Ok in Different Languages
Discover 'Ok' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Ok
Afrikaans ok | ||
Albanian ne rregull | ||
Amharic እሺ | ||
Arabic حسنا | ||
Armenian լավ | ||
Assamese ঠিক আছে | ||
Aymara waliki | ||
Azerbaijani tamam | ||
Bambara n sɔnna | ||
Basque ados | ||
Belarusian добра | ||
Bengali ঠিক আছে | ||
Bhojpuri ठीक बा | ||
Bosnian uredu | ||
Bulgarian добре | ||
Catalan d'acord | ||
Cebuano ok ra | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 好 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 好 | ||
Corsican va bè | ||
Croatian u redu | ||
Czech ok | ||
Danish okay | ||
Dhivehi އެންމެ ރަނގަޅު | ||
Dogri ठीक ऐ | ||
Dutch ok | ||
English ok | ||
Esperanto bone | ||
Estonian okei | ||
Ewe enyo | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) ok | ||
Finnish ok | ||
French d'accord | ||
Frisian ok | ||
Galician ok | ||
Georgian კარგი | ||
German in ordnung | ||
Greek εντάξει | ||
Guarani oĩma | ||
Gujarati બરાબર | ||
Haitian Creole ok | ||
Hausa ko | ||
Hawaiian ʻā | ||
Hebrew בסדר | ||
Hindi ठीक | ||
Hmong ok | ||
Hungarian rendben | ||
Icelandic ok | ||
Igbo ọ dị mma | ||
Ilocano ok | ||
Indonesian baik | ||
Irish ceart go leor | ||
Italian ok | ||
Japanese ok | ||
Javanese nggih | ||
Kannada ಸರಿ | ||
Kazakh жарайды ма | ||
Khmer យល់ព្រម | ||
Kinyarwanda ok | ||
Konkani बरें | ||
Korean 확인 | ||
Krio ok | ||
Kurdish baş e | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) باشە | ||
Kyrgyz макул | ||
Lao ຕົກລົງ | ||
Latin ok | ||
Latvian labi | ||
Lingala ok | ||
Lithuanian gerai | ||
Luganda kale | ||
Luxembourgish ok | ||
Macedonian добро | ||
Maithili ठीक छैै | ||
Malagasy ok | ||
Malay okey | ||
Malayalam ശരി | ||
Maltese kollox sew | ||
Maori pai | ||
Marathi ठीक आहे | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯑꯣꯀꯦ | ||
Mizo a tha e | ||
Mongolian болж байна уу | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ရလား | ||
Nepali ठिक छ | ||
Norwegian ok | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) chabwino | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଠିକ୍ ଅଛି | ||
Oromo tole | ||
Pashto سمه ده | ||
Persian خوب | ||
Polish dobrze | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) está bem | ||
Punjabi ਠੀਕ ਹੈ | ||
Quechua kusa | ||
Romanian o.k | ||
Russian хорошо | ||
Samoan ua lelei | ||
Sanskrit अस्तु | ||
Scots Gaelic ceart gu leòr | ||
Sepedi go lokile | ||
Serbian ок | ||
Sesotho ok | ||
Shona zvakanaka | ||
Sindhi ٺيڪ آهي | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) හරි | ||
Slovak ok | ||
Slovenian v redu | ||
Somali ok | ||
Spanish okay | ||
Sundanese oké | ||
Swahili sawa | ||
Swedish ok | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) ok lang | ||
Tajik хуб | ||
Tamil சரி | ||
Tatar ярар | ||
Telugu అలాగే | ||
Thai ตกลง | ||
Tigrinya እሺ | ||
Tsonga lulamile | ||
Turkish tamam | ||
Turkmen bolýar | ||
Twi (Akan) yoo | ||
Ukrainian в порядку | ||
Urdu ٹھیک ہے | ||
Uyghur ماقۇل | ||
Uzbek ok | ||
Vietnamese đồng ý | ||
Welsh iawn | ||
Xhosa kulungile | ||
Yiddish אקעי | ||
Yoruba dara | ||
Zulu kulungile |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "ok" is short for the Choctaw word "okeh," meaning "it is so" |
| Albanian | The word "ne rregull" in Albanian literally means "in order," and is also used to express agreement or acceptance. |
| Amharic | The word "እሺ" can also mean "so it shall be" in Amharic. |
| Arabic | In colloquial Arabic, "حسنا" (ok) literally means "all right" or "make it good." |
| Armenian | The Armenian word "լավ" originates from the Proto-Indo-European root "*h₁leuǵʰ-" meaning "to praise, to celebrate, to glorify." |
| Azerbaijani | The Azerbaijani word "tamam" comes from the Persian word "tamām", which means "complete" or "finished". |
| Basque | Basque "Ados", meaning "ok", is derived from the Spanish "está de acuerdo", meaning "it is in agreement". |
| Belarusian | The Belarusian word "добра" is derived from the Slavic root meaning "good" and can also mean "fine" or "well". |
| Bengali | The Bengali word 'ঠিক আছে' derives from 'ठीक है' in Hindi originating from the Persian 'tashih ast'. |
| Bosnian | The word 'uredu' is also used in Croatian and Serbian, with the same meaning. |
| Bulgarian | The word "Добре" is derived from the Old Church Slavonic word "добро", meaning "good" or "well." |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "D'acord" (literally "In agreement") may also be used as an expression to denote "that's enough" or "it's settled". |
| Cebuano | The Cebuano word "ok ra" (pronounced "oh-kray") also means "passable" or "fair". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The word "好" (hǎo) in Chinese can also mean "good," "beautiful," "fine," or "well." |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 好 (hǎo) can also mean 'good', 'positive', 'fine', 'nice', 'well', 'beautiful', 'appropriate', 'proper', 'kind', 'friendly', 'favorable', 'adequate', 'fit', 'satisfactory', 'acceptable', 'sincere', 'trustworthy', 'reliable', or 'dependable' depending on the context. |
| Corsican | Corsican "va bè" evolved from Italian "vada bene" meaning "may it go well" or "let it be". |
| Croatian | The word 'u redu' literally translates to 'in order' and is used to express agreement or approval. |
| Czech | In Czech, 'OK' can also mean 'Ostrava-Karviná', which are two cities in the Czech Republic. |
| Danish | In Danish, |
| Dutch | In Dutch, "ok" sounds like the phrase "oei, koei", which means "oh my, cow." |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word "bone" is also used in the sense of "good" or "beautiful" and is cognate with the English word "bonus". |
| Estonian | "Okei" is an Estonian word derived from "okay" and also shares the meaning of "all right" or "fine". |
| Finnish | In Finnish, "ok" is also a shortening of "Oulun Kärpät", a professional ice-hockey club located in the city of Oulu. |
| French | The French phrase "D'accord" originated in the 14th century as a hunting term meaning "the prey is killed". |
| Frisian | It is short for 'oarlok', which means 'oarlock' in English. |
| Galician | En Galicia, «ok» también puede referirse a una medida tradicional de superficie, equivalente a unos 400 m². |
| Georgian | კარგი comes from Persian and originally meant "business" or "workshop." |
| German | The etymology of "in Ordnung" refers to the medieval legal maxim "Ordnung muss sein": order exists or must be maintained. |
| Greek | The word "Εντάξει" is derived from the French phrase "en tout cas," meaning "in any case." |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "બરાબર" also means "equal" and "accurate" in English. |
| Haitian Creole | In Haitian Creole, "ok" can also be used in the context of a greeting or to express a state of being well. |
| Hausa | The Hausa word "ko" is also used as a form of acknowledgement meaning "I understand". |
| Hawaiian | 'Ā' can also mean "yes" and is sometimes elongated to 'ā'e or 'ā'e nō. |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "בסדר" (pronounced "beh-seh-der") is derived from the Arabic word "بصير" (pronounced "basir"), which means "seer" or "one who discerns." |
| Hindi | The word "ठीक" has also been used in Hindi for centuries to mean "well" or "right". |
| Hmong | Hmong has another word for ok, “yees,” which translates as “okay” or “agreed”. |
| Hungarian | The Hungarian word "rendben" literally translates to "in order," suggesting that everything is orderly and correct. |
| Icelandic | The Icelandic word "ok" is derived from the Danish word "og", meaning "and". It is also used as a conjunction and as an exclamation. |
| Igbo | The Igbo word “ọ dị mma” is an expression of affirmation, meaning “it is good” and is also a name for the African Grey Parrot. |
| Indonesian | The word "baik" in Indonesian also means "good" or "kind". |
| Irish | Ceart go leor originates from the Irish for 'right enough', a term also in English that can be used as a sarcastic retort to something you don't 100% agree with. |
| Italian | In Italian, "ok" can also be an acronym for "ogni conoscenza", meaning "every knowledge" or "all knowledge". |
| Japanese | The Japanese word 'オーケー' (ōkē) is an onomatopoeia originating from the English pronunciation of 'okay'. |
| Javanese | **Nggi**h** has other meanings such as 'yes' as an affirmation, 'yes' in agreement with someone, and 'yes' in compliance. |
| Kannada | The word 'ಸರಿ' ('ok') in Kannada can also mean 'correct' or 'straight'. |
| Kazakh | The phrase 'Жарайды ма' is also used as a polite way to ask for permission, as in 'Can I sit here?' |
| Korean | 확인 (ok), pronounced as 'ok' in English, literally translates to 'confirmed' in Korean. |
| Kurdish | The Kurdish word "baş e" not only means "ok", but also "head" and "chief". |
| Kyrgyz | The word "макул" can also refer to an exclamation expressing surprise or agreement. |
| Lao | (Lao) "ຕົກລົງ" is a word with many different meanings. It can mean to "agree" or "consent" to something, or it can mean to "drop" or "fall" down. It can also be used to describe a situation where something has been "settled" or "resolved". |
| Latin | In Latin, "ok" can also mean "all correct" or "it is so." |
| Latvian | The word "labi" is derived from the Proto-Baltic word *labī ("well, good"). |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word "Gerai" not only means "ok", but is also used to express agreement, acceptance, or approval. |
| Luxembourgish | OK is used in Luxembourgish to mean "alright". |
| Macedonian | "Добро" can also mean "good" in Macedonian language, while "добро утро" means "good morning". |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "ok" also means "to scratch" |
| Malay | The word "okey" (or "ok") in Malay is derived from the Chinese phrase "wú kè yì" (無可議), meaning "no objection" or "no dispute". |
| Malayalam | The word "ശരി" is derived from the Sanskrit word "sari", which means "proper" or "straight" |
| Maltese | The expression "kollox sew" is also used to indicate that something is good or satisfactory. |
| Maori | The Māori word "pai" can also mean "good" or "correct." |
| Marathi | The word 'ठीक आहे' in Marathi is derived from 'ठीक' meaning 'correct' and 'आहे' meaning 'is', thus connoting a sense of agreement or approval. |
| Mongolian | The phrase "болж байна уу" ("ok") in Mongolian can also mean "are you done?" or "is it complete?" |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The word "ရလား" ("ok") in Myanmar (Burmese) is derived from the English word "okay" and also means "understood". |
| Nepali | ठिक छ can also be a slang term meaning "very good" |
| Norwegian | The word "ok" is an abbreviation of the Norwegian phrase "Oho korrect" meaning "oho, that's correct." |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "Chabwino" is sometimes used in Nyanja (Chichewa) to denote a state of physical or mental well-being and is not limited to expressing agreement or affirmation. |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "سمه ده" has been theorized to originate from the Urdu "sabh mazhab", meaning "every religion", and has also been linked to the Persian "sa'me", meaning "same". |
| Persian | The word "خوب" (ok) in Persian is derived from the Arabic word "جيد" (good), and can also mean "well" or "sound". |
| Polish | The origin of the interjection "dobrze" is unknown, but some etymologists speculate that it may be onomatopoeic. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, "Está bem" can also mean "goodbye". |
| Punjabi | ਠੀਕ originally means 'straight, unbending' as a Sanskrit word; in Punjabi, it's also an expression of affirmation. |
| Romanian | In Romanian, "O.K." can also mean "zero" or "nothing" |
| Russian | The Russian word "хорошо" (ok) can also mean "good" or "well". |
| Samoan | The word "ua lelei" can also mean "very good" or express an agreement or approval and is frequently used in the contexts of health and recovery. |
| Scots Gaelic | Ceart gu leòr is a loan word from English with the literal meaning of 'right enough' or 'pretty well'. |
| Serbian | In Serbian, "ок" can also refer to the Cyrillic letter "о" (o) or an exclamation of surprise. |
| Sesotho | The word 'OK' is derived from the Swahili phrase 'oll korrect', meaning 'all correct'. |
| Shona | While zvakanaka directly translates to “it is well,” it also connotes agreement, acceptance, or affirmation. |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "ٺيڪ آهي" derives from the Persian "tayyik ast" and also means "ready" or "prepared." |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | In ancient times in Sinhala, the word "හරි" was used to address a person, especially a king, who was considered to be divine or sacred. |
| Slovak | The Slovak word "ok" comes from the word "okey" in Hungarian, meaning "all right" or "good." |
| Slovenian | The word "v redu" can also be used to describe something as being "in order" or "correct". |
| Somali | The Somali word "ok" possibly derives from the Arabic "awqāt", meaning "times" or "happenings". |
| Spanish | In Spanish, "okay" (ok) can also mean "wave" or "bye" as a noun, while it means "wave at" as a verb. |
| Sundanese | "Oké" can also mean "uncle" or "elder brother" in Sundanese. |
| Swahili | The word "sawa" in Swahili is derived from the Arabic word "sawa", meaning "equal" or "level", and it can also refer to "understanding" or "agreement. |
| Swedish | I svensk slang kan ”ok” även betyda ”snyggt” eller ”bra”. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | In Tagalog, "OK lang” ("ok") can also mean "it's enough" or "it's acceptable." |
| Tajik | "Хуб" is also used as a term of endearment, meaning "my dear" or "my sweetheart." |
| Tamil | The Tamil word 'சரி' ('ok') is also used to express surprise, agreement, or approval. |
| Telugu | The word "అలాగే" can also mean "that's right" or "that being the case". |
| Thai | The Thai word "ตกลง" is derived from the Pali word "takka", meaning "to determine" or "to agree". |
| Turkish | The word "tamam" is derived from Arabic, where it means "complete" and is used in a similar sense in Turkish. |
| Ukrainian | The word "в порядку" in Ukrainian can also mean "in order" or "in good condition". |
| Urdu | Derived from the Hindi word "thik", meaning "correct" or "alright." |
| Uzbek | In Uzbek, "ok" also means "sure" or "definitely". |
| Vietnamese | Đồng ý (literally "copper agreement") is composed of đồng (copper), which represents money, and ý (will, agreement). |
| Welsh | The Welsh word "iawn" originated from the English word "okay". |
| Xhosa | Kulungile, meaning 'all is well,' also implies a sense of approval or agreement. |
| Yiddish | Despite meaning "ok" today, "אקעי" originally meant "right away" or "immediately". |
| Yoruba | 'Dara' is not a singular word but a shortened form of 'dara pupo', which means 'greatly good' or 'very good' in Yoruba. |
| Zulu | The word 'kulungile' also means 'it is finished' or 'it is complete' in Zulu. |
| English | The term "OK" is believed to have originated from the misspelling of "oll korrect" in the 1830s as a joke. |