Afrikaans verwyder | ||
Albanian heq | ||
Amharic አስወግድ | ||
Arabic إزالة | ||
Armenian հեռացնել | ||
Assamese আঁতৰোৱা | ||
Aymara unxtayaña | ||
Azerbaijani sil | ||
Bambara ka labɔ | ||
Basque kendu | ||
Belarusian выдаліць | ||
Bengali অপসারণ | ||
Bhojpuri निकालल | ||
Bosnian ukloniti | ||
Bulgarian премахване | ||
Catalan eliminar | ||
Cebuano tangtangon | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 去掉 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 去掉 | ||
Corsican caccià | ||
Croatian ukloniti | ||
Czech odstranit | ||
Danish fjerne | ||
Dhivehi ރިމޫވް | ||
Dogri हटाना | ||
Dutch verwijderen | ||
English remove | ||
Esperanto forigi | ||
Estonian eemalda | ||
Ewe ɖee le eme | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) tanggalin | ||
Finnish poista | ||
French retirer | ||
Frisian weinimme | ||
Galician quitar | ||
Georgian ამოღება | ||
German entfernen | ||
Greek αφαιρώ | ||
Guarani pe'a | ||
Gujarati દૂર કરો | ||
Haitian Creole retire | ||
Hausa cire | ||
Hawaiian hemo | ||
Hebrew לְהַסִיר | ||
Hindi हटाना | ||
Hmong tshem tawm | ||
Hungarian eltávolítani | ||
Icelandic fjarlægja | ||
Igbo wepụ | ||
Ilocano ikkaten | ||
Indonesian menghapus | ||
Irish bain | ||
Italian rimuovere | ||
Japanese 削除する | ||
Javanese nyopot | ||
Kannada ತೆಗೆದುಹಾಕಿ | ||
Kazakh жою | ||
Khmer យកចេញ | ||
Kinyarwanda gukuramo | ||
Konkani काडचें | ||
Korean 없애다 | ||
Krio pul kɔmɔt | ||
Kurdish dûrxistin | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) لابردن | ||
Kyrgyz алып салуу | ||
Lao ເອົາອອກ | ||
Latin remove | ||
Latvian noņemt | ||
Lingala kolongola | ||
Lithuanian pašalinti | ||
Luganda okujjamu | ||
Luxembourgish ewechhuelen | ||
Macedonian отстрани | ||
Maithili हटाउ | ||
Malagasy esory | ||
Malay buang | ||
Malayalam നീക്കംചെയ്യുക | ||
Maltese neħħi | ||
Maori tango | ||
Marathi काढा | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯂꯧꯊꯣꯛꯄ | ||
Mizo paih | ||
Mongolian арилгах | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ဖယ်ရှားလိုက်ပါ | ||
Nepali हटाउनुहोस् | ||
Norwegian ta vekk | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) chotsani | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଅପସାରଣ କର | | ||
Oromo irraa kaasuu | ||
Pashto لرې کول | ||
Persian برداشتن | ||
Polish usunąć | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) retirar | ||
Punjabi ਹਟਾਓ | ||
Quechua qichuy | ||
Romanian elimina | ||
Russian удалять | ||
Samoan aveese | ||
Sanskrit अपाकरोति | ||
Scots Gaelic cuir às | ||
Sepedi tloša | ||
Serbian уклонити | ||
Sesotho tlosa | ||
Shona bvisa | ||
Sindhi ختم ڪريو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) ඉවත් කරන්න | ||
Slovak odstrániť | ||
Slovenian odstrani | ||
Somali ka saar | ||
Spanish eliminar | ||
Sundanese miceun | ||
Swahili ondoa | ||
Swedish avlägsna | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) tanggalin | ||
Tajik хориҷ кардан | ||
Tamil அகற்று | ||
Tatar бетерү | ||
Telugu తొలగించండి | ||
Thai ลบ | ||
Tigrinya ኣወግድ | ||
Tsonga susa | ||
Turkish kaldırmak | ||
Turkmen aýyrmak | ||
Twi (Akan) yi | ||
Ukrainian видалити | ||
Urdu دور | ||
Uyghur چىقىرىۋېتىڭ | ||
Uzbek olib tashlash | ||
Vietnamese tẩy | ||
Welsh tynnu | ||
Xhosa susa | ||
Yiddish אַראָפּנעמען | ||
Yoruba yọkuro | ||
Zulu susa |
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "verwyder" is derived from the Dutch word "verwijderen", which means "to distance" or "to remove". |
| Albanian | The word "heq" in Albanian is a homophone of "heq" in Turkish, meaning "to rule over" or "to dominate". |
| Amharic | The word "አስወግድ" can also mean "to cancel" or "to dismiss". |
| Arabic | إزالة is derived from the root word عزل meaning 'to cut off' or 'to separate'. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "sil" in Azerbaijani, meaning "to remove," is possibly derived from the Proto-Turkic root "sil-," meaning "to wipe, to erase." |
| Basque | Kendu derives from Proto-Basque *kerent-, the root of its close relative, the verb gerendu (“to do, to make”). |
| Belarusian | The word "выдаліць" is derived from the Proto-Slavic verb *delti, meaning "to remove" or "to destroy." |
| Bengali | The word "অপসারণ" (obosharon) is derived from the Sanskrit prefix "अप" (opa), meaning "away" or "off", and the root "सर" (sar), meaning "to go" or "to move". It can also mean "to dismiss" or "to get rid of". |
| Bosnian | "Ukloniti" and "ukloniti se" come from the word "kloniti", from the Proto-Slavic "kloniti" or "klonъ", which means "to bow", "to bend", "to lean", or "to incline". |
| Bulgarian | The verb “Премахване” (“remove”) is related to the noun “премия” (“award”) or, more precisely, its obsolete spelling “према” with an accent on the first syllable. |
| Catalan | The etymology of “eliminar” derives from the Latin “eliminare,” which meant “put outside the door” or “banish.” |
| Cebuano | "Tangtangon" is derived from the Proto-Austronesian word "taŋəq", meaning "to untie" or "to release a bond." |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 去掉 (qùdiào) is also used figuratively to mean 'to get rid of' or 'to do away with'. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 去掉 also means "leave out/off" or "except/omit". |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "caccià" is derived from the Italian word "cacciare", which means "to hunt" or "to chase". It can also mean "to expel" or "to banish". |
| Croatian | The word 'ukloniti' in Croatian can also mean 'to avoid' or 'to evade'. |
| Czech | Ostranit means to "remove" in Czech, but can also mean to "eliminate" or "get rid of." |
| Danish | The Danish word "fjerne" is derived from the Old Norse word "fjarna", meaning "to move far away". |
| Dutch | The word "verwijderen" can also mean "to alienate" or "to estrange". |
| Esperanto | "Forigi" is derived from "for", meaning "away", and "-igi", a suffix indicating removal or deprivation. |
| Estonian | "Eemalda" can also mean "to clear" or "to delete". |
| Finnish | In Karelian and some Finnish dialects, "poista" can also refer to a piece of wood used as a lever, such as a crowbar. |
| French | The French verb "retirer" comes from the Latin verb "retrahere", which means "to draw back" or "to withdraw". |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "weinimme" also means "to tear out" or "to pull out" in other Germanic languages. |
| Galician | The Galician word "quitar" comes from the Latin "quittare", meaning "to leave" or "to abandon". |
| Georgian | The Georgian word "amogeba" (to remove) is derived from the Proto-Kartvelian root *mek-, meaning "to move". |
| German | The German word "entfernen" originally meant "to move far away" or "to separate" but over time its meaning shifted to "to take away" or "to remove". |
| Greek | In the Odyssey, 'αφαιρώ' is used to mean 'dispossess'. In the New Testament, it is often used to mean 'deliver'. |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "દૂર કરો" can also mean "to dispel" or "to get rid of". |
| Haitian Creole | In Haitian Creole, "retire" can also mean "to step back" or "to make way for someone else." |
| Hausa | Derived from the Proto-Hausa word *ci/*ciri, which also meant "move aside" and "clear away" |
| Hawaiian | In Hawaiian, "hemo" has several meanings, including "cut away" and "to pull up or out". |
| Hebrew | The root of להסיר ('remove') is 'separation', and it is related to the word סיר ('pot'). |
| Hindi | The word "हटाना" also means "to take away" or "to get rid of" in Hindi. |
| Hmong | The Hmong word "tshem tawm" can also mean "to take away," "to steal," or "to kidnap." |
| Hungarian | "Eltávolítani" comes from the Proto-Hungarian verb "el-tol, |
| Icelandic | In Icelandic, "fjarlægja" originally meant "to set apart" or "to make distant," likely related to the Old Norse word "fjörulegr," meaning "wide"} |
| Igbo | The term 'wepụ' was also borrowed into Bini as 'wepan', which can mean either 'defeat' or 'remove'. |
| Indonesian | The word "menghapus" in Indonesian is derived from the Javanese word "hapoes", which means "erase" or "obliterate". |
| Irish | The Irish word bain may have originated from the Old Irish word bainne, meaning "a drop". |
| Italian | The word "rimuovere" derives from the Latin "removere". In some contexts, it can also mean "to dismiss" or "to remove from office". |
| Japanese | 削除 is also used for "deleting" something from a computer system. |
| Javanese | The word "nyopot" in Javanese is related to the word "opot" which means "to grab with the hand". |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "жою" ("remove") also means "to cut off" or "to sever". |
| Khmer | យកចេញ can also mean to discard, eliminate, or erase something |
| Korean | In Korean there is a verb "없애다" which means "to remove" but it also means "to kill". |
| Kurdish | In addition to its primary meaning of "remove," "dûrxistin" can also imply "to separate" or "to take away." |
| Kyrgyz | The word "алып салуу" can also mean "to withdraw" or "to cancel" in Kyrgyz. |
| Latin | The Latin verb "removeo" also means "to change one's place of residence or occupation". |
| Latvian | "Noņemt" is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *nem-, meaning "to take away". |
| Lithuanian | Pašalinti originates from the verb "šalinti" meaning "to remove" and "to move away". |
| Luxembourgish | In old Luxembourgish, the word "ewechhuelen" could also mean "to give up one's home or possessions." |
| Macedonian | The verb "отстрани" in Macedonian can also refer to isolating or distancing someone from their environment, or to suspending someone's authority or position. |
| Malagasy | The word « esory » likely derives from the Proto-Malayo-Polynesian root *sahuR, meaning « to push ». |
| Malay | The Malay word "buang" can also refer to the process of expelling or discarding something, or the state of being removed or discarded |
| Maltese | The word "neħħi" derives from the Arabic word "nahada" which means to "take away" or "pull out". |
| Maori | The Maori word "tango" can also mean "cut", "break", or "divide" in addition to "remove". |
| Marathi | The word 'काढा' ('kadha') in Marathi also refers to a type of herbal decoction used for medicinal purposes, particularly during the winter season. |
| Mongolian | The word "арилгах" can also mean "to eliminate", "to erase", or "to dismiss". In some contexts, it can be used to describe the act of "taking something away" or "banishing someone". |
| Nepali | The term हटाउनुहोस् derives from the Sanskrit word हट, meaning 'to drive away' or 'to remove'. |
| Norwegian | The Norwegian word "ta vekk" can also mean "take away" or "remove from a place". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The etymology of "chotsani" in Chichewa is unclear, with some sources claiming it originates from "chosera" meaning "to choose" and others suggesting it is a shortened form of "chota tsani," which literally translates to "remove a thing." |
| Pashto | The word "لرې کول" in Pashto can also mean "to take away" or "to eliminate". |
| Persian | The word "برداشتن" ("remove") in Persian can also mean "to pick up" or "to harvest". |
| Polish | The word "usunąć" can also mean "to delete" or "to erase" in Polish. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | "Retirar" is a Portuguese verb meaning "to remove," but it can also mean "to retire" from work or military service. |
| Punjabi | The word 'ਹਟਾਓ' also means to reject or discard something |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "elimina" also carries the meaning of "to get rid of" or "to avoid" in certain contexts. |
| Russian | The Russian verb "удалять" also means "to go away or withdraw", derived from the Old Slavonic word "odaliti" |
| Samoan | The Samoan word 'aveese' also means 'to depart' or 'to leave'. |
| Scots Gaelic | The Scottish Gaelic "cuir às" can also mean "to kill" and is possibly related to the Irish Gaelic "cos". |
| Serbian | The word 'уклонити' can also mean 'to deviate,' 'to dodge,' or 'to avoid.' |
| Sesotho | "Tlosa" can also mean "to take one's turn" or "to take away the turn of" in Sesotho. |
| Shona | The Shona word 'Bvisa' is derived from the Proto-Bantu word '*pukula', which means 'to strike' or 'to beat'. |
| Sindhi | The word "ختم ڪريو" in Sindhi is derived from the Persian word "ختم کردن" meaning "to finish" or "to complete". |
| Slovak | "Odstrániť" also means "to eliminate" or "to get rid of" in Slovak. |
| Slovenian | It also means 'to withdraw' from a bank account or 'to get rid of something' when the context is about killing or getting rid of pests. |
| Somali | The word "ka saar" can also mean "to leave" or "to depart". |
| Spanish | "Eliminar" comes from the Latin word "eliminare", which means "to put outside the threshold". In Spanish, it can also mean to "annihilate" or "to destroy". |
| Sundanese | Miceun is derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sibuŋ which also means "throw out" |
| Swahili | Ondoa in Swahili can also refer to "erasing" or "canceling". |
| Swedish | "Avlägsna" can also refer to removing a bad smell or an unwanted thought. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The Tagalog word "tanggalin" comes from the Malay and Indonesian word "tanggal" which means "to depart, or leave". |
| Tajik | The word "хориҷ кардан" can also mean "to exclude" or "to eliminate". |
| Tamil | In Tamil, "அகற்று" also means "to separate" or "to set apart". |
| Thai | The Thai word "ลบ" can also mean "to erase" or "to cancel". |
| Turkish | The Turkish word "Kaldırmak" has a secondary meaning of "to raise"} |
| Ukrainian | The word "видалили" (remove) in Ukrainian also means "to have seen" in the past tense. |
| Urdu | دور originates from the Persian word دور meaning "far" or "distant" and retains those meanings in Urdu. |
| Uzbek | The word "olib tashlash" is also used figuratively to mean "to get rid of something burdensome or troublesome." |
| Vietnamese | "Tẩy" also means "wash the hair" and "bleach (clothes)" depending on the characters used to write it. |
| Welsh | Tyndu is also the name of an annual plant known as "watercress" |
| Xhosa | In Xhosa, "susa" has the alternate meaning of "get rid of dirt or stains," akin to "cleanse" or "purify." |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word אַראָפּנעמען is literally to 'take down', from the German herabnehmen. |
| Yoruba | The verb "yọkuro" can also mean "to reject". |
| Zulu | The word "susa" in Zulu can also mean "to take away" or "to pull out". |
| English | The word 'remove' derives from Old French 'removoir', which in turn comes from Latin 'removere', meaning 'to move back' or 'to put away'. |