Make in Different Languages
Discover 'Make' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Make
Afrikaans maak | ||
Albanian bëj | ||
Amharic ያድርጉ | ||
Arabic يصنع | ||
Armenian կատարել | ||
Assamese নিৰ্মাণ কৰা | ||
Aymara luraña | ||
Azerbaijani etmək | ||
Bambara keli | ||
Basque egin | ||
Belarusian зрабіць | ||
Bengali করা | ||
Bhojpuri बनावल | ||
Bosnian napraviti | ||
Bulgarian направи | ||
Catalan fer | ||
Cebuano paghimo | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 使 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 使 | ||
Corsican fà | ||
Croatian napraviti | ||
Czech udělat | ||
Danish lave | ||
Dhivehi ހެދުން | ||
Dogri घाट | ||
Dutch maken | ||
English make | ||
Esperanto fari | ||
Estonian tegema | ||
Ewe wɔ | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) gumawa | ||
Finnish tehdä | ||
French faire | ||
Frisian meitsje | ||
Galician facer | ||
Georgian გააკეთოს | ||
German machen | ||
Greek φτιαχνω, κανω | ||
Guarani japo | ||
Gujarati બનાવો | ||
Haitian Creole fè | ||
Hausa yi | ||
Hawaiian hana | ||
Hebrew עשה | ||
Hindi बनाना | ||
Hmong ua | ||
Hungarian készítsen | ||
Icelandic gera | ||
Igbo -eme ka | ||
Ilocano agaramid | ||
Indonesian membuat | ||
Irish déan | ||
Italian rendere | ||
Japanese 作る | ||
Javanese gawe | ||
Kannada ಮಾಡಿ | ||
Kazakh жасау | ||
Khmer ធ្វើឱ្យ | ||
Kinyarwanda gukora | ||
Konkani तयार करचें | ||
Korean 하다 | ||
Krio mek | ||
Kurdish kirin | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) دروستکردن | ||
Kyrgyz жасоо | ||
Lao ເຮັດໃຫ້ | ||
Latin facere | ||
Latvian veidot | ||
Lingala kosala | ||
Lithuanian padaryti | ||
Luganda okukola | ||
Luxembourgish maachen | ||
Macedonian направи | ||
Maithili बनाउ | ||
Malagasy manao | ||
Malay membuat | ||
Malayalam ഉണ്ടാക്കുക | ||
Maltese jagħmlu | ||
Maori hanga | ||
Marathi बनवा | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯁꯦꯝꯕ | ||
Mizo siam | ||
Mongolian хийх | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) လုပ် | ||
Nepali बनाउनु | ||
Norwegian gjøre | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) pangani | ||
Odia (Oriya) ତିଆରି କର | | ||
Oromo hojjedhu | ||
Pashto جوړول | ||
Persian ساختن | ||
Polish robić | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) faço | ||
Punjabi ਬਣਾਉਣ | ||
Quechua ruway | ||
Romanian face | ||
Russian сделать | ||
Samoan fai | ||
Sanskrit निर्मीयताम् | ||
Scots Gaelic dèan | ||
Sepedi dira | ||
Serbian направити | ||
Sesotho etsa | ||
Shona gadzira | ||
Sindhi ٺاهڻ | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) සාදන්න | ||
Slovak urobiť | ||
Slovenian naredite | ||
Somali samee | ||
Spanish hacer | ||
Sundanese ngadamel | ||
Swahili fanya | ||
Swedish göra | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) gumawa | ||
Tajik кунад | ||
Tamil செய்ய | ||
Tatar ясарга | ||
Telugu తయారు | ||
Thai ทำ | ||
Tigrinya ስራሕ | ||
Tsonga endla | ||
Turkish yapmak | ||
Turkmen ýasamak | ||
Twi (Akan) yɛ | ||
Ukrainian зробити | ||
Urdu بنائیں | ||
Uyghur ياساش | ||
Uzbek qilish | ||
Vietnamese làm | ||
Welsh creu | ||
Xhosa yenza | ||
Yiddish מאַכן | ||
Yoruba ṣe | ||
Zulu yenza |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | "Maak" can also mean "mate" or "partner", and is derived from the Dutch "maken", meaning to do or produce something. |
| Albanian | The word "bëj" is also used to mean "to become" or "to do" |
| Amharic | The word ያድርጉ "make" also means "create" and "produce". |
| Arabic | In Classical Arabic, "يصنع" can also mean "to earn" or "to acquire". |
| Azerbaijani | The word "etmək" in Azerbaijani also means "to do" or "to act". |
| Basque | The word 'egin' has other related terms like 'egite' (action), 'egilea' (author) and 'egingo' (will be done). |
| Belarusian | The word зрабіць is derived from the Old Church Slavonic word сътворити, meaning "to create" or "to bring into being". |
| Bengali | In Bengali, "করা" (kara) not only means "to make" but also "to do," "to perform," or "to cause something to happen." |
| Bosnian | Napraviti is a verb that is used to express the action of creating or producing something new |
| Bulgarian | Bulgarian "направи" can mean "to do" or "to cause to happen". |
| Catalan | "Fer" is also the verb "to do" and "to be" in Catalan. |
| Cebuano | In the past, the term "paghimo" also referred to the act of weaving, highlighting its central role in Cebuano society. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The Chinese character "使" also means "use" or "send (someone to do something)". |
| Chinese (Traditional) | In addition to its primary meaning of "make," 使 ("shǐ") can also mean "to cause," "to order," or "to use" |
| Corsican | Corsican "fà" also means "to become" and can be traced back to the Vulgar Latin "facere" meaning "to make, to do, to perform". |
| Croatian | The word "napraviti" derives from an old Slavic root meaning "to repair" or "to fix". |
| Czech | The word "udělat" has its roots in Old Czech: "u" (away) and "děti" (doing), meaning literally "doing away" or "putting away." |
| Danish | The verb form of 'lave' is used for 'letting' (a liquid) rather than making |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "maken" is cognate with the English word "make" and shares its Indo-European root *maǵ- ("to make, to form"). |
| Esperanto | In Old Polish, "fari" meant "to make" or "to create". |
| Estonian | Tegema is derived from a Proto-Finnic root *tekem, meaning 'to do, work, produce'. Its cognates are found in Finnish (tehdä), Karelian (tegiä), Veps (tegdä) and Livonian (tõkkõ). |
| Finnish | The word "tehdä" is derived from the Proto-Finnic verb *tek-, meaning "to do" or "to make", and is cognate with "do" in English and "tun" in Swedish. |
| French | In 12th century Old French, "faire" was the word most commonly used with the sense of "to cause to become." |
| Frisian | The word "meitsje" in Frisian can also mean "to create" or "to form". |
| Galician | In Galician, "facer" can also mean "to say" or "to do". |
| Georgian | The Georgian verb "გააკეთოს" is derived from a Proto-Kartvelian root meaning "to do, put, place" and has a cognate in Svan, a language spoken in northwestern Georgia. |
| German | The German word "machen" can also mean "to behave" or "to do", and is cognate with the English word "make". |
| Greek | The word "φτιάχνω" also means "to make something right" or "to fix something". |
| Haitian Creole | "Fè" also means "to give birth" in Haitian Creole, derived from the French word "faire" with the same meaning. |
| Hausa | The Hausa word "yi" can also mean "to become," "to happen," "to be," or "to do." |
| Hawaiian | The word "hana" in Hawaiian has another meaning, "work" or "occupation." |
| Hebrew | The verb "עשה" ("make") in Hebrew can also mean "to do", "to create", or "to perform". |
| Hindi | बनाना is the infinitive form of the verb whose stem is बना-. It literally means 'to shape' or 'to form'. |
| Hmong | The word 'ua' also means 'to create' or 'to produce'. |
| Hungarian | A készít ige eredetileg 'előkészületet' jelentett, például 'készítsen elő valamit az utazásra' |
| Icelandic | Gera is derived from the Proto-Norse verb “gerwa”, meaning “to do or make”. |
| Igbo | The Igbo verb "-eme ka" can also mean to 'become' or 'transform' depending on context. |
| Indonesian | The Indonesian word "membuat" is cognate with the Malay "membuat", which originally meant "to work on" or "to carry out". |
| Irish | The Irish word 'Déan' can also mean 'do', 'perform', 'execute', 'accomplish' or 'finish'. |
| Italian | The Italian word "rendere" derives from the Latin verb "reddere", meaning "to give back" or "to restore". |
| Japanese | The word "作る" (tsukuru) can also mean "to compose" or "to create". |
| Javanese | The word 'gawe' in Javanese can also mean 'work' or 'occupation'. |
| Kannada | The word 'ಮಾಡಿ' ('make') can also mean 'to perform' or 'to do'. |
| Kazakh | The word "жасау" can also mean "to create" or "to produce". |
| Khmer | The Khmer word ធ្វើឱ្យ "make" derives from Sanskrit and also means "to cause". |
| Korean | '하다' originally meant 'to be born' or 'to grow', and this meaning is still found in certain expressions. |
| Kurdish | In Kurdish, the word “kirin” can also refer to the act of “creating” or “constructing” something, indicating a broader sense of production beyond just making an object. |
| Kyrgyz | "Жасоо" can also mean "to create" or "to compose". |
| Latin | While facere commonly means "make" in Latin, its origin is from the Proto-Indo-European root "dhe-," meaning "put, place." |
| Latvian | The Latvian word "veidot" ultimately derives from the Proto-Indo-European word "*weidh-", meaning "to grow". |
| Lithuanian | The verb "padaryti" in Lithuanian also has the meanings "to become", "to happen", and "to cause". |
| Luxembourgish | The etymology of "maachen" in Luxembourgish may be linked to "machen" in German and "maken" in Dutch, both meaning "to make". |
| Macedonian | There is also the verb "направити", which means "to cause to become". |
| Malagasy | Malagasy 'manao' derives from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maŋa(w), the word for 'do, make, create' in other Malayo-Polynesian languages. |
| Malay | Membuat also means 'to establish' or 'to create' in Malay, derived from the Proto-Austronesian root *buaq, meaning 'to give birth to,' or 'to produce.' |
| Maltese | The word "jagħmlu" in Maltese can also mean "to do" or "to perform". |
| Maori | The Maori word "hanga" can also refer to preparing or cooking food, as well as constructing or building something. |
| Marathi | The word "बनवा" in Marathi also means "to get something made" or "to have something made" |
| Mongolian | "Хийх" also means "to do" or "to perform". |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The Burmese-Myanmar word လုပ် can also mean "perform," "act," "do," "operate," or "work." |
| Nepali | The verb 'बनाउनु' is a cognate of the Sanskrit term 'vinna', meaning 'to build, construct, or create'. |
| Norwegian | The Norwegian word "gjøre" can also mean "to do" or "to perform". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | In Chichewa, the word 'pangani' can also refer to the act of preparing food, specifically the cooking process. |
| Pashto | The word "جوړول" also means "to create" or "to establish" in Pashto. |
| Persian | ساختن is derived from the Proto-Iranian root *sak- and is related to the Sanskrit word सच् (sac), meaning "join"} |
| Polish | As a verb, "robić" can also mean "to work" or "to do" in Polish. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In some regions of Portugal, "faço" can also mean "face". |
| Punjabi | The verb "ਬਣਾਉਣ" comes from the Sanskrit word "√kṛ" which means "to do, make, create, form, bring about". |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "față" (face) can also mean "front" or "side". |
| Russian | Сделать can also mean to accomplish, complete, or achieve a goal |
| Samoan | The word "fai" in Samoan can also mean "do" or "happen". |
| Scots Gaelic | The Scots Gaelic word "dèan" (make) is homophonous with "déan" (deign), possibly an indication of a relationship to the French word "daigner." |
| Serbian | In Bulgarian, a cognate word "направи" means "to fix, to improve a defect or damage something". |
| Sesotho | The word "etsa" can also mean "to create", "to build", or "to produce" in Sesotho. |
| Shona | In Shona, the word 'gadzira' also has the meanings 'form', 'shape', 'create' and 'bring forth'. |
| Sindhi | Sindhi word ٺاهڻ derives from Proto-Indo-Iranian *tak- (to carve) and is related to English 'thatch' via shared Proto-Indo-European root *tek- (to cover). |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "සාදන්න" (make) in Sinhala also refers to the creation of music. |
| Slovak | The word "urobiť" in Slovak can also mean "to happen" or "to take place". |
| Slovenian | The Slovenian word naredite derives from a Proto-Slavic verb *oręti, which also meant to plow, till, cultivate. |
| Somali | The word "samee" in Somali can also mean "create" or "form". |
| Spanish | The verb "hacer" comes from the Latin "facere," meaning "to do," and is also related to the English word "fact." |
| Sundanese | "Nga" in "ngadamel" also means "to be" while "damelan" also means "a thing/task." |
| Swahili | The word "fanya" is derived from the Arabic word "fannaa" which means "to destroy" or "to pass away." |
| Swedish | "Göra" is related to the German word "machen", the English word "make", and the French word "faire". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "gumawa" in Tagalog also means "to create," "to produce," or "to construct." |
| Tajik | The word "кунад" also means "to become" or "to turn into". |
| Tamil | The verb "செய்ய" can also mean "to perform" or "to conduct" a task. |
| Telugu | తయారు means "to get ready" in Telugu and comes from the roots త (ta), meaning "to heat", and యారు (yaaru), meaning "to prepare". |
| Thai | The word "ทำ" can also mean "to do", "to perform", or "to create", and is often used in compound words to indicate the action being performed. |
| Turkish | Yapmak also means "to do" as well as "to make" in Turkish. |
| Ukrainian | Зробити's root "роб" denotes action and effort |
| Urdu | The word "بنائیں" has Indo-Aryan roots, and in addition to its primary meaning of "make," it can also be used figuratively to "compose" or "compile." |
| Uzbek | In some contexts, "qilish" can mean "to play" or "to hold an event" in Uzbek. |
| Vietnamese | "Làm" also means to complete, to do, to act, to work, to create, or to cause. |
| Welsh | "Creu" can also mean "to create" or "to generate" in Welsh. |
| Xhosa | The word 'yenza' in Xhosa also signifies 'fashion,' 'forge,' and 'construct,' emphasizing the creative aspect of making. |
| Yiddish | In Yiddish, "מאַכן" can also refer to the concept of "becoming," as in the phrase "ער מאַכט זיך גרייט," meaning "He is getting ready." |
| Yoruba | "Ṣe" (make) is also sometimes used to mean "do", "perform", or "accomplish" in Yoruba. |
| Zulu | "Yenza" also means "to do" or "to perform" in Zulu. |
| English | The word “make” derives from Old English “macian,” meaning “to compose,” “to put together,” or “to cause to become.” |