Predict in Different Languages
Discover 'Predict' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Predict
Afrikaans voorspel | ||
Albanian parashikoj | ||
Amharic መተንበይ | ||
Arabic تنبؤ | ||
Armenian կանխատեսել | ||
Assamese অনুমান | ||
Aymara chiqt'aña | ||
Azerbaijani proqnozlaşdırmaq | ||
Bambara ka sini dɔn | ||
Basque aurreikusi | ||
Belarusian прадказваць | ||
Bengali পূর্বাভাস | ||
Bhojpuri भविष्यवाणी कईल | ||
Bosnian predvidjeti | ||
Bulgarian предсказвам | ||
Catalan predir | ||
Cebuano pagtagna | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 预测 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 預測 | ||
Corsican prevede | ||
Croatian predvidjeti | ||
Czech předpovědět | ||
Danish forudsige | ||
Dhivehi އަންދާޒާކުރުން | ||
Dogri पेशीनगोई करना | ||
Dutch voorspellen | ||
English predict | ||
Esperanto antaŭdiri | ||
Estonian ennustada | ||
Ewe gblɔ nya ɖi | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) hulaan | ||
Finnish ennustaa | ||
French prédire | ||
Frisian wytgje | ||
Galician predicir | ||
Georgian პროგნოზირება | ||
German vorhersagen | ||
Greek προλέγω | ||
Guarani hechatenonde | ||
Gujarati આગાહી | ||
Haitian Creole predi | ||
Hausa hango ko hasashen | ||
Hawaiian wānana | ||
Hebrew לנבא | ||
Hindi भविष्यवाणी | ||
Hmong twv seb | ||
Hungarian megjósolni | ||
Icelandic spá | ||
Igbo buo amụma | ||
Ilocano ipadles | ||
Indonesian meramalkan | ||
Irish tuar | ||
Italian prevedere | ||
Japanese 予測する | ||
Javanese prédhiksi | ||
Kannada ict ಹಿಸಿ | ||
Kazakh болжау | ||
Khmer ព្យាករណ៍ | ||
Kinyarwanda guhanura | ||
Konkani अदमास | ||
Korean 예측하다 | ||
Krio tɔk se sɔntin go bi | ||
Kurdish pêşdîtin | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) پێشبینی کردن | ||
Kyrgyz алдын ала айтуу | ||
Lao ຄາດຄະເນ | ||
Latin praedicere | ||
Latvian paredzēt | ||
Lingala koloba liboso makambo oyo ekosalema | ||
Lithuanian numatyti | ||
Luganda okuteebereza | ||
Luxembourgish viraussoen | ||
Macedonian предвиди | ||
Maithili भविष्यवाणी | ||
Malagasy milaza | ||
Malay meramalkan | ||
Malayalam പ്രവചിക്കുക | ||
Maltese tbassar | ||
Maori matapae | ||
Marathi भविष्यवाणी | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯍꯥꯟꯅꯅ ꯇꯥꯛꯄ | ||
Mizo ringlawk | ||
Mongolian урьдчилан таамаглах | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ခန့်မှန်း | ||
Nepali भविष्यवाणी | ||
Norwegian spå | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kulosera | ||
Odia (Oriya) ପୂର୍ବାନୁମାନ କର | | ||
Oromo raaguu | ||
Pashto وړاندوینه | ||
Persian پیش بینی | ||
Polish przepowiadać, wywróżyć | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) prever | ||
Punjabi ਅੰਦਾਜ਼ਾ | ||
Quechua musyachiy | ||
Romanian prezice | ||
Russian предсказывать | ||
Samoan vavalo | ||
Sanskrit शास्ति | ||
Scots Gaelic ro-innse | ||
Sepedi akanya | ||
Serbian предвидјети | ||
Sesotho noha | ||
Shona kufanotaura | ||
Sindhi اڳڪٿي | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) පුරෝකථනය කරන්න | ||
Slovak predvídať | ||
Slovenian napovedovati | ||
Somali saadaalin | ||
Spanish predecir | ||
Sundanese ngaramal | ||
Swahili tabiri | ||
Swedish förutse | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) hulaan | ||
Tajik пешгӯӣ кардан | ||
Tamil கணிக்கவும் | ||
Tatar фаразлау | ||
Telugu అంచనా వేయండి | ||
Thai ทำนาย | ||
Tigrinya ምትንባይ | ||
Tsonga vhumba | ||
Turkish tahmin etmek | ||
Turkmen çaklaň | ||
Twi (Akan) ka to hɔ | ||
Ukrainian передбачити | ||
Urdu پیشن گوئی | ||
Uyghur ئالدىن پەرەز قىلىش | ||
Uzbek bashorat qilish | ||
Vietnamese dự đoán | ||
Welsh darogan | ||
Xhosa qikelela | ||
Yiddish פאָרויסזאָגן | ||
Yoruba asọtẹlẹ | ||
Zulu ukubikezela |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | Although 'voorspel' means to predict in Afrikaans, in Dutch and Middle Dutch the meaning was to speak up or say in advance. |
| Albanian | The Albanian word "parashikoj" also means "to guess" and comes from the Greek word "paraschetikos," meaning "prepared in advance." |
| Amharic | The Amharic word "መተንበይ" is derived from the Ge'ez verb "ተነበየ" and can also mean "to prophesy" or "to interpret dreams". |
| Arabic | The root of "تنبؤ" in the Arabic language is "نبأ" which means "news" or "information", highlighting the predictive aspect of news and information. |
| Azerbaijani | "Proqnozlaşdırmaq" is derived from the Greek word "prognosis," meaning "foreknowledge." |
| Basque | The word aurrerikusi also means presage. |
| Bengali | "পূর্বাভাস" can also mean "announcement" or "declaration". |
| Bosnian | "Predvidjeti" also means "foresee" or "anticipate". |
| Bulgarian | Предсказвам is a Slavic word that can be traced back to an Indo-European base that means "to know beforehand". |
| Catalan | The Catalan verb "predir" derives from the Latin "praedicere", meaning "to proclaim" or "to announce publicly". |
| Cebuano | Pagtagna's alternate meaning is to guess by judging circumstances rather than by reasoning. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 预测在日文中也可指'预告'，如电影或演唱会的预告片被称为'予告编' |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 預測在中文裡除了預測的意思之外，還有「預先推測」的意思。 |
| Corsican | The verb `prevede` is borrowed from Italian and retains the meaning of `to provide`, `to equip`. |
| Croatian | The word 'predvidjeti' comes from the Proto-Slavic word *prědviděti, meaning 'to see beforehand' |
| Czech | The Czech word 'předpovědět' also means 'to guess'. |
| Danish | The Danish word "forudsige" is derived from the Old Norse word "forsigi" meaning "foresight". |
| Dutch | "Voorspellen" also means "foreshadow" in Dutch, which is related to the original meaning of "predict" in English: to tell beforehand. |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word “antaŭdiri” derives from the Latin phrase “ante dicere” meaning “to say beforehand”. |
| Estonian | "Ennustada" is derived from ancient Germanic and has connotations of "magical knowledge" or "inspiration." |
| Finnish | In Finnish, "ennustaa" also means "to divine" or "to cast a spell" |
| French | Prédire originally meant to sing a prediction. "Dire" refers to the action of telling something. "Pré" means before. |
| Frisian | The word "wytgje" also implies a sense of anticipation or expectation. |
| Galician | The Galician word "predicir" also means "to preach". |
| German | The word "vorhersagen" can also mean "to forecast" or "to prophesy" in German. |
| Greek | The word προλέγω is formed from the prefix προ-, meaning before, and the verb λέγω, meaning to speak. |
| Gujarati | The word "આગાહી" has a second meaning in Gujarati, which is "to estimate". |
| Haitian Creole | Predi, in Haitian Creole, also means "to tell fortunes" or "to divine the future". |
| Hausa | The Hausa word "hango ko hasashen" is derived from the Arabic "hasaba," meaning "to think" or "to estimate." |
| Hawaiian | The Hawaiian word "wānana" also means "to desire" or "to wish for." |
| Hebrew | The root לנבא (n-b-ʾ) also means to 'sprout', 'put forth a bud'. |
| Hindi | The Hindi word भविष्यवाणी (predict) is derived from the Sanskrit roots भविष्य (future) and वाणी (speech), implying "utterance about the future." |
| Hmong | The word "twv seb" is homophonous with the word for "to be far apart on opposite sides of something", suggesting that the act of prediction involves looking far into the future. |
| Hungarian | The word megjósolni derives from the verb jósolni "to tell the future," which is cognate with the English word "guess". |
| Icelandic | "Spá" can also mean "prophecy" or "fortune-telling" in Icelandic. |
| Igbo | "Buo amụma" is derived from the Igbo word "amụ", which means "to read" or "to interpret". |
| Indonesian | "Meramalkan" is a loanword that derives from the Sanskrit "meramal", which means both divination or prediction. |
| Irish | "Tuar" can also mean "vision" and is related to the words for "door," "appearance" (Latin: "tueri," "watch," or "look at"), and also "fate" and even a "ghost" (Latin, "tutela," or "guardian spirit of a place")."} |
| Italian | Prevedere can also have the meaning of providing, or being prepared, in the expressions 'provvedere a' and 'essere provveduto di'. |
| Japanese | "予報する (yoho suru)" is another way to say "predict" in Japanese, and it literally means "to forecast." |
| Javanese | The term "prédhiksi" in Javanese, which means "predict", is a derivative of the Dutch word "predictie". |
| Kannada | The word "ict ಹಿಸಿ" in Kannada is derived from the Sanskrit word "īkṣ" meaning "to see" or "to observe". |
| Kazakh | "Болжау" can also mean "guessing", "thinking about the future", or "divination". |
| Korean | The word "예측하다" is derived from the Chinese characters "預測", meaning "to foretell" or "to estimate". |
| Kurdish | The word "pêşdîtin" is also used to mean "to foresee" or "to anticipate". |
| Lao | From Pali 'katthu', meaning 'to conjecture or divine', via Khmer 'kat-te'. |
| Latin | In Latin, praedicere not only means to 'predict' but also to 'announce,' 'proclaim,' or 'make known beforehand.' |
| Latvian | "Paredzēt" contains the root "-redz-" meaning "to look". So, to predict is to "look ahead." |
| Lithuanian | The word "numatyti" is derived from the Old Lithuanian word "numoti," meaning "to guess" or "to expect." |
| Luxembourgish | The noun viraussoen can also be a noun referring to forecasting the weather. |
| Macedonian | The word "предвиди" can also mean "foresee" or "anticipate" in Macedonian. |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "milaza" can also mean "to declare" or "to announce". |
| Malay | The word "meramalkan" is derived from the Sanskrit word "ramal", meaning "to predict or foretell". |
| Malayalam | As a noun, പ്രവചിക്കുക refers to the act of forecasting, while as a verb, it pertains to the action of foretelling or prophesying. |
| Maltese | The word "tbassar" traces its roots "bsr" (sight), hence the underlying notion of "foreseeing". |
| Maori | The term 'matapae' also signifies 'to be watchful' and 'to have foresight' in the Maori language. |
| Marathi | The Marathi word 'भविष्यवाणी' can also refer to a prophecy or a statement about the future. |
| Mongolian | The word "урьдчилан таамаглах" has its origin in the Mongolian language and can also mean "anticipation", "expectation" and "foreshadowing". |
| Nepali | The word 'भविष्यवाणी' (bhaviṣyāvaṇī) in Nepali derives from Sanskrit, where it originally meant 'knowledge of the future'. |
| Norwegian | "Spå" has a dual meaning: it means both to "predict" the future, and to "look out" at the surroundings, as when a lookout at sea looks out through binoculars. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "kulosera" can also mean "to make a guess" or "to forecast" in Nyanja. |
| Persian | The Persian word "پیش بینی" translates as "prediction" in English, but it initially meant "to tell" or "to give notice ahead of time." |
| Polish | The verb "przepowiadać, wywróżyć" can also mean "to prophesy" or "to foretell". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, "prever" also means "to foresee" or "to anticipate". |
| Romanian | Prezice also means "to say" or "to recite" in Romanian. |
| Russian | Предсказывать derives from старославянского "казати", meaning "to show, make visible, demonstrate, present." |
| Samoan | The word "vavalo" can also mean "to guess" or "to anticipate" |
| Scots Gaelic | The Scots Gaelic word "ro-innse" also means "a prediction". |
| Serbian | Предвидети из латинских сторесрбских событий (видети) или наблюдать собой (предсказать). |
| Sesotho | The word "noha" in Sesotho also means "to guess" or "to suppose". |
| Shona | The word 'kufanotaura' is derived from the Shona word 'kufanota', which means 'to see' or 'to perceive', and the suffix '-ura', which indicates a causative or active form. |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "اڳڪٿي" can also refer to a "prediction" or "forecast". |
| Slovak | The verb "predvídať" in Slovak is derived from the Slavic roots "pred" (meaning "before") and "viděti" (meaning "to see"), suggesting foresight or the ability to see into the future. |
| Slovenian | The word "napovedovati" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word "navěstiti", meaning "to announce" or "to inform". |
| Somali | The word can also mean "intend" or "purpose". |
| Spanish | The verb "predecir" in Spanish derives from the Latin "praedicere", meaning "to declare beforehand". |
| Sundanese | The ancient form of "ngaramal" is derived from "ngarala", which also means "to speak", suggesting a possible link between predicting and communication in Sundanese.} |
| Swahili | The etymology of the word "tabiri" in Swahili is uncertain, and it may be a borrowing from Arabic, or an older Cushitic language, or even a native Swahili term with Bantu or Proto-Niger-Congo origins. |
| Swedish | The Swedish word "förutse" has the dual meaning of predicting the future and anticipating something that is about to happen. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | Hulaan also means a hunch, intuition, or guess. |
| Tajik | The word "пешгӯӣ кардан" can also mean "to tell a fortune" or "to make a prophecy". |
| Thai | ทำนาย also means 'to divine' and is related to the Sanskrit word 'tamana', meaning 'to ponder' or 'to think'. |
| Turkish | The Turkish word "tahmin etmek" originates from the Persian word "taḥmīn", meaning "estimation" or "guess". |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word "передбачити" is also used to mean "to foresee" or "to anticipate". |
| Uzbek | The word "bashorat qilish" in Uzbek is derived from the Arabic word "bashara", meaning "to announce good news" or "to give hope". |
| Vietnamese | In Vietnamese, the word "dự đoán" also means "make an estimate or calculation". |
| Welsh | The word "darogan" in Welsh can also refer to a 'prophet' or 'diviner'. |
| Xhosa | The Xhosa word "qikelela" can also mean "to guess". |
| Yiddish | "פאָרויסזאָגן" is derived from the German word "vorhersagen," which also means "to predict." |
| Yoruba | The Yoruba word 'asọtẹlẹ' ('predict') also refers to the traditional practice of divination by casting kola nuts. |
| Zulu | The word "ukubikezela" is also used to describe the act of looking out for something or someone. |
| English | The word "predict" comes from the Latin "praedicere," meaning "to tell beforehand". |