generirati | ||
Czech generovat | ||
Danish frembringe | ||
Dhivehi ޖެނެރޭޓް | ||
Dogri पैदा करना | ||
Dutch genereren | ||
English generate | ||
Esperanto generi | ||
Estonian genereerida | ||
Ewe wɔ | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) bumuo | ||
Finnish tuottaa | ||
French produire | ||
Frisian generearje | ||
Galician xerar | ||
Georgian გენერირება | ||
German generieren | ||
Greek παράγω | ||
Guarani moheñói | ||
Gujarati પેદા | ||
Haitian Creole jenere | ||
Hausa samar | ||
Hawaiian hana | ||
Hebrew לִיצוֹר | ||
Hindi उत्पन्न | ||
Hmong tsim tsim | ||
Hungarian generál | ||
Icelandic búa til | ||
Igbo n'ịwa | ||
Ilocano makaaramid | ||
Indonesian menghasilkan | ||
Irish ghiniúint | ||
Italian creare | ||
Japanese 生む | ||
Javanese ngasilake | ||
Kannada ಉತ್ಪಾದಿಸಿ | ||
Kazakh генерациялау | ||
Khmer បង្កើត | ||
Kinyarwanda kubyara | ||
Konkani तयार करचें | ||
Korean 일으키다 | ||
Krio mek | ||
Kurdish xûlqkirin | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) بەرهەم هێنان | ||
Kyrgyz жаратуу | ||
Lao ຜະລິດ | ||
Latin generate | ||
Latvian ģenerēt | ||
Lingala kobimisa | ||
Lithuanian generuoti | ||
Luganda okufulumya | ||
Luxembourgish generéieren | ||
Macedonian генерираат | ||
Maithili उत्पन्न | ||
Malagasy hiteraka | ||
Malay menjana | ||
Malayalam ജനറേറ്റുചെയ്യുക | ||
Maltese jiġġeneraw | ||
Maori whakaputa | ||
Marathi उत्पन्न करा | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯄꯨꯊꯣꯛꯄ | ||
Mizo pechhuak | ||
Mongolian үүсгэх | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ထုတ်လုပ်သည် | ||
Nepali उत्पन्न | ||
Norwegian generere | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kupanga | ||
Odia (Oriya) ସୃଷ୍ଟି କରନ୍ତୁ | | ||
Oromo maddisiisuu | ||
Pashto جوړول | ||
Persian تولید می کنند | ||
Polish generować | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) gerar | ||
Punjabi ਪੈਦਾ | ||
Quechua ruway | ||
Romanian genera | ||
Russian генерировать | ||
Samoan faatupuina | ||
Sanskrit उद्- पद् | ||
Scots Gaelic gineadh | ||
Sepedi tšweletša | ||
Serbian генериши | ||
Sesotho hlahisa | ||
Shona gadzira | ||
Sindhi پيدا ڪرڻ | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) ජනනය කරන්න | ||
Slovak generovať | ||
Slovenian ustvari | ||
Somali dhalin | ||
Spanish generar | ||
Sundanese ngabangkitkeun | ||
Swahili kuzalisha | ||
Swedish generera | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) bumuo | ||
Tajik тавлид кардан | ||
Tamil உருவாக்கு | ||
Tatar тудыру | ||
Telugu ఉత్పత్తి | ||
Thai สร้าง | ||
Tigrinya ምምንጫው | ||
Tsonga ku vumba | ||
Turkish oluşturmak | ||
Turkmen öndürmek | ||
Twi (Akan) yɛ | ||
Ukrainian генерувати | ||
Urdu پیدا کرنا | ||
Uyghur ھاسىل قىلىش | ||
Uzbek yaratish | ||
Vietnamese tạo ra | ||
Welsh cynhyrchu | ||
Xhosa ukuvelisa | ||
Yiddish דזשענערייט | ||
Yoruba ina | ||
Zulu khiqiza |
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "genereer" is derived from the Dutch "genereren", which in turn comes from the Latin "generare" (to beget). |
| Albanian | "Gjenerojnë" can also refer to reproduction or the act of producing something. |
| Amharic | The word "ማመንጨት" can also mean "to give birth" or "to produce". |
| Arabic | The Arabic word "انشاء" (generate) also connotes "compose" and "produce something from nothing." |
| Azerbaijani | "Yaratmaq" sözü Azərbaycan dilində “yeni bir şey oluşturma, meydana getirme, ortaya çıkarma” anlamına gelen kökeni çok eski olan bir kelimedir. |
| Basque | Sortu derives from the Basque verb |
| Belarusian | The word "генераваць" is derived from Latin "generāre" which means "to beget, produce, create, give birth to, cause to be". |
| Bengali | উত্পন্ন করা also refers to "to beget" in Sanskrit. |
| Bosnian | In Bosnian, 'generirati' can also mean to 'form' or 'produce' something. |
| Bulgarian | The Bulgarian word "генериране" ("generate") derives from the Latin word "generare", meaning "to beget" or "to produce". |
| Catalan | The verb "generar" in Catalan (also spelled "jenerar"), meaning "to generate," has a similar spelling and meaning to the English verb "generate". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The word "生成" also means "to be born" or "to grow" in Chinese. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 生成 (shēngchéng) can also mean "to be born" or "to come into being."} |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "generà" can also mean "to fertilize" or "to beget". |
| Croatian | The verb "generirati" in Croatian comes from the Latin word "generare", which means "to beget or produce". |
| Czech | The Czech word "generovat" also means "to generate electricity". |
| Danish | The word "frembringe" is a combination of the words "frem" (forward) and "bringe" (bring), but is only used in a figurative sense, especially about bringing something abstract into existence. |
| Dutch | The word 'genereren' in Dutch can also refer to the process of creating or producing something, such as a work of art or a new product. |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word "generi" is derived from the Latin word "genus", meaning "birth, origin, or type." |
| Estonian | The Estonian word "genereerida" derives from the Latin word "generare", meaning "to beget" or "to produce." |
| Finnish | The word "Tuottaa" can also mean "to produce" or "to yield" in Finnish. |
| French | "Produire" can also mean "to bring about," "to yield," or "to cause to happen" in French. |
| Frisian | It also means to generate something. |
| Galician | The verb "xerar" also means "to hatch" in Galician. |
| Georgian | The Georgian word "გენერირება" (generate) is derived from the Latin word "generare", which means "to father" or "to beget". |
| German | The word "generieren" in German also means "to create" or "to produce". |
| Greek | "Παράγω" is also used to describe the process of deriving words or ideas from existing ones. |
| Gujarati | The word "પેદા" can also mean "to give birth" or "to be born" in Gujarati. |
| Haitian Creole | The Haitian Creole word "jenere" can also mean "gender" in French. |
| Hausa | "Samar" originates from "zamo" (Arabic), meaning "to add". It's also the name of a Hausa folk song genre and a nickname for twins born on the same day. |
| Hawaiian | In Hawaiian, "hana" also means "labor, work, or duty". |
| Hebrew | לִיצוֹר ('litzor') in Hebrew also means to create or form; and is related to 'yetzer,' the creative/formative power of a thing. |
| Hindi | 'उत्पन्न' originates from Sanskrit, meaning not only 'produced' or 'generated,' but also 'birth' or 'origination.' |
| Hmong | In Hmong, "tsim tsim" can also refer to a traditional method of embroidery or the act of giving birth. |
| Hungarian | Generál can also mean "general" in Hungarian, referring to a high-ranking military officer. |
| Icelandic | The word "búa til" comes from the Old Norse word "búa", meaning "to dwell" or "to inhabit". |
| Igbo | The word "n'ịwa" can also mean "beget" or "bear" in Igbo. |
| Indonesian | The root word "hasil" also refers to "results", and is widely used in compound words that mean some type of result. |
| Irish | "Ghiniúint" (gen·ew·int) comes from the Old Irish "ginith", meaning "birth" or "origin". |
| Italian | Creare is derived from the Latin word |
| Japanese | In Japanese, "生む" ("umu") can also mean "to give birth" or "to create something new". |
| Javanese | The word "ngasilake" can also mean "to cause something to happen" |
| Kannada | ಉತ್ಪಾದಿಸಿ, meaning "generate," originates from the Sanskrit root "utpad" or "utpādana," and it can also refer to the generation of steam, power, or electricity in a mechanical context. |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "генерациялау" is borrowed from Russian "генерировать" and ultimately derives from the Latin word "generare" (to beget, to produce). |
| Khmer | The word "បង្កើត" can also mean "to produce" or "to give birth to". |
| Korean | The verb 일으키다 derives from the noun 일 (work), indicating its original meaning of causing something to happen. |
| Kurdish | Xûlqkirin (generate) also means 'to bring into being' or 'to put into effect'. |
| Kyrgyz | The Kyrgyz word "жаратуу" also means "to create" and "to produce" in other contexts. |
| Lao | The word "ຜະລິດ" in Lao can mean either "to generate" or "to produce". |
| Latin | The Latin verb "generare" also means "to beget" or "to give birth to." |
| Latvian | The Latvian word “ģenerēt” also has the meanings “to generate electricity” and “to regenerate”. |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word "generuoti" also means "to engender" and "to produce". |
| Luxembourgish | "Generéieren" in Luxembourgish can also mean "to have children" or "to give birth to". |
| Macedonian | "Генерираат" is derived from the Greek word "γένεσις" (genesis), meaning "birth" or "origin". |
| Malagasy | In the word 'hiteraka', we can identify the root 'teraka' which means 'to be born' and the causative prefix 'hi-' which adds the idea of 'making' or 'causing'. This suggests that the word 'hiteraka' originally meant 'to make something come into existence' or 'to cause something to be born'. |
| Malay | The word "menjana" in Malay can also mean "to give birth". |
| Malayalam | The term 'ജനറേറ്റുചെയ്യുക' ('generate') can also refer to the production of electricity or the creation of new ideas or possibilities. |
| Maltese | In addition to its main meaning, "jiġġeneraw" also signifies "to come into being" or "to originate" in Maltese. |
| Maori | The word "whakaputa" can also mean "to cause to appear" or "to bring into existence." |
| Marathi | The Marathi word "उत्पन्न करा" ("generate") comes from the Sanskrit word "उत्पादन" ("production") and also means "to produce" or "to give birth to". |
| Mongolian | The word "үүсгэх" can also mean "to create" or "to produce". |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | This common term for 'produce' also means 'give birth to' or 'hatch'. This verb also means 'issue', 'put forth', 'bring up', 'raise', or 'procreate' |
| Nepali | In Nepali, the word "उत्पन्न" can also refer to "income" or "revenue." |
| Norwegian | The word "generere" in Norwegian derives from Latin, meaning "to give birth to" or "to create." |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | In Chichewa, the word "kupanga" also means "to give birth" or "to bring forth."} |
| Pashto | 乔鲁尔 (joṛul) originated from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵen- "to give birth, create," and is cognate with the Sanskrit word "janati" meaning "know." |
| Polish | The Polish word "generować" (generate) can also mean "to give birth to".} |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "gerar" comes from the Latin verb "generare", meaning "to beget" or "to produce". |
| Punjabi | In Punjabi, "ਪੈਦਾ" originally meant "originate" but now is also often used to mean "give birth to". |
| Romanian | "Genera" is the plural form of the Latin word "genus," which means "kind" or "type." |
| Russian | "Генерировать" is derived from the Latin word "generare," meaning "to beget, to produce." |
| Samoan | The word "faatupuina" in Samoan can also mean "to establish," "to create," or "to produce." |
| Scots Gaelic | The word "gineadh" can also mean "family" or "lineage" in Scots Gaelic. |
| Serbian | The word 'Генериши' comes from the Greek word 'γεννάω', which means 'to give birth' or 'to produce'. |
| Sesotho | The word "hlahisa" is also used to refer to the act of giving birth or producing offspring. |
| Shona | The word "gadzira" in Shona also has the alternate meaning of "to beget" or "to produce offspring". |
| Sindhi | The word "پيدا ڪرڻ" also means "to produce" in Sindhi, which is its literal meaning in English. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | In mathematics, |
| Slovak | The Slovak word 'generovať' can also mean 'to produce' or 'to create'. |
| Slovenian | The word "ustvari" may also mean "create". |
| Somali | The word "dhalin" can also mean "to produce" or "to create". |
| Spanish | En español, "generar" también significa "producir" o "crear", y puede usarse para referirse a una amplia gama de resultados, como arte, bienes o ideas. |
| Sundanese | The Sundanese word "ngabangkitkeun" not only means "to generate" but also "to arouse" or "to provoke". |
| Swahili | The verb "kuzalisha" is derived from the root "-zala," which means "to give birth or create." |
| Swedish | The Swedish word "generera" is derived from the Latin word "generare", meaning "to beget" or "to produce." |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The Tagalog word "bumuo" is also used for "assemble", as in "bumuo ng pangkat" or "form a group". This reflects its root word "buo", which means "whole" or "complete". |
| Tajik | The word "тавлид кардан" comes from the Persian word "تولید کردن" (tawlid kardan), which means "to produce, create, or generate." |
| Telugu | Derived from Sanskrit "ud-pad" meaning "to arise, come into being," it also signifies "generation, creation, or production." |
| Thai | The Thai word "สร้าง" (pronounced "sǎàŋ") can also mean "to create" or "to build." |
| Turkish | Turkish verb "oluşturmak" comes from the noun "oluşum" which means "creation", and also "formation", "development". |
| Ukrainian | The verb "генерувати" originates from the Latin word "genus", meaning "race" or "kind", and originally referred to the creation of new individuals through reproduction. |
| Urdu | The word "پیدا کرنا" in Urdu is derived from the Persian word "پیدا کردن", which means "to find" or "to discover". It can also be used to mean "to create" or "to produce". |
| Uzbek | The Uzbek word "yaratish" can also mean "to create" or "to produce" in a creative sense. |
| Vietnamese | The word "tạo ra" also means "to create" in Vietnamese. |
| Welsh | In Welsh, "cynhyrchu" also refers to a specific process in brewing called "wort production". |
| Xhosa | The Xhosa word "ukuvelisa" also means "to produce," "to create," or "to bring forth." |
| Yiddish | It is possible that the Yiddish word "דזשענערייט" (generate) derives from German "generieren" (to generate) or the Slavic verb "дженерирати" (generate). |
| Yoruba | The name "Ina" has some alternate meanings in Yoruba, including "fire", "light" and "brightness". |
| Zulu | The word 'khiqiza' also refers to the process of giving birth in the context of reproduction. |
| English | The word 'generate' derives from the Latin word 'generare', meaning 'to beget or produce as a parent'. |