Afrikaans lewensstyl | ||
Albanian mënyra e jetesës | ||
Amharic የአኗኗር ዘይቤ | ||
Arabic نمط الحياة | ||
Armenian ապրելակերպ | ||
Assamese জীৱনশৈলী | ||
Aymara jakawi sarnaqawi | ||
Azerbaijani həyat tərzi | ||
Bambara ɲɛnamaya kɛcogo | ||
Basque bizimodua | ||
Belarusian лад жыцця | ||
Bengali জীবনধারা | ||
Bhojpuri जीवनशैली के बारे में बतावल गइल बा | ||
Bosnian način života | ||
Bulgarian начин на живот | ||
Catalan estil de vida | ||
Cebuano estilo sa kinabuhi | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 生活方式 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 生活方式 | ||
Corsican stile di vita | ||
Croatian način života | ||
Czech životní styl | ||
Danish livsstil | ||
Dhivehi ދިރިއުޅުމުގެ ވައްޓަފާޅިއެވެ | ||
Dogri जीवन शैली | ||
Dutch levensstijl | ||
English lifestyle | ||
Esperanto vivstilo | ||
Estonian elustiil | ||
Ewe agbenɔnɔ ƒe nɔnɔme | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) pamumuhay | ||
Finnish elämäntapa | ||
French mode de vie | ||
Frisian libbensstyl | ||
Galician estilo de vida | ||
Georgian ცხოვრების წესი | ||
German lebensstil | ||
Greek τροπος ζωης | ||
Guarani tekove reko | ||
Gujarati જીવનશૈલી | ||
Haitian Creole fòm | ||
Hausa salon rayuwa | ||
Hawaiian nohona nohona | ||
Hebrew סגנון חיים | ||
Hindi बॉलीवुड | ||
Hmong kev ua neej | ||
Hungarian életmód | ||
Icelandic lífsstíll | ||
Igbo ibi ndụ | ||
Ilocano estilo ti panagbiag | ||
Indonesian gaya hidup | ||
Irish stíl mhaireachtála | ||
Italian stile di vita | ||
Japanese ライフスタイル | ||
Javanese gaya urip | ||
Kannada ಜೀವನಶೈಲಿ | ||
Kazakh өмір салты | ||
Khmer របៀបរស់នៅ | ||
Kinyarwanda imibereho | ||
Konkani जिणे पद्दत | ||
Korean 생활 양식 | ||
Krio di we aw pɔsin de liv in layf | ||
Kurdish şêwaza jiyanê | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) شێوازی ژیان | ||
Kyrgyz жашоо образы | ||
Lao ຊີວິດ | ||
Latin lifestyle | ||
Latvian dzīvesveids | ||
Lingala lolenge ya bomoi | ||
Lithuanian gyvenimo būdas | ||
Luganda embeera y’obulamu | ||
Luxembourgish liewensstil | ||
Macedonian начин на живот | ||
Maithili जीवनशैली | ||
Malagasy fiainana | ||
Malay cara hidup | ||
Malayalam ജീവിതശൈലി | ||
Maltese stil ta 'ħajja | ||
Maori momo noho | ||
Marathi जीवनशैली | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯄꯨꯟꯁꯤ ꯃꯍꯤꯡꯒꯤ ꯃꯑꯣꯡ ꯃꯇꯧ꯫ | ||
Mizo nunphung | ||
Mongolian амьдралын хэв маяг | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) လူနေမှုပုံစံ | ||
Nepali जीवनशैली | ||
Norwegian livsstil | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) moyo | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଜୀବନଶ lifestyle ଳୀ | ||
Oromo akkaataa jireenyaa | ||
Pashto ژوند | ||
Persian شیوه زندگی | ||
Polish styl życia | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) estilo de vida | ||
Punjabi ਜੀਵਨ ਸ਼ੈਲੀ | ||
Quechua kawsay | ||
Romanian mod de viata | ||
Russian образ жизни | ||
Samoan olaga sitaili | ||
Sanskrit जीवनशैली | ||
Scots Gaelic dòigh-beatha | ||
Sepedi mokgwa wa bophelo | ||
Serbian начин живота | ||
Sesotho mokgoa wa bophelo | ||
Shona mararamiro | ||
Sindhi زندگي گذارڻ | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) ජීවන රටාව | ||
Slovak životný štýl | ||
Slovenian življenjski slog | ||
Somali qaab nololeedka | ||
Spanish estilo de vida | ||
Sundanese gaya hirup | ||
Swahili mtindo wa maisha | ||
Swedish livsstil | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) lifestyle | ||
Tajik тарзи ҳаёт | ||
Tamil வாழ்க்கை | ||
Tatar яшәү рәвеше | ||
Telugu జీవనశైలి | ||
Thai วิถีชีวิต | ||
Tigrinya ኣነባብራ | ||
Tsonga ndlela ya vutomi | ||
Turkish yaşam tarzı | ||
Turkmen ýaşaýyş durmuşy | ||
Twi (Akan) asetra kwan | ||
Ukrainian спосіб життя | ||
Urdu طرز زندگی | ||
Uyghur تۇرمۇش ئۇسۇلى | ||
Uzbek turmush tarzi | ||
Vietnamese cách sống | ||
Welsh ffordd o fyw | ||
Xhosa indlela yokuphila | ||
Yiddish לייפסטייל | ||
Yoruba igbesi aye | ||
Zulu indlela yokuphila |
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | Lewensstyl originates from the Dutch "levensstijl" and can additionally refer to appearance or clothing preference. |
| Albanian | The Albanian word "mënyra e jetesës" can also refer to a person's way of thinking and behaving. |
| Arabic | The Arabic word نمط الحياة "namat al-hayat" literally translates as "style of life" and is also a synonym for "way of living." |
| Armenian | The verb "aprel" (to live) is a compound of the preposition "a" (upon) and the noun "prel" (edge), meaning to exist on the edge, hence "to live". |
| Azerbaijani | The word "həyat tərzi" literally means "way of life" in Azerbaijani and can also refer to someone's standard of living or social status. |
| Basque | The Basque word "bizimodua" can also mean "life style" or "habit." |
| Belarusian | The word "лад жыцця" in Belarusian can also refer to a person's "way of life" or "manner of living". |
| Bengali | The word "জীবনধারা" (lifestyle) also refers to the "biography" of a person and is often used in the context of a magazine article. |
| Bosnian | In Bosnian, "način života" literally means "way of life" and can also refer to someone's habits or customs. |
| Bulgarian | "Начин на живот" is literally "way of life". |
| Catalan | In Catalan, "estil de vida" directly translates to "style of life", but it can also refer to a person's lifestyle. |
| Cebuano | The root word "estilo" means "style" in Spanish, while "kinabuhi" means "life" in Cebuano. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "生活方式" literally translates to "living style". |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 生活方式 is also used to refer to biological or physiological patterns, such as in the phrase 寄生生活方式, which means symbiotic lifestyles. |
| Corsican | In Corsican, "stile di vita" also means "manner of living" or "way of life". |
| Croatian | The Croatian word "način života" also means "way of life" or "life mode". |
| Czech | Czech word "životní styl" also means "diet or way of eating". |
| Danish | The Danish word "livsstil" is a compound of two words: "livs-," meaning "life-" and "-stil," meaning "style". It was coined in the mid-19th century to refer to the way of life of a particular class or society. |
| Dutch | Levensstijl, derived from 'levensstand' ('standard of living') and 'stijl' ('style') has a deeper connotation than the English 'lifestyle'. |
| Esperanto | "Vivstilo" originated from "viv" meaning "life" and "-stilo" from the French "style". |
| Estonian | The word "elustiil" was coined in 1963 by the Estonian linguist Ülo Kaasik. |
| Finnish | "Elämäntapa" is a compound noun formed from "elämä" ("life") and "tapa" ("manner, way"), and literally means "way of living". |
| French | "Mode de vie" can also mean "fashion" or "way of life" in French. |
| Frisian | The word "libbensstyl" is derived from the Old Frisian words "libben" (life) and "styl" (style), and is cognate with the English word "lifestyle". |
| Galician | The Galician word "estilo de vida" can also mean "status" or "social class". |
| German | The German word 'Lebensstil' literally means 'life style', and can also refer to one's way of life or conduct. |
| Greek | The word "ΤΡΟΠΟΣ ΖΩΗΣ" encompasses meanings of "way of life" and "attitude" in Greek. |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "જીવનશૈલી" is derived from the Sanskrit words "जीवन" (life) and "शैली" (style), and it can also refer to the way of living of a particular group or class of people. |
| Haitian Creole | The Haitian Creole word ``fòm'' derives from the French word ``forme'', meaning ``form'' or ``shape''. |
| Hausa | The term 'salon rayuwa' literally translates to 'living room' in Hausa, further indicating the significance of the house as a central hub for daily life and social interactions. |
| Hawaiian | The word "nohona nohona" in Hawaiian may refer to a carefree, relaxed lifestyle or to a state of laziness or inactivity. |
| Hebrew | In Hebrew, "סגנון חיים" (lifestyle) can also refer to "style of living" or a "certain way of life". |
| Hindi | Bollywood is a portmanteau of 'Bombay' and 'Hollywood', a nickname coined for the Indian film industry based in Mumbai. |
| Hmong | The word "kev ua neej" can also refer to the Hmong concept of "living in harmony with nature" or "living in balance with the environment." |
| Hungarian | The word "életmód" in Hungarian comes from the words "élet" (life) and "mód" (manner), and can also mean "dietary habits" or "way of life". |
| Icelandic | Originally, lífsstíll (lifestyle) meant "the manner of life" of someone in a religious sense. Thus it was associated with monastic or eremitic life. |
| Igbo | The term "ibi ndụ" can also refer to one's conduct, behavior, or way of life beyond their material possessions. |
| Indonesian | The word 'gaya hidup' originally meant 'a way of life', but now also refers to 'fashion' or 'style'. |
| Italian | In Renaissance Italian, the word "stile di vita" meant "a particular way of painting" |
| Japanese | The word "ライフスタイル" (lifestyle) is also used in Japanese to refer to someone's personal style or fashion sense. |
| Javanese | Gaya urip is a Javanese phrase that also holds the meaning of "the way of life" or "livelihood". |
| Kannada | The word "ಜೀವನಶೈಲಿ" comes from the Sanskrit words "jeevana" (life) and "shaili" (style), and refers to the way a person lives. |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "өмір салты" means "way of living" and also refers to the customs and traditions of a person or group. |
| Khmer | The word របៀបរស់នៅ (lifestyle) is derived from the Khmer words របៀប (way) and រស់នៅ (to live), and refers to the way in which a person lives, including their habits, routines, and values. |
| Korean | The Korean word 생활 양식 (saenghwal yangsik) derives from the Chinese concept of shēnghuó fāngshì, which encompasses an individual's way of life, including daily habits, values, and beliefs. |
| Kurdish | The Kurdish phrase "şêwaza jiyanê" can also refer to a person's habits and routines, as well as their overall way of living. |
| Kyrgyz | The Kyrgyz word "жашоо образы" can also mean "way of life" or "living conditions". |
| Lao | The Lao word ຊີວິດ ('lifestyle') is derived from the Pali word 'jīvita', meaning 'life'. |
| Latin | The Latin roots of the word "lifestyle" are "vita" (life) and "stilus" (style). |
| Latvian | The word "dzīvesveids" can also refer to a person's way of life or their standard of living. |
| Lithuanian | "Gyvenimo būdas" derives from "gyvenimas" (life) and "būdas" (way, manner), therefore it directly and literally means "a way of life". |
| Luxembourgish | The word 'Liewensstil' can also refer to one's standard of living or their way of life. |
| Macedonian | The word "начин на живот" also means "way of life" in Macedonian. |
| Malagasy | The word 'fiainana' can also refer to 'life' or 'existence' in Malagasy. |
| Malay | "Cara hidup" also means "a way of living" in Indonesian. |
| Malayalam | The word "ജീവിതശൈലി" is derived from the Sanskrit words "jeevita" (life) and "shaili" (style). It has also been used to refer to the way of life of a particular social class or group. |
| Maltese | The word stil ta 'ħajja, meaning lifestyle in Maltese, comes from the Italian stile di vita (lifestyle). |
| Maori | Momo noho can also mean 'to follow the customs of one's ancestors,' emphasising the importance of tradition in Maori culture. |
| Marathi | "जीवनशैली" originates from the Sanskrit word "जीवन" (life) and "शैली" (style), but it can also refer to "livelihood" or "way of earning a living". |
| Nepali | The word "जीवनशैली" (lifestyle) is derived from the Sanskrit words "जीव" (life) and "शैली" (style), and can also refer to a person's way of living or their standard of living. |
| Norwegian | The word "livsstil" in Norwegian comes from the words "liv" (life) and "stil" (style). |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "moyo" is also used to describe the "heart" or "mind" in Nyanja (Chichewa). |
| Pashto | The word "ژوند" in Pashto is derived from the Old Iranian word "*jīva-," meaning "to live". |
| Persian | The word "شیوه زندگی" is derived from the Persian word "شیوه" meaning "way, manner, or style", and the Arabic word "زندگی" meaning "life". It can also refer to a person's way of living, including their habits, values, and beliefs. |
| Polish | The Polish word "styl życia" can also refer to a person's standard of living, especially in terms of material possessions and consumption patterns. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, "estilo de vida" can also refer to a personal or artistic style. |
| Punjabi | The word, used most often in a contemporary context, is borrowed from English. |
| Romanian | The word "mod de viata" in Romanian can also refer to a "way of life" or a "lifestyle choice". |
| Russian | In Russian the word "образ жизни" (literally "image of life") can mean either "lifestyle" or "portrait". |
| Samoan | The term 'olaga sitaili' is also used in Samoan to refer specifically to the way of life or customs of a particular group of people or a particular time period. |
| Scots Gaelic | The Gaelic word "dòigh-beatha" directly means "method or way of life" but is often translated to "lifestyle". |
| Serbian | In Serbian, the word "начин живота" can also mean "the way of life" or "the manner of living". |
| Sesotho | This word combines "mokhoa," which can also mean method, with "bophelo," which can also refer to life, health or existence. |
| Shona | The word "mararamiro" in Shona can also mean "way of life" or "daily routine". |
| Sindhi | The word "زندگي گذارڻ" (lifestyle) in Sindhi also refers to the way of living or the way of life. |
| Slovak | The Slovak word "životný štýl" literally means "life style" or "way of life". |
| Slovenian | The word "življenjski slog" literally translates to "the style of one's living" in Slovenian. |
| Somali | The term "qaab nololeedka" is a direct translation from English, meaning "mode of living". |
| Spanish | Estilo de vida shares its etymology with "style", "style of life", and the Latin "stilus", the pointed instrument used to write on wax tablets |
| Sundanese | The word "gaya hirup" also refers to a person's character, manners, and personality traits. |
| Swahili | The Swahili word "mtindo wa maisha" literally translates to "way of life". |
| Swedish | The Swedish word "livsstil" literally means “life style,” but it has a broader meaning in the context of sustainability. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "lifestyle" is derived from the Old English word "lifestid", meaning "manner of living." |
| Tajik | In Tajik, "тарзи ҳаёт" (lifestyle) derives from the Persian "tarz-e hayat" meaning 'manner of living'. |
| Tamil | வாழ்க்கை is the Tamil word for one's life or livelihood |
| Telugu | The word "జీవనశైలి" is directly derived from the Sanskrit term "जीवनशैली" (jīvanaśailī), which also means "lifestyle". |
| Thai | The word "วิถีชีวิต" (lifestyle) originally meant "a way of life or conduct" in Pali, the language of Buddhist scriptures. |
| Turkish | The first part of "yaşam tarzı" in Turkish, "yaşam", means "life", while the second part, "tarzı", means "manner or style", indicating the word's overall meaning of "manner or style of living". |
| Ukrainian | The word "спосіб життя" (sposib zhyttya) is also synonymous with the idea of a "worldview". |
| Urdu | The word "طرز زندگی" can also be used to mean "the way of living" or "the way of life". |
| Uzbek | "Turmush" is Uzbek for "life," and "tarzi" is of Persian origin, meaning "style," "manner," or "way," so "turmush tarzi" directly translates to "life style" or "lifestyle." |
| Vietnamese | The Vietnamese word "cách sống" (lifestyle) shares its root with "cách", meaning "style" or "manner," and "sống", meaning "to live or exist." |
| Welsh | The word "ffordd o fyw" literally means "way of living" and is similar to the English "lifestyle". |
| Xhosa | In Xhosa, "indlela yokuphila" can also refer to someone's general behavior or approach to life. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "לייפסטייל" shares its root with the Hebrew word "life", suggesting a connection between a person's way of life and their personal identity. |
| Yoruba | The term "igbesi aye" in Yoruba can also refer to a specific way of life or livelihood associated with a particular community or profession. |
| Zulu | The Zulu word 'indlela yokuphila' contains the words for path, procedure or method, and life, indicating its encompassing nature beyond mere habits or customs. |
| English | The word "lifestyle" originally referred to the way of life of a particular group of people or social class. |