Researcher in Different Languages
Discover 'Researcher' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Researcher
Afrikaans navorser | ||
Albanian studiues | ||
Amharic ተመራማሪ | ||
Arabic الباحث | ||
Armenian հետազոտող | ||
Assamese গৱেষক | ||
Aymara yatxatiri | ||
Azerbaijani tədqiqatçı | ||
Bambara ɲininikɛla | ||
Basque ikertzailea | ||
Belarusian даследчык | ||
Bengali গবেষক | ||
Bhojpuri शोधकर्ता के ह | ||
Bosnian istraživač | ||
Bulgarian изследовател | ||
Catalan investigador | ||
Cebuano tigdukiduki | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 研究员 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 研究員 | ||
Corsican circadore | ||
Croatian istraživač | ||
Czech výzkumník | ||
Danish forsker | ||
Dhivehi ދިރާސާކުރާ ފަރާތެވެ | ||
Dogri शोधकर्ता ऐ | ||
Dutch onderzoeker | ||
English researcher | ||
Esperanto esploristo | ||
Estonian teadur | ||
Ewe numekula | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) mananaliksik | ||
Finnish tutkija | ||
French chercheur | ||
Frisian ûndersiker | ||
Galician investigador | ||
Georgian მკვლევარი | ||
German forscher | ||
Greek ερευνητής | ||
Guarani investigador rehegua | ||
Gujarati સંશોધક | ||
Haitian Creole chèchè | ||
Hausa mai bincike | ||
Hawaiian mea noiʻi | ||
Hebrew חוֹקֵר | ||
Hindi शोधकर्ता | ||
Hmong kws tshawb fawb | ||
Hungarian kutató | ||
Icelandic rannsakandi | ||
Igbo onye nyocha | ||
Ilocano managsirarak | ||
Indonesian peneliti | ||
Irish taighdeoir | ||
Italian ricercatore | ||
Japanese 研究者 | ||
Javanese panaliti | ||
Kannada ಸಂಶೋಧಕ | ||
Kazakh зерттеуші | ||
Khmer អ្នកស្រាវជ្រាវ | ||
Kinyarwanda umushakashatsi | ||
Konkani संशोधक | ||
Korean 연구원 | ||
Krio risachman we de du risach | ||
Kurdish lêkolîner | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) توێژەر | ||
Kyrgyz изилдөөчү | ||
Lao ນັກຄົ້ນຄວ້າ | ||
Latin researcher | ||
Latvian pētnieks | ||
Lingala molukiluki | ||
Lithuanian tyrinėtojas | ||
Luganda omunoonyereza | ||
Luxembourgish fuerscher | ||
Macedonian истражувач | ||
Maithili शोधकर्ता | ||
Malagasy mpikaroka | ||
Malay penyelidik | ||
Malayalam ഗവേഷകൻ | ||
Maltese riċerkatur | ||
Maori kairangahau | ||
Marathi संशोधक | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯔꯤꯁꯔꯆꯔ ꯑꯃꯥ ꯑꯣꯏꯅꯥ ꯊꯕꯛ ꯇꯧꯔꯤ꯫ | ||
Mizo zirchiangtu a ni | ||
Mongolian судлаач | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) သုတေသီ | ||
Nepali अन्वेषक | ||
Norwegian forsker | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) wofufuza | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଗବେଷକ | ||
Oromo qorataa | ||
Pashto څیړونکی | ||
Persian محقق | ||
Polish badacz | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) investigador | ||
Punjabi ਖੋਜਕਰਤਾ | ||
Quechua investigador | ||
Romanian cercetător | ||
Russian исследователь | ||
Samoan tagata suʻesuʻe | ||
Sanskrit शोधकर्त्ता | ||
Scots Gaelic neach-rannsachaidh | ||
Sepedi monyakišiši | ||
Serbian истраживач | ||
Sesotho mofuputsi | ||
Shona mutsvakurudzi | ||
Sindhi محقق | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) පර්යේෂකයා | ||
Slovak výskumný pracovník | ||
Slovenian raziskovalec | ||
Somali cilmi baare | ||
Spanish investigador | ||
Sundanese panaliti | ||
Swahili mtafiti | ||
Swedish forskare | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) mananaliksik | ||
Tajik муҳаққиқ | ||
Tamil ஆராய்ச்சியாளர் | ||
Tatar тикшерүче | ||
Telugu పరిశోధకుడు | ||
Thai นักวิจัย | ||
Tigrinya ተመራማሪ ምዃኑ’ዩ። | ||
Tsonga mulavisisi | ||
Turkish araştırmacı | ||
Turkmen gözlegçi | ||
Twi (Akan) nhwehwɛmufo | ||
Ukrainian дослідник | ||
Urdu محقق | ||
Uyghur تەتقىقاتچى | ||
Uzbek tadqiqotchi | ||
Vietnamese nhà nghiên cứu | ||
Welsh ymchwilydd | ||
Xhosa umphandi | ||
Yiddish פאָרשער | ||
Yoruba awadi | ||
Zulu umcwaningi |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | "Navorser" is derived from the verb "navors" which means "to investigate" or "to search for". |
| Albanian | Etymology: from Latin 'studium' (study) or Italian 'studioso' (student), with alternate meanings of 'studious' or 'learned'. |
| Amharic | The Amharic word "ተመራማሪ" (researcher) comes from the root "መራ" (to lead), suggesting a person who leads or navigates in the pursuit of knowledge. |
| Arabic | The word "الباحث" ("researcher") in Arabic is also used to refer to a "seeker" or "one who investigates or inquires". |
| Azerbaijani | The word "tədqiqatçı" derives from the Arabic "tadqīqāt", meaning "investigation" or "research". |
| Basque | "Ikertzailea" can also mean "investigator", "inquirer", "seeker", "explorer", "student", "scholar", or "scientist" in Basque. |
| Bengali | The word "গবেষক" also means "investigator" in English. |
| Bosnian | The Bosnian word 'istraživač' is derived from the Old Slavic word 'istraziti', which means 'to seek out'. |
| Bulgarian | The word "изследовател" in Bulgarian can also mean "investigator" or "explorer". |
| Catalan | The etymology of "investigador" in Catalan traces it to Latin word “vestigium” meaning "step", or "track"} |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The modern Chinese term for "researcher" (研究员) originally referred to a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, but this term has been expanded to include researchers at universities and other research institutions. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | In Chinese (Traditional), "研究員" can also refer to a senior researcher, a research scholar, a research associate or a fellow. |
| Corsican | The word "circadore" in Corsican is derived from the Latin word "circumdare" and originally meant "to surround" or "to encompass". |
| Croatian | The term "istraživač" derives from the verb "istraživati" which means to explore or investigate in Croatian. |
| Czech | The Czech word "výzkumník" comes from the word "zkušit" and means "explorer" or "investigator". |
| Danish | In Norwegian, the word "forsker" also means "teacher" and the verb "å forske" means "to search". |
| Dutch | In Dutch, 'onder' means 'under' and 'zoeker' means 'seeker', therefore 'onderzoeker' literally means 'someone who seeks under' or 'explorer'. |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word "esploristo" comes from the root "esplor-", which means "to explore", and the suffix "-isto", which indicates a person who does something. |
| Estonian | "Teadur" is an Estonian word derived from the root "tead" meaning "knowledge" and the suffix "-ur" denoting a person performing an action, in this case, researching or studying. |
| Finnish | The word "tutkija" is derived from the word "tutkia", which means "to investigate" or "to explore". |
| French | The word "chercheur" originates from the Latin verb "circare" meaning "to go around, to seek" and is related to the French word "chercher" meaning "to search, to look for". |
| Galician | In Spanish "investigador" means both "researcher" and "investigator" (police). |
| German | The word "Forscher" is derived from the Middle High German "vorschen," meaning "to search" or "to investigate." |
| Greek | Ερευνητής also means "explorer" in Greek, which stems from the fact that early researchers often had to travel to distant lands to gather information. |
| Gujarati | The term 'સંશોધક' is borrowed from Sanskrit and has an alternative meaning of 'explorer'. |
| Haitian Creole | The word "chèchè" in Haitian Creole derives from the French word "chercher," meaning "to search," and is also used colloquially to refer to a student, scholar, or intellectual. |
| Hausa | The word 'mai bincike' in Hausa also means 'scholar' or 'student'. |
| Hawaiian | "Mea noiʻi" is literally "thinking person" and refers to a person who does research. |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word 'Hoker' (חוקר) can also mean 'explorer', as it relates to the pursuit of knowledge and understanding. |
| Hindi | The word 'शोधकर्ता' (shodhkarta) is derived from the Sanskrit word 'शोध' (shodh), meaning 'to search' or 'to investigate', and the suffix '-कर्ता' (-karta), meaning 'one who does something'. |
| Hmong | Kws tshawb fawb, or researcher, is also the term for "one who follows a path" or "one who solves problems". |
| Hungarian | While "kutató" means "researcher" in Hungarian, it has additional meanings including "explorer" and "investigator." |
| Icelandic | Rannsakandi directly translates to "explorer" and the word's etymology stems from "rannsaka," which means to "explore," and "andi," meaning "one who does something." |
| Igbo | Onye nyocha, meaning "one who searches" in Igbo, can also refer to a detective or investigator. |
| Indonesian | The word 'peneliti' is derived from the Sanskrit word 'anves' which means 'to seek' or 'to investigate'. |
| Italian | The Italian word "ricercatore" is also used in music to indicate someone who plays ricercares (early musical compositions in instrumental style). |
| Japanese | The word 研究者 (kenkyuusha) can also refer to a scholar or an expert in a particular field. |
| Javanese | Panaliti' is a derivative of the Javanese word 'panali' which means 'to observe, to investigate'. It is also related to the word 'pana' which means 'to see' or 'to look at'. |
| Kannada | "ಸಂಶೋಧಕ" is derived from the Sanskrit word "संशोधन" (śaṃśodhana), meaning "thorough investigation or study." |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "зерттеуші" can also mean "explorer" or "investigator". |
| Korean | "연구원" originally referred to a Buddhist monk who studies scriptures. |
| Kurdish | The word "lêkolîner" in Kurdish derives from the Persian word "tahqeeq" (research) and has a secondary meaning of "explorer, investigator". |
| Kyrgyz | The word |
| Latin | The Latin word "scrutator" means both "explorer" and "researcher" |
| Latvian | "Pētnieks" is a combination of "pētīt" meaning "to investigate" and "-nieks", derived from an old word for "person". |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian noun tyrinėtojas, "researcher", evolved through Proto-Slavic *tьrъniti to Proto-Balto-Slavic *tьryti, meaning "to see, to seek", from the Proto-Indo-European root *derk-, "to see, to look at". |
| Luxembourgish | The Luxembourgish word "Fuerscher" is a false friend, as it derives from the French "fourrager", meaning "to forage" or "to rummage". |
| Macedonian | The Macedonian word "истражувач" (researcher) is derived from the verb "истражува" (to explore, to research), which in turn comes from the Slavic root "*stъrgъ" (to rub, to scrape), suggesting the idea of digging up or uncovering knowledge. |
| Malagasy | The word "mpikaroka" originates from the verb "mikaroka", which means "to search" or "to investigate". |
| Malay | The word "penyelidik" is derived from the Malay word "selidik" meaning "to investigate". |
| Malayalam | In Tamil, the word "கவளன்" (kavalan) signifies a "policeman" while in Malayalam it has transformed to imply a "researcher". |
| Maltese | In Maltese, the word "riċerkatur" also means "someone who investigates or searches for something". |
| Maori | The term 'kairangahau' in Māori can also refer to a person who conducts surveys or collects data. |
| Marathi | The Marathi word "संशोधक" can also mean "one who rectifies" or "one who investigates something thoroughly." |
| Mongolian | The word судлаач (researcher) has no alternate meanings in Mongolian and is directly derived from the verb судлах (to research). |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The word "သုတေသီ" ("researcher") originally meant "someone who studies" in Pali, the sacred language of Theravada Buddhism, Myanmar's dominant religion. |
| Nepali | The term 'अन्वेषक' is of Sanskrit origin and is related to the verb 'अन्वीक्षा', meaning 'to explore' or 'to investigate'. |
| Norwegian | The word "forsker" in Norwegian can also refer to a person who conducts investigations or inquiries. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | In Nyanja, the word "wofufuza" is also used to refer to a person who is inquisitive or has a thirst for knowledge. |
| Pashto | څیړونکی is derived from the Persian word څیړ, meaning 'to explore' or 'to investigate'. |
| Persian | محقق in Persian can also mean investigator, student, examiner, or one who proves or establishes something. |
| Polish | The Polish word "badacz" derives from the word "badać," meaning "to investigate," with the suffix "-acz," used to denote persons performing a specified action. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Brazilian Portuguese, "investigador" can also mean police detective. |
| Punjabi | ਖੋਜਕਰਤਾ, जिसका संस्कृत में अर्थ 'खोज करने वाला' है, अंग्रेज़ी में 'researcher' कहलाता है। |
| Romanian | The word "cercetător" is derived from the verb "cerceta", meaning "to search" or "to study". |
| Russian | Alternate meaning: A person who searches for something, especially with difficulty or danger. |
| Samoan | Tagata Su'esu'e was also the term given to the young girls recruited for a period of service by the missionaries and their wives. |
| Serbian | In Serbian, the word "истраживач" not only refers to researchers, but also detectives. |
| Sesotho | In Sesotho, 'mofuputsi' literally translates to 'one who brings to light what is unknown' |
| Sindhi | The word "محقق" (_muhaqqiq_) in Sindhi originated from Persian and also means "scholar" or "verifier". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The term can also refer to a police officer or an inspector. |
| Slovak | The Slovak word "výskumný pracovník" is derived from the verb "výskum, |
| Slovenian | The word "raziskovalec" (researcher) in Slovenian originally comes from the word "raziskati" (to explore) and is related to other words such as "raziskovanje" (exploration) and "raziskovan" (explored). |
| Somali | The word "cilmi baare" in Somali literally means "one who brings knowledge to light"} |
| Spanish | Investigador also means "investigative journalist" in Spanish. |
| Sundanese | 'Panaliti' berasal dari kata 'tali' dan 'pati', yang berarti 'penjaga' atau 'pengawas', sehingga 'panaliti' berarti 'penjaga yang bertugas mengawasi suatu pekerjaan' |
| Swahili | The Swahili word "mtafiti" can also refer to a historian or a detective. |
| Swedish | In the 18th century, the word forskare initially meant "explorer" and was used in the context of natural history and other fields. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "mananaliksik" is derived from the root word "saliksik," which means "investigation." |
| Tajik | The word "муҳаққиқ" in Tajik is derived from the Arabic word "ḥaqq" meaning "truth". |
| Telugu | The term పోరిషూడాత పరి(షెలత) comes from the Sanskrit roots దౌరీషైಕ - (to test/examine) with the suffixత. It can also mean examiner. |
| Thai | The Thai word “นักวิจัย” (researcher) is derived from the Pali words “วิจัย” (investigation) and “นัก” (person), but has the alternative meaning of "teacher's aide or assistant." |
| Turkish | In Turkish, "araştırmacı" also has a broader meaning of "investigator" or "inquirer". |
| Ukrainian | Дослідник literally means "one who investigates" and is formed from до "to" and слід "trace". |
| Urdu | The word "محقق" ("researcher") is derived from the Arabic verb "حقق" ("to investigate" or "to prove"), and also means "judge" or "arbiter" in Urdu. |
| Uzbek | The word tadqiqotchi is derived from the Arabic word 'taḥqīq', which means 'investigation' or 'research' |
| Vietnamese | "Nhà nghiên cứu" is literally "house of study" in Vietnamese, signifying a place of learning and scholarly pursuits. |
| Welsh | The word 'ymchwilydd' is cognate with the Irish word 'imchú' meaning 'going about' and derives from the Welsh word 'mchwilio' meaning 'quest' or 'exploration'. |
| Xhosa | The word "umphandi" also means "explorer" and "investigator" in Xhosa. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "פאָרשער" also means "investigator". |
| Yoruba | In Yoruba, the word "awadi" also means "one who knows or understands something", highlighting the connection between research and knowledge acquisition. |
| Zulu | The Zulu word 'umcwaningi' carries additional meanings like 'investigator' and 'explorer' beyond its primary meaning of 'researcher'. |
| English | The word 'researcher' derives from the Middle French 'recerchier', meaning 'to seek out' |