Revolution in Different Languages
Discover 'Revolution' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Revolution
Afrikaans rewolusie | ||
Albanian revolucion | ||
Amharic አብዮት | ||
Arabic ثورة | ||
Armenian հեղափոխություն | ||
Assamese বিপ্লৱ | ||
Aymara turkakiptawi | ||
Azerbaijani inqilab | ||
Bambara erewolisɔn | ||
Basque iraultza | ||
Belarusian рэвалюцыя | ||
Bengali বিপ্লব | ||
Bhojpuri किरांति | ||
Bosnian revolucija | ||
Bulgarian революция | ||
Catalan revolució | ||
Cebuano rebolusyon | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 革命 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 革命 | ||
Corsican rivuluzione | ||
Croatian revolucija | ||
Czech revoluce | ||
Danish revolution | ||
Dhivehi ރިވޮލިއުޝަން | ||
Dogri क्रांती | ||
Dutch revolutie | ||
English revolution | ||
Esperanto revolucio | ||
Estonian revolutsioon | ||
Ewe tɔtrɔ yeye | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) rebolusyon | ||
Finnish vallankumous | ||
French révolution | ||
Frisian revolúsje | ||
Galician revolución | ||
Georgian რევოლუცია | ||
German revolution | ||
Greek επανάσταση | ||
Guarani ñepu'ã | ||
Gujarati ક્રાંતિ | ||
Haitian Creole revolisyon | ||
Hausa juyin juya hali | ||
Hawaiian kipi | ||
Hebrew מַהְפֵּכָה | ||
Hindi क्रांति | ||
Hmong kiv puag ncig | ||
Hungarian forradalom | ||
Icelandic bylting | ||
Igbo mgbanwe | ||
Ilocano rebolusion | ||
Indonesian revolusi | ||
Irish réabhlóid | ||
Italian rivoluzione | ||
Japanese 革命 | ||
Javanese revolusi | ||
Kannada ಕ್ರಾಂತಿ | ||
Kazakh революция | ||
Khmer បដិវត្ត | ||
Kinyarwanda impinduramatwara | ||
Konkani क्रांती | ||
Korean 혁명 | ||
Krio chalenj | ||
Kurdish şoreş | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) شۆڕش | ||
Kyrgyz революция | ||
Lao ການປະຕິວັດ | ||
Latin revolution | ||
Latvian revolūcija | ||
Lingala kobongola makambo | ||
Lithuanian revoliucija | ||
Luganda okwewaggula | ||
Luxembourgish revolutioun | ||
Macedonian револуција | ||
Maithili क्रांति | ||
Malagasy revolisiona | ||
Malay revolusi | ||
Malayalam വിപ്ലവം | ||
Maltese rivoluzzjoni | ||
Maori hurihanga | ||
Marathi क्रांती | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯏꯍꯧ ꯍꯧꯕ | ||
Mizo inherna | ||
Mongolian хувьсгал | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) တော်လှန်ရေး | ||
Nepali क्रान्ति | ||
Norwegian revolusjon | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kusintha | ||
Odia (Oriya) ବିପ୍ଳବ | ||
Oromo warraaqsa | ||
Pashto انقلاب | ||
Persian انقلاب | ||
Polish rewolucja | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) revolução | ||
Punjabi ਇਨਕਲਾਬ | ||
Quechua awqallikuy | ||
Romanian revoluţie | ||
Russian революция | ||
Samoan fouvalega | ||
Sanskrit परिभ्रमण | ||
Scots Gaelic ar-a-mach | ||
Sepedi borabele | ||
Serbian револуција | ||
Sesotho phetohelo | ||
Shona chimurenga | ||
Sindhi انقلاب | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) විප්ලවය | ||
Slovak revolúcia | ||
Slovenian revolucija | ||
Somali kacaan | ||
Spanish revolución | ||
Sundanese révolusi | ||
Swahili mapinduzi | ||
Swedish rotation | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) rebolusyon | ||
Tajik инқилоб | ||
Tamil புரட்சி | ||
Tatar революция | ||
Telugu విప్లవం | ||
Thai การปฏิวัติ | ||
Tigrinya ለውጢ | ||
Tsonga ndzundzuluko | ||
Turkish devrim | ||
Turkmen ynkylap | ||
Twi (Akan) ntoabɔ | ||
Ukrainian революція | ||
Urdu انقلاب | ||
Uyghur ئىنقىلاب | ||
Uzbek inqilob | ||
Vietnamese cuộc cách mạng | ||
Welsh chwyldro | ||
Xhosa inguquko | ||
Yiddish רעוואָלוציע | ||
Yoruba iyika | ||
Zulu inguquko |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | "rewolusie" is derived from the French word "révolution" and the Latin word "revolutio", both meaning "a turning around" or "a change". |
| Albanian | Albanian word "revolucion" comes from French/Italian via Latin "revolutio" and has three meanings, all implying some form of a "turn" or a "change": "revolution," "revolt" and "change of direction or position." |
| Amharic | The Amharic term "abyot" originally referred to the cyclical movement of the sun and moon. |
| Arabic | The term ثورة (thawra) in Arabic can also mean 'fermentation' or 'bubbling up', suggesting a process of transformative change. |
| Armenian | The Armenian word for "revolution" derives from the Greek word for "revolt" or "change". |
| Azerbaijani | The Azerbaijani word "inqilab" also has the alternate meaning of "upheaval" or "great change". |
| Basque | The word "iraultza" shares its etymology with the word "iraul", meaning "wind", and the word "iraun", meaning "to last". |
| Belarusian | The Belarusian word "рэвалюцыя" also means "a sudden or complete change" and comes from the Latin word "revolutio," meaning "a turning around". |
| Bengali | The word "বিপ্লব" (biplob) also means "change" or "transformation" in Bengali. |
| Bosnian | In Bosnian the same word "revolucija" means "revolution" and "evolution". |
| Bulgarian | The word "революция" in Bulgarian shares its etymology with the word "револта" and means "uprising" or "revolt". |
| Catalan | The word "revolucio" can also mean "turn" or "change" in Catalan. |
| Cebuano | The Cebuano word “rebolusyon” can also mean a “revolving object” or the “act of revolving”. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | In Chinese, '革命' can also refer to 'change' or 'transformation', rather than just 'revolution' as in English. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 革命 is composed of two characters, 革 and 命, which mean 'change' and 'mandate', respectively. |
| Corsican | The word "rivuluzione" also means "upheaval" or "catastrophe" in Corsican. |
| Croatian | The word 'revolucija' also means 'rotation' in astronomy and mathematics. |
| Czech | The Czech word 'revoluce' also means 'change for the better'. |
| Danish | The Danish term “revolution” has an additional meaning beyond “upheaval”: it can also denote a bicycle’s freewheel mechanism |
| Dutch | The word "revolutie" can also mean "evolution" in Dutch. |
| Esperanto | "Revolucio" also means "rotation" or a "revolving motion" in Esperanto. |
| Estonian | The Estonian word “revolutsioon” is originally derived from the Latin phrase “revolvere”, meaning “to turn around” or “to revolve”, and it has been borrowed via German and Russian. |
| Finnish | Vallankumous is derived from the Latin word vallum (earth wall), and its meaning has shifted from a military term denoting the overthrow of a fortification to a general term for social upheaval. |
| French | The word "révolution" in French can also refer to the rotation of a celestial body or the movement of a machine's parts. |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "revolúsje" can also mean a commotion or disturbance. |
| Galician | In Galician, "revolución" also refers to the change of soil in agricultural plots and the act of turning over something in a cylindrical manner. |
| German | The word "Revolution" also means "orbit" or "rotation" in German. |
| Greek | The word επανάσταση (revolution) shares its root with αναστρέφω (turn back), meaning that it can also refer to the action of turning things upside down or restoring something to its original state. |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "ક્રાંતિ" can also be translated as "movement", "change", "advance", or "progress". |
| Haitian Creole | The word 'revolisyon' in Haitian Creole can also mean 'revolt' or 'uprising'. |
| Hausa | The word "juyin juya hali" can also refer to a revolving door or a merry-go-round. |
| Hawaiian | The Hawaiian word "kipi" also denotes "turning, spinning, twisting" and is cognate with other Polynesian terms meaning "to change," or "to overturn". |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "מהפכה" (revolution) also means "overturning" or "upheaval". |
| Hindi | The Hindi word "क्रांति" also means "the sun" and "a rotation or turn". |
| Hmong | The word "kiv puag ncig" is derived from the Hmong word "puag," meaning "turning" or "rotation," and "ncig," meaning "one time" or "one round. |
| Hungarian | A "forradalom" szó eredetileg a csillagok körüli pályák forgását jelentette. |
| Icelandic | The Proto-Norse cognate of bylting is *byltingaz, meaning "changing" or "turning over." |
| Igbo | The Igbo word "mgbanwe" derives from the root word "gbanwe" meaning "to change" or "to alter." |
| Indonesian | In Indonesian, "revolusi" can also mean "rotation", derived from the Dutch word "revolutie" with the same meaning. |
| Irish | "Réabhlóid" is derived from the Latin "revolvere," meaning "to roll back" or "to turn over." |
| Italian | The Italian word "rivoluzione" derives from the Latin "revolvere," meaning "to turn over" or "to change radically." |
| Japanese | In Japanese, the word "revolution" can also mean "astronomical rotation" or "the act of rotating something. |
| Javanese | The Javanese word "revolusi" also refers to the rotating and changing of time cycles. |
| Kannada | The word "ಕ್ರಾಂತಿ" ("revolution") in Kannada also refers to the turning of the celestial sphere. |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "революция" also means "upheaval" or "turmoil". |
| Khmer | "បដិវត្ត" is a Sanskrit loanword derived from "prativṛtta" meaning "turned about", and can also refer to "circumvolution", "rotation", "revolving", or "turning" |
| Korean | The word "혁명" (혁명) in Korean can also mean "revolving" or "circumvolution". |
| Kurdish | The Kurdish word "şoreş" derives from the Persian "shora" meaning "uprising" and has also been used historically in Azerbaijani. |
| Kyrgyz | The term "революция" (revolution) in Kyrgyz has additional meanings such as "change" or "transformation". |
| Lao | This word can also refer to "a significant change in someone's attitudes, behavior, or way of thinking". |
| Latin | The Latin word "revolutio" also means "a turn", "a cycle", "a change of fortune", and "a revolt". |
| Latvian | The root of the word “revolūcija” is a Latin verb "revolvō" meaning "to roll back, return, revolve" |
| Lithuanian | The word "revoliucija" is derived from the Latin word "revolutio", meaning "to turn back" or "to change completely". |
| Luxembourgish | In 18th-century French, the word 'revolution' meant turning around completely, and was used in an astronomical context. |
| Macedonian | Macedonian "револуција" comes from the Latin word "revolutio" ("turning back"). |
| Malagasy | In Malagasy, the word "revolisiona" has the additional meaning of "turnover or shuffle of a deck of cards or dice". |
| Malay | The term 'revolusi' may also refer to the cyclical nature of life in Malay, particularly in traditional contexts like rice cultivation and royal lineage. |
| Malayalam | In Malayalam, 'വിപ്ലവം' also means 'earthquake' or 'great change'. |
| Maltese | It is also used to describe a major change in style or fashion |
| Maori | The word “hurihanga” also means “turn, return, go back, change, or alter,” according to the Māori Dictionary. |
| Marathi | The Marathi word "क्रांती" also means "turn", "change", or "period of time". |
| Mongolian | The word "хувьсгал" can also mean "turn" or "change". |
| Nepali | The word "क्रान्ति" can also mean "change" or "transformation". |
| Norwegian | The Norwegian word "revolusjon" comes from the Latin word "revolutio," which means "a turning back, a return." |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The verb 'kusintha' also refers to the action of 'turning around' or 'changing direction'. |
| Pashto | In Pashto, "انقلاب" can also mean "overturning" or "upheaval". |
| Persian | Inqilab is a word derived from the Arabic "inqalabʻ", and can also have the meaning of "upheaval", "change" or "transformation". |
| Polish | The word "rewolucja" is derived from the Latin word "revolutio," meaning "a turning or rolling back." |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Brazil, "revolução" can also colloquially refer to a period of intense activity, upheaval, or transformation. |
| Punjabi | In Sanskrit, the word "inquilab" (इंकलाब) means "a new sprout" or "a fresh start". |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "revoluţie" is also used to describe "a turn", "an overturn" or "an upheaval", as it originally comes from the Latin verb "revolutio". |
| Russian | In Russian, "революция" also means a "turn" or a "full circle" (as of the Earth). |
| Samoan | The word 'fouvalega' is based on 'vale' (house, building, or home) and 'fou' (move, change) to mean 'to go and leave a place, building, house, or home and never return.' |
| Scots Gaelic | The word "ar-a-mach" in Scots Gaelic also means "a great disturbance" or "an uproar". |
| Serbian | The word 'револуција' comes from the Latin word 'revolutio', meaning 'a turning back' or 'a change'. In Serbian, it can also mean 'a great change or upheaval' or 'a complete change of government'. |
| Sesotho | The word "phetohelo" can also mean "change" |
| Shona | The word 'chimurenga' in Shona originally referred to a type of traditional dance and music performed by young men during times of war and resistance. |
| Sindhi | The word "انقلاب" comes from the Arabic "inqalab," meaning "upheaval" and is also used in Persian to refer to an "uprising". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | "විප්ලවය" (revolution) is cognate with Sanskrit "विप्लव" (vipLAVA) meaning 'upheaval, confusion, turmoil' and in Sinhala is also used to refer to a 'mix-up', 'confusion' or 'topsy-turvy' state of affairs. |
| Slovak | V slovenčine slovo "revolúcia" znamená aj otočenie o 360°. |
| Slovenian | In Slovenian, revolucija can also mean 'transformation' or 'change'. |
| Somali | The word "kacaan" can also refer to an uprising or a coup d'état. |
| Spanish | The Spanish word "revolución" can also mean a sharp bend in a river. |
| Sundanese | The word "révolusi" in Sundanese can also mean "a change in the position of a heavenly body". |
| Swahili | In Swahili, 'mapinduzi' is a plural noun meaning 'revolutions', derived from the verb 'kupindua' which means 'to turn' or 'to overturn'. |
| Swedish | In Swedish, "rotation" and "revolution" are both translated as "rotation", although the latter has a more specific meaning related to astronomy. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The Tagalog word "rebolusyon" can also refer to a change in personal or collective behavior or lifestyle. |
| Tajik | The word "инқилоб" (revolution) comes from the Arabic word "انقلاب (inqilāb)", which means "turnover" or "upheaval." |
| Tamil | The word "புரட்சி" can also mean "a complete change or overthrow", "a sudden or radical change", or "a revolt". |
| Telugu | In ancient Telugu literature, విప్లవం also means a violent upheaval or disturbance. |
| Thai | The term "การปฏิวัติ" in Thai is ultimately derived from the Sanskrit "paravṛtta," meaning "turning around" or "returning to." |
| Turkish | The Turkish word "devrim" (revolution) also carries the meaning of "turn, cycle" and is related to the verb "devretmek" (to turn). |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word 'революція' ('revolution') stems from the Latin word 'revolutio', meaning 'a turning back' or 'a return to the original starting point]. |
| Urdu | The word "انقلاب" also means "upheaval" and "reversal" in Urdu. |
| Uzbek | The word "inqilob" is derived from the Arabic word "inqilab", which means "to turn over" or "to change". |
| Vietnamese | The word "Cuộc cách mạng" can also mean "reformation" or "innovation" in Vietnamese. |
| Welsh | The word 'chwyldro' has the same root as 'chwyrl', meaning 'to turn' or 'roll' |
| Xhosa | The word 'inguquko' is cognate with 'guquka,' meaning 'to change' and connotes the transformation and change that accompanies revolution. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "рэוואָלוציע" (revolutsiye) can also mean "rotation" or "upheaval". |
| Yoruba | The word "Iyika" in Yoruba is also used to refer to a type of traditional Yoruba dance performed by women, typically during festivals and ceremonies. |
| Zulu | "Ingqungqo" has multiple meanings in Zulu, including "the place where the headman lives" and "the place where the chief dwells or rules." |
| English | The word "revolution" comes from the Latin word "revolvere," which means "to roll back" or "to turn back," and is also used in astronomy to refer to the orbit of a planet around the sun. |