Secret in Different Languages
Discover 'Secret' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Secret
Afrikaans geheim | ||
Albanian sekret | ||
Amharic ምስጢር | ||
Arabic سر | ||
Armenian գաղտնի | ||
Assamese গোপনীয় | ||
Aymara jamasata | ||
Azerbaijani gizli | ||
Bambara gundo | ||
Basque sekretua | ||
Belarusian сакрэт | ||
Bengali গোপন | ||
Bhojpuri गुप्त | ||
Bosnian tajna | ||
Bulgarian тайна | ||
Catalan secret | ||
Cebuano sekreto | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 秘密 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 秘密 | ||
Corsican sicretu | ||
Croatian tajna | ||
Czech tajný | ||
Danish hemmelighed | ||
Dhivehi ސިއްރު | ||
Dogri भेत | ||
Dutch geheim | ||
English secret | ||
Esperanto sekreta | ||
Estonian saladus | ||
Ewe nuɣaɣla | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) lihim | ||
Finnish salaisuus | ||
French secret | ||
Frisian geheim | ||
Galician segredo | ||
Georgian საიდუმლო | ||
German geheimnis | ||
Greek μυστικό | ||
Guarani ñemigua | ||
Gujarati ગુપ્ત | ||
Haitian Creole sekrè | ||
Hausa sirri | ||
Hawaiian huna | ||
Hebrew סוֹד | ||
Hindi गुप्त | ||
Hmong zais cia | ||
Hungarian titok | ||
Icelandic leyndarmál | ||
Igbo ihe nzuzo | ||
Ilocano palimed | ||
Indonesian rahasia | ||
Irish rúnda | ||
Italian segreto | ||
Japanese 秘密 | ||
Javanese rahasia | ||
Kannada ರಹಸ್ಯ | ||
Kazakh құпия | ||
Khmer សម្ងាត់ | ||
Kinyarwanda ibanga | ||
Konkani गुपीत | ||
Korean 비밀 | ||
Krio sikrit | ||
Kurdish dizî | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) نهێنی | ||
Kyrgyz сыр | ||
Lao ຄວາມລັບ | ||
Latin secretum | ||
Latvian noslēpums | ||
Lingala sekele | ||
Lithuanian paslaptis | ||
Luganda ekyaama | ||
Luxembourgish geheim | ||
Macedonian тајна | ||
Maithili गुप्त | ||
Malagasy zava-miafina | ||
Malay rahsia | ||
Malayalam രഹസ്യം | ||
Maltese sigriet | ||
Maori muna | ||
Marathi गुप्त | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯑꯔꯣꯟ ꯑꯊꯨꯞ | ||
Mizo thuruk | ||
Mongolian нууц | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) လျှို့ဝှက်ချက် | ||
Nepali गोप्य | ||
Norwegian hemmelig | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) chinsinsi | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଗୁପ୍ତ | ||
Oromo icitii | ||
Pashto پټ | ||
Persian راز | ||
Polish sekret | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) segredo | ||
Punjabi ਗੁਪਤ | ||
Quechua pakasqa | ||
Romanian secret | ||
Russian секрет | ||
Samoan mea lilo | ||
Sanskrit रहस्य | ||
Scots Gaelic dìomhair | ||
Sepedi sephiri | ||
Serbian тајна | ||
Sesotho lekunutu | ||
Shona chakavanzika | ||
Sindhi خفيه | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) රහස | ||
Slovak tajomstvo | ||
Slovenian skrivnost | ||
Somali qarsoodi ah | ||
Spanish secreto | ||
Sundanese rusiah | ||
Swahili siri | ||
Swedish hemlighet | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) lihim | ||
Tajik махфӣ | ||
Tamil ரகசியம் | ||
Tatar сер | ||
Telugu రహస్యం | ||
Thai ความลับ | ||
Tigrinya ምሽጥር | ||
Tsonga xihundla | ||
Turkish gizli | ||
Turkmen gizlin | ||
Twi (Akan) asumasɛm | ||
Ukrainian таємний | ||
Urdu خفیہ | ||
Uyghur مەخپىي | ||
Uzbek sir | ||
Vietnamese bí mật | ||
Welsh gyfrinach | ||
Xhosa imfihlo | ||
Yiddish סוד | ||
Yoruba asiri | ||
Zulu imfihlo |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | Afrikaans "geheim" originates from the Middle Dutch "geheim" and also means "mystery". |
| Albanian | The Albanian word "sekret" derives from the Latin "secretus", meaning "separated" or "removed". |
| Amharic | The word "ምስጢር" (secret) comes from the Ge'ez word "ሰተራ" (to hide), which also gives us the word "ሰው" (man). |
| Arabic | The Arabic word "سر" (sirr), meaning "secret", is also used to refer to "fate", "destiny", or "essence." |
| Armenian | "Գաղտնի" can also be used in Armenian to describe something as hidden, obscure, or mysterious. |
| Azerbaijani | Gizli also means "hidden" or "concealed" in Azerbaijani. |
| Basque | The word "sekretua" is derived from the Latin "secretum" (secret), but it can also refer to a confidant or someone who keeps secrets. |
| Belarusian | The Belarusian word |
| Bengali | গোপন derives from Sanskrit 'gupta' (or 'gopan') meaning 'concealed'. In Bengali, it also carries the specific meaning of 'confidential' |
| Bosnian | Bosnian word "tajna" also means "womb" and originates from the Proto-Slavic *tajna, meaning "secret, hidden". |
| Bulgarian | The word "тайна" can also refer to a "mystery" or an "enigma" |
| Catalan | The word "secret" derives from the Latin word "secretum", which means "a private place". |
| Cebuano | Sekreto can also refer to someone who knows a secret or gossip. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The Chinese character "秘密" (mìmi) originally meant "hidden things" and was used in a military context. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | This Chinese character, "秘密", can also mean 'not revealing a secret'. |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "sicretu" is derived from the Latin word "secretus". It can also mean "hidden" or "mysterious". |
| Croatian | In Serbo-Croatian, the word 'tajna' has the alternate meaning of 'mystery', as well as the derived term 'tajni', meaning 'secret agent'. |
| Czech | The word tajný can also mean "reserved" or "private" in a non-secret context, e.g. a tajný účet is a "private account". |
| Danish | The word "hemmelighed" is derived from the Old Norse word "heimugr", meaning "private" or "belonging to the home". |
| Dutch | In the Germanic languages, words cognate with "geheim" often refer to marriage instead of secrecy. |
| Esperanto | "Sekreta" is Esperanto for "secret" and is derived from the same Latin root as "secrecy" and "secretory". |
| Estonian | Although the Estonian word "saladus" primarily means "secret", it also carries the archaic meaning of "counsel" or "advice." |
| Finnish | The word "salaisuus" is derived from the Proto-Finnic word *salainen, meaning "concealed" or "hidden". |
| French | The French word 'secret' derives from the Latin 'secernere' and can also mean 'private' or 'hidden'. |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "geheim" has Old Dutch and Old Saxon forms which meant "sacred"} |
| Galician | The Galician word "segredo" derives from the Latin "secretum" and has other meanings depending on context, like "whisper" or "privacy". |
| German | The Old High German word "geheizi" originally designated a "promise" given in a religious context before it later on came to designate something "kept away secret". |
| Greek | The word “μυστικό” stems from the Ancient Greek verb “μύω” meaning “to close the eyes or mouth”. |
| Gujarati | "ગુપ્ત" is also used to refer to the famous Gupta dynasty in Indian history. |
| Haitian Creole | The word "sekrè" in Haitian Creole is derived from the French word "secret" and also means "mystery" or "something hidden". |
| Hausa | The Hausa word sirri, which means "secret," is derived from the Arabic word "sir," which has the same meaning. |
| Hawaiian | In Hawaiian, "huna" also refers to an ancient practice of keeping knowledge and abilities secret. |
| Hebrew | The word "סוֹד" also means "counsel", "advice", and "conversation". |
| Hindi | The word "गुप्त" is derived from the Sanskrit root "gup" meaning "to hide" or "to conceal". |
| Hmong | 'Zais cia' is often written as two morphemes, 'zais' and 'cia,' but may also be one compound noun. |
| Hungarian | "Titok" is a loanword from Turkish, where it means "a hidden thing". |
| Icelandic | In Icelandic the word "leyndarmál" can also be used to refer to a person's password, private key or other information that needs to be kept confidential. |
| Igbo | Ihe nzuzo comes from the root word "nzu," which means "be covered." |
| Indonesian | The Javanese word "rahasia" also has the meaning of "taboo" or "sacred". |
| Irish | "Rúnda" in Irish also means "mystery", "whisper" or "secret knowledge". |
| Italian | "Segreto" in Italian also means "apart", "separate", or "solitude". |
| Japanese | The word "秘密" (himitsu) can also mean "confidential" or "classified" in Japanese. |
| Javanese | The Javanese word "rahasia" originates from the Sanskrit word "rahasya," which also means "secret," "mystery," or "confidentiality." |
| Kannada | "ರಹಸ್ಯ" is derived from Sanskrit "rahasya" meaning "mystery, secret" and is also used as an adjective to mean "private, confidential." |
| Kazakh | "Құпия" can also refer to a "treasure" in Kazakh. |
| Khmer | សម្ងាត់ is also used to describe something hidden or concealed from view, such as a secret place or a hidden object. |
| Korean | The term '비밀' can also imply a confidential matter or a mystery. |
| Kurdish | The word 'dizî' is also used to refer to a type of meatball dish. |
| Kyrgyz | The Kyrgyz word "сыр" can also mean "mystery" or "puzzle". |
| Latin | The word "secretum" originally referred to a private place for conversation or reflection, and later came to mean "a secret". |
| Latvian | Noslēpums has the same root as the word “slēpt” (meaning “to hide”), but it also bears some relation to the word “slapts” (meaning “secretive”). |
| Lithuanian | "Paslaptis" is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kele- "to hide, conceal, protect". |
| Luxembourgish | In Luxembourgish, "geheim" can also refer to a "secret place" or a "secret passage". |
| Macedonian | The word "тајна" in Macedonian can also refer to a mystery or a sacrament in a religious context. |
| Malagasy | In the language Malagasy, the term "zava-miafina" can refer to both a secret that has been kept or an internal matter of a family, group or individual. |
| Malay | In Indonesian, the word "rahsia" also means "mystery". |
| Malayalam | രഹസ്യം is also an archaic term in Malayalam for "treasure". |
| Maltese | The word 'sigriet' derives from the French 'secret', meaning 'separated' or 'withdrawn', and is related to the Latin 'secernere', meaning 'to separate'. |
| Maori | The Maori word "muna" can also refer to a cave, a secret place, or an object that is hidden from view. |
| Marathi | The word "गुप्त" in Marathi can also mean "hidden", "concealed", or "classified". |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word "нууц" is derived from the root "нүү" ("to hide, conceal") and has meanings such as "secret", "mystery", and "hidden". |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | အန်သမြ အဌိည ဍနိ စိ့ညရီစာ (secret) |
| Nepali | The word "गोप्य" has its roots in Sanskrit and can also mean "hidden" or "private". |
| Norwegian | In Old Norse, "heimugligr" meant "familiar" and "homelike". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | Chinsinsi can refer to both something kept hidden or a secret belief, a sacred word, or a mysterious person or thing |
| Pashto | The word "پټ" in Pashto has the same root as the Persian word "پنهان" (hidden), and both words are derived from the Proto-Indo-Iranian root "*paθ-", meaning "to protect" or "to conceal". |
| Persian | The word "راز" (secret) in Persian can also refer to a mystic understanding, a divine mystery, or a spiritual experience. |
| Polish | "sekret" also means "secretion" in Polish. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The Portuguese word "segredo" derives from the Latin word "secretum", meaning "private" or "hidden." |
| Punjabi | The word "ਗੁਪਤ" (secret) in Punjabi is derived from the Sanskrit word "gupta," meaning "hidden" or "concealed." |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "secret" also means "council" or "assembly", derived from the Latin "secretum" meaning "private" or "apart". |
| Russian | In the 18th century, it also denoted a cosmetic product designed to hide facial defects. |
| Samoan | Mea lilo, meaning "secret," can also refer to something clandestine, shameful, or taboo in Samoan culture. |
| Scots Gaelic | {"text": "Its root is in the Proto-Celtic word *dēwis ("unknown, unseen") from which comes the Old Irish word díu ("hidden, unknown")."} |
| Serbian | The word тајна (secret) originates from the Proto-Indo-European word *teḱ- meaning "to conceal" or "to hide". |
| Sesotho | The alternative meaning of 'lekunutu' is 'closet', implying a concealed or private space. |
| Sindhi | "خفيه" is derived from the Sanskrit word "gupta" which means "concealed" or "hidden". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | Sinhala word රහස (secret) is derived from Sanskrit Rahasya meaning 'a mystery' and can also refer to 'confidential' or 'esoteric/private' matters. |
| Slovak | The Slovak word "tajomstvo" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *tajnъ, meaning "hidden". It is related to the Czech word "tajemství", the Polish word "tajemnica", and the Russian word "тайна". The Slovak word is also used in a broader sense to mean "mystery" or "enigma". |
| Slovenian | The word "skrivnost" in Slovenian shares its root with the word "skrivališča" meaning "hiding places". |
| Somali | The Somali word "qarsoodi ah" can be translated as "secret" and also refers to "the state of being in hiding or seclusion. |
| Spanish | In Spanish, the word "secreto" can also refer to a liquid or sauce secreted by animals or plants. |
| Sundanese | The word 'rusiah' (secret) in the Sundanese language is a derivative of the Sanskrit term 'rahasya,' which holds the same meaning. |
| Swahili | In Swahili, "siri" holds additional meanings beyond "secret", including "hidden knowledge", "mystery", and "intimacy." |
| Swedish | The word "hemlighet" derives from the Old Norse word "heima", meaning "home", and "leikr", meaning "play", suggesting that secrets were once considered to be private and intimate matters that took place in the home. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Lihim" also means 'something wrapped up' in Tagalog, relating to its root word 'ligid' which means 'to roll up or wind around'. |
| Tajik | The word "махфӣ" in Tajik comes from the Arabic word "مخفی" and also means "hidden" or "concealed". |
| Tamil | The Tamil word 'ரகசியம்' means 'secret', but can also mean 'privacy' and 'confidentiality'. |
| Telugu | The Telugu word "రహస్యం" is ultimately derived from the Sanskrit word "rahasya", which means "mystery" or "hidden knowledge." |
| Thai | The word "ความลับ" can also mean "confidential" or "private" in Thai. |
| Turkish | The word 'gizli' also refers to something or someone that is hidden or concealed and that cannot be directly perceived but can be found or discovered |
| Ukrainian | In addition to meaning "secret," "таємний" is also used as an expression referring to something "forbidden." |
| Urdu | The word "خفیہ" is derived from the Arabic word "خفا" meaning "to hide". |
| Uzbek | Sir is also a title used for males, typically showing respect and formality. |
| Vietnamese | The Vietnamese word "bí mật" originally meant "not open" or "covered up", and still retains this meaning in compound words like "bí mật công khai" (open secret). |
| Welsh | The Welsh word "gyfrinach" has a variant form "gifrinach" that reflects an original meaning of "whisper; murmur" and is related to the word "gwifren" meaning "whisper; murmur". |
| Xhosa | The word "imfihlo" in Xhosa can also refer to a "hidden treasure" or "something concealed from view." |
| Yiddish | Yiddish "סוד" derives from a Proto-Slavic root meaning "court" or "judgement". |
| Yoruba | In Yoruba, 'asiri' also refers to a group of people in possession of a secret, such as a religious or professional society. |
| Zulu | The Zulu word "imfihlo" means "secret" and is associated with the act of covering or hiding something. |
| English | "Secret" is derived from the Latin "secretum," meaning "something kept apart." |