Shoot in Different Languages
Discover 'Shoot' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Shoot
Afrikaans skiet | ||
Albanian gjuaj | ||
Amharic ተኩስ | ||
Arabic أطلق النار | ||
Armenian կրակել | ||
Assamese নিক্ষেপ কৰা | ||
Aymara illapt'aña | ||
Azerbaijani vur | ||
Bambara ka ci | ||
Basque tiro egin | ||
Belarusian страляць | ||
Bengali গুলি | ||
Bhojpuri गोली मारल | ||
Bosnian pucaj | ||
Bulgarian стреля | ||
Catalan disparar | ||
Cebuano pusil | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 射击 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 射擊 | ||
Corsican sparà | ||
Croatian pucati | ||
Czech střílet | ||
Danish skyde | ||
Dhivehi ނިރު | ||
Dogri मारना | ||
Dutch schieten | ||
English shoot | ||
Esperanto pafi | ||
Estonian tulistada | ||
Ewe da | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) bumaril | ||
Finnish ampua | ||
French tirer | ||
Frisian sjitte | ||
Galician disparar | ||
Georgian დახვრიტეს | ||
German schießen | ||
Greek βλαστός | ||
Guarani japi | ||
Gujarati શૂટ | ||
Haitian Creole tire | ||
Hausa harba | ||
Hawaiian pana | ||
Hebrew לירות | ||
Hindi गोली मार | ||
Hmong tua | ||
Hungarian lő | ||
Icelandic skjóta | ||
Igbo gbaa | ||
Ilocano paltogan | ||
Indonesian menembak | ||
Irish shoot | ||
Italian sparare | ||
Japanese シュート | ||
Javanese nembak | ||
Kannada ಶೂಟ್ | ||
Kazakh ату | ||
Khmer បាញ់ | ||
Kinyarwanda kurasa | ||
Konkani फोटे काडप | ||
Korean 사격 | ||
Krio shut | ||
Kurdish gûleberdan | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) لێدان | ||
Kyrgyz атуу | ||
Lao ຍິງ | ||
Latin virga | ||
Latvian šaut | ||
Lingala kobeta | ||
Lithuanian šaudyti | ||
Luganda okukuba essasi | ||
Luxembourgish schéissen | ||
Macedonian пука | ||
Maithili शिकार करनाइ | ||
Malagasy tsimoka | ||
Malay menembak | ||
Malayalam ഷൂട്ട് | ||
Maltese rimja | ||
Maori kopere | ||
Marathi शूट | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯀꯥꯞꯄ | ||
Mizo kap | ||
Mongolian буудах | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ရိုက် | ||
Nepali शुट | ||
Norwegian skyte | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kuwombera | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଗୁଳି | ||
Oromo dhukaasuu | ||
Pashto ډزې | ||
Persian شلیک | ||
Polish strzelać | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) atirar | ||
Punjabi ਸ਼ੂਟ | ||
Quechua disparar | ||
Romanian trage | ||
Russian стрелять | ||
Samoan fana | ||
Sanskrit औशिरिका | ||
Scots Gaelic losgadh | ||
Sepedi thuntšha | ||
Serbian пуцај | ||
Sesotho thunya | ||
Shona kupfura | ||
Sindhi شوٽ | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) වෙඩි තියන්න | ||
Slovak strieľať | ||
Slovenian ustrelil | ||
Somali toogasho | ||
Spanish disparar | ||
Sundanese némbak | ||
Swahili risasi | ||
Swedish skjuta | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) pagbaril | ||
Tajik тир | ||
Tamil சுடு | ||
Tatar ату | ||
Telugu షూట్ | ||
Thai ยิง | ||
Tigrinya ምውቃዕ | ||
Tsonga duvula | ||
Turkish ateş etmek | ||
Turkmen at | ||
Twi (Akan) to | ||
Ukrainian стріляти | ||
Urdu گولی مارو | ||
Uyghur ئوق | ||
Uzbek otish | ||
Vietnamese bắn | ||
Welsh saethu | ||
Xhosa dubula | ||
Yiddish shoot | ||
Yoruba iyaworan | ||
Zulu dubula |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | In Afrikaans, the word "skiet" has the alternate meanings of "squint" and "to move quickly" |
| Albanian | "Gjuaj" in Albanian possibly derives from the Proto-Albanian word *ǵuā- /*gʷā́-(h)-, meaning "to flow" or "to pour", and is related to the words "gja" ("blood") and "gjallë" ("alive"). |
| Amharic | The word |
| Arabic | The verb "أطلق النار" can also mean to "fire" a weapon or to "release" something, like releasing an arrow from a bow. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "vur" in Azerbaijani also means "to beat" or "to hit". |
| Basque | The word 'tiro egin' derives from the Basque 'tiro' (arrow) and 'egin' (make), and can also mean 'to throw' or 'to launch'. |
| Belarusian | "Страляць" in Belarusian can also mean "to play (an instrument) badly". |
| Bengali | In Bengali, "গুলি" can also refer to a bullet or a pill. |
| Bosnian | The word "pucaj" is derived from the Old Slavic word "pucati", meaning "to burst" or "to explode". |
| Bulgarian | The word "стреля" can also mean "arrow" or "dart" in Bulgarian. |
| Catalan | The verb "disparar" comes from the Latin "disparare" meaning "to separate" or "to scatter". |
| Cebuano | The Cebuano word "pusil" (shoot) originates from the Proto-Austronesian word *pusiS, which also means "to blow" or "to spit". |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The character 射擊 (shoot) in Chinese (Traditional) is also used as a variant of 瀉 (purge). |
| Corsican | The word “sparà” comes from the Greek “spartein” which means “grass” but can be referred to other types of plants and is also the origin word of “espadrile” a kind of sandal made out of the grass esparto. |
| Croatian | The Croatian verb 'pucati' meaning 'to shoot' derives from the Proto-Slavic word 'pъhati' ('to blow'). |
| Czech | Střílet derives from the Proto-Slavic word *strelь, meaning "to shoot, throw". |
| Danish | The Danish word "skyde" has origins in Old Norse and has additional meanings such as "sprout" or "extend". |
| Dutch | In Dutch the word "schieten" also means to fart. |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word "pafi" is derived from the Russian word "пафить" (pafit'), meaning "to puff" or "to smoke". |
| Estonian | Originally a hunting term, tulistada now also means to take a picture |
| Finnish | "Ampua" is a Finnish word that originates from the Proto-Uralic word "*ampV" meaning "to throw, to shoot". |
| French | "Tirer" derives from the Latin "trahere" (draw) and carries meanings of pulling, attracting, and discharging. |
| Frisian | In Dutch slang, 'schijten' ('to defecate') was changed to 'sjitte' for the sake of politeness or humor and the Frisian word 'sjitte' ('to shoot') stems from this. |
| Galician | "Disparar" en gallego también puede referirse a tirar o lanzar, además de disparar un arma. |
| German | The word "schießen" can also mean "to throw" or "to slide" in German. |
| Greek | The word "βλαστός" is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bhlē- ("to sprout, to grow"), and is cognate with the Latin word "flos" ("flower") and the English word "blossom". |
| Gujarati | In Gujarati, |
| Haitian Creole | The Haitian Creole word "tire" comes from the French word "tirer" and can also mean "to pull" or "to draw." |
| Hausa | Hausa word 'harba' also means 'to aim', 'to fire', 'to throw' |
| Hawaiian | The Hawaiian word "pana" is used not only to mean "shoot" or "kill," but also to describe the action of "planting seeds or bulbs" or "to let fall." |
| Hebrew | The word לירות, meaning 'to shoot', also carries the alternate meaning of 'to create sparks' in Hebrew. |
| Hmong | In Hmong, "tua" can also refer to a kind of large bamboo. |
| Hungarian | The verb 'lő' is cognate with the Finnish verb 'lyödä', meaning 'to hit'. |
| Icelandic | Skjóta also means "to extend" as in a building or appendage, and "to jut out" as a promontory. |
| Igbo | In some dialects of Igbo, the word "gbaa" can also mean "to throw" or "to cast". |
| Indonesian | The word 'menembak' in Indonesian can also mean "to guess" or "to predict". |
| Irish | Irish "shoot" is derived from "sait", akin to Old Welsh "haid", both meaning "to throw". |
| Italian | The word 'sparare' can also mean 'to utter' or 'to speak', derived from the Latin 'spargere', meaning 'to scatter'. |
| Japanese | The Japanese word "シュート" comes from the English word "shoot" and can also refer to "sprouting plants". |
| Javanese | "Nembak" in Javanese can also mean "to ask for marriage". |
| Kannada | The word "ಶೂಟ್" (shoot) in Kannada can also refer to a branch or twig of a plant. |
| Kazakh | "Ату" in Kazakh has meanings of "to catch", "to hunt", "to overpower", "to suppress", "to destroy", "to kill". The word originates from the Persian word "at" meaning "horse." |
| Korean | "사격" also refers to the number "4" in the traditional Korean counting system. |
| Kurdish | The word "gûleberdan" in Kurdish can also refer to a type of bird known as the common sandpiper. |
| Kyrgyz | The Kyrgyz verb "атуу" can also mean "to throw" or "to eject". |
| Lao | In Lao literature and poetry, the verb "ຍິງ" can also refer to "casting a spell". |
| Latin | In Latin, 'virga' also refers to a twig, rod, or scepter. |
| Latvian | "Šaut" can also mean a sudden and intense feeling in Latvian, as in "Man šodien šaus dusmas" ("I feel very angry right now"). |
| Lithuanian | "Šaudyti" is also used figuratively in Lithuanian, meaning to speak quickly or criticize someone |
| Macedonian | The word "пука" in Macedonian also has the alternate meaning of "to pop" or "to burst" when used in the context of a balloon or a bubble. |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word 'tsimoka' can also mean 'to sprout' or 'to germinate'. |
| Malay | The word "menembak" can also mean "to inject" or "to insert" in Malay. |
| Malayalam | In Malayalam, "ഷൂട്ട്" can also refer to a sprout or a plant's offshoot. |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "rimja" ultimately derives from the Arabic "ramā" (رمى) and is cognate with "ramī" (رامی), the Modern Standard Arabic form of the verb "to shoot". |
| Maori | In colloquial use, 'kopere' can also mean 'move quickly out of sight' like a bird in flight. |
| Marathi | The word "शूट" in Marathi can also refer to a branch or sprout of a plant, or a photographic image. |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word "буудах" can also mean "to give birth". |
| Nepali | "Shuts" comes from "shut" in English which is used to close something tightly; it can also mean to be rid of something. |
| Norwegian | The Norwegian word "skyte" is cognate with the English word "shoot" and the German word "schießen", all deriving from the Proto-Indo-European root "*skeu- "to throw". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | "Kuwombera" also means "to throw away" or "to discard" in Nyanja (Chichewa). |
| Persian | The word 'شلیک' in Persian can also refer to the discharge of a fluid or the sending of a message. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | "Atirar" (shoot) comes from the Latin "iactare," to throw or cast out. |
| Punjabi | In Punjabi, "ਸ਼ੂਟ" can also mean "to depart," "to throw," or "a sprout of a plant." |
| Romanian | "Trage" originates from the Slavic term "strag" with the meaning of "slaughter". |
| Russian | The word "стрелять" also means "to play a musical instrument", derived from the Proto-Slavic root "*streti" meaning "to spread" or "to stretch." |
| Samoan | The word "fana" in Samoan is also used to describe a "ray" as in beam of light or a flash of lightning. |
| Serbian | The Serbian word "Пуцај" can also be used to mean "a crack" in the sense "a thin, narrow opening or split". |
| Sesotho | The word "thunya" in Sesotho also means "to cut off" or "to sever". |
| Shona | In Shona, |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "شوٽ" can also mean "a piece of cloth" or "a small bag." |
| Slovak | The Slovak word "strieľať" derives from the Proto-Slavic root *strěti, which also means "to throw, fling, or hurl," and can refer to either shooting a firearm or launching an object through the air. |
| Slovenian | The verb "ustrelil" originates from the Old Slavic word "streliti," meaning "to shoot an arrow". It can also be used to refer to launching a projectile or firing a gun. |
| Somali | The Somali word "toogasho" also means "to launch" in the context of a spacecraft. |
| Spanish | In the 15th century, the word «disparar» could also mean «to say» or «to talk». |
| Sundanese | The word "némbak" can also mean "to propose marriage" in Sundanese, a usage that likely originated from the metaphorical sense of "shooting one's shot" as it pertains to romance. |
| Swahili | The word "risasi" can also refer to a bullet or gunfire. |
| Swedish | The word 'skjuta' is also used in other contexts, such as photography or the game of hockey. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "pagbaril" in Tagalog can also mean "to spend money" or "to pay for something". |
| Tajik | The word "тир" in Tajik also refers to a shooting range. |
| Tamil | சுடு" in Tamil can also mean "burn," "heat," or "roast." |
| Telugu | "షూట్" (shoot) in Telugu is also used to refer to a sprout or sapling. |
| Thai | The Thai word "ยิง" (shoot) is derived from the Sanskrit word "jri," meaning "to set in motion or send out."} |
| Turkish | "Ateş etmek" sözcüğü Farsça "âtîş" (ateş) sözcüğünden türemiştir ve "ateş yakmak" anlamına da gelir. |
| Ukrainian | The word "стріляти" has a similar root to the word "стріла" (arrow), suggesting an early association with ranged projectile weapons. |
| Uzbek | In some regions of Uzbekistan, "otish" also refers to "planting seeds". |
| Vietnamese | Bắn is a monosyllabic word in Vietnamese, which has several meanings and can be pronounced with different tones. |
| Welsh | The Welsh word "saethu" also means "to cast" or "to sow". |
| Xhosa | The word |
| Yiddish | "Shoot" can also mean "to push" or "to shove" in Yiddish. |
| Yoruba | Iyaworan in Yoruba also refers to the aftermath of an explosion or the impact of a force. |
| Zulu | Dubula also means 'to pierce,' deriving from the click word 'gubhula,' in Zulu. |
| English | The verb "shoot" derives from the Middle English "scheten," meaning "to push with force," and can also refer to rapid growth or taking a photograph. |