Pick in Different Languages
Discover 'Pick' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Pick
Afrikaans kies | ||
Albanian marr | ||
Amharic ምረጥ | ||
Arabic قطف او يقطف | ||
Armenian վերցնել | ||
Assamese বাছক | ||
Aymara apthapiña | ||
Azerbaijani seçmək | ||
Bambara ka ta | ||
Basque aukeratu | ||
Belarusian выбраць | ||
Bengali বাছাই | ||
Bhojpuri चुनाई | ||
Bosnian pick | ||
Bulgarian вземете | ||
Catalan collir | ||
Cebuano pagpili | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 挑 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 挑 | ||
Corsican coglie | ||
Croatian odabrati | ||
Czech výběr | ||
Danish plukke | ||
Dhivehi ނެގުން | ||
Dogri चुनो | ||
Dutch plukken | ||
English pick | ||
Esperanto elekti | ||
Estonian valima | ||
Ewe fɔ | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) pumili | ||
Finnish valita | ||
French choisir | ||
Frisian pick | ||
Galician escoller | ||
Georgian აირჩიე | ||
German wählen | ||
Greek διαλέγω | ||
Guarani poravo | ||
Gujarati ચૂંટો | ||
Haitian Creole chwazi | ||
Hausa karba | ||
Hawaiian ʻohiʻohi | ||
Hebrew לִבחוֹר | ||
Hindi चुनना | ||
Hmong de | ||
Hungarian szed | ||
Icelandic velja | ||
Igbo ghota | ||
Ilocano piduten | ||
Indonesian memilih | ||
Irish pioc | ||
Italian scegliere | ||
Japanese ピック | ||
Javanese pilih | ||
Kannada ಆಯ್ಕೆ | ||
Kazakh таңдау | ||
Khmer រើស | ||
Kinyarwanda hitamo | ||
Konkani वेंचप | ||
Korean 선택 | ||
Krio pik | ||
Kurdish çengel | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) هەڵگرتن | ||
Kyrgyz тандоо | ||
Lao ເອົາ | ||
Latin carpere | ||
Latvian izvēlēties | ||
Lingala kopona | ||
Lithuanian išsirinkti | ||
Luganda okulonda | ||
Luxembourgish plécken | ||
Macedonian бере | ||
Maithili उठाउ | ||
Malagasy haka | ||
Malay pilih | ||
Malayalam തിരഞ്ഞെടുക്കുക | ||
Maltese pick | ||
Maori kato | ||
Marathi निवडा | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯈꯟꯕ | ||
Mizo chhar | ||
Mongolian сонгох | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ရွေး | ||
Nepali लिनुहोस् | ||
Norwegian plukke | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) sankhani | ||
Odia (Oriya) ବାଛ | ||
Oromo kaasuu | ||
Pashto غوره کول | ||
Persian انتخاب | ||
Polish wybierać | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) escolher | ||
Punjabi ਚੁੱਕੋ | ||
Quechua akllay | ||
Romanian alege | ||
Russian выбирать | ||
Samoan piki | ||
Sanskrit चिनूहि | ||
Scots Gaelic tagh | ||
Sepedi topa | ||
Serbian пицк | ||
Sesotho khetha | ||
Shona nhonga | ||
Sindhi کڻو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) තෝරන්න | ||
Slovak vyzdvihnúť | ||
Slovenian izberite | ||
Somali qaado | ||
Spanish recoger | ||
Sundanese nyokot | ||
Swahili chagua | ||
Swedish plocka | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) pumili | ||
Tajik чидан | ||
Tamil தேர்ந்தெடு | ||
Tatar сайлау | ||
Telugu ఎంచుకోండి | ||
Thai เลือก | ||
Tigrinya ምልዓል | ||
Tsonga hlawula | ||
Turkish toplamak | ||
Turkmen saýla | ||
Twi (Akan) fa | ||
Ukrainian вибрати | ||
Urdu اٹھاو | ||
Uyghur تاللاڭ | ||
Uzbek tanlash | ||
Vietnamese hái | ||
Welsh dewis | ||
Xhosa khetha | ||
Yiddish קלייַבן | ||
Yoruba gbe | ||
Zulu khetha |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "kies" in Afrikaans also means "to choose" or "to select". |
| Albanian | The word "marr" can also refer to a tool used for digging or a type of boat used in lagoons. |
| Amharic | The verb "ምረጥ" has alternate meanings like "to gather" and "to choose", as well as other derivatives that have similar meanings, such as the noun "ምርጫ" (choice). |
| Arabic | In Arabic, the word "قطف او يقطف" can also refer to "harvesting" or "gathering". |
| Azerbaijani | "Seçmək" can also mean "to collect" or "to choose" in Azerbaijani. |
| Basque | Aukeratu can also mean to elect or to choose |
| Bengali | "বাছাই" is the Bengali word for "choice", and is also used in the context of choosing or selecting from a group or collection. |
| Bosnian | The word "pick" can also be used in Bosnian to mean a male chicken. |
| Bulgarian | Вземете may also mean “to take,” “to seize,” “to capture,” “to get,” or “to receive.” |
| Catalan | The word 'collir' is derived from the Latin word 'colligere', which means 'to collect or gather'. |
| Cebuano | Pagpili, a Cebuano word for 'pick', originates from the Proto-Austronesian root word *pili 'to choose'. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 挑 (tiāo), meaning to carry on a pole or shoulder, also has the meaning of "to select" or "to choose" in Chinese. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 挑 (挑) has the alternate meanings of "to provoke" and "to lift". |
| Corsican | In Italian, «cogliere» also means «understand». |
| Croatian | The word "odabrati" can also mean "to choose" or "to select" in Croatian. |
| Czech | The word 'výběr' also means 'excerpt' in Czech. |
| Danish | The Danish word "plukke" also means "to pluck", as in plucking a chicken. |
| Dutch | In addition to 'pluck,' 'plukken' can mean 'pull,' 'draw,' 'gather,' or 'snap.' |
| Esperanto | The word "elekti" also means "to choose" or "to select" in Esperanto. |
| Estonian | The word "valima" can also mean "to choose" or "to elect". |
| Finnish | The word "valita" also means "to choose" or "to select" in Finnish. |
| French | The word 'choisir' in French shares its etymological roots with the Latin word 'causare,' meaning 'to give a reason,' and also has the connotation of 'to elect' or 'to appoint.' |
| Frisian | "Pikke" (pick) also has the meaning of "to choose or select" |
| Galician | The Galician word "escoller" also means "to separate" or "to choose", and comes from the Proto-Celtic root *skell-. |
| Georgian | The word 'აირჩიე' ('pick') in Georgian can also mean 'to choose, to select' and 'to prefer'. |
| German | The verb 'wählen' is cognate with 'well' (as in 'to be in good health') and 'will' (as in 'volition'). |
| Greek | The word "διαλέγω" also means "to converse" or "to discuss" in Greek. |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "ਚੂੰਟੋ'' is also used in Punjabi language with the same spelling and same pronunciation and has the meaning ' चुनाव ' (choice, selection, picking amongst multiple alternatives) in that language |
| Haitian Creole | "Chwazi" also means "chosen" or "picked out" in Haitian Creole. |
| Hausa | Hausa 'karba' is from Proto-Benue-Congo '*karb', also meaning 'scrape' or 'scratch'. |
| Hawaiian | ʻOhiʻohi is a native Hawaiian plant whose leaves were used for thatching and as a wrapping for food. |
| Hebrew | The word "לִבחוֹר" (livḥor) comes from the root "בחר" (bhār), which means "to separate". |
| Hindi | "चुनना" can also mean "to choose", "to select", or "to cull" in Hindi. |
| Hmong | The word "de" in Hmong also means "to pull out" or "to extract". |
| Hungarian | The word "szed" means "to pick" or "to choose" in Hungarian. |
| Icelandic | The Icelandic word “velja” can either mean “pick” as a verb or “choice” as a noun, depending on the context in which it is used. |
| Igbo | The word "ghota" in Igbo can also mean "to dig". |
| Indonesian | The Indonesian word 'memilih' (to choose) is derived from the Sanskrit word 'mri' meaning 'to choose'. |
| Irish | The Irish word "pioc" originates from the Proto-Celtic word *pikkos, meaning "pointed object" or "piercing tool". |
| Italian | The word "scegliere" also means "to choose" or "to select" in Italian. |
| Japanese | ピック (piku) can also mean "pickpocket" in Japanese slang. |
| Javanese | The Javanese word 'pilih' is related to the words 'pilah' and 'pilih-pilih', and can also mean to choose or select. |
| Kannada | The word "ಆಯ್ಕೆ" in Kannada can also mean "choice" or "selection". |
| Kazakh | The verb "таңдау" can also mean "to choose" or "to select" in Kazakh. |
| Khmer | The term "រើស" can also mean to choose, select, or prefer from several options. |
| Korean | The word "선택" (seontaek) is derived from the Chinese word "選擇" (xuǎnzé), which means "to select" or "to choose" |
| Kurdish | The word "çengel" also means "hook" or "trap" in Kurdish. |
| Kyrgyz | The Kyrgyz word «тандоо» can also mean «to sort out» or «to choose». |
| Lao | The word ເອົາ can also mean "take" or "bring" in Lao. |
| Latin | The word "carpere" can also mean "to criticize" or "to find fault with" in Latin. |
| Latvian | The word "izvēlēties" is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵʰel- ("to choose") and is related to the English word "will". It can also mean "to prefer" or "to select". |
| Lithuanian | The word "išsirinkti" is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ser-, meaning "to guard, protect"} |
| Luxembourgish | The word "plécken" can also mean "to pluck" or "to pick out". |
| Macedonian | The Macedonian word "бере" also has the alternate meaning of "to take" when used with a person as the object. |
| Malagasy | In Malagasy, "haka" also means "to dig" in addition to meaning "pick." |
| Malay | In Malay, "pilih" can also refer to the process of choosing a spouse, especially in a traditional arranged marriage setting. |
| Maltese | In Maltese, the word "pick" can also refer to a crowbar or to the act of choosing or selecting something. |
| Maori | The word 'kato' in Maori also refers to a traditional wooden tool used for digging. |
| Marathi | The word 'निवडा' in Marathi also means 'decision' or 'choice'. |
| Mongolian | The word "сонгох" ("pick") in Mongolian also has the meaning of "to choose". |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | In addition to its primary meaning of "pick," "ရွေး" can also mean "choose," "select," or "elect." |
| Nepali | The word "लिनुहोस्" is derived from the verb "लिनु" (to take or pick) and can also refer to the act of picking or selecting something. |
| Norwegian | Plukke's original meaning was "to pluck", but it now often means "to choose". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The Nyanja word "sankhani" also denotes a type of basket carried on the back. |
| Pashto | The word "غوره کول" in Pashto can also mean "to choose" or "to select". |
| Persian | انتخاب as a noun relates to the word "hand" and is derived from the root kh-r (to choose, to elect). |
| Polish | The Polish verb "wybierać" also means "to elect" and is related to the noun "wybór" (choice). |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | "Escolher" is derived from the Latin word "excutere," meaning "shake out" or "extract," and is related to the English word "scoot". |
| Punjabi | The word 'ਚੁੱਕੋ' in Punjabi is derived from the Sanskrit word 'चुको', which also means to pick, carry or take away. |
| Romanian | The word "alege" derives from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂elǵ- meaning "to choose" and is also related to Latin "lego" and Greek "legō." |
| Russian | The word "выбирать" can also mean "to elect" or "to choose" in Russian. |
| Samoan | In Samoan, 'piki' can also mean 'to choose', 'to select', or 'to pick up'. |
| Scots Gaelic | "Tagh" can mean "to choose" or "a choice," deriving from the Old Irish "tag" and ultimately from the Proto-Celtic *tag-o- "to choose." |
| Serbian | The word 'пицк' can also refer to the sound of a bird's chirp. |
| Sesotho | Khetha shares its linguistic roots with the Sotho word "selekeng," meaning "bicycle," as the motion of pedaling a bicycle and picking an object both involve a circular motion. |
| Shona | In addition to its primary meaning of 'pick' or 'hoe', 'nhonga' can also refer to a digging instrument used in gold panning. |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "کڻو" can also mean "a small piece of something" or "a bit". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | In addition to its primary meaning of 'pick', "තෝරන්න" can also refer to the act of selecting, preferring, or choosing something. |
| Slovak | The Slovak verb "vyzdvihnúť" can also mean "to praise" or "to honour", reflecting its root "zvihnúť" meaning "to raise". |
| Slovenian | "Izberite" is similar to the Russian word "izbirat" meaning "to choose". |
| Somali | The word "qaado" also refers to the process of extracting or collecting something with care or precision. |
| Spanish | The word "recoger" also means "gather" or "collect" in Spanish, which comes from the Latin word "recolligere" meaning "to collect". |
| Sundanese | "Nyokot" also means "to pierce" or "to stab" in Sundanese. |
| Swahili | In Swahili, 'chagua' also means 'to choose' and is related to the verb 'chagua' which means 'to pluck'. |
| Swedish | Plocka is also a term used to describe the method for removing feathers from birds |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Pumili" can also mean "choose" or "select" in Tagalog, signifying its dual nature as both an instrument and an action. |
| Tajik | In Tajik "чидан" also means "to collect" or "to gather". |
| Tamil | The Tamil word "தேர்ந்தெடு" also means "to choose", "to select", or "to prefer." |
| Telugu | This word may also refer to a "collection of things of different kinds of a specific category". |
| Thai | เลือก (pronounced lʉ̀uk) is a Thai word that means to choose or select. It can also be used as a noun to refer to a choice or selection. |
| Turkish | "Toplamak" also means "to collect" in Turkish, suggesting a broader meaning of bringing items together. |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word "вибрати" also means "to choose" and "to elect". |
| Urdu | The Urdu word "اٹھاو" (pick) also refers to a type of traditional dance in the Punjab region of Pakistan. |
| Uzbek | The word "tanlash" can also mean "to choose" or "to select". |
| Vietnamese | Although its original meaning is to 'sing,' 'hai' can now be used as a slang term for 'to gamble'. |
| Welsh | The word 'Dewis' can also be a noun that refers to a choice or selection. |
| Xhosa | The word 'khetha' also means 'choose,' 'select,' or 'prefer.' |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "קלייַבן" also means "to choose" or "to select". |
| Yoruba | "Gbe" in Yoruba also means "to lift up" or "to carry" something as well as "to choose" or "to select" an item. |
| Zulu | The word 'khetha' can also be used to mean 'to choose' or 'to select'. |
| English | The word "pick" derives from the Old English word "pician," meaning "to pierce" or "to peck," and has various meanings, including "a pointed tool for breaking or extracting," "a small piece of something," or "the act of choosing or selecting." |