Permanent in Different Languages
Discover 'Permanent' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Permanent
Afrikaans permanent | ||
Albanian i përhershëm | ||
Amharic ቋሚ | ||
Arabic دائم | ||
Armenian մշտական | ||
Assamese স্থায়ী | ||
Aymara wiñayataki | ||
Azerbaijani daimi | ||
Bambara kudayi | ||
Basque iraunkorra | ||
Belarusian пастаянны | ||
Bengali স্থায়ী | ||
Bhojpuri स्थायी | ||
Bosnian trajni | ||
Bulgarian постоянен | ||
Catalan permanent | ||
Cebuano permanente | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 常驻 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 常駐 | ||
Corsican permanente | ||
Croatian trajni | ||
Czech trvalý | ||
Danish permanent | ||
Dhivehi ދާއިމީ | ||
Dogri मुस्तकल | ||
Dutch permanent | ||
English permanent | ||
Esperanto konstanta | ||
Estonian püsiv | ||
Ewe si li tegbee | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) permanente | ||
Finnish pysyvä | ||
French permanent | ||
Frisian permanint | ||
Galician permanente | ||
Georgian მუდმივი | ||
German permanent | ||
Greek μόνιμος | ||
Guarani tapiaguáva | ||
Gujarati કાયમી | ||
Haitian Creole pèmanan | ||
Hausa na dindindin | ||
Hawaiian paʻa mau | ||
Hebrew קבוע | ||
Hindi स्थायी | ||
Hmong nyob ruaj khov | ||
Hungarian állandó | ||
Icelandic varanleg | ||
Igbo na-adịgide adịgide | ||
Ilocano permanente | ||
Indonesian permanen | ||
Irish buan | ||
Italian permanente | ||
Japanese パーマネント | ||
Javanese permanen | ||
Kannada ಶಾಶ್ವತ | ||
Kazakh тұрақты | ||
Khmer អចិន្រ្តៃយ៍ | ||
Kinyarwanda gihoraho | ||
Konkani कायमचें | ||
Korean 영구적 인 | ||
Krio sote go | ||
Kurdish herdem | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) هەمیشەیی | ||
Kyrgyz туруктуу | ||
Lao ຖາວອນ | ||
Latin permanens | ||
Latvian pastāvīgs | ||
Lingala ya libela | ||
Lithuanian nuolatinis | ||
Luganda lubeerera | ||
Luxembourgish permanent | ||
Macedonian постојан | ||
Maithili स्थायी | ||
Malagasy maharitra | ||
Malay kekal | ||
Malayalam സ്ഥിരമായ | ||
Maltese permanenti | ||
Maori pūmau | ||
Marathi कायम | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯃꯇꯝ ꯆꯨꯞꯄꯒꯤ | ||
Mizo nghet | ||
Mongolian байнгын | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အမြဲတမ်း | ||
Nepali स्थायी | ||
Norwegian fast | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) okhazikika | ||
Odia (Oriya) ସ୍ଥାୟୀ | ||
Oromo dhaabbataa | ||
Pashto تلپاتې | ||
Persian دائمی | ||
Polish stały | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) permanente | ||
Punjabi ਸਥਾਈ | ||
Quechua wiñaypaq | ||
Romanian permanent | ||
Russian постоянный | ||
Samoan tumau | ||
Sanskrit स्थायी | ||
Scots Gaelic maireannach | ||
Sepedi ruri | ||
Serbian трајан | ||
Sesotho ka ho sa feleng | ||
Shona zvachose | ||
Sindhi مستقل | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) ස්ථිර | ||
Slovak trvalý | ||
Slovenian trajno | ||
Somali joogto ah | ||
Spanish permanente | ||
Sundanese permanén | ||
Swahili kudumu | ||
Swedish permanent | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) permanenteng | ||
Tajik доимӣ | ||
Tamil நிரந்தர | ||
Tatar даими | ||
Telugu శాశ్వత | ||
Thai ถาวร | ||
Tigrinya ቀዋሚ | ||
Tsonga nkarhi hinkwawo | ||
Turkish kalıcı | ||
Turkmen hemişelik | ||
Twi (Akan) daa | ||
Ukrainian постійний | ||
Urdu مستقل | ||
Uyghur مەڭگۈلۈك | ||
Uzbek doimiy | ||
Vietnamese dài hạn | ||
Welsh parhaol | ||
Xhosa esisigxina | ||
Yiddish שטענדיק | ||
Yoruba yẹ | ||
Zulu unomphela |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | In Afrikaans, "permanent" can also refer to a permanent residence permit. |
| Albanian | "Përhershëm" derives from a Latin word meaning "forever" and shares a root with "perpetuate" and "perish". |
| Amharic | The word "ቋሚ" can also mean "persistent" or "steadfast" in Amharic. |
| Arabic | The word "دائم" can also mean "continuous" or "ongoing" in Arabic. |
| Armenian | The word "մշտական" has its roots in the Proto-Indo-European word "*mesh-", meaning "to measure" or "to divide", and can also mean "stable", "continuous", or "fixed" in Armenian. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "daimi" may also refer to the Ottoman "daim" (cavalry), itself derived from Arabic "da'im" (constant). |
| Basque | The Basque term "iraunkorra" originates from "iraun" ("stay, endure, last") and "-kor" ("capable, possible") |
| Belarusian | The word “пастаянны” in Belarusian literally means “constant” and can also be used to describe something that’s lasting, stable, or continuous. |
| Bengali | The word "স্থায়ী" also means "fixed", "immovable", or "unchanging". |
| Bosnian | The word "trajni" in Bosnian is derived from the Proto-Slavic word "trъjь", which also means "strong" or "durable". |
| Bulgarian | The term "постоянен" can also refer to something unchanging or consistent over time without being physically unbreakable in Bulgarian; an "immutable property" in other words. |
| Catalan | "Permanent" also refers to a special method for hair removal |
| Cebuano | In Cebuano, "permanente" also means "curling" or "hairstyle" |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 常驻 originally meant "always stopping by". |
| Chinese (Traditional) | Traditionally used in Chinese medicine to describe a person's pulse rate that remains constant between breaths. |
| Corsican | In Corsican, "permanente" can also mean "lasting" or "enduring". |
| Croatian | "Trajni" is an adjective that also means "long-lasting" or even "everlasting". |
| Czech | In Czech, "trvalý" is cognate to the Latin "perennis" and has meanings of both "permanent" and "perennial". |
| Danish | The word "permanent" in Danish may also mean "curly hair" or "a permanent wave". |
| Dutch | In Dutch, "permanent" can also mean "permanent wave". |
| Esperanto | "Konstanta" is derived from Latin "constare", to stand firm, and has secondary meanings of "determined" and "agreed upon". |
| Estonian | The word "püsiv" also means "lasting" or "enduring" in Estonian. |
| Finnish | *Pysyvä* is derived from the verb *pysyy* meaning "to remain", with the suffix *-vä* indicating a state or condition. |
| French | The French word “permanent” can also mean “lasting” or “enduring”. |
| Frisian | In Frisian, "permanint" can also mean "continuous." |
| Galician | In Galician, "permanente" is also used for "wave" (as in hair styling). |
| Georgian | მუდმივი is derived from the Georgian root word “mudmari”, meaning “fixed” or “immovable”. |
| German | The German word "dauerhaft" comes from the Old High German word "durēn", meaning "to endure". |
| Greek | "Μόνιμος" comes from the Greek word "μένω", meaning "to remain". |
| Gujarati | The word "કાયમી" can also mean "lasting" or "enduring" in Gujarati, indicating a more general sense of permanence beyond just a physical state. |
| Haitian Creole | Pèmanan is also used in Haitian Creole to mean "perpetual". |
| Hausa | Hausa "na dindindin" also means "constantly, continuously, at every moment, always." |
| Hawaiian | Paʻa mau has the alternate meaning of “to be stubborn.” |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "קבוע" can also mean "fixed" or "certain." |
| Hindi | The word "स्थायी" in Hindi is also used to describe something that is stable or consistent. |
| Hmong | The term “nyiabruag khov“ is composed with the verb "bruag," which means “stand (upright),” and the suffix “gkov,” referring to a state, which together form the meaning “to have been erected” in terms of a house. |
| Hungarian | Állandó also means "constant" in mathematics, meaning a quantity that does not change. |
| Icelandic | Varanleg is related to varna, and means 'to protect' |
| Igbo | Na-adịgide is derived from the Igbo words na-adị 'to abide' and gide 'to stand', signifying "abiding firmness"} |
| Indonesian | In Indonesian, "permanen" (permanent) can also mean "fixed" or "unchangeable." |
| Irish | Irish "buan" derives from Old Irish "buan" meaning "enduring, constant, eternal" and was associated with time and the natural world."} |
| Italian | In Italian, 'permanente' can also refer to a type of hair treatment that permanently curls the hair. |
| Japanese | In Japanese, "パーマネント" also refers to a permanent wave, which is a type of hair treatment that creates long-lasting curls. |
| Javanese | In Javanese, "permanen" can also mean "lasting forever" or "for a long time". |
| Kannada | The word "ಶಾಶ್ವತ" can also mean "eternal" or "lasting" in Kannada. |
| Kazakh | "Тұрақты" is a verb participle which can also mean "firm", "solid", and "steady". |
| Korean | The word 영구적인 (permanent) is derived from the Chinese characters 永久, which mean "forever" or "lasting." |
| Kurdish | Herdem derives from the Old Iranian word *haradāma-, meaning 'lasting' or 'continual'. |
| Kyrgyz | "Туруктуу" originally meant "stable" or "steady" in Kyrgyz, and still carries this meaning in some contexts. |
| Latin | Latin "permanens" refers to an enduring quality, and is related to the Greek "menein" meaning "to abide". |
| Latvian | "Pastāvīgs" in Latvian can also refer to something that is stable, unchanging, or constant. |
| Lithuanian | The word "nuolatinis" originally meant "constant" or "uninterrupted" and was used in the context of time. |
| Luxembourgish | In Luxembourgish, "permanent" can also mean "for life" or "forever". |
| Macedonian | The word "постојан" also means "consistent" or "reliable" in Macedonian. |
| Malagasy | The word "maharitra" comes from the root "haritra", which means "green" or "lasting." |
| Malay | The word 'kekal' is derived from the Arabic word 'qa-ra-ra' meaning 'to fix' or 'to make permanent' and later became 'kekal' in Malay. |
| Malayalam | The word "സ്ഥിരമായ" can also mean "lasting" or "constant" in Malayalam. |
| Maltese | The word "permanenti" can also refer to a type of hair straightening treatment. |
| Maori | Pūmau also means "to remain" or "to continue" in Maori. |
| Marathi | The word "कायम" can also mean "eternally" or "always." |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word "байнгын" can also mean "regular" or "constant". |
| Nepali | स्थायी can also mean 'standing', 'fixed', or 'immovable'. |
| Norwegian | The Norwegian word "fast", which means "permanent", is derived from the Old Norse words "fastr", which meant "firm" or "secure", and "festa", which referred to something that was tied down or fixed in place. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The Chewa word "okhazikika" originally referred to something being fixed in place with ropes. |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "تلپاتې" can also mean "steadfast" or "constant". |
| Persian | The word دائمی is derived from the Arabic root word "دام" (dam), which means "to persist" or "to endure." |
| Polish | The Polish word "stały" (permanent) can also refer to "constant", "steady", or "regular". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, "permanente" can also refer to a hairstyling technique, such as a perm. |
| Punjabi | ''Sthai'' also means ''calm'' in Punjabi, and refers to the unwavering nature of something permanent. |
| Romanian | In Romanian, "permanent" has two alternate meanings: "blue" and "navy". |
| Russian | The word "постоянный" can also mean "constant", "steady", or "continuous". |
| Samoan | The word "tumau" also has alternate meanings, including "firm", "strong", and "stable". |
| Scots Gaelic | The word 'maireannach' comes from the Old Irish word 'maraind' meaning 'remaining', and is cognate with the Welsh word 'maraon', meaning 'together'. |
| Serbian | The word 'trajno' is also used figuratively, in Serbian. Its additional and figurative sense is 'irreversible'. |
| Sesotho | The word ka ho sa feleng in Sesotho means permanent and it is often used to denote something that is forever. |
| Shona | "Zvachose" in Shona means "something that cannot be changed or altered" and has its roots in the verb "kuchinja", meaning "to stick together". |
| Sindhi | The word "مستقل" ("permanent") in Sindhi can also refer to "fixed" or "unchangeable." |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The Sinhalese word "ස්ථිර" (permanent) is derived from the Sanskrit word "स्थायिन्" (also meaning permanent), which in turn is derived from the root word "स्था" (to stand). |
| Slovak | The word "trvalý" is derived from the verb "trvat" (to last), meaning "continuous" or "long-lasting". |
| Slovenian | The word "trajno" can also mean "durably" or "lastingly" in Slovenian. |
| Somali | The Somali word "joogto ah" can also mean "durable" or "lasting". |
| Spanish | In Spanish, the word "permanente" can also refer to a hairstyle involving the use of chemical solutions to reshape the hair, known as a "permanent wave". |
| Sundanese | "Permanén" is a Sundanese loanword from English, meaning "permanent", but it is also used to mean "fixed" or "stable". |
| Swahili | While "kudumu" literally translates to "to be stable", it also implies "to be heavy". |
| Swedish | From Latin 'permanere', meaning to endure or persist. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | In Filipino the word "permanenteng" (permanent) literally means "permanent"} |
| Tajik | Доимӣ may also mean 'perpetual' or 'constant', and its origin is from the old Iranian language. |
| Tamil | While 'நிரந்தர' means 'permanent', it also refers to a specific type of cloth or fabric in Tamil |
| Telugu | The word "శాశ్వత" in Telugu traces its roots to the Sanskrit word "śāśvata" meaning "eternal, everlasting", and is often used in religious contexts to describe the eternal nature of the divine. |
| Thai | The word "ถาวร" (permanent) in Thai is derived from the Pali word "ถาวระ" (enduring), which in turn is derived from the Sanskrit word "स्थावर" (immovable). |
| Turkish | The word "kalıcı" is derived from the verb "kalmak," meaning "to stay" or "to remain." |
| Ukrainian | The word "постійний" can also mean "regular" or "continuous". |
| Urdu | In Arabic, "مستقل" can also mean "disassociated" or "not connected". |
| Uzbek | The word "doimiy" is derived from the Persian word "dāyem", which means "constant, permanent, lasting". |
| Vietnamese | The word "dài hạn" literally means "long term" in Vietnamese. |
| Welsh | Parhaol also means "eternity" and is derived from the Welsh word "par" meaning "to last". |
| Xhosa | The root ‟-sis‟ in Xhosa means ‟make‟ or ‟cause to be‟. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "שטענדיק" is borrowed from the German word "ständig" and has the same meaning. |
| Yoruba | "Yẹ" can also mean "firmness" or "strength". |
| Zulu | The word "unomphela" also refers to a person who is always there for others and never lets them down. |
| English | "Permanent" comes from Latin "permanere," meaning "to remain" or "to endure." |