Species in Different Languages
Discover 'Species' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Species
Afrikaans spesie | ||
Albanian speciet | ||
Amharic ዝርያዎች | ||
Arabic محيط | ||
Armenian տեսակներ | ||
Assamese প্ৰজাতি | ||
Aymara ispisyinaka | ||
Azerbaijani növlər | ||
Bambara násuguyaw | ||
Basque espezieak | ||
Belarusian віды | ||
Bengali প্রজাতি | ||
Bhojpuri प्रजाति | ||
Bosnian vrsta | ||
Bulgarian видове | ||
Catalan espècies | ||
Cebuano species | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 种类 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 種類 | ||
Corsican spezia | ||
Croatian vrsta | ||
Czech druh | ||
Danish arter | ||
Dhivehi ވައްތަރުގެ | ||
Dogri जाति | ||
Dutch soorten | ||
English species | ||
Esperanto specioj | ||
Estonian liigid | ||
Ewe ƒome | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) uri ng hayop | ||
Finnish lajeja | ||
French espèce | ||
Frisian soarten | ||
Galician especies | ||
Georgian სახეობები | ||
German spezies | ||
Greek είδος | ||
Guarani nungakuéra | ||
Gujarati પ્રજાતિઓ | ||
Haitian Creole espès yo | ||
Hausa nau'in | ||
Hawaiian ʻano laha | ||
Hebrew מִין | ||
Hindi जाति | ||
Hmong hom | ||
Hungarian faj | ||
Icelandic tegundir | ||
Igbo umu | ||
Ilocano species | ||
Indonesian jenis | ||
Irish speicis | ||
Italian specie | ||
Japanese 種 | ||
Javanese spesies | ||
Kannada ಜಾತಿಗಳು | ||
Kazakh түрлері | ||
Khmer ប្រភេទសត្វ | ||
Kinyarwanda ubwoko | ||
Konkani प्रजाती | ||
Korean 종 | ||
Krio kayn | ||
Kurdish celeb | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) جۆرەکان | ||
Kyrgyz түрлөр | ||
Lao ຊະນິດ | ||
Latin species | ||
Latvian sugas | ||
Lingala biloko | ||
Lithuanian rūšių | ||
Luganda ebika | ||
Luxembourgish spezies | ||
Macedonian видови | ||
Maithili प्रजाति | ||
Malagasy karazana | ||
Malay spesies | ||
Malayalam സ്പീഷീസ് | ||
Maltese speċi | ||
Maori momo | ||
Marathi प्रजाती | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯖꯤꯕ ꯃꯈꯜ | ||
Mizo pawl chi khat | ||
Mongolian төрөл зүйл | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) မျိုးစိတ် | ||
Nepali प्रजाति | ||
Norwegian arter | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) zamoyo | ||
Odia (Oriya) ପ୍ରଜାତିଗୁଡିକ | | ||
Oromo gosa | ||
Pashto ډولونه | ||
Persian گونه ها | ||
Polish gatunki | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) espécies | ||
Punjabi ਸਪੀਸੀਜ਼ | ||
Quechua uywakuna | ||
Romanian specii | ||
Russian виды | ||
Samoan ituaiga | ||
Sanskrit विजाति | ||
Scots Gaelic gnèithean | ||
Sepedi mohuta | ||
Serbian врста | ||
Sesotho mefuta | ||
Shona mhando | ||
Sindhi ذاتون | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) විශේෂ | ||
Slovak druhov | ||
Slovenian vrste | ||
Somali noocyada | ||
Spanish especies | ||
Sundanese jenis | ||
Swahili spishi | ||
Swedish arter | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) species | ||
Tajik намудҳо | ||
Tamil இனங்கள் | ||
Tatar төрләре | ||
Telugu జాతులు | ||
Thai สายพันธุ์ | ||
Tigrinya ዓሌታት | ||
Tsonga muxaka | ||
Turkish türler | ||
Turkmen görnüşleri | ||
Twi (Akan) nkyekyɛmu ahodoɔ | ||
Ukrainian видів | ||
Urdu پرجاتیوں | ||
Uyghur تۈرلىرى | ||
Uzbek turlari | ||
Vietnamese loài | ||
Welsh rhywogaethau | ||
Xhosa iintlobo | ||
Yiddish מינים | ||
Yoruba eya | ||
Zulu izinhlobo |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | In Afrikaans, "spesie" can also refer to a type of currency, or a kind or variety of something. |
| Albanian | The Albanian word "speciet" is derived from Latin "species" and also means "aspect" or "kind". |
| Amharic | The word "ዝርያ" comes from the Arabic word "صنف", which means "kind". |
| Arabic | The word "محيط" is derived from the root "حيط" meaning "to surround" or "to protect", referring to the idea of species encompassing a group of organisms that share similar characteristics and live in a particular environment. |
| Azerbaijani | Növlər, meaning species in Azerbaijani, originally meant "sort" or "kind" in Old Turkic and is related to the word "növ" which means generation. |
| Basque | "Espezieak" also derives from the Latin word "species," meaning "appearance". |
| Belarusian | The Belarusian word "віды" can also mean "types" or "sorts". |
| Bengali | ‘প্রজাতি’ also refers to the ‘genus’ and ‘type of’ something in Bengali. |
| Bosnian | The word "vrsta" can also refer to "queue" in Bosnian. |
| Bulgarian | Bulgarian word "видове" can mean both "types" and "species (of animals or plants)" depending on the context. |
| Catalan | The word "espècies" in Catalan derives from the Latin word "species", which also means "appearance" or "form". |
| Cebuano | The Cebuano word "species" comes from the Latin word "species", meaning "kind" or "type". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "种类" (species) literally means "kind of category" |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 種類 literally translates as “category, or type of” and can refer to species; category; type; kind |
| Corsican | The word "spezia" in Corsican language also means "spice". |
| Croatian | The Slavic word *vrsta* originally meant "order, sequence" and later "group, kind". |
| Czech | The word "druh" can also refer to a kind or a type of something. |
| Danish | The word 'art' in Danish has its roots in the Latin word 'ars', meaning 'art' or 'skill,' and is also related to the English word 'art'. |
| Dutch | The word "soorten" can also refer to "types, kinds, varieties, forms, categories, classes, divisions, and groups" in Dutch. |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word "specioj" can also be used to refer to samples or specimens of a substance or material. |
| Estonian | The word "liigid" is cognate with the Finnish word "laji," both ultimately deriving from the Proto-Uralic word *laje. |
| Finnish | The word "lajeja" can also refer to a variety of things, including a group of animals or plants, a type of rock, or a layer of something. |
| French | The French word "espèce" is cognate with the Latin word "species", which meant "appearance" or "type". |
| Frisian | The word "soarten" in Frisian derives from the Proto-Germanic word *sperk, meaning "seed" or "sowing". |
| Galician | The Galician word "especies" comes from Latin "species", but also derives from the Latin "spectare" and the Proto-Indo-European "spek", meaning "to look at" or "to observe". |
| German | The word "Spezies" was originally a Latin term for "external appearance," and this sense is still used in specialized contexts. |
| Greek | Είδος is also used in botany to refer to a genus or family. |
| Gujarati | Gujarati "પ્રજાતિઓ" may also refer to a breed or variety of animals, especially domestic ones, or to a group of similar people sharing a common culture, language, or religion. |
| Haitian Creole | In Haitian Creole, "espès yo" ("species") also refers to a particular type of fish. |
| Hausa | The Hausa word 'nau'in' is a doublet, being cognate with both the Proto-Afro-Asiatic root *nʔn 'give birth to' and the Proto-Saharan root *ŋʷin 'young animal'. |
| Hawaiian | 'Ano laha' literally means 'separate, divided or different' and refers to plants or animals that are distinct from each other. |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "מִין" (species) is also used to refer to "type", "category", "gender", or "kind", and is derived from the Proto-Semitic root "*mīn" meaning "to separate". |
| Hindi | The root of "जाति" is also the root of words meaning "birth", "origin" and "caste." |
| Hmong | Hom is also a Hmong word for a "group of people originating from the same ancestor" and "a type of person or thing; genus; kind." |
| Hungarian | "Faj" is borrowed from German "Gattung" (kind, species), which is in turn derived from Low German "faget/ faget" (kind, species). |
| Icelandic | "Tegundir" is etymologically related to "tegund", meaning "type" or "kind". |
| Igbo | In Igbo, "umu" can also refer to children, descendants, or siblings, reflecting the importance of family and lineage in Igbo culture. |
| Indonesian | The Indonesian word "jenis" ('species') derives from the Arabic "jins" ('kind or type'), which originally meant 'generation,' 'lineage,' or 'sex'. As a result, "jenis" in Indonesian can mean either 'species' or 'type', even as a type of genre within the category of literature. |
| Irish | In Irish the word "speicis" can refer to the biological definition of "species" or to the "appearance" or "look" of something. |
| Italian | In Italian, "specie" can also mean "money" or "cash", due to its historical association with the specific type of coins used as currency. |
| Japanese | 種 (shu) in Japanese also means 'kind', 'type', 'sort', or 'variety' in a more general sense, not limited to biological species. |
| Javanese | In Javanese, the word "spesies" can also refer to a type or variety of something. |
| Kannada | The word "ಜಾತಿಗಳು" can also refer to a caste or community within the Indian caste system. |
| Kazakh | Түрлері is also used in Kazakh to refer to a type of bird, specifically a species of falcon. |
| Korean | In Korean, "종" ("species") also means "kind", "type", or "class". |
| Kurdish | The Kurdish word "celeb" also means "type" or "kind". |
| Kyrgyz | The word “түрлөр” (“species”) can also be used to refer to a specific type of animal or plant within a wider classification. |
| Latin | In Latin, "species" also refers to the appearance, form, or kind of something. |
| Latvian | The word "sugas" in Latvian has alternate meanings of "genus" and "type." |
| Lithuanian | The word "rūšių" is the Lithuanian word for "species", and is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kreus- ("to separate"). |
| Luxembourgish | In Luxembourgish "Spezies" can also refer to a spice or monetary amount. |
| Macedonian | The word "видови" also means "variety" or "kind" in Macedonian. |
| Malagasy | The word “karazana” is borrowed from Arabic, where it means “kind” or “sort.” |
| Malay | Malay "spesies" also means the metal tip affixed at one end of a stick or cane to prevent splitting and wear. |
| Malayalam | The word "species" is derived from the Latin word "species," which means "kind, sort, or appearance." |
| Maltese | Maltese "speċi" originates from the Latin "species" (form, kind) also meaning "view" or "appearance" in the case of apparitions or ghosts. |
| Maori | Momo in Maori can also mean 'branch' or 'generation' |
| Marathi | "प्रजाती" comes from the Sanskrit word "प्रजा" (praja), meaning progeny, or offspring. |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word "төрөл зүйл" is derived from the root "төрөл" meaning "birth" or "origin", and "зүйл" meaning "kind" or "type". |
| Nepali | The Sanskrit term 'pra’jati (u2018origin') relates primarily to the origin (u2018jati') of life and its categories and divisions. |
| Norwegian | In Norwegian "art" can also mean "sheet" referring to printing or paper. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | In Chichewa, "zamoyo" can also refer to an individual of a species. |
| Pashto | ډولونه specifically refers to plants and animals and means "kinds" in Pashto. |
| Persian | The word "گونه ها" in Persian derives from the word "گون" meaning "kind" or "type" and "ها" which is a plural suffix in Persian. |
| Polish | The Polish word "gatunki" also refers to a type of mushroom and a breed of dog. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "espécies" in Portuguese also has the meaning "money" or "cash", derived from the old Roman coins called "species", which were made of gold or silver. |
| Punjabi | The word "ਸਪੀਸੀਜ਼" (species) is derived from the Latin word "species," which means "kind" or "appearance." |
| Romanian | Specii is also the plural of specie in Romanian, referring to coin or banknotes. |
| Russian | The Russian word "виды" (species) derives from the Proto-Slavic "viděti" (to see), indicating the classification of organisms based on observable characteristics. |
| Samoan | ituaiga also means "clan" or "lineage" and is often used to refer to extended family groups. |
| Scots Gaelic | The Gaelic word "gnèithean" can also refer to a kind, sort, or type of something. |
| Serbian | "Врста" is also a word for "type" and "kind". |
| Sesotho | The word "mefuta" can also be derived from the root word "fota", which means "to create," suggesting a connection between species and the act of creation |
| Shona | The word 'mhando' also refers to a 'type' or 'kind' of something. |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word 'ذاتون' is derived from the Arabic word 'ذات' meaning 'self' or 'essence', and is also used to refer to a 'kind' or 'type' of thing. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The term ‘විශේෂ’ in Sinhala, originally referred to the term 'unique' before adapting the meaning of 'species'. |
| Slovak | The word "druhov" can also refer to a "kind" or "type" of something. |
| Slovenian | Slovenian word "vrste" can mean not only "species", but also "kind", "category" or "range". |
| Somali | The word "noocyada" in Somali is derived from the Arabic word "naw'i", meaning "kind" or "type". |
| Spanish | The Spanish word "especies" can refer to cash or money in addition to biological species. |
| Sundanese | In Sundanese, "jenis" can also refer to a type of plant or animal. |
| Swahili | In Swahili, 'spishi' can also mean 'type' or 'kind'. |
| Swedish | The Swedish word "arter" comes from the Latin word "artus", meaning "joint". The word has also been used to refer to a type of plant in Swedish. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | In Tagalog, the plural form of "specie" is "espesye" which retains the original Spanish spelling but pronounced as [ɛspɛsjɛ]. |
| Tajik | The Persian word "namuhd" means "prototype" or "sample," and is used to refer to biological species in Tajik. |
| Telugu | జాతులు also means "races" in the context of human populations. |
| Thai | The root word, "สาย", means rope; "พันธุ์" originates from "พันธ์," meaning seed. |
| Turkish | The Turkish word "Türler" originates from the Arabic word "tür," meaning "kind, manner, or race". |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word “видів” (species) comes from the Proto-Slavic word *vidъ, meaning “appearance, form, look”. |
| Urdu | In Urdu, پرجاتیوں comes from the Sanskrit word "prajāti," meaning "birth" or "kind," and is related to the word "praja," meaning "people" or "offspring." |
| Uzbek | The word "turlari" derives from the Proto-Turkic root "turu" and also means "kinds", "sorts", or "varieties". |
| Vietnamese | "Loài" is also a term for "sort", "category", or "kind" of thing in Vietnamese. |
| Welsh | The Welsh word "rhywogaethau" can also mean "varieties" or "classifications" in addition to "species" |
| Xhosa | In traditional Xhosa belief, the iintlobo is the totem animal of the amaPhondo clan. |
| Yiddish | The word "מינים" ("species") in Yiddish derives from the Hebrew word "מין" ("species") but also has the connotation of "type" or "sort". |
| Yoruba | The word "eya" in Yoruba also means "type, kind, or variety". |
| Zulu | The Zulu word "izinhlobo" refers to "species" in English and also carries the meaning of "kinds," "varieties," or "types." |
| English | The word species derives from a Latin root meaning ‘a kind’, ‘a type’ or ‘a particular thing’, and was used in Medieval Latin for ‘form’ or ‘appearance’. |