Operator in Different Languages
Discover 'Operator' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Operator
Afrikaans operateur | ||
Albanian operatori | ||
Amharic ኦፕሬተር | ||
Arabic المشغل أو العامل | ||
Armenian օպերատոր | ||
Assamese অপাৰেটৰ | ||
Aymara operador ukaxa | ||
Azerbaijani operator | ||
Bambara baarakɛla | ||
Basque operadorea | ||
Belarusian аператар | ||
Bengali অপারেটর | ||
Bhojpuri संचालक के ह | ||
Bosnian operater | ||
Bulgarian оператор | ||
Catalan operador | ||
Cebuano operator | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 算子 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 算子 | ||
Corsican operatore | ||
Croatian operater | ||
Czech operátor | ||
Danish operatør | ||
Dhivehi އޮޕަރޭޓަރެވެ | ||
Dogri ऑपरेटर दा | ||
Dutch operator | ||
English operator | ||
Esperanto operatoro | ||
Estonian operaator | ||
Ewe dɔwɔla | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) operator | ||
Finnish operaattori | ||
French opérateur | ||
Frisian operator | ||
Galician operador | ||
Georgian ოპერატორი | ||
German operator | ||
Greek χειριστής | ||
Guarani operador rehegua | ||
Gujarati ઓપરેટર | ||
Haitian Creole operatè | ||
Hausa ma'aikaci | ||
Hawaiian mea hana | ||
Hebrew מַפעִיל | ||
Hindi ऑपरेटर | ||
Hmong neeg teb xov tooj | ||
Hungarian operátor | ||
Icelandic rekstraraðili | ||
Igbo onye ọrụ | ||
Ilocano operator ti | ||
Indonesian operator | ||
Irish oibreoir | ||
Italian operatore | ||
Japanese オペレーター | ||
Javanese operator | ||
Kannada ಆಪರೇಟರ್ | ||
Kazakh оператор | ||
Khmer ប្រតិបត្តិករ | ||
Kinyarwanda umukoresha | ||
Konkani संचालक | ||
Korean 운영자 | ||
Krio ɔpreshɔn pɔsin | ||
Kurdish makînevan | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) ئۆپەراتۆر | ||
Kyrgyz оператор | ||
Lao ຜູ້ປະກອບການ | ||
Latin operator | ||
Latvian operators | ||
Lingala mosali ya mosala | ||
Lithuanian operatorius | ||
Luganda omuddukanya emirimu | ||
Luxembourgish bedreiwer | ||
Macedonian оператор | ||
Maithili संचालक | ||
Malagasy mpandraharaha | ||
Malay pengendali | ||
Malayalam ഓപ്പറേറ്റർ | ||
Maltese operatur | ||
Maori kaiwhakahaere | ||
Marathi ऑपरेटर | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯑꯣꯄꯔꯦꯇꯔ ꯑꯣꯏꯅꯥ ꯊꯕꯛ ꯇꯧꯈꯤ꯫ | ||
Mizo operator a ni | ||
Mongolian оператор | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အော်ပရေတာ | ||
Nepali अपरेटर | ||
Norwegian operatør | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) woyendetsa | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଅପରେଟର୍ | ||
Oromo operetera | ||
Pashto چلونکی | ||
Persian اپراتور | ||
Polish operator | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) operador | ||
Punjabi ਚਾਲਕ | ||
Quechua operador nisqa | ||
Romanian operator | ||
Russian оператор | ||
Samoan tagata faʻagaioia | ||
Sanskrit संचालकः | ||
Scots Gaelic ghnìomhaiche | ||
Sepedi opareitara e | ||
Serbian оператер | ||
Sesotho opareitara | ||
Shona anoshanda | ||
Sindhi آپريٽر | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) ක්රියාකරු | ||
Slovak operátor | ||
Slovenian operater | ||
Somali hawl wade | ||
Spanish operador | ||
Sundanese operator | ||
Swahili mwendeshaji | ||
Swedish operatör | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) operator | ||
Tajik оператор | ||
Tamil ஆபரேட்டர் | ||
Tatar оператор | ||
Telugu ఆపరేటర్ | ||
Thai ตัวดำเนินการ | ||
Tigrinya ኦፕሬተር | ||
Tsonga mutirhisi | ||
Turkish şebeke | ||
Turkmen operator | ||
Twi (Akan) adwumayɛfo a wɔyɛ adwuma | ||
Ukrainian оператора | ||
Urdu آپریٹر | ||
Uyghur تىجارەتچى | ||
Uzbek operator | ||
Vietnamese nhà điều hành | ||
Welsh gweithredwr | ||
Xhosa umqhubi | ||
Yiddish אָפּעראַטאָר | ||
Yoruba onišẹ | ||
Zulu opharetha |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "operateur" in Afrikaans can also refer to a surgeon or a physician. |
| Albanian | The Albanian word "operatori" can also refer to a telephone exchange operator or a surgical technician. |
| Amharic | The word "ኦፕሬተር" can also refer to a mathematical operation or a person who controls a machine. |
| Arabic | The word "المشغل أو العامل" (operator) means 'one who operates or works' and can refer to someone carrying out a task through control or manipulation as well as someone operating a machine. |
| Armenian | The term "օպերատոր" (operator) derives from the Latin "operare" (to work) and entered Armenian via French. |
| Azerbaijani | In Azerbaijani, "operator" also means "surgeon". |
| Basque | The Basque word "operadorea" can also mean "surgeon" or "engineer" |
| Belarusian | In addition to its primary meaning, "аператар" can also refer to "telephone operator" or "computer operator" in Belarusian. |
| Bengali | In Bengali, "অপারেটর" ("operator") can also refer to a mathematical operator or a person who operates a machine or device. |
| Bosnian | In Bosnian, "operater" can refer to an operator of a machine, a mathematical operator, or the operator of a telephone exchange. |
| Bulgarian | The word "оператор" can also refer to a telephone operator or a mathematical operation. |
| Catalan | The word "operador" has multiple meanings in Catalan, including "operator", "driver" and "machinist". |
| Cebuano | The Cebuano word "operator" can mean a machine that transforms energy or a surgical instrument. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 算子 can refer to a mathematical transformation that is applied to one or more operands or to an element of a vector space, or to an operator in computer science. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 算子 (suan zi) also means "to consider (as)" or "to regard (as)" |
| Corsican | In Corsican, "operatore" also means "worker" or "employee". |
| Croatian | The Croatian word "operater" can also refer to a telephone operator or a mathematical operator. |
| Czech | In Czech, "operátor" can also refer to a cellular service provider or a mathematical operation. |
| Danish | The Danish word "operatør" originated in the 1800s and can also refer to a telephone switchboard operator. |
| Dutch | In Dutch, "operator" can also refer to a person who operates a machine or system. |
| Esperanto | In computer science, an operator is a symbol that represents an operation that can be performed on operands. |
| Estonian | In Estonian, the word "operaator" can also refer to a telephone exchange or a telecommunications company. |
| Finnish | "Operaattori" has an alternate meaning, "algebraic operator", from Swedish "operator" and ultimately Latin "operator" (one who works). |
| French | In French, the word "opérateur" can also mean "surgeon" or "telephone operator". |
| Frisian | In Frisian, "operator" also refers to a person who drives a bus or tram and collects the fares. |
| Galician | In Galician, "operador" can also refer to the person who carries out a specific task or job. |
| Georgian | The word "ოპერატორი" ("operator") in Georgian can also refer to a person who is in charge of a machine or a process. |
| German | The German word for 'operator' ('Operator' or 'Operateur' in German) also has a musical meaning, referring to a singer in an opera. |
| Greek | The word "χειριστής" (operator) in Greek can also refer to a manipulator, a handler, or a surgeon. |
| Gujarati | The word "ઓપરેટર" ("operator") in Gujarati can also refer to an "instrument" or "machine" that operates something, such as a "switch" or "control panel." |
| Haitian Creole | The Haitian Creole word "operatè" is derived from the French word "opérateur," which means "operator" or "craftsman." |
| Hausa | The word "ma'aikaci" in Hausa can also refer to a laborer or a worker. |
| Hawaiian | The literal meaning of mea hana is "thing that does work", with mea meaning "thing" and hana meaning "to make" or "work." |
| Hebrew | The word מפעיל (operator) also means "activator" or "agent" in Hebrew. |
| Hindi | "ऑपरेटर" (operator) can also refer to a mathematical symbol or a computer programming command. |
| Hmong | The literal meaning of "neeg teb xov tooj" is "people that hold and look after information". |
| Hungarian | The Hungarian term "operátor" can also refer to a telephone exchange, as in "hírmondó- és távbeszélő kezelő operátor" (news and telephone operator). |
| Icelandic | The word "rekstraraðili" is derived from the Old Norse word "rekstrarað", meaning "operator" or "executor." |
| Igbo | In Igbo, 'onye ọrụ' can also refer to a worker or laborer, as well as an employee or agent. |
| Indonesian | The Indonesian word "operator" can also refer to a mathematical or logical symbol, such as addition (+) or negation (¬). |
| Irish | The word "oibreoir" is derived from the verb "obair", meaning "to work". |
| Italian | The Italian word "operatore" can also refer to a surgeon or a member of a religious order. |
| Japanese | In Japanese, "オペレーター" can also refer to a surgical assistant or a technician who operates machinery. |
| Javanese | In Javanese, "operator" (operator) can also refer to a medical assistant or a person in charge of a traditional game called "dakon". |
| Kannada | The Kannada word 'ಆಪರೇಟರ್' is derived from the English word 'operator', but it also has alternate meanings such as 'driver' or 'surgeon'. |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "оператор" can also refer to an individual who is responsible for the operation of a machine or device, similar to its meaning in other languages. |
| Korean | The Korean word "운영자" can also refer to a "manager," "controller," or "administrator."} |
| Kurdish | "Makînevan" is a Farsi word originally referring to a person that drives or operates a mechanical machine. |
| Kyrgyz | In the Kyrgyz language the word "оператор" ("operator") may also refer to a surgeon or doctor. |
| Latin | Operator, deriving from operari "to work," referred to laborers and tradesmen, including doctors, bankers, and moneylenders during the Roman Empire. |
| Latvian | In Latvian, operators can also refer to mobile phone service providers similar to the "carriers" in English. |
| Lithuanian | In Lithuanian, "operatorius" can also refer to a telephone operator or a mathematical operator. |
| Luxembourgish | In the 19th and 20th centuries, the word "Bedreiwer" was also used to refer to a worker who operated farm machinery, particularly steam-powered threshing machines. |
| Macedonian | The word "оператор" in Macedonian also means "manager" or "director". |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "mpandraharaha" is derived from the root "randra", meaning "to handle" or "to operate". |
| Malay | "Pengendali" is also used to refer to a traditional healer in Malay culture. |
| Malayalam | The word "ഓപ്പറേറ്റർ" can also refer to a telephone operator or a mathematical operator in Malayalam. |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "operatur" comes from the Latin "operatus" and can also mean "worked" or "processed." |
| Maori | The term "kaiwhakahaere" in Maori can also refer to a leader or coordinator, highlighting its broader role in management and oversight beyond technical operation. |
| Marathi | "ऑपरेटर" (operator) is also the name for a kind of sweet in Marathi. |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word "оператор" can also refer to an actor or a performer. |
| Nepali | The word "अपरेटर" can also refer to a mathematical symbol or a person who operates a machine. |
| Norwegian | The Norwegian word "operatør" has its roots in the Latin word "operator," meaning to create or accomplish something. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word 'woyendetsa' in Nyanja can also mean 'driver' or 'one who causes to move'. |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "چلونکی" originates from the Persian word "چلاندن," which means "to drive" or "to operate." |
| Persian | اپراتور can also mean "physician" or "attendant" in Persian. |
| Polish | In Polish, "operator" also refers to a phone company customer service representative and to a math symbol such as "+" or "-". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, "operador" can also refer to a telecommunications company or a stock market trader. |
| Punjabi | The word 'ਚਾਲਕ' (operator) in Punjabi also refers to a person who makes something move or function, or to the act of causing something to move or function |
| Romanian | Operator is also used to designate a telephone exchange in Romanian. |
| Russian | The word "оператор" also means "surgeon" in Russian. |
| Samoan | The word "tagata faʻagaioia" can also refer to a person who is operating a machine or vehicle. |
| Scots Gaelic | It derives from the Irish – and ultimately Latin – word ‘agentivus’ (agent), a form of the noun ‘agens’ (operator). |
| Serbian | The root of the word „operater” is the French word „opérateur”, which entered the Serbian language via Russian |
| Sesotho | The Sesotho word "opareitara" is derived from the English word "operator," which in turn comes from the Latin word "operari," meaning "to work." |
| Shona | The word "Anoshanda" in Shona also refers to a conductor on a bus.} |
| Sindhi | Derived from Persian, the word 'اپریटर' (operator) can also refer to a person engaged in trade or business. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The Sinhala word "ක්රියාකරු" can also refer to a person who engages in a particular activity or a member of a particular group. |
| Slovak | The word "operátor" in Slovak can also refer to a mathematical operation or a mobile or landline network provider. |
| Slovenian | In Slovenian, the word "operater" also means "telephone operator". |
| Somali | In Somali, the word "hawl wade" literally translates to "one who wields the power". |
| Spanish | In telephony, an "operador" is the switchboard operator who manually connects telephone calls. |
| Sundanese | The Sundanese word 'operator' can also refer to a supernatural entity that assists with healing rituals. |
| Swahili | Mwendeshaji, meaning 'driver, rider, operator', is related to the Swahili verb 'endesha', which means 'to move or drive'. |
| Swedish | Operator also refers to a mathematical or logical symbol that denotes an operation, or to someone who operates something. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | In Tagalog, "operator" can also refer to a person who assists a doctor or other health professional during a medical procedure. |
| Tajik | In mathematics, the Tajik word "оператор" also refers to an element of an algebra that combines other elements, similar to the usage in the English language. |
| Telugu | The word "ఆపరేటర్" in Telugu is derived from the English word "operator", with its alternate meaning being "surgical physician". |
| Thai | The term "ตัวดำเนินการ" in Thai can also refer to a mathematical operator, such as the plus or minus sign. |
| Turkish | In Turkish, "şebeke" also means "network" or "web," highlighting the interconnected nature of operators in the telecommunications industry. |
| Ukrainian | The word "оператора" in Ukrainian, derived from Latin, can refer to someone performing a religious rite or a surgical procedure, among other uses. |
| Urdu | The word "آپریٹر" can also refer to a telephone exchange operator or a surgical operator. |
| Uzbek | In Uzbek, the word "operator" can also refer to a "surgeon" or a "telephone exchange employee". |
| Vietnamese | "Nhà điều hành" (operator) is also used in Vietnamese to refer to a telephone exchange. |
| Welsh | In the 20th century the word 'gweithredwr' started to mean an 'operator of machinery'. |
| Xhosa | The word "umqhubi" in Xhosa can also be used to refer to a person who causes problems or conflict. |
| Yiddish | In Yiddish, "אָפּעראַטאָר" ("operator") can also refer to a person who operates a machine or performs a specific task. |
| Zulu | The Zulu word "opharetha" comes from the Greek word "operatorias" meaning "one who carries out or achieves something, an agent." |
| English | The word 'operator' derives from the Latin 'operari', meaning 'to work' or 'to perform'. |