Staff in Different Languages
Discover 'Staff' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Staff
Afrikaans personeel | ||
Albanian stafi | ||
Amharic ሠራተኞች | ||
Arabic العاملين | ||
Armenian անձնակազմ | ||
Assamese কৰ্মচাৰী | ||
Aymara pirsunala | ||
Azerbaijani heyəti | ||
Bambara baarakɛlaw | ||
Basque langileak | ||
Belarusian персанал | ||
Bengali কর্মী | ||
Bhojpuri करमचारी | ||
Bosnian osoblje | ||
Bulgarian персонал | ||
Catalan personal | ||
Cebuano kawani | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 员工 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 員工 | ||
Corsican persunale | ||
Croatian osoblje | ||
Czech personál | ||
Danish personale | ||
Dhivehi މުވައްޒަފުން | ||
Dogri अमला | ||
Dutch personeel | ||
English staff | ||
Esperanto personaro | ||
Estonian töötajad | ||
Ewe dᴐwᴐlawo | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) mga tauhan | ||
Finnish henkilökunta | ||
French personnel | ||
Frisian personiel | ||
Galician persoal | ||
Georgian პერსონალი | ||
German mitarbeiter | ||
Greek προσωπικό | ||
Guarani mba'apohára | ||
Gujarati સ્ટાફ | ||
Haitian Creole anplwaye yo | ||
Hausa ma'aikata | ||
Hawaiian limahana | ||
Hebrew צוות | ||
Hindi कर्मचारी | ||
Hmong cov neeg ua haujlwm | ||
Hungarian személyzet | ||
Icelandic starfsfólk | ||
Igbo mkpara | ||
Ilocano empleado | ||
Indonesian staf | ||
Irish baill foirne | ||
Italian personale | ||
Japanese スタッフ | ||
Javanese staf | ||
Kannada ಸಿಬ್ಬಂದಿ | ||
Kazakh персонал | ||
Khmer បុគ្គលិក | ||
Kinyarwanda abakozi | ||
Konkani कर्मचारीवर्ग | ||
Korean 직원 | ||
Krio wokman | ||
Kurdish darik | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) ستاف | ||
Kyrgyz кызматкерлер | ||
Lao ພະນັກງານ | ||
Latin virgam | ||
Latvian personāls | ||
Lingala bato ya mosala | ||
Lithuanian personalas | ||
Luganda abakozi | ||
Luxembourgish personal | ||
Macedonian персонал | ||
Maithili कर्मचारी | ||
Malagasy staff | ||
Malay kakitangan | ||
Malayalam സ്റ്റാഫ് | ||
Maltese persunal | ||
Maori kaimahi | ||
Marathi कर्मचारी | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯆꯩꯁꯨ | ||
Mizo thawktu | ||
Mongolian ажилтнууд | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ဝန်ထမ်းများ | ||
Nepali कर्मचारी | ||
Norwegian personale | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) antchito | ||
Odia (Oriya) କର୍ମଚାରୀ | ||
Oromo hojjettoota waajjira tokkoo | ||
Pashto کارمندان | ||
Persian کارکنان | ||
Polish personel | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) funcionários | ||
Punjabi ਸਟਾਫ | ||
Quechua llamkaqkuna | ||
Romanian personal | ||
Russian сотрудники | ||
Samoan aufaigaluega | ||
Sanskrit कर्मकरगणः | ||
Scots Gaelic luchd-obrach | ||
Sepedi bašomedi | ||
Serbian особље | ||
Sesotho basebetsi | ||
Shona vashandi | ||
Sindhi اسٽاف | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) කාර්ය මණ්ඩලය | ||
Slovak zamestnancov | ||
Slovenian osebje | ||
Somali shaqaalaha | ||
Spanish personal | ||
Sundanese patugas | ||
Swahili wafanyakazi | ||
Swedish personal | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) mga tauhan | ||
Tajik кормандон | ||
Tamil ஊழியர்கள் | ||
Tatar персонал | ||
Telugu సిబ్బంది | ||
Thai เจ้าหน้าที่ | ||
Tigrinya ሰራሕተኛታት | ||
Tsonga vatirhi | ||
Turkish personel | ||
Turkmen işgärler | ||
Twi (Akan) odwumayɛni | ||
Ukrainian персонал | ||
Urdu عملہ | ||
Uyghur خىزمەتچىلەر | ||
Uzbek xodimlar | ||
Vietnamese nhân viên | ||
Welsh staff | ||
Xhosa abasebenzi | ||
Yiddish שטעקן | ||
Yoruba osise | ||
Zulu abasebenzi |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "personeel" in Afrikaans derives from the Dutch word "personeel", which in turn comes from the Latin word "persona" meaning "mask" or "character". |
| Albanian | The Albanian word "stafi" can also refer to a person who holds a staff of office, such as a bishop's crosier or a marshal's baton. |
| Amharic | The word "ሠራተኞች" (staff) in Amharic comes from the verb "ሠራ" (to work), and it literally means "those who work." |
| Arabic | العاملين, plural of عامل, can also mean "active" or "effective". |
| Azerbaijani | "Heyəti" can mean "staff" or "faculty" and is derived from the Persian word "heyʾat" meaning "body" or "group". |
| Basque | The Basque word "langileak" can also mean "workers" or "laborers" |
| Belarusian | "Персанал" comes from the Latin "personalis" (personal) and has the alternative meaning of "personnel" in English. |
| Bengali | The word "কর্মী" also means "an employee" or "a worker" in Bengali. |
| Bosnian | The word 'osoblje' in Bosnian can also mean 'group of supporters for a specific action' or 'people from a certain origin or class'. |
| Bulgarian | In Bulgarian, "персонал" also refers to a staff notation in music. |
| Catalan | In Catalan, "personal" can also refer to the "set of members" of an institution or organization. |
| Cebuano | The word "kawani" also means "a person employed; a worker" in Tagalog. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 员工 (yuángōng) literally means "help work." |
| Chinese (Traditional) | "員工" (staff) was originally used to refer to the officials of the imperial court. |
| Corsican | The word "persunale" is derived from the Latin "personalis", meaning "personal" or "relating to a person. |
| Croatian | The word 'osoblje' comes from the Croatian verb 'opskrbljivati', meaning 'to provide for', and originally referred to a group of people tasked with providing supplies or services. |
| Czech | The word "personál" in Czech is derived from the Latin word "persona," meaning "mask" or "character." |
| Danish | In Danish, "personale" can also mean "personnel" or "staff members of a particular organization." |
| Dutch | The word "personeel" in Dutch shares an etymological root with the English word "persona", derived from the Latin word for "mask". |
| Esperanto | An alternative meaning of "personaro" is "personnel". |
| Estonian | The word "töötajad" in Estonian derives from "töö" ("work") and "taja" ("doer"), and can also refer to "workers", "employees", or "personnel". |
| Finnish | In Finnish, "henkilökunta" also refers to a group of people with shared interests or traits, similar to the English "staff" in the phrase "staff of life". |
| French | In French, 'personnel' also refers to someone's personal belongings and is derived from the Latin 'personalis' (personal). |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "personiel" is ultimately derived from the Latin word "persona", which originally meant "mask". |
| Galician | The word "persoal" in Galician can also refer to a set of clothes worn by a group as a uniform. |
| Georgian | The word "პერსონალი" is derived from the Latin word "persona", meaning "mask" or "character", and refers to the group of individuals working in an organization or business. |
| German | The word 'Mitarbeiter' is derived from the Middle High German word 'mitarbeiten', meaning 'to work together'. |
| Greek | "Προσωπικό" in Greek can also refer to a person's face, appearance, or demeanor. |
| Gujarati | The word "staff" in Gujarati can also mean a bamboo pole used as a support or a rod carried as a symbol of authority. |
| Haitian Creole | The word "anplwaye yo" in Haitian Creole can also mean "employees" in English. |
| Hausa | Ma'aikata, meaning staff, also refers to a group of people working together, such as a team or crew. |
| Hawaiian | The word 'limahana' can also refer to a person who holds a staff or a position of authority. |
| Hebrew | "צוות" can also refer to a group of people working together, such as a medical staff or a team of researchers. |
| Hindi | 'कर्मचारी' is derived from the Sanskrit word 'karmachari', which means 'one who performs actions' or 'one who works'. |
| Hmong | The word "cov neeg ua haujlwm" can also mean "the people who are helping". |
| Hungarian | The Hungarian word „személyzet” derives from the verb „személyez” meaning „to personify” and originally referred to the cast of actors in a theater. |
| Icelandic | The Old Norse word starf means work or a deed to be carried out, indicating that stafsfólk may have referred to both household employees, servants and employees engaged directly in the master's work. |
| Igbo | In the Igbo language, the term 'mkpara' can also refer to a musical instrument consisting of three or more wooden sticks hit against each other, creating a percussive rhythm. |
| Indonesian | The word "staf" in Indonesian can also mean "stick" or "rod". |
| Irish | Baill foirne, meaning "staff" in Irish, may relate to the Proto-Celtic "*baglo-," meaning "stick, staff, branch." |
| Italian | The word "personale" comes from the Latin word "persona", which means "mask" or "character." |
| Japanese | In Japanese, the word "staff" (スタッフ) comes from the English word "staff," but also has a sense of "assistant" or "technician" in the entertainment業界. |
| Javanese | In Javanese, "staf" can also refer to subordinates in an organization. |
| Kannada | The word "ಸಿಬ್ಬಂದಿ" ultimately derives from the Proto-Indo-European root *stebʰ-, meaning "to stand". |
| Kazakh | The word "персонал" can also mean "personnel" in Kazakh. |
| Korean | 직원 is also used to refer to the personnel of a company or organization |
| Kurdish | The word 'darik' is also used to refer to a shepherd's crook or a walking stick. |
| Lao | The word "ພະນັກງານ" is derived from Sanskrit and refers not only to those working at a company but also to those who work at a temple or in civil service. |
| Latin | In ancient Rome, 'virgam' also referred to a 'rod' used as a symbol of authority or as a punishment. |
| Latvian | The word "personāls" in Latvian originates from the Latin word "persona", meaning "mask" or "character", referencing the idea of a staff member representing the organization or institution they work for. |
| Lithuanian | The word "personalas" in Lithuanian, although translated as "staff", originally meant "person" and still holds this meaning in some contexts. |
| Luxembourgish | "Personal" (staff) is an old term in Luxembourgish, meaning "household" in German and French. |
| Macedonian | "Персонал" is the Slavic cognate of the Latin "persona" that originally means "mask" in a play or performance. |
| Malagasy | In Malagasy, "staff" also means "stick" or "cane". |
| Malay | "Kakitangan" is a Malay word derived from the Arabic word "kafalah", meaning "surety" or "responsibility". |
| Malayalam | In Malayalam, "staff" (സ്റ്റാഫ്) can also refer to a type of traditional Kerala percussion instrument. |
| Maltese | Maltese word 'persunal' is derived from Italian 'personale', ultimately from Latin 'personal-is', meaning 'of a person', and also refers to the personnel employed in an organisation. |
| Maori | 'Kaimahi' comes from the Proto-Polynesian word 'taŋatamaŋahī', meaning 'to take care of people'. |
| Marathi | Marathi word "कर्मचारी" is derived from Sanskrit word "कर्म" meaning "work" or "action" and "चारी" meaning "one who does" or "agent". |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word "ажилтнууд" also means "workers" or "employees" in English. |
| Nepali | The word 'कर्मचारी' is derived from the Sanskrit word 'karmachari', meaning 'one who does work'. |
| Norwegian | The Norwegian word 'personale' can have multiple meanings including: the staff of a business, office or organization, personnel files, and military personnel. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "antchito" can also refer to a stick or a pole in Nyanja. |
| Pashto | The word “کارمندان” is also used to refer to “the employees in an organisation or other group”. |
| Persian | The word "کارکنان" also means "employees" or "staff members" in Persian. |
| Polish | Personel in Polish is derived from the French word 'personnel' and originally referred to a group of servants or employees. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The term "funcionários" is derived from the Latin word "functio", meaning "performance" or "action", and refers to those who fulfill tasks within an organization. |
| Punjabi | The word 'staff' is derived from the French word 'estaffe', meaning 'relay', and the Proto-Indo-European root 'stap', meaning 'to stand' or 'to prop up'. |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "personal" can also refer to the staff of an organization or a particular person. |
| Russian | In Russian, the word "сотрудники" can also refer to collaborators or accomplices. |
| Samoan | The word "aufaigaluega" can also mean 'work' or 'job' in Samoan, and is derived from "au" (work, labor) and "faigaluega" (work, labor). |
| Scots Gaelic | It is commonly used to mean 'crew' or 'army' as well as 'staff', as in 'luchd-obrach nan Gall' ('an army of Lowlanders'). |
| Serbian | "Особље" can also refer to the personnel of an organization or institution. |
| Sesotho | The word 'basebetsi' is derived from the word 'sebetsi', meaning 'work' or 'task', and signifies a group of people who work or serve together. |
| Shona | "Vashandi" also means "helpers" when referring to the staff of a company or organization. |
| Sindhi | The word “اسٽاف” is borrowed from the English word “staff” and can also refer to a “stick” or “cane” in Sindhi. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | In modern Sinhala, 'කාර්ය මණ්ඩලය' also refers to a group of people working in an office in addition to its original meaning as the long stick-shaped object. |
| Slovak | The Slavic word "zamestnancov" originally meant "people who are occupied with something". |
| Slovenian | The word 'osebje' in Slovenian also has the meanings of 'personal belongings' and 'clothing'. |
| Somali | "Shaqaalaha" can also refer to a |
| Spanish | The word "personal" in Spanish has multiple meanings, including "staff" and "private or belonging to an individual." |
| Sundanese | In the old Sundanese language, 'patugas' meant 'weapon' or 'spear used by nobles'. |
| Swahili | The word "wafanyakazi" can also refer to "employees" or "workers" in Swahili. |
| Swedish | “Personal” originally referred to a group of soldiers on a journey or campaign, not to a specific group of workers. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Mga tauhan" (staff) is also used colloquially to refer to a group of people who regularly help or work with someone, such as a politician's staff or an actor's entourage. |
| Tajik | The word "кормандон" (staff) is also used in Tajik to refer to a crutch or a stick. |
| Tamil | The primary meaning of ஊழியர்கள் in Tamil is 'devotees,' as in 'attendants of God or a temple'. |
| Telugu | The word "సిబ్బంది" in Telugu, meaning 'staff', is derived from the Persian word "سپاه", meaning 'army', indicating its initial use as military personnel |
| Thai | The term เจ้าหน้าที่ (jâao nâat-thii) is used in a number of Asian languages, with similar meaning. |
| Turkish | The Turkish word "personel" is derived from the French word "personnel", which originally meant "relating to persons" or "personal." |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian слово “персонал,” meaning “staff or personnel,” is a derivative of the French word “personnel.” |
| Urdu | The word عملہ (amalā) originally meant 'work', 'deed', 'labor', 'service', 'action', 'operation' in Arabic |
| Uzbek | In Uzbek, the word 'xodimlar' can also refer to the employees of an organization or enterprise. |
| Vietnamese | "Nhân Viên" is derived from the Chinese word "人源" (rén yuán), meaning "human resource". It can also refer to a person's fate or destiny. |
| Welsh | In Welsh, "staff" is a loan word from English, and can also refer to a group of workers or a department. |
| Xhosa | In Xhosa, 'abasebenzi' also denotes individuals who perform tasks or hold positions within an organisation or institution. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "שטעקן" can also mean "stick" or "pole". |
| Yoruba | The term "osise" also means "to lean on" figuratively, denoting reliance or support. |
| Zulu | Abasebenzi means both "staff" and "labourers" in Zulu. |
| English | In the Middle Ages, a 'staff' was a metal rod, a lance, a pole or an ensign carried by an officer, magistrate, bishop, pilgrim, traveler, etc., for authority, protection, guidance, support, etc. |