Practice in Different Languages
Discover 'Practice' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Practice
Afrikaans oefen | ||
Albanian praktikë | ||
Amharic ልምምድ | ||
Arabic ممارسة | ||
Armenian պրակտիկա | ||
Assamese অভ্যাস | ||
Aymara yant'a | ||
Azerbaijani təcrübə | ||
Bambara degeli | ||
Basque landu | ||
Belarusian практыка | ||
Bengali অনুশীলন করা | ||
Bhojpuri अभ्यास | ||
Bosnian vježbati | ||
Bulgarian практика | ||
Catalan pràctica | ||
Cebuano praktis | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 实践 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 實踐 | ||
Corsican pratica | ||
Croatian praksa | ||
Czech praxe | ||
Danish øve sig | ||
Dhivehi ޕްރެކްޓިސް | ||
Dogri करत-विद्या | ||
Dutch praktijk | ||
English practice | ||
Esperanto praktiki | ||
Estonian tava | ||
Ewe kasa | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) pagsasanay | ||
Finnish harjoitella | ||
French entraine toi | ||
Frisian oefenje | ||
Galician práctica | ||
Georgian პრაქტიკა | ||
German trainieren | ||
Greek πρακτική | ||
Guarani japo | ||
Gujarati પ્રેક્ટિસ | ||
Haitian Creole pratik | ||
Hausa yi | ||
Hawaiian hoʻomaʻamaʻa | ||
Hebrew תרגול | ||
Hindi अभ्यास | ||
Hmong xyaum | ||
Hungarian gyakorlat | ||
Icelandic æfa sig | ||
Igbo omume | ||
Ilocano praktis | ||
Indonesian praktek | ||
Irish cleachtadh | ||
Italian pratica | ||
Japanese 練習 | ||
Javanese laku | ||
Kannada ಅಭ್ಯಾಸ | ||
Kazakh практика | ||
Khmer អនុវត្ត | ||
Kinyarwanda imyitozo | ||
Konkani सराव | ||
Korean 연습 | ||
Krio du | ||
Kurdish bikaranînî | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) پەیڕەوکردن | ||
Kyrgyz практика | ||
Lao ການປະຕິບັດ | ||
Latin praxi | ||
Latvian prakse | ||
Lingala komeka | ||
Lithuanian praktika | ||
Luganda okwegezamu | ||
Luxembourgish praxis | ||
Macedonian пракса | ||
Maithili अभ्यास | ||
Malagasy fampiharana | ||
Malay berlatih | ||
Malayalam പരിശീലനം | ||
Maltese prattika | ||
Maori whakaharatau | ||
Marathi सराव | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯍꯣꯠꯅꯕ | ||
Mizo inbuatsaih | ||
Mongolian дадлага хийх | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) လေ့ကျင့်သည် | ||
Nepali अभ्यास | ||
Norwegian øve på | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) yesetsani | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଅଭ୍ୟାସ କର | | ||
Oromo shaakala | ||
Pashto تمرین | ||
Persian تمرین | ||
Polish ćwiczyć | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) prática | ||
Punjabi ਅਭਿਆਸ | ||
Quechua yachapay | ||
Romanian practică | ||
Russian практика | ||
Samoan faʻataʻitaʻi | ||
Sanskrit अभ्यासः | ||
Scots Gaelic cleachdadh | ||
Sepedi tlwaetšo | ||
Serbian вежбати | ||
Sesotho itloaetsa | ||
Shona dzidzira | ||
Sindhi مشق | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) පුහුණුවීම් | ||
Slovak prax | ||
Slovenian praksa | ||
Somali dhaqan | ||
Spanish práctica | ||
Sundanese latihan | ||
Swahili mazoezi | ||
Swedish öva | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) magsanay | ||
Tajik амалия | ||
Tamil பயிற்சி | ||
Tatar практика | ||
Telugu సాధన | ||
Thai การปฏิบัติ | ||
Tigrinya ትግበራ | ||
Tsonga toloveta | ||
Turkish uygulama | ||
Turkmen tejribe | ||
Twi (Akan) anamɔntuo | ||
Ukrainian практика | ||
Urdu مشق | ||
Uyghur ئەمەلىيەت | ||
Uzbek mashq qilish | ||
Vietnamese thực hành | ||
Welsh ymarfer | ||
Xhosa ukuziqhelanisa | ||
Yiddish פיר | ||
Yoruba adaṣe | ||
Zulu umkhuba |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "oefen" derives from the Dutch word "oefenen," meaning "to practice" or "to exercise." |
| Albanian | Though primarily meaning "practice," "praktikë" can refer to a specific instance of performing a specific task. |
| Amharic | ልምምድ, in the context of legal proceedings, refers to a customary law or precedent that has been established through repeated actions. |
| Armenian | The word "պրակտիկա" can also be used to refer to "knowledge acquired by practice" in Armenian. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "təcrübə" is borrowed from the Arabic "tacrība", meaning "experience" or "experiment". |
| Basque | Landu, besides "practice," can also mean "ability." |
| Belarusian | The word "практыка" (praktyka) comes from Greek and originally meant the result of practical activity. |
| Bengali | "অনুশীলন করা" (practice) comes from Sanskrit "अनुशीलनम्" (practice, discipline), related to English "discipline" (religious discipline, training, control, order). |
| Bosnian | The verb "vježbati" also means "to exercise" and derives from the Croatian "vježba" meaning "exercise". |
| Bulgarian | The word "практика" can also mean "practicality" or "experience" in Bulgarian. |
| Catalan | The word 'pràctica' in Catalan can also refer to a type of musical performance. |
| Cebuano | "Praktis" (practice) is also used to refer the result of an undertaking. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "实践" means 'the process of doing something or working at it in order to become better or more skillful' |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 實踐 (實=real, 踐=step) can mean both 'realize' and 'practice', implying putting ideas into action. |
| Corsican | In addition to its primary meaning "practice", in the dialect of Capicorsu the noun "a pratica" also refers to a "gathering" or "social meeting". |
| Croatian | The Croatian word 'praksa' and the English word 'practice' share the same Latin root, meaning "to carry out or engage in. |
| Czech | From Ancient Greek "πράξις" (prā́xis) "practice, act, deed, business" |
| Danish | "Øve sig" shares the same root as "overcoming obstacles" and was originally used in hunting contexts when hunters stalked their prey by stealthily moving between trees as to remain undetected. |
| Dutch | The Dutch word 'praktijk' is derived from the Latin 'praxis', meaning 'action' or 'practice', and in some contexts can also refer to a medical office or the practical aspects of a profession. |
| Esperanto | The word "praktiki" comes from the Greek word "praktikē", meaning "practical skill" or "exercise". |
| Estonian | The word "tava" is also used in Finnish and Karelian, where it means "habit" |
| Finnish | In addition to its most common meaning, 'harjoitella' can also mean 'to exercise' or 'to drill'. |
| French | Entraîne-toi, meaning |
| Frisian | Oefenje is derived from the Old Frisian word 'oefje', meaning 'skill' or 'custom'. |
| Galician | The word "práctica" in Galician, meaning "internship", derives from the Latin word "practica", meaning "action" or "experience". |
| German | The word "trainieren" derives from the Old French "trainer" (meaning "to pull") via Middle High German "trenieren" (meaning "to draw"). |
| Greek | The Greek term "πρακτική" comes from "πρακτικός", which also connotes 'skilled, competent' and is derived from "πράσσειν" ('to act'). |
| Gujarati | "The word |
| Haitian Creole | The Haitian Creole word "pratik" comes from the French word "pratique", meaning "custom" or "ritual." |
| Hausa | "Yi" as a Hausa word can also mean "to learn" or "to cultivate or till (land)". |
| Hawaiian | In Hawaiian, hoʻomaʻamaʻa can also refer to training, exercising, or drilling. |
| Hebrew | The word “תרגול” can also mean “exercise” in Hebrew, as in physical or mental exercise. |
| Hindi | The word 'अभ्यास' (abhyas) in Hindi shares its root with the English word 'exercise', both deriving from the proto-Indo-European root *wegʰ 'to carry, move'. |
| Hmong | Xyaum's alternate meaning of "perform" aligns with its function as the primary verb for "performing" rituals or songs. |
| Hungarian | The word “gyakorlat” in Hungarian not only refers to practice but can also mean exercise, usage, and rehearsal. |
| Icelandic | "Á æfa sig" literally translates to "to give birth to oneself," which refers to the notion of personal growth and self-improvement. |
| Igbo | "Omumu" can also mean "activity" or "process" in Igbo. |
| Indonesian | In Indonesian, "praktek" can also refer to a clinic or a doctor's office. |
| Irish | In Irish, the word "cleachtadh" can also refer to a "habit" or "custom"} |
| Italian | Italian "pratica" comes from Greek "πρακτική", related to "πράσσειν" (to do, to act); in Venetian, it meant "document proving something". |
| Japanese | The character 痯 in 練習 originally designated a type of illness, and is found in the archaic 痯體 ("sickly body") meaning "invalid, cripple". |
| Javanese | "Laku" in Javanese can also refer to a spiritual or ascetic practice. |
| Kannada | "ಅಭ್ಯಾಸ" can also mean habit or addiction. |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "практика" also means "internship" or "work experience". |
| Khmer | Etymology unknown, possibly from Sanskrit अनुवर्त्तते (anuvartate) “to return to, apply oneself to,” via Pali |
| Korean | "연습" is related to "연" meaning "to extend" or "to stretch" and to "습" meaning "learning" or "habits. |
| Kurdish | The word "bikaranînî" in Kurdish is derived from the Persian word "kardan" meaning "to do" or "to make" and the Kurdish suffix "-înî" indicating an action or process. |
| Kyrgyz | "Практика" также означает "опыт" или "учение". |
| Latin | Praxi, a Greek-derived Latin noun, means "practice," "process," "action," or "operation." |
| Latvian | In Latvian, "prakse" can also mean "experience" or "practical work", derived from the Greek "praxis" meaning "action" or "deed". |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word "praktika" is derived from the Greek word "praktikos", meaning "practical" or "pertaining to action". It can also refer to a period of supervised employment or training in a particular field. |
| Luxembourgish | In Luxembourgish, despite it also being spelled the "Praxis," it means a doctor's medical office. |
| Macedonian | "Пракса" can also refer to the rules for doing something in a particular place or way, or to a procedure that is often carried out." |
| Malagasy | The word "fampiharana" in Malagasy can also mean "implementation" or "application". |
| Malay | Berlatih in Malay can also refer to the process of preparing or getting ready for something. |
| Malayalam | In Malayalam, the word "പരിശീലനം" can also refer to "rehearsal" or "exercise." |
| Maltese | The word "prattika" in Maltese can also refer to a type of traditional Maltese boat used for fishing. |
| Maori | The word 'whakaharatau' can also refer to a 'contest' or 'competition' in Maori. |
| Mongolian | The word 'дадлага хийх' is also used to describe activities such as warming up before exercise or rehearsing a performance. |
| Nepali | The Nepali word "अभ्यास" also means "an exercise" or "study". |
| Norwegian | The word "øve på" can also mean to "exercise" oneself, both physically and mentally. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word 'yesetsani' is also used to refer to a rehearsal or a warm-up exercise, and it can have a more general meaning of 'preparation'. |
| Pashto | The word "تمرین" is derived from the Arabic word "تَمْرين", which means "training, exercise, or practice". |
| Persian | The Persian word "تمرین" (practice) comes from the Arabic word "تمرن" which means "to exercise" or "to train" and is related to the word "ممارسة" which means "action", "exercise" or "practice" |
| Polish | The word "ćwiczyć" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *čьstiti, meaning "to honor" or "to venerate". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | "Prática" can also mean "custom" or "habit". |
| Romanian | In Romanian, the word "practică" also means "internship" or "work placement". |
| Russian | The word "практика" (praktika) in Russian can also refer to an internship or a period of work experience. |
| Samoan | The term "faʻataʻitaʻi" can also refer to the act of imitation or trial. |
| Scots Gaelic | "Cleachdadh" derives from "cleachd" (use), originally referring to a custom or habit rather than to repeated performance. |
| Serbian | "Вежбати" is cognate with the Russian word "вечер" (evening), with the connotation that one trains in the evening after completing the most important work. |
| Sesotho | The word "itloaetsa" is derived from the root "tloa", meaning "to be accustomed to" or "to do something repeatedly." |
| Shona | The word "dzidzira" can also mean "rehearsal" or "exercise" in Shona. |
| Sindhi | In Sindhi, "مشق" can also refer to the recitation of religious verses. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "පුහුණුවීම්" in Sinhala can also be used to refer to rituals, especially those related to witchcraft. |
| Slovak | Prax has many alternate meanings, including "dust", "powder", or "ashes". |
| Slovenian | The Slovenian word "praksa" also means "internship" or "apprenticeship". |
| Somali | The Somali term "dhaqan" can also refer to culture, customs, and traditions. |
| Spanish | "Práctica" comes from the Greek word "praktikos", which means "related to action". |
| Sundanese | The word "latihan" in Sundanese derives from the word "lati", meaning "to train or exercise." |
| Swahili | The word 'mazoezi' in Swahili is also used to refer to physical exercise. |
| Swedish | The word "öva" also means "to train" or "to exercise". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "magsanay" in Tagalog is derived from the root word "sanay," which means "to get used to" or "to accustom." |
| Tajik | Амалия (практика) в таджикском занимает совершенное совершается. |
| Telugu | The etymology of the Telugu word "సాధన" is traced to Sanskrit, meaning "accomplishment, attainment, or means to an end." |
| Thai | The Thai word "การปฏิบัติ" can also mean "behavior" or "conduct". |
| Turkish | In Turkish, the word "uygulama" has additional meanings including "application", "implementation", and "experimentation." |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word "практика" is derived from the Greek "πρακτικός" (praktikos), meaning "practical, useful," and also has the alternate meanings of "internship" and "apprenticeship" in various contexts. |
| Urdu | The word 'مشق' ('practice') can also refer to writing exercises for learning calligraphy in Arabic. |
| Uzbek | The word "mashq qilish" in Uzbek has additional meanings such as "exercise", "training" and "rehearsal". |
| Vietnamese | "Thực hành" literally means "to perform the truth". |
| Welsh | From 'marfer' meaning 'to hinder', hence 'to exercise' or 'to drill'. It is also the root of 'rhyferfyg', meaning 'to exercise', from the notion of 'impeding' or 'opposing'. |
| Xhosa | The word "ukuziqhelanisa" has an alternate meaning, which is "to train oneself" |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word פיר (“practice”) also means “feather” and is cognate with the German word Feder and the English word “feather.” |
| Yoruba | "Adaṣe" can also mean "exercise", "drill", "rehearsal", or "routine" in Yoruba. |
| Zulu | The Zulu word "umkhuba" can also refer to a "custom" or "tradition". |
| English | The word "practice" is derived from the Old French word "practique", which in turn comes from the Latin word "practica", meaning "action" or "experience." |