Select in Different Languages
Discover 'Select' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Select
Afrikaans kies | ||
Albanian zgjedh | ||
Amharic ምረጥ | ||
Arabic تحديد | ||
Armenian ընտրել | ||
Assamese চয়ন কৰা | ||
Aymara ajlliña | ||
Azerbaijani seçin | ||
Bambara ka sugandi | ||
Basque hautatu | ||
Belarusian выбраць | ||
Bengali নির্বাচন করুন | ||
Bhojpuri चुनीं | ||
Bosnian odaberite | ||
Bulgarian изберете | ||
Catalan seleccioneu | ||
Cebuano pilia | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 选择 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 選擇 | ||
Corsican selezziunà | ||
Croatian odaberi | ||
Czech vybrat | ||
Danish vælg | ||
Dhivehi ޚިޔާރުކުރުން | ||
Dogri चुनो | ||
Dutch selecteer | ||
English select | ||
Esperanto elektu | ||
Estonian valige | ||
Ewe tia | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) pumili | ||
Finnish valitse | ||
French sélectionner | ||
Frisian útkieze | ||
Galician seleccionar | ||
Georgian შეარჩიე | ||
German wählen | ||
Greek επιλέγω | ||
Guarani poravo | ||
Gujarati પસંદ કરો | ||
Haitian Creole chwazi | ||
Hausa za .i | ||
Hawaiian koho | ||
Hebrew בחר | ||
Hindi चुनते हैं | ||
Hmong xaiv | ||
Hungarian válassza | ||
Icelandic veldu | ||
Igbo họrọ | ||
Ilocano agpili | ||
Indonesian pilih | ||
Irish roghnaigh | ||
Italian selezionare | ||
Japanese 選択する | ||
Javanese pilih | ||
Kannada ಆಯ್ಕೆ ಮಾಡಿ | ||
Kazakh таңдаңыз | ||
Khmer ជ្រើសរើស | ||
Kinyarwanda hitamo | ||
Konkani वेंचचें | ||
Korean 고르다 | ||
Krio pik | ||
Kurdish neqandin | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) دەسنیاشنکردن | ||
Kyrgyz тандоо | ||
Lao ເລືອກ | ||
Latin eligere | ||
Latvian atlasiet | ||
Lingala kopona | ||
Lithuanian pasirinkite | ||
Luganda okulonda | ||
Luxembourgish wielt | ||
Macedonian изберете | ||
Maithili चुननाइ | ||
Malagasy mifidy | ||
Malay pilih | ||
Malayalam തിരഞ്ഞെടുക്കുക | ||
Maltese agħżel | ||
Maori tīpako | ||
Marathi निवडा | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯈꯟꯕ | ||
Mizo thlang | ||
Mongolian сонгох | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ရွေးချယ်ပါ | ||
Nepali चयन गर्नुहोस् | ||
Norwegian plukke ut | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) sankhani | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଚୟନ କରନ୍ତୁ | | ||
Oromo filuu | ||
Pashto وټاکئ | ||
Persian انتخاب کنید | ||
Polish wybierz | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) selecionar | ||
Punjabi ਚੁਣੋ | ||
Quechua akllay | ||
Romanian selectați | ||
Russian выбрать | ||
Samoan filifili | ||
Sanskrit विचि | ||
Scots Gaelic tagh | ||
Sepedi kgetha | ||
Serbian изаберите | ||
Sesotho khetha | ||
Shona sarudza | ||
Sindhi چونڊيو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) තෝරන්න | ||
Slovak vyberte | ||
Slovenian izberite | ||
Somali dooro | ||
Spanish seleccione | ||
Sundanese pilih | ||
Swahili chagua | ||
Swedish välj | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) pumili ka | ||
Tajik интихоб кунед | ||
Tamil தேர்ந்தெடுக்கவும் | ||
Tatar сайлагыз | ||
Telugu ఎంచుకోండి | ||
Thai เลือก | ||
Tigrinya ምረፅ | ||
Tsonga hlawula | ||
Turkish seç | ||
Turkmen saýlaň | ||
Twi (Akan) yi ho | ||
Ukrainian виберіть | ||
Urdu منتخب کریں | ||
Uyghur تاللاڭ | ||
Uzbek tanlang | ||
Vietnamese lựa chọn | ||
Welsh dewiswch | ||
Xhosa khetha | ||
Yiddish אויסקלייַבן | ||
Yoruba yan | ||
Zulu khetha |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "kies" in Afrikaans derives from the Dutch word "kiezen", which shares the same meaning. |
| Albanian | In Albanian, the word “zgjedh” also means “luck” or “luckiness”. |
| Amharic | "ምረጥ" can also mean "choose" or "pick out." |
| Arabic | In the Qur'an, تحديد refers both to divine choice and human accountability |
| Armenian | Ընտրել in Armenian is related to the word ընդեր - |
| Azerbaijani | The word "seçin" in Azerbaijani can also mean "to choose" or "to pick out." |
| Basque | The Basque word "hautatu" originates from the Proto-Basque verb "au" (to choose), sharing a common etymology with "hautatu" (to capture) and "hauteste" (to win). |
| Belarusian | The word "выбраць" has two etymologies, the first coming from the Old Slavic word "iz-brati", meaning "to pick out" or "to choose", and the second coming from the Proto-Indo-European root "weik", meaning "to separate" or "to divide." |
| Bengali | The word "নির্বাচন করুন" is derived from the Sanskrit word "निर्वचन" (nirvacana), which means "to decide" or "to determine". |
| Bosnian | Odaberite (select) comes from the Slavic stem od, meaning "separate," which is also found in words like odvojiti (separate) and odustati (give up). |
| Bulgarian | The word "изберете" comes from the Proto-Slavic root *obirati, meaning "to choose" or "to select." |
| Catalan | "Seleccioneu" is the imperative form of the Catalan verb "seleccionar", which comes from the Latin verb "seligere", meaning "to choose". |
| Cebuano | In Tagalog, it also means "eyelash". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 选择 in Chinese can also mean 'pick', 'choose', or 'option'. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The full form of 選擇 is 選擇擇，meaning 'to pick and choose' |
| Corsican | "Selezziunà" comes from the Italian word "selezionare" and also means "to choose". |
| Croatian | The word "odaberi" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *obirati, which also means "to gather" or "to collect." |
| Czech | The word "vybrat" can also mean "to collect" or "to pick out" in Czech. |
| Danish | The Danish word "vælg" is also an archaic noun meaning "choice" or "option." |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "selecteer" or "selecteren" has a broader meaning than just "select", it also means "to make a choice" or "to pick out". |
| Esperanto | The root of 'elektu' is from the Latin word 'eligere' meaning 'to choose'. |
| Estonian | The word "valige" is likely derived from the Old Norse verb "velja", meaning "to choose", and is cognate with the German word "wählen" and the English word "elect". |
| Finnish | The Finnish word "valitse" also means "to take over"} |
| French | "Sélectionner" has origins in the Latin verb "eligere," meaning "to choose or select". |
| Frisian | Frisian "útkieze" shares its etymology with English "choose" and German "küren". Like them, it comes from Proto-Germanic *keusaną "to test, to select". |
| Galician | In Galician, the verb "seleccionar" also means "to reserve" or "to book". |
| German | The word "wählen" is related to "well" and once meant "to turn" or "to roll". |
| Greek | Derived from 'epi' meaning 'upon' and 'legō' meaning 'to gather', the word originally implied the action of harvesting before its use in selecting. |
| Haitian Creole | The word "chwazi" is derived from the French word "choisir", which means "to choose". |
| Hausa | "Za .i" can also mean "choice" or "the act of choosing" in Hausa. |
| Hawaiian | The Hawaiian word “koho” originally referred specifically to the selection of a chief or ruler, but gradually acquired more general meanings. |
| Hebrew | The verb "בחר" (to choose) is related to the noun "בחירה" (choice), both deriving from the root ב-ח-ר, which also gives rise to the noun "בחור" (young man), originally a euphemism for "chosen one". |
| Hindi | In Hindi, the word "चुनते हैं" can also refer to the act of picking or choosing something. |
| Hmong | A form of "xaiv" is used as "xaiv lub" in the context of choosing a spouse. |
| Hungarian | "Választ" can also mean "choose", "decide", or "elect". |
| Icelandic | In addition to its primary meaning of "select," "veldu" also means "to choose from an assortment." |
| Igbo | "Họrọ" can also mean "to search" or "to find" in Igbo. |
| Indonesian | "Pilih" may be related to the Proto-Austronesian word *pilix, meaning "to choose," and is a cognate of words like "pili" in the Philippines and "pihi" in Hawaii. |
| Irish | The word 'roghnaigh' originates from the Old Irish verb 'rogain', which means 'to ask', and is related to the word 'rogha' meaning 'choice' or 'selection'. |
| Italian | The word "selezionare" comes from the Latin word "seligere," which means "to choose out." |
| Japanese | "選択する" literally means "to grab" in Japanese. |
| Javanese | The Javanese word 'pilih' shares its root with the Malay word 'pilih', both meaning to choose or select, and is cognate with the Indonesian 'pilih'. |
| Kannada | The Kannada word "ಆಯ್ಕೆ ಮಾಡಿ" ("select") comes from the Sanskrit word "ā-√vṛñj", meaning "to choose; to take; to get." |
| Kazakh | The word "таңдаңыз" in Kazakh is related to the word "таң", which means "to choose" or "to select". |
| Khmer | The word "ជ្រើសរើស" in Khmer comes from Pali and has an alternate meaning of "to investigate". |
| Korean | 고르다 also means "to make straight, even out" and originated from the Proto-Korean "*koɾ-ta" |
| Kurdish | The word "neqandin" also means "to take, to grab" in Kurdish. |
| Kyrgyz | The word "тандоо" also means "to decide, to choose" and originated from Old Turkic. |
| Lao | The word "ເລືອກ" also means "to taste" or "to choose something to eat" in Lao. |
| Latin | The etymology of "eligere" is connected to the Proto-Indo-European root *leg- "to gather" and is used in English in words like negligence, election and legend. |
| Latvian | The term "atlasiet" is also used to describe "selection for the final stage of a competition". |
| Lithuanian | Pasirinkite is of uncertain origin, maybe borrowed from Polish "pasierb" (stepson) or "pasieść" (to adopt/tame). |
| Luxembourgish | Wielt is derived from the German word 'wählen', which means 'to choose' or 'to elect'. In Luxembourgish, it also means 'to select'. |
| Macedonian | The word "изберете" (select) in Macedonian comes from the Proto-Slavic root *birati, meaning "to take" or "to choose." |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "mifidy" derives from the Proto-Austronesian root *pilid, which also means "to choose" or "to elect". |
| Malay | The Malay word "pilih" may have been borrowed from Tamil "pirik" or "per-i" which means "divide". In Sundanese and Javanese languages, "pilih" means to "separate", although in Thai the word "pilih" means to "compare". |
| Maltese | Maltese 'agħżel' comes from the Arabic verb 'ghazala' meaning 'to spin' or 'to choose'. |
| Maori | The word "tīpako" also means "filter", "separate" or "cleanse" in Maori. |
| Marathi | निवडा is also an obsolete Marathi word that means 'to make a decision' or 'to resolve' |
| Mongolian | The word "сонгох" can also refer to the process of choosing or appointing someone for a particular role. |
| Nepali | "Select" derives from the Latin word "seligere," meaning "to choose out." Its first known use in English was in the 13th century. |
| Norwegian | The verb 'plukke ut' can also mean 'to pinch out', 'to pick out', or 'to pluck out'. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | "Sankhani" can also mean "to win" or "to get chosen". |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "وټاکئ" can also mean "to choose" or "to pick out". |
| Persian | "انتخاب کنید" is a verb in Persian meaning to choose or pick, sharing the same root as the noun "اللہ" meaning "selection". |
| Polish | The Polish word "wybierz" derives from the Old Slavic "voliti", meaning "to will" or "to prefer". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "selecionar" comes from the Latin verb "seligere", meaning "to choose out" or "to pick out". |
| Punjabi | In Punjabi, the word "ਚੁਣੋ" also means "choose," "pick," or "appoint." |
| Romanian | The term "Selectați" is derived from the Latin word "selectus," meaning "chosen or picked out." |
| Russian | The word "выбрать" derives from the Proto-Slavic root *vir-, meaning "to turn, to twist" |
| Samoan | The word "filifili" in Samoan is derived from the Proto-Polynesian word "pili" meaning "to choose". |
| Scots Gaelic | The Gaelic word "tagh" can also mean "to pick" or "to gather". |
| Serbian | The Serbian word "изаберите" also means "be chosen" or "be elected". |
| Sesotho | The word "khetha" also means "choose"} |
| Shona | The word sarudza can also mean 'choose' or 'pick' |
| Sindhi | Alternate meanings of the Sindhi word 'چونڊيو' include 'to search', 'to choose', and 'to pick'. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The Sinhala word “තෝරන්න” can also mean “to choose, to pick out, to elect, and to opt for”. |
| Slovak | "Vyberte" comes from the Czech root "vybírat" meaning "to choose". |
| Slovenian | The word "izberite" in Slovenian is derived from the Proto-Slavic root *izbrati, meaning "to choose". It also has the alternate meaning of "to elect" in some contexts. |
| Somali | The word "dooro" can also refer to the process of weeding in agriculture. |
| Spanish | The verb “seleccionar” and the noun “selección” come from the Latin word “selectio,” which is related to the word “eligere,” meaning “to choose”. |
| Sundanese | "Pilih" in Sundanese also means "to choose" and is derived from the Old Javanese word "piliha". |
| Swahili | The Swahili word "chagua" is derived from the Arabic word "akhtaara", which means "to choose" or "to make a choice". |
| Swedish | The word "Välj" is derived from the Old Norse word "velja", meaning "to choose". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "pumili ka" is also used in Tagalog to mean "choose" or "pick" when referring to a person or an inanimate object. |
| Tajik | In Tajik, the word "интихоб кунед" ("select") has Persian roots and is derived from the word "انتخاب" ("selection"). |
| Telugu | The word "ఎంచుకోండి" is derived from the Sanskrit word "वृञ्चति" (vṛñcati), meaning "to choose" or "to select". |
| Thai | In Thai, the word "เลือก" can also mean to "pick" or "choose". |
| Turkish | The word "seç" (select) also has the meaning of "to choose" or "to pick", which is derived from the Proto-Turkic root "seç-" meaning "to separate". |
| Ukrainian | The word "виберіть" derives from the Old Slavonic "вибрати" meaning "to choose" and is also related to the word "вибір" (choice). |
| Uzbek | The word "tanlash" is derived from the Persian word "tanidan" which means "to know" or "to recognize." |
| Vietnamese | The Sino-Vietnamese word "lựa chọn" is composed of the elements "lựa" (to choose) and "chọn" (to pick), and is cognate with the Classical Chinese verb 擇 (择) "to select". |
| Welsh | "Dewiswch" derives from the Welsh word "dewis" meaning "choice" and is cognate with the Irish word "toisg" meaning "selection". |
| Xhosa | The word 'khetha' can also mean 'choose' or 'pick'. |
| Yiddish | "אויסקלייַבן" also means to separate wheat from other grains by winnowing. |
| Yoruba | "Yan" can also refer to "to pick" or "to choose" in Yoruba. |
| Zulu | The Zulu word "khetha" also means "to take" or "to choose", and originates from the Proto-Bantu language root *keta. |
| English | "Select" can also mean "to gather" and originates from the Latin word "legere," which means "to choose" or "to collect." |