Reject in Different Languages
Discover 'Reject' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Reject
Afrikaans verwerp | ||
Albanian refuzoj | ||
Amharic ውድቅ አድርግ | ||
Arabic رفض | ||
Armenian մերժել | ||
Assamese প্ৰত্যাখ্যান | ||
Aymara janiw saña | ||
Azerbaijani rədd et | ||
Bambara ka fili | ||
Basque arbuiatu | ||
Belarusian адхіліць | ||
Bengali প্রত্যাখ্যান | ||
Bhojpuri नामंजूर कईल | ||
Bosnian odbiti | ||
Bulgarian отхвърли | ||
Catalan rebutjar | ||
Cebuano isalikway | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 拒绝 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 拒絕 | ||
Corsican ricusà | ||
Croatian odbiti | ||
Czech odmítnout | ||
Danish afvise | ||
Dhivehi ޤަބޫލުނުކުރުން | ||
Dogri रद्द करना | ||
Dutch afwijzen | ||
English reject | ||
Esperanto malakcepti | ||
Estonian tagasi lükata | ||
Ewe gbe | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) tanggihan | ||
Finnish hylätä | ||
French rejeter | ||
Frisian ôfwize | ||
Galician rexeitar | ||
Georgian უარი თქვას | ||
German ablehnen | ||
Greek απορρίπτω | ||
Guarani mombia | ||
Gujarati અસ્વીકાર | ||
Haitian Creole rejte | ||
Hausa ƙi | ||
Hawaiian hōʻole | ||
Hebrew לִדחוֹת | ||
Hindi अस्वीकार | ||
Hmong xyeej | ||
Hungarian elutasít | ||
Icelandic hafna | ||
Igbo jụ | ||
Ilocano ipaid | ||
Indonesian menolak | ||
Irish diúltú | ||
Italian rifiutare | ||
Japanese 拒否する | ||
Javanese nolak | ||
Kannada ತಿರಸ್ಕರಿಸಿ | ||
Kazakh қабылдамау | ||
Khmer បដិសេធ | ||
Kinyarwanda kwanga | ||
Konkani न्हयकार | ||
Korean 받지 않다 | ||
Krio avɔyd | ||
Kurdish refzkirin | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) ڕەتکردنەوە | ||
Kyrgyz четке кагуу | ||
Lao ປະຕິເສດ | ||
Latin repellam | ||
Latvian noraidīt | ||
Lingala koboya | ||
Lithuanian atmesti | ||
Luganda okugaana | ||
Luxembourgish refuséieren | ||
Macedonian отфрли | ||
Maithili अस्वीकार करनाइ | ||
Malagasy mandà | ||
Malay menolak | ||
Malayalam നിരസിക്കുക | ||
Maltese tiċħad | ||
Maori whakakahore | ||
Marathi नाकारणे | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯈꯠꯇꯣꯛꯄ | ||
Mizo hnawl | ||
Mongolian татгалзах | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ငြင်းပယ် | ||
Nepali अस्वीकृत | ||
Norwegian avvise | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kukana | ||
Odia (Oriya) ପ୍ରତ୍ୟାଖ୍ୟାନ କର | | ||
Oromo fudhachuu dhiisuu | ||
Pashto رد کړئ | ||
Persian رد کردن | ||
Polish odrzucać | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) rejeitar | ||
Punjabi ਰੱਦ | ||
Quechua kutichipuy | ||
Romanian respinge | ||
Russian отвергать | ||
Samoan teena | ||
Sanskrit अस्वीकार | ||
Scots Gaelic diùltadh | ||
Sepedi gana | ||
Serbian одбити | ||
Sesotho hana | ||
Shona ramba | ||
Sindhi رد ڪريو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) ප්රතික්ෂේප කරන්න | ||
Slovak odmietnuť | ||
Slovenian zavrni | ||
Somali diid | ||
Spanish rechazar | ||
Sundanese nolak | ||
Swahili kukataa | ||
Swedish avvisa | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) tanggihan | ||
Tajik рад кардан | ||
Tamil நிராகரிக்கவும் | ||
Tatar кире кагу | ||
Telugu తిరస్కరించండి | ||
Thai ปฏิเสธ | ||
Tigrinya ምንጻግ | ||
Tsonga ariwa | ||
Turkish reddetmek | ||
Turkmen ret et | ||
Twi (Akan) po | ||
Ukrainian відкинути | ||
Urdu مسترد کریں | ||
Uyghur رەت قىلىش | ||
Uzbek rad etish | ||
Vietnamese từ chối | ||
Welsh gwrthod | ||
Xhosa ukwala | ||
Yiddish אָפּוואַרפן | ||
Yoruba kọ | ||
Zulu wenqabe |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "verwerp", derived from Middle Dutch "verwerpen", also means "to discard", "to abandon", or "to disapprove". |
| Albanian | The term 'refuzoj' stems from the Proto-Albanian root 'refus' and holds additional meanings such as 'refusal' and 'rejection'. |
| Amharic | The word "ውድቅ አድርግ" can also mean "to dismiss", "to disown", or "to discard". |
| Arabic | The Arabic word "رفض" (reject) is derived from the root word "رفض" (to leave or abandon), suggesting the act of casting something away or dismissing it. |
| Armenian | In Armenian etymology, the root "մերժ" (merzh) also means "disapprove, despise, scorn, condemn". |
| Azerbaijani | The word "rədd et" is derived from the Persian word "radd", meaning "to return" or "to refuse". |
| Basque | Arbuiatu is derived from the Basque word arbui, meaning 'refuse' or 'rejection', and the suffix -atu, indicating an action or process. |
| Belarusian | The word "адхіліць" in Belarusian is derived from the Old Church Slavonic word "отклонити" and can also mean "to reject" or "to decline". |
| Bengali | The word "প্রত্যাখ্যান" ("reject") in Bengali also means "to deny" or "to refuse". |
| Bosnian | In Serbian, the word "odbiti" also means to "defeat" or "repel" an attack. |
| Bulgarian | The word "отхвърли" derives from the Proto-Slavic root *otъvьrgati, meaning "to throw away" or "to reject". |
| Catalan | "Rebutjar" derives from the Late Latin "repudiāre", meaning "to reject, spurn, divorce, disown". |
| Cebuano | The term "isalikway" can also refer to the act of expelling or banishing someone. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | “拒”意为堵住，“绝”意为断绝，二字连用表示断然拒绝。 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | "拒" is a variant of "拒", which means 'to push'. |
| Corsican | The word "ricusà" comes from the Latin word "recusare" which means "to refuse" or "to decline". |
| Croatian | The Croatian word 'odbiti' also has the meaning 'to bounce back', which comes from its root word 'biti', meaning 'to hit'. |
| Czech | In Czech, "odmítnout" means both "reject" and "refuse". |
| Danish | Afvise comes from the Old Norse word afvīsa, meaning "to turn away". |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "afwijzen" is related to the word "wijs", meaning "wise", and originally meant to turn away from something unwise. |
| Esperanto | Esperanto's "malakcepti" is a calque of English "malaccept" meaning "to accept reluctantly or disapprovingly." |
| Estonian | Estonian word "tagasi lükata" has a literal translation "push back" and an additional meaning of "send back". |
| Finnish | The word "hylätä" also means "to abandon" or "to forsake" in Finnish. |
| French | Rejeter is similar to the English word 'reject' as it shares the same Latin root 'iacere', meaning 'to throw'. |
| Frisian | The word "ôfwize" comes from the Old Frisian word "ôfwirsie", meaning "to cast out". |
| Galician | The Galician word "rexeitar" also means "to deny" or "to refuse". |
| Georgian | The word "უარი თქვას" in Georgian comes from the Proto-Kartvelian root *war-, meaning "to divide, reject" and is related to the word "war" in English and German. |
| German | The word "ablehnen" is derived from the Middle High German word "abelennen", meaning "to refuse." |
| Greek | The word "απορρίπτω" can also mean "to cast away", "to put aside", or "to abandon" in Greek. |
| Gujarati | The term 'અસ્વીકાર', originating from Sanskrit, also refers to a philosophical notion of non-attachment or disassociating from desires and external possessions. |
| Haitian Creole | In Haitian Creole, "rejte" is also a noun meaning "rejection".} |
| Hausa | In Hausa, "ƙi" can also mean "refuse" or "deny". |
| Hawaiian | Hōʻole in Hawaiian also refers to the action of turning someone or something away. |
| Hebrew | This word is of Aramaic origin, meaning "to cause to depart". It is related to the Hebrew word "לדחוק" ("to push"). |
| Hindi | The Hindi word "अस्वीकार" is derived from the Sanskrit word "अस्वीकृत," meaning "not accepted" or "disapproved. |
| Hmong | In the Hmong language, the word "xyeej" can also mean "to turn away" or "to refuse to accept something" |
| Hungarian | The word 'elutasít' is not to be confused with 'utasít' meaning 'instruct', as the two words sound the same and only differ in orthography, but are not related semantically. |
| Icelandic | The word "hafna" derives from the Old Norse word "hafna," meaning "to refuse, deny, or reject." |
| Igbo | The word "jụ" derives from the Proto-Benue-Congo root *ju "to refuse, reject," also yielding Yoruba "jú" and Edo "dʒu". |
| Indonesian | Menolak in Indonesian means "to deny," "to refuse," or "to decline," and is derived from the Proto-Austronesian word *tulak, meaning "to push away." |
| Italian | Rifiutare originates from the latin verb refutare, which means to disprove or rebut an argument. |
| Japanese | The word "拒否する" (kyohisuru) translates to "reject" in English, and can also mean "to deny" or "to refuse". |
| Javanese | The word Nolak (reject) means something that needs to be avoided or forbidden and is thought to come from the word Awlak (wrong) |
| Kannada | It is related to the Sanskrit word 'tiraskaroti', which means 'to remove'. |
| Khmer | បដិសេធ also means 'deny' or 'oppose', and is derived from the Sanskrit word 'pratisedha', which has the same meaning. |
| Korean | 받지 않다 (batji anhda) literally means 'not to receive'. |
| Kurdish | The Kurdish word "refzkirin" derives from the Proto-Indo-European root "*reǵ-skei-ro-," meaning "to abandon, give up, or reject." |
| Kyrgyz | "Четке кагуу" means "to reject" in Kyrgyz. It can also mean "to throw away" or "to discard." |
| Latin | Repellam originates from the Latin word pellere, which means "to drive away." |
| Latvian | "Noraidīt" also means "to turn off" in the context of electricity."} |
| Lithuanian | The word "atmesti" is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *at- "to throw away, reject" and is related to the English word "atom". |
| Macedonian | The word "отфрли" in Macedonian comes from the Old Church Slavonic word "отвьрглъ", meaning "to throw away". |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy term "mandà" has additional meanings such as "to refuse" and "to prohibit." |
| Malay | The word "menolak" is derived from the Proto-Austronesian word *tulak, which means "to push away" or "to refuse." |
| Malayalam | നിരസിക്കുക comes from the Sanskrit word 'niras' meaning 'despair' and 'ak' meaning 'to do' and has other meanings including 'prohibit' and 'disapprove'. |
| Maltese | "Tiċħad" also means to deny or refuse something. |
| Maori | The term 'whakakahore' can also denote 'refuse', or the action of 'turning something away'. |
| Marathi | "नाकारणे" can also mean "to refuse" or "to deny" in Marathi. |
| Mongolian | The word "татгалзах" is also used to mean "to refuse" or "to deny" in Mongolian. |
| Nepali | The word अस्वीकृत in Nepali comes from the Sanskrit word "asvi-krita", which literally means "not done or made". |
| Norwegian | "Avvise" is derived from Old Norse "á vísu," meaning "in view," and is related to the verb "vise" (to show), suggesting the idea of rejecting something by making it visible. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | Kukana is also used to describe the act of rejecting food or other substances. |
| Pashto | The word "رد کړئ" is derived from Arabic "ردّ" (radd), meaning "push back" or "repel." |
| Persian | The verb "رد کردن" can also mean "to reply" or "to respond". |
| Polish | In Polish, the verb "odrzucać" can also refer to "rejecting a woman's marriage proposal" or "dispensing with a religious rite." |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, "rejeitar" also means "to despise", "to disdain", or "to loath". |
| Punjabi | The word "ਰੱਦ" derives from the Sanskrit root "rudh" and can mean "to obstruct" or "to stop." |
| Romanian | Romanian "respinge" comes from Latin "respinguere" (to push back) and also means "to push back" or "to recoil". |
| Russian | The Russian word "отвергать" can also be used in the context of refusing to accept or believe something, akin to "repudiate" in English. |
| Samoan | Samoan word “teena” also means “not to eat or drink” (especially because of religious or cultural obligations) |
| Scots Gaelic | The Gaelic word "diùltadh" can also mean "to deny" or "to refuse". |
| Serbian | The Serbian word "odбити" can also mean to defend against, repel or reflect something. |
| Sesotho | In some dialects, 'hana' can mean 'reject', while in others it can mean 'refuse' or 'deny'. |
| Shona | The word "ramba" means "reject" and also "throw away" in Shona. |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "رد ڪريو" can also mean "stop" or "cancel". |
| Slovak | The Slovak word "odmietnuť" can also mean "to deny". |
| Slovenian | The verb 'zavrni' can also mean 'to spin' or 'to turn' in Slovene, related to the noun 'zavor' which means 'brake'. |
| Somali | In addition to meaning "reject," the Somali word "diid" can also refer to a type of traditional Somali dance. |
| Spanish | The word "rechazar" can also mean "to refuse" or "to deny" in Spanish. |
| Sundanese | The word 'nolak' also refers to someone who has a lot of money but spends it sparingly. |
| Swahili | The word "kukataa" can also mean "to refuse" or "to deny" in Swahili. |
| Swedish | The word "avvisa" can also mean "to dismiss" or "to refuse". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "tanggihan" can also refer to a type of Filipino folk dance originating from the Southern Tagalog region |
| Tajik | The verb "рад кардан" in Tajik can also mean "to dismiss" or "to refuse". |
| Thai | The word "ปฏิเสธ" can also mean "to oppose" or "to defy". |
| Turkish | "Reddetmek" is derived from the Persian word "rad etmek," meaning "to approve, accept," and has undergone a semantic shift in Turkish to mean "to reject, refuse." |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word "відкинути" also means "to abandon", "to discard", or "to renounce." |
| Uzbek | The word "rad etish" may be related to Persian "rad kardan," meaning "to expel," or Turkish "reddetmek," meaning "to reject," suggesting its adoption from one of these languages. |
| Vietnamese | The word "Từ chối" (reject) derives from the Old Vietnamese word "từ" (to turn away) and "chối" (to refuse). |
| Welsh | The word "gwrthod" in Welsh is derived from the Proto-Celtic root *wret-, meaning "to turn" or "to change direction." |
| Xhosa | The Xhosa word "ukwala" (reject) also means "to be at odds with" or "to be in conflict with". |
| Yiddish | "אָפּוואַרפן" (reject) comes from Middle High German “verwerfen,” meaning "to throw out" or "to spurn." |
| Yoruba | 'Kọ' means 'reject' but also means 'refuse' or 'not accept' |
| Zulu | In Zulu, "wenqabe" also means "to be abandoned". |
| English | Reject can also mean to throw back, as in the phrase 'reject a ball'. |