Afrikaans betrek | ||
Albanian përfshij | ||
Amharic ያካትቱ | ||
Arabic تنطوي | ||
Armenian ներգրավել | ||
Assamese সাঙুৰা | ||
Aymara aytasiña | ||
Azerbaijani əhatə etmək | ||
Bambara ka sèndòn | ||
Basque inplikatu | ||
Belarusian прыцягваць | ||
Bengali জড়িত | ||
Bhojpuri सामिल | ||
Bosnian uključiti | ||
Bulgarian включват | ||
Catalan implicar | ||
Cebuano apil | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 涉及 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 涉及 | ||
Corsican implicà | ||
Croatian uključiti | ||
Czech zapojit | ||
Danish involvere | ||
Dhivehi ހިމެނުން | ||
Dogri शामल | ||
Dutch bij betrekken | ||
English involve | ||
Esperanto impliki | ||
Estonian kaasama | ||
Ewe le eme | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) kasangkot | ||
Finnish mukaan | ||
French impliquer | ||
Frisian belûke | ||
Galician implicar | ||
Georgian ჩართვა | ||
German einbeziehen | ||
Greek εμπλέκω | ||
Guarani moinge | ||
Gujarati સમાવેશ થાય છે | ||
Haitian Creole enplike | ||
Hausa unsa | ||
Hawaiian hoʻopili | ||
Hebrew כרוך | ||
Hindi शामिल | ||
Hmong kev koom tes | ||
Hungarian bevonni | ||
Icelandic fela í sér | ||
Igbo abuana | ||
Ilocano inaig | ||
Indonesian melibatkan | ||
Irish baint | ||
Italian coinvolgere | ||
Japanese 関与する | ||
Javanese ndherek | ||
Kannada ಒಳಗೊಂಡಿರುತ್ತದೆ | ||
Kazakh тарту | ||
Khmer ពាក់ព័ន្ធ | ||
Kinyarwanda kubigiramo uruhare | ||
Konkani समाविश्ट जावप | ||
Korean 감다 | ||
Krio sɔntin fɔ du wit | ||
Kurdish linavketin | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) بەشدار | ||
Kyrgyz тартуу | ||
Lao ມີສ່ວນຮ່ວມ | ||
Latin involvere | ||
Latvian iesaistīt | ||
Lingala komipesa | ||
Lithuanian įtraukti | ||
Luganda okwetaba | ||
Luxembourgish bedeelegen | ||
Macedonian вклучи | ||
Maithili सम्मिलित | ||
Malagasy tafiditra | ||
Malay melibatkan | ||
Malayalam ഉൾപ്പെടുന്നു | ||
Maltese jinvolvu | ||
Maori whakauru | ||
Marathi गुंतवणे | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯃꯅꯨꯘ ꯆꯟꯕ | ||
Mizo tel ve | ||
Mongolian оролцуулах | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ပါဝငျသညျ | ||
Nepali समावेश | ||
Norwegian involvere | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) khudza | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଜଡିତ | ||
Oromo itti hirmaachuu | ||
Pashto شاملول | ||
Persian درگیر کردن | ||
Polish angażować | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) envolver | ||
Punjabi ਸ਼ਾਮਲ | ||
Quechua sullullchay | ||
Romanian implica | ||
Russian вовлекать | ||
Samoan faaaofia ai | ||
Sanskrit निहित | ||
Scots Gaelic gabhail a-steach | ||
Sepedi ama | ||
Serbian повлачити за собом | ||
Sesotho kenyeletsa | ||
Shona inosanganisira | ||
Sindhi ملوث آهي | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) සම්බන්ධ වේ | ||
Slovak zapojiť | ||
Slovenian vključujejo | ||
Somali ku lug lahaansho | ||
Spanish involucrar | ||
Sundanese ngalibetkeun | ||
Swahili kuhusisha | ||
Swedish engagera | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) isama | ||
Tajik ҷалб кардан | ||
Tamil ஈடுபடு | ||
Tatar катнашу | ||
Telugu పాల్గొంటుంది | ||
Thai เกี่ยวข้อง | ||
Tigrinya ምስታፍ | ||
Tsonga nghenelela | ||
Turkish dahil etmek | ||
Turkmen çekmek | ||
Twi (Akan) ka ho | ||
Ukrainian залучати | ||
Urdu شامل | ||
Uyghur چېتىشلىق | ||
Uzbek jalb qilmoq | ||
Vietnamese liên quan | ||
Welsh cynnwys | ||
Xhosa ukubandakanya | ||
Yiddish אַרייַנציען | ||
Yoruba kopa | ||
Zulu ukubandakanya |
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "betrek" is derived from Middle Dutch "betrecken" (to draw into) and Dutch "betrekken" (to cover), also related to German "betreffen" (to concern). |
| Albanian | The word "përfshij" in Albanian comes from the Latin word "perfectiō", meaning "completion". |
| Amharic | The Amharic word "ያካትቱ" can also mean "to mix", "to blend", or "to be implicated in. |
| Arabic | The word "تنطوي" also means "to include" or "to contain". |
| Azerbaijani | The word "əhatə etmək" can in some contexts also mean to surround somebody or something. |
| Basque | The word 'inplikatu' also means 'to wrap' or 'to entwine' in Basque, indicating a physical connection or entanglement. |
| Belarusian | The verb "прыцягваць" also implies "to attract" and, in some contexts, "to appeal," "to captivate," or even "to charm." |
| Bengali | জড়িত is derived from the Sanskrit word ''jra'' (জরা) which means 'old age' or 'decrepitude'. |
| Bosnian | The verb "uključiti" in Bosnian can also mean "to turn on" (a device) or "to include" (something). |
| Bulgarian | The word "включват" can also mean "include" or "contain" in Bulgarian. |
| Catalan | In Catalan, “implicar” also means to “be able to” or to “need to”. |
| Cebuano | In Philippine cosmology, the term "apil" was also used to refer to the act of weaving, connecting the idea of joining or combining. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | “涉及”意为“包含”或“相关”,其本义是“触及”或“牵涉”;在日语中,该词亦具有“参与”或“卷入”之意。 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 「涉及」源自法律用語「涉讼」,指與訟案有關,後引伸為「與有關聯」之意。 |
| Corsican | Corsican term "implicà" can also mean "entangle" or "complicate". |
| Croatian | The word "uključiti" can also mean "to turn on" or "to include". |
| Czech | Za-pojit in Czech also means "to connect," related to "joining" electricity or water supplies (pojit); the "za-" prefix can suggest a state of connection rather than a verb like "to join" (spojit). |
| Danish | In Danish, "involvere" means to involve, but it also carries the meanings of "to entwine" and "to cover over." |
| Dutch | The verb 'bij betrekken' in Dutch can mean 'to involve' but also 'to include' or 'to concern'. |
| Esperanto | The word "impliki" has the secondary meaning of "to include" or "to contain". |
| Estonian | The word "kaasama" also means "to join" or "to participate". |
| Finnish | The word "mukaan" can also mean "accompanying", "following", or "taking part." |
| French | In French, impliquer can also mean to entangle, complicate, or compromise, emphasizing its impact on the situation or the people involved. |
| Frisian | "Belûke" can also mean "to be involved" or "to take part in". |
| Georgian | The word "ჩართვა" can also mean "to turn on" or "to start up". |
| German | Einbeziehen derives Middle Latin incorporāre (to form a body), which comes from Latin corpus (body). |
| Greek | In Ancient Greek, "εμπλέκω" originally meant "to entangle" or "to weave in". |
| Haitian Creole | The Haitian Creole word "enplike" is also used in the sense of "to engage" or "to concern". |
| Hausa | The Hausa word 'unsa' is also used to mean 'get something in a net' or 'drag a person into something'. |
| Hawaiian | Hoʻopili also means "to connect with" or "to unite," indicating a deep, personal connection between the parties involved. |
| Hebrew | The word "כרוך" also means "to wrap" or "to entwine". |
| Hindi | "शामिल" is derived from the Persian word "shamil", meaning "to include, embrace, or comprise." |
| Hmong | Kev koom tes can also mean 'to assemble' or 'to collect' in Hmong. |
| Hungarian | The word "bevonni" likely originates from the Hungarian word "voni" meaning "to draw" or "to pull" and "be-" meaning "in," "on," or "onto." |
| Icelandic | The word "fela í sér" can also mean "include" or imply the sense of "include" while meaning "involve". |
| Igbo | The word "abuana" in Igbo can also mean "to be immersed". |
| Indonesian | The word "melibatkan" can also mean "include" or "implicate" |
| Irish | The Irish verb 'baint' also means 'to belong to' or 'to be a part of'. |
| Italian | The Italian word "coinvolgere" also means "to envelop" or "to wrap". |
| Japanese | 関与 comes from the kanji 関 (barrier) and 与 (to give) and had the original meaning of "to give over to official custody". |
| Javanese | "Ndherek" (involve) could also mean "to join/participate in" and often describes group movements or activities. |
| Kannada | This verb may also be used as the passive participle of the verb ಒಳಗೊಳ್ಳು ('oḷgaḷoḷḷu', meaning 'to include'). |
| Kazakh | The word "тарту" in Kazakh shares an etymological root with the Turkish word "tartışmak" meaning "to argue" or "to debate". |
| Khmer | The Khmer word "ពាក់ព័ន្ធ" has roots in Sanskrit and carries meanings related to 'to cover', 'touch', or 'be connected'. |
| Korean | The word 감다 can also mean 'to conceal' or 'to 감겨서 싸다'. |
| Kurdish | The word "linavketin" is derived from the Persian word "linavandan" which means "to wrap" or "to wind" |
| Kyrgyz | The word "тартуу" also means "to pull" or "to drag" in Kyrgyz. |
| Latin | The Latin word "involvere" can also mean "to roll up, to wrap up", suggesting its etymological connection to "volutio" (rolling, turning). |
| Latvian | The Latvian word “iesaistīt” is derived from the Lithuanian word “įtraukti”, which carries the same meaning. |
| Lithuanian | "Įtraukti" also means to "include", "to comprise", or "to draw in or out". |
| Luxembourgish | Bedeelegen can also mean to interfere or intervene. |
| Macedonian | The word "вклучи" in Macedonian can also mean "include" or "comprise". |
| Malagasy | The word "tafiditra" also means "to interfere" in Malagasy. |
| Malay | The word 'melibatkan' can also mean 'to include' or 'to participate'. |
| Maltese | The word "jinvolvu" originates from the French "envelopper" and also means "to wrap up" in Maltese. |
| Maori | The word "whakauru" also means "to put a child into the sea as an offering to the sea-gods." |
| Marathi | गुंतवणे means to include, engage, or entangle in addition to involving. |
| Mongolian | The word "оролцуулах" can also mean "to participate" or "to take part". |
| Nepali | The word "समावेश" can also mean "inclusion" or "participation" in Nepali. |
| Norwegian | In Norwegian, "involvere" also means to become entangled or involved in a situation. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "khudza" can also mean "to cover up" or "to conceal". |
| Pashto | شاملول (shamilul) can also mean 'to comprise' or 'to occupy'. |
| Polish | The word "angażować" can also mean "to hire" or "to enlist" in Polish. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese (both Portugal and Brazil), "envolver" can also mean "to wrap something up" (e.g., a package, a piece of food). |
| Punjabi | The word 'ਸ਼ਾਮਲ' (involve) in Punjabi is derived from the Sanskrit word 'संवलित' (saṃvalita), which means 'involved', 'connected', or 'united'. |
| Romanian | The Romanian word 'implica' comes from the Latin verb implicare, meaning 'to entangle' or 'to fold within' |
| Russian | The Russian word "вовлекать" comes from the Proto-Slavic word *vъvlekti, meaning "to drag in". |
| Samoan | The word "faaaofia ai" can also mean "to include" or "to comprise" in Samoan. |
| Scots Gaelic | The word "gabhail a-steach" in Scots Gaelic also has the meaning "to accept, receive", and originally meant "to take a step in". |
| Serbian | The Serbian word "повлачити за собом" derives from the word "влачити" (to drag) and literally means "to drag behind oneself". It can also be used figuratively to mean "to entail" or "to cause". |
| Sesotho | The verb 'kenyeletsa' may also be used in the sense of 'to hinder' or 'to encumber'. |
| Shona | The word "inosanganisira" also means "to participate" or "to be included". |
| Sindhi | The word "ملوث آهي" can also mean to implicate or to contaminate in Sindhi. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The verb 'සම්බන්ධ වේ' also means 'to connect' or 'to be related to', implying a close or specific association. |
| Slovak | The term 'zapojiť' in Slovak can also refer to connecting a device to a network or plugging into an electrical outlet. |
| Slovenian | "Vključujejo" comes from the prefix "v-" ("in") and the root "ključ" ("key"). It is used to describe actions that require multiple people or things to be involved. |
| Somali | Somali "ku lug lahaansho" can also mean "to affect" or "to have an impact on something or someone". |
| Spanish | The verb «involucrar» derives from the Latin «involucrum», which means «wrapper» or «covering» and referred to a parchment roll that was tied at the top and bottom with a ribbon that wrapped around it in multiple turns. |
| Sundanese | "Ngalibetkeun" is a Sundanese word originally meaning "to wrap something around something else". |
| Swahili | The word "kuhusisha" comes from the Arabic word "wasa" (وَصَى) meaning "to give an order" or "to direct." |
| Swedish | In a legal context, the term 'engagera' also implies entering into a binding contract. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | Isama is derived from the Proto-Austronesian root *sama, meaning "to accompany" or "to follow". |
| Tajik | In Tajik, the word "ҷалб кардан" can also mean "to attract" or "to engage". |
| Tamil | The word 'ஈடுபடு' (involve) is derived from the Tamil word 'ஈடு' (stake), suggesting that to involve oneself in something is to have a stake in its outcome. |
| Telugu | Involve is derived from the Latin word 'volvere' meaning 'to roll' or 'to turn over' |
| Thai | "เกี่ยวข้อง" can also mean "to relate" or "to be associated with". |
| Turkish | The verb 'dahil etmek' can also mean 'to include', 'to comprise' or 'to encompass' |
| Ukrainian | The verb "залучати" in Ukrainian derives from the Proto-Slavic form "*ľudъ", meaning "people". |
| Urdu | The word "شامل" comes from the Arabic word "شمل", which means "to include" or "to encompass". |
| Uzbek | The word "jalb qilmoq" in Uzbek shares its roots with the word "jalb" in Arabic, meaning "to attract or cause to come". |
| Vietnamese | "Liên quan" also means "to be connected or related to something". |
| Welsh | The word "cynnwys" can also mean "to comprise" or "to include". |
| Xhosa | 'Ukubandakanya' can be broken into two parts: 'uku-banda', meaning 'to gather or bring together' and '-akanya', which indicates a reciprocal or reflexive action. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word אַרייַנציען, meaning "involve," also has a rare alternate meaning of "to get on or into," which is not used in modern Yiddish. |
| Yoruba | Kopa can also mean "to entrap" or "to implicate" in Yoruba. |
| Zulu | "Ukubandakanya" also means to "include" or to "cover" in Zulu. |
| English | "Involve" comes from the Latin word "involvere," meaning "to roll up" or "to wrap." |