Sight in Different Languages
Discover 'Sight' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Sight
Afrikaans sig | ||
Albanian shikimi | ||
Amharic እይታ | ||
Arabic مشهد | ||
Armenian տեսողություն | ||
Assamese দৃষ্টি | ||
Aymara nayra | ||
Azerbaijani mənzərə | ||
Bambara ɲɛ | ||
Basque ikusmena | ||
Belarusian зрок | ||
Bengali দৃষ্টিশক্তি | ||
Bhojpuri जगहा | ||
Bosnian vid | ||
Bulgarian гледка | ||
Catalan vista | ||
Cebuano panan-aw | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 视线 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 視線 | ||
Corsican vista | ||
Croatian vid | ||
Czech pohled | ||
Danish syn | ||
Dhivehi މަންޒަރު | ||
Dogri दक्ख | ||
Dutch zicht | ||
English sight | ||
Esperanto vido | ||
Estonian vaatepilt | ||
Ewe nukpᴐkpᴐ | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) paningin | ||
Finnish näky | ||
French vue | ||
Frisian sicht | ||
Galician vista | ||
Georgian მხედველობა | ||
German sicht | ||
Greek θέαμα | ||
Guarani hecha | ||
Gujarati દૃષ્ટિ | ||
Haitian Creole je | ||
Hausa gani | ||
Hawaiian ʻike maka | ||
Hebrew מראה | ||
Hindi दृष्टि | ||
Hmong pom | ||
Hungarian látás | ||
Icelandic sjón | ||
Igbo anya | ||
Ilocano panangkita | ||
Indonesian melihat | ||
Irish radharc | ||
Italian vista | ||
Japanese 視力 | ||
Javanese pandeleng | ||
Kannada ದೃಷ್ಟಿ | ||
Kazakh көру | ||
Khmer មើលឃើញ | ||
Kinyarwanda kureba | ||
Konkani नदर | ||
Korean 시각 | ||
Krio si | ||
Kurdish nerrînî | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) دیدە | ||
Kyrgyz көрүү | ||
Lao sight | ||
Latin aspectu | ||
Latvian redze | ||
Lingala komona | ||
Lithuanian regėjimas | ||
Luganda okulaba | ||
Luxembourgish gesinn | ||
Macedonian глетка | ||
Maithili दृष्टि | ||
Malagasy fahitana | ||
Malay penglihatan | ||
Malayalam കാഴ്ച | ||
Maltese vista | ||
Maori tirohanga | ||
Marathi दृष्टी | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯎꯕ | ||
Mizo thilhmuh | ||
Mongolian хараа | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) မျက်လုံး | ||
Nepali दृष्टि | ||
Norwegian syn | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kupenya | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଦୃଶ୍ୟ | ||
Oromo argaa | ||
Pashto لید | ||
Persian منظره | ||
Polish widok | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) vista | ||
Punjabi ਨਜ਼ਰ | ||
Quechua rikurina | ||
Romanian vedere | ||
Russian взгляд | ||
Samoan vaʻai | ||
Sanskrit दृश्य | ||
Scots Gaelic sealladh | ||
Sepedi pono | ||
Serbian вид | ||
Sesotho pono | ||
Shona kuona | ||
Sindhi نظارو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) පෙනීම | ||
Slovak zrak | ||
Slovenian pogled | ||
Somali aragti | ||
Spanish visión | ||
Sundanese tetempoan | ||
Swahili kuona | ||
Swedish syn | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) paningin | ||
Tajik биноӣ | ||
Tamil பார்வை | ||
Tatar күрү | ||
Telugu దృష్టి | ||
Thai สายตา | ||
Tigrinya ትርኢት | ||
Tsonga vona | ||
Turkish görme | ||
Turkmen görmek | ||
Twi (Akan) adesunu | ||
Ukrainian зір | ||
Urdu نظر | ||
Uyghur كۆرۈش | ||
Uzbek ko'rish | ||
Vietnamese thị giác | ||
Welsh golwg | ||
Xhosa ukubona | ||
Yiddish ראיה | ||
Yoruba oju | ||
Zulu ukubona |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "sig" is also used to describe a person that is very annoying or troublesome. |
| Albanian | The word "shikimi" is ultimately derived from the same Proto-Indo-European root as the English "spy" and the Latin "cavere" (to beware). |
| Amharic | The word "እይታ" can have several meanings, including "vision", "appearance", and "point of view". |
| Arabic | The word "مشهد" in Arabic can also refer to a city in Iran, a place of pilgrimage, or a theatrical performance. |
| Azerbaijani | The word |
| Basque | As an adjective, "ikusmena" means "visible" or "observable" in Basque. |
| Belarusian | The word "зрок" is derived from the Proto-Slavic root *zьr-, meaning "to see". |
| Bengali | The Bengali word "দৃষ্টিশক্তি" can also refer to the ability to perceive things that are not physically visible, such as the future, or to the mental faculty of understanding or recognizing something. |
| Bosnian | The word "vid" in Bosnian also means "knowledge" or "vision". |
| Bulgarian | The Bulgarian word "гледка" can also mean "view" or "scenery". |
| Catalan | The Catalan "vista" is the same as the Italian "vista" and Spanish "vista," and all originate from the classical Latin "vista". |
| Cebuano | "Panan-aw" also refers to one's "soul". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 视线 means 'line of sight', but can also be used figuratively to refer to one's perspective or attention. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 視線 can also mean the gaze or the look |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "vista" can also refer to a slope or hillside. |
| Croatian | The word "vid" can also mean "appearance", "look" or "aspect". |
| Czech | The word "pohled" also has the meaning of "a view" (of a landscape) or "a glimpse". |
| Danish | The word "syn" can also mean "opinion" or "viewpoint" in Danish. |
| Dutch | Etymology: "zicht" is cognate with the English word "sight"; both are derived from the Proto-Germanic root *sehwan-, meaning "to see." |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word "vido" ("sight") is derived from the Latin "visus" and also means "view" or "opinion." |
| Estonian | The word "vaatepilt" can also refer to a view or spectacle. |
| Finnish | The word 'näky' is also used to refer to apparitions or supernatural visions. |
| French | 'Vue' derives from Latin 'visus', meaning 'act of seeing', and shares a linguistic root with 'vision' and 'view'. |
| Frisian | In Frisian, "sicht" can also refer to a "view" or a "perspective". |
| Galician | The Galician word "vista" can also refer to a "landscape" or "viewpoint". |
| German | Sicht (view in German) can also refer to the distance over which something can be seen (e.g. the sichtweite). |
| Greek | Ancient Greek theatre was often referred to as θέαμα, which translates variously as spectacle or sight. |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "દૃષ્ટિ" (drishti) also means "vision" or "viewpoint" in a philosophical sense. |
| Haitian Creole | The word "je" in Haitian Creole can also refer to an apparition, vision, or a supernatural experience. |
| Hausa | "Gani" can also mean "vision" or "understanding" in Hausa. |
| Hawaiian | ʻIke maka translates to "sight," but can also mean "to know" or "to see the truth." |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "מראה" (sight) comes from the root "ראה" (to see), and can also mean "appearance" or "vision". |
| Hindi | In Sanskrit, "दृष्टि" (dṛṣṭi) means "vision" and is related to the root "दृश्" (dṛś), meaning "to see". |
| Hmong | In Hmong, "pom" also means "spirit, soul, or mind". |
| Hungarian | The suffix -ás of the Hungarian word "látás" indicates an abstract noun and is cognates with the suffix -ness in English words such as “sadness”. |
| Icelandic | The word "sjón" also has a secondary meaning of "vision" or "prophecy" in Icelandic. |
| Igbo | The Igbo word "anya" also refers to the "spirit or energy of a person". |
| Indonesian | The word "melihat" also means "to know" or "to experience" something. |
| Irish | "Radharc" is a common noun in Irish that is related to the verb "feisc" meaning "to see" and "rad" meaning "wheel". |
| Italian | The word "vista" in Italian originates from the Latin word "visus," meaning "vision" or "seeing." |
| Japanese | Kanji 視 originally meant a bird’s eye, then watching, and then sight. |
| Javanese | In Javanese, the word "pandeleng" also has other meanings, such as "a mirror" and "a spectacle". |
| Kannada | The word "ದೃಷ್ಟಿ" (drishti) in Kannada can also mean "vision", "perspective", or "gaze". |
| Kazakh | 'Көру' means 'to see' but is also used to refer to the ability to see. |
| Khmer | The word "មើលឃើញ" can also mean "to perceive" or "to witness". |
| Korean | The word "시각" also means "point of view" or "perspective". |
| Kurdish | The word "nerrînî" also means "a view". |
| Kyrgyz | In addition to meaning "sight," "көрүү" can also mean "meeting" in Kyrgyz. |
| Lao | The Lao word for "sight" is "nhin," which can also mean "look" or "view." |
| Latin | Aspectu, originally meaning 'to look at,' later came to mean appearance, look, viewpoint, or aspect. |
| Latvian | The word "redze" derives from the Proto-Baltic word *reĝ-, which also means "glance" or "look". |
| Lithuanian | The word "regėjimas" is derived from the verb "regėti", which means "to see" or "to perceive". |
| Luxembourgish | The word "Gesinn" can also refer to a person's attitude or disposition. |
| Macedonian | Глетка can also mean "cage" and derives from the Proto-Slavic word klѣtъ, meaning "cage," "cell" or "chamber." |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word 'fahitana' is also used to refer to the act of sighting or seeing something, or to the process of taking something into view. |
| Malay | The Malay word "penglihatan" can also refer to a premonition or vision. |
| Malayalam | The word "കാഴ്ച" in Malayalam can also refer to an experience or spectacle, a vision or hallucination, or a spectacle or curiosity. |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "vista" has the same Latin etymology as the English word "vision" and carries additional meanings of "appearance" and "intention." |
| Maori | "Tirohanga" also means "viewpoint" or "perspective" in Maori. |
| Marathi | In Marathi, "दृष्टी" also means "perspective" or "vision". |
| Mongolian | Kharaa can also refer to a type of spirit in Mongolian culture that guides and protects people. |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The word "မျက်လုံး" literally means "eye-ball" but also refers to the sense of sight, a concept or idea, or even an object of beauty. |
| Nepali | The term 'दृष्टि' also refers to a 'point of view' or 'perspective'. |
| Norwegian | The word "syn" also means "sin" in Norwegian, stemming from the Old Norse "synd" meaning "guilt" or "wrongdoing." |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | Kupenya in Nyanja is a noun that also means "vision" in English. |
| Pashto | In Pashto, "لید" can also refer to a meeting or a gathering. |
| Persian | In Persian, "منظره" (manzara) has additional meanings such as "view", "scenery", and "landscape." |
| Polish | Widok, meaning "sight," also relates to "appearances" and "perspectives." |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, "vista" can also mean "landscape" or "viewpoint". |
| Punjabi | In Punjabi, "ਨਜ਼ਰ" (nazar) signifies not only sight but also an evil eye belief, requiring "nazar battu" (amulet) protection. |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "vedere" (sight) derives from the Latin "videre" (to see), also related to the Spanish verb "ver" (to see) and the French verb "voir" (to see). |
| Russian | "Взгляд" (sight) is derived from an Old Russian verb *vidъti* (to see) and can also mean "view". |
| Samoan | The Samoan word "vaʻai" is a cognate of the Māori word "wahi", both derived from the Proto-Polynesian word *paki, meaning "to look or see". |
| Scots Gaelic | Sealladh can also denote a ghost or an apparition as well as a view or vista in Gaelic. |
| Serbian | The Serbian word “вид” has the alternate meaning of “species” and also shares etymological roots with the Russian word “вид” meaning “appearance”. |
| Sesotho | "Pono" in Sesotho, meaning "sight," is potentially derived from the verb "ponaha," meaning "to see," suggesting its root in visual perception. |
| Shona | The word "kuona" in Shona also means "to understand" or "to recognise". |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "نظارو" ("sight") has an alternate meaning, "spy", and is cognate with the Sanskrit word "निरीक्षक" ("inspector"). |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | "පෙනීම" (sight) is also used in Sinhala to mean "appearance" or "vision". |
| Slovak | "Zrak" also means "air" in Slovak, a language similar to Czech. "Vzduch" is a synonym with a more explicit meaning of "air". |
| Slovenian | "Pogled" comes from the Old Slavic root *po-gledъ, meaning "to look at". |
| Somali | The word "aragti" also means "knowledge" or "understanding" in Somali. |
| Spanish | In Spanish, "visión" can also refer to the faculty of seeing or the power of discernment and understanding. |
| Sundanese | The word "tetempoan" in Sundanese also means "an open space with a view" or "an expanse of time and space". |
| Swahili | The word 'kuona' in Swahili also means 'to understand' or 'to perceive'. |
| Swedish | In Swedish, the word "syn" (sight), also means "vision" and "appearance". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Paningin" is derived from the root word "tingin," which means "to look" or "to see." |
| Tajik | The word "биноӣ" in Tajik means "sight", but it can also refer to a "view" or "spectacle." |
| Tamil | The Tamil word பார்வை (sight) comes from the root word பார் (look), and can also mean 'vision', 'knowledge', or 'viewpoint'. |
| Telugu | The Telugu word "దృష్టి" also signifies an evil eye and is often used in the context of warding off evil spirits. |
| Thai | สายตา (สายต) means 'eye' in old Thai, and is used as an alternative to ตา when the latter means 'bud, germ' |
| Turkish | Görme, meaning 'sight', is also used in compounds such as 'görme kaybı' (loss of vision) or 'görme engeli' (visual impairment). |
| Ukrainian | "Зір" is a homophone, meaning both "sight" and "grain" in Ukrainian. |
| Urdu | "نظر" not only means "sight" in Urdu, but also refers to one's "viewpoint" or "perspective". |
| Uzbek | "Ko'rish" also means "to see", "to look at" or "to watch" in Uzbek. |
| Vietnamese | Thị giác is a Sino-Vietnamese word derived from the Chinese characters 視覺, meaning 'the sense of sight'. |
| Welsh | The Welsh word "golwg" can also refer to a particular perspective or viewpoint. |
| Xhosa | The Xhosa word "ukubona" not only means "sight" but also "to see" and "to understand". |
| Yiddish | "ראיה" can also mean "proof" or "evidence" in Yiddish, due to its Hebrew origin. |
| Yoruba | The word "oju" in Yoruba also refers to the "face" or "head". |
| Zulu | Ukubona can mean 'to have a vision, dream or hallucination,' and is related to the verb bona ('to see'). |
| English | Sight can also refer to the act of seeing or the ability to see, or to a place that affords a good view. |