Hide in Different Languages
Discover 'Hide' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Hide
Afrikaans wegsteek | ||
Albanian fshihem | ||
Amharic ደብቅ | ||
Arabic إخفاء | ||
Armenian թաքցնել | ||
Assamese লুকাই থকা | ||
Aymara imantaña | ||
Azerbaijani gizlət | ||
Bambara ka dogo | ||
Basque ezkutatu | ||
Belarusian схаваць | ||
Bengali আড়াল | ||
Bhojpuri लुकाइल | ||
Bosnian sakriti | ||
Bulgarian крия | ||
Catalan amagar-se | ||
Cebuano tago | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 隐藏 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 隱藏 | ||
Corsican piattassi | ||
Croatian sakriti | ||
Czech skrýt | ||
Danish skjule | ||
Dhivehi ފޮރުވުން | ||
Dogri छिप्पो | ||
Dutch verbergen | ||
English hide | ||
Esperanto kaŝi | ||
Estonian peida | ||
Ewe be | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) tago | ||
Finnish piilottaa | ||
French cacher | ||
Frisian ferstopje | ||
Galician agochar | ||
Georgian დამალვა | ||
German ausblenden | ||
Greek κρύβω | ||
Guarani mongañy | ||
Gujarati છુપાવો | ||
Haitian Creole kache | ||
Hausa ɓoye | ||
Hawaiian peʻe | ||
Hebrew להתחבא | ||
Hindi छिपाना | ||
Hmong nkaum | ||
Hungarian elrejt | ||
Icelandic fela | ||
Igbo zoo | ||
Ilocano aglemmeng | ||
Indonesian menyembunyikan | ||
Irish cheilt | ||
Italian nascondere | ||
Japanese 隠す | ||
Javanese ndhelikake | ||
Kannada ಮರೆಮಾಡಿ | ||
Kazakh жасыру | ||
Khmer លាក់ | ||
Kinyarwanda kwihisha | ||
Konkani लिपोवचें | ||
Korean 숨는 장소 | ||
Krio ayd | ||
Kurdish veşartin | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) شاردنەوە | ||
Kyrgyz жашыруу | ||
Lao ຊ່ອນ | ||
Latin corium | ||
Latvian paslēpties | ||
Lingala kobombana | ||
Lithuanian paslėpti | ||
Luganda okweekweeka | ||
Luxembourgish verstoppen | ||
Macedonian крие | ||
Maithili नुकाउ | ||
Malagasy afeno ny | ||
Malay bersembunyi | ||
Malayalam മറയ്ക്കുക | ||
Maltese ħabi | ||
Maori huna | ||
Marathi लपवा | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯂꯣꯠꯄ | ||
Mizo biru | ||
Mongolian нуух | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ဝှက် | ||
Nepali लुकाउनुहोस् | ||
Norwegian gjemme seg | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) bisa | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଲୁଚାନ୍ତୁ | | ||
Oromo dhoksuu | ||
Pashto پټول | ||
Persian پنهان شدن | ||
Polish ukryć | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) ocultar | ||
Punjabi ਓਹਲੇ | ||
Quechua pakay | ||
Romanian ascunde | ||
Russian скрывать | ||
Samoan lafi | ||
Sanskrit गोपयतु | ||
Scots Gaelic seiche | ||
Sepedi fihla | ||
Serbian сакрити | ||
Sesotho pata | ||
Shona hwanda | ||
Sindhi لڪايو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) සඟවන්න | ||
Slovak skryť | ||
Slovenian skrij | ||
Somali qarin | ||
Spanish esconder | ||
Sundanese nyumput | ||
Swahili ficha | ||
Swedish dölj | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) tago | ||
Tajik пинҳон кардан | ||
Tamil மறை | ||
Tatar яшер | ||
Telugu దాచు | ||
Thai ซ่อน | ||
Tigrinya ተሓባእ | ||
Tsonga tumbela | ||
Turkish saklamak | ||
Turkmen gizle | ||
Twi (Akan) tɛ | ||
Ukrainian сховати | ||
Urdu چھپائیں | ||
Uyghur يوشۇر | ||
Uzbek yashirish | ||
Vietnamese ẩn giấu | ||
Welsh cuddio | ||
Xhosa fihla | ||
Yiddish באַהאַלטן | ||
Yoruba tọju | ||
Zulu fihla |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "wegsteek" can also mean "hideaway" or "refuge". |
| Albanian | "fshihem" is also used to refer to something that is hidden, such as a secret. |
| Amharic | The word 'ደብቅ' in Amharic can also mean 'sticky' or 'thick'. |
| Arabic | The word "إخفاء" in Arabic has an alternate meaning of "concealing the existence of something or someone," a nuance not captured by the English translation "hide." |
| Azerbaijani | The word "gizlət" in Azerbaijani can also mean "to conceal" or "to keep secret." |
| Basque | The Basque word "ezkutatu" comes from the Proto-Basque *ezkutatu, meaning "to hide" or "to conceal." |
| Belarusian | The word "схаваць" can also mean "to put away" or "to conceal". |
| Bengali | "আড়াল" can also mean "away" or "in the distance" |
| Bosnian | The word 'sakriti' is derived from the Proto-Slavic word 'skriti', with its meaning of 'hide' being present in many other Slavic languages. |
| Bulgarian | The word "Крия" not only means "hide" in Bulgarian, but it also holds the archaic meaning of "protect" or "cover." |
| Catalan | The verb "amagar-se" (to hide) in Catalan is derived from the Latin verb "imagare", meaning "to cover or veil". |
| Cebuano | The Cebuano word "tago" also refers to a place of refuge or a sanctuary. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The word “隐藏” can describe hiding oneself, hiding an object, or keeping something secret. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The character "隱" (yin) in Traditional Chinese also means "secluded" or "retired". |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "piattassi" is related to the Italian word "piastra" (plate), and its original meaning is a flat stone used as a plate. |
| Croatian | Sakriti, or "hide" in Croatian, is derived from the Proto-Slavic word "sъkriti", meaning "to hide". |
| Czech | 'Skrýt' shares the same Slavic root with 'Krym' (the name of the Crimean Peninsula) and 'krypta' (crypt). |
| Danish | "Skjule" in Danish can also mean preserving, protecting or putting away for future use. |
| Dutch | The word "verbergen" could also be "bergen" in the sense of saving someone from danger. |
| Esperanto | "Kaŝi" is an Esperanto word, which also means "cover" |
| Estonian | In Estonian, "peida" not only means "hide", but also refers to the act of concealing oneself or something. |
| Finnish | Piilottaa in Finnish has a similar etymological root to 'pilot,' and like the English word 'pilot' originally meant "to steer" a ship. |
| French | The word "cacher" also means "lock up" or "close up". |
| Frisian | In Old and Middle Low German the noun ferstopje, synonymous with ferstoppen "to hide, to plug, to obstruct" (Dutch, German verstopfen) is also used in the meaning "plug"} |
| Galician | The word "agochar" is also used in the Galician language to mean "hide oneself"} |
| Georgian | The verb 'დამალვა' can also mean 'to set aside', 'to put away' or 'to save'. |
| German | "Ausblenden" can also mean to fade out (e.g. a scene in a movie). |
| Greek | The word comes from the Proto-Indo-European root *kreubh-, to cover. |
| Gujarati | The word "છુપાવો" is derived from the Sanskrit word "chupa", which means "to disappear" or "to make disappear". |
| Haitian Creole | "Kache" in Haitian Creole derives from the French "cacher" (to hide), and in addition to meaning "to hide," it can also refer to "to conceal" or "to cover up." |
| Hausa | The Hausa word "ɓoye" not only means "hide" but also refers to a type of leather bag traditionally used by men. |
| Hawaiian | The word "peʻe" also means "to spread out," as in to spread out a mat or a blanket. |
| Hebrew | The root of the word "להתחבא" (hide) is the same as the root of the word "חבורה" (group), indicating that hiding often involves joining a group for protection. |
| Hindi | The word छिपाना (chipana) is derived from the Sanskrit word छिप् (chip), meaning 'to cover' or 'to conceal'. |
| Hmong | The word "nkaum" can also refer to a shelter or home in Hmong. |
| Hungarian | Elrejt can also mean "conceal" or "hide away". |
| Icelandic | The word "fela" in Icelandic can also mean "to cover" or "to conceal". |
| Igbo | In Igbo, 'zoo' can also mean 'to conceal' or 'to keep a secret'. |
| Indonesian | The word `menyembunyikan` can also mean `to conceal` or `to suppress` in Indonesian. |
| Irish | The word "cheilt" in Irish can also refer to a "cloak" or a "wrapper". |
| Italian | The verb "nascondere" comes from the Latin word "abscondere", which means "to put away" or "to conceal". |
| Japanese | "隠す" (kakusu) can also mean "to secrete" or "to conceal". |
| Javanese | The word "ndhelikake" can also mean "to put away" or "to set aside". |
| Kannada | The Kannada word "ಮರೆಮಾಡಿ" also refers to the act of secretly keeping or concealing something. |
| Kazakh | In Turkic languages, the word "жасыру" is related to the word "жас" ("young"), suggesting a possible connection between hiding and the secrecy or protection of youth. |
| Khmer | លាក់ is derived from the Sanskrit word 'लक्ष', meaning 'mark' or 'spot', and can also refer to 'concealing' or 'evading' in Khmer. |
| Korean | 숨는 장소's root word is '숨', meaning 'breath, hole, space, or gap'. |
| Kurdish | The Kurdish word 'veşartin' also means 'to conceal or cover something up'. |
| Kyrgyz | The Kyrgyz word "жашыруу" can also refer to the act of concealing oneself from the view of the enemy in the battlefield |
| Lao | The Lao word "ຊ່ອນ" also means "to avoid" or "to dodge". |
| Latin | Corium in Latin also refers to the layer of skin in the body, directly below the epidermis. |
| Latvian | "Paslēpties" comes from the Proto-Baltic word "*slepti", with cognates in Lithuanian and Old Prussian meaning "to hide" or "to conceal". |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word "paslėpti" also has the archaic meaning of "to bury" and is cognate with the Russian word "похоронить" (pokhoronit), which means "to bury" or "to inter". |
| Luxembourgish | Verstoppen is also used to refer to the act of hiding or concealing something. |
| Macedonian | The word "крие" in Macedonian can also refer to a secret or something hidden from view. |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "afeno ny" can also refer to something that is concealed or kept secret. |
| Malay | The word "bersembunyi" in Malay comes from the Old Malay root "sembunyi," which also means "secret" or "concealed. |
| Malayalam | It can also mean conceal or cover |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "ħabi" is derived from the Arabic word "ḥabā'a" and also means "to hide something from sight" or "to conceal". |
| Maori | The word "huna" in Maori can also mean "to conceal" or "to keep secret". |
| Marathi | The word लपवा, derived from the Sanskrit लुप (lup), has a dual meaning: to hide or conceal, and to cover or wrap. |
| Mongolian | "Нуух" is also used to refer to the act of hiding or concealing something. |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The word "ဝှက်" (hide) in Burmese is derived from the Mon word "ဝှက်" (to conceal), which in turn is derived from the Proto-Austroasiatic word "*wək" (to cover). |
| Nepali | The Nepali word "लुकाउनुहोस्" (hide) comes from the Sanskrit word "लुक" (conceal) and has a related word in Hindi, "लुकना" (conceal). |
| Norwegian | The verb “gjemme seg” is cognate with the English verb “to jam,” and originally meant to make a place narrow or tight. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "bisa" in Nyanja can also mean "to cover" or "to conceal". |
| Pashto | پټول ultimately derives from the Iranian root *pād- meaning 'to protect' and appears in Old Persian as *pāθa-. |
| Persian | The Persian word "پنهان شدن" can also mean "to disappear" or "to be out of sight." |
| Polish | Etymology: from the Proto-Slavic word *kryti, meaning "to cover" or "to hide". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The verb "ocultar" comes from the Latin word "occulere", which means "to cover" or "to conceal." |
| Punjabi | The word "ਓਹਲੇ" can also mean "in the shelter of" or "under the protection of". |
| Romanian | The word "ascunde" is derived from the Latin word "abscondere", meaning "to hide" or "to conceal". |
| Russian | Скрывать derives from the Proto-Slavic word *skryti, meaning "to cover" or "to conceal." |
| Samoan | Samoan 'lafi' also means to 'confine', 'keep', 'protect', 'cover', and 'store'. |
| Scots Gaelic | Seiche' (pronounced "shay-ch") comes from the Scots Gaelic word for "concealment," referring to the way the skin forms a protective covering over the meat. |
| Serbian | The word "сакрити" likely refers to the Old Church Slavonic root "cъкрыти", meaning "to hide". |
| Sesotho | "{Pata}" is of Tswana origin and also means "hide or skin". |
| Shona | The word "hwanda" in Shona can also refer to a particular type of drum or a type of dance performed during a funeral. |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word لڪايو (pronounced 'lukaiyo') can also mean 'concealment' or 'a place where something is hidden'. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | සඟවන්න also shares the meaning of 'to put off, delay, or postpone something' |
| Slovak | The word "skryť" in Slovak comes from the Proto-Slavic "*kryti", meaning "to cover" or "to conceal". |
| Slovenian | The word "skrij" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word "skriti", which also means "to cover" or "to conceal". |
| Somali | The word "qarin" can also refer to a shelter, a roof, or a covering. |
| Spanish | Esconder also means "to put away" and is probably related to the German "verschollen" (vanished) or the English "scoon" (a type of bread often used as a hiding place). |
| Sundanese | In Sundanese, "nyumput" can also mean "squat" or "cover" something up |
| Swahili | The word "ficha" is also used to refer to a leather thong worn around the waist as a belt or as a support for a scabbard. |
| Swedish | Dölj shares a common Germanic root with the English word "deal". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Tago" also means "to cover or shelter", "to hide or conceal", and "to keep or store" in Tagalog. |
| Tajik | The word "pinhon kardan" in Tajik comes from the Persian word "penhân kardan," which has the literal meaning of "doing something hiddenly," and it can mean different things depending on the context. |
| Tamil | The Tamil word 'மறை' can also mean a boundary, veil, curtain, or secret. |
| Telugu | "దాచు" in Telugu can refer to hiding or concealing something, as well as saving or preserving it. |
| Thai | The word "ซ่อน" derives from the Proto-Tai word *sɔːŋ, which also means "to store". |
| Turkish | Saklamak also means "to keep" in Turkish, derived from the Old Turkic verb "sak-", meaning "to guard" or "to cover". |
| Ukrainian | The verb "сховати" is derived from the Proto-Slavic root *kovъ, meaning "to hide, conceal". |
| Urdu | "چھپائیں" also means "to conceal" or "to keep something or someone's identity secret". |
| Uzbek | "Yashirish" can also mean "to turn off" or "to cover something up" in Uzbek. |
| Vietnamese | "Ẩn giấu" is derived from the Proto-Vietnamese word *ʔaːn, meaning "to cover" or "to conceal". |
| Welsh | Cuddio, meaning "hide," can also be used figuratively to refer to a person's reputation or character. |
| Xhosa | In Xhosa, "fihla" can also refer to a place of concealment or shelter. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "באַהאַלטן" (bahaltn) is derived from the German word "behalten," which means "to keep" or "to retain." |
| Yoruba | The word "tọju" in Yoruba also means "to care for", and has its roots in the verb "tọ" (to watch over). |
| Zulu | "Fihla" in Zulu can also mean "to conceal", |
| English | The Old English word "hyde" referred to the skin of an animal. |