Identify in Different Languages
Discover 'Identify' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Identify
Afrikaans identifiseer | ||
Albanian identifikojnë | ||
Amharic መለየት | ||
Arabic تحديد | ||
Armenian նույնականացնել | ||
Assamese চিনাক্ত কৰা | ||
Aymara uñt'aña | ||
Azerbaijani müəyyənləşdirmək | ||
Bambara ka yira | ||
Basque identifikatu | ||
Belarusian вызначыць | ||
Bengali সনাক্ত | ||
Bhojpuri पहचान | ||
Bosnian identifikovati | ||
Bulgarian идентифицират | ||
Catalan identificar | ||
Cebuano maila | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 确定 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 確定 | ||
Corsican identificà | ||
Croatian identificirati | ||
Czech identifikovat | ||
Danish identificere | ||
Dhivehi އައިޑެންޓިޓީ | ||
Dogri पंछान करना | ||
Dutch identificeren | ||
English identify | ||
Esperanto identigi | ||
Estonian tuvastama | ||
Ewe de dzesi | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) kilalanin | ||
Finnish tunnistaa | ||
French identifier | ||
Frisian identifisearje | ||
Galician identificar | ||
Georgian იდენტიფიცირება | ||
German identifizieren | ||
Greek αναγνωρίζω | ||
Guarani jekuaapyre | ||
Gujarati ઓળખવા | ||
Haitian Creole idantifye | ||
Hausa gano | ||
Hawaiian hoʻomaopopo | ||
Hebrew לזהות | ||
Hindi पहचान | ||
Hmong txheeb xyuas | ||
Hungarian azonosítani | ||
Icelandic bera kennsl á | ||
Igbo mata | ||
Ilocano ilasin | ||
Indonesian mengenali | ||
Irish aithint | ||
Italian identificare | ||
Japanese 識別する | ||
Javanese ngenali | ||
Kannada ಗುರುತಿಸಲು | ||
Kazakh анықтау | ||
Khmer កំណត់អត្តសញ្ញាណ | ||
Kinyarwanda menya | ||
Konkani वळखप | ||
Korean 식별 | ||
Krio no | ||
Kurdish naskirin | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) دەسنیشانکردن | ||
Kyrgyz аныктоо | ||
Lao ລະບຸ | ||
Latin identify | ||
Latvian identificēt | ||
Lingala komona | ||
Lithuanian nustatyti | ||
Luganda okufuna | ||
Luxembourgish identifizéieren | ||
Macedonian идентификува | ||
Maithili पहचान | ||
Malagasy hamantatra | ||
Malay mengenal pasti | ||
Malayalam തിരിച്ചറിയുക | ||
Maltese identifika | ||
Maori tautuhi | ||
Marathi ओळखणे | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯁꯛ ꯇꯥꯛꯄ | ||
Mizo inhriattir | ||
Mongolian тодорхойлох | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ခွဲခြားသတ်မှတ် | ||
Nepali पहिचान | ||
Norwegian identifisere | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kuzindikira | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଚିହ୍ନଟ କର | ||
Oromo adda baasuu | ||
Pashto پيژندنه | ||
Persian شناسایی کردن | ||
Polish zidentyfikować | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) identificar | ||
Punjabi ਦੀ ਪਛਾਣ | ||
Quechua riqsichiy | ||
Romanian identifica | ||
Russian идентифицировать | ||
Samoan faʻailoa | ||
Sanskrit समीकुरुते | ||
Scots Gaelic aithneachadh | ||
Sepedi hlaola | ||
Serbian идентификовати | ||
Sesotho hlwaya | ||
Shona kuziva | ||
Sindhi سڃاڻپ | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) හඳුනා ගන්න | ||
Slovak identifikovať | ||
Slovenian prepoznati | ||
Somali cadee | ||
Spanish identificar | ||
Sundanese ngaidentipikasi | ||
Swahili tambua | ||
Swedish identifiera | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) kilalanin | ||
Tajik муайян кардан | ||
Tamil அடையாளம் | ||
Tatar ачыклау | ||
Telugu గుర్తించండి | ||
Thai แยกแยะ | ||
Tigrinya ኣለሊ | ||
Tsonga komba | ||
Turkish belirlemek | ||
Turkmen kesgitlemek | ||
Twi (Akan) adida | ||
Ukrainian визначити | ||
Urdu شناخت | ||
Uyghur پەرقلەندۈرۈش | ||
Uzbek aniqlash | ||
Vietnamese nhận định | ||
Welsh adnabod | ||
Xhosa zichonge | ||
Yiddish ידענטיפיצירן | ||
Yoruba ṣe idanimọ | ||
Zulu khomba |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "identifiseer" ultimately derives from the Latin word "īdentificāre," also meaning "to identify." |
| Albanian | Identifikojnë comes from Latin "identificare" which also means "understand". |
| Amharic | The word "መለየት" can also mean "to show" or "to demonstrate" depending on the context. |
| Arabic | The Arabic word "تحديد" also means "to limit" or "to define". |
| Basque | The word "identifikatu" comes from the Latin "identificare" and also means "to recognize". |
| Belarusian | The word "вызначыць" can also mean "to determine" or "to define" in Belarusian. |
| Bengali | সনাক্ত can also mean 'detect' or 'recognize'. |
| Bosnian | The word 'identifikovati' in Bosnian originates from the Latin verb 'identificare', meaning 'to recognize'. |
| Bulgarian | In Bulgarian, "идентифицират" also means to recognize or to characterize something. |
| Catalan | "Identificar" can refer to both identifying someone or something and making a particular trait known, as opposed to the Spanish "identificar", which exclusively has the first meaning. |
| Cebuano | The Cebuano word “maila” (“recognize, identify, recall”) derives ultimately from Sanskrit “mala,” (“garland, wreath, necklace”). |
| Chinese (Simplified) | It also means 'confirm', and the '定' component suggests 'stability'. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The word 確定 originally meant "to fix," and only later acquired the meaning of "to identify." |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "identificà" is derived from the Latin word "identificare" and means "to identify". It can also mean "to recognize" or "to be a part of". |
| Croatian | The Croatian word "identificirati" is derived from the Latin word "identificare", meaning "to make the same" or "to establish the identity of". |
| Czech | The word "identifikovat" is derived from the Latin word "identificare", which means "to make the same". |
| Danish | The Danish word "identificere” comes from the Latin word "identificare" but also means "make known, declare". |
| Dutch | Identificeren in Dutch is etymologically linked to the Latin word "facere", which means to make or do. |
| Esperanto | The word "identigi" is derived from the Latin word "identidem", meaning "repeatedly" or "constantly". |
| Estonian | The word "tuvastama" is derived from the Proto-Finnic verb "*tunt-", meaning "to know" or "to recognize". |
| Finnish | The word "tunnistaa" also means "to recognize" or "to know by sight". |
| French | "Identifier" is also used to describe a unique element within a system |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "identifisearje" also means "to show one's credentials". |
| Galician | O verbo "identificar" tamén pode significar "reconhecer". |
| Georgian | In scientific Georgian, the word "identifier" used to mean something that is "identical". |
| German | The verb ‘identifizieren’ is rooted in the Latin words “idem” (same) and “facere” (to make). |
| Greek | The word “αναγνωρίζω” derives from Greek “γνῶσις” (“knowledge”) and “ἀνά” (“again”), meaning literally “to know again or to recognize”. |
| Gujarati | The word ઓળખવા "identify" is derived from the Proto-Indo-Iranian word "*hrd-g-h₂" meaning "to recognise". |
| Haitian Creole | "Idantifye" in Haitian Creole originates from French "identifier", meaning to distinguish, recognize, or establish the identity of. |
| Hausa | "Gano" is also used in Hausa to mean "to recognize" or "to understand". |
| Hawaiian | The Hawaiian word "hoʻomaopopo" also means "to make clear" or "to explain". |
| Hebrew | The verb 'לזהות' in Hebrew originates from the Arabic 'זיהה' ('to determine'), which is likely drawn from the Persian 'zanāndan' ('to know', 'to recognize'). |
| Hindi | " पहचान" also refers to "recognition", "acknowledgement" or even the act of "recognising" or "identifying" in Hindi |
| Hmong | The word "txheeb xyuas" can also mean "to search" or "to look for" in Hmong. |
| Hungarian | The Hungarian word "azonosítani" is derived from the Greek word "αυτόν," meaning "same," and the Latin suffix "-izare," meaning "to make." |
| Icelandic | The verb 'bera kennsl á' in Icelandic can also mean to recognize, acknowledge, or confirm. |
| Igbo | The word "mata" in Igbo can also refer to "knowing" or "recognizing" something. |
| Indonesian | The word "mengenali" in Indonesian is derived from the root word "kenal" which means "know" or "familiar with". |
| Irish | The Irish word 'aithint' can also mean 'recognize', 'perceive' or 'distinguish'. |
| Italian | The word "identificare" comes from the Latin verb "identificare", meaning "to make the same". |
| Japanese | 識別する derives from the Old Japanese verb シラス (shirus), meaning 'to know' or 'to understand'. It can also mean 'to recognize' or 'to discern'. |
| Javanese | The word 'ngenali' can also mean 'to meet' or 'to interact with.' |
| Kannada | The word ಗುರುತಿಸಲು can also mean 'to distinguish' or 'to recognize' in Kannada. |
| Kazakh | 'Анықтау' is derived from the noun 'анық' (clear, distinct) and means 'to make clear or distinct'. It can also mean 'to determine' or 'to ascertain'. |
| Korean | The word 식별 (sikbyeol) derives from the Sino-Korean roots 식 (sik), meaning "knowledge," and 별 (byeol), meaning "distinction." It also has an alternate meaning of "name," as in a person's given name. |
| Kurdish | The word "naskirin" derives from the Proto-Indo-European root "*nos-", "to find, to know". |
| Kyrgyz | The word "аныктоо" in Kyrgyz also means "to establish" or "to determine". |
| Lao | The word "ລະບຸ" can also mean "to determine" or "to specify" in Lao. |
| Latin | The Latin verb "identifico" meant "to make known", "to inform" or "to teach". |
| Latvian | In its original form, “identificēt” was related to the identification of suspects by their fingerprints or the identification of bodies of victims of crime, war, or accidents. |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word "nustatyti" can also mean "to establish" or "to determine". |
| Macedonian | The verb "идентификува" derives from the Latin word "identificare", which in turn is a compound of the prefix "identi-" (same) and the suffix "-ficere" (make, produce). |
| Malagasy | The word "hamantatra" also means "to find" or "to meet" in Malagasy. |
| Malay | The word 'mengenal pasti' originates from the word 'mengenal' (to know) and 'pasti' (certain), and also means to recognize or distinguish something. |
| Malayalam | The word "തിരിച്ചറിയുക" (identify) is derived from the root word "തിരി" (back) and "അറിയുക" (to know), suggesting a process of recognizing something that was previously known. |
| Maltese | The word "identifika" in Maltese is derived from the Italian word "identificare", which in turn comes from the Latin word "identificare", meaning "to make the same". |
| Maori | The Maori word 'tautuhi' also means 'to write' or 'to sign' |
| Marathi | In ancient Marathi, the verb ओळखणे meant 'to recognize.' |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The word "identify" can also mean "to make a distinction between" or "to establish the identity of" in Myanmar (Burmese). |
| Nepali | "पहिचान" can also mean 'mark', 'trace', or 'signature' in Nepali. |
| Norwegian | Identifisere is also used in Norwegian to describe the process of detecting and recognizing something or someone. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "kuzindikira" also means "to make clear or to distinguish". |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "پيژندنه" is derived from the Proto-Iranian root *piǰ-, meaning "to know, to perceive". |
| Persian | The Persian word "شناسایی کردن" derives from the Arabic "شناخت", meaning knowledge, and can also mean "recognize" or "establish a person or thing as being such". |
| Polish | Zidentyfikować may also mean 'to identify the body,' or 'to be sure that something is there,' similar to the Spanish 'identificar.' |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | Identify in Portuguese also means "find out who someone is" and comes from Latin root *idem* meaning "same" and *facere* meaning "to make". |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "identifica" is derived from the Latin word "identificare", meaning "to make the same" or "to declare the same". |
| Russian | The word "идентифицировать" ultimately derives from the Latin word "idem," meaning "the same." |
| Samoan | The verb 'faʻailoa' derives from the Proto-Samoan root *faʻa, meaning 'cause' or 'make', and the noun 'iloga', meaning 'name' or 'identity'. |
| Scots Gaelic | ‘Aithneachadh’ is a Gaelic word that may also mean ‘recognize’ or ‘make out’ in English. |
| Serbian | The word "идентификовати" also means "understand, grasp" in Serbian. |
| Sesotho | The word "hlwaya" can also mean "to point out" or "to indicate". |
| Shona | The word 'kuziva' in Shona is derived from the Proto-Bantu root '-ziv-', meaning 'to point out or reveal', and can also refer to the process of naming something. |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "سڃاڻپ" has origins in the Sanskrit word "संचिन्वति" meaning to put together or recognize. |
| Slovak | The word "identifikovať" likely comes from the Latin word "identificare", meaning "to make the same". |
| Slovenian | The word 'prepoznati' is derived from the Proto-Slavic word '*poznati', meaning 'to know'. The prefix 'pre-' means 'in advance' and was used in the sense of 'to anticipate' to avoid danger. |
| Somali | Somali word "cadee" also means "discover". |
| Spanish | The Spanish word "identificar" comes from the Latin word "identificare", which means "to make the same". |
| Sundanese | The word "ngaidentipikasi" in Sundanese comes from the word "identitas" which means "identity". |
| Swahili | "Tambulisha" is derived from the root "tambua" but specifically means "to make known". |
| Swedish | The word "identifiera" in Swedish can also mean "to ascertain" or "to determine." |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The Tagalog word "kilalanin" can also mean to know someone well, to be acquainted with them. |
| Tajik | The word "муайян кардан" can also mean "to determine" or "to specify" in Tajik. |
| Telugu | గుర్తించండి (gurthinchundi) is derived from the Proto-Dravidian root word *kuru-, which also means 'to observe', 'to notice' and 'to find' |
| Thai | แยกแยะ (identify) can also mean 'to separate', 'to distinguish', and 'to sort'. |
| Turkish | Etymology: "belir + le + mek", alternate meaning: specify |
| Ukrainian | "Визначити" also means "to calculate" and "to determine". |
| Urdu | The Persian word شناخت originally meant 'to mark' and is often used figuratively to mean 'to comprehend' or 'to recognize'. |
| Uzbek | The verb "aniqlash" is derived from the verb "anq" meaning "to swear" and can also mean "to determine", "to establish" or "to detect" |
| Vietnamese | "Nhận định" can also mean "assess", "evaluate", or "determine." |
| Welsh | The word "adnabod" in Welsh has connotations of knowing someone intimately, while its English counterpart "identify" focuses on establishing a person's identity. |
| Xhosa | The word 'zichonge' can also mean 'to examine' or 'to investigate'. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "ידענטיפיצירן" (identyfiktsir"n) also refers to describing, recognizing, or verifying a person or thing. |
| Yoruba | The Yoruba word ṣe idanimọ is also used in the context of distinguishing or recognizing something or someone. |
| Zulu | The word "khomba" can also mean "to recognize" or "to understand". |
| English | The word "identify" derives from the Latin "īdēntificare," meaning "to make the same. |