Shopping in Different Languages
Discover 'Shopping' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Shopping
Afrikaans inkopies | ||
Albanian pazar | ||
Amharic ግብይት | ||
Arabic التسوق | ||
Armenian գնումներ կատարելը | ||
Assamese বজাৰ কৰা | ||
Aymara alaña | ||
Azerbaijani alış-veriş | ||
Bambara sanni | ||
Basque erosketak | ||
Belarusian пакупкі | ||
Bengali কেনাকাটা | ||
Bhojpuri खरीदारी | ||
Bosnian kupovina | ||
Bulgarian пазаруване | ||
Catalan compres | ||
Cebuano pagpamalit | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 购物 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 購物 | ||
Corsican shopping | ||
Croatian kupovina | ||
Czech nakupování | ||
Danish handle ind | ||
Dhivehi ވިޔަފާރިކުރުން | ||
Dogri खरीददारी | ||
Dutch boodschappen doen | ||
English shopping | ||
Esperanto butikumado | ||
Estonian sisseoste tegema | ||
Ewe nuƒeƒle | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) pamimili | ||
Finnish ostoksia | ||
French achats | ||
Frisian winkelje | ||
Galician mercar | ||
Georgian შოპინგი | ||
German einkaufen | ||
Greek ψώνια | ||
Guarani jogua | ||
Gujarati ખરીદી | ||
Haitian Creole fè makèt | ||
Hausa cin kasuwa | ||
Hawaiian kūʻai hele | ||
Hebrew קניות | ||
Hindi खरीदारी | ||
Hmong kav khw | ||
Hungarian bevásárlás | ||
Icelandic versla | ||
Igbo ịzụ ahịa | ||
Ilocano panaggatang | ||
Indonesian perbelanjaan | ||
Irish siopadóireacht | ||
Italian shopping | ||
Japanese ショッピング | ||
Javanese blanja | ||
Kannada ಶಾಪಿಂಗ್ | ||
Kazakh сауда | ||
Khmer ការដើរទិញឥវ៉ាន់ | ||
Kinyarwanda guhaha | ||
Konkani खरेदी | ||
Korean 쇼핑 | ||
Krio de bay bay | ||
Kurdish kirînê | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) بازاڕکردن | ||
Kyrgyz соода | ||
Lao ການຄ້າ | ||
Latin shopping | ||
Latvian iepirkšanās | ||
Lingala kosomba | ||
Lithuanian apsipirkimas | ||
Luganda okugula | ||
Luxembourgish akafen | ||
Macedonian шопинг | ||
Maithili खरीदारी | ||
Malagasy fiantsenana | ||
Malay membeli-belah | ||
Malayalam ഷോപ്പിംഗ് | ||
Maltese ix-xiri | ||
Maori hokohoko | ||
Marathi खरेदी | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯄꯣꯠ ꯂꯩꯕ | ||
Mizo thil lei | ||
Mongolian дэлгүүр хэсэх | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) စျေးဝယ် | ||
Nepali किनमेल | ||
Norwegian shopping | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kugula | ||
Odia (Oriya) ସପିଂ | ||
Oromo bittaa | ||
Pashto خریداری کول | ||
Persian خريد كردن | ||
Polish zakupy | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) compras | ||
Punjabi ਖਰੀਦਦਾਰੀ | ||
Quechua rantiy | ||
Romanian cumpărături | ||
Russian поход по магазинам | ||
Samoan faʻatauga | ||
Sanskrit विपणि | ||
Scots Gaelic ceannach | ||
Sepedi go reka | ||
Serbian шопинг | ||
Sesotho mabenkeleng | ||
Shona kunotenga | ||
Sindhi خريداري | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) සාප්පු යාම | ||
Slovak nakupovanie | ||
Slovenian nakupovanje | ||
Somali dukaamaysiga | ||
Spanish compras | ||
Sundanese balanja | ||
Swahili ununuzi | ||
Swedish handla | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) namimili | ||
Tajik харид | ||
Tamil கடையில் பொருட்கள் வாங்குதல் | ||
Tatar кибет | ||
Telugu షాపింగ్ | ||
Thai ช้อปปิ้ง | ||
Tigrinya ምዕዳግ | ||
Tsonga ku xava | ||
Turkish alışveriş yapmak | ||
Turkmen söwda | ||
Twi (Akan) dwadie | ||
Ukrainian покупки | ||
Urdu خریداری | ||
Uyghur مال سېتىۋېلىش | ||
Uzbek xarid qilish | ||
Vietnamese mua sắm | ||
Welsh siopa | ||
Xhosa ivenkile | ||
Yiddish שאַפּינג | ||
Yoruba ohun tio wa fun | ||
Zulu ukuthenga |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "inkopies" originates from the Dutch word "inkopen", meaning "to buy". |
| Albanian | "Pazar" also means "market" or "bazaar" in Turkish and many other languages. |
| Amharic | The word "ግብይት" in Amharic also means "taxation or revenue". |
| Arabic | The word "التسوق" (at-tasawwuq) in Arabic is derived from the verb "سوق" (sawwaqa), meaning "to drive" or "to lead animals to the market". |
| Azerbaijani | The term "alış-veriş" is used colloquially in Azerbaijani not just for the action of purchasing goods or services but also refers to the social aspect of it. |
| Basque | The Basque word "erosketak" also means "things bought" or "purchases". |
| Belarusian | In the past, the word “пакупкі” (“shopping”) was also used in the sense of “buying something specifically for the holidays or a celebration”. |
| Bengali | 'Kenakata' derives from 'kraya' (Skt.) and 'krit' (Pali) meaning 'to buy' and 'to do' respectively. |
| Bosnian | In some dialects "kupovina" originally referred to what was bought and later became synonymous with the act of buying. |
| Bulgarian | The Bulgarian word "пазаруване" also means "haggling" or "bargaining", possibly derived from Persian "bazar" or Turkish "pazar" meaning "marketplace". |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "compres" is derived from the Latin word "comperare", meaning "to buy" or "to purchase". |
| Cebuano | "Pagpamalit" can also refer to a trade, barter, or exchange. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "购物", formed by the Chinese characters "买" (mǎi) and "物" (wù), literally means "to buy things". |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 購物 is a popular term in Taiwan but in mainland China the more common word is 購買. |
| Corsican | Corsican has the word "cumprà" to specifically refer to "shopping" and the word "cumpra" to refer to "buying". |
| Croatian | The word "kupovina" in Croatian originally meant "buying", but over time it has come to be used more broadly to refer to the act of shopping in general. |
| Czech | Etymology: "kupovat" (to buy) + "na" (on or at). It can also refer to a purchase process, especially groceries. |
| Danish | 'Handle ind' literally means 'go in (for the purpose of shopping).' |
| Dutch | The word "boodschappen doen" is derived from the Middle Dutch word "bootschappen," meaning "messages" |
| Estonian | The Estonian word "sisseoste tegema" literally means "to buy goods" or "to make purchases". |
| Finnish | In Finland, "ostoksia" can also refer to an "errand" or "procurement" that doesn't have to be a purchase. |
| French | Achat also refers to a purchase made from a shop, but this sense is not the main one. |
| Frisian | It is also a term for a type of small-scale grocery shop, similar to a convenience store. |
| Galician | Galician "mercar" is derived from Latin "mercatus", meaning "trade". |
| Georgian | In Georgian, "шоპინგი" is a recent loanword from English, but it originally meant "fair" in Persian, from which it was borrowed into Russian. |
| German | 'Einkaufen' is related to 'Ein Kauf,' meaning one purchase, as in, 'einen Apfel kaufen', which shows the transaction of buying a single thing. |
| Greek | The word 'ψώνια' derives from the verb 'ψωνίζω', which originally meant 'to feed', hence its modern sense of 'shopping'. |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word ''ખરીદી'' derives from the Old Gujarati verb ''खरिदी'', meaning ''to buy''. Alternatively, its other form ''ख़रीदी'' is also used in Hindi. |
| Haitian Creole | "Fè makèt" (shopping) originates from the French phrase "faire le marché" which, in the context of Haiti, has evolved to specifically mean grocery shopping. |
| Hausa | The term "cin kasuwa" can also be used metaphorically to describe any type of financial transaction. |
| Hawaiian | Despite being pronounced the same, the words “kūʻai and “hele” have different meanings when combined to make “kūʻai hele.” |
| Hebrew | The word "קניות" is the plural form of the Hebrew word "קנייה" (purchase), which is derived from the verb "קנה" (to buy). |
| Hindi | The word "खरीदारी" is derived from the Sanskrit word "క్రయోపసంగ్రహణ" (krayopasangrahaṇa), which means "the act of acquiring or purchasing something". |
| Hmong | The term 'kav khw' means not only 'shopping' but also 'buying something for the first time or buying something for the first time in a certain place'. |
| Hungarian | The word "bevásárlás" is derived from the Hungarian words "be", which means "into" or "in" and the word "vásár", which means "market". |
| Icelandic | In Icelandic, the word "versla" derives from the Old Norse verb "versla", meaning "to throw down"} |
| Indonesian | **Perbelanjaan** (Indonesian) is derived from the Sanskrit word **pra-bhandana**, which means 'store' or 'warehouse'. |
| Italian | The Italian word "shopping" derives from the English word "shop" and originally meant "the act of visiting shops" or "the goods bought in a shop". |
| Japanese | The word 'ショッピング' (shopping) is a loanword from English, but it can also refer to 'stealing'. |
| Javanese | "Blanja" also means "spending" and originally referred to shopping for food only. |
| Kannada | The word 'ಶಾಪಿಂಗ್' is derived from the Old English word 'sceoppan', meaning 'to shape or form', and originally referred to the process of creating or repairing objects. |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "сауда" also has the alternate meanings of "trade", "sale", and "commerce". |
| Korean | The term '쇼핑' (shopping) in Korean is thought to have originated from the Chinese word '傷本' (shāngběn), which means 'to lose capital'. |
| Kurdish | In Sorani, the word "kirînê" can also refer to a place where goods are bought and sold. |
| Kyrgyz | The word "соода" may also refer to a bargain or a discount. |
| Latin | The word "shopping" comes from the Old English word "sceppan", meaning "to shape" or "to cut", and is related to the Dutch word "schoppen", meaning "to kick". |
| Latvian | The word āpirkt in iepirkšanās is likely related to the word pirkt derived from Proto-Baltic ćperk- and Proto-Indo-European ͡perk-͡ and appears in a similar form in all modern Baltic languages |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word "apsipirkimas" is rooted in the Proto-Indo-European word "*perkw-", which means "to strike" or "to pierce". |
| Luxembourgish | The word 'akafen' is derived from the Proto-Germanic root *kaupaz, which also gives us the English word 'cheap'. |
| Macedonian | The word "шопинг" comes from the English word "shop" and was adopted into the Macedonian language to refer to the activity of buying goods. |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word “fiantsenana” is a loan word from French “faire la sieste”, meaning “to take a siesta”. |
| Malay | "Membeli-belah" can also refer to a marketplace or a shopping district. |
| Malayalam | The word "ഷോപ്പിംഗ്" is derived from the 16th century German word "schopf" meaning "storehouse". |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "ix-xiri" originates from the Arabic word "shara", meaning "to buy". |
| Maori | The word "hokohoko" in Maori also means "to trade" or "to barter". |
| Marathi | The word 'खरेदी' (shopping) in Marathi is derived from the Sanskrit word 'खरीद' (purchase), which also means 'to acquire' or 'to obtain'. |
| Nepali | The word "किनमेल" derives from the Sanskrit words "क्रय" (to buy) and "मेल" (to gather or collect). |
| Norwegian | In Norwegian the word "shopping" also means "window shopping" or "browsing". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | Kugula also means "to hunt" in Chichewa. |
| Pashto | The word "خریداری کول" can also refer to the act of buying or obtaining something. |
| Persian | خريد كردن originally meant to sell but changed its meaning as people wanted to avoid using the same word when both buying and selling |
| Polish | The word "zakupy" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word "kupiti", which means "to buy". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The Portuguese word "compras" originally meant "buying provisions" and is related to the word "comprei" (I bought). |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "cumpărături" derives from the verb "a cumpăra" (to buy) and shares its etymology with the word "cumpărare" (purchase). |
| Russian | The Russian phrase "поход по магазинам" literally translates to "campaign to shops", with "поход" referring to military campaigns. |
| Samoan | Faʻatauga can also mean 'to trade', 'to exchange', or 'to barter'. |
| Scots Gaelic | The Scots Gaelic word "ceannach" can also mean a "bargain" or a "purchase". |
| Serbian | "Шоппинг" is borrowed into the Serbian language from English. While its dominant usage denotes "the process of buying things", its alternative meaning is "a place for shopping". |
| Sesotho | The word 'mabenkeleng' in Sesotho shares its root with 'bengkela', meaning 'to fix' or 'to repair', suggesting a connection between shopping and the idea of acquiring or acquiring something functional. |
| Shona | The word 'kunotenga' in Shona is derived from the verb 'kutenga', which means 'to take' or 'to acquire'. |
| Sindhi | In Sindhi, the word "خريداري" not only means "shopping," but also "procurement" or "purchase." |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | "සාප්පු යාම" has roots in Sanskrit and Pali and refers to a visit to a marketplace or store to acquire goods or services. |
| Slovak | The word "nakupovanie" comes from the verb "nakupovať," which means "to trade" or "to buy goods." |
| Slovenian | The word 'nakupovanje' is derived from the Slavic root 'kupiti', meaning 'to buy', and is related to the Russian word 'покупать'. |
| Spanish | The word "compras" comes from the Latin word "comparare", meaning "to compare" or "to buy". |
| Sundanese | The word 'balanja' in Sundanese is also used to refer to a market or place of exchange. |
| Swahili | The word 'ununuzi' is derived from the Swahili verb 'kununua', which means 'to purchase' or 'to buy'. |
| Swedish | The word 'handla' also means 'to act' or 'to behave' in Swedish, indicating that shopping can be seen as a type of behavior or action. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The Tagalog word 'namimili' may also refer to the act of selecting or collecting items. |
| Tajik | In Tajik, the word харид has an alternate meaning of 'purchase'. |
| Tamil | The word "shopping" comes from the Old English word "sceoppian", which means "to shape" or "to form." |
| Telugu | The Telugu word "షాపింగ్" is derived from the Persian word "شاپينگ", which in turn comes from the Arabic word "شاپ", meaning "to buy". |
| Thai | The word ช้อปปิ้ง (shopping) is derived from the Thai word ชอป (shop) which means 'warehouse' or 'emporium'. |
| Turkish | The word "alışveriş yapmak" is derived from the Persian words "alış" (buying) and "veriş" (selling). |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word 'покупки' is derived from the verb 'купувати', meaning 'to buy', and can also refer to purchases or acquisitions in general. |
| Urdu | The word "خریداری" in Urdu can also refer to the process of acquiring or obtaining something, or to the act of making a purchase. |
| Uzbek | The word "xarid qilish" in Uzbek originally meant "to take something" or "to obtain something" and has evolved to mean "to buy" or "to shop". |
| Vietnamese | The word "mua sắm" can also refer to the act of buying and selling goods, or to a place where goods are bought and sold. |
| Welsh | The word "siopa" is derived from the Latin word "sub |
| Xhosa | The word 'ivenkile' also means 'a trading store' in Xhosa. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "שאַפּינג" can also refer to the act of walking around and browsing in stores, even if no purchases are made. |
| Yoruba | The Yoruba word "ohun tio wa fun" literally means "things we carry on our heads". |
| Zulu | The word 'ukuthenga' in Zulu can also mean 'to seek out' or 'to look for'. |
| English | Shop derives from an Old English word meaning "stall" or "shed". |