Afrikaans teenwoordigheid | ||
Albanian prania | ||
Amharic መኖር | ||
Arabic حضور | ||
Armenian ներկայություն | ||
Assamese উপস্থিতি | ||
Aymara chikanchasita | ||
Azerbaijani varlıq | ||
Bambara sen jɔ | ||
Basque presentzia | ||
Belarusian прысутнасць | ||
Bengali উপস্থিতি | ||
Bhojpuri उपस्थिति | ||
Bosnian prisustvo | ||
Bulgarian присъствие | ||
Catalan presència | ||
Cebuano presensya | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 存在 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 存在 | ||
Corsican prisenza | ||
Croatian prisutnost | ||
Czech přítomnost | ||
Danish tilstedeværelse | ||
Dhivehi ޙާޒިރުގައި | ||
Dogri मजूदगी | ||
Dutch aanwezigheid | ||
English presence | ||
Esperanto ĉeesto | ||
Estonian kohalolek | ||
Ewe amegbɔnɔnɔ | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) presensya | ||
Finnish läsnäolo | ||
French présence | ||
Frisian oanwêzigens | ||
Galician presenza | ||
Georgian ყოფნა | ||
German gegenwart | ||
Greek παρουσία | ||
Guarani tovake | ||
Gujarati હાજરી | ||
Haitian Creole prezans | ||
Hausa kasancewar | ||
Hawaiian alo | ||
Hebrew נוכחות | ||
Hindi उपस्थिति | ||
Hmong muaj | ||
Hungarian jelenlét | ||
Icelandic nærvera | ||
Igbo ọnụnọ | ||
Ilocano kaadda | ||
Indonesian kehadiran | ||
Irish láithreacht | ||
Italian presenza | ||
Japanese プレゼンス | ||
Javanese anane | ||
Kannada ಉಪಸ್ಥಿತಿ | ||
Kazakh қатысу | ||
Khmer វត្តមាន | ||
Kinyarwanda kuboneka | ||
Konkani उपस्थिती | ||
Korean 존재 | ||
Krio de de | ||
Kurdish dema amade | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) هەبوون | ||
Kyrgyz катышуу | ||
Lao ມີ | ||
Latin praesentia | ||
Latvian klātbūtne | ||
Lingala kozala | ||
Lithuanian buvimas | ||
Luganda okubeerawo | ||
Luxembourgish präsenz | ||
Macedonian присуство | ||
Maithili उपस्थिति | ||
Malagasy fanatrehany | ||
Malay kehadiran | ||
Malayalam സാന്നിദ്ധ്യം | ||
Maltese preżenza | ||
Maori tuhinga o mua | ||
Marathi उपस्थिती | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯂꯩꯗꯨꯅ | ||
Mizo awmna | ||
Mongolian оршихуй | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ရှိနေခြင်း | ||
Nepali उपस्थिति | ||
Norwegian tilstedeværelse | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kukhalapo | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଉପସ୍ଥିତି | | ||
Oromo argamuu | ||
Pashto شتون | ||
Persian حضور | ||
Polish obecność | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) presença | ||
Punjabi ਮੌਜੂਦਗੀ | ||
Quechua kay | ||
Romanian prezenţă | ||
Russian присутствие | ||
Samoan afio mai | ||
Sanskrit उपस्थिति | ||
Scots Gaelic làthaireachd | ||
Sepedi go ba gona | ||
Serbian присуство | ||
Sesotho boteng | ||
Shona kuvapo | ||
Sindhi موجودگي | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) පැමිණීම | ||
Slovak prítomnosť | ||
Slovenian prisotnost | ||
Somali joogitaanka | ||
Spanish presencia | ||
Sundanese ayana | ||
Swahili uwepo | ||
Swedish närvaro | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) presensya | ||
Tajik ҳузур | ||
Tamil இருப்பு | ||
Tatar барлыгы | ||
Telugu ఉనికి | ||
Thai การปรากฏตัว | ||
Tigrinya ህላወ | ||
Tsonga vukona | ||
Turkish mevcudiyet | ||
Turkmen barlygy | ||
Twi (Akan) wɔ hɔ | ||
Ukrainian присутність | ||
Urdu موجودگی | ||
Uyghur مەۋجۇت | ||
Uzbek mavjudlik | ||
Vietnamese sự hiện diện | ||
Welsh presenoldeb | ||
Xhosa ubukho | ||
Yiddish בייַזייַן | ||
Yoruba niwaju | ||
Zulu ubukhona |
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "teenwoordigheid" in Afrikaans, ultimately derived from Dutch, combines the prefix "teen" (towards) with the noun "woordigheid" (dignity), yielding the sense of being present with dignity and respect. |
| Albanian | In Albanian, "prania" can also mean "appearance" or "manifestation". |
| Amharic | In Amharic, |
| Arabic | The Arabic word "حضور" (ḥuḍūr) also carries the meanings of "attendance" and "presence of mind or thought" |
| Azerbaijani | The word "varlıq" can also refer to "existence" or "substance" in Azerbaijani. |
| Basque | The Basque word "presentzia" comes from the Latin "praesentia", meaning "being present" or "appearance", and is related to the verb "presentatu" (to present). |
| Belarusian | The word "прысутнасць" also has a legal meaning, referring to the presence of a person in a particular place at a specific time. |
| Bengali | উপস্থিতি is derived from the word "উপসথ", meaning "to be near" or "to be present". |
| Bosnian | The word 'prisustvo', meaning presence in Bosnian, is derived from the Proto-Slavic word 'prisǫtь', which also means 'presence' or 'arrival'. |
| Bulgarian | The word "присъствие" also means "attendance" and "participation". |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "presència" originates from the Latin word "praesens", meaning "present" or "existing". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The word 存在 (cúnzài) is composed of the characters 存 (cún), meaning "to exist," and 在 (zài), meaning "to be present," and can also refer to a person's state of being or a philosophical concept. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 「存在」一詞在漢語中有「居留」、「實有」和「實體」等多種含義。 |
| Corsican | In Corsican, "prisenza" can also refer to a person's charisma or aura. |
| Croatian | The Croatian word "prisutnost" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *pritъ, which also gave rise to the words "pritok" (affluent), "prihod" (income), and "priča" (story). |
| Czech | Přítomnost in Czech also means "current" or "present" when used in context of time. |
| Danish | The word "tilstedeværelse" can also mean "attendance" or "occurrence". |
| Dutch | In Dutch, "aanwezigheid" can also refer to the administrative record of someone's attendance at a meeting or event. |
| Esperanto | It can also be used to refer to a person's charisma or stage presence. |
| Estonian | The word "kohalolek" is derived from "kohal", meaning "place" or "location", and "olek", meaning "state" or "condition". |
| Finnish | 'Läsnäolo' shares its root with 'läsnä', meaning 'nearby', and 'läsnä olla', meaning 'to be present'. |
| French | The French word "présence" derives from the Latin "praesentia", meaning "being in front". |
| Frisian | The word "oanwêzigens" in Frisian is thought to originate from the Old Frisian word "onwezand" meaning "absence" or "lack}. |
| Galician | In Galician, "presenza" can also mean "pregnancy" or "appearance". |
| Georgian | The word "ყოფნა" in Georgian also means "life", "existence", or "being". |
| German | The German word "Gegenwart" comes from the Middle High German "gegenwärte" and means both "presence" and "present time". |
| Greek | The word "παρουσία" in Greek also translates to "coming" or "second coming" in a biblical context. |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word 'હાજરી' comes from the Persian word 'حاضر' (Haazir) and has alternate meanings such as 'attendance', 'availability', and 'readiness'. |
| Haitian Creole | In Haitian Creole, prezans can also refer to a meeting, gathering, or assembly of people. |
| Hausa | "Kasancewar" derives from "kasance," meaning "state of being" or "existence," highlighting the dynamic and transient nature of presence. |
| Hawaiian | In Hawaiian the word "alo" derives from the Proto-Austronesian word *calu "shadow, reflection, shade," which also led to the word "halo" in English |
| Hebrew | The Modern Hebrew noun "נוכחות" ("presence") derives from Biblical Hebrew, where it means "front," "face," or "appearance." |
| Hindi | उपस्थिति also means a gift or an offering made in a religious ceremony. |
| Hmong | Muaj in Hmong has multiple meanings depending on whether it is used in the context of a ghost, shaman, or ritual. |
| Hungarian | Jelenlét, related to "jelen", "current", can also mean "current account" in finance. |
| Icelandic | The word "nærvera" is of Old Norse origin, and it originally meant "attention" or "awareness". |
| Igbo | Ọnụnọ or Ọnụnu is the Igbo word for presence and also means "to come out" and "to be present". |
| Indonesian | Kehadiran can also refer to 'attendance', 'availability', or 'existence'. |
| Italian | "Presenza" derives from the Latin verb "prae-esse", meaning "to be before, to come in front of" |
| Japanese | The word "プレゼンス" (presence) in Japanese can also mean "aura" or "charisma." |
| Javanese | The word "anane" in Javanese is also used to refer to a specific type of offering made during a religious ceremony. |
| Kannada | The word "উপস্থিತಿ" (upasthithi) is borrowed from Sanskrit and also means "attendance". |
| Kazakh | In Tatar, the word "катыш" means "participation" and "connection," akin to its Kazakh counterpart. |
| Khmer | The Khmer term វត្តមាន (presence) is derived from the Sanskrit word 'varttamāna', meaning 'being present' or 'happening'. |
| Korean | "존재" (presence) also means "existence" in Korean. |
| Kurdish | The word "dema amade" can also refer to a person's stature or demeanor. |
| Kyrgyz | In Kyrgyz, "катышуу" can also mean "participation" or "attendance". |
| Lao | The word "ມີ" ("presence") in Lao can also mean "to have" or "to possess". |
| Latin | The Latin word "praesentia" originates from the combination of the prefix "prae-," meaning "before," and the verb "esse," meaning "to be". |
| Latvian | ''Klātbūtne'' (presence) derives from the Proto-Baltic (and also Proto-Indo-European) root *klei- ('to lean') and **-tbūtne** (-ness, -hood). |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word "buvimas" also has meanings of "being" or "existence". |
| Luxembourgish | In Luxembourgish, the word "Präsenz" can also refer to "attendance" or "class register". |
| Macedonian | The word "присуство" can be derived from the Proto-Slavic word "*prisǫtje", which also means "presence". |
| Malagasy | "Fanatrehany" is also used to refer to a person's appearance, demeanor, or reputation. |
| Malay | In Javanese, 'kehadiran' also means 'income' |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "preżenza" can also refer to a specific type of traditional Maltese bread. |
| Maori | The word "tuhinga" can also mean "writing" or "text" in Maori. |
| Marathi | 'उपस्थित' comes from the Sanskrit word 'उप-स्थित' ('upa-sthita'), meaning 'that which is present or placed near'. |
| Mongolian | "Оршихуй" is the Mongolian loanword from Sanskrit "उपस्थिति" (upasthiti), meaning "standing nearby". |
| Nepali | The word उपस्थिति, derived from Sanskrit, also denotes appearance, existence, and availability. |
| Norwegian | Cognate with Swedish "tillstäd" and Danish "tilstede"; all of them coming from an obsolete Germanic word that means "to stand by". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "kukhalapo" in Nyanja can also mean "to remain" or "to be present in a place for a long time." |
| Pashto | The word "شتون" in Pashto can also mean "a place of shelter" or "an abode". |
| Persian | The word "حضور" also means "attendance" or "meeting" in Persian. |
| Polish | The word "obecność" can also refer to a military roster or a census. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, "presença" refers to both physical presence and attendance, but it can also mean the presence of a spirit or an impression of someone or something, including in a literary work. |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "prezenţă" is cognate with the French word "présence" and the English word "presence", all deriving from the Latin word "praesentia". In Romanian, "prezenţă" also means "attendance" or "roll call". |
| Russian | The Russian word "присутствие" (pri-sut'-stvi-ye) also carries the meanings of "authority," "representation," and "office." |
| Samoan | “Afio mai” is a respectful term used to greet someone who is entering a room or space. |
| Scots Gaelic | Làthaireachd can also refer to a ghostly or otherworldly apparition, or an ominous atmosphere or feeling. |
| Serbian | The Serbian word "присуство" (presence) also refers to a compulsory attendance at a certain place or event. |
| Sesotho | The word "boteng" can also refer to a "place" or "space" in Sesotho. |
| Shona | The word "kuvapo" in Shona, is derived from the root "-va-, which also means existence and life. |
| Sindhi | The word "موجودگي" (presence) in Sindhi is derived from Arabic, meaning "to exist" or "to be present", and it can also refer to the state of being present or available. |
| Slovak | The Slovak term "prítomnosť" originally referred to the act or state of being in the same room as someone, but later broadened to include any kind of presence, whether physical, spiritual or conceptual. |
| Slovenian | Prisotnost has the same root as “prisluhniti” (to listen) and “prisoliti” (to salt), implying 'to be by' as well as 'to add'. |
| Spanish | "Presencia" can also mean "presentation," "appearance," or even "ghost." |
| Sundanese | "Ayana" in Sundanese can also refer to a physical manifestation or a person's presence in a particular place. |
| Swahili | Uwepo in Swahili can also mean "existence" or "availability." |
| Swedish | The word "närvaro" can also refer to the state of being present, the degree to which someone is attentive, or the number of people present in a given space. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | In old Tagalog, "presensya" also meant "respect," and was often used to address superiors. |
| Tajik | The word "ҳузур" may derive from the Sogdian word "xšwhr" meaning "prince" or "nobleman". |
| Tamil | The word 'இருப்பு' ('presence') in Tamil also refers to 'material wealth' or 'balance of an account'. |
| Telugu | "ఉనికి" also signifies the physical place of existence, as well as the state of being present or available. |
| Thai | การปรากฏตัว also means "apparition" in Thai. |
| Turkish | "Mevcudiyet" kelimesi "mevcud" fiilinden türemiştir, "varlık" anlamına da gelir. |
| Ukrainian | The word "присутність" in Ukrainian can also refer to a "jury" or "commission". |
| Urdu | The Persian word "موجودیت" literally means "being". In Urdu, it's also used to refer to one's "presence" or "existence". |
| Uzbek | The word "mavjudlik" in Uzbek can also mean "existence" or "being", and is derived from the Persian word "mowjud", which has the same meanings. |
| Vietnamese | "Sự hiện diện" can also mean "attendance" or "manifestation" in Vietnamese. |
| Welsh | The word 'presenoldeb' is derived from the Latin 'praesentia', meaning 'presence', and can also refer to 'a being present', 'a manifestation', or 'a gift'. |
| Xhosa | Derived from the verb "ukubukha," meaning to come into being, or to appear. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word בייַזייַן ('presence') also means 'being' or 'there'. |
| Yoruba | The Yoruba word "niwaju" also means "before" or "in front of". |
| Zulu | Ubukhona can also mean "existence" or, especially when used in a religious context, "being" or "essence." |
| English | The English word "presence" ultimately derives from the Latin word "prae-esse," meaning "to be in front of" or "to preside over." |