Afrikaans toetsing | ||
Albanian duke testuar | ||
Amharic መሞከር | ||
Arabic اختبارات | ||
Armenian փորձարկում | ||
Assamese পৰীক্ষা কৰা | ||
Aymara yant’awinaka | ||
Azerbaijani test | ||
Bambara sɛgɛsɛgɛli kɛli | ||
Basque probak | ||
Belarusian тэставанне | ||
Bengali পরীক্ষামূলক | ||
Bhojpuri परीक्षण कइल जा रहल बा | ||
Bosnian testiranje | ||
Bulgarian тестване | ||
Catalan proves | ||
Cebuano pagsulay | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 测试 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 測試 | ||
Corsican prova | ||
Croatian testiranje | ||
Czech testování | ||
Danish test | ||
Dhivehi ޓެސްޓް ކުރުން | ||
Dogri परीक्षण करना | ||
Dutch testen | ||
English testing | ||
Esperanto testado | ||
Estonian testimine | ||
Ewe dodokpɔ wɔwɔ | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) pagsubok | ||
Finnish testaus | ||
French essai | ||
Frisian testen | ||
Galician probando | ||
Georgian ტესტირება | ||
German testen | ||
Greek δοκιμές | ||
Guarani prueba rehegua | ||
Gujarati પરીક્ષણ | ||
Haitian Creole tès | ||
Hausa gwaji | ||
Hawaiian hoʻāʻo | ||
Hebrew בדיקה | ||
Hindi परिक्षण | ||
Hmong xeem | ||
Hungarian tesztelés | ||
Icelandic próf | ||
Igbo ule | ||
Ilocano panagsubok | ||
Indonesian pengujian | ||
Irish tástáil | ||
Italian test | ||
Japanese テスト | ||
Javanese tes | ||
Kannada ಪರೀಕ್ಷೆ | ||
Kazakh тестілеу | ||
Khmer ការធ្វើតេស្ត | ||
Kinyarwanda ikizamini | ||
Konkani चांचणी करप | ||
Korean 테스트 | ||
Krio we dɛn de tɛst | ||
Kurdish ceribandin | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) تاقیکردنەوە | ||
Kyrgyz тестирлөө | ||
Lao ການທົດສອບ | ||
Latin temptationis | ||
Latvian testēšana | ||
Lingala komekama | ||
Lithuanian testavimas | ||
Luganda okugezesa | ||
Luxembourgish testen | ||
Macedonian тестирање | ||
Maithili परीक्षण करब | ||
Malagasy fizahan-toetra | ||
Malay ujian | ||
Malayalam പരിശോധന | ||
Maltese ittestjar | ||
Maori whakamātautau | ||
Marathi चाचणी | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯇꯦꯁ꯭ꯠ ꯇꯧꯕꯥ꯫ | ||
Mizo testing tih a ni | ||
Mongolian туршилт | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) စမ်းသပ်ခြင်း | ||
Nepali परीक्षण गर्दै | ||
Norwegian testing | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kuyezetsa | ||
Odia (Oriya) ପରୀକ୍ଷା | ||
Oromo qorannoo | ||
Pashto ازمونه | ||
Persian آزمایش کردن | ||
Polish testowanie | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) testando | ||
Punjabi ਟੈਸਟਿੰਗ | ||
Quechua prueba ruway | ||
Romanian testarea | ||
Russian тестирование | ||
Samoan suʻega | ||
Sanskrit परीक्षणम् | ||
Scots Gaelic deuchainn | ||
Sepedi go dira diteko | ||
Serbian тестирање | ||
Sesotho ho etsa liteko | ||
Shona kuyedza | ||
Sindhi جاچ | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) පරීක්ෂා කිරීම | ||
Slovak testovanie | ||
Slovenian testiranje | ||
Somali tijaabinaya | ||
Spanish pruebas | ||
Sundanese tés | ||
Swahili kupima | ||
Swedish testning | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) pagsubok | ||
Tajik озмоиш | ||
Tamil சோதனை | ||
Tatar тест | ||
Telugu పరీక్ష | ||
Thai การทดสอบ | ||
Tigrinya ምፍታን እዩ። | ||
Tsonga ku kamberiwa | ||
Turkish test yapmak | ||
Turkmen synag | ||
Twi (Akan) sɔhwɛ a wɔreyɛ | ||
Ukrainian тестування | ||
Urdu جانچ | ||
Uyghur سىناق | ||
Uzbek sinov | ||
Vietnamese thử nghiệm | ||
Welsh profi | ||
Xhosa ukuvavanya | ||
Yiddish טעסטינג | ||
Yoruba idanwo | ||
Zulu ukuhlolwa |
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | "Toetsing" also means "examination" in Afrikaans. |
| Albanian | The Albanian word "duke testuar" literally means "in testing" or "while testing" and is often used in software development to describe the process of checking and evaluating the functionality of a software product. |
| Amharic | "መሞከር" (testing) derives from the root word "ሞክር" (try) and can also mean "trying" or "attempting". |
| Arabic | اختبارات is derived from the verb اختبر meaning to “examine, inspect, or test”. |
| Azerbaijani | In Azerbaijani, "testing" is referred to as "imtahan" which also means "exam" and derives from Arabic word "imtihan" (Arabic: امتحان) |
| Basque | The Basque word "probak" also means "proofs". |
| Belarusian | The word "тэставанне" can also refer to a type of assessment in education, similar to a test or exam. |
| Bengali | "পরীক্ষামূলক" শব্দের আক্ষরিক অর্থ হল "পরীক্ষা করার জন্য", তবে এর বিকল্প অর্থগুলো হল তত্ত্বমূলক, অন্তর্বর্তীকালীন বা প্রাথমিক স্তরে কিছু পরীক্ষা করা। |
| Bosnian | The Bosnian word 'testiranje' is derived from the Italian word 'test', meaning 'trial' or 'experiment'. |
| Bulgarian | The Slavic word "тестване" (testing) is also used to refer to the process of kneading dough. |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "proves" comes from the Latin word "probare", meaning "to prove or test". |
| Cebuano | The Cebuano word "pagsulay" is derived from the root "sulay" meaning "to try" and is related to the Malay "sula" meaning "to pierce or skewer". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "测试" is formed from the word "测" (measure) and "试" (attempt), meaning "to take a measure." |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 測試' in Chinese can also mean 'to verify' or 'to examine', and its origin is from the Chinese character '試', which means 'to try' or 'to experiment'. |
| Corsican | In Corsican, the word “prova” has an alternate meaning of “demonstration” or “show”. |
| Croatian | "Testiranje" is derived from the Latin word "testari," meaning "to witness" or "to bear witness. |
| Czech | In Czech, "testování" not only means "testing", but also "embarrassing someone by making them admit their errors or shortcomings". |
| Danish | The Danish word "prøve" can also mean "exam" or "trial", and is related to the English word "prove". |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "testen" can also mean "to taste" or "to examine". |
| Esperanto | The term "testado" in Esperanto has alternative meanings, including "the action of making a testament" and "the act of being a witness." |
| Estonian | The word "testimine" is derived from the Latin word "testis" meaning "witness" and the term "testimony" is derived from the Latin word "testimonium" meaning "evidence". |
| Finnish | The word "testaus" in Finnish derives from the Latin "testum" (a fragment or broken piece) via Swedish, and also shares etymology with German "Test" and English "test". |
| French | The word “essai” is a homonym with the word meaning “attempt” |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "testen" can also refer to the process of examining or inspecting something carefully. |
| Galician | The word 'probando' in Galician is related to the word 'probar' in Spanish, both meaning 'to taste', and to 'probar' in Portuguese, meaning 'to test'. |
| German | The German word "testen" derives from the English word "test" and has the additional meaning of "examining" in a medical context. |
| Greek | Δοκιμές in Greek can also mean a "proof" or "experiment". |
| Gujarati | "પરીક્ષણ" can come from the words "परीक्षा" (investigation) and "क्षा" (to cut) which mean "to investigate by cutting," hence "testing" |
| Haitian Creole | In Haitian Creole, the word 'tès' can also mean 'trial' or 'examination'. |
| Hausa | The word may also refer to an object or situation that constitutes a "test" or "trial". |
| Hawaiian | The Hawaiian word "hoʻāʻo" is derived from the Proto-Polynesian root *fakafo, meaning "to try, to test" |
| Hebrew | בְּדִיקָה (b'dikah) means 'testing' or 'examination' in Hebrew, and derives from the root בָּדַק (badak), which can mean 'to test' or 'to examine'. |
| Hindi | 'परीक्षा' शब्द 'परि' उपसर्ग तथा 'क्ष' धातु से बना है जिसका मतलब है अच्छी तरह देखना, विचारना, जांचना। |
| Hmong | The word "xeem" in Hmong can also mean "examination" or "measurement". |
| Hungarian | "Teszt" is a Hungarian word borrowed from the German "Test", itself coming from the French "tête", meaning "head". |
| Icelandic | The word "próf" can also refer to a sample or a model. |
| Igbo | Ule is a noun that means "trial." It can also be used as a verb, meaning "to test." |
| Indonesian | The Indonesian word "pengujian" can be traced back to the Malay word "menguji" and the Old Javanese word "uji". |
| Irish | The Irish word "tástáil" is derived from the Proto-Celtic *tāstu- "trial, test," related to English "taste" and Latin "tentāre" "to try" |
| Italian | "Test" (testing) in Italian derives from the Latin "testis" (witness), implying the act of examining and providing evidence. |
| Japanese | "テスト (tesuto)", derived from English, also refers to an examination or quiz. |
| Javanese | In Javanese, "tes" also refers to the process of learning and practicing something, rather than just assessing it. |
| Kannada | The word "ಪರೀಕ್ಷೆ" in Kannada can also mean "an examination" or "a trial." |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "тестілеу" is derived from the Russian word "тестировать" (testīrovatʹ), which means "to test" or "to examine." |
| Korean | The Korean word "테스트" is derived from the English word "test", but it can also refer to an essay that is written as a means of self-reflection. |
| Kurdish | The word "ceribandin" also means "experience" or "trial" in Kurdish. |
| Kyrgyz | The word "тестирлөө" can also mean "examination" or "assessment" in Kyrgyz. |
| Latin | The Latin word "temptationis" also refers to a "trial" or "ordeal." |
| Latvian | The Latvian word "testēšana" also means "examination". |
| Lithuanian | The word "testavimas" derives from the Latin word "testes", meaning "witness" or "evidence." |
| Luxembourgish | The Luxembourgish word "Testen" is derived from the Latin word "testis" meaning "witness". The French word "témoin" and the English word "test" have the same root. |
| Macedonian | The word "тестирање" also means "verification" in Macedonian. |
| Malagasy | The word "fizahan-toetra" in Malagasy derives from the root word "toetra" meaning "quality" or "characteristic". |
| Malay | The word "ujian" comes from the Arabic word "ijtihan", which means "to exercise great care and effort". |
| Malayalam | The word 'പരിശോധന' is derived from the Sanskrit word 'परीक्षण', meaning 'examination' or 'inspection'. |
| Maltese | The word 'ittestjar' in Maltese is derived from the Arabic word 'tajrib' which means 'testing, trying or experience'. |
| Maori | The word "whakamātautau" in Maori also refers to the process of evaluating or assessing something to determine its accuracy or validity. |
| Marathi | The word "चाचणी" (testing) in Marathi also means "experiment" and "trial". |
| Mongolian | Туршилт is a Mongolian word derived from the verb "турших", meaning "to try" or "to attempt." |
| Norwegian | "Testing" comes from the Old Norse "teista", meaning to try, or seek to determine something. In modern Norwegian, "testing" has the specific connotation of an arranged situation where a subject is expected to perform something or provide an answer to a question, typically for the purpose of assessment." |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "kuyezetsa" in Nyanja (Chichewa) is derived from the root word "kuyeza," which means "to try" or "to attempt." |
| Pashto | The word "ازمونه" can also refer to a "test" or "examination" in a more general sense. |
| Persian | آزمایش کردن in addition to "testing" can mean "experimentation", "trial and error", "putting something to the test", and "examination". |
| Polish | The word 'testowanie' comes from the Latin word 'testis', meaning 'witness'. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "testando" in Portuguese can also mean "leaving a will" or "undergoing a test." |
| Romanian | The word "testarea" in Romanian also means "the act of knitting". |
| Russian | In Russian, "тестирование" ("testing") can also refer to "medical examination" or "examination of evidence in court" |
| Samoan | The term "suʻega" can also mean "to ask" or "to inquire". |
| Scots Gaelic | Scots Gaelic "deuchainn" has the same root as the Early Irish word "doiccim", meaning "to prove," and its spelling is thought to have been influenced by the French "examen" |
| Serbian | The word "тестирање" in Serbian can also be used to refer to "examination" or "inspection". |
| Sesotho | "Ho etsa liteko" has alternate meanings like "trying", "checking" or "experimenting". |
| Shona | The Shona word 'kuyedza' can also mean 'to test' or 'to put to the test'. |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "جاچ" can also refer to a test or examination, a dispute or argument, or a trial. |
| Slovak | The word "testovanie" is derived from the Latin word "testum", meaning "earthenware vessel" or "crucible", which was used to test the purity of metals. |
| Slovenian | The word "testiranje" in Slovenian has a secondary meaning of "examination" or "evaluation" in a medical or educational context. |
| Somali | Tijaabinaya in Somali can also mean "experience", "examination" or "experiment".} |
| Spanish | In Spanish, "pruebas" not only refers to testing, but also to evidence or proofs. |
| Sundanese | The word “tés” (testing) in Sundanese can also refer to the action of tasting something or checking its quality or condition. |
| Swahili | The word "kupima" in Swahili, meaning "testing," also carries meanings of "weighing" and "inspecting." |
| Swedish | In Swedish, "testning" can also refer to "examination" or "inspection". |
| Tajik | The word "озмоиш" is derived from the Persian word "آزمایش" which means "test" or "experiment". |
| Tamil | The Tamil word 'சோதனை' can refer to testing, but also to temptation, ordeal, adversity, examination, experiment, investigation, research, analysis, inspection, and exploration. |
| Telugu | The word "పరీక్ష" also means "to touch the boundaries" in Telugu. |
| Thai | The Thai word "การทดสอบ" can also mean "an experiment"} |
| Turkish | In Turkish, "test yapmak" not only means testing, but also means "getting tested" or "undergoing a test". |
| Ukrainian | The word "тестування" in Ukrainian also means "examination" or "check-up". |
| Urdu | The word "جانچ" means "testing" in Urdu, but it also has several alternate meanings, including "trial", "experiment", and "proof". |
| Uzbek | In Uzbek, sin means a test from God |
| Vietnamese | "Thử nghiệm" can also mean "experiment" or "trial" in Vietnamese. |
| Welsh | Profi can also mean "proof" or "trial" in Welsh. |
| Xhosa | The Xhosa word "ukuvavanya" can also mean "to examine" or "to investigate". |
| Yiddish | In Yiddish, טעסטינג can also refer to the taste or flavor of something. |
| Yoruba | Some Yoruba speakers also use "idanwo" to describe an "examination", particularly in a medical context. |
| Zulu | "Ukuhlolwa" is also the name of a traditional Zulu game of hide-and-seek |
| English | The word "test" can also refer to a mold or pattern used for checking dimensions or shapes, or the metal device used to measure the depth of water in a vessel. |