Nut in Different Languages
Discover 'Nut' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Nut
Afrikaans moer | ||
Albanian arrë | ||
Amharic ለውዝ | ||
Arabic البندق | ||
Armenian ընկույզ | ||
Assamese বাদাম | ||
Aymara q'iwintaña | ||
Azerbaijani qoz | ||
Bambara ekuru | ||
Basque intxaur | ||
Belarusian арэхавы | ||
Bengali বাদাম | ||
Bhojpuri सनकी | ||
Bosnian orah | ||
Bulgarian ядка | ||
Catalan nou | ||
Cebuano nut | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 坚果 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 堅果 | ||
Corsican noce | ||
Croatian orah | ||
Czech matice | ||
Danish nød | ||
Dhivehi އިސްކުރު | ||
Dogri खरोट बगैरा | ||
Dutch noot | ||
English nut | ||
Esperanto nukso | ||
Estonian pähkel | ||
Ewe azi | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) kulay ng nuwes | ||
Finnish mutteri | ||
French écrou | ||
Frisian nút | ||
Galician porca | ||
Georgian კაკალი | ||
German nuss | ||
Greek καρύδι | ||
Guarani nue | ||
Gujarati અખરોટ | ||
Haitian Creole nwa | ||
Hausa goro | ||
Hawaiian nut | ||
Hebrew אגוז | ||
Hindi अखरोट | ||
Hmong txiv ntoo | ||
Hungarian dió | ||
Icelandic hneta | ||
Igbo aku | ||
Ilocano mani | ||
Indonesian kacang | ||
Irish cnó | ||
Italian noce | ||
Japanese ナット | ||
Javanese kacang | ||
Kannada ಕಾಯಿ | ||
Kazakh жаңғақ | ||
Khmer យចន | ||
Kinyarwanda ibinyomoro | ||
Konkani बी | ||
Korean 너트 | ||
Krio nat | ||
Kurdish gûz | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) گوێز | ||
Kyrgyz жаңгак | ||
Lao ຫມາກແຫ້ງເປືອກແຂງ | ||
Latin nut | ||
Latvian uzgrieznis | ||
Lingala koko | ||
Lithuanian riešutas | ||
Luganda kinyeebwa | ||
Luxembourgish nëss | ||
Macedonian орев | ||
Maithili बादाम | ||
Malagasy bazana | ||
Malay kacang | ||
Malayalam നട്ട് | ||
Maltese ġewż | ||
Maori nati | ||
Marathi कोळशाचे गोळे | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯕꯗꯥꯝ | ||
Mizo mim | ||
Mongolian самар | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ခွံမာသီး | ||
Nepali नट | ||
Norwegian nøtt | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) mtedza | ||
Odia (Oriya) ବାଦାମ | | ||
Oromo muduraa uwwisi isaa jabaa | ||
Pashto مغز لرونکی | ||
Persian مهره | ||
Polish orzech | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) noz | ||
Punjabi ਗਿਰੀ | ||
Quechua nuez | ||
Romanian nuca | ||
Russian орех | ||
Samoan nut | ||
Sanskrit शलाटु | ||
Scots Gaelic cnò | ||
Sepedi koko | ||
Serbian орах | ||
Sesotho nate | ||
Shona nzungu | ||
Sindhi نٽ | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) නට් | ||
Slovak orech | ||
Slovenian oreh | ||
Somali lowska | ||
Spanish nuez | ||
Sundanese nut | ||
Swahili karanga | ||
Swedish nöt | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) kulay ng nuwes | ||
Tajik чормағз | ||
Tamil நட்டு | ||
Tatar гайка | ||
Telugu గింజ | ||
Thai ถั่ว | ||
Tigrinya ለውዝ | ||
Tsonga manga | ||
Turkish fındık | ||
Turkmen hoz | ||
Twi (Akan) aba | ||
Ukrainian горіх | ||
Urdu نٹ | ||
Uyghur ياڭاق | ||
Uzbek yong'oq | ||
Vietnamese hạt | ||
Welsh cneuen | ||
Xhosa nut | ||
Yiddish נוס | ||
Yoruba nut | ||
Zulu nut |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "moer" in Afrikaans, meaning "nut", is derived from the Dutch word "moer" meaning "mother", reflecting the role of the nut as the female reproductive organ in plants. |
| Albanian | The Albanian word 'arrë' can also refer to a nut-shaped object or a type of fruit. |
| Amharic | The Amharic word "ለውዝ" (lewz) is also used to refer to the brain or mind. |
| Arabic | The word "al-bunduq" in Arabic originates from the Greek word "pontikos," meaning "from the Black Sea region," where hazelnuts were first cultivated. |
| Azerbaijani | The word 'qoz' has multiple meanings in Azerbaijani, including a small rock, a ball, or a marble. |
| Basque | In Basque, the word intxaur can also refer to a beech tree or a beech nut. |
| Belarusian | The Belarusian word for 'nut', арэх, comes from the Proto-Slavic word *orěxъ, which is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₃reg̑- ('to crack'). |
| Bengali | বাদাম is derived from Persian word 'bādām', which is further derived from Greek word 'amygdalē' (almond tree). |
| Bosnian | The word "orah" originally meant "walnut", but it can also refer to other types of nuts, such as almonds or hazelnuts. |
| Bulgarian | The word "ядка" also refers to the edible central part of other fruits like peaches and apricots. |
| Catalan | The word "nou" in Catalan can also mean "new" or "nine". |
| Cebuano | The Cebuano word |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 坚果 originally referred to a hard-shelled fruit, but now often refers to the edible seed of the fruit. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | In Cantonese, 堅果 refers to all nuts or seeds, but can also mean 'very'} |
| Corsican | The word noce in Corsican also means 'wedding' (compare French "noces"). |
| Croatian | The word "orah" in Croatian is derived from the Proto-Slavic word "*orěхъ" which means both "nut" and "walnut". |
| Czech | The word "matice" also means a printing press in Czech, and it is a cognate to the English word "matrix". |
| Danish | The word "nød" also means "need" or "distress" in Danish. |
| Dutch | The word "noot" in Dutch can also refer to a musical note. |
| Esperanto | The word 'nukso' comes from the Esperanto 'nuksi', the international scientific word for the nut |
| Estonian | The Estonian word “pähkel” has an alternative meaning, “to get angry”. This word has a similar sound and meaning in other Finno-Ugric languages. |
| Finnish | The word "mutteri" is related to the Estonian word "mutter" which means "a screw" or "a nut". |
| French | The French word "écrou" not only means "nut" but also "detention". This is because in the past, prisoners were held in underground cells with walls covered in bolts, called "écrous" in French. |
| Frisian | The original meaning of "Nút" is "fruit"" or "apple" and it has survived in "Nútbrún" ("apple brown"), an old Frisian apple variety originating in Friesland. |
| Galician | The word "porca" can also refer to the female pig or female wild boar in Galician, as well as a metal washer used in plumbing or carpentry. |
| Georgian | In addition to its primary meaning of "nut", "კაკალი" can also refer to a small, round object or a person's head. |
| German | The German word "Nuss" derives from the Proto-Germanic "*hnuts", meaning "fruit", and is cognate with the English "nut" but also the Latin "nux" (cf. "nucleus"). |
| Greek | 'Καρύδι' in Greek ultimately derives from the Persian word 'karg', meaning 'bitter' |
| Gujarati | "અખરોટ" (akharot) is derived from the Persian word "gardu" meaning "round" and is commonly used to refer to almonds or pistachios. |
| Haitian Creole | In Haitian Creole, 'nwa' can also mean 'black' or be used as a prefix indicating a negative connotation. |
| Hausa | Hausa "goro" also means "male child's birth." |
| Hawaiian | In Hawaiian, "nut" can also refer to a person's head or mind. |
| Hebrew | אגוז is also an acronym for 'אגודת גידולי זרעים', meaning 'Seed Growers Association' in Hebrew. |
| Hindi | The word 'अखरोट' originated from the Persian word 'akrōt', meaning 'walnut'. |
| Hmong | The word "txiv ntoo" in Hmong can also refer to the stone at the center of a fruit, the pit of a fruit, or the kernel of a nut. |
| Hungarian | The word "dió" can also refer to the walnut tree itself, or to the nut's kernel. |
| Icelandic | Icelandic 'hneta' is cognate with English 'nut,' from Proto-Germanic *xnutą, and originally referred to a round object, e.g., an egg. |
| Igbo | The Igbo word 'àkú' also refers to a person who is strong, hard-shelled, and difficult to crack. |
| Indonesian | "Kacang" also refers to beans and peanuts in Indonesian. |
| Irish | The Irish word "cnó" can also refer to a kernel or a fruit stone. |
| Italian | The Italian word "Noce" shares its Latin root with "juglans", meaning the nut is named after Jupiter, chief god of the Roman pantheon. |
| Japanese | In Japanese, the word "ナット" (nut) can also refer to a small metal piece with a threaded hole used to fasten bolts or screws. |
| Javanese | "Kacang" can mean specifically "peanuts", "beans" or "leguminous seeds" depending on context. |
| Kannada | "ಕಾಯಿ" also means the immature fruit of a plant, especially a coconut or a banana. |
| Kazakh | "Жаңғақ" (nut) in Kazakh also means "small coin" and "little". |
| Khmer | The Khmer word "យចន" (nut) derives from the Sanskrit word "यचन" (reputation or fame). |
| Korean | The Korean word "너트" can also refer to a small bolt that is used to fasten two pieces of wood or metal together. |
| Kurdish | The word 'gûz' also means 'secret' in Kurdish, hinting at the hidden, protected nature of a nut. |
| Kyrgyz | The alternate meaning of "жаңгак" is "chestnut", reflecting the genetic relationship within Fagaceae. |
| Lao | The word can also refer to the dried kernel of any other fruit with a hard shell, such as a coconut. |
| Latin | The Latin word "nux" (nut), also means "a small stone." |
| Latvian | The word "uzgrieznis" in Latvian is derived from the word "griezt" (to turn), referring to the process of turning or threading nuts onto bolts. |
| Lithuanian | "Riešutas" originally meant "acorn" in Lithuanian. |
| Luxembourgish | The word "Nëss" in Luxembourgish is derived from the Proto-Germanic word "*hnutos", which also means "nut". |
| Macedonian | "Орев" comes from Proto-Slavic's *orěхъ, but also refers to walnuts |
| Malagasy | The word "bazana" in Malagasy can also refer to a type of wood, a type of fruit, or a type of mushroom. |
| Malay | "Kacang" also refers to a traditional type of board or dice game. |
| Malayalam | The word 'നട്ട്' ('nut') in Malayalam can also mean 'the top of a tree' or 'the top of a hill'. |
| Maltese | The Maltese word 'ġewż' is derived from the Arabic word 'jawz', meaning 'nut', and can also refer to bolts or screws. |
| Maori | The word "nati" in Maori not only refers to various types of nuts, but also to the fruits of the karaka tree and the native titoki tree. |
| Marathi | The word "कोळशाचे गोळे" can also refer to a type of cannonball used in the Maratha Empire |
| Mongolian | The term "самар" can also refer to the fruit of the elm tree, with "самар үр" designating an elm seed. |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The English word "nut" comes from the Old English word "hnutu". The Old English word was derived from the Proto-Germanic word *hnutuz, which meant "nut". |
| Nepali | In the past, 'नट' was also used to refer to a male dancer or acrobat. |
| Norwegian | Norwegian 'nøtt' is related to 'nut' and 'knot' in English and originally meant "something rounded and solid", as in "a head" or a "hilltop". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | "Mtedza" also refers to a kind of porridge made from pounded groundnuts. |
| Persian | The Persian word "مهره" can also refer to a chess piece or a bead on a string or necklace. |
| Polish | Orzech is a Polish word that also means walnut, and is related to the Latin word 'nux', meaning nut. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | "Noz" was borrowed from Latin "nucis" (genitive of "nux"), while the plural "nozes" was borrowed from the accusative "nuces". |
| Punjabi | The word "ਗਿਰੀ" originates from the Proto-Indo-European root "*ǵʰer-/*ǵʰri-", meaning "to grind" or "to crush", and is related to the English word "grind" and the German word "reiben". |
| Romanian | The word "nuca" in Romanian also means "nape" or "back of the neck". |
| Russian | The word "орех" (nut) originally referred to walnuts, but its meaning was later extended to include other types of nuts. |
| Samoan | Used as a general term for nuts, almonds etc. but especially the coconut (niu) |
| Scots Gaelic | The term 'cnò' also refers to a small, round, flat cake made from oatmeal, similar to a bannock. |
| Serbian | 'Орах' (nut) in Serbian comes from the Proto-Slavic word 'orěхъ', which referred to any fruit with a hard shell. |
| Sesotho | "Nate," or its homophones, can also mean "father," or "ancestor" throughout Bantu and Niger Kordofanian tongues. |
| Shona | In Shona, the word 'nzungu' is also used to refer to peanuts and soybeans, as well as the generic term for 'nut' |
| Sindhi | In Sindhi, the word "نٽ" ("nut") can also refer to the small spherical bells worn on the ankles of dancers. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | In Sinhala, the word "නට්" ("nut") can also refer to a screw or a bolt. |
| Slovak | The Slovak word "orech" can also refer to the fruit of hazel trees or walnuts, or even the tree itself. |
| Slovenian | "Oreh" is also the name of a type of walnut tree. |
| Somali | "Lowska" is also the name of an ancient Somali tribe and a type of Somali dance accompanied by drumming and singing. |
| Spanish | In Spanish, "nuez" refers to walnuts specifically, while "fruta seca" is the general term for nuts. |
| Sundanese | The Sundanese word "kacang" can also refer to a type of traditional dish made from grated cassava and sweet potato. |
| Swahili | The word "karanga" in Swahili can also refer to the tree that produces the nut. |
| Swedish | The Swedish word "nöt" has a dual meaning: nut and cattle. |
| Tajik | Чормағз in Tajik can mean either "nut" or "almond". |
| Tamil | "நட்டு" in Tamil also refers to a person who has an outstanding or distinctive quality, or a special talent or ability. |
| Telugu | గింజ is derived from the Dravidian root *kīni-} |
| Thai | The word "ถั่ว" can also refer to beans, peas, and legumes in Thai. |
| Turkish | In Turkish, "fındık" not only refers to nuts in general but also specifically to hazelnuts, as Turkey is a major producer of this type of nut. |
| Ukrainian | In Ukrainian, the word “горіх” (“nut”) also means “brain,” highlighting the traditional belief in the nutritional benefits of nuts for cognitive function. |
| Urdu | The word "nut" in Urdu (نٹ) can also refer to an acrobat or a jester. |
| Uzbek | In Uzbek, "yong'oq" (nut) derives from the Persian "yung" and also means "skill, talent, gift". |
| Vietnamese | The word "hạt" in Vietnamese can also refer to grains, seeds, and the kernels of grains. |
| Welsh | The word "cneuen" is also used to refer to a small round object, such as a marble or a bead. |
| Xhosa | In Xhosa, the word "nut" can be used figuratively to refer to the brain. |
| Yiddish | Yiddish "נוס" derives from Hebrew "אֲגוֹז" and Greek "καρύα" (walnut). |
| Zulu | The word "nut" can also mean "brain" in Zulu, referring to the walnut-shaped organ inside the skull. |
| English | The word 'nut' can also refer to a small metal disk or bolt used to fasten together two pieces of material. |