Real in Different Languages
Discover 'Real' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Real
Afrikaans werklike | ||
Albanian e vërtetë | ||
Amharic እውነተኛ | ||
Arabic حقيقة | ||
Armenian իրական | ||
Assamese বাস্তৱ | ||
Aymara chiqa | ||
Azerbaijani həqiqi | ||
Bambara lakika | ||
Basque benetakoa | ||
Belarusian сапраўдны | ||
Bengali বাস্তব | ||
Bhojpuri वास्तविक | ||
Bosnian stvarno | ||
Bulgarian истински | ||
Catalan real | ||
Cebuano tinuud | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 真实 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 真實 | ||
Corsican reale | ||
Croatian stvaran | ||
Czech nemovitý | ||
Danish ægte | ||
Dhivehi އަސްލު | ||
Dogri असल | ||
Dutch echt | ||
English real | ||
Esperanto reala | ||
Estonian päris | ||
Ewe ŋutᴐ | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) totoo | ||
Finnish todellinen | ||
French réel | ||
Frisian echt | ||
Galician real | ||
Georgian ნამდვილი | ||
German echt | ||
Greek πραγματικός | ||
Guarani añete | ||
Gujarati વાસ્તવિક | ||
Haitian Creole reyèl | ||
Hausa gaske | ||
Hawaiian maoli | ||
Hebrew אמיתי | ||
Hindi असली | ||
Hmong tiag | ||
Hungarian igazi | ||
Icelandic alvöru | ||
Igbo n'ezie | ||
Ilocano agpayso | ||
Indonesian nyata | ||
Irish fíor | ||
Italian vero | ||
Japanese リアル | ||
Javanese nyata | ||
Kannada ನೈಜ | ||
Kazakh нақты | ||
Khmer ពិតប្រាកដ | ||
Kinyarwanda nyabyo | ||
Konkani खरें | ||
Korean 레알 | ||
Krio rial | ||
Kurdish rast | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) ڕاستەقینە | ||
Kyrgyz чыныгы | ||
Lao ທີ່ແທ້ຈິງ | ||
Latin verum | ||
Latvian īsts | ||
Lingala ya solo | ||
Lithuanian tikras | ||
Luganda -ddala | ||
Luxembourgish richteg | ||
Macedonian вистински | ||
Maithili सच | ||
Malagasy tena | ||
Malay nyata | ||
Malayalam യഥാർത്ഥ | ||
Maltese reali | ||
Maori tūturu | ||
Marathi वास्तविक | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯑꯁꯦꯡꯕ | ||
Mizo tak | ||
Mongolian бодит | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အစစ်အမှန် | ||
Nepali वास्तविक | ||
Norwegian ekte | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) zenizeni | ||
Odia (Oriya) ବାସ୍ତବ | ||
Oromo dhugaa qabatamaa | ||
Pashto ریښتینی | ||
Persian واقعی | ||
Polish real | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) real | ||
Punjabi ਅਸਲ | ||
Quechua chiqaq | ||
Romanian real | ||
Russian настоящий | ||
Samoan moni | ||
Sanskrit वास्तविक | ||
Scots Gaelic fìor | ||
Sepedi makgonthe | ||
Serbian прави | ||
Sesotho ea sebele | ||
Shona chaiyo | ||
Sindhi حقيقي | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) සැබෑ | ||
Slovak reálny | ||
Slovenian resnično | ||
Somali dhab ah | ||
Spanish real | ||
Sundanese nyata | ||
Swahili halisi | ||
Swedish verklig | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) totoo | ||
Tajik воқеӣ | ||
Tamil உண்மையானது | ||
Tatar реаль | ||
Telugu నిజమైనది | ||
Thai จริง | ||
Tigrinya ሓቂ | ||
Tsonga ntiyiso | ||
Turkish gerçek | ||
Turkmen hakyky | ||
Twi (Akan) ankasa | ||
Ukrainian справжній | ||
Urdu اصلی | ||
Uyghur real | ||
Uzbek haqiqiy | ||
Vietnamese thực tế | ||
Welsh go iawn | ||
Xhosa ngokwenene | ||
Yiddish פאַקטיש | ||
Yoruba gidi | ||
Zulu kwangempela |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "werklike" comes from the Dutch word "werkelijk", meaning "actual" or "true", and is related to the English word "wirklich". |
| Albanian | "E vërtetë" is cognate with "veritas" (Latin), and means "truth" (truthful). |
| Amharic | "እውነተኛ" can also refer to a close friend, and is often heard in the phrase "የእውነት ወዳጅ" (literally: "friend of truth"). |
| Arabic | The word "حقيقة" also means "essence" or "nature" in Arabic. |
| Armenian | The Armenian word “իրական” originally meant “substantial” or “material,” from the Middle Persian word “ērakān,” meaning “work.” |
| Azerbaijani | "Həqiqi" comes from Arabic word "حق" "haq" which also exists in Azerbaijani and it also can means "right," "true." |
| Basque | The word "benetakoa" is a compound word formed by the words "benetako" (true) and "koa" (thing). |
| Belarusian | The word |
| Bengali | বাস্তব also refers to the concept of reality or the true nature of things |
| Bosnian | The word 'stvarno' derives from the Proto-Slavic root *stvьrdъ, meaning 'firm', 'solid' or 'true'. |
| Bulgarian | The word "истински" is a derivative of the Slavic word "истина", which means "truth", but it can also mean "authentic", "genuine", or "valid". |
| Catalan | Originating from the Latin word "regalis," meaning "royal," "real" has come to signify authenticity and genuineness in Catalan. |
| Cebuano | The Cebuano word "tinuud" is cognate with the Indonesian word "tunjuk" which means "to point at" or "to show" something. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 真实 (zhēnshí) originally meant 'truthfulness' or 'sincerity' and later came to mean 'genuine' or 'actual'. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | In the Tang dynasty, "真實" could mean "what is actually true," with an emphasis on its existence, and was also used to express "the original," "the authentic," and "the true face."} |
| Corsican | Corsican "reale" is derived from Latin "regalis", meaning "royal", implying exclusivity and distinction. |
| Croatian | The Croatian word 'stvaran' is derived from the Proto-Slavic root *stvъràti, meaning 'to create', and is cognate with the English word 'stir' |
| Czech | The term "nemovitý" in Czech comes from the Czech word "movity" meaning "movable property," so "nemovitý" means "immovable property." |
| Danish | The word "ægte" comes from the Old Norse word "ætt", meaning "family" or "clan". |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "echt" not only means "real," but can also refer to genuine or authentic. |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word 'reala' derives from the Spanish word 'real' (royal), and also means 'royal' or 'regal'. |
| Estonian | The word "päris" can also refer to an inheritance or a genuine article, and may be related to the word "pair" in English. |
| Finnish | The Finnish word "todellinen" originates from the Proto-Finnic word *tode, meaning "truth" or "reality". It's also related to the Livonian word "tōd" and the Estonian word "tõde", both meaning "truth". |
| French | The word "réel" in French comes from the Latin word "res" which means "thing" and later "reality". The word "réel" can also refer to that which is not imaginary or fictitious. |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "echt" can also mean "very" or "truly" in the sense of "genuine" or "authentic." |
| Georgian | It shares the same root as the English word 'name', referring to something that is 'known' or 'true'. |
| German | The word "Echt" is cognate with "authentic" in English, and can also refer to traditional styles or customs. |
| Greek | The word 'πραγματικός' in Greek can also mean 'genuine', 'authentic', or 'true' and comes from the word 'πράγμα' ('thing'). |
| Haitian Creole | "Reyèl" also means "hard", "firm", or "tough" in Haitian Creole. |
| Hausa | Gaske has other senses like genuine, complete and authentic. |
| Hawaiian | The Hawaiian word "maoli" can also refer to the indigenous people of Hawai'i or to something that is original or genuine. |
| Hebrew | The word 'אמיתי' ('real') in Hebrew derives from the root 'אמן' ('to believe'), suggesting a connection between reality and the subjective perception of truth. |
| Hindi | The term 'असली' is derived from the Arabic word 'asal' (أَصْل), meaning 'origin' or 'source'. |
| Hmong | The Hmong word "tiag" comes from the Chinese word "diàn", which means "lightning". |
| Hungarian | The word "igazi" is derived from the Turkic word "hakiki", meaning "genuine" or "authentic." |
| Icelandic | "Alvöru" is derived from the Old Norse "ǫlr," meaning "beer" or "intoxication," which came to imply "truthful" in Old Icelandic. |
| Igbo | The Igbo word "n'ezie" can also refer to "truth" or "certainty". |
| Indonesian | The word "nyata" is derived from the Sanskrit word "nyatya" which means "real, actual, true". |
| Irish | The word "fíor" may also mean "very" or "truly" in Irish. |
| Italian | The word "vero" in Italian also means "true" and derives from the Latin word "verus". |
| Japanese | The characters forming the Japanese word リアル originally came from the word "realistic" in English, indicating something very close to reality. |
| Javanese | The word 'nyata' in Javanese can also mean 'clearly visible', 'obvious', or 'evident'. |
| Kannada | ನೈಜ (naija) is also used to refer to the 'original' or 'authentic' version of something, as opposed to a copy or imitation. |
| Kazakh | The word "нақты" can also refer to "accuracy" or "concreteness". |
| Korean | In the expression 실물(實物), “레알” does not mean “real” but the “substance” of something, and the “thing” itself is 물(物). |
| Kurdish | The Kurdish word "rast" has alternative meanings including "right", "correct", and "straight". |
| Kyrgyz | The word "чыныгы" can also mean "true" or "genuine" in Kyrgyz. |
| Latin | Verum, meaning 'real' in Latin, also refers to a type of wheat and an oath of truth. |
| Latvian | The word "īsts" is often mistakenly assumed to be related to the English "east". |
| Lithuanian | Also can refer to 'genuine', 'actual', 'correct', 'authentic' or 'natural'. |
| Luxembourgish | The word "richteg" in Luxembourgish originates from the Middle High German "rehte" and the Proto-Germanic "rektaz", meaning "straight" or "correct". Its original meaning is still reflected in the phrase "richteg maachen", which means "to straighten out" or "to correct". |
| Macedonian | "Вистински" comes from the Proto-Slavic word *istina*, meaning "truth". It is cognate with the Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, and Bulgarian word "истина" (istina), the Russian word "истина" (istina), and the Polish word "istnieć" (to exist). |
| Malagasy | The name "Tana" for the capital of Madagascar is short for "Antananarivo", which means "The City of a Thousand Warriors". |
| Malay | The Indonesian word 'nyata' also has the additional connotations of 'apparent', 'manifest', 'evident', and 'certain'. |
| Malayalam | The word 'യഥാർത്ഥ' can also mean 'original', 'authentic' or 'genuine' in Malayalam. |
| Maltese | The word "reali" in Maltese is also used to refer to money or wealth. |
| Maori | In Maori, tūturu can also mean 'to confirm' or 'to acknowledge'. |
| Marathi | Marathi 'वास्तविक' comes from Sanskrit 'वास्तविक' meaning 'real, actual' and not 'substantial' like its Gujarati cognate |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word "бодит" is derived from the verb "бодож" meaning "to be" and is related to the Turkish word "bod" meaning "this" or "here". |
| Nepali | The word "वास्तविक" originates from the Sanskrit word "वस्तुतः", meaning "truth" or "actual"} |
| Norwegian | The word "ekte" can also refer to "genuine" or "authentic". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | In Nyanja, the word "zenizeni" can also mean "money" or "wealth". |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "ریښتینی" is derived from the Proto-Indo-Iranian root *riḱt-, meaning "straight" or "correct". |
| Persian | The word "واقعی" (real) in Persian can also mean "actuality", "reality", or "authenticity." |
| Polish | In Polish, "real" (rzeczywisty) is related to "thing" (rzecz), denoting something concrete or tangible. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The Portuguese word "real", meaning "royal", comes from the Latin word "regalis", meaning "relating to a king". |
| Punjabi | The word 'ਅਸਲ' in Punjabi is derived from the Sanskrit word 'असली' (asali), meaning 'original, genuine' |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "real" derives from the Latin word "res" (thing), and originally meant "property". Today, it is most commonly used as an adjective meaning "genuine" or "authentic." |
| Russian | In addition to "real", "настоящий" can also mean "current", "authentic" or even "engaged" when referring to a person's relationship status. |
| Samoan | In Samoan, "moni" is a term used to describe what is tangible, and not merely existing in theory or imagination. |
| Scots Gaelic | Fìor is derived from Middle Irish fír, meaning true or genuine |
| Serbian | The word 'прави' ('real') in Serbian can also refer to 'appropriate', 'correct', or 'just'. |
| Sesotho | The expression "Ea sebele" literally translates to "of truth" or "of reality" in Sesotho. |
| Shona | The word 'chaiyo' can also mean 'yes' in Shona. |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word 'حقيقي' can also mean 'genuine' or 'authentic'. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | "සැබෑ" can also mean "true" or "genuine" in Sinhala. |
| Slovenian | The Slovenian word 'resnično' derives from the Proto-Slavic root *istina, meaning 'truth, reality'. It is cognate with the English word ' earnest', which originally meant 'taken in earnest, real' |
| Somali | "Dhab ah" also means "very" and is used for emphasis, e.g. "dhab ah qabow" (very cold). |
| Spanish | In Spanish, "real" has historically referred to a coin or a royal estate and can still mean "genuine" or "authentic" instead of just "not imaginary". |
| Sundanese | "Nyata" as a verb means "visible to the naked eye," which has the same etymology as the Sanskrit term "nayate," meaning "to lead or guide." |
| Swahili | "Halisi" in Swahili shares its root with the Arabic word "halal," meaning permissible or lawful, suggesting a connection between morality and authenticity. |
| Swedish | The word 'verklig' in Swedish is derived from the Old Norse word 'verkelikr', meaning 'actual' or 'existing'. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The Tagalog word 'totoo' (real) originally meant 'certain,' as in 'sure' or 'for sure'. |
| Tajik | The word "воқеӣ" is a loanword from Arabic and is related to the words "fact" and "true" |
| Telugu | The word 'నిజమైనది' ('real') in Telugu is derived from the Sanskrit word 'निज' (nija) meaning 'one's own', 'true' or 'genuine'. |
| Thai | "จริง" was derived from the Pali/Sanskrit word "satyam" which means truth, reality or genuineness. |
| Turkish | "Gerçek" is also the name of an important Turkish news agency. |
| Ukrainian | The word "справжній" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word "*iskrenъ", meaning "true, genuine". |
| Urdu | The word "اصلی" can also mean "original" or "authentic" in Urdu. |
| Uzbek | Haqiqiy is derived from the Arabic word haqiqat, which has multiple meanings including truth, reality, and authenticity. |
| Vietnamese | "Thực tế" in Vietnamese originated from the concept of "action for real". |
| Welsh | The name 'Go Iawn' can also refer to a traditional Welsh folk dance, as well as the traditional Welsh triple harp. |
| Xhosa | In Xhosa, 'ngokwenene' can also mean 'true' or 'genuine' when describing authenticity or sincerity. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "פאַקטיש" (faktish) derives from the German word "faktisch" and is an intensifier meaning "completely" or "effectively". |
| Yoruba | In Yoruba cosmology, 'gidi' can also refer to the spiritual or inner essence of a person or thing. |
| Zulu | Originally meant 'the true thing', later used to replace the word 'okuhle' meaning 'good'. |
| English | "Real" comes from the Latin word *realis* meaning "of a thing" or "concerned with the material world." |