Root in Different Languages
Discover 'Root' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Root
Afrikaans wortel | ||
Albanian rrënjë | ||
Amharic ሥር | ||
Arabic جذر | ||
Armenian արմատ | ||
Assamese শিপা | ||
Aymara saphi | ||
Azerbaijani kök | ||
Bambara dili | ||
Basque erroa | ||
Belarusian корань | ||
Bengali রুট | ||
Bhojpuri जड़ | ||
Bosnian root | ||
Bulgarian корен | ||
Catalan arrel | ||
Cebuano ugat | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 根 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 根 | ||
Corsican radica | ||
Croatian korijen | ||
Czech vykořenit | ||
Danish rod | ||
Dhivehi މޫ | ||
Dogri जड़ | ||
Dutch wortel | ||
English root | ||
Esperanto radiko | ||
Estonian juur | ||
Ewe ke | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) ugat | ||
Finnish juuri | ||
French racine | ||
Frisian woartel | ||
Galician raíz | ||
Georgian ფესვი | ||
German wurzel | ||
Greek ρίζα | ||
Guarani rapo | ||
Gujarati રુટ | ||
Haitian Creole rasin | ||
Hausa saiwa | ||
Hawaiian kumu | ||
Hebrew שורש | ||
Hindi जड़ | ||
Hmong hauv paus | ||
Hungarian gyökér | ||
Icelandic rót | ||
Igbo mgbọrọgwụ | ||
Ilocano ramot | ||
Indonesian akar | ||
Irish fréimhe | ||
Italian radice | ||
Japanese ルート | ||
Javanese oyot | ||
Kannada ಬೇರು | ||
Kazakh тамыр | ||
Khmer ឬស | ||
Kinyarwanda umuzi | ||
Konkani मूळ | ||
Korean 뿌리 | ||
Krio rut | ||
Kurdish reh | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) ڕەگ | ||
Kyrgyz тамыр | ||
Lao ຮາກ | ||
Latin radix | ||
Latvian sakne | ||
Lingala mosisa | ||
Lithuanian šaknis | ||
Luganda omuzi | ||
Luxembourgish root | ||
Macedonian корен | ||
Maithili जड़ | ||
Malagasy faka | ||
Malay akar | ||
Malayalam റൂട്ട് | ||
Maltese għerq | ||
Maori pakiaka | ||
Marathi मूळ | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯝꯔꯥ | ||
Mizo zung | ||
Mongolian үндэс | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အမြစ် | ||
Nepali मूल | ||
Norwegian rot | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) muzu | ||
Odia (Oriya) ମୂଳ | ||
Oromo hundee | ||
Pashto ریښه | ||
Persian ریشه | ||
Polish korzeń | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) raiz | ||
Punjabi ਰੂਟ | ||
Quechua sapi | ||
Romanian rădăcină | ||
Russian корень | ||
Samoan aa | ||
Sanskrit मूलं | ||
Scots Gaelic freumh | ||
Sepedi modu | ||
Serbian корен | ||
Sesotho motso | ||
Shona mudzi | ||
Sindhi پاڙ | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) root | ||
Slovak koreň | ||
Slovenian koren | ||
Somali xididka | ||
Spanish raíz | ||
Sundanese akar | ||
Swahili mzizi | ||
Swedish rot | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) ugat | ||
Tajik реша | ||
Tamil வேர் | ||
Tatar тамыр | ||
Telugu రూట్ | ||
Thai ราก | ||
Tigrinya ሱር | ||
Tsonga rimitsu | ||
Turkish kök | ||
Turkmen kök | ||
Twi (Akan) nhini | ||
Ukrainian корінь | ||
Urdu جڑ | ||
Uyghur root | ||
Uzbek ildiz | ||
Vietnamese nguồn gốc | ||
Welsh gwraidd | ||
Xhosa ingcambu | ||
Yiddish וואָרצל | ||
Yoruba gbongbo | ||
Zulu impande |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | "Wortel" (root) is cognate with the English word "wart" and the German word "Warze", meaning "wart" or "growth". |
| Albanian | In Albanian, rrënjë also refers to the bottom, base, origin or essence of something. |
| Amharic | In Ethiopian Orthodox Christian tradition, ሥር refers to the belief in the divine essence or 'root' nature of Jesus Christ. |
| Arabic | The word "جذر" (root) in Arabic can also refer to something basic, essential, or fundamental or to the square root in mathematics. |
| Armenian | The Armenian word for "root", "արմատ" also bears the meaning of "beginning" or "origin" of something and can be used in both literal and figurative senses. |
| Azerbaijani | "Kök" also means "origin", "foundation", "base", and "source" in Azerbaijani. |
| Basque | The Basque word "erroa" (root) is also used to refer to the foundation or core of something. |
| Belarusian | "Корань" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *kor/*kъrnъ, meaning "stump" or "root", which is cognate with the Lithuanian "karas", "bark" and "peel", Sanskrit "śṛṇī" and Avestan "sarn-." |
| Bengali | রুট' অর্থ জন্মের সময়ে কেউ কি কর্ম করেছে, যা তার জন্ম মৃত্যুর প্রক্রিয়া নির্দিষ্ট করে। |
| Bosnian | In Bosnian, the word "root" is also used to refer to the root of a hair or the source of a river. |
| Bulgarian | The word "корен" derives from the Proto-Slavic "*koren" which also means "origin" and "lineage". |
| Catalan | The word "arrel" in Catalan is derived from the Latin word "radix", meaning "root". |
| Cebuano | 'Ugat' can also refer to lineage or ancestors. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The character 根 (gen) also means the base of a mountain or the foundation of a house. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | "根" ('root' in Traditional Chinese) also means 'origin', 'foundation', and 'basis'. |
| Corsican | In Corsican, the word "radica" can also refer to the root of a vegetable or the stump of a tree. |
| Croatian | Korijen (root) comes from the Proto-Indo-European word *ker-, which also means 'horn'. This is because horns and roots are both seen as the source of something, horns being the source of an animal's strength and roots being the source of a plant's nutrients and stability. |
| Czech | The verb 'vykořenit' can also mean 'to eradicate' or 'to uproot' something |
| Danish | In Danish, "rod" can also refer to the verb "to clear" or to "a pile of something", and is related to the word "rude", meaning "undisturbed ground" |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "wortel" originally referred to the taproot of a carrot, and only later came to be used for all types of roots. |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word "radiko" is derived from the Latin word "radix," which means "root". In Sanskrit, "radix" also meant "tree," giving us the modern words "radish" and "radicchio." |
| Estonian | In Estonian, 'juur' also means 'anchor' and 'base' |
| Finnish | In Finnish, "juuri" also means "precisely" or "exactly". |
| French | The French word "racine" derives from the Latin word "radix," meaning "root," and is also related to the English word "radical," meaning "pertaining to the root" or "extreme." |
| Frisian | In Old Frisian 'woartel' also had the meanings 'basis', 'origin', 'beginning', 'descent' and 'ground'. |
| Galician | Galician's “raíz” not only means “root” in English but can also mean “basis” or “origin” and is related to similar words in Portuguese and Spanish. |
| Georgian | The word ფესვი, meaning "root" in Georgian, also has alternate meanings such as "base" and "foundation". |
| German | "Wurzel" in German can also mean "dice" or "raffle". |
| Greek | The word "ρίζα" can also refer to the root of a mathematical equation or the origin of a language. |
| Gujarati | The word 'રુટ' also means 'foundation' or 'source' in Gujarati. |
| Haitian Creole | "Rasen" or "rasin" are two words with the same or similar roots and etymologies in Haitian Creole and mean root |
| Hausa | The word 'saiwa' also means 'origin' or 'source' in Hausa. |
| Hawaiian | "Kumu" also means "to bury" or "to lay the foundation of," which is the root of Hawaiian construction practices. |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word 'שורש' ('shoresh') originally meant 'foundation' or 'base', and only later acquired the meaning of 'root'. |
| Hindi | The word "जड़" in Hindi is cognate with the root "*gʰerdh" (to hold) and shares meanings with terms such as firm, unmoving, or stupid. |
| Hmong | "Hauv paus" in Hmong means "root", but it can also refer to the "origin" or "source" of something. |
| Hungarian | The word "gyökér" can refer to someone foolish or unpleasant and possibly derives from the root meaning "something protruding" |
| Icelandic | Rót can also mean 'a way out' (a route), or 'reason' or 'cause'. |
| Igbo | It can also figuratively refer to the source or origin of something. |
| Indonesian | "Akar" also means "essence" or "foundation" in Indonesian, and is cognate with the Malay word "akar" and the Tagalog word "ugat". |
| Irish | The word "fréimhe" can also refer to a stem or a family line. |
| Italian | The Italian word 'radice' comes from the Latin word 'radix', which also means 'root' and is the origin of the English word 'radical'. |
| Japanese | The Japanese word "ルート" (rūto) can also refer to a path or route, particularly in the context of navigation. |
| Javanese | "Oyot" can also mean "the main thing" or "the essence" in Javanese. |
| Kannada | "ಬೇರು" means root in Kannada. It also means to be in a state of being rooted. |
| Kazakh | "Тамыр" (root) comes from the Proto-Turkic word "*tam" meaning "base, foundation" and also refers to the veins in the body, the origin of a family, or the root of a problem. |
| Khmer | "ឬស" is also a unit of measure for land in Cambodia, equal to approximately 3.5 acres or 1.4 hectares. |
| Korean | Its sense of "root of any plant" evolved from that of "foundation, origin" from the 15th century, while its sense of "cause, reason, basis" remains from Middle Korean. |
| Kurdish | In Kurdish, "reh" can also imply "source", "origin", or "foundation". |
| Kyrgyz | In the Kyrgyz language, 'тамыр' not only means 'root' but also refers to 'vein' and 'lineage'. |
| Latin | Radix, Latin for "root," is found in words like "radical," "radish," and "eradicable," and is also the source of the term "computer radix". |
| Latvian | It also shares origin with the Greek suffix -skos found in words like 'microscope' and 'telescope'. |
| Lithuanian | "Šaknis" in Lithuanian comes from the verb "šaknýtis", meaning "to sprout", and shares its root with "šakà", meaning "branch". |
| Luxembourgish | "Root" in Luxembourgish can also refer to a "turnip" or the "origin of something." |
| Macedonian | The Slavic word "корен" means "root" in Macedonian as well as "core" or "bottom". |
| Malagasy | 'Faka' can also mean 'foundation', 'principle', 'source', 'origin', or 'cause'. |
| Malay | The word "akar" in Malay can also mean "origin" or "cause". |
| Malayalam | In Malayalam, 'റൂട്ട്' also means 'path' or 'route', derived from the Dutch word 'route'. |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "għerq" is also used to refer to the base of a tree or a tooth. |
| Maori | The word "pakiaka" in Maori can also refer to a foundation, a base, or a source. |
| Marathi | The Marathi word for 'root', 'मूळ', also signifies 'foundation', 'essence', 'principle' or 'source'. |
| Mongolian | Originally meant "base", then became a suffix for nouns describing a basic concept, then began to be used for the roots of plants |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | In Myanmar, the word "အမြစ်" can also be used figuratively to refer to the source or origin of something. |
| Nepali | The Nepali word 'मूल' is derived from the Sanskrit word 'मूल' which means 'origin', 'source', 'base', or 'root' of a plant. |
| Norwegian | Norwegian has two homophones “rot” meaning “root” and “rot” meaning “decay”, both with Germanic roots. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | "Muzu" is also used to refer to the base or origin of something. |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "ریښه" also refers to the origin or cause of something. |
| Persian | "ریشه" (root) can also mean "origin" or "source". |
| Polish | The word 'korzeń' can also refer to a plant's tuber, or a mathematical equation's radical. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | Raiz can also refer to the base of any kind of structure or system. |
| Punjabi | In Punjabi, the word «ਰੂਟ» can also refer to a type of traditional folk music from the Punjab region. |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "rădăcină" is derived from the Latin word "radix", which also means "base" or "origin". |
| Russian | "Корень" также означает "происхождение" или "основа". |
| Samoan | 'Aa' can also mean 'base' or 'foundation'. |
| Scots Gaelic | Freumh is a Scots Gaelic term also meaning: origin, basis, source, beginning, foundation. |
| Serbian | The word “корен” can also mean "origin" or "birthplace" in Serbian. |
| Sesotho | The word 'motso' in Sesotho can also refer to the origin or foundation of something. |
| Shona | The term "mudzi" also signifies the chief's village and serves as a toponym for places such as Harare's oldest neighborhood, Mbare, or Mbare Township. |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "پاڙ" also means "edge" or "border" and is likely derived from the Sanskrit word "पार्श्व" (pārśva), meaning "side" or "flank". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | In Sinhala, 'root' can also mean 'foot' or 'leg'. |
| Slovak | "Koreň" also can mean a tooth root, a square root in mathematics, or the base or foundation of something. |
| Slovenian | The word "koren" can also mean "origin" or "source" in Slovenian. |
| Somali | The word "xididka" can also refer to the origin or source of something. |
| Spanish | The Spanish word "raíz" can also refer to the origin, basis, or foundation of something. |
| Sundanese | In addition to meaning "root", "akar" can also mean "origin"} |
| Swahili | "Mzizi" originally meant "vein" and acquired its current meaning as "root" in the 19th century. |
| Swedish | In Swedish, the word "rot" has another meaning, referring to "deterioration" or "decay". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The Tagalog word "ugat" has Proto-Austronesian roots, and shares a cognate with Malay, which also means "root". |
| Tajik | реша is also a homonym for "language". |
| Tamil | வேர் can also refer to a type of ancient Tamil poetic metre. |
| Telugu | The Telugu word "రూట్" can also refer to a path, a cause or origin, or the base of a number. |
| Thai | Thai ราก "root" is cognate with Mon-Khmer words meaning "foot" or "stem", and may be ultimately related to Austronesian *qaqah "root" and *qaqad "base". |
| Turkish | The word "kök" can also refer to the main artery of the body, i.e. the aorta. |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word "корінь" also means "origin" or "source". |
| Urdu | Urdu "جڑ" refers to both "root" and "joint" with different pronunciations, indicating its multifaceted semantic connections. |
| Uzbek | "Ildiz" in Uzbek can also refer to a constellation or a star. |
| Vietnamese | The word "nguồn gốc" can also refer to the origin or source of something, such as a person's family or a river's headwaters. |
| Welsh | The word "gwraidd" can also mean "origin", "source", or "basis" in Welsh. |
| Xhosa | In some African countries, 'ingcambu' can also refer to a person's birthplace or home town. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish noun "וואָרצל" ("roots"), is cognate to Slavic languages' counterparts, with alternate meanings like "beginning" or "source". |
| Yoruba | In Yoruba, "gbongbo" refers to both a physical root and a person's lineage or ancestral heritage. |
| Zulu | The word "impande" also means "cause" or "origin" in Zulu, highlighting the interconnectedness of language and concepts in the culture. |
| English | The word "root" comes from the Old English word "rot", meaning "firm standing" or "base." |