Object in Different Languages
Discover 'Object' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Object
Afrikaans beswaar | ||
Albanian objekt | ||
Amharic ነገር | ||
Arabic موضوع | ||
Armenian առարկա | ||
Assamese বস্তু | ||
Aymara yanaka | ||
Azerbaijani obyekt | ||
Bambara minɛn | ||
Basque objektua | ||
Belarusian аб'ект | ||
Bengali অবজেক্ট | ||
Bhojpuri वस्तु | ||
Bosnian objekt | ||
Bulgarian обект | ||
Catalan objecte | ||
Cebuano butang | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 目的 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 目的 | ||
Corsican ughjettu | ||
Croatian objekt | ||
Czech objekt | ||
Danish objekt | ||
Dhivehi އެއްޗެއް | ||
Dogri चीज | ||
Dutch voorwerp | ||
English object | ||
Esperanto objekto | ||
Estonian objekt | ||
Ewe nu | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) bagay | ||
Finnish esine | ||
French objet | ||
Frisian objekt | ||
Galician obxecto | ||
Georgian ობიექტი | ||
German objekt | ||
Greek αντικείμενο | ||
Guarani mba'e | ||
Gujarati objectબ્જેક્ટ | ||
Haitian Creole objè | ||
Hausa abu | ||
Hawaiian mea | ||
Hebrew לְהִתְנַגֵד | ||
Hindi वस्तु | ||
Hmong kwv | ||
Hungarian tárgy | ||
Icelandic mótmæla | ||
Igbo ihe | ||
Ilocano banag | ||
Indonesian obyek | ||
Irish réad | ||
Italian oggetto | ||
Japanese オブジェクト | ||
Javanese obyek | ||
Kannada ವಸ್ತು | ||
Kazakh объект | ||
Khmer វត្ថុ | ||
Kinyarwanda ikintu | ||
Konkani ऑब्जॅक्ट | ||
Korean 목적 | ||
Krio tin | ||
Kurdish tişt | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) شت | ||
Kyrgyz объект | ||
Lao ຈຸດປະສົງ | ||
Latin object | ||
Latvian objekts | ||
Lingala moto ya likambo | ||
Lithuanian objektas | ||
Luganda ekintu | ||
Luxembourgish objet | ||
Macedonian предмет | ||
Maithili वस्तु | ||
Malagasy zavatra | ||
Malay objek | ||
Malayalam ഒബ്ജക്റ്റ് | ||
Maltese oġġett | ||
Maori ahanoa | ||
Marathi ऑब्जेक्ट | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯄꯣꯠꯂꯝ | ||
Mizo thil | ||
Mongolian обьект | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အရာဝတ္ထု | ||
Nepali वस्तु | ||
Norwegian gjenstand | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) chinthu | ||
Odia (Oriya) ବସ୍ତୁ | ||
Oromo meeshaa | ||
Pashto څيز | ||
Persian هدف - شی | ||
Polish obiekt | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) objeto | ||
Punjabi ਆਬਜੈਕਟ | ||
Quechua ima | ||
Romanian obiect | ||
Russian объект | ||
Samoan mea faitino | ||
Sanskrit वस्तु | ||
Scots Gaelic nì | ||
Sepedi selo | ||
Serbian објект | ||
Sesotho ntho | ||
Shona chinhu | ||
Sindhi شئي | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) වස්තුව | ||
Slovak objekt | ||
Slovenian predmet | ||
Somali walax | ||
Spanish objeto | ||
Sundanese objék | ||
Swahili kitu | ||
Swedish objekt | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) bagay | ||
Tajik объект | ||
Tamil பொருள் | ||
Tatar объект | ||
Telugu వస్తువు | ||
Thai วัตถุ | ||
Tigrinya ግኡዝ ነገር | ||
Tsonga nchumu | ||
Turkish nesne | ||
Turkmen obýekt | ||
Twi (Akan) adeɛ | ||
Ukrainian об'єкт | ||
Urdu چیز | ||
Uyghur ئوبيېكت | ||
Uzbek ob'ekt | ||
Vietnamese vật | ||
Welsh gwrthrych | ||
Xhosa into | ||
Yiddish כייפעץ | ||
Yoruba ohun | ||
Zulu into |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "beswaar" is derived from the Dutch word "bezwaar", which also means "objection" and comes from the Middle Dutch "beswaren", which meant "to weigh". |
| Albanian | In Albanian, "Objekt" can also refer to a target, goal, motive, or purpose and in the context of philosophy, an objective idea independent of consciousness. |
| Amharic | The term ነገር can also be used to describe events, qualities, and concepts. |
| Arabic | The word موضوع (mawḍūʿ) in Arabic shares its root with the word وُضُوء (wuḍūʾ), referring to Islamic ritual ablution, as both words derive from the verb "to place". |
| Armenian | The word "առարկա" can also refer to a subject or topic of discussion in Armenian. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "obyekt" in Azerbaijani is derived from the Persian word "obje", which means "purpose" or "intention". |
| Basque | "Objektua" can be translated into "aim, goal, purpose, target" and can be used both figuratively and literally. |
| Belarusian | The Russian word "объект" derives from the Latin word "objectum", meaning "something thrown against". The Latin verb "obīicio" means "to throw around against". |
| Bengali | The word "অবজেক্ট" can also refer to a goal or purpose. |
| Bosnian | The word 'objekt' ('object') is also used to refer to an artistic or cultural item intended for display. |
| Bulgarian | The word "обект" can also mean "aim" or "purpose" in Bulgarian. |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "objecte" traces its roots to the Latin word "objectum", meaning "something thrown in front of". |
| Cebuano | The word "butang" in Cebuano has a cognate in Malay and Indonesian "benda" with the same definition |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 目的 (mùdì) also means "purpose," "aim," or "goal" |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 目的 can also mean "purpose" or "goal". |
| Corsican | The word "ughjettu" can also mean "purpose" or "target" in Corsican. |
| Croatian | "Objekt" in Croatian can also refer to a noun, a pronoun, or a part of an action. |
| Czech | 'Objekt' also means 'lens' in Czech. |
| Danish | The Danish word "objekt" can also refer to a goal or purpose. |
| Dutch | Voorwerp's other meanings include 'subject' (of a discussion), 'aim' or 'target', and 'the object of one's affection'. |
| Esperanto | In Esperanto, "objekto" can also mean "aim" or "purpose" |
| Estonian | The Estonian word "objekt" can also refer to an event or a goal. |
| Finnish | The word "esine" may also refer to a "thing" or an "article". |
| French | The term "objet" derives from the Latin word "objectum," meaning "something thrown in the way," and still retains some of this sense as a grammatical or philosophical subject of action. |
| Frisian | In Frisian, "objekt" can also mean "objective". |
| Galician | The Galician word “obxecto” also means “purpose” and is cognate with the Spanish “objetivo”. |
| Georgian | In Georgian, the word "ობიექტი" is derived from the Latin word "objectum", meaning "something placed before one or something that is placed before us and becomes a subject of our activity". |
| German | The German word "Objekt" originates from the Latin word "objectum", meaning "something thrown in the way". |
| Greek | The word "αντικείμενο" also means "subject" or "topic" in Greek. |
| Gujarati | The English word "object" comes from the Latin word "objectum," which means "something that is thrown in the way" or "something that is opposed." |
| Haitian Creole | The word "objè" in Haitian Creole can also mean "thing," "item," or "matter." |
| Hausa | In Hausa, the word "abu" can also refer to a part or component of something. |
| Hawaiian | In the Hawaiian language, "mea" not only means "object," but also "thing," "item," "article," and "substance." |
| Hebrew | The verb להִתְנַגֵד (hitnaged) derives from the root נגד (neged), meaning 'against' or 'opposite'. |
| Hindi | वस्तु is a cognate with "vast" in English and means both "object" and "substance" in Sanskrit. |
| Hmong | In addition to meaning "object", "kwv" also means "thing". |
| Hungarian | "Tárgy" also means "theme", "matter", "cause" or "case" in Hungarian. |
| Icelandic | In the context of jewelry and other precious possessions, "mótmæla" is specifically a valuable heirloom. |
| Igbo | The Igbo word "ihe" (object) also means "thing" or "matter". |
| Indonesian | In Indonesian, "obyek" can also refer to a person or thing that is the target of an action or interest. |
| Irish | The Irish word "réad" is cognate with the Welsh "rhead" and the Germanic "red" (as in a reed), and signifies primarily a "long, straight thing" without regard to its rigidity. |
| Italian | "Oggetto" in Italian can also mean "purpose", "goal", or "subject matter". |
| Japanese | "オブジェクト" can also mean "objective" or "target" in Japanese |
| Javanese | The word "obyek" in Javanese can also mean "subject", or what is being talked about in a conversation. |
| Kannada | In Kannada, the word "ವಸ್ತು" has roots in Sanskrit, where it means "substance" or "entity." |
| Kazakh | "Объект" can also mean "purpose", "goal", or "target" in Kazakh. |
| Khmer | In linguistics, 'វត្ថុ' can also refer to 'subject' in grammar and 'theme' in discourse analysis, but typically not in a philosophical or metaphysical sense. |
| Korean | The Sino-Korean word "목적" (目的) has a dual etymology and alternate meanings, "target" or "goal" from Chinese and "object" from Japanese. |
| Kurdish | The word 'tişt' also translates to 'thing' in English |
| Kyrgyz | The Kyrgyz word "объект" (object) also means a "goal" or an "objective". |
| Latin | In Latin, "objectum" also means "something presented to the mind, an idea". |
| Latvian | The Latvian word "objekts" can also refer to a target or aim, or to the subject of a discussion, in addition to its primary meaning of "object". |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word "objektas" derives from the Latin "objectum," meaning "something placed before one," and is not, as its cognate in English might lead one to believe, limited in application to inanimate things. |
| Luxembourgish | In Luxembourgish, "Objet" can also refer to an objective or aim and is cognate with the French word "objectif" with the same meaning. |
| Macedonian | The word "предмет" is also used to refer to a subject of study or a matter of concern. |
| Malagasy | The word "zavatra" in Malagasy also means "thing" or "matter" and derives from the Proto-Austronesian word *cavaŋ which means "thing". |
| Malay | The word "objek" in Malay can also refer to a target or a specific point of reference. |
| Malayalam | The word "ഒബ്ജക്റ്റ്" is derived from the Latin word "objectum", meaning "something placed before one". |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "oġġett" is derived from the Italian word "oggetto" which in turn comes from the Latin word "obiectus" (meaning "thrown before"). |
| Maori | Aha noa means 'free space' or 'empty vessel' and also refers to natural objects in Te Reo Māori |
| Marathi | In Marathi, the word "ऑब्जेक्ट" also means "purpose" or "intention". |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word "обьект" ultimately derives from the same Proto-Indo-European root as the English word "subject". |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The word " အရာဝတ္ထု " can also mean "thing" and "stuff" and is derived from the Pali words "ara" and "vatthu", meaning "object of value". |
| Nepali | वस्तु also means 'thing' in Nepali |
| Norwegian | Gjenstand is a compound of the Norse words "gagn" (gain) and "stand" (to stand), as an object is something that can be used or stood on. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | In Nyanja, the word 'chinthu' can also be used to mean 'thing, stuff or matter'. |
| Pashto | The word "څيز" in Pashto has also been used to refer to a "thing", "affair", or "matter" in a more abstract sense. |
| Persian | The Persian word "هدف - شی" is also used to refer to the target of an action or a goal to be achieved, similar to the English word "objective." |
| Polish | In Polish, "obiekt" can also mean "sight" or "phenomenon." |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In the legal sense, "objeto" also refers to the subject matter of an agreement, contract or law. |
| Romanian | In Romanian, "obiect" can also refer to a goal or objective. |
| Russian | In Russian, "объект" also has meanings related to grammar and optics, where it refers to grammatical objects or the subject of study in optics, respectively. |
| Samoan | The word "mea faitino" is a compound of two words: "mea" which means “thing”, and "faitino" which is the diminutive form of "faito", the word for "fight". The word “faitino” can also mean "small" or "insignificant". Therefore, "mea faitino" literally means “small thing” or “insignificant object". |
| Scots Gaelic | In Old Irish (as níd and ní, neuter) 'non-existence, lack, want, privation, nothing' [Dictionary of the Irish Language]. Modern meaning 'anything'} |
| Serbian | The word 'објект' can also refer to a legal entity or a grammatical object. |
| Sesotho | The word "ntho" is derived from the Proto-Bantu root "-tu", meaning "thing" or "object". It can also refer to a concept, an idea, or a matter. |
| Shona | The word 'chinhu' in Shona can also refer to an idea or concept. |
| Sindhi | In Sindhi, the word "شئي" can also mean "thing", "matter", or "substance." |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The Sinhala word "වස්තුව" is derived from the Sanskrit word "वस्तु" (vastu) and can also mean "thing" or "matter". |
| Slovak | The Slovak word "objekt" also means "phenomenon," "event," or "process." |
| Slovenian | The word "predmet" comes from the Proto-Slavic word *pred-metъ, meaning "something put in front of someone". |
| Somali | The word "walax" in Somali can also refer to a "thing", "property", or "money". |
| Spanish | The Spanish word "objeto" can also refer to a purpose or goal. |
| Sundanese | The Sundanese word "objék" is a loanword from Dutch that originally meant "target". |
| Swahili | Kitu's root is 'ki-tu', 'ki-' meaning abstract, and 'tu' an empty vessel, thus 'kitu' means 'empty object ready to be filled' |
| Swedish | In Swedish, "objekt" can also refer to a direct object in grammar. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The Tagalog word "bagay" is a cognate of the Malay "benda," which in Indonesian can also mean "affairs" as in a "love affair." |
| Tajik | The Tajik word "объект" has historically been used to mean both "subject" and "object". |
| Tamil | In Tamil, "பொருள்" also denotes meaning, importance, wealth, or a significant thing and is etymologically related to the Vedic Sanskrit "ब्रह्मन् (brahman)" meaning "the absolute reality". |
| Telugu | వస్తువు (object) can also mean "article, good, commodity," or "thing." |
| Thai | The word "วัตถุ" in Thai also means "matter" or "substance" |
| Turkish | "Nesne" shares the same etymology with "nesnelemek" (objectify) |
| Ukrainian | The word "об'єкт" derives from Latin "objectum", meaning "something put before". |
| Urdu | The word "چیز" can also mean "thing, affair, matter, or business" in Urdu. |
| Uzbek | The word "ob'ekt" also refers to a purpose, goal, or target. |
| Vietnamese | The word "vật" can also mean "creature" or "being" in Vietnamese. |
| Welsh | The word 'gwrthrych' derives from the Old Welsh word 'gwrthrychu', meaning 'to stand against' or 'to oppose'. |
| Xhosa | The word "into" can also mean "a person who is a member of a particular group or organization" |
| Yiddish | The word "כייפעץ" also means "thing" or "gizmo" in Yiddish, and is related to the German word "Zeug". |
| Yoruba | Yoruba word "ohun" also means "thing" or "a creation". |
| Zulu | The Zulu word 'into' also means 'inside'. |
| English | The word 'object' derives from the Latin 'objectum', meaning "something placed before". |