Seek in Different Languages
Discover 'Seek' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Seek
Afrikaans soek | ||
Albanian kërkoj | ||
Amharic ፈልግ | ||
Arabic طلب | ||
Armenian որոնել | ||
Assamese বিচৰা | ||
Aymara thaqhaña | ||
Azerbaijani axtarmaq | ||
Bambara ɲini | ||
Basque bilatu | ||
Belarusian шукаць | ||
Bengali সন্ধান করা | ||
Bhojpuri माँगल | ||
Bosnian tražiti | ||
Bulgarian търси | ||
Catalan buscar | ||
Cebuano pangita | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 寻求 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 尋求 | ||
Corsican circà | ||
Croatian tražiti | ||
Czech hledat | ||
Danish søge | ||
Dhivehi ހޯދުން | ||
Dogri मंगना | ||
Dutch zoeken | ||
English seek | ||
Esperanto serĉi | ||
Estonian otsima | ||
Ewe di | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) hanapin | ||
Finnish etsiä | ||
French chercher | ||
Frisian sykje | ||
Galician buscar | ||
Georgian ეძებენ | ||
German suchen | ||
Greek ψάχνω | ||
Guarani heka | ||
Gujarati લેવી | ||
Haitian Creole chache | ||
Hausa nema | ||
Hawaiian ʻimi | ||
Hebrew לְחַפֵּשׂ | ||
Hindi मांगना | ||
Hmong nrhiav | ||
Hungarian keresni | ||
Icelandic leita | ||
Igbo chọọ | ||
Ilocano agsapul | ||
Indonesian mencari | ||
Irish lorg | ||
Italian cercare | ||
Japanese 求める | ||
Javanese golek | ||
Kannada ಹುಡುಕುವುದು | ||
Kazakh іздеу | ||
Khmer ស្វែងរក | ||
Kinyarwanda shakisha | ||
Konkani सोदप | ||
Korean 찾다. 목표물 탐색 | ||
Krio luk | ||
Kurdish lêgerrîn | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) گەڕان | ||
Kyrgyz издөө | ||
Lao ຊອກຫາ | ||
Latin quaerere | ||
Latvian meklēt | ||
Lingala koluka | ||
Lithuanian ieškoti | ||
Luganda okunoonya | ||
Luxembourgish sichen | ||
Macedonian бараат | ||
Maithili ताकू | ||
Malagasy mitadiava | ||
Malay mencari | ||
Malayalam അന്വേഷിക്കുക | ||
Maltese tfittex | ||
Maori rapua | ||
Marathi शोधा | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯊꯤꯕ | ||
Mizo zawng | ||
Mongolian хайх | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ရှာ | ||
Nepali खोज्नुहोस् | ||
Norwegian søke | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) funani | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଖୋଜ | | ||
Oromo barbaaduu | ||
Pashto لټول | ||
Persian جستجو کردن | ||
Polish szukać | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) procurar | ||
Punjabi ਦੀ ਭਾਲ ਕਰੋ | ||
Quechua maskay | ||
Romanian căuta | ||
Russian стремиться | ||
Samoan saili | ||
Sanskrit अन्विष्यति | ||
Scots Gaelic sireadh | ||
Sepedi nyaka | ||
Serbian тражити | ||
Sesotho batla | ||
Shona tsvaga | ||
Sindhi ڳوليو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) සොයන්න | ||
Slovak hľadať | ||
Slovenian iskati | ||
Somali raadso | ||
Spanish buscar | ||
Sundanese milarian | ||
Swahili tafuta | ||
Swedish söka | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) maghanap | ||
Tajik ҷустуҷӯ кардан | ||
Tamil தேடுங்கள் | ||
Tatar эзләү | ||
Telugu కోరుకుంటారు | ||
Thai แสวงหา | ||
Tigrinya ድለ | ||
Tsonga lava | ||
Turkish aramak | ||
Turkmen gözlemek | ||
Twi (Akan) hwehwɛ | ||
Ukrainian шукати | ||
Urdu تلاش | ||
Uyghur ئىزدە | ||
Uzbek izlamoq | ||
Vietnamese tìm | ||
Welsh ceisio | ||
Xhosa khangela | ||
Yiddish זוכן | ||
Yoruba wá | ||
Zulu funa |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "soek" is cognate with the Dutch word "zoeken", which also means "to seek". |
| Albanian | The Albanian word "kërkoj" originates from Proto-Indo-European *kʷer-, meaning "to turn, bend, coil". |
| Amharic | The Amharic word “ፈልግ” (seek) can also mean “to search for” or “to strive for”. |
| Arabic | In Arabic, "طلب" can also mean "to ask for" or "to order". |
| Armenian | "Որոնել" ultimately derives from the Proto-Indo-European "*wer" (to turn) and is cognate with the Latin "vertere" (to turn) and "vertere" (to translate). |
| Azerbaijani | **Etymology**: From the Turkish **axtarmaq**; related to the Azerbaijani verb **axmaq** ('to ask'). |
| Basque | Bilatu has also been used in the sense of “to find” as well as “be born” (the latter meaning was found in 15th and 16th century literature). |
| Belarusian | Belarusian word "шукаць" comes from an Old East Slavic word that has the original meaning of "move" or "wander". |
| Bengali | The word "সন্ধান করা" can also mean "to search" or "to investigate". |
| Bosnian | In addition to its primary meaning of "seek," the Bosnian word "tražiti" can also mean "to request" or "to inquire." |
| Bulgarian | In Bulgarian, "търси" comes from the Old Bulgarian verb "trьsati", meaning "to look for", and has a related meaning in Polish, "trząść" ("to shake"). |
| Catalan | "Buscar" is derived from the Latin word "buscare", but also means "to avoid" or "to flee from" in Catalan. |
| Cebuano | "Pangita" also refers to a type of Filipino delicacy made with tapioca or sweet potato balls covered in sweet syrup |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 寻求 is formed by two characters that, together, means 'look for' but individually they mean 'ask' and 'request'. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 尋求 (Traditional Chinese) also means to explore, inquire, or investigate. |
| Corsican | In Corsican, the word "circà" can also mean "circle" or "surround". |
| Croatian | In Slavic languages, the word "tražiti" can also mean "to ask" or "to request". |
| Czech | The original meaning of the Czech word "hledat" ("seek") was "to stare" or "to gaze". It is related to the archaic form "hled". "Hled" was used to refer to a person or animal watching or staring at something, and it was also used to describe something looking or appearing in a particular way. |
| Danish | The Danish word "søge" is etymologically related to the English word "seek" and has the alternate meaning of "apply". |
| Dutch | "Zoeken" originally meant "to see" and is related to "zien" (to see) and "kijken" (to look). |
| Esperanto | The word "serĉi" also has a connotation of diligent searching or investigation. |
| Estonian | The word "otsima" has a Proto-Finno-Ugric origin, meaning "to find" or "to get". |
| Finnish | Etymologically related to 'to wander,' like German 'irren' or Swedish 'irra'. |
| French | The word "chercher" originates from the Latin word "circare", meaning "to go around" or "to search". |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "sykje" is closely related to the English "seek" and the German "suchen" and has additional meanings including "think about" and "consider" |
| Galician | Galician "buscar" is of Latin origin, from "percontāre", but in modern usage it has also come to mean "to look at". |
| German | "Suchen" also means "to search" or "to look for" in German. |
| Greek | "Ψάχνω" etymologically relates to words for "searching by touch or smell", such as "Ψάω" (search, scratch). |
| Gujarati | "લેવો " is also used with the sense of to take, to bring, to accept and to carry. |
| Haitian Creole | The word "chache" in Haitian Creole also means "to try to obtain something". |
| Hausa | The word "nema" can also be used to describe a search for knowledge or understanding. |
| Hawaiian | ʻimi also means 'to sniff' or 'to smell' in Hawaiian, and is cognate with the Māori word 'himine' ('to smell'). |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "לְחַפֵּשׂ" ("seek") derives from the root "ח.פ.שׂ," which also means "to investigate" or "to explore." |
| Hindi | मांगना (seek) is derived from the Sanskrit word "याच" (yach) |
| Hmong | The Hmong word "nrhiav" also means "investigate" or "inquire". |
| Hungarian | The word keresni ('seek') in Hungarian is ultimately derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kʷer-, meaning 'to go, wander, turn'. |
| Icelandic | Leita and its cognate leita all share the meaning "to seek" from their PIE root *leyt-. |
| Igbo | "Chọọ" can also mean "to look for" or "to find". |
| Indonesian | The word 'mencari' can also mean 'to look for', 'to search for', or 'to try to find'. |
| Irish | Lorg also means 'choice' and is related to the word 'lore' in English. |
| Italian | "Cercare" comes from the Latin "circare," which means "to go around" or "to surround," and can also mean "to search for" or "to investigate." |
| Japanese | The word "求める" can also mean "to ask for" or "to request". |
| Javanese | The word "golek" in Javanese can also mean "make" or "create", derived from the Sanskrit word "grha" meaning "house" or "building"} |
| Kazakh | In Kazakh, "іздеу" has additional meaning "to investigate" or "to explore". |
| Korean | The verb "찾다" can also mean to find, look for, or search. |
| Kurdish | The word 'lêgerrîn' comes from the Old Kurdish word 'lêger', which means 'to find' or 'to obtain'. |
| Kyrgyz | "Издеө" also means "research" or "investigation" in Kyrgyz. |
| Lao | In some regions of Laos, "ຊອກຫາ" can also colloquially mean "to borrow something". |
| Latin | The verb quaerere, meaning "seek," shares an origin with the word "quest," indicating an exploration or search for knowledge. |
| Latvian | The Latvian word "meklēt" is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *mek-, meaning "to strive after" or "to desire" |
| Lithuanian | Lithuanian "Ieškoti" also means to "search for", "look for", "seek out" |
| Luxembourgish | The Luxembourgish word 'sichen' also means 'to yearn', 'to long', and 'to search for' |
| Macedonian | The word "бараат" originates from the Proto-Slavic root *borati meaning "to take" or "to gather". |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "Mitadiava" can also mean "to look for" or "to search for". |
| Malay | The word "mencari" also means "to ask for" or "to inquire about" in Malay. |
| Maltese | It's derived from the Arabic word 'fittash' meaning 'to look for' or 'to investigate'. |
| Maori | The word 'rapua' in Maori also means 'to inquire' or 'to ask'. |
| Marathi | The Marathi word "शोधा" finds its roots in Sanskrit "सोधन" (investigation), and can also refer to inquiry, examination, or exploration. |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word "хайх" also means "to search for" or "to investigate". |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | "ရှာ" (seek) may also mean to request, look for, or find and obtain. |
| Nepali | The Nepali word "खोज्नुहोस्" can also mean "to search" or "to look for" in English. |
| Norwegian | The Norwegian word "søke" is derived from Old Norse "sók" meaning "search" or "look for," and is related to the English word "seek". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | In Nyanja, some argue that "funani" may also be used in place of "find" or "get" but only in specific contexts. |
| Pashto | The word "لټول" (seek) also refers to "searching for something or trying to determine something"} |
| Persian | "جستجو کردن" also means "to look for" and comes from the word "جست" meaning "to explore". |
| Polish | The Polish word "szukać" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *sъkati, meaning "to search" or "to look for", also related to the German "suchen" and English "seek". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, "procurar" also means "to attempt" or "to endeavor" |
| Romanian | "Căuta" comes from the Latin word "captare" meaning "to try to catch", but can also mean "to strive" or "to aim". |
| Russian | The word "стремиться" is derived from the Proto-Slavic root *ster-, meaning "to strive" or "to tend towards." |
| Samoan | The word "saili" also has the alternate meaning of "request" or "ask for" in Samoan. |
| Scots Gaelic | The word 'sireadh' shares an etymological root with the Sanskrit word 'śri' meaning 'prosperity' or 'radiance'. |
| Serbian | The verb "тражити" derives from the Proto-Slavic word "*tьrgati" meaning "to search" or "to gather." |
| Sesotho | The word 'batla' in Sesotho not only means 'seek', but it also refers to the action of 'searching' and 'inquiring'. |
| Shona | 'Tsvaga' in Shona also means 'search' or 'look for'. |
| Sindhi | The word 'ڳوليو' can also mean 'to find out', 'to discover', or 'to inquire'. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | "සොයන්න" is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ḱey- "to perceive, notice, seek" and is related to the English word "see". |
| Slovak | The Slovak word 'hľadať' is derived from the Proto-Slavic word 'iskati', which also means 'to desire' or 'to wish'. |
| Slovenian | The word "iskati" is often used in Slovenian to refer to the act of searching for something, such as information or a lost object. |
| Somali | Raadso can also mean 'to go or travel' in general, not just in search of something. |
| Spanish | The Spanish word 'buscar' comes from the Latin 'perscrutare,' meaning 'to search thoroughly.' |
| Sundanese | The Indonesian word "milarian" also means seeking knowledge by asking the elders. |
| Swahili | The word 'tafuta' (seek) is originally from Kihaya and came to Swahili via Bantu. |
| Swedish | The word "söka" is derived from the Old Norse word "sœkja," meaning "to look for, search for." |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | Maghanap is cognate with the word 'mana' meaning 'to think' and 'mag-isip' meaning 'to ponder' or 'to consider' in Tagalog. |
| Tamil | The Tamil word "தேடுங்கள்" (seek) also means "search" and "look for" in English. |
| Thai | แสวงหา derives from the Sanskrit word "svayambhu," meaning "self-existent." |
| Turkish | "Aramak" also means "to call" in Turkish, deriving from the Persian word "āram", meaning "rest" or "quiet". |
| Ukrainian | The word "шукати" is a cognate of the Polish word "szukać", which also means "seek". |
| Urdu | تلاش also means 'struggle' or 'effort' in Urdu, indicating the challenges often associated with the pursuit of something. |
| Uzbek | The Uzbek word "izlamoq" can also mean "to beg" or "to request". |
| Vietnamese | "Tìm" also translates to "find," "look for," "search," and "endeavor." |
| Welsh | "Ceisio" shares the root "cis/cais" with "cisten" ("chest") and "caseg" ("cheese"), implying a sense of containing or enclosing. |
| Xhosa | The word, which is also used to mean "hunt," is derived from the Proto-Bantu verb "-ŋganda" (to follow a track). |
| Yiddish | "זוכן" also means "treasure" in Yiddish. |
| Yoruba | Wá (seek) can also mean come, go, or arrive in Yoruba. |
| Zulu | The word "funa" can also mean "to try" or "to attempt". |
| English | The term 'seek' originates from the Old English word 'secean,' meaning 'to pursue' or 'to search for.' |