Afrikaans aanbeveel | ||
Albanian rekomandoj | ||
Amharic ይመክራሉ | ||
Arabic يوصي | ||
Armenian խորհուրդ տալ | ||
Assamese প্ৰস্তাৱ দিয়া | ||
Aymara iwxaña | ||
Azerbaijani tövsiyə edirəm | ||
Bambara ka gɛ̀lɛya | ||
Basque gomendatu | ||
Belarusian рэкамендаваць | ||
Bengali সুপারিশ | ||
Bhojpuri सिफारिश कईल | ||
Bosnian preporučeno | ||
Bulgarian препоръчвам | ||
Catalan recomanar | ||
Cebuano rekomend | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 推荐 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 推薦 | ||
Corsican ricumandemu | ||
Croatian preporuči | ||
Czech doporučit | ||
Danish anbefale | ||
Dhivehi ހުށަހެޅުން | ||
Dogri प्रेरत | ||
Dutch adviseren | ||
English recommend | ||
Esperanto rekomendi | ||
Estonian soovitada | ||
Ewe ɖo aɖaŋu | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) magrekomenda | ||
Finnish suositella | ||
French recommander | ||
Frisian oanbefelje | ||
Galician recomendo | ||
Georgian გირჩევთ | ||
German empfehlen | ||
Greek συνιστώ | ||
Guarani jekuaauka | ||
Gujarati ભલામણ | ||
Haitian Creole rekòmande | ||
Hausa bada shawara | ||
Hawaiian paipai aku | ||
Hebrew לְהַמלִיץ | ||
Hindi की सिफारिश | ||
Hmong pom zoo | ||
Hungarian ajánlani | ||
Icelandic mælt með | ||
Igbo nwere ike ikwu | ||
Ilocano ikalikagum | ||
Indonesian sarankan | ||
Irish a mholadh | ||
Italian consiglia | ||
Japanese おすすめ | ||
Javanese nyaranake | ||
Kannada ಶಿಫಾರಸು ಮಾಡಿ | ||
Kazakh ұсыну | ||
Khmer សូមផ្តល់អនុសាសន៍ | ||
Kinyarwanda saba | ||
Konkani शिफारस | ||
Korean 권하다 | ||
Krio advays | ||
Kurdish pêşnîyarkirin | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) پێسنیارکردن | ||
Kyrgyz сунуштайбыз | ||
Lao ແນະ ນຳ | ||
Latin suadeo | ||
Latvian ieteikt | ||
Lingala kopesa likanisi | ||
Lithuanian rekomenduoju | ||
Luganda okulonda | ||
Luxembourgish recommandéieren | ||
Macedonian препорача | ||
Maithili सिफारिस करनाइ | ||
Malagasy recommend | ||
Malay mengesyorkan | ||
Malayalam ശുപാർശ ചെയ്യുക | ||
Maltese jirrakkomanda | ||
Maori tūtohu | ||
Marathi शिफारस | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯇꯥꯛꯄ | ||
Mizo kawhhmuh | ||
Mongolian зөвлөж байна | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အကြံပြုပါသည် | ||
Nepali सिफारिस गर्नुहोस् | ||
Norwegian anbefale | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) lembani | ||
Odia (Oriya) ସୁପାରିଶ କରନ୍ତୁ | | ||
Oromo yaada gorsaa kennuu | ||
Pashto وړاندیز | ||
Persian توصیه | ||
Polish polecić | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) recomendar | ||
Punjabi ਦੀ ਸਿਫਾਰਸ਼ | ||
Quechua kunasqa | ||
Romanian recomanda | ||
Russian рекомендую | ||
Samoan fautua | ||
Sanskrit प्रशंसति | ||
Scots Gaelic moladh | ||
Sepedi šišinya | ||
Serbian препоручити | ||
Sesotho khothaletsa | ||
Shona kurudzira | ||
Sindhi سفارش ڪريو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) නිර්දේශ කරන්න | ||
Slovak odporučiť | ||
Slovenian priporočam | ||
Somali ku talin | ||
Spanish recomendar | ||
Sundanese nyarankeun | ||
Swahili pendekeza | ||
Swedish rekommendera | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) magrekomenda | ||
Tajik тавсия | ||
Tamil பரிந்துரை | ||
Tatar тәкъдим итегез | ||
Telugu సిఫార్సు చేయండి | ||
Thai แนะนำ | ||
Tigrinya ምምካር | ||
Tsonga ringanyeta | ||
Turkish önermek | ||
Turkmen maslahat beriň | ||
Twi (Akan) susu | ||
Ukrainian рекомендую | ||
Urdu تجویز کریں | ||
Uyghur تەۋسىيە قىلىڭ | ||
Uzbek tavsiya eting | ||
Vietnamese giới thiệu | ||
Welsh argymell | ||
Xhosa cebisa | ||
Yiddish רעקאָמענדירן | ||
Yoruba ṣeduro | ||
Zulu ncoma |
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "aanbeveel" is derived from the Dutch word "aanbevelen", meaning "to commend" or "to advise". |
| Albanian | "Rekomandoj" ultimately derives from the Latin "commandare," meaning to put into someone's hands. |
| Amharic | "ይመክራሉ" also translates as "advise", "suggest", or "recommend" in English. |
| Arabic | The verb يوصي initially meant “to bequeath” and later evolved to include “to recommend” as bequesting refers to assigning something to someone. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "tövsiyə edirəm" is derived from the Persian word "tavsiyə", which means "suggestion" or "advice". |
| Basque | The word 'gomendatu' (recommend) originates from Basque and means 'to trust', 'to entrust' |
| Belarusian | "Рэкамендаваць" is derived from the Russian word "рекомендовать" which means "to advise" or "to suggest". |
| Bengali | "সুপারিশ" comes from the Sanskrit root "sushrush", meaning "to serve diligently" or "to wait upon". |
| Bosnian | The word "preporučeno" originally meant "to hand over" in Bosnian, and is related to the word "preporuka" meaning "recommendation". |
| Bulgarian | The Bulgarian word "Препоръчвам" shares the same origin as the Latin "prae" (before) and the verb "commendare" (to entrust), implying a suggestion or endorsement based on past experience. |
| Catalan | The Spanish word "recomendar" comes from the Latin "recommandare", meaning "to commit to someone's care". |
| Cebuano | The word "rekomend" is also used in Cebuano to mean "present" or "introduce" someone or something. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "推荐" can also mean "to promote" or "to introduce". |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 推薦 is a combination of the character 推 (push) and 薦 (introduce), suggesting 'pushing someone forward' for recognition or support. |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "ricumandemu" derives from the Latin "recommandare", meaning "to entrust" or "to commit". |
| Croatian | Preporuči derives from the Slavic root *porǫ, meaning "to give" or "to hand over." |
| Czech | Doporučit is a verb meaning 'recommend', and is cognate to the Russian word 'dobro' (good). |
| Danish | The word "anbefale" is derived from the Old Norse word "at bjóða," which means "to offer" or "to invite." |
| Dutch | "Adviseren" also means "to deliberate, to take counsel, to consult" |
| Esperanto | In Esperanto, the word "rekomendi" is derived from the Latin word "recomendare". It can also mean "to entrust" or "to commit". |
| Estonian | The word "soovitada" is derived from the Proto-Finnic word "*suwota" meaning "to desire" or "to wish". |
| Finnish | The word "suositella" is derived from the Proto-Finnic word "suosi", meaning "to favor or prefer". |
| French | The word "recommander" also means "to summon" or "to call back" in French. |
| Frisian | The word 'oanbefelje' is derived from the Old Frisian words 'onbefelje' (to hand over) and 'felje' (to order). |
| Galician | Galician "recomendo" comes from Latin "recommendo", whose two parts translate to "again" and "entrust". |
| German | The etymology of the German word "empfehlen" is from the Middle High German "enphelhen," meaning "to give into someone's care." |
| Greek | The verb συνιστώ, besides meaning "to recommend," is the origin of the modern Greek word σύσταση, "recommendation," but also "introduction," "composition," or even "constituency." |
| Gujarati | "ભલામણ" (bhalamaan) traces its roots to "भल" (bhala, good) and "मनु" (manu, human or mind) in Sanskrit, hinting at its original sense of "favoring someone with good intentions. |
| Haitian Creole | The verb "rekòmande" comes from the French verb "recommander", which also means to recommend, and is ultimately derived from the Latin verb "commandare", meaning to entrust or commit. |
| Hausa | The word "bada shawara" is derived from Arabic, where "bada" means "to appear" and "shawara" means "to consult" or "to seek advice". |
| Hawaiian | In English, the Hawaiian word 'paipai aku' can also be rendered as 'to encourage'. |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew verb "לְהַמלִיץ" comes from the root "מלץ" and has other meanings, such as "to advise". |
| Hindi | "सिफर" (sifar), the Hindi word for "recommend," derives from the Arabic verb "safara" meaning "to travel" or the Persian "sifarish" which means "to entrust". |
| Hmong | The Hmong word "pom zoo" has alternative meanings such as "tell" or "inform." |
| Hungarian | The word "ajánlani" originates from the Turkish word "önermek", meaning "to suggest" or "to propose". |
| Icelandic | Mælt með is cognate with English "meld" meaning "to announce or inform". |
| Igbo | The Igbo phrase "nwere ike ikwu" also translates to "to have the power of speech". |
| Indonesian | "Sarankan" comes from the Javanese word "saran" which means suggestion or proposal. |
| Irish | The term 'a mholadh' can also refer to an ecclesiastical proposal for a new bishop. |
| Italian | Italian "consiglia" ultimately derives from Latin "consulo, -ere" meaning 'to deliberate' or 'to advise,' leading to the meanings of 'recommend' or 'give advice' in modern Italian. |
| Japanese | The word "おすすめ" (osusume) originally meant "to carry on one's back" and later came to mean "to recommend". |
| Javanese | "Nyaranake" comes from the words "nyara" (to search) and "naka" (to agree), suggesting the act of searching for a suitable candidate. |
| Kannada | ಶಿಫಾರಸು ಮಾಡಿ is derived from the Persian word "sifarish" and also means "to propose" or "to introduce". |
| Kazakh | The word "ұсыну" (recommend) also means "to present" or "to introduce" in Kazakh. |
| Khmer | This word can also mean "to give advice" or "to suggest". |
| Korean | "권하다" also means "to advise" or "to persuade". |
| Kyrgyz | The word "cүнуштайбыз" can also mean "to persuade" in Kyrgyz. |
| Lao | "ແນະ ນຳ" is derived from the Sanskrit word "nī" meaning "to lead" and is related to the Thai word "นำ" with the same meaning. |
| Latvian | Latvian "ieteikt" derives from Proto-Indo-European root "*yeg- ", "to join, harness". |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word "rekomenduoju" is formed from the prefix "re-" ("again") and the root "komentuoti" ("to comment"), and it originally meant "to remark on again, or discuss further". |
| Luxembourgish | The word "recommandéieren" derives from the French word "recommander" and also means "to advise" or "to give advice". |
| Macedonian | The word "препорача" is derived from the Old Church Slavonic word "приреченъ", which means "spoken in advance" or "foretold". |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "manoro" is also used to describe a sacrifice offered to ancestors or a payment made to an oracle. |
| Malay | The word "mengesyorkan" is derived from the Old Malay word "syor", meaning "opinion" or "proposal". |
| Malayalam | 'ശുപാർശ ചെയ്യുക' means proposing an action or course of action, or to express approval or support of something or someone. |
| Maltese | The word 'jirrakkomanda' in Maltese ultimately derives from the Latin 'recommendare', meaning 'to commit'. |
| Maori | The word comes from "tu" (to stand) and "tohu" (a sign or mark) and thus refers to establishing or marking out something as good. |
| Marathi | The word 'शिफारस' ultimately derives from the Persian word 'sifarish', meaning 'introduction' or 'recommendation'. |
| Mongolian | The verb "зөвлөж байна" can also mean "to advise" or "to give an opinion". |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The term is derived from the French "recommandation", which means "to put into someone's hands". |
| Nepali | सिफारिस गर्नुहोस्' ('recommend') is derived from the Latin 'recommendare', meaning 'to commit to one's care or protection'. It can also mean 'to commend' or 'to suggest'. |
| Norwegian | Anbefale is derived from the Old Norse word "befala," which means "to order" or "to command." |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word 'lembani' in Nyanja has its roots in the Bantu language family, and it can also mean 'advise' or 'encourage'. |
| Pashto | The word "وړاندیز" can also mean "proposal" or "suggestion" in Pashto. |
| Persian | The Persian word "توصیه" also has the alternate meaning of "advice", which is its primary meaning in Arabic. |
| Polish | The word 'polecić' also means 'to charge with treason' or 'to accuse' in Polish, reflecting its historical connection to oaths and loyalty. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The Portuguese word "recomendar" derives from the Latin "recommandare," meaning "to commit to someone's care or protection." |
| Romanian | The origin of the Romanian verb "recomanda" is uncertain and can be traced back to either Latin, Hungarian, or Turkish. |
| Russian | The original meaning of "рекомендую" was "to put one's hand under". |
| Samoan | "Fautua" also means "to give a warning" or "to give a sermon." |
| Scots Gaelic | "Moladh" also means praise or encouragement, and can be related to "moladh nam bàrd" (blessing of the bards) |
| Serbian | The word "препоручити" can also mean "to advise" or "to suggest". |
| Sesotho | The word 'khothaletsa' can also mean 'to send on a mission' in Sesotho. |
| Shona | The word 'kurudzira' can also mean 'to persuade' or 'to entice'. |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "سفارش ڪريو" can also mean "to suggest" or "to advise." |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | This Sinhala word is derived from Sanskrit and has a similar meaning in other Indo-Aryan languages like Odia and Bengali. |
| Slovak | The verb "odporučiť" derives from the Old Slavic "oporočiti", meaning "speak ill of". |
| Slovenian | The word "priporočam" is a compound word made up of the prefix "pri-" and the root "-poroča-," meaning "to tell" or "to make known." |
| Somali | Ku talin can also mean "to guide" or "to lead." |
| Spanish | The verb "recomendar" in Spanish comes from the Latin word "recommendo," which means "to entrust". |
| Sundanese | The word "nyarankeun" comes from the word "nyaran" which means "to give a recommendation". |
| Swahili | The word 'pendekeza' derives from the root 'pende' meaning 'like' and 'keza' meaning 'much', suggesting a strong recommendation. |
| Swedish | "Rekommendera" comes from the French "recommander", itself stemming from the Latin "re-commandare", meaning "to entrust a person or cause to the care of another" |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The Tagalog word "magrekomenda" can also mean 'to introduce', 'to present', or 'to propose'. |
| Tajik | The word “тавсия” can also mean “advice” or “consultation”. |
| Telugu | The etymology of "recommend" is "recommendo," a Latin word meaning "entrust, commit, commend." |
| Thai | The Thai word แนะนำ comes from the Sanskrit niryāti (นิรฺยาติ), and it can also carry the additional meanings of "introduction" "presentation," "guideline" or "advise."} |
| Turkish | Önermek also means "to advise" or "to suggest" in Turkish, and derives from the root "öner-," which means "to put forward. |
| Ukrainian | The word рекомендую is derived from the Latin word "recommendare", meaning "to commend to the favour of". |
| Urdu | تجویز (taJWeez) can also mean to prescribe, advise, or suggest in Urdu. |
| Uzbek | The word "tavsiya eting" derives from the Persian word "tavsiye" which means "advice" or "suggestion". |
| Vietnamese | The word "giới thiệu" is derived from the Chinese word "介紹", which means "to introduce" or "to recommend". |
| Welsh | Argymell comes from the Middle Welsh word argymellu, which itself comes from Old Welsh arcymell, and in turn from Late Latin recommandare, a compound of re- and commendare. |
| Xhosa | The word "cebisa" in Xhosa is derived from the noun "cebo", meaning "a gift". Thus, to "cebisa" someone is to "give a gift" of praise or honor |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word for "recommend" also means "to advise" or "to suggest". |
| Yoruba | In an alternate meaning, Ṣẹ̀dùrọ̀ can mean 'to report' something to someone. |
| Zulu | "Ncoma" also means "to point out" or "to show". |
| English | The verb 'recommend' derives from the Latin 'commandare,' meaning to entrust, and originally had a stronger sense of authority than today. |