Sort in Different Languages
Discover 'Sort' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Sort
Afrikaans sorteer | ||
Albanian rendit | ||
Amharic ደርድር | ||
Arabic فرز | ||
Armenian տեսակավորել | ||
Assamese সজোৱা | ||
Aymara may maya | ||
Azerbaijani cür | ||
Bambara ka woloma | ||
Basque ordenatu | ||
Belarusian сартаваць | ||
Bengali সাজান | ||
Bhojpuri क्रम में सजावल | ||
Bosnian sortirati | ||
Bulgarian вид | ||
Catalan ordenar | ||
Cebuano matang | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 分类 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 分類 | ||
Corsican sorte | ||
Croatian vrsta | ||
Czech třídit | ||
Danish sortere | ||
Dhivehi ހަމައަކަށް އެޅުވުން | ||
Dogri तालना | ||
Dutch soort | ||
English sort | ||
Esperanto ordigi | ||
Estonian sorteerida | ||
Ewe ɖo | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) uri | ||
Finnish järjestellä | ||
French trier | ||
Frisian sortearje | ||
Galician ordenar | ||
Georgian დალაგება | ||
German sortieren | ||
Greek είδος | ||
Guarani mohenda | ||
Gujarati સ .ર્ટ કરો | ||
Haitian Creole sòt | ||
Hausa raba | ||
Hawaiian hoʻokaʻawale | ||
Hebrew סוג | ||
Hindi तरह | ||
Hmong ua tej yam | ||
Hungarian fajta | ||
Icelandic raða | ||
Igbo ụdị | ||
Ilocano nadumaduma | ||
Indonesian menyortir | ||
Irish sórtáil | ||
Italian ordinare | ||
Japanese ソート | ||
Javanese ngurutake | ||
Kannada ವಿಂಗಡಿಸಿ | ||
Kazakh сұрыптау | ||
Khmer តម្រៀប | ||
Kinyarwanda ubwoko | ||
Konkani वर्गवारी | ||
Korean 종류 | ||
Krio kayn | ||
Kurdish jiberhevxistin | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) جۆر | ||
Kyrgyz сорттоо | ||
Lao ຄັດ | ||
Latin generis | ||
Latvian kārtot | ||
Lingala kotya na molongo | ||
Lithuanian rūšiuoti | ||
Luganda engeri | ||
Luxembourgish sortéieren | ||
Macedonian сортирај | ||
Maithili प्रकार | ||
Malagasy sort | ||
Malay menyusun | ||
Malayalam അടുക്കുക | ||
Maltese issortja | ||
Maori kōmaka | ||
Marathi क्रमवारी लावा | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯈꯟꯗꯣꯛꯄ | ||
Mizo thliar | ||
Mongolian ангилах | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) မျိုး | ||
Nepali क्रमबद्ध | ||
Norwegian sortere | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) mtundu | ||
Odia (Oriya) ସର୍ଟ କରନ୍ତୁ | | ||
Oromo secca'uu | ||
Pashto ډول | ||
Persian مرتب سازی | ||
Polish sortować | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) ordenar | ||
Punjabi ਲੜੀਬੱਧ | ||
Quechua ñiqinchay | ||
Romanian fel | ||
Russian сортировать | ||
Samoan faʻavasega | ||
Sanskrit प्रकारं | ||
Scots Gaelic seòrsa | ||
Sepedi hlopha | ||
Serbian врста | ||
Sesotho hlopha | ||
Shona ronga | ||
Sindhi ترتيب ڏيو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) වර්ග කිරීම | ||
Slovak triediť | ||
Slovenian razvrsti | ||
Somali kala sooc | ||
Spanish ordenar | ||
Sundanese milah | ||
Swahili aina | ||
Swedish sortera | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) pag-uri-uriin | ||
Tajik навъ | ||
Tamil வகைபடுத்து | ||
Tatar сорт | ||
Telugu క్రమబద్ధీకరించు | ||
Thai เรียงลำดับ | ||
Tigrinya ምስራዕ | ||
Tsonga hlela | ||
Turkish çeşit | ||
Turkmen sort | ||
Twi (Akan) yiyi mu | ||
Ukrainian сортувати | ||
Urdu ترتیب دیں | ||
Uyghur sort | ||
Uzbek saralash | ||
Vietnamese sắp xếp | ||
Welsh didoli | ||
Xhosa uhlobo | ||
Yiddish סאָרטירן | ||
Yoruba too | ||
Zulu hlunga |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "sorteer" is derived from the French word "sorte," meaning "fate, destiny," or "lot," and is also related to the English word "sort." |
| Albanian | The word "rendit" can also mean "row". It comes from the Proto-Albanian word *rind- |
| Amharic | The word 'ደርድር' comes from the root 'ደረደ', meaning 'to arrange', indicating a process of ordering or categorizing. |
| Arabic | The word "فرز" can also mean "separation", "distinction", "analysis", "discrimination", "choice", "selection", or "classification" |
| Azerbaijani | The word "cür" in Azerbaijani can also refer to a type of fermented dairy product similar to ayran. |
| Basque | The Basque word "ordenatu" also means "to tidy up" or "to organize" |
| Belarusian | The word "сартаваць" (sort) comes from the verb "сáртаваць" (to pick out), which in turn derives from the noun "сáрта" (a bundle of straw or hay). |
| Bengali | The Bengali word "সাজান" ("sort") is derived from the Sanskrit root "sajj", meaning "to adorn" or "to make ready". |
| Bosnian | In Bosnian, "sortirati" also has a second meaning: "to go out". |
| Bulgarian | The word "вид" can also mean "species", "type", or "kind" in Bulgarian. |
| Catalan | "Ordenar" derives from medieval Latin "ordināre", meaning to arrange systematically. Its use in Catalan mirrors this sense. |
| Cebuano | The word "matang" in Cebuano derives from the archaic root "matang" (sort, classify, pick) and is related to the Malay "matang" (ripe, mature). |
| Chinese (Simplified) | Chinese characters "分类” originated from the word "分晰", which means "analysis", and the word "类别", which means "category". "分晰" then evolved to "分类" in the process of long-time use, and thus "分类" retains the meaning of analysis and categorization. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | In Japanese Kanji, it means type, class, style, category, or group but literally means “kind of thing divided into two groups for comparison.” |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "sorte" can also refer to a type of traditional song or the divination of the future through cards. |
| Croatian | The word "vrsta" can also mean "line" or "row" in a sequence or arrangement. |
| Czech | The word "třídit" is derived from the Proto-Slavic root "*tьrti" and is also the origin of the Polish "trzeć" (to rub), Russian "тереть" (to rub), and Ukrainian "терти" (to rub). |
| Danish | The word "sortere" shares its root with "sort" in English, referring to the process of organizing or categorizing various items. |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "soort" has its origins in the Old French word "sorte", meaning "fate" or "lot". |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word "ordigi" also means "to put in order", "to arrange", or "to classify". |
| Estonian | In addition to “sort,” “sorteerida” can also mean “to select.” |
| Finnish | The word "järjestellä" also means "set up" or "arrange". |
| French | The term “trier” in French also signifies a “tray, sieve.” |
| Frisian | The word "sortearje" in Frisian can also refer to a lottery or drawing of lots, similar to its meaning in Spanish. |
| Galician | The Galician word "ordenar" can also mean "to order" or "to tidy up". |
| Georgian | The Georgian word "დალაგება" originates from the Middle Persian word "drwstgn" (meaning "order" or "arrangement"). |
| German | The word "Sortieren" is derived from the Latin word "sortes", meaning "lot" or "chance". |
| Greek | The word "είδος" in Greek also means "idea" or "form", and is related to the English word "idea". |
| Gujarati | The word "સ .ર્ટ કરો" in Gujarati is derived from the English word "sort", which also means "a type of beer". |
| Haitian Creole | The word "sòt" (sort) in Haitian Creole can also mean "fate" or "destiny." |
| Hausa | Hausa "raba" also means "sort of" or "to be enough". |
| Hawaiian | The word "hoʻokaʻawale" also means "to separate" or "to set apart" in Hawaiian. |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word סוג also means "style," a common meaning in Yiddish. |
| Hindi | "तरह" (sort) in Hindi is cognate with the Persian word "tarah" (manner, style), and also means "way, manner, or method". |
| Hmong | The word "ua tej yam" also means "to divide" or "to separate" in Hmong. |
| Hungarian | The word also has a meaning of "fight" and originated from the Turkish word " |
| Icelandic | The word "raða" has a wide range of meanings, including "to place in order", "to arrange", and "to decide". |
| Igbo | The word "ụdị" can also mean "style" or "manner" in Igbo. |
| Indonesian | Menyortir is also used to describe separating something based on its size, shape or color. |
| Irish | Irish "sórtáil" shares a root with "suirt" (sort), but is also used to mean "to tidy, to sort, or to clean". |
| Italian | The term "ordinare" in Italian also holds meanings of "orderly," "regular," and "precise." |
| Japanese | In Japanese, the word ソート (sort) can also refer to a "lot" or a "kind". |
| Javanese | In Javanese, the word 'ngurutake' also means 'to select', 'to sort out', and 'to arrange'. |
| Kannada | The word "ವಿಂಗಡಿಸಿ" can also mean "separate" or "distinguish" in Kannada. |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "сұрыптау" is also used in the context of separating grains from chaff. |
| Khmer | The word តម្រៀប can also mean "to arrange" or "to put in order" in Khmer. |
| Korean | "종류" can also mean a kind, a species, a genre. |
| Kurdish | The word jiberhevxistin has a second meaning as 'to sort'. |
| Kyrgyz | While the word "сорттоо" primarily denotes "sorting" in Kyrgyz, it can also refer to "separating" or "selecting" different types of objects. |
| Lao | The word "ຄັດ" also means "to select" or "to choose". |
| Latin | The Latin word "generis" is etymologically related to the Greek word "genos," meaning "race," "origin," or "kind". |
| Latvian | In Latvian, the word “kārtot” can mean “sort,” but it can also mean “fix,” “arrange,” or “tidy up.” |
| Lithuanian | "Rūšiuoti" is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *rew-, meaning "to separate". |
| Macedonian | The Macedonian verb "сортирај" has an archaic meaning of "choose", and its root "сорт" also means "kind" or "category". |
| Malagasy | In Malagasy, the word "sort" (karazana) can also refer to a subspecies or race within a species. |
| Malay | The word "menyusun" in Malay can also mean to compile or compose. |
| Malayalam | The word "അടുക്കുക" in Malayalam also means "to gather" or "to assemble". |
| Maltese | Issortja can also mean "fate" or "lot" in Maltese. |
| Maori | The word "kōmaka" can also mean "to assemble" or "to gather". |
| Marathi | The Marathi word "क्रमवारी लावा" ("sort") derives from "क्रमवार" ("serial, ordered") and "लावणे" ("to apply, arrange") indicating the organization of items into a specific order. |
| Mongolian | The word |
| Nepali | The term 'क्रमबद्ध' originated from the Sanskrit word 'क्रम' meaning order or series, and is used to describe the process of arranging something in a particular order or sequence for easy access or understanding. |
| Norwegian | The Norwegian word "sortere" also has the alternate meaning "to file" in English. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | In English, "mtundu" is also used to refer to a particular type of African dance originating from Malawi and Zambia. |
| Pashto | The Pashto word ډول (ḍōl) is related to the Persian word "dol" which means "bowl," but can also be used as a verb meaning "to pour (something) into a bowl" |
| Persian | مرتب سازی is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *tark-, meaning "to make straight or in order." |
| Polish | The verb "sortować" also relates to the Polish nouns "sort" and "sortowanie". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The verb "ordenar" in Portuguese originates from the Latin word "ordinare," which also means "to arrange" or "to put in order." |
| Punjabi | The Punjabi word 'ਲੜੀਬੱਧ' (sort) is derived from the Sanskrit word 'शृंखला' (shrnkhala), meaning 'chain' or 'line', suggesting a sense of order or sequence. |
| Romanian | "Fel" also means "kind" or "type" in Romanian, and comes from the Latin word "felis" meaning "cat". |
| Russian | The word "Сортировать" can also mean "to classify" or "to arrange in order". |
| Samoan | Faʻavasega, meaning "sort," comes from "vasega," which means "category" or "class." |
| Scots Gaelic | In Scots Gaelic, "seòrsa" can also refer to gender, kind, or a particular type. |
| Serbian | У пољопривреди, врсте такође означава стадо или крдо стоке. |
| Sesotho | The word "hlopha" can also mean "to select" or "to choose" in Sesotho. |
| Shona | The word "ronga" can also mean "type" or "kind" in Shona. |
| Sindhi | ترتيب ڏيو not only means "sort" in Sindhi, but also means "arrange" and "put in order". |
| Slovak | The Slovak word "triediť" comes from the Proto-Slavic root *trědъ, which also meant "to divide". Modern derivations in Czech and Polish retain this meaning. |
| Slovenian | It is cognate with the Russian word "рассчитать" (raschitat), which means "to calculate". |
| Somali | The word "kala sooc" is also used to describe the process of selecting or filtering items. |
| Spanish | The Spanish word "ordenar" comes from the Latin word "ordinare" and also means "to ordain" or "to consecrate" in a religious context. |
| Sundanese | The name "milah" can also translate to "type" or "kind" in Sundanese depending on context. |
| Swahili | The Swahili word 'aina' can also refer to a category or a type, similar to the English word 'kind'. |
| Swedish | The Swedish verb "sortera" originates from the French word "assorter", meaning "to combine". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | Uri (root word of pag-uri-uriin) is also used to mean "to think deeply" in some contexts. |
| Tajik | This word may be related to a verb that means to "put" or "set" in the Sogdian language. |
| Tamil | The word "வகைபடுத்து" can also mean "classify" or "categorize". |
| Thai | The Thai word "เรียงลำดับ" literally translates to "to arrange in order" indicating its most common usage |
| Turkish | Possibly originating from the Persian word 'jisn', meaning 'type' or 'kind'. |
| Ukrainian | The word 'сортувати' is derived from the Latin word 'surdere', which means 'to rise'. It can also be used to describe the process of separating different types of objects or items into different groups. |
| Uzbek | The word "saralash" can also refer to the process of sifting or separating out the better or more useful parts of something. |
| Vietnamese | "Sắp xếp" can also mean "to arrange". The word is derived from the Chinese words "sắp" (to arrange) and "xếp" (to put in order). |
| Welsh | Didoli is said to derive from the English diddle "to cheat" but was probably influenced by the older didolo from diddl 'to go about idly'. |
| Xhosa | The word "uhlobo" can also mean "species" or "kind" in Xhosa. |
| Yiddish | "סאָרטירן" comes from the French word "assortir", meaning "to match" or "to combine". |
| Yoruba | The Yoruba word "too" can also mean "to arrange" or "to set in order." |
| Zulu | The word "hlunga" in Zulu also means "to winnow", which involves separating the chaff from the grain. |
| English | The word "sort" originally meant "a group of people" or "a class of things". |