Native in Different Languages
Discover 'Native' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Native
Afrikaans inheems | ||
Albanian vendas | ||
Amharic ተወላጅ | ||
Arabic محلي | ||
Armenian բնիկ | ||
Assamese স্থানীয় | ||
Aymara natiwu | ||
Azerbaijani doğma | ||
Bambara dugulen | ||
Basque bertakoa | ||
Belarusian родны | ||
Bengali স্থানীয় | ||
Bhojpuri पैदाइशी | ||
Bosnian domorodac | ||
Bulgarian местен | ||
Catalan nadiu | ||
Cebuano lumad | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 本机 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 本機 | ||
Corsican nativu | ||
Croatian domorodac | ||
Czech rodák | ||
Danish hjemmehørende | ||
Dhivehi އުފަން ޤައުމު | ||
Dogri मूल | ||
Dutch native | ||
English native | ||
Esperanto denaska | ||
Estonian pärismaalane | ||
Ewe dumetᴐ | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) katutubo | ||
Finnish syntyperäinen | ||
French originaire de | ||
Frisian ynlânske | ||
Galician nativa | ||
Georgian მშობლიური | ||
German einheimisch | ||
Greek ντόπιος | ||
Guarani ypykuéra | ||
Gujarati વતની | ||
Haitian Creole natif natal | ||
Hausa 'yar ƙasa | ||
Hawaiian ʻōiwi | ||
Hebrew יָלִיד | ||
Hindi देशी | ||
Hmong neeg ib txwm | ||
Hungarian anyanyelvi | ||
Icelandic innfæddur | ||
Igbo nwa afọ | ||
Ilocano katutubo | ||
Indonesian asli | ||
Irish dúchais | ||
Italian nativo | ||
Japanese ネイティブ | ||
Javanese asli | ||
Kannada ಸ್ಥಳೀಯ | ||
Kazakh жергілікті | ||
Khmer ជនជាតិដើម | ||
Kinyarwanda kavukire | ||
Konkani थळावो | ||
Korean 원주민 | ||
Krio yon | ||
Kurdish welatî | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) ڕەسەن | ||
Kyrgyz жергиликтүү | ||
Lao ຄົນພື້ນເມືອງ | ||
Latin patria | ||
Latvian dzimtā | ||
Lingala mwana-mboka | ||
Lithuanian gimtoji | ||
Luganda obuwangwa | ||
Luxembourgish gebierteg | ||
Macedonian мајчин | ||
Maithili मूल-निवासी | ||
Malagasy teratany | ||
Malay asli | ||
Malayalam സ്വദേശി | ||
Maltese indiġeni | ||
Maori tangata whenua | ||
Marathi मुळ | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯌꯦꯜꯍꯧꯉꯩꯗꯒꯤ ꯂꯩꯔꯛꯂꯕ ꯃꯤ | ||
Mizo a rammi | ||
Mongolian уугуул | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ဇာတိ | ||
Nepali नेटिभ | ||
Norwegian innfødt | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) mbadwa | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଦେଶୀ | ||
Oromo dhalataa | ||
Pashto اصلي | ||
Persian بومی | ||
Polish ojczysty | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) nativo | ||
Punjabi ਦੇਸੀ | ||
Quechua nativo | ||
Romanian nativ | ||
Russian родной | ||
Samoan tagatanuu | ||
Sanskrit देशज | ||
Scots Gaelic dùthchasach | ||
Sepedi wa tlhago | ||
Serbian домородац | ||
Sesotho letsoalloa | ||
Shona native | ||
Sindhi ڏيهي | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) ස්වදේශීය | ||
Slovak domorodec | ||
Slovenian domač | ||
Somali hooyo | ||
Spanish nativo | ||
Sundanese asli | ||
Swahili asili | ||
Swedish inföding | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) katutubo | ||
Tajik зода | ||
Tamil பூர்வீகம் | ||
Tatar туган | ||
Telugu స్థానిక | ||
Thai พื้นเมือง | ||
Tigrinya መበቆል | ||
Tsonga rikwavo | ||
Turkish yerli | ||
Turkmen asly | ||
Twi (Akan) mani | ||
Ukrainian рідний | ||
Urdu آبائی | ||
Uyghur يەرلىك | ||
Uzbek tug'ma | ||
Vietnamese tự nhiên | ||
Welsh brodorol | ||
Xhosa yemveli | ||
Yiddish געבוירן | ||
Yoruba abinibi | ||
Zulu owomdabu |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "inheems" can also mean "local" or "indigenous." |
| Albanian | The word "vendas" in Albanian is derived from the Proto-Albanian word *u̯éndos-, meaning "kinsman, relative". |
| Amharic | Though ተወላጅ normally means "native," it can sometimes mean "bastard" or "unwanted child." |
| Arabic | The Arabic word "محلي" (maḥallī) can also refer to something local or specific to a particular place. |
| Armenian | "բնիկ" (native) in Armenian comes from Proto-Indo-European *bʰu- ("to grow, be born") |
| Azerbaijani | "Doğma" means "birth" or "the act of being born" in Azeri, and is derived from the verb "doğmak" (to be born). |
| Basque | The first part 'bera' means 'self, own', while the second part 'koa' is the plural suffix in Basque. |
| Belarusian | "родны" (native) in Belarusian derives from Proto-Slavic *rodъ ("birth, kin, or origin"). |
| Bengali | The word "স্থানীয়" (native) can also refer to something that is produced or found in a particular place. |
| Bosnian | The word "domorodac" originally referred to a local inhabitant, but has since acquired the additional meaning of "indigenous person" |
| Bulgarian | In addition to its primary meaning of "native," the word "местен" can also refer to "local" or "regional." |
| Catalan | The word "nadiu" comes from the Latin "nativus", meaning "born in a place". |
| Cebuano | "Lumad" can also refer to the indigenous animist spiritual practitioners who practice rituals and incantations to heal sick people. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "本机" (běnjī) literally translates as "original machine" and can refer to a computer or other device. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 本機 can also refer to "this machine" or "this device" in technology contexts. |
| Corsican | The word "nativu" is originally related to "nascita" "birth" in Latin but the two Corsican words do not share the same etymology |
| Croatian | The word "domorodac" derives from the Slavic word "dom", meaning "home", and the suffix "-ac", meaning "one who belongs to". |
| Czech | Czech "rodák” means "native," but "rod" can also refer to "family," and "k" is a diminutive suffix, suggesting "little family member." |
| Danish | The word "hjemmehørende" in Danish also means "belonging to the home", "domestic", or "homely". |
| Dutch | In Dutch, |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word "denaska" can also mean "innate" or "natural". |
| Estonian | "Pärismaalane" means "native", but also "indigenous" or "original". |
| Finnish | Syntyperäinen shares its etymology with 'syntyä', to be born, and 'synty', birth. |
| French | The French word "originaire de" can also mean "originating from" or "belonging to". |
| Frisian | The word 'ynlânsk' is derived from the words 'yn' (in) and 'lân' (land) and means 'native' or 'of the country'. |
| Galician | The term "nativa" can also refer to the female descendant of immigrants that are not yet fluent in the language of their new surroundings. |
| German | "Einheimisch" also means "indigenous" and, in some contexts, "vernacular." |
| Greek | The word 'ντόπιος' is a combination of the prefix 'ντο-', meaning local or native, and the word 'τόπος', meaning place. |
| Gujarati | In Gujarati, the word "વતની" ("vatani") also means "a person belonging to a specific village or town". |
| Haitian Creole | In Haitian Creole, “natif natal” has the alternate meaning “a newly born native of a place”. |
| Hausa | 'Yar ƙasa' also means 'daughter of the land' |
| Hawaiian | 'Ōiwi' also refers to the crested honeycreeper, a native Hawaiian bird, and the 'ōhi'a lehua tree. |
| Hebrew | "יָלִיד" also means "son, scion, descendant." |
| Hindi | The word "देशी" in Hindi also refers to traditional or indigenous products, practices, or customs. |
| Hmong | Neeg ib txwm (native) can also mean "an indigenous person" or "one who belongs to a particular place" in Hmong. |
| Hungarian | The word "anyanyelv" can also be translated as "mother tongue". |
| Icelandic | In Old Norse the word 'innfræðinn' meant 'ingrained' and 'innate', and is also related to other terms for 'innards', 'mind' and the 'heart'. |
| Igbo | The term 'nwa afọ' can refer to one born during the year of their parents' wedding. |
| Indonesian | Asli comes from the Arabic word _asli_ which means original. |
| Irish | It also means "hereditary right" and is derived from the Proto-Celtic root *dūko- "to lead." |
| Italian | The Italian word "nativo" is derived from the Latin word "nātīvus," meaning "born in a place, indigenous." |
| Japanese | 「ネイティブ」は英語の「native」に由来し、生まれつきの、生来的という意味以外に、地元出身の人を表す場合がある。 |
| Javanese | The word "asli" in Javanese can also refer to "genuine" or "authentic". |
| Kazakh | The word "жергілікті" (native) in Kazakh can also refer to something that is "local" or "indigenous". |
| Khmer | “ជនជាតិដើម” also means “people who come first” and “those who are originally in the country.” |
| Korean | The Korean word "원주민" (indigenous people) can also refer to "people who have lived in a place for a long time" or "people who have a deep understanding of a place's culture and history." |
| Kurdish | "Welatî" also means "my heart's pain" and "my beloved." |
| Latin | The Latin patris means "fatherland", while patria means "father's estate", "native town" or "country". |
| Latvian | The word 'dzimtā' also means 'clan' or 'family' in Latvian. |
| Lithuanian | The word "gimtoji" in Lithuanian also refers to the language that one speaks natively or the place of one's birth. |
| Macedonian | The word "мајчин" in Macedonian can also mean "maternal" or "primary". |
| Malagasy | In Malagasy, 'teratany' can also refer to people who live in a certain area or who have a particular occupation. |
| Malay | The Malay word "asli" may also refer to ethnic groups that have traditionally occupied Malaysia and are now considered indigenous, known as the Orang Asli. |
| Malayalam | The word "സ്വദേശി" in Malayalam can also mean "indigenous", "vernacular", or "one's own country". |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "indiġeni" also signifies an indigenous or native plant that has been brought into cultivation. |
| Maori | The Maori word "tangata whenua" also refers specifically to the indigenous people of New Zealand. |
| Marathi | मुळ or मुळे is also a word used to mean "root" or "base" of a tree in Marathi. |
| Mongolian | The word "уугуул" translates literally to "born of the country". |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | In Myanmar (Burmese), "ဇာတိ" (nati) can also refer to a person's ancestors, tribe, or ethnicity. |
| Nepali | In English, "native" derives from the Latin word "nativus," meaning "being born" or "by birth." |
| Norwegian | "Innfødt" is also an archaic term for a |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "mbadwa" can also refer to a traditional initiation rite for boys. |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "اصلي" can also mean "genuine" or "original" in addition to "native." |
| Persian | The word “بومی” (native) is derived from the Old Persian word “būmi” (earth). |
| Polish | Ojczysty may also refer to "paternal" (in reference to ancestors or heritage) or "ancestral". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Brazilian Portuguese, "nativo" may mean a slave born in the Americas as the offspring of African enslaved people, whereas in European Portuguese it refers exclusively to people born in a certain country or region. |
| Punjabi | The word "ਦੇਸੀ" also means "foreign" when used to describe people and cultures. |
| Romanian | The word "nativ" can also mean "naive" in Romanian. |
| Russian | Родной comes from the PIE root *gene- meaning “to produce” and is also a root of many other cognates like “gender” and “genesis”. |
| Samoan | The Samoan word "tagatanuu" is cognate with the Polynesian words "tangata" (human) and "enua" (land), meaning "people of the land". |
| Scots Gaelic | The word "dùthchasach" can also refer to an "indigenous person" or "one who is naturalized". |
| Serbian | The word "домородац" is thought to come from the Proto-Slavic root "*domъ", meaning "house" or "homeland". |
| Sesotho | The word 'letsoalloa', meaning 'native', originally meant 'one who is owned by the chief'. |
| Shona | Native literally translates to 'owner or master of the land' |
| Sindhi | In Sindhi, ڋیهی can also mean 'original' or 'authentic'. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | In Sinhala, "ස්වදේශීය" can also refer to something that is "traditional" or "indigenous", as well as a "native inhabitant". |
| Slovak | The word "domorodec" in Slovak comes from the root "dom" (home) and the suffix "-rodets" (descendent), and in addition to meaning "native", it can also refer to an aboriginal person. |
| Slovenian | The word 'domač' is derived from the Proto-Slavic word 'domъ', which also means 'house' or 'home' and is related to the Latin word 'domus'. |
| Somali | The word "hooyo" can also refer to a mother, and is derived from the Proto-Cushitic root *ʔɔŋɔ, meaning "child's attendant." |
| Spanish | The word "nativo" is derived from the Latin word "nativus", meaning "born in a place." |
| Sundanese | The word "asli" in Sundanese can also mean "real" or "genuine". |
| Swahili | "Asilia" is the Swahili word for "wilderness", and is the root of the word "asili", meaning "native". |
| Swedish | “Inföding” is derived from “föda” (“to give birth to”) and “in” (“in”). |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | 'Katutubo' is also the name for a plant with medicinal properties and the root of the word 'katutubuhan' which means 'flora'. |
| Tajik | The word "зода" can also mean "birthplace" or "origin". |
| Tamil | பூர்வீகம், from the Sanskrit word 'purva-janma' meaning 'previous birth', is a broader term in Tamil that can also refer to one's heritage, ancestors, or place of origin. |
| Telugu | The word "స్థానిక" can also refer to "indigenous" or "local" in Telugu. |
| Thai | พื้นเมือง may also refer to "origin" or "birthplace". |
| Turkish | Yerli means both native, as in a local animal or plant, and made in the country, like a car. |
| Ukrainian | "Рідний" in Ukrainian comes from the Proto-Slavic word *родъ, meaning "family, lineage, or origin", and is cognate with the Russian word родной (rodnoy). |
| Urdu | The word "آبائی" ("native") in Urdu comes from the Persian word "آباد" ("abode"), and can also mean "ancestral" or "inherited". |
| Uzbek | "Tug'ma" in Uzbek also means "button". |
| Vietnamese | In Vietnamese, the word "tự nhiên" also means "spontaneous" or "natural". |
| Welsh | The word "brodorol" can also mean "kinsman" or "brother" in Welsh, highlighting the importance of familial ties within the culture. |
| Xhosa | The Xhosa word 'yemveli' is derived from the Nguni word 'ilizwi lomveli', which means 'the language of the inhabitants'. |
| Yiddish | The word "געבוירן" (native) is also used to refer to someone who is born in a particular place or has a strong connection to it. |
| Yoruba | The Yoruba word abinibi may also derive from the verb gbin meaning to bear and ibiri which means birth and thus could mean the one who was born there. |
| Zulu | The word 'owomdabu' can also refer to a person who is not originally from the area but has lived there for a long time. |
| English | The word "native" originated from the Latin word "nativus," meaning "born" or "natural." |