Move in Different Languages
Discover 'Move' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Move
Afrikaans skuif | ||
Albanian lëviz | ||
Amharic አንቀሳቅስ | ||
Arabic نقل | ||
Armenian տեղափոխվել | ||
Assamese পদক্ষেপ লোৱা | ||
Aymara unxtayaña | ||
Azerbaijani hərəkət et | ||
Bambara yɛlɛma | ||
Basque mugitu | ||
Belarusian рухацца | ||
Bengali সরানো | ||
Bhojpuri चलल | ||
Bosnian pomakni se | ||
Bulgarian ход | ||
Catalan moure | ||
Cebuano lihok | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 移动 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 移動 | ||
Corsican move | ||
Croatian potez | ||
Czech hýbat se | ||
Danish bevæge sig | ||
Dhivehi ދިޔުން | ||
Dogri सरक | ||
Dutch actie | ||
English move | ||
Esperanto movi | ||
Estonian liikuma | ||
Ewe ɖe zᴐ | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) gumalaw | ||
Finnish liikkua | ||
French bouge toi | ||
Frisian ferhúzje | ||
Galician mover | ||
Georgian გადაადგილება | ||
German bewegung | ||
Greek κίνηση | ||
Guarani mongu'e | ||
Gujarati ચાલ | ||
Haitian Creole deplase | ||
Hausa motsa | ||
Hawaiian neʻe | ||
Hebrew מהלך \ לזוז \ לעבור | ||
Hindi चाल | ||
Hmong txav mus | ||
Hungarian mozog | ||
Icelandic færa | ||
Igbo kpalie | ||
Ilocano umakar | ||
Indonesian pindah | ||
Irish bogadh | ||
Italian mossa | ||
Japanese 移動する | ||
Javanese ngalih | ||
Kannada ಸರಿಸಿ | ||
Kazakh қозғалу | ||
Khmer ផ្លាស់ទី | ||
Kinyarwanda kwimuka | ||
Konkani हालोवचें | ||
Korean 움직임 | ||
Krio muv | ||
Kurdish barkirin | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) جووڵە | ||
Kyrgyz жылуу | ||
Lao ຍ້າຍ | ||
Latin move | ||
Latvian kustēties | ||
Lingala koningana | ||
Lithuanian judėti | ||
Luganda okutambula | ||
Luxembourgish réckelen | ||
Macedonian се движат | ||
Maithili चलनाइ | ||
Malagasy fihetsika | ||
Malay bergerak | ||
Malayalam നീക്കുക | ||
Maltese imxi | ||
Maori neke | ||
Marathi हलवा | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯂꯦꯡꯕ | ||
Mizo che | ||
Mongolian шилжих | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ရွှေ့ပါ | ||
Nepali चल्नु | ||
Norwegian bevege seg | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kusuntha | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଘୁଞ୍ଚାନ୍ତୁ | | ||
Oromo socho'uu | ||
Pashto خوځول | ||
Persian حرکت | ||
Polish ruszaj się | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) mover | ||
Punjabi ਮੂਵ | ||
Quechua kuyuy | ||
Romanian mișcare | ||
Russian переехать | ||
Samoan minoi | ||
Sanskrit चलनम् | ||
Scots Gaelic gluasad | ||
Sepedi sepela | ||
Serbian потез | ||
Sesotho tsamaya | ||
Shona famba | ||
Sindhi اڳتي وڌو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) චලනය | ||
Slovak pohnúť sa | ||
Slovenian premakniti | ||
Somali dhaqaaq | ||
Spanish moverse | ||
Sundanese pindah | ||
Swahili hoja | ||
Swedish flytta | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) gumalaw | ||
Tajik ҳаракат кардан | ||
Tamil நகர்வு | ||
Tatar хәрәкәтләнү | ||
Telugu కదలిక | ||
Thai ย้าย | ||
Tigrinya ምንቅስቓስ | ||
Tsonga famba | ||
Turkish hareket | ||
Turkmen hereket et | ||
Twi (Akan) kɔ fa | ||
Ukrainian рухатися | ||
Urdu اقدام | ||
Uyghur يۆتكەش | ||
Uzbek harakat qilish | ||
Vietnamese di chuyển | ||
Welsh symud | ||
Xhosa hamba | ||
Yiddish מאַך | ||
Yoruba gbe | ||
Zulu hamba |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | 'Skuif' is also a South African measurement equal to 750 ml or 910 g. |
| Albanian | The Albanian word "lëviz" is cognate with the Latin "levare" (to lift, raise), and is also related to the English word "lever". |
| Amharic | The word 'አንቀሳቅስ' has a literal meaning of 'to shake', as well as a more abstract meaning of 'to be active or restless'. |
| Arabic | Etymology: Possibly from the verb "to remove" or "to carry". |
| Azerbaijani | The word "hərəkət et" can also mean "to start moving" or "to set in motion". |
| Basque | "Mugitu" also means "to change" or "to be different" and is the origin for the name of the political movement Mugimendu Sozialista (Socialists' Movement). |
| Belarusian | The word "рухацца" also means "get moving" in Belarusian. |
| Bengali | The word "সরানো" ("move") derives from the Sanskrit root "sṛ" meaning "to flow" or "to go". |
| Bosnian | The word "pomakni se" can also mean "make a move" or "make a decision" in Bosnian. |
| Bulgarian | In Bulgarian, 'ход' can also refer to a 'way' or 'manner', as well as a 'course of action' or 'progress'. |
| Catalan | The Catalan word 'moure' can also refer to stirring or changing, as in 'moure la cua' (wagging the tail). |
| Cebuano | The term 'lihok' in Filipino can also refer to a 'gesture' or 'action'. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 移动(yídòng) was originally composed of 易 and 动, representing moving houses with ease and the mobility of horses respectively. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 移動 (yìdòng) also means "mobile" in Chinese. |
| Corsican | In Corsican, "move" can also mean to shake or to stir something. |
| Croatian | The verb "potez" in Croatian can also mean "move" in the sense of "a strategic maneuver in a game" or "a chess move". |
| Czech | The verb “hýbat se” has cognates in other Slavic languages such as Polish and Serbo-Croatian. |
| Danish | "Bevæge sig" can also mean "to touch" or "to influence" in Danish. |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "actie" originally meant "an action in a game" and later acquired the meaning of "a movement or activity in general". |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word "movi" can also mean to stir, agitate, or shake. |
| Estonian | The word “liikuma” derives from the Proto-Uralic verb *lik- and denotes motion and movement. |
| Finnish | The word **liikkua** is related to the Finnish word **liike** (movement), which in turn is related to the Proto-Indo-European root *gʷʰei-*, meaning 'to move' or 'to go'. |
| French | In French, 'bouge toi' literally means 'shake yourself', but is usually used to tell someone to hurry up or move out of the way. |
| Frisian | In the Frisian language, the word "ferhúzje" derives from the Old Frisian term "ferhūsa, |
| Galician | The Galician word "mover" also means "to show", deriving from the Latin "monstrare". |
| German | The word "Bewegung" also means "movement" or "activity" in the context of social or political change. |
| Greek | The Greek word 'κίνηση' ('move') can also refer to traffic or a protest. |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "ચાલ" can also refer to a "gait" or a "melody" in music. |
| Haitian Creole | In Haitian Creole, "deplase" also means "to change place or position" and "to move from one place to another". |
| Hausa | In Hausa, "motsa" can refer to both physical movement and emotional stirring. |
| Hawaiian | The word "neʻe" can refer to the motion of a living creature, or the movement of an inanimate object, such as a wheel turning. |
| Hebrew | The root of the word 'מהלך' ('move') in Hebrew is 'הלך' ('to go'), which is also the root of the word 'הלכה' ('law'), suggesting a connection between movement and legal code. |
| Hindi | The Hindi word 'चाल' (move) is often used in the context of chess or other games with similar rules, to refer to the act of moving a piece or a group of pieces on the board. |
| Hmong | In addition to meaning "to move," "txav mus" also means "to move in a hurry" in Hmong. |
| Hungarian | The Hungarian word "mozog" also encompasses "shake", "stir", and "wiggle". |
| Icelandic | The original meaning of "færa" in Old Norse was likely "to go", which makes this word a cognate with modern English "fare". |
| Igbo | "Kpalie" also refers to a type of dance popular among the Igbo people of Nigeria. |
| Indonesian | The word "pindah" can also refer to a change of religion or social status. |
| Irish | The verb 'bogadh' can also mean 'to go away'. |
| Italian | The Italian word "mossa" (meaning "move") is related to the French verb "mouvoir" and the Italian noun "moto" (meaning "motion"). |
| Japanese | The Japanese word "移動する" also has connotations of displacement or removal. |
| Javanese | The word "ngalih" also means "to change" or "to transform" in Javanese. |
| Kannada | ಸರಿಸಿ is also used to indicate a change in location or position. |
| Kazakh | "Қозғалу" also refers to the activity of a specific group or movement, or a state of agitation. |
| Korean | The term 움직임 can also be used in a metaphorical sense, referring to the movement of an idea or concept. |
| Kurdish | Barkirin, meaning "move," is cognate with the Persian verbs "raftan" and "burdan." |
| Kyrgyz | The Kyrgyz word "жылуу" also refers to "to flow" and can be applied figuratively to concepts like time. |
| Lao | The word "ຍ້າຍ" has additional meanings beyond just movement, like changing jobs or residence. |
| Latin | The Latin word "moveo" also means "to disturb, to set in motion, to stir up". |
| Latvian | Kustēties comes from kustēt, which means "to move": the root "kust" is shared with Lithuanian "judėti" and Old Prussian "costan". It can mean both to move in a place or to move from one place to another |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word "judėti" can also refer to the movement of liquids, gases, or thoughts. |
| Luxembourgish | The word "réckelen" is derived from the Old High German word "recken," meaning "to stretch or extend." |
| Macedonian | The word "се движат" is related to the verb "движам" (to move), which is derived from the Proto-Slavic root *dъvъgati. |
| Malagasy | The word "fihetsika" can also mean "to change" or "to transform". |
| Malay | Bergerak translates to "move" in English, but also means "progress" or "change". |
| Malayalam | The word "നീക്കുക" can also mean "to remove" or "to dismiss". |
| Maltese | The verb “imxi” can be used as an imperative for the verb “to go”, but it can also be used to describe a state of being, or to describe a person who is moving around a lot. |
| Maori | In Māori, the verb 'neke' has cognates in other Polynesian languages, such as 'ne'e' in Hawaiian, which means 'walk'. |
| Marathi | The word "move" in Marathi, "हलवा," also means "to stir" or "to mix." |
| Mongolian | The word "шилжих" is also used to mean "to change one's place of residence." |
| Nepali | The Newari word चल्न ('to move') also exists in Nepali but is used only in compounds, such as चल्नबल ('mobile') and आचलन ('agitation'). |
| Norwegian | The word "bevege seg" comes from the Old Norse word "bevega", meaning "to move" or "to shake". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | "Kusuntha" can also mean to change or to shift. |
| Pashto | In Pashto, the word “خوځول” also means “to churn” or “to stir”. |
| Persian | "حرکت" also means "movement" in a military context, especially the mobilization of troops and equipment. |
| Polish | "Ruszaj się" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *rusati, meaning "to move". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word 'mover' in Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) derives from the Latin 'movere', also meaning 'to excite', 'to stir', 'to cause emotion'. |
| Punjabi | The word "ਮੂਵ" also has connotations of change, transformation, or progress. |
| Romanian | In Romanian, "mişcare" can also mean a military maneuver, a gesture, a theatrical play, a movement, a dance, or a piece of music. |
| Russian | The verb "переехать" in Russian can also mean "to die", derived from the literal meaning of "to move to the other side" referring to the afterlife. |
| Samoan | The word "minoi" also means "to carry" or "to bring" in Samoan. |
| Scots Gaelic | Gluasad can also mean "glide" or "flow". |
| Serbian | "Потез" can also mean "a course of action; a maneuver" |
| Sesotho | The word 'tsamaya' has an extension to mean 'go for a walk or stroll'. |
| Shona | The word "famba" in Shona can also refer to a journey or trip. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | චලනය also connotes a shift in mindset or stance. |
| Slovak | The word "pohnúť sa" in Slovak literally means "to move something" and can refer to both physical and figurative movement. |
| Slovenian | Though 'premakniti' primarily means 'to move', it can also be used in the context of 'to touch' or 'to affect'. |
| Somali | The verb dhaqaaq can also mean 'change', 'alter' or 'modify'. |
| Spanish | The word "moverse" can also mean "to move one's bowels" or "to change one's mind" in Spanish. |
| Sundanese | The Sundanese word "pindah" can also mean "to transfer" or "to change". |
| Swahili | "Hoja" in Swahili can also mean "to shift" or "to transfer". |
| Swedish | The Swedish word "flytta" is related to the German word "fliehen" and the English word "flee". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word 'gumalaw' in Tagalog means 'move,' while its etymology is traced to the Proto-Austronesian term 'galaw'. |
| Tajik | The word "ҳаракат кардан" is borrowed from Russian and Persian and its original meaning is "to be in motion". |
| Tamil | The word "நகர்வு" can also refer to a "city" or "town" in Tamil. |
| Telugu | The noun 'కదలిక' is also used in Telugu for 'agitation' and for 'emotion'. |
| Thai | The word “ย้าย” can also refer to the act of migrating or relocating to a different place. |
| Turkish | "Hareket" in Turkish also signifies a social or political campaign that strives for change or revolution. |
| Ukrainian | "Рухатися" can also mean "to make progress" or "to proceed". |
| Urdu | The word "قدام" also means "foot" or "step" in Urdu. |
| Uzbek | The word "harakat qilish" in Uzbek also means "to take action" or "to do something." |
| Vietnamese | The Vietnamese word "di chuyển" originally meant "to carry on the shoulder", but now it means "to move" in general. |
| Welsh | The Welsh word "symud" has the same root as the word "simbyl," meaning "a whirling motion." |
| Xhosa | The word "hamba" has multiple meanings, including to leave, go, or run |
| Yiddish | The noun "מאַך" also means "time" in Yiddish; however, this meaning is rare and is mostly used in the phrase "אַ מאָל אַ מאַך" ("once upon a time"). |
| Yoruba | The Yoruba word "gbe" can also mean "take" or "carry" in certain contexts. |
| Zulu | The word "hamba" also means "to visit" or "to go to someone's house" in Zulu. |
| English | The noun "move" can denote a series of individual "moves," such as a chess move, or an attempt to elicit emotion within an audience. |