Know in Different Languages
Discover 'Know' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Know
Afrikaans weet | ||
Albanian e di | ||
Amharic ማወቅ | ||
Arabic أعرف | ||
Armenian իմանալ | ||
Assamese জনা | ||
Aymara yatiña | ||
Azerbaijani bilmək | ||
Bambara ka dɔn | ||
Basque jakin | ||
Belarusian ведаю | ||
Bengali জানি | ||
Bhojpuri जानल | ||
Bosnian znam | ||
Bulgarian зная | ||
Catalan saber | ||
Cebuano hibal-an | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 知道 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 知道 | ||
Corsican sapè | ||
Croatian znati | ||
Czech vědět | ||
Danish ved godt | ||
Dhivehi އެނގުން | ||
Dogri जानो | ||
Dutch weten | ||
English know | ||
Esperanto sciu | ||
Estonian tea | ||
Ewe nya nu | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) alam | ||
Finnish tietää | ||
French connaître | ||
Frisian witte | ||
Galician sabe | ||
Georgian იცით | ||
German kennt | ||
Greek ξέρω | ||
Guarani kuaa | ||
Gujarati જાણો | ||
Haitian Creole konnen | ||
Hausa sani | ||
Hawaiian ʻike | ||
Hebrew לָדַעַת | ||
Hindi जानना | ||
Hmong paub | ||
Hungarian tudni | ||
Icelandic veit | ||
Igbo mara | ||
Ilocano ammo | ||
Indonesian tahu | ||
Irish tá a fhios | ||
Italian conoscere | ||
Japanese 知っている | ||
Javanese ngerti | ||
Kannada ತಿಳಿಯಿರಿ | ||
Kazakh білу | ||
Khmer ដឹង | ||
Kinyarwanda menya | ||
Konkani जाणा | ||
Korean 알고있다 | ||
Krio no | ||
Kurdish zanîn | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) زانین | ||
Kyrgyz билүү | ||
Lao ຮູ້ | ||
Latin scio | ||
Latvian zināt | ||
Lingala koyeba | ||
Lithuanian žinoti | ||
Luganda okumanya | ||
Luxembourgish wëssen | ||
Macedonian знај | ||
Maithili बुझू | ||
Malagasy mahalala | ||
Malay tahu | ||
Malayalam അറിയുക | ||
Maltese taf | ||
Maori mōhio | ||
Marathi माहित आहे | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯈꯪꯕ | ||
Mizo hria | ||
Mongolian мэдэх | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) သိတယ် | ||
Nepali चिन्छु | ||
Norwegian vet | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) mukudziwa | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଜାଣ | ||
Oromo beeki | ||
Pashto پوهیږم | ||
Persian می دانم | ||
Polish wiedzieć | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) conhecer | ||
Punjabi ਪਤਾ ਹੈ | ||
Quechua yachay | ||
Romanian știu | ||
Russian знать | ||
Samoan iloa | ||
Sanskrit जानातु | ||
Scots Gaelic fios | ||
Sepedi tseba | ||
Serbian знам | ||
Sesotho tseba | ||
Shona ziva | ||
Sindhi اڻ | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) දැනගන්න | ||
Slovak vedieť | ||
Slovenian vem | ||
Somali ogow | ||
Spanish saber | ||
Sundanese terang | ||
Swahili kujua | ||
Swedish känna till | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) alam mo | ||
Tajik донед | ||
Tamil தெரியும் | ||
Tatar бел | ||
Telugu తెలుసు | ||
Thai ทราบ | ||
Tigrinya ፍለጥ | ||
Tsonga tiva | ||
Turkish bilmek | ||
Turkmen bil | ||
Twi (Akan) nim | ||
Ukrainian знати | ||
Urdu جانتے ہیں | ||
Uyghur بىلىڭ | ||
Uzbek bilish | ||
Vietnamese biết rôi | ||
Welsh gwybod | ||
Xhosa yazi | ||
Yiddish וויסן | ||
Yoruba mọ | ||
Zulu yazi |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | Afrikaans 'weet' and the Dutch verb 'weten' are cognate with Old English 'witan' and German 'wissen'. |
| Albanian | The Albanian word "e di" (to know) shares the same Indo-European root as the Spanish word "saber" (to know), the German word "wissen" (to know), and the English word "wit" (knowledge). |
| Amharic | The Amharic word ማወቅ can also mean "experience," "recognize," or "be aware of." |
| Arabic | The Arabic word "أعرف" can also mean "I understand" or "I have an idea about something" |
| Armenian | The word “իմանալ” is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *men-, meaning “to think”. |
| Azerbaijani | "Bilmək" (know) originates from the Proto-Turkic word "*bil- " meaning "mind, know". It also shares the same root with the verb "bildiri" (inform), and the noun "bildiri" (announcement). |
| Basque | The noun and verb "jakin" in Basque is derived from "iaki" meaning "to see" and ultimately from Pre-Indo-European "*ak-" meaning "look". |
| Belarusian | In the Belarusian language the word "ведаю" can have the meaning of "possess", "be good at something". |
| Bengali | Cognate to Hindi and Urdu "jaanna" and derived from the Sanskrit word "jna". |
| Bosnian | The word "znam" derives from the Proto-Slavic root "*zъnati", which also meant "know how to". |
| Bulgarian | The verb "зная" can also mean "being aware of" or "having knowledge of" in Bulgarian. |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "saber" derives from the Latin "sapere," meaning "to taste," and also means "flavor" in Catalan. |
| Cebuano | The word "hibal-an" can also be used to mean "to understand" or "to be aware of". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 知道 may refer to a Chinese surname (Mandarin: Zhī Dào; Cantonese: Ji Do), a kind of Chinese tofu (Mandarin: zhīdòufu; Cantonese: jidoufu; literally: "to know beancurd"), or an archaic form of the Japanese word "to" (止) in some compounds. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | "知道" can also mean "to receive", "to understand", "to be aware of", or "to be informed about". |
| Corsican | The word "sapè" in Corsican comes from the Latin verb "sapere", which means "to be wise" or "to have knowledge." |
| Croatian | The word 'znati' in Croatian is also used to refer to 'be familiar with', 'be aware of', or 'have knowledge of' something. |
| Czech | The Czech word "vědět" comes from the Proto-Slavic root "*vědъ", which also meant "to see" or "to perceive". The related verb "vidět" in Czech still means "to see". |
| Danish | The word "ved" is derived from the Proto-Germanic verb "wētan", meaning "to perceive" or "to observe". |
| Dutch | Wetten in Dutch can also refer to gambling |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word "sciu" is derived from the Latin word "scio", which means "to know or understand". |
| Estonian | The Estonian word "tea" also means "to know", deriving from the same root as the Latin verb "scire." |
| Finnish | The word "tietää" is derived from the Proto-Finnic word *tita-, meaning "to show, to prove, to give evidence." |
| French | The French word “connaître” also means “acknowledge” or “recognize” when used with a specific object and without specifying the source of knowledge |
| Frisian | The word 'witte' in Frisian is also used to refer to 'understanding' or 'intelligence'. |
| Galician | Galician "sabe" is cognate to Portuguese "sabe", which comes from the same root as Latin "sapere" and French "savoir" and also means "to taste". |
| Georgian | The Georgian verb “იცით” can also mean “you (plural) know” or, in imperative form, “know (plural)”. |
| German | Kennt is a modal verb used to express abilities or permissions, meaning 'can' or 'may'. |
| Greek | The Greek word "ξέρω" is also used to express the concept of "guessing" or "assuming". |
| Gujarati | "જાણો" means “to know" in Gujarati, and it also refers to a type of traditional Gujarati musical instrument. |
| Haitian Creole | The Haitian Creole word "konnen" is derived from the French word "connaître", which means "to know" or "to be familiar with". |
| Hausa | Hausa "sani" also means to 'be aware of', 'to perceive' or to 'understand' something. |
| Hawaiian | 'Ike' also refers to knowledge or insight gained through spiritual experience or deep reflection. |
| Hebrew | The word "לָדַעַת" ("know") is also related to the root "ידע" ("to separate"), suggesting a connection between knowledge and the ability to discern or differentiate. |
| Hindi | The Sanskrit word 'jñā' from which it is derived, also refers to 'perceive', 'understand', and even 'recognise'. |
| Hmong | "Paub" in Hmong also means "to acknowledge" or "to understand". |
| Hungarian | The word 'tudni' can also mean 'to be able to' or 'to have the ability to do something'. |
| Icelandic | Veit can also mean wise, knowledgeable, or informed. |
| Igbo | "Mara" in Igbo also means "to see" or "to perceive". |
| Indonesian | The word 'tahu' in Indonesian also means tofu and can be used to refer to knowledge as well as food. |
| Italian | The Italian word "conoscere" derives from the Latin "cognoscere," meaning "to get to know" or "to become acquainted with." |
| Japanese | "知る" means "to know," but it also means "to realize" or "to be aware of." |
| Javanese | "ngerti" is thought to derive from "gerti", which refers to a deep understanding of a certain topic. |
| Kannada | In Kannada, "ತಿಳಿಯಿರಿ" (tiliyiri) also means "to become clear" or "to understand." |
| Kazakh | In some dialects of Kazakh, "білу" can also mean "to recognize" or "to understand". |
| Khmer | The Khmer word "ដឹង" is also used in the sense of "to understand", "to be aware of", or "to be informed about". |
| Korean | The word "알고있다" (know) in Korean is derived from the Middle Korean word "아르", which means "to understand" or "to be aware of". |
| Kurdish | The word "zanîn" is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵneh₃- meaning "to know" or "to understand". |
| Kyrgyz | The word "билүү" can also mean "information", "knowledge", or "science". |
| Lao | The term “rũu,” also spelled “hūu (ຮື່),” comes from the Sanskrit verb “śru” (शृ), to hear. |
| Latin | The verb "scio" in Latin is cognate with the Greek "oida" ("know"), and also means "have experience of" or "be acquainted with". |
| Latvian | The word "zināt" also means "to be familiar with something". |
| Lithuanian | The Proto-Indo-European root *ǵneh₂tó, from which žinoti derives, can also be found in words like 'notorious', 'gnosis' and 'cognizant'. |
| Luxembourgish | Wëssen is a contraction of the words 'wissen' and 'sein' and also means 'to be' in German. |
| Macedonian | The word "знај" is derived from the Proto-Slavic root *znati, meaning "to know," and is related to the English word "know". |
| Malagasy | The word "mahalala" in Malagasy is probably derived from the Proto-Austronesian root word for "to know". |
| Malay | The word "tahu" in Malay, meaning "to know," also has a culinary meaning: a type of fried tofu popular in Indonesia. |
| Malayalam | In Malayalam, 'അറിയുക' also means to realize or understand, in addition to its primary meaning of 'know'. |
| Maltese | "Taf" is derived from the Arabic "taʿrafa" and originally meant to recognize or distinguish. |
| Maori | The Maori word "mōhio" has cognates in other Polynesian languages, including the Hawaiian word "mahalo", which means "gratitude" or "thanks". |
| Marathi | The Marathi word "माहित आहे" can also mean "well-informed" or "aware". |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word "мэдэх" can also mean "to understand", "to be aware of", or "to have knowledge of something." |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The verb "သိတယ်" in Myanmar, derived from the Proto-Burman-Loloish root (*s-ti), means "to know" or "to get to know". |
| Nepali | The Nepali word 'चिन्छु' is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ḱey-, meaning 'to perceive or know'. |
| Norwegian | The word "vet" also means "weather" in Norwegian. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | In Nyanja, the word 'mukudziwa' can also mean 'to be aware of' or 'to be conscious of'. |
| Pashto | The word "پوهیږم" in Pashto is derived from the Proto-Indo-Iranian root *ǵnā-, meaning "to know, to understand". |
| Persian | The Persian "می دانم" not only means "to know" but also "to remember". |
| Polish | The verb "wiedzieć" is related to Polish word "widzieć" which means "to see" and the Proto-Slavic root "*věděti" (to see, perceive). |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The Portuguese word "conhecer" derives from the Latin "cognoscere" (to learn, to find out), which is also the root of the English word "cognize". |
| Punjabi | The word "pata hai" in Punjabi also means "understand", "realize", "recognize", or "be aware of". |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "știu" is derived from the Latin "scio", but in Romanian it also has the alternate meaning of "can" or "to be able to". |
| Russian | "Знать" (знать) is cognate with the Latin "noscere" (to know) and the Sanskrit "jnā-" (to know), and also means "nobility" and "gentry" in Russian. |
| Samoan | In addition to its literal meaning 'to know', ilo also means 'to smell' in Samoan. |
| Scots Gaelic | Fios derives from the Old Irish "fiss" which means "knowledge" or "intelligence". |
| Serbian | The verb 'znati', meaning 'to know', derives from the Proto-Slavic word 'zьnati'. |
| Sesotho | The verb 'tseba' in Sesotho also means 'to recognise', 'to be aware of', or 'to be familiar with'. |
| Shona | The word "ziva" also means "to wake up" and "to dawn" in Shona. |
| Sindhi | The word اڻ can also mean the sense of knowing the difference between right and wrong. |
| Slovak | "Vedieť" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word "*vědъ", meaning "knowledge", and is related to the English word "wit". |
| Slovenian | The word "vem" in Slovenian can also refer to a type of tree frog or a type of dance. |
| Somali | "Ogow" also means to be aware of or to realize something. |
| Spanish | In Spanish, "saber" can also mean "to taste" or "to have flavor." |
| Sundanese | The Sundanese word "terang" can also mean "clear" or "bright". |
| Swahili | The word "kujua" in Swahili, with its root "ju", refers to a range of concepts including knowing, understanding, consciousness, and perception. |
| Swedish | The phrase 'känna till' in Swedish evolved from the expression 'kunna till', meaning 'to be able to' or 'to be capable of' something. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Alam mo" can also be used to express surprise or disbelief. |
| Tajik | The word "донед" is also related to the Persian word "danestan," meaning "to comprehend." |
| Tamil | தெரியும்" can also mean "to be apparent, obvious, or visible" in Tamil. |
| Telugu | The word "తెలుసు" is used to denote knowledge of a particular subject or skill, as well as to indicate awareness of a particular event or fact. |
| Thai | The word "ทราบ" originally meant "to grind", but its meaning gradually shifted to "to know" over time. |
| Turkish | The word “bilmek” can also be used in a more formal way to express “to be informed” or “to be aware”. |
| Ukrainian | The word "знати" can also mean "to be famous" or "to be acquainted with someone or something". |
| Uzbek | In some dialects of the Uzbek language, "bilish" can also mean "to be able to" or "to be aware of". |
| Vietnamese | In Vietnamese, “biết rồi” (“know”) can also mean “I’m aware (of something)”, “I already know”, or “I understand” in English. |
| Welsh | The verb 'gwybod', like the English verb 'can', is also used as an auxiliary verb in Welsh to indicate ability. |
| Xhosa | The word "yazi" also means "understand", "realize", or "recognize" in Xhosa, adding additional depth to its significance. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "וויסן" can also mean "to experience" or "to learn". |
| Yoruba | In the Yoruba language, the word "mọ" also means "to be aware of" or "to have knowledge of something." |
| Zulu | The word "yazi" in Zulu can also mean "guess" or "understand." |
| English | The word 'know' is derived from the Old English word 'cnawan', which means 'to perceive or understand' |