Nod in Different Languages
Discover 'Nod' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Nod
Afrikaans knik | ||
Albanian dremitje | ||
Amharic ነቀነቀ | ||
Arabic إيماءة | ||
Armenian գլխով անել | ||
Assamese মাত দিলে | ||
Aymara p’iqip ch’allxtayi | ||
Azerbaijani baş əymək | ||
Bambara a kunkolo wuli | ||
Basque keinua egin | ||
Belarusian ківаць | ||
Bengali হাঁ | ||
Bhojpuri मुड़ी हिला के कहले | ||
Bosnian klimnuti glavom | ||
Bulgarian кимвай | ||
Catalan assentir amb el cap | ||
Cebuano pagyango | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 点头 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 點頭 | ||
Corsican annuì | ||
Croatian klimati glavom | ||
Czech kývnutí | ||
Danish nikke | ||
Dhivehi ބޯޖަހާލައެވެ | ||
Dogri मुड़ी हिला दे | ||
Dutch knikken | ||
English nod | ||
Esperanto kapjesas | ||
Estonian noogutada | ||
Ewe ʋuʋu ta | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) tumango | ||
Finnish nyökkäys | ||
French hochement | ||
Frisian knikke | ||
Galician aceno | ||
Georgian თავი დაუკრა | ||
German nicken | ||
Greek νεύμα | ||
Guarani oñakãity | ||
Gujarati હકાર | ||
Haitian Creole souke tèt | ||
Hausa gyada kai | ||
Hawaiian kunou | ||
Hebrew מָנוֹד רֹאשׁ | ||
Hindi सिर का इशारा | ||
Hmong nod | ||
Hungarian bólint | ||
Icelandic kinka kolli | ||
Igbo kwee n’isi | ||
Ilocano agtung-ed | ||
Indonesian anggukan | ||
Irish nod | ||
Italian cenno | ||
Japanese うなずく | ||
Javanese manthuk-manthuk | ||
Kannada ನೋಡ್ | ||
Kazakh бас изеу | ||
Khmer ងក់ក្បាល | ||
Kinyarwanda arunamye | ||
Konkani मात्सो मुखार सरता | ||
Korean 목례 | ||
Krio nɔd in ed | ||
Kurdish serhejîn | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) سەری لە سەری خۆی دادەنێت | ||
Kyrgyz баш ийкөө | ||
Lao ດັງຫົວ | ||
Latin nod | ||
Latvian piekrist | ||
Lingala kopesa motó | ||
Lithuanian linktelėk | ||
Luganda okunyeenya omutwe | ||
Luxembourgish wénken | ||
Macedonian климање со главата | ||
Maithili मुड़ी डोलाबैत अछि | ||
Malagasy mihatohatoka | ||
Malay angguk | ||
Malayalam തലയാട്ടുക | ||
Maltese nod | ||
Maori tiango | ||
Marathi होकार | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯅꯣꯀꯄꯥ꯫ | ||
Mizo a lu a bu nghat a | ||
Mongolian толгой дохих | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ညိတ် | ||
Nepali होकार | ||
Norwegian nikke | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kugwedeza mutu | ||
Odia (Oriya) ମୁଣ୍ଡ ନୁଆଁଇ | | ||
Oromo mataa ol qabadhaa | ||
Pashto سر | ||
Persian سر تکان دادن | ||
Polish ukłon | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) aceno com a cabeça | ||
Punjabi ਹਿਲਾਓ | ||
Quechua umanwan rimaspa | ||
Romanian da din cap | ||
Russian кивок | ||
Samoan luelue le ulu | ||
Sanskrit शिरः न्यस्य | ||
Scots Gaelic nod | ||
Sepedi go šišinya hlogo | ||
Serbian климнути главом | ||
Sesotho nod | ||
Shona kugutsurira | ||
Sindhi ڇڪڻ | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) නෝඩ් | ||
Slovak kývnutie | ||
Slovenian prikimaj | ||
Somali madaxa u fuulay | ||
Spanish cabecear | ||
Sundanese unggeuk | ||
Swahili nod | ||
Swedish nicka | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) tumango | ||
Tajik сар ҷунбонед | ||
Tamil இல்லை | ||
Tatar башын кага | ||
Telugu ఆమోదం | ||
Thai พยักหน้า | ||
Tigrinya ርእሱ እናነቕነቐ | ||
Tsonga ku pfumela hi nhloko | ||
Turkish başını sallamak | ||
Turkmen baş atdy | ||
Twi (Akan) de ne ti to fam | ||
Ukrainian кивати | ||
Urdu سر ہلا | ||
Uyghur بېشىنى لىڭشىتتى | ||
Uzbek bosh irg'ash | ||
Vietnamese gật đầu | ||
Welsh nod | ||
Xhosa wanqwala | ||
Yiddish יאָ | ||
Yoruba ariwo | ||
Zulu avume ngekhanda |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "knik" in Afrikaans, meaning "nod," also refers to a sharp bend or crease in a material. |
| Albanian | Although its most common meaning in Albanian is "nod," "dremitje" can also mean "nap" or "doze". |
| Amharic | In addition to meaning "nod," ነቀነቀ can also mean "shake" or "stir" depending on the context. |
| Arabic | The Arabic word "إيماءة" (nod) also means "innuendo" or "hint". |
| Armenian | The verb "գլխով անել" is literally translated as "to do with the head", but is used in Armenian to mean "to nod". |
| Azerbaijani | The word "baş əymək" in Azerbaijani can also mean "to submit" or "to give in". |
| Basque | The verb |
| Belarusian | The Belarusian word "ківаць" (nod) originally meant "to call someone (with a nod of the head)." |
| Bengali | The root of "হাঁ" is the same as that of "হাত": both derive from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰen- meaning "strike". |
| Bosnian | The verb 'klimnuti glavom' comes from the Proto-Slavic word '*klьmati', meaning 'to bend, to shake'. |
| Bulgarian | "Кимвам" is also used to mean "respond in kind", "consent", and "affirm". |
| Catalan | The phrase "assentir amb el cap" also signifies "agreeing or showing consent" without nodding physically. |
| Cebuano | The word "pagyango" can also mean "to bow" or "to bend over to pick something up" in Cebuano. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The first character in "点头" means "head" and the second means "head to", indicating the bowing motion of the head. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | "點頭" can mean "agree" or "nod" in Mandarin Chinese, "dian tou". |
| Corsican | Corsican 'annuì' derives from the Latin 'annuet', meaning 'to grant permission'. This is distinct from Italian 'annuire', which means 'to confirm' and instead derives from the Latin 'annuere'. |
| Croatian | The word "klimati glavom" is derived from "klimati", meaning "to beckon" or "to nod" with one's head. |
| Czech | Kývnutí in Czech can refer to the act of nodding, a sign of assent, a concession, or a brief greeting. |
| Danish | In the old danish language the word “nikke” meant to bob, shake, or sway. |
| Dutch | Knikken is used colloquially to mean "to smoke some weed" in Dutch, likely derived from the act of passing a joint as a group of people form a line and nod their heads in sequence. |
| Esperanto | Esperanto's "kapjesas" ("nod") also means "to agree" in German and "to understand" in Yiddish. |
| Estonian | "Noogutada" also means "to agree" in the sense of nodding in agreement. |
| Finnish | The word "nyökkäys" can also mean "a sign of approval or encouragement" or "to nod in agreement". |
| French | The word "hochement" originally meant a shaking of the head, but nowadays is used more commonly to refer to a nod of the head. |
| Frisian | "Knikke" in Frisian can also refer to a sharp bend or fold in something, similar to the English "kink". |
| Galician | The Galician word "aceno" (nod) comes from the Latin "ad cenum" (to the chin), referring to the movement of the head when nodding. |
| German | The verb "nicken" in German is derived from the Old High German word "hnigon", meaning "to bow down" or "to make a gesture of respect." |
| Greek | In addition to its primary meaning of "nod," "νεύμα" can also mean "sign" or "gesture". |
| Gujarati | The word 'હકાર' can also mean 'consent', 'confirmation', 'agreement', or 'approval'. |
| Haitian Creole | The Haitian Creole word 'souke tèt' also carries subtle connotations of agreement or affirmation, similar to 'nodding.' |
| Hausa | "Gyada kai" is derived from the Hausa words "gyada" (peanut) and "kai" (head), and can also mean "peanut head" (a colloquial term for a person with a small head). |
| Hawaiian | Kunou can also denote a slight breeze. |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "מָנוֹד רֹאשׁ" can also mean "to shake one's head" or "to gesture with one's head". |
| Hindi | "सिर का इशारा" also means a gesture, signal or hint. |
| Hmong | The word "nod" in Hmong can also refer to a type of dance or a small hill. |
| Hungarian | The word "bólint" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *bolnati, meaning "to shake", and is related to the Czech word "bolat", meaning "to nod". |
| Icelandic | The Icelandic word "kinka kolli" is derived from "kinka", meaning "bend", and "kolli", meaning "head". |
| Igbo | The word "kwee n’isi" in Igbo can also mean "to agree" or "to approve". |
| Indonesian | "Anggukan" is derived from the Proto-Austronesian word *aŋo, which means "open the mouth" or "speak". |
| Irish | The word "nod" also means "to fall asleep" in Irish. |
| Italian | The word "cenno" comes from the Latin word "signum" which also means "sign, gesture, signal, symbol, mark, token, indication, indication, notice, omen, portent, constellation, star." |
| Japanese | The word "うなずく" (nod) originally meant "to follow the sound of the bell" in ancient Japanese. |
| Javanese | The word "manthuk-manthuk" in Javanese is also used figuratively to describe the bobbing motion of a boat on the waves or the swaying of a tree in the wind. |
| Kannada | "ನೋಡ್" (nod) can also mean "a knot in a cloth" or "a piece of cloth tied around a person's head". |
| Kazakh | The word "бас изеу" can also mean "to sway" or "to swing". |
| Khmer | The word "ងក់ក្បាល" can also mean to shake one's head from side to side as a negative gesture. |
| Korean | The word "목례" can also refer to a wooden cup or bowl used in traditional Korean rituals and ceremonies. |
| Kurdish | The word "serhejîn" also means "to be willing" in Kurdish. |
| Kyrgyz | The word "баш ийкөө" in Kyrgyz is related to the word "баш" which means "head" and "ийкөө" which means "to bend". |
| Lao | The Lao word 'ດັງຫົວ' can also refer to the sound made by a bird, such as the sound made by a pigeon. |
| Latin | The Latin word "nodus" also means "knot" or "joint". |
| Latvian | Piekrist is cognate with the Lithuanian word "piktas" (malevolent) |
| Lithuanian | "Linktelėti" is derived from "linkoti," meaning to swing or sway, and figuratively refers to the quick movement of the head. |
| Luxembourgish | The word "wénken" in Luxembourgish is derived from the Latin word "venire" meaning "to come" and can also mean "to beckon" or "to wave". |
| Macedonian | In other Slavic languages, this verb commonly means 'to sleep' or 'to doze'. |
| Malagasy | Its alternate meaning is 'to make a sign with the head or hand'. |
| Malay | Angguk is cognate to other terms for nodding in Southeast Asian languages like Thai (พยัก phayak) and Javanese (angguk-angguk), suggesting a shared cultural or linguistic root. |
| Malayalam | The word 'തലയാട്ടുക' is derived from the Sanskrit word 'talai' meaning 'head' and is an alternate form of the word 'thalaa'. |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "xejn" can also mean "nothing". |
| Maori | In some contexts "tiango" can refer to falling, leaning, or descending. |
| Marathi | "होकार" can also refer to an agreement, consent, or acceptance. |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian verb "толгой дохих" can also mean "to agree" or "to understand". |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | "ညိတ်" is a term that signifies an affirmative response and can also refer to a small hole or cavity. |
| Nepali | The word 'hokaar' is derived from the Maithili word 'hokara', which means 'to approve' or 'to accept'. |
| Norwegian | The word "nikke" in Norwegian can also refer to a nod of approval or acknowledgment. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | 'Kugwedeza mutu' is also used to describe the motion of a bird flapping its wings. |
| Pashto | The word 'سر' also means a 'secret' in Pashto. |
| Persian | "Sar" is a Persian word for "head", and "takan" is the word for "shake". |
| Polish | The word "ukłon" can also mean a "bow" or a "courtesy". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil), "acenar com a cabeça" also means to wave your head to signify assent. |
| Punjabi | The word 'ਹਿਲਾਓ' ('nod') in Punjabi can also refer to the movement of a limb or object, or to a shake or tremor. |
| Romanian | The phrase "da din cap" originally meant "shake one's head". |
| Russian | "Кивок" comes from the word "кивать," which means "to bob the head." |
| Samoan | The word "luelue le ulu" in Samoan also means "to agree". |
| Scots Gaelic | In Scots Gaelic, the word "nod" also means "a signal made by bending the head". |
| Serbian | The Serbian word "климнути главом" can also mean "to agree" or "to assent". |
| Sesotho | In Sesotho, "nod" can also refer to the act of greeting someone or agreeing with them. |
| Shona | The word "kugutsurira" can also mean "to agree" or "to consent" in Shona. |
| Sindhi | Sindhi "ڇڪڻ" is possibly related to Gujarati "઼ક" (shake), but may have originally meant "to snap". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | "නෝඩ්" can also mean "to shake" or "a jerk" in Sinhala. |
| Slovak | Kývnutie is also used metaphorically to indicate agreement or approval. |
| Slovenian | Cognate with the Slavic word for 'to beckon' |
| Somali | The word "madaxa u fuulay" in Somali can also be used to refer to a sudden feeling of surprise or shock. |
| Spanish | The word "cabecear" can also mean "to head" or "to bump heads" in Spanish. |
| Sundanese | The Sundanese word "unggeuk" can also be used to refer to a small amount of something, such as a pinch of salt or a drop of water. |
| Swahili | In Swahili, 'nod' can also mean 'to agree' or 'to greet someone'. |
| Swedish | Nicka, also known as 'hacka' or 'nycka', is derived from the Old Swedish word 'knacka' and the Old Norse word 'nikkr'. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The Tagalog word "tumango" is derived from the proto-Austronesian word *taŋguq, which also means "to nod" or "to agree". |
| Tajik | The phrase "сар ҷунбонед" also means "to agree or consent" in Tajik. |
| Tamil | The Tamil word "இல்லை" can also mean "no", "not", or "it is not". |
| Telugu | "ఆమోదం" is also the name of a raga in carnatic music. |
| Thai | The word "พยักหน้า" can also mean to agree or to acknowledge. |
| Turkish | In Turkish, the expression "başını sallamak" ("nod") can also refer to shaking one's head in denial or disapproval. |
| Ukrainian | The word "кивати" can also mean "to bob" or "to oscillate" in Ukrainian. |
| Urdu | The word "سر ہلا" can also mean "to shake one's head" in Urdu. |
| Uzbek | The word "bosh irg'ash" (nod) in Uzbek can also be used to mean "yes" or "agree". |
| Vietnamese | "Gật đầu" shares its root with "gật gù," which means "to nod continuously" or "to agree enthusiastically," signifying a stronger affirmation than a single nod. |
| Welsh | The Welsh word "nod" also means "to bob or dance", or "a knot in wood" |
| Xhosa | "Wanqwala" is also a word for falling from excessive exhaustion. |
| Yiddish | The word "יאָ" can refer to a "yes" nod or a "no" shake of the head depending on context. |
| Yoruba | The Yoruba word "ariwo" is also used to refer to commotion or noise, derived from the root word "ri" meaning "to make a sound or noise". |
| Zulu | The Zulu word "avume ngekhanda" can also mean "to agree" or "to consent". |
| English | "Nod" can also refer to a unit denoting the quantity or duration of something. |