Survey in Different Languages
Discover 'Survey' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Survey
Afrikaans opname | ||
Albanian sondazhi | ||
Amharic የዳሰሳ ጥናት | ||
Arabic الدراسة الاستقصائية | ||
Armenian հարցում | ||
Assamese জৰীপ | ||
Aymara jiskt'awi | ||
Azerbaijani sorğu | ||
Bambara ɲininili | ||
Basque inkesta | ||
Belarusian апытанне | ||
Bengali জরিপ | ||
Bhojpuri सर्वे | ||
Bosnian anketa | ||
Bulgarian изследване | ||
Catalan enquesta | ||
Cebuano survey | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 调查 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 調查 | ||
Corsican indagine | ||
Croatian pregled | ||
Czech průzkum | ||
Danish undersøgelse | ||
Dhivehi ސަރވޭ | ||
Dogri सर्वे | ||
Dutch enquête | ||
English survey | ||
Esperanto enketo | ||
Estonian uuring | ||
Ewe le ŋku ɖe eŋu gbadza | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) survey | ||
Finnish kysely | ||
French sondage | ||
Frisian enkête | ||
Galician enquisa | ||
Georgian გამოკითხვა | ||
German umfrage | ||
Greek επισκόπηση | ||
Guarani porandueta | ||
Gujarati સર્વે | ||
Haitian Creole sondaj | ||
Hausa bincike | ||
Hawaiian ana | ||
Hebrew סֶקֶר | ||
Hindi सर्वेक्षण | ||
Hmong kev sojntsuam | ||
Hungarian felmérés | ||
Icelandic könnun | ||
Igbo nyocha | ||
Ilocano surbey | ||
Indonesian survei | ||
Irish suirbhé | ||
Italian sondaggio | ||
Japanese 調査 | ||
Javanese survey | ||
Kannada ಸಮೀಕ್ಷೆ | ||
Kazakh сауалнама | ||
Khmer ការស្ទង់មតិ | ||
Kinyarwanda ubushakashatsi | ||
Konkani सर्वेेक्षण | ||
Korean 서베이 | ||
Krio ripɔt | ||
Kurdish lêkolîn | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) ڕووپێوی | ||
Kyrgyz сурамжылоо | ||
Lao ການ ສຳ ຫຼວດ | ||
Latin circumspectis | ||
Latvian apsekojums | ||
Lingala sondage | ||
Lithuanian apklausa | ||
Luganda okunyoonyereza | ||
Luxembourgish ëmfro | ||
Macedonian анкета | ||
Maithili सर्वेक्षण | ||
Malagasy fanadihadiana | ||
Malay tinjauan | ||
Malayalam സർവേ | ||
Maltese stħarriġ | ||
Maori rangahau | ||
Marathi सर्वेक्षण | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯊꯤꯁꯣꯛꯄ | ||
Mizo zirchiang | ||
Mongolian судалгаа | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) စစ်တမ်း | ||
Nepali सर्वेक्षण | ||
Norwegian undersøkelse | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kafukufuku | ||
Odia (Oriya) ସର୍ବେକ୍ଷଣ | ||
Oromo qo'annoo | ||
Pashto سروې | ||
Persian نظر سنجی | ||
Polish ankieta | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) pesquisa | ||
Punjabi ਸਰਵੇਖਣ | ||
Quechua tapuykachay | ||
Romanian studiu | ||
Russian опрос | ||
Samoan suʻesuʻega | ||
Sanskrit सर्वेक्षणम् | ||
Scots Gaelic suirbhidh | ||
Sepedi diphatišišo | ||
Serbian преглед | ||
Sesotho phuputso | ||
Shona kuongorora | ||
Sindhi سروي | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) මිනුම් | ||
Slovak prieskum | ||
Slovenian anketa | ||
Somali sahan | ||
Spanish encuesta | ||
Sundanese survey | ||
Swahili utafiti | ||
Swedish undersökning | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) survey | ||
Tajik пурсиш | ||
Tamil கணக்கெடுப்பு | ||
Tatar сораштыру | ||
Telugu సర్వే | ||
Thai สำรวจ | ||
Tigrinya ሓተታዊ መፅናዕቲ | ||
Tsonga hlela | ||
Turkish anket | ||
Turkmen anket | ||
Twi (Akan) nhwehwɛmu | ||
Ukrainian опитування | ||
Urdu سروے | ||
Uyghur تەكشۈرۈش | ||
Uzbek tadqiqot | ||
Vietnamese khảo sát | ||
Welsh arolwg | ||
Xhosa uphando | ||
Yiddish יבערבליק | ||
Yoruba iwadi | ||
Zulu ucwaningo |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "opname" originally meant "a taking up" or "a levy" in Middle Dutch, and is related to the English word "uptake". |
| Albanian | "Sondazhi" originates from the Italian word "sondaggio" which also means "survey" or "probe". |
| Amharic | The word 'የዳሰሳ ጥናት' (survey) comes from the Amharic words 'ዳሰስ' meaning 'to ask' or 'to inquire', and 'ጥናት' meaning 'study' or 'investigation. |
| Arabic | In Arabic, "الدراسة الاستقصائية" can mean a questionnaire, poll, or investigation, and it originated from the root word "درس" meaning "to study." |
| Armenian | The Armenian word "հարցում" (hartzum) is derived from the verb "հարցնել" (hartsnel), which means "to ask a question", and ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *kʷres-, meaning "to inquire, ask, demand." |
| Azerbaijani | In its original meaning, "sorğu" referred to questions asked by a doctor to a patient about their condition. |
| Basque | The Basque word "inkesta" originates from the Latin "inquesta", meaning "an inquiry" or "an investigation" |
| Bengali | The word "জরিপ" can also mean "measurement" or "estimation" in Bengali. |
| Bosnian | The word "anketa" in Bosnian derives from the Greek word "anakritos", meaning "to crossexamine" and the suffix "-eta" denoting a place or a process. |
| Bulgarian | Bulgarian "изследване" originally meant "investigation" or "exploration." |
| Catalan | Catalan "enquesta" comes from the Latin "inquesta" meaning "inquiry" or "investigation". |
| Cebuano | The Cebuano word "survey" originally meant "to inspect" and was also used in the context of surveying land boundaries. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 调查 (diàochá) can also mean 'investigation' or 'inquiry'. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 調查 is also used to mean "investigation" in modern Chinese. |
| Corsican | In Corsican, "indagine" not only means "survey", but also "enquiry". |
| Croatian | The word "pregled" can also mean "review" or "inspection" in Croatian. |
| Czech | The Czech word "průzkum" can also refer to "exploration" or "investigation". It comes from the Old Czech words "průzk" (through) and "zkoumání" (examination). |
| Danish | The Danish word "undersøgelse" is composed of the prefix "under", meaning "underneath", and the root "søg", meaning "to seek" or "to search", hence its literal meaning of "searching underneath" or "investigation". |
| Dutch | "Enquête" is borrowed from French and means both "inquiry" and "survey" in Dutch. |
| Esperanto | "Enketo" is a portmanteau of "en" (from English "inquiry") and "keto" (from Esperanto "demando") |
| Estonian | The Estonian word "uuring" can also mean "research" or "investigation" and is derived from the verb "uurima" which means "to investigate". |
| Finnish | "Kysely" (survey) derives from the verb "kysyä" (to ask) and has other meanings like "inquiry" or "question." |
| French | The word "sondage" is also used in statistics to refer to a random sample of a population that is used to make inferences about the entire population. |
| Frisian | In the Frisian language, "enkête" can also refer to a questionnaire or an interview. |
| Galician | The word "Enquisa" in Galician comes from the Latin "inquisitio", meaning "investigation" |
| Georgian | გამოკითხვა (gamokithkva) can also refer to the Georgian Orthodox practice of asking for a blessing from a spiritual father or mother. |
| German | Umfrage is derived from the Old High German word umbifragôn, meaning “to question around”. |
| Greek | The word "επισκόπηση" is related to the verb "επίσκοπος", which means "bishop" or "supervisor", and originally referred to an official inspection or examination. |
| Gujarati | Gujarati 'સર્વે' ('survey') also means 'to look at' or 'to examine.' |
| Haitian Creole | In Haitian Creole, "sondaj" can also refer to a type of lottery or raffle. |
| Hausa | "Bincike" in Hausa is borrowed from Arabic "بينه" (bayyinah) which means "proof" or "evidence" and can share meanings with "bayani" which means "explanation". |
| Hawaiian | In Hawaiian, ''ana'' can also refer to a cave, chasm, abyss, pit, hole, hollow, cavity, depression, gap, or opening. |
| Hebrew | סֶקֶר (seker) can also mean a review or summary, and is related to the word סַךְ (sakh) meaning 'sum'. |
| Hindi | The Hindi word "सर्वेक्षण" also means "research", "investigation", or "inspection." |
| Hmong | “Kev sojntsuam” has no alternate meanings but it can be broken down into two words: “soj”, which means “to ask”, and “ntsuam”, which means “to gather information. Therefore, the literal translation of “kev sojntsuam” would be “the act of asking to gather information.” |
| Hungarian | The word "felmérés" (survey) is a compound Hungarian word derived from "fel" (up) and "mérés" (measurement). |
| Icelandic | The Icelandic word "könnun" is related to the Old Norse word "kann" (to see, to observe), and is a cognate of the English word "ken." |
| Igbo | The word "nyocha" in Igbo also means "to look into something carefully or thoroughly." |
| Indonesian | The Indonesian word "survei" also has a meaning related to land or area. |
| Irish | "Suirbhé" is the Irish word for "survey", but it also means "overlook" or "view from above". |
| Italian | The Italian word "sondaggio" can also refer to a geological survey or a medical exam. |
| Japanese | 調査 (chōsa) also means 'investigation', 'research', and 'interrogation' in Japanese. |
| Javanese | The Javanese word "survei" is a loanword from the Dutch word "survey", meaning both "a general view" and "a statistical study". |
| Kannada | In Kannada, "ಸಮೀಕ್ಷೆ" can also mean "an examination" or a "detailed study" |
| Kazakh | "Сауалнама" originated from an Arabic term that meant "interrogation". The term was adopted into the Persian and Turkish languages, eventually reaching its current form in Kazakh. |
| Korean | "서베이"는 "서술하다, 자세히 살펴보다"는 뜻을 가진 영어 단어 survey에서 유래되었으며, 조사, 연구, 검토를 포함한 다양한 의미를 가집니다. |
| Kurdish | The word "lêkolîn" comes from the Persian word "lak-lûk" meaning "speech" or "conversation" but can also refer to an "exploration" or "inquiry." |
| Lao | This word can also mean 'poll' or 'study'. |
| Latin | Circumspectis ('survey') relates to the phrase 'circum specto', meaning 'to look around' or 'to consider thoroughly'. |
| Latvian | The word "apsekojums" can also refer to a review, a look at something, or a consideration. |
| Lithuanian | The word "apklausa" derives from the verb "apklausti" meaning "to question, to ask". |
| Luxembourgish | "Ëmfro" is cognate with English "answer". In its earlier forms, the word meant "judgment" or "decision" rather than "survey". |
| Macedonian | "Анкета" (survey) is a diminutive of the word "анатема" (anathema), which means that something is forbidden. |
| Malagasy | In Malagasy, 'fanadihadiana' literally means 'looking for the truth' (fa-nadi-ha-di-ana), emphasizing the importance of accuracy in gathering information. |
| Malay | The word "tinjauan" can also mean "review" or "inspection" in Malay. |
| Malayalam | The word "സർവേ" can also refer to a review or assessment of a situation, as in "conveyed the survey of the situation to the authorities". |
| Maltese | The word |
| Maori | Rangahau means 'thought' or 'knowledge' and the word is derived from the Maori verb 'whakaaro', meaning 'to think'. |
| Marathi | सर्वेक्षण is also used in Marathi to refer to a collection of poems written on a specific theme. |
| Mongolian | судалгаа literally means 'investigation', and can refer to both academic and administrative research, as well as to criminal or civil inquiries |
| Nepali | The word "सर्वेक्षण" in Nepali comes from the Sanskrit word "सर्वेक्षण" which means "to inspect" or "to examine". |
| Norwegian | Undersøkelse in Norwegian also means "investigation" and "examination". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | "Kafukufuku" also means 'to look thoroughly,' 'to inspect,' or 'to spy.' |
| Pashto | The Pashto word سروې "survey" is borrowed from Persian سروے, which is in turn borrowed from French "enquête". |
| Persian | The Persian word "نظر سنجی" has its roots in Arabic, meaning "asking for opinions" or "gathering perspectives". |
| Polish | The word "Ankieta" likely derives from the French "enquête" or the German "Ankete," both meaning "investigation" or "inquiry." |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | "Pesquisa" comes from the Latin word "perscrutari," meaning "to examine closely." |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "studiu" is derived from the Latin word "studium," meaning "zeal" or "application to a subject." |
| Russian | "Опрос" also means "interrogation" or "poll", and its root word is "to ask" |
| Samoan | The word "suʻesuʻega" can also mean "research" or "investigation" in Samoan. |
| Scots Gaelic | The word "suirbhidh" may also mean "an act of courting", a "wooing", or a "suitor" in Scots Gaelic. |
| Serbian | The word "преглед" (pregled) comes from the verb "прегледати" (pregledati), which means "to look over" or "to examine". It can also be used to refer to a medical examination or a survey. |
| Shona | The word "kuongorora" in Shona can also mean "to observe" or "to examine," suggesting its broad application in the context of gathering information or making assessments. |
| Sindhi | The word "سروي" in Sindhi comes from the Persian word "سروی", meaning "a list or enumeration". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word 'මිනුම්' can also refer to the process of measuring or assessing something. |
| Slovak | The word prieskum (survey) comes from the verb prieskumať (to explore, to investigate). |
| Slovenian | The word "anketa" also means "questionnaire" in Croatian and "poll" in Serbian. |
| Somali | The word "sahan" in Somali is derived from the Arabic word "suhan", meaning "discourse" or "conversation". |
| Spanish | "Encuesta" originally meant "inquiry" and was used in 13th century Spanish. From Latin "inquirere" (to seek, search out) |
| Sundanese | In Sundanese, the word "survei" can also mean "to inquire" or "to gather information from interviews or observations." |
| Swahili | The word "utafiti" in Swahili comes from the Arabic word "tafteesh," meaning "examination" or "investigation. |
| Swedish | Undersökning derives from the Swedish verb "undersöka", meaning "to investigate" or "to examine". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word survey in Tagalog can also mean a questionnaire or the act of questioning someone. |
| Tajik | The word purshish is often used in the broader sense of "census" and in historical, anthropological or other sociological research for data collecting; cf., e. g., with Russian perepis' ""sensus."" |
| Telugu | The word "సర్వే" in Telugu has origins in the French word "survey", meaning to oversee or inspect. |
| Thai | สำรวจ can also mean 'to explore' or 'to investigate'. |
| Turkish | Anket, which means "poll" or "questionnaires", can also refer to a "kind of small chest". |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word "опитування" can also mean "polling" or "interrogation". |
| Urdu | The origin of the Urdu word "سروے" is the English word "survey" and it has multiple meanings such as examination, research, poll, etc. |
| Uzbek | Tadqiqot is the Uzbek form of a Farsi term that also means 'research' in English. |
| Vietnamese | In Vietnamese, "khảo sát" can also mean "investigation" or "research" and is derived from the Chinese word "kǎoshì" (考察). |
| Welsh | "Arolwg" can also mean an "expedition" or "review" in Welsh. |
| Xhosa | Uphando is cognate with uphahla (to go upwards) and also means "research" (as in an academic context) and "scientific investigation" in Xhosa. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word 'יבערבליק' ('survey') comes from the German word 'Überblick,' which has the same meaning and literally translates to 'look over'. |
| Yoruba | The word 'iwadi' in Yoruba also refers to a person's character or behavior. |
| Zulu | In addition to its primary meaning of "survey", "ucwaningo" comes from the verb "cwaninga", meaning "to gather facts". |
| English | The word "survey" originates from the Old French term "surveier," meaning "to oversee" or "to look over." |