Memory in Different Languages
Discover 'Memory' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Memory
Afrikaans geheue | ||
Albanian kujtesa | ||
Amharic ትውስታ | ||
Arabic ذاكرة | ||
Armenian հիշողություն | ||
Assamese স্মৃতি | ||
Aymara amuyu | ||
Azerbaijani yaddaş | ||
Bambara hakili | ||
Basque memoria | ||
Belarusian памяць | ||
Bengali স্মৃতি | ||
Bhojpuri ईयाद | ||
Bosnian memorija | ||
Bulgarian памет | ||
Catalan memòria | ||
Cebuano handumanan | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 记忆 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 記憶 | ||
Corsican memoria | ||
Croatian memorija | ||
Czech paměť | ||
Danish hukommelse | ||
Dhivehi ހަނދާން | ||
Dogri जादाश्त | ||
Dutch geheugen | ||
English memory | ||
Esperanto memoro | ||
Estonian mälu | ||
Ewe susu | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) alaala | ||
Finnish muisti | ||
French mémoire | ||
Frisian oantinken | ||
Galician memoria | ||
Georgian მეხსიერება | ||
German erinnerung | ||
Greek μνήμη | ||
Guarani mandu'a | ||
Gujarati મેમરી | ||
Haitian Creole memwa | ||
Hausa ƙwaƙwalwar ajiya | ||
Hawaiian hoʻomanaʻo | ||
Hebrew זיכרון | ||
Hindi याद | ||
Hmong kev nco | ||
Hungarian memória | ||
Icelandic minni | ||
Igbo nchekwa | ||
Ilocano memoria | ||
Indonesian penyimpanan | ||
Irish cuimhne | ||
Italian memoria | ||
Japanese 記憶 | ||
Javanese memori | ||
Kannada ಮೆಮೊರಿ | ||
Kazakh жады | ||
Khmer ការចងចាំ | ||
Kinyarwanda kwibuka | ||
Konkani स्मरण | ||
Korean 기억 | ||
Krio mɛmba | ||
Kurdish bîr | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) یادگە | ||
Kyrgyz эс тутум | ||
Lao ຄວາມຊົງ ຈຳ | ||
Latin memoriae | ||
Latvian atmiņa | ||
Lingala boongo | ||
Lithuanian atmintis | ||
Luganda okujjukira | ||
Luxembourgish erënnerung | ||
Macedonian меморија | ||
Maithili खेआल | ||
Malagasy fahatsiarovana | ||
Malay ingatan | ||
Malayalam മെമ്മറി | ||
Maltese memorja | ||
Maori mahara | ||
Marathi स्मृती | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯅꯤꯡꯁꯤꯡꯕ | ||
Mizo hriatrengna | ||
Mongolian санах ой | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) မှတ်ဉာဏ် | ||
Nepali मेमोरी | ||
Norwegian hukommelse | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kukumbukira | ||
Odia (Oriya) ସ୍ମୃତି | ||
Oromo yaadannoo | ||
Pashto حافظه | ||
Persian حافظه | ||
Polish pamięć | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) memória | ||
Punjabi ਮੈਮੋਰੀ | ||
Quechua yuyay | ||
Romanian memorie | ||
Russian объем памяти | ||
Samoan manatua | ||
Sanskrit स्मृति | ||
Scots Gaelic cuimhne | ||
Sepedi kgopolo | ||
Serbian меморија | ||
Sesotho mohopolo | ||
Shona ndangariro | ||
Sindhi ياداشت | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) මතකය | ||
Slovak pamäť | ||
Slovenian spomin | ||
Somali xusuusta | ||
Spanish memoria | ||
Sundanese ingetan | ||
Swahili kumbukumbu | ||
Swedish minne | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) alaala | ||
Tajik хотира | ||
Tamil நினைவு | ||
Tatar хәтер | ||
Telugu మెమరీ | ||
Thai หน่วยความจำ | ||
Tigrinya ተዘክሮ | ||
Tsonga miehleketo | ||
Turkish hafıza | ||
Turkmen ýat | ||
Twi (Akan) nkaeɛ | ||
Ukrainian пам'яті | ||
Urdu یاداشت | ||
Uyghur ئىچكى ساقلىغۇچ | ||
Uzbek xotira | ||
Vietnamese ký ức | ||
Welsh cof | ||
Xhosa imemori | ||
Yiddish זכּרון | ||
Yoruba iranti | ||
Zulu inkumbulo |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "geheue" is borrowed from the Dutch word "geheugen", meaning "memory" and "recollection". |
| Amharic | The Amharic word ትውስታ (memory) also means 'remembrance' and 'commemoration'. |
| Arabic | ذاكرة literally means recollection or remembrance in Arabic, and can refer to memory in general. |
| Azerbaijani | "Yaddaş" also means "memorial" in Azerbaijani. |
| Basque | In Basque, "memoria" means both "memory" and "memorial of the dead". |
| Belarusian | The word |
| Bengali | The word "স্মৃতি" in Bengali also has a historical sense of "sacred knowledge" or "tradition", derived from the Sanskrit "smriti". |
| Bosnian | In Bosnian, "memorija" can also refer to a person's ability to remember or their faculty of memory. |
| Bulgarian | The Bulgarian word "памет" is also used to refer to an object that serves as a memento or reminder. |
| Catalan | The word "memòria" in Catalan comes from the Latin word "memoria" meaning 'memory', 'remembrance', 'mindful', 'commemoration' or 'record'. |
| Cebuano | "Handumanan" in Cebuano is used in two senses: 1) memory, 2) gift given to someone before leaving a place or country. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | This character is shared with Japanese (記憶, きおく), Korean (기억), and Vietnamese (kí ức) |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The character 憶 in 記憶 can also mean "to recall" or "to recollect". |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "memoria" can also refer to a "note" or a "remark". |
| Croatian | Though 'memorija' most commonly means 'memory', it can also mean 'memorandum' or 'memorial', deriving from the Latin 'memoria' with the same meanings. |
| Czech | The word "Paměť" derives from the Proto-Slavic word *pamtь, meaning "memory, mind". |
| Danish | 'Hukommelse' derives from the verb 'at huske,' meaning 'to remember,' related to the English verb 'to get' and noun 'ghost' via Proto-Indo-European '*ǵʰeu̯-,' meaning 'to call forth' |
| Dutch | Dutch word "geheugen" has roots in "gehug" (mind), which also meant "stomach", as this was believed to be the seat of emotions. |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word "memoro" comes from the Latin "memoria", and also means "commemoration" in Esperanto. |
| Estonian | Estonian "mälu" has cognates in Finnish "muisti" and Hungarian "emlék". |
| Finnish | Muisti is a Finnish word that also means "paint" or "dye". While etymologically not related to the English "memory", it shares an Indo-European root for "measure" with the Latin "memini" and the Greek "mnaomai" from which the English word is derived. |
| French | In old French, 'mémoire' also meant 'reminder' or 'evidence', a meaning still found in legal contexts. |
| Frisian | Oantinken also means 'remembrance', the ability to recall from memory. |
| Galician | Galician "memoria" derives from the Latin "memoria" and in Spanish means both "memory" and "reminder". |
| German | Erinnerung', which is the German word for 'memory', also refers to the act of reminding or recollecting something and has a connotation of nostalgia. |
| Greek | "Μνήμη" in Greek derives from the Proto-Indo-European root "men-," meaning "to remember" or "to call to mind." |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "મેમરી" also has the meaning of "reminder". |
| Haitian Creole | Memwa comes from the French word "mémoire", meaning "memory" or "record". |
| Hausa | In Hausa, the word "ƙwaƙwalwar ajiya" denotes not only memory but also storage and repository. |
| Hawaiian | The word "hoʻomanaʻo" in Hawaiian also means "to remember" or "to commemorate". |
| Hebrew | Though "זיכרון" means "memory" in Hebrew, it also means a "monument" |
| Hindi | Some alternate meanings of "याद" include "remembrance" and "missing someone." |
| Hmong | The Hmong word "kev nco" can also mean "spirit" or "soul". |
| Hungarian | In Hungarian, the word "memória" not only means "memory" but also "notebook" or "record book". |
| Icelandic | The word "minni" can also refer to memory or remembrance, or even a memory or keepsake. |
| Igbo | The Igbo word 'nchekwa' is rooted in the verb 'che' ('to know'), implying memory as a form of retained knowledge. |
| Indonesian | "Penyimpanan" derives from Indonesian "simpan" meaning "to store" related to Malay "simpan" with the same meaning. |
| Irish | The word "cuimhne" means both "memory" and "conscience" in Irish, reflecting the close connection between the two concepts in Celtic culture. |
| Italian | "Memoria" is also used to refer to the register in a computer or the storage unit in an electronic device. |
| Japanese | 記憶 can also mean 'experience' or 'knowledge', and is used in compounds like 'historical experience' and 'knowledge of traditional arts'. |
| Javanese | In Javanese, the word "memori" can also refer to a keepsake or memento. |
| Kannada | The word "ಮೆಮೊರಿ" in Kannada can also refer to a reminder or a note to remember something, similar to the English word "memo" |
| Kazakh | The word "жады" can also refer to "conscience" or "reputation" in Kazakh. |
| Khmer | In addition to its primary meaning of "memory," "ការចងចាំ" can also refer to "recollection," "remembrance," or "commemoration." |
| Korean | The Korean word '기억' also has the alternate meaning of 'trace', as in the trace of a memory. |
| Kurdish | The Kurdish word "bîr" has multiple meanings including "memory", "mind", and "intelligence". |
| Kyrgyz | The word "эс тутум" also means "consciousness" or "mind" in Kyrgyz. |
| Latin | The Latin word "memoriae" derives from the Proto-Indo-European root *men- "to think". |
| Latvian | Atmiņa is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *men- meaning "to think" or "to remember". |
| Lithuanian | The word "atmintis" derives from the Proto-Indo-European "men-," meaning "to think" as well as the "men-ti," meaning "mind or spirit." |
| Macedonian | The word "меморија" in Macedonian is derived from the Greek word "μνήμη" and is related to the Latin word "memoria", both meaning "memory". |
| Malagasy | Fahatsiarovana, or memory in Malagasy, derives from the verb 'hatsiaro' which means to 'remember' or 'recall'. |
| Malay | The Malay word "ingatan" is also used to mean "warning" and "reminder". |
| Malayalam | The term മെമ്മറി also refers to "tradition" and "inheritance" in Malayalam. |
| Maltese | Maltese 'memorja' derives from Latin 'memoria' via Sicilian, but also means 'remarkable' or 'extraordinary' |
| Maori | The Māori word 'mahara' not only means 'memory', but also has spiritual connotations implying 'remembrance' and 'remembrance of past deeds'. |
| Marathi | स्मृती (smṛti) is also a technical term in Hinduism referring to the body of traditional religious texts in Sanskrit. |
| Mongolian | The word “санах ой” derives from the verb “санах”, meaning “to remember”, and the abstract nominalizer suffix “-ой" meaning “thing related to” so “thing related to remembering" and thus "memory". |
| Nepali | The word "मेमोरी" is derived from the Latin word "memoria," meaning "the act of remembering." |
| Norwegian | The Norwegian word "hukommelse" derives from the Old Norse noun "hugr", meaning "mind, intellect" rather than "memory". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | "Kukumbukira" is also used to refer to the act of recalling or remembering something. |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "حافظه" is derived from the Arabic word "حفظ," which means "to memorize," "to safeguard," or "to protect." |
| Persian | The word "حافظه" in Persian has multiple meanings, including "memory", "safekeeping", "archives", and "protection". |
| Polish | The Polish word "pamięć" derives from the Proto-Slavic root *pamtь, also meaning "mind", "intellect", and "remembrance". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, "memória" also refers to a computer's RAM or to notes written in a book, letter, or electronic device |
| Punjabi | In Punjabi, |
| Romanian | In Romanian, "memorie" can refer to memories, but can also encompass the notion of recollection and retrieval in the mind. |
| Russian | In Russian, объем памяти, literally meaning "volume of memory," can refer to both computer memory as well as the human ability to remember. |
| Samoan | The Samoan word "manatua" can also mean "to remember" or "to be mindful of". |
| Scots Gaelic | The Scots Gaelic word 'cuimhne' is cognate with the Irish word 'cuimhne', meaning 'memory', and is a derivative of the Proto-Celtic *kom-mneh₂ |
| Serbian | The term 'меморија' derives from the Old Slavonic language and can also refer to a place dedicated to the commemoration of a person or event. |
| Sesotho | The word "mohopolo" also means "a place where people have lived for a long time". |
| Shona | In some dialects, "ndangariro" also refers to the place where one remembers something or a place where something was hidden. |
| Sindhi | In Sindhi, "یاداشت" can also refer to the notes or writings one keeps to remember something. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "මතකය" (memory) also means "opinion" or "idea" in Sinhala. |
| Slovak | The Slovak word "Pamäť" comes from the Proto-Slavic "*pamtь" meaning "remembrance" or "mind". |
| Slovenian | The Slovene word "spomin" also means "recollection". |
| Somali | The word 'xusuusta' is derived from the Arabic word 'xassa' ('special') |
| Spanish | The word "memoria" derives from the Latin "memorare" ("to remember"), and its secondary meanings include "report" or "reminder". |
| Sundanese | The word "ingetan" in Sundanese comes from the Proto-Austronesian root "*ŋiRəm", meaning "remembrance" or "recall". |
| Swahili | "Kumbukumbu" is derived from the verb "kukumbuka," meaning "to remember" or "recall." |
| Swedish | In Old Swedish, "minne" also meant "love" or "affection". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word 'alaala' may have originated from an archaic, onomatopoeic Filipino word that describes the act of recalling something. |
| Tajik | Tajik "хотира" also refers to the memory of a person or thing, especially in the sense of their past life or deeds. |
| Tamil | The Tamil word 'நினைவு' can also refer to 'a thought' or 'an impression' |
| Telugu | The Telugu word "మెమరీ" is derived from the Sanskrit word "स्मृति" (smr̥ti), which also means "memory." |
| Thai | The Thai word for "memory," หน่วยความจำ, literally translates to "unit of knowledge". |
| Turkish | The word "hafıza" in Turkish originates from the Arabic word "hifzh", meaning "protection" or "safekeeping", and is also related to the Persian word "khazneh", meaning "treasury" or "storehouse". |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word "пам'яті" can also refer to a monument or memorial to commemorate someone or something |
| Urdu | The word 'یاداشت' is derived from the Persian word 'یاد' meaning 'to remember'; it also refers to a 'note' or 'memo'. |
| Uzbek | "Xotira" derives from the Persian word "khāter" meaning "remembrance" which in turn comes from the Arabic word "khāṭir" meaning "thought". |
| Vietnamese | "Ký" means "record" and "ức" means "heart". So "ký ức" literally means "record in the heart". |
| Welsh | The Welsh word "cof" also means "remembrance" or "recollection". |
| Xhosa | In Xhosa, the word "imemori," while commonly understood to mean "memory", can also refer to "a reminder" or "a memento of something or someone." |
| Yiddish | Yiddish's "זכּרון" originally meant "altar," then "offering" and finally, "memory". |
| Yoruba | "Ìrànti" is the name of a traditional Yoruba fabric worn on special occasions, representing the remembrance of ancestors |
| Zulu | The Zulu word "inkumbulo" also means "a memorial" or "a reminder". |
| English | The word 'memory' derives from the Latin word 'memoria', which originally meant 'mindful' or 'remembrance'. The term is also frequently used to refer to a computer's storage capacity. |