Killing in Different Languages
Discover 'Killing' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Killing
Afrikaans doodmaak | ||
Albanian vrasjen | ||
Amharic መግደል | ||
Arabic قتل | ||
Armenian սպանելը | ||
Assamese হত্যা কৰা | ||
Aymara jiwayaña | ||
Azerbaijani öldürmək | ||
Bambara mɔgɔfaga | ||
Basque hiltzen | ||
Belarusian забойства | ||
Bengali হত্যা | ||
Bhojpuri हत्या के काम कइल जाला | ||
Bosnian ubijanje | ||
Bulgarian убийство | ||
Catalan matar | ||
Cebuano pagpatay | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 杀人 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 殺人 | ||
Corsican tumbà | ||
Croatian ubijanje | ||
Czech zabíjení | ||
Danish drab | ||
Dhivehi މަރާލުން | ||
Dogri मारना | ||
Dutch doden | ||
English killing | ||
Esperanto mortigo | ||
Estonian tapmine | ||
Ewe amewuwu | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) pagpatay | ||
Finnish tappaminen | ||
French meurtre | ||
Frisian killing | ||
Galician matar | ||
Georgian მკვლელობა | ||
German tötung | ||
Greek φόνος | ||
Guarani jejuka | ||
Gujarati હત્યા | ||
Haitian Creole touye | ||
Hausa kisa | ||
Hawaiian pepehi kanaka ʻana | ||
Hebrew הֶרֶג | ||
Hindi हत्या | ||
Hmong tua | ||
Hungarian gyilkolás | ||
Icelandic drepa | ||
Igbo na-egbu | ||
Ilocano panangpapatay | ||
Indonesian pembunuhan | ||
Irish marú | ||
Italian uccidere | ||
Japanese 殺害 | ||
Javanese mateni | ||
Kannada ಕೊಲ್ಲುವುದು | ||
Kazakh өлтіру | ||
Khmer ការសម្លាប់ | ||
Kinyarwanda kwica | ||
Konkani मारप | ||
Korean 죽이는 | ||
Krio kil pipul dɛn | ||
Kurdish kuştin | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) کوشتن | ||
Kyrgyz өлтүрүү | ||
Lao ການຂ້າ | ||
Latin occisio | ||
Latvian nogalināšana | ||
Lingala koboma bato | ||
Lithuanian žudymas | ||
Luganda okutta abantu | ||
Luxembourgish ëmbréngen | ||
Macedonian убивање | ||
Maithili हत्या करब | ||
Malagasy famonoana | ||
Malay membunuh | ||
Malayalam കൊല്ലുന്നു | ||
Maltese qtil | ||
Maori kohurutanga | ||
Marathi हत्या | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯍꯥꯠꯄꯥ꯫ | ||
Mizo thah a ni | ||
Mongolian алах | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) သတ်ဖြတ်မှု | ||
Nepali मार्नु | ||
Norwegian drepe | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kupha | ||
Odia (Oriya) ହତ୍ୟା | ||
Oromo ajjeesuu | ||
Pashto وژنه | ||
Persian کشتن | ||
Polish zabicie | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) matando | ||
Punjabi ਹੱਤਿਆ | ||
Quechua wañuchiy | ||
Romanian ucidere | ||
Russian убийство | ||
Samoan fasioti tagata | ||
Sanskrit वधः | ||
Scots Gaelic marbhadh | ||
Sepedi go bolaya | ||
Serbian убијање | ||
Sesotho ho bolaea | ||
Shona kuuraya | ||
Sindhi قتل | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) මරනවා | ||
Slovak zabíjanie | ||
Slovenian ubijanje | ||
Somali dilid | ||
Spanish asesinato | ||
Sundanese maehan | ||
Swahili kuua | ||
Swedish dödande | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) pagpatay | ||
Tajik куштан | ||
Tamil கொலை | ||
Tatar үтерү | ||
Telugu చంపడం | ||
Thai ฆ่า | ||
Tigrinya ምቕታል | ||
Tsonga ku dlaya | ||
Turkish öldürme | ||
Turkmen öldürmek | ||
Twi (Akan) awudifo | ||
Ukrainian вбивство | ||
Urdu قتل | ||
Uyghur قاتىل | ||
Uzbek o'ldirish | ||
Vietnamese giết chóc | ||
Welsh lladd | ||
Xhosa ukubulala | ||
Yiddish מאָרד | ||
Yoruba pipa | ||
Zulu ukubulala |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "doodmaak" is derived from the Old Dutch word "dootmaecken", which means "to put to death" or "to execute". |
| Albanian | The Albanian word "vrasjen" (killing) is also used figuratively to mean "to completely destroy or ruin something." |
| Amharic | The word "መግደል" can also refer to a monastery or church in Amharic. |
| Arabic | The Arabic word "قتل" not only means "killing" but also "to write". |
| Armenian | "Սպանելը" can also refer to the act of extinguishing a fire or the act of putting an end to something, such as a relationship or a bad habit. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "öldürmək" in Azerbaijani is derived from the Old Turkic word "öldür", meaning "to put to death" or "to kill". It also has a secondary meaning of "to hurt" or "to injure". |
| Basque | The term "hiltzen" is also used to refer to the act of "dying" in Basque. |
| Belarusian | The Belarusian word "забойства" ("killing") can also refer to a cattle slaughter in a meat-processing plant. |
| Bengali | In Bengali, the word "হত্যা" means "killing", but it can also refer to a form of religious suicide common among devotees of Vishnu. |
| Bosnian | The word "ubijanje" comes from the Proto-Slavic word *ubiti, meaning "to kill" or "to strike". |
| Bulgarian | The word "убийство" (killing) is derived from the Old Church Slavonic word "убити" (to kill), which is cognate with the Latin word "occidere" (to kill). |
| Catalan | The verb "matar" in Catalan is not related to the English word "matter", but derives from the Latin word "mactare", meaning "to sacrifice" or "to kill in a ritual way". |
| Cebuano | The word "pagpatay" also refers to the act of extinguishing a fire. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The term 杀人, which means to "kill a person", can be traced to the phrase 害人之心不可有, meaning "one should not have the intention of harming others." |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The Chinese characters 殺人 mean 'killing', but can also be interpreted as 'to become a man' or 'to gain power'. |
| Corsican | From the Catalan verb "tombar" (to fall), it can also mean "accident". |
| Croatian | The word "ubijanje" can also mean "beating" or "slaughtering". |
| Czech | The word "zabíjení" in Czech also means "slaughter" or "massacre". |
| Danish | The word "drab" in Danish has an alternate meaning of "monotonous" or "boring". |
| Dutch | In the Netherlands, during the 13th and 14th centuries, 'doden' was also used to refer to 'a battle', 'a murder', and 'a fatal blow to the body'. |
| Esperanto | The word "mortigo" in Esperanto is derived from the Latin word "mors", meaning "death". It can also refer to a painful sensation, such as a toothache. |
| Estonian | The word "tapmine" derives from the Proto-Indo-European root "*tep-", meaning "to strike". It also has a secondary meaning of "to sacrifice" or "to kill ritually". |
| Finnish | The Finnish word "tappaminen" is derived from "tappaa" ("to kill"), which ultimately originates from the Proto-Indo-European root "*tep-" ("to strike"). |
| French | "Meurtre" is derived from the Latin "mors", meaning "death", and can also refer to manslaughter or murder. |
| Frisian | In Saterland Frisian "killing" can also mean "slaughtering" |
| Galician | "Matar" in Galician can also mean "extinguish" (a light, fire), "repress" (an emotion) and "quench" (thirst). |
| German | The German word "Tötung" has cognates in other Germanic languages, such as the English "to tug" and the Dutch "trekken". |
| Greek | In Homeric Greek,φόνος (phónos) denotes a killing for which someone is responsible and that calls for retribution |
| Gujarati | The word "હત્યા" can also mean "sacrifice" or "immolation". |
| Haitian Creole | The word "touye" can also mean "to do away with" or "to get rid of" in Haitian Creole. |
| Hausa | The Hausa word 'kisa' also means 'slaying' and 'destruction'. |
| Hawaiian | The term 'pepehi kanaka ʻana' is a euphemism that could also be interpreted as 'to kill a man' in the contexts of warfare and sacrifice. |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "הֶרֶג" ("killing") is an uncommon form of "הִקְטִיל ("to cause killing"), used when the subject refers to an action involving an accident. |
| Hindi | The word 'हत्या' (hatya, killing) in Sanskrit also has the connotation of a 'human sacrifice'. |
| Hmong | In Hmong, 'tua' can also mean to 'defeat' or 'overcome'. |
| Hungarian | In Hungarian, "gyilkolás" can also mean "murder" or "manslaughter". |
| Icelandic | The word "drepa" in Icelandic is derived from the Old Norse word "drepa", meaning "to strike, kill, or execute." |
| Igbo | The Igbo word "na-egbu" also refers to a type of divinatory ritual. |
| Indonesian | In Indonesian, the word "pembunuhan" can also refer to a murder that is carried out in a planned and deliberate manner. |
| Irish | The Irish word 'marú' derives from an Old Celtic word meaning 'destruction', and is related to the Latin 'mors' and Greek 'moros'. |
| Italian | The Italian word "uccidere" comes from the Latin word "occidere" meaning "to kill". |
| Japanese | The word "殺害" (satsugai) can also mean "to torture" or "to murder". |
| Javanese | The word 'mateni' (killing) in Javanese also has alternate meanings, such as 'to extinguish' and 'to put out'. |
| Kannada | The word "ಕೊಲ್ಲುವುದು" can also mean "to destroy" or "to ruin" in Kannada. |
| Kazakh | The verb "өлтіру" in Kazakh can also refer to hunting and warfare, or be employed in the metaphorical sense as "killing time". |
| Khmer | The word ការសម្លាប់ ('killing') in Khmer originally referred to the execution of criminals but has expanded to include any act of killing. |
| Korean | The word "죽이는" (pronounced "chuk-i-neu") can also mean "to put someone to sleep". |
| Kurdish | The Kurdish word "kuştin" shares the same root with the Persian word "koštan", both meaning "to kill". This shared etymology points to the close linguistic and cultural ties between the Kurdish and Persian languages |
| Kyrgyz | In Kyrgyz, "өлтүрүү" means "killing" and can also refer to "murder" or "homicide". |
| Lao | In another sense, ການຂ້າ may refer to a specific period in the history of Laos when there was widespread violence. |
| Latin | In ancient Roman law, "occisio" could also denote manslaughter or murder. |
| Latvian | "Nogalināšana" also refers to an early 20th century Latvian death metal band. |
| Lithuanian | In Lithuanian, "žudymas" may also refer to a specific type of ritual sacrifice in ancient pagan traditions. |
| Luxembourgish | The Luxembourgish word "ëmbréngen" comes from the Middle High German word "embrengen". The Middle High German word "embrengen" comes from the Old High German word "imbrengan". The Old High German word "imbrengan" comes from the Proto-Germanic word "*imbraŋgjanan". The Proto-Germanic word "*imbraŋgjanan" means "to kill". |
| Macedonian | The Macedonian word "убивање" (killing) is derived from the verb "убивам" (to kill), which comes from the Proto-Slavic word *oubiti. |
| Malagasy | The word |
| Malay | The word "membunuh" (killing) in Malay is derived from the Proto-Malayo-Polynesian root *bunuH, which also means "to strike" or "to beat". |
| Maltese | In Maltese, "qtil" can also refer to a person who has been killed |
| Maori | The word "kohurutanga" can also refer to a state of extreme anger or rage. |
| Marathi | हत्या' (hatya) is a Marathi word derived from Sanskrit, meaning both 'killing' and 'sacrifice' in a religious context. |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word "алах" (killing) can also refer to "execution" or "punishment". |
| Nepali | The Nepali word "मारनु" can also mean to hit, beat, or strike. |
| Norwegian | The word "drepe" in Norwegian has additional meanings such as "to slaughter" and "to extinguish". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "kupha" can also mean "to die" in Nyanja, highlighting the reciprocal nature of life and death in the language. |
| Pashto | "وژنه" is derived from Avestan word "vīzana", meaning harm. |
| Persian | The word "کشتن" can also mean "planting" in Persian, referring to the act of placing seeds in the ground to grow plants. |
| Polish | The word "zabicie" can also mean "manslaughter" or "homicide", depending on the context in which it is used. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, "matando" can also mean "extinguishing" or "quenching". |
| Punjabi | The Punjabi word “ਹੱਤਿਆ” also refers to murder with a deadly weapon and can be used for both humans and animals. |
| Romanian | "Ucidere" is derived from the Latin word "occidere" and also means "to set" (the sun). |
| Russian | The word "убийство" (killing) in Russian is derived from the Old Church Slavonic word "убити", which means "to kill" or "to strike." |
| Samoan | The term 'fasioti tagata' can also be translated as 'taking a life' in the context of a serious crime. |
| Scots Gaelic | The term "marbhadh" can also refer to a graveyard or the act of burying a body in some regions of Scotland. |
| Serbian | The word "убијање" (killing) in Serbian also refers to the act of finishing off an animal after it has been hunted or slaughtered. |
| Sesotho | The word "ho bolaea" in Sesotho has multiple meanings, including "to kill" and "to destroy". |
| Shona | The word "kuuraya" in Shona also means "murder" or "assassinate". |
| Sindhi | In Sindhi, the word "قتل" can also mean "to be killed" or "to be murdered". |
| Slovak | In Slovak, the word "zabíjanie" can also refer to a traditional pig slaughter festival held during winter. |
| Slovenian | The word "ubijanje" in Slovenian also means "beating" or "torture". |
| Somali | The word "dilid" also means "annihilation" or "destruction" in Somali. |
| Spanish | The Spanish word "asesinato" originates from the Arabic word "hashishin", referring to a group of assassins in the Levant. |
| Sundanese | The root word 'ma-' in "maehan" (killing) also signifies the killing of animals (except cattle or buffalo). |
| Swahili | In Swahili, 'kuua' can also mean 'to put out' or 'to extinguish' (a fire or light). |
| Swedish | The word "dödande" has cognates in other Germanic languages like "death" in English, "dood" in Dutch, and "Tod" in German. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "pagpatay" also means "murder" or "homicide" in Tagalog. |
| Tajik | The word "куштан" also means "slaughter" in Tajik. |
| Tamil | The word " கொலை " (killing) in Tamil also refers to the act of "stealing" |
| Telugu | చంపడం' may originate from the word 'చం' ('cham'), meaning 'to cut' or 'to separate' |
| Turkish | In Turkish, 'öldürme' is both a noun meaning 'killing' and a verbal noun meaning 'the act of killing'. |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word ''вбивство'' can also refer to manslaughter or murder. |
| Uzbek | The verb "o'ldirish" in Uzbek also means "to extinguish" or "to cancel" in addition to "to kill". The term "o'chirish" can be used to express "to turn something off". |
| Vietnamese | The word "giết chóc" can also mean "massacre" or "slaughter". |
| Welsh | The Welsh word “lladd” can also mean “to slay, to destroy, to ruin, to undo” or “to finish completely,” and possibly originates from an older verb meaning “to spill” or “to shed.” |
| Xhosa | The word "ukubulala" in Xhosa is also used to describe the act of slaughtering livestock for meat. |
| Yiddish | "מאָרד" ("killing") derives from the Proto-Germanic word "murþr-â" meaning "secret killing", akin to the Old Saxon "mortho" and "murthian" and Old English "morþ" and "myrþrian." |
| Yoruba | “Pipa” is also the name for a “big masquerade” in the Edo language spoken in parts of Nigeria. |
| Zulu | The word "ukubulala" ("killing") in Zulu originates from the word "ubulala," which means "to take life." |
| English | The word "killing" can also refer to an instance of great success or profit. |