Poll in Different Languages
Discover 'Poll' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Poll
Afrikaans peiling | ||
Albanian sondazh | ||
Amharic ምርጫ | ||
Arabic تصويت | ||
Armenian հարցում | ||
Assamese poll | ||
Aymara encuesta luraña | ||
Azerbaijani anket | ||
Bambara poll (sɛgɛsɛgɛli). | ||
Basque inkesta | ||
Belarusian апытанне | ||
Bengali পোল | ||
Bhojpuri पोल के बा | ||
Bosnian anketa | ||
Bulgarian анкета | ||
Catalan enquesta | ||
Cebuano poll | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 轮询 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 輪詢 | ||
Corsican poll | ||
Croatian anketa | ||
Czech hlasování | ||
Danish afstemning | ||
Dhivehi ޕޯލް | ||
Dogri पोल करो | ||
Dutch poll | ||
English poll | ||
Esperanto enketo | ||
Estonian küsitlus | ||
Ewe poll | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) poll | ||
Finnish kysely | ||
French sondage | ||
Frisian poll | ||
Galician enquisa | ||
Georgian გამოკითხვა | ||
German umfrage | ||
Greek ψηφοφορία | ||
Guarani encuesta rehegua | ||
Gujarati મતદાન | ||
Haitian Creole biwo vòt | ||
Hausa zabe | ||
Hawaiian balota | ||
Hebrew מִשׁאָל | ||
Hindi मतदान | ||
Hmong chaw ntsuas | ||
Hungarian közvélemény kutatás | ||
Icelandic skoðanakönnun | ||
Igbo nghoputa | ||
Ilocano surbey | ||
Indonesian pemilihan | ||
Irish vótaíocht | ||
Italian sondaggio | ||
Japanese 投票 | ||
Javanese jajak pendapat | ||
Kannada ಮತದಾನ | ||
Kazakh сауалнама | ||
Khmer ការស្ទង់មតិ | ||
Kinyarwanda amatora | ||
Konkani मतदान जालें | ||
Korean 투표 | ||
Krio poll we dɛn kin du | ||
Kurdish gelpisî | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) ڕاپرسی | ||
Kyrgyz сурамжылоо | ||
Lao ແບບ ສຳ ຫຼວດ | ||
Latin suffragium | ||
Latvian aptauja | ||
Lingala sondage ya sondage | ||
Lithuanian apklausa | ||
Luganda okulonda | ||
Luxembourgish ëmfro | ||
Macedonian анкета | ||
Maithili पोल | ||
Malagasy fitsapan-kevitra | ||
Malay pengundian | ||
Malayalam വോട്ടെടുപ്പ് | ||
Maltese votazzjoni | ||
Maori pooti | ||
Marathi मतदान | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯄꯣꯜ ꯇꯧꯕꯥ꯫ | ||
Mizo poll a ni | ||
Mongolian санал асуулга | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) မဲရုံ | ||
Nepali पोल | ||
Norwegian avstemming | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kafukufuku | ||
Odia (Oriya) ମତଦାନ | ||
Oromo filannoo | ||
Pashto ټولیزه | ||
Persian نظرسنجی | ||
Polish głosowanie | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) votação | ||
Punjabi ਚੋਣ | ||
Quechua encuesta | ||
Romanian sondaj | ||
Russian опрос | ||
Samoan palota | ||
Sanskrit मतदानम् | ||
Scots Gaelic cunntas-bheachd | ||
Sepedi poll | ||
Serbian анкета | ||
Sesotho phuputso | ||
Shona sarudzo | ||
Sindhi چونڊ | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) මත විමසුම | ||
Slovak anketa | ||
Slovenian anketa | ||
Somali codbixin | ||
Spanish encuesta | ||
Sundanese polling | ||
Swahili kura | ||
Swedish opinionsundersökning | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) botohan | ||
Tajik пурсиш | ||
Tamil கருத்து கணிப்பு | ||
Tatar сораштыру | ||
Telugu ఎన్నికలో | ||
Thai แบบสำรวจ | ||
Tigrinya ድምጺ ምሃብ | ||
Tsonga poll | ||
Turkish anket | ||
Turkmen pikir soralyşyk | ||
Twi (Akan) nhwehwɛmu a wɔyɛe | ||
Ukrainian опитування | ||
Urdu پول | ||
Uyghur راي سىناش | ||
Uzbek so'rovnoma | ||
Vietnamese cuộc thăm dò ý kiến | ||
Welsh pôl | ||
Xhosa ukuvota | ||
Yiddish אַנקעטע | ||
Yoruba idibo | ||
Zulu ukuvota |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "peiling" can also mean "sounding" or "depth measurement". |
| Albanian | The word "sondazh" in Albanian derives from the French word "sondage," which means "survey" or "opinion poll." |
| Amharic | The word 'ምርጫ' in Amharic can also refer to "option" or "choice". |
| Arabic | The word تصويت derives from the root صوت (sawta), meaning "to make a sound" or "to utter a word". |
| Azerbaijani | "Anket" is also a name of a historical Azeri village located in the territory of the modern-day Armenia, which was a part of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic in 1918-1920; during the Soviet era the village was populated mainly by ethnic Kurds. It was abandoned and emptied during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War." |
| Basque | In Basque, "inkesta" also means "survey". |
| Bengali | The word "poll" in Bengali can also refer to a measure of land, equal to about one acre. |
| Bosnian | The word "anketa" in Bosnian comes from the German word "Ankette" or the French word "enquête," both meaning "survey" or "inquest." |
| Bulgarian | The word "анкета" in Bulgarian is derived from the French word "enquête", which means "investigation" or "inquiry." |
| Catalan | Catalan "enquesta" derives from the Latin word "inquirere," to inquire or investigate, which also gave rise to "inquiry" in English. |
| Cebuano | The word "poll" in Cebuano can also mean "a head" or "a person's head of hair". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "轮询" 在英语中除了投票的意思以外，还可指轮换、轮流、巡逻等。 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 輪詢 (noun) - 輪流詢問意見 or a system that examines input-output units on a data communications channel in cyclical order |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "pollu" can also mean "chicken" or "brood". |
| Croatian | The word 'anketa' is derived from the French word 'enquête', meaning 'investigation' or 'inquiry'. |
| Czech | The Czech word "hlasování" also means "voice" or "vote." |
| Danish | The Danish word "afstemning" can be traced back to the old Danish word "stemme", meaning "voice". |
| Dutch | In Dutch, the word "poll" can also refer to a poplar tree, derived from the Latin word "populus". |
| Esperanto | "Enketo" is derived from the Greek word "enkētēsis", meaning "investigation" or "inquiry" |
| Estonian | The word "küsitlus" can also refer to an interrogation or inquiry in Estonian. |
| Finnish | The Finnish word "kysely" (poll) is derived from the verb "kysyä" (to ask) and originally meant "a question" or "an inquiry". |
| French | Derived from the Old French 'sonder', meaning 'to sound, to probe' |
| Frisian | In Frisian, 'poll' also means 'head' or 'skull'. |
| Galician | "Enquisa" comes from the Old Galician word "enquerer", meaning "to investigate". |
| Georgian | The word "გამოკითხვა" also means "interrogation" in Georgian, highlighting its dual purpose in conducting polls and gathering information through questioning. |
| German | The noun "Umfrage" is a compound of two words: "um" and "Frage", the latter of which means "question" in English. |
| Greek | The word 'ψηφοφορία' comes from the ancient Greek word 'ψῆφος,' meaning 'pebble' or 'vote,' as pebbles were used in ancient Greece to cast votes. |
| Gujarati | The word "poll" comes from the Latin word "polliceo," meaning "to promise". |
| Haitian Creole | The phrase, 'biwo vòt,' is derived from the French phrase, 'bullet de vote,' or 'voting ballot,' but has come to be used to mean 'to vote' or 'to cast a ballot' in Haitian Creole. |
| Hausa | "Zabe" in Hausa also means "choice" or "election". |
| Hawaiian | The Hawaiian word "balota" can also refer to a voting ballot or the act of voting. |
| Hebrew | The word מִשׁאָל is similar to "משאלה" (wish) in that it implies a desire to get a response. |
| Hindi | The word मतदान in Hindi, which translates to 'poll' in English, also means 'casting of a vote' and 'ballot'. It is derived from the word ' मत ', which means 'opinion'. The word 'दान' means 'to give', so मतदान refers to the act of giving one's opinion in a formal way through voting. |
| Hmong | The Hmong word "chaw ntsuas" also means "to talk over something together" or "to discuss". |
| Hungarian | In Hungarian, the word for "poll" (közvélemény kutatás) literally translates to "investigation of public opinion." |
| Icelandic | The Icelandic word "skoðanakönnun" can also mean "exploration of views" |
| Igbo | Derived from the Igbo word 'ghota' ('guess'), 'nghoputa' denotes the act of predicting or forecasting an outcome. |
| Indonesian | "Pemilihan" in Indonesian derives from the root word "pilih" meaning "to choose" and shares a linguistic connection with "selection" in English, highlighting its use in the context of making choices. |
| Italian | "Sondaggio" is derived from "sonda", meaning "probe" or "sound", suggesting an exploration or measurement of public opinion. |
| Japanese | "投票(poll)" also carries alternate meanings such as "election" and the verb "to vote." |
| Javanese | The word 'jajak pendapat' ('poll') in Javanese can also refer to 'a group of people' or 'a way of conducting an election'. |
| Kannada | ಮತದಾನ is a word in Kannada which means 'voting', 'election polling', or 'public opinion'} |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "сауалнама" also means "survey" or "questionnaire". |
| Korean | The Korean word "투표" also means "to cast a vote." |
| Kurdish | The Kurdish word "gelpisî" also refers to a type of bird known as a "lapwing". |
| Kyrgyz | The Kyrgyz word "сурамжылоо" also refers to a collective discussion |
| Latin | The word "suffragium" is closely related to "suffragor," meaning "to support", "to agree with," "to vote." |
| Latvian | The word "aptauja" is cognate with "aptauja" in Lithuanian, meaning "to ask" or "inquiry." |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word "apklausa" derives from the verb "klausyti" (to listen), reflecting its origin as a way to gather opinions. |
| Luxembourgish | Ëmfro is also used figuratively to refer to a person's head or face. |
| Macedonian | The word "анкета" is a loanword from French "enquête" and is used in Macedonian to refer to a survey, questionnaire, or poll. |
| Malagasy | Derived from the French "bulletin de vote" |
| Malay | The Malay word "pengundian" (poll) also has the alternate meaning of "lottery." |
| Malayalam | The word "poll" comes from the Dutch word "pol" meaning "top of the head," as it originally referred to a list of heads counted to determine a winner in an election. |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "votazzjoni" is originally derived from the Italian"votazione". |
| Maori | The word "pooti" also refers to the top of the head or the back of the neck in Maori. |
| Marathi | मतदान, meaning "poll" in Marathi, comes from the Sanskrit शब्द "मत" (opinion) and "दान" (gift). |
| Mongolian | The word "санал асуулга" is derived from the Mongolian word "санал" (opinion) and "асуулга" (question), and it can also refer to an official statement or decree issued by a government or organization. |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The word "မဲရုံ" can also mean "a small amount" or "a little bit" in Myanmar (Burmese). |
| Nepali | The word "पोल" ("poll") in Nepali can also mean a "pole" or a "stick". |
| Norwegian | The Norwegian avstemming, "poll," also means "lineage" or "descent," stemming from the Old Norse word "stemma," "family tree." |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word 'kafukufuku' is also used to describe a small hut or shelter. |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "ټولیزه" ("poll") can also refer to a religious festival or gathering. |
| Persian | In Persian, "نظرسنجی" does not only mean "poll", but it can also refer to an "opinion poll" or a "survey". |
| Polish | The word "głosowanie" in Polish also means "voting" or "the act of casting a vote". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The Portuguese word "votação" can also refer to the act of voting or the result of a vote. |
| Punjabi | The word "poll" can refer to a survey of public opinion or to the act of cutting or shearing hair from the head or body. |
| Romanian | In French, sondaj means 'drilling' or 'boring,' reflecting its original usage in geological surveying. |
| Russian | "Опрос" also means an interrogation or questioning. |
| Samoan | The Samoan word 'palota' can also refer to a vote, an election, or a census. |
| Scots Gaelic | In modern Scottish Gaelic, this word is most likely to refer to a deep place in a river, rather than a general word for "hole" in the sense of a cavity in the ground. |
| Serbian | The word “анкета” in Serbian originates from the French “enquête” (investigation, survey), and is often used interchangeably with the term “упитник” (questionnaire). |
| Sesotho | Phuputso is also commonly used to refer to any form of voting or expression of opinion, especially in political contexts. |
| Shona | 'Sarudzo' in Shona also means 'the power or right to choose' or 'a choice or decision'. |
| Sindhi | Sindhi word "چونڊ" (poll) also means "choice". |
| Slovak | The Slovak word "anketa" is cognate with the Greek word "anecdota", which means "unpublished" or "secret". |
| Slovenian | The word 'anketa' comes from the German word 'Anfrage', meaning 'request' or 'inquiry'. |
| Somali | Codbixin is derived from the Somali verb codbixi, meaning 'to vote' or 'to cast a ballot' |
| Spanish | The word "encuesta" comes from the Latin "inquirere", meaning "to inquire". |
| Sundanese | The Sundanese word "polling" can also refer to a pole or stick used to support something. |
| Swahili | Kura in Swahili refers to "poll" in English, but also means "lot" in the sense of "a decision or selection made by random draw." |
| Swedish | Opinionsundersökning comes from the words 'opinion' and 'undersökning' (investigation) and is used in the context of surveys. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Botohan" also means "fishing method of driving fish into a shallow area so that they can be easily caught" in Tagalog. |
| Tajik | The word "пурсиш" can also mean "inquiry" or "investigation" in Tajik. |
| Telugu | "ఎన్నిక" (poll) originally meant "to trim" or "to cut". In Telugu, the word also refers to the counting of votes cast in an election. |
| Thai | The Thai word "แบบสำรวจ" also means "questionnaire" or "survey". |
| Turkish | "Anket" (meaning "poll" today) derives semantically from "a-nak-id" in Sumerian meaning, "to make known; to report" |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word "опитування" originally referred to the practice of counting votes or opinions, and is derived from the Old Ukrainian verb "опитатися" (to inquire), which itself is derived from the Proto-Slavic verb *opytati (to test). |
| Urdu | پول (poll) can also mean an election or a survey in Urdu. |
| Uzbek | The word "so'rovnoma" is derived from the Persian word "so'rovat" meaning "question". |
| Vietnamese | The word 'poll' can also mean a register of people eligible to vote in an election. |
| Welsh | Pôl originates from the Welsh word "pol," meaning "pool" or "head" and "poll" in Old English. |
| Xhosa | The Xhosa word "ukuvota" also means "to choose" or "to elect". |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "אַנקעטע" (anketa) comes from the Russian "анкета" (anketa), which itself is derived from the French "enquête" (investigation). |
| Yoruba | The word 'idibo' in Yoruba also signifies 'the end of the month' and 'a boundary' |
| Zulu | The Zulu word "ukuvota" can also mean "to choose" or "to count". |
| English | "Poll" can also refer to a short stick used to register votes |