Afrikaans herstel | ||
Albanian rivendos | ||
Amharic እነበረበት መልስ | ||
Arabic استعادة | ||
Armenian վերականգնել | ||
Assamese পুনৰ সঞ্চয় কৰা | ||
Aymara kutitatayaña | ||
Azerbaijani bərpa edin | ||
Bambara ka lasegin | ||
Basque berreskuratu | ||
Belarusian аднавіць | ||
Bengali পুনরুদ্ধার | ||
Bhojpuri बहाल कईल | ||
Bosnian vratiti | ||
Bulgarian възстанови | ||
Catalan restaurar | ||
Cebuano ibalik | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 恢复 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 恢復 | ||
Corsican risturà | ||
Croatian vratiti | ||
Czech obnovit | ||
Danish gendanne | ||
Dhivehi ރީސްޓޯރ | ||
Dogri मुड़-स्थापत करना | ||
Dutch herstellen | ||
English restore | ||
Esperanto restaŭri | ||
Estonian taastama | ||
Ewe ɖoe eteƒe | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) ibalik | ||
Finnish palauttaa | ||
French restaurer | ||
Frisian werstelle | ||
Galician restaurar | ||
Georgian აღდგენა | ||
German wiederherstellen | ||
Greek επαναφέρω | ||
Guarani mbohekopyahu | ||
Gujarati પુનઃસ્થાપિત | ||
Haitian Creole retabli | ||
Hausa mayar | ||
Hawaiian hoʻihoʻi | ||
Hebrew לשחזר | ||
Hindi बहाल | ||
Hmong rov huv | ||
Hungarian visszaállítás | ||
Icelandic endurheimta | ||
Igbo weghachi | ||
Ilocano isubli manen | ||
Indonesian mengembalikan | ||
Irish athshlánú | ||
Italian ristabilire | ||
Japanese 戻す | ||
Javanese mulihake | ||
Kannada ಮರುಸ್ಥಾಪಿಸಿ | ||
Kazakh қалпына келтіру | ||
Khmer ស្តារ | ||
Kinyarwanda kugarura | ||
Konkani पूर्ववत करप | ||
Korean 복원 | ||
Krio briŋ bak | ||
Kurdish nûvdekirin | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) گەڕاندنەوە | ||
Kyrgyz калыбына келтирүү | ||
Lao ຟື້ນຟູ | ||
Latin restituere | ||
Latvian atjaunot | ||
Lingala kozongisa | ||
Lithuanian atkurti | ||
Luganda okuwona | ||
Luxembourgish restauréieren | ||
Macedonian врати | ||
Maithili फेन सँ स्थापित करनाइ | ||
Malagasy indray | ||
Malay memulihkan | ||
Malayalam പുന .സ്ഥാപിക്കുക | ||
Maltese jirrestawraw | ||
Maori whakahoki mai | ||
Marathi पुनर्संचयित करा | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯑꯃꯨꯛ ꯍꯟꯖꯤꯟꯕ | ||
Mizo siamtha | ||
Mongolian сэргээх | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ပြန်ယူပါ | ||
Nepali पुनर्स्थापना गर्नुहोस् | ||
Norwegian restaurere | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kubwezeretsa | ||
Odia (Oriya) ପୁନ restore ସ୍ଥାପନ | ||
Oromo bakka duraaniitti deebisuu | ||
Pashto راګرځول | ||
Persian بازگرداندن | ||
Polish przywracać | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) restaurar | ||
Punjabi ਮੁੜ | ||
Quechua kawsarichiy | ||
Romanian restabili | ||
Russian восстановить | ||
Samoan toefuatai | ||
Sanskrit निर्यत् | ||
Scots Gaelic ath-nuadhachadh | ||
Sepedi tsošološa | ||
Serbian обновити | ||
Sesotho busetsa | ||
Shona dzosera | ||
Sindhi بحال ڪريو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) නැවත පිහිටුවන්න | ||
Slovak obnoviť | ||
Slovenian obnoviti | ||
Somali soo celin | ||
Spanish restaurar | ||
Sundanese malikkeun | ||
Swahili kurejesha | ||
Swedish återställ | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) ibalik | ||
Tajik барқарор кардан | ||
Tamil மீட்டமை | ||
Tatar торгызу | ||
Telugu పునరుద్ధరించు | ||
Thai คืนค่า | ||
Tigrinya ምምላስ | ||
Tsonga vuyisela | ||
Turkish onarmak | ||
Turkmen dikeltmek | ||
Twi (Akan) san fa bra | ||
Ukrainian відновлення | ||
Urdu بحال | ||
Uyghur ئەسلىگە كەلتۈرۈش | ||
Uzbek tiklash | ||
Vietnamese khôi phục lại | ||
Welsh adfer | ||
Xhosa buyisela | ||
Yiddish ומקערן | ||
Yoruba pada sipo | ||
Zulu buyisela |
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word herstel, meaning "to restore," derives from the Dutch herstellen, which in turn is derived from the Middle French heresteler, "to put back into place." |
| Albanian | The word "rivendos" in Albanian is derived from the Latin "revendicare", meaning "to claim back" or "to reclaim." |
| Amharic | The verb እነበረበት (än nä bä rä bät) can also mean 'to make peace' or 'to reconcile' in Amharic. |
| Arabic | The Arabic word "استعادة" (restore) also means "retrieval" or "recovery". |
| Azerbaijani | The word "bərpa edin" can also mean "to repair" or "to fix". |
| Basque | The word “berreskuratu” can also be referred to as an “emergency recovery.” |
| Belarusian | The word "аднавіць" can also mean "to rebuild", "to repair", or "to renovate" in Belarusian. |
| Bengali | The word "পুনরুদ্ধার" is derived from the Sanskrit word "punar" (again) and "uddhara" (to lift up). It can also mean to recover or to bring back to a former state. |
| Bosnian | The word "vratiti" originally came from the word "vrata", and also refers to returning a stolen item to its owner. |
| Bulgarian | In Bulgarian, the word "Възстанови" also means to rehabilitate or renovate something. |
| Catalan | In Medieval Latin, "restaurare" meant "to erect anew" |
| Cebuano | In Filipino, "ibalik" also means "to bring back". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | In Chinese characters, the second character of the word " restore" means "return". |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The word 恢復 also means "to recover" and "to regain" in Chinese. |
| Corsican | The word "risturà" in Corsican can also mean "to bring back to life", "to revive" or "to recover". |
| Croatian | The Croatian word "vratiti" also means to pay back a debt or to give back a favor. |
| Czech | The verb "obnovit" is of Slavic origin, with cognates in various Slavic languages and is the source of the names of the months "obnovenie" (January) and "obnovitel" (February) in the old Slavonic calendar. |
| Danish | The word "gendanne" is derived from the Middle Low German "wederdenne" meaning "to bring back" or "to recover". |
| Dutch | The verb 'herstellen' also means 'recover' as in the case of health, a broken bone or lost dignity. |
| Esperanto | The suffix “-aŭr” in "restaŭri" implies restoring an object to its original state. |
| Estonian | The verb "taastama" likely derives from the Proto-Finnic word "taso" (level, flat), possibly due to the concept of restoration involving bringing something back to a level or balanced state. |
| Finnish | The word "palauttaa" comes from the Finnish word "palaa", meaning "to return". |
| French | "Restaurer" also means to strengthen or reinvigorate something, to give it new energy or vitality. |
| Frisian | The word “werstelle” may originally derive from Middle English or French, or it may have originated independently in Frisian. |
| Galician | Galician's "restaurar" (restore) comes from Latin "restaurare" (to make new or fresh), sharing a root with "instaurare" (to install or establish), and "auctoritas" (authority). |
| Georgian | The Georgian word "აღდგენა" can also mean "to recover" or "to restore to health". |
| German | The word "wiederherstellen" literally means "to place back" in German, emphasizing the process of returning something to its original state. |
| Greek | "επαναφέρω" (restore) comes from the prefix "επι-" (again) and the verb "αναφέρω" (to bear up). |
| Gujarati | The verb "restore" derives from the Latin word "restaurare," meaning "to set back in place" or "repair, rebuild," and is ultimately derived from the Latin word "status," meaning "a standing or position." |
| Haitian Creole | The word "retabli" in Haitian Creole shares its etymology with the French word "rétablir", meaning "to establish again" or "to restore to its original state". |
| Hausa | In some parts of northern Nigeria, 'mayar' can also mean 'improve' or 'fix'. |
| Hawaiian | The word "hoʻihoʻi" in Hawaiian also means "to return" or "to bring back." |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "לשחזר" comes from the root ש ח ז meaning "to repeat" or "to do again." |
| Hindi | "बहाल" का शाब्दिक अर्थ "बाधा का हनन" और आध्यात्मिक अर्थ है, "आत्मिकता का जागना"। |
| Hmong | The first element of 'rov huv' (restore) 'rov' means 'mend, repair, fix, patch' in Hmong |
| Hungarian | "Visszaállítás" has two meanings: 1. physical relocation to its original place; 2. return of an object, typically after repairs. |
| Icelandic | The word "endurheimta" in Icelandic is derived from the Old Norse word "heimta", meaning "to fetch" or "to retrieve", and the prefix "endur-", meaning "back" or "again". It therefore literally means "to fetch back" or "to restore" something to its original state. |
| Igbo | "Weghachi" is also the name of a traditional medicine used to treat postpartum complications in Igbo culture. |
| Indonesian | "Mengembalikan" also means to put something back to its former location or status. |
| Irish | The word "athshlánú" is also used to mean "to heal" or "to recover" in Irish. |
| Italian | The word "ristabilire" also means "to re-establish" or "to bring back to a previous state" in Italian. |
| Japanese | The word "戻す" can also mean "to return", "to go back", or "to put back" in Japanese. |
| Javanese | "Mulihake" is also a term for "renewing one's vows to a spiritual teacher" and in the past was used specifically for a new bride's second bath. |
| Kannada | The verb 'restore' comes from the Latin 'restaurare', meaning 'to build again' or 'to repair'. |
| Kazakh | The word "қалпына келтіру" originates from the word "қалп", meaning "mold" or "shape", indicating the process of bringing something back to its original shape or form. |
| Khmer | The word "ស្តារ" also has the meaning of "to rebuild" or "to repair". |
| Korean | The Korean word "복원" (restore) can also mean "to return to a previous state," "to revive," or "to bring back to life." |
| Kurdish | The Kurdish word "nûvdekirin" (restore) has an alternate meaning: "to renovate". |
| Lao | The term 'ຟື້ນຟູ' can also refer to the restoration of a person's health or well-being. |
| Latin | Restituere also means "to re-establish" in Latin, and is the origin of the word "restitution" in English. |
| Latvian | The Latvian word "atjaunot" can also mean "renew", "refresh", "rejuvenate", or "renovate". |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word "atkurti" is of Indo-European origin and is related to the English words "recover" and "create." |
| Luxembourgish | The word "restauréieren" is derived from the French "restaurer", which comes from the Latin "restaurare", meaning "to repair". |
| Macedonian | The word 'врати' is cognate with the Old Slavic word 'vraciti,' which also means 'to heal' or 'to repair' |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "indray" can also mean "to put back in its place" or "to give back something that was taken away." |
| Malay | "Memulihkan" has an alternate meaning of "reclaiming (something lost or taken)" that is not found in most other languages. |
| Maltese | "Jirrestawraw" comes from the Italian word "restaurare", meaning to repair or renew, which in turn derives from the Latin word "restaurare", meaning to establish again or to renew. |
| Maori | The word "whakahoki mai" derives from the Maori words "whaka", meaning "to cause", and "hoki", meaning "to return" or "to bring back", and in this context it means "to restore". |
| Marathi | The Marathi word "पुनर्संचयित करा" (restore) literally means "to collect again" or "to put back together." |
| Mongolian | The word "сэргээх" also has the alternate meaning of "to revive," "resuscitate," or "to bring back to consciousness or life." |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The word "ပြန်ယူပါ" (restore) literally means "to take back", and it can also be used to mean "to retrieve". |
| Nepali | The word "reestablish" can also mean to bring back to a former or original state or position. |
| Norwegian | The word "restaurere" in Norwegian also means "to repair" or "to fix". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "kubwezeretsa" can also mean "to set something in order" or "to organize it". |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "راګرځول" also means "to bring back to life". |
| Persian | The Persian word "بازگرداندن" comes from the root word "گرداندن" which means "to turn or rotate", implying the idea of returning something to its original state or position. |
| Polish | The Polish verb 'przywracać' can also mean 'to bring back to life' or 'to resuscitate', indicating the restoration of a living being rather than an object. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | Portuguese "restaurar" (restore) derives from Latin "restaurare", meaning "to mend" or "to repair", or from French "restaurer", with the same meaning. |
| Punjabi | The word "ਮੁੜ" (restore) also refers to "again" or "back" in Punjabi. |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "restabili" is derived from the Latin word "restituere", meaning "to restore" or "to set back in its original state". |
| Russian | The verb "восстановить" can also be used to refer to reconstructing a damaged object or restoring someone's rights or reputation. |
| Samoan | Toefuatai means "restore" but also refers to the restoration of a relationship that has been damaged or broken. |
| Serbian | The Serbo-Croatian word 'обновити' derives from the Proto-Slavic word 'ob-novъ' meaning 'to make new'. |
| Sesotho | The word "busetsa" in Sesotho shares its root with the word "ho roka", meaning "to protect". |
| Shona | The word "dzosera" in Shona comes from the root word "dzora," which means "to bring back" or "to return." |
| Sindhi | "بحال ڪريو" (restore) originates from Persian, with a root "حال" (condition or state), implying "bringing something back to its original state." |
| Slovak | "Obnoviť" comes from the Old Slavic verb "obnoviti", meaning "to make new or fresh". |
| Slovenian | The word "obnoviti" also means "to renovate" or "to refresh" in Slovenian. |
| Somali | In Arabic, "soo celin" means "to restore" or "to return something to its former state" and is used in Somali with the same meaning. |
| Spanish | The verb "restaurar" also means to "heal" or "treat" in the medical field. |
| Sundanese | The word "malikkeun" is derived from the Proto-Austronesian word *balik,* meaning "back" or "return". It also has the alternate meaning of "heal" or "repair". |
| Swahili | The Swahili word "kurejesha" comes from the root word "rejesha", meaning "to return" or "to bring back", and is also used to refer to the act of restoring something to its original state or condition. |
| Swedish | Återställ is rooted in the Old Norse "atrstóð", meaning "a stand made against someone or something". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | In Old Tagalog, "ibalik" also meant "to bring back" as in returning someone or something to a place. |
| Tamil | The Tamil word "மீட்டமை" comes from the Proto-Dravidian root "*miːt-/, meaning "to return", and is cognate with the Telugu word "మళ్లీ" (malli), meaning "again". |
| Thai | The word "คืนค่า" can also mean "to return something to its original state" or "to give back something that was borrowed." |
| Turkish | "Onarmak" (heal) also means "to fix" in Turkish. |
| Ukrainian | Відновлення in Ukrainian means both restoring or renewing as well as recovering from the illness. |
| Urdu | "بحال" is also used in the sense of "to be restored", "to be brought back into existence", or "to be returned to its original condition". |
| Uzbek | The word "tiklash" in Uzbek can also mean "to knock" or "to hit". |
| Vietnamese | Khôi phục lại literally means "to return the thing to its original shape". |
| Welsh | The word "adfer" can also mean "to bring" or "to carry". |
| Xhosa | The verb 'buyisela' also means 'return' in Xhosa, further emphasizing the idea of something being brought back to its original state. |
| Yiddish | In Yiddish, "ומקערן" (umkerin) is a variant of "אומקערן" (umkern), a verb also meaning "to overturn" or "to reverse." |
| Yoruba | "Pada sipo", meaning "restore" or "revive" in Yoruba, has additional meanings like "return to consciousness" or "bring back from oblivion, death or disuse" |
| Zulu | In some contexts, "buyisela" (literally "carry back") refers to returning something to its original owner. |
| English | The word 'restore' comes from the Latin word 'restaurare', which means 'to renew' or 'to repair'. |