Thinking in Different Languages
Discover 'Thinking' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Thinking
Afrikaans dink | ||
Albanian duke menduar | ||
Amharic ማሰብ | ||
Arabic التفكير | ||
Armenian մտածողություն | ||
Assamese চিন্তা কৰি থকা | ||
Aymara amuyt’aña | ||
Azerbaijani düşünmək | ||
Bambara miirili | ||
Basque pentsatzen | ||
Belarusian мысленне | ||
Bengali চিন্তা | ||
Bhojpuri सोचत बानी | ||
Bosnian razmišljanje | ||
Bulgarian мислене | ||
Catalan pensant | ||
Cebuano naghunahuna | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 思维 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 思維 | ||
Corsican pensendu | ||
Croatian razmišljajući | ||
Czech myslící | ||
Danish tænker | ||
Dhivehi ވިސްނަމުންނެވެ | ||
Dogri सोचते हुए | ||
Dutch denken | ||
English thinking | ||
Esperanto pensante | ||
Estonian mõtlemine | ||
Ewe tamebubu | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) iniisip | ||
Finnish ajattelu | ||
French en pensant | ||
Frisian tinke | ||
Galician pensando | ||
Georgian ფიქრი | ||
German denken | ||
Greek σκέψη | ||
Guarani opensávo | ||
Gujarati વિચારવું | ||
Haitian Creole panse | ||
Hausa tunani | ||
Hawaiian manaʻo | ||
Hebrew חושב | ||
Hindi विचारधारा | ||
Hmong xav | ||
Hungarian gondolkodás | ||
Icelandic að hugsa | ||
Igbo na-eche echiche | ||
Ilocano agpampanunot | ||
Indonesian berpikir | ||
Irish ag smaoineamh | ||
Italian pensiero | ||
Japanese 考え | ||
Javanese mikir | ||
Kannada ಆಲೋಚನೆ | ||
Kazakh ойлау | ||
Khmer ការគិត | ||
Kinyarwanda gutekereza | ||
Konkani विचार करप | ||
Korean 생각 | ||
Krio we yu de tink | ||
Kurdish difikirin | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) بیرکردنەوە | ||
Kyrgyz ой жүгүртүү | ||
Lao ຄິດ | ||
Latin cogitare | ||
Latvian domāšana | ||
Lingala kokanisa | ||
Lithuanian mąstymas | ||
Luganda okulowooza | ||
Luxembourgish denken | ||
Macedonian размислување | ||
Maithili सोचैत | ||
Malagasy mieritreritra | ||
Malay berfikir | ||
Malayalam ചിന്തിക്കുന്നതെന്ന് | ||
Maltese ħsieb | ||
Maori whakaaro | ||
Marathi विचार | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯋꯥꯈꯜ ꯈꯅꯕꯥ꯫ | ||
Mizo ngaihtuah chungin | ||
Mongolian бодох | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) စဉ်းစား | ||
Nepali सोच्दै | ||
Norwegian tenker | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kuganiza | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଚିନ୍ତା | ||
Oromo yaaduu | ||
Pashto فکر کول | ||
Persian فكر كردن | ||
Polish myślący | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) pensando | ||
Punjabi ਸੋਚ | ||
Quechua yuyaywan | ||
Romanian gândire | ||
Russian мышление | ||
Samoan mafaufau | ||
Sanskrit चिन्तयन् | ||
Scots Gaelic smaoineachadh | ||
Sepedi go nagana | ||
Serbian размишљајући | ||
Sesotho ho nahana | ||
Shona kufunga | ||
Sindhi سوچڻ | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) සිතීම | ||
Slovak premýšľanie | ||
Slovenian razmišljanje | ||
Somali fikirka | ||
Spanish pensando | ||
Sundanese mikir | ||
Swahili kufikiri | ||
Swedish tänkande | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) iniisip | ||
Tajik фикр кардан | ||
Tamil சிந்தனை | ||
Tatar уйлау | ||
Telugu ఆలోచిస్తూ | ||
Thai ความคิด | ||
Tigrinya ምሕሳብ | ||
Tsonga ku ehleketa | ||
Turkish düşünme | ||
Turkmen pikirlenmek | ||
Twi (Akan) adwene a wɔde susuw nneɛma ho | ||
Ukrainian мислення | ||
Urdu سوچنا | ||
Uyghur تەپەككۇر | ||
Uzbek fikrlash | ||
Vietnamese suy nghĩ | ||
Welsh meddwl | ||
Xhosa ukucinga | ||
Yiddish טראכטן | ||
Yoruba lerongba | ||
Zulu ecabanga |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "dink" in Afrikaans can also refer to an opinion, an idea, or a thought. |
| Albanian | The word "duke menduar" has a literal translation of "while thinking" and is used to indicate that something is happening simultaneously with the act of thinking. |
| Amharic | The word "ማሰብ" can also refer to "consideration" or "reflection". |
| Arabic | The root of the word التفكير is ف ك ر, which can also mean 'to contemplate', 'to remember', or 'to recall'. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "düşünmək" in Azerbaijani shares its etymological roots with the Persian word "اندیشیدن" (andisheedan), meaning "to think" or "to contemplate". |
| Basque | The word "pentsatzen" in Basque is derived from the Latin "pensare", meaning "to weigh" or "to consider". |
| Belarusian | The Belarusian word "мысленне" (thinking) comes from the Old Belarusian word "мыслити," which means "to think" or "to consider." |
| Bengali | "চিন্তা" also means "worry" or "anxiety" in Bengali. |
| Bosnian | The word "razmišljanje" comes from the verb "razmišljati", which means "to think" or "to contemplate". |
| Bulgarian | The Bulgarian word "мислене" derives from the verb "мисля" (to think), which itself is derived from the Proto-Slavic root *mysl-, meaning "thought" or "mind". |
| Catalan | In Catalan, the word "pensant" originates from the Latin verb "pensare" with the additional suffix "-ant", denoting an ongoing action. |
| Cebuano | The Cebuano word "naghunahuna" is derived from the Proto-Austronesian word "*qanaqunana" meaning "to think". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The character 思 (si) in "思维" (thinking) can also mean "yearn for" or "miss". |
| Chinese (Traditional) | "思維" is pronounced "sīwéi" in Mandarin; it was used in ancient China to refer to "the movement of the mind" or "the flow of thoughts". |
| Corsican | Pensendu is a Corsican term derived from the Latin word "pensare", meaning "to consider" or "to ponder". |
| Croatian | "Razmišljajući" in Croatian is related to "razum," which means "reason" or "understanding." |
| Czech | The word "myslící" originates from the verb "myslet" and its alternative meanings include "meaningful" and "reasonable". |
| Danish | The word "tænker" also means "inkwell" in Danish, originating from the Middle Dutch "tenkere" (small container). |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "denken" is derived from the Old German "thankjan", meaning "to give thanks" or "to consider". |
| Esperanto | "Pensante" also means "thinking person" or "scientist". |
| Estonian | The word "mõtlemine" is derived from the verb "mõelda" which means "to think", "to consider", or "to reflect". |
| Finnish | The verb "ajaa" can mean "drive" or "run" in the context of vehicles, machinery and liquids |
| French | In French, the expression "en pensant" has the additional meaning of "intending" or "planning to do something"} |
| Frisian | In Frisian, "tinke" also means "to seem" or "to seem to be". |
| Galician | In Galician, "pensando" can also mean "leaning" or "suspecting". |
| Georgian | The word "ფიქრი" initially meant "worry, care, or anxiety" in Old Georgian, shifting to its current meaning in the 12th century. |
| German | Denken derives from the Old High German word 'denkan,' meaning 'to remember' or 'to know.' |
| Greek | The word σκέψη (thinking) shares the same root with a range of terms expressing thought and reflection, including σκοπός (goal), σκιά (shadow), εποπτεία (supervision), and επισκοπία (inspection). |
| Haitian Creole | The word "panse" in Haitian Creole can also mean "understanding" or "intelligence". |
| Hausa | The Hausa word "tunani" has cognates in other Chadic languages and is a reflex of Proto-Chadic *tuna, which possibly meant "to know, to understand". |
| Hawaiian | "Manaʻo" can also mean "thought, intention, purpose, spirit." |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "חושב" shares a root with the word "חשבון" (account), which reflects its original meaning of "calculating". |
| Hindi | "विचारधारा" originally meant "a stream of thought," and is related to the word "विचार," meaning "thought". |
| Hmong | The word "xav" can also be a verb that means "to consider", "to ponder", or "to reflect upon". |
| Hungarian | In Hungarian, the word "gondolkodás" comes from the word "gondol", meaning "to care" or "to worry". |
| Icelandic | The word "að hugsa" can also mean "to consider" or "to have in mind". |
| Igbo | The term "na-eche echiche" translates literally to "to eat thought". |
| Indonesian | Berpikir, or 'thinking' in Indonesian, comes from the root word 'pikir', which can also mean 'mind' or 'idea'. |
| Irish | The Irish word |
| Italian | The Italian word "pensiero" derives from the Latin verb "pensare," meaning to "weigh" or "ponder," indicating the act of careful consideration. |
| Japanese | The kanji used in the word 考え 'kangaeru' ('thinking') also means 'view', giving it the alternate meaning of 'opinion'. |
| Javanese | In Javanese, "mikir" can also refer to the process of solving a problem. |
| Kannada | The word "ಆಲೋಚನೆ" can also refer to a thought or idea, or the act of thinking or considering. |
| Kazakh | "Ойлау" also means "to meditate" in Kazakh. |
| Khmer | The Khmer word "ការគិត" can also mean "belief", "opinion", or "concept." |
| Korean | "생각" also means 'worry' and 'worrying about'. |
| Kurdish | The Kurdish word "difikirin" is also used to describe mental processes such as cognition, understanding, and reasoning. |
| Kyrgyz | The word "ой жүгүртүү" in Kyrgyz can also mean "to plan" or "to ponder". |
| Lao | "ຄິດ" can also mean "guessing" or "estimating". |
| Latin | The origin of 'cogitare' is uncertain, but it might stem from the PIE root *koǵ- ('to know'). |
| Latvian | "Domāšana" derives from the same root as the word "domāt" (to think), but also shares its root with words of a similar meaning, like the Lithuanian "dumoti" (ponder, think), Slavic "dumat'" (think, reflect), Albanian "mendoj" (think), and even Persian "dānestan" (knowing) |
| Lithuanian | The word "mąstymas" is derived from the verb "mąstyti", which means "to think", and is related to the noun "mąstysena", which means "way of thinking" or "mindset". |
| Luxembourgish | In Luxembourgish, "denken" can also refer to "remembering" or "counting". |
| Macedonian | "Размислување" comes from the Proto-Slavic verb "razmysliti", meaning "to think, to ponder". |
| Malay | The word 'berfikir' is derived from the Proto-Austronesian root '*pikir', which also means 'to consider' or 'to estimate'. |
| Maltese | The Maltese word 'ħsieb' is also used to refer to an 'opinion' or 'belief'. |
| Maori | Whakaaro derives its semantic significance from its root meaning 'to set in order' |
| Marathi | The Marathi word 'विचार' can also refer to a 'reflection' or 'consideration'. |
| Mongolian | The word "бодох" likely derives from the Mongolian verb "бод- " to think and also carries the connotation of "opinion" or "belief." |
| Nepali | "सोच्दै" can also refer to "thinking of" |
| Norwegian | (In Norwegian, "tenker" also means "a thinker." This is a person who thinks deeply or who has ideas or opinions.) |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "kuganiza" is derived from the verb "-ganiza" meaning "to weave" or "to build". It also has the alternate meaning of "to plan" or "to intend" in Nyanja (Chichewa). |
| Pashto | "فکر کول" is derived from the Persian word "fikr", meaning "a thought, an idea, or a plan." |
| Persian | The Persian word "فكر كردن" can refer to both "thinking" in the abstract and "planning" in the concrete. |
| Polish | "Myślący" (thinking) comes from the same root as "myśl" (thought), which in turn comes from the Proto-Indo-European root *men- (to think). |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Brazilian Portuguese "pensando" can also mean "almost". |
| Punjabi | The word "ਸੋਚ" in Punjabi has its roots in the Sanskrit word "chinti," meaning "to think, reflect, or contemplate." |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "gândire" ultimately derives from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵʰen- ("to strike") |
| Russian | The Russian word "мышление" can also mean "opinion" or "disposition". |
| Samoan | The word "mafaufau" also means "to create; to imagine; to plan". |
| Serbian | The Serbian word "размишљајући" can also refer to "contemplating" and "meditating". |
| Sesotho | Ho nahana' in Sesotho also refers to the process of washing one's body or taking a bath. |
| Shona | In Shona, the verb 'kufunga' has a broader meaning encompassing 'contemplation', 'reflection', and 'reasoning'. |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "سوچڻ" is derived from the Sanskrit word "शुच्" which means to purify. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The Sinhala word "සිතීම" can also refer to the process of planning or making up one's mind about an action. |
| Slovak | The Slovak word "premýšľanie" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *prěmysliti, which also meant "to ponder" and "to deliberate" |
| Slovenian | The Slovenian word "razmišljanje" can also mean "reflection" or "consideration". |
| Somali | The Somali word "fikirka" is derived from the Arabic word "fikra," which means "idea" or "thought." |
| Spanish | "Pensando" comes from the Latin "pendere" ("to hang"), and can still be used with the connotation of "to ponder" or "to weigh"} |
| Sundanese | "Mikir" also has other meanings such as "intention" and "purpose". |
| Swahili | The Swahili word "kufikiri" is derived from the Arabic word "fikr" (thought), and also means "to consider" or "to imagine". |
| Swedish | The word 'tänkande' has a more formal and sophisticated connotation, being used in academic and philosophical contexts. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "iniisip" in Tagalog can also refer to a preoccupation or something that is on one's mind. |
| Tajik | фикр кардан происходит аз старофарси жизни «фикр» до слова фарси «придыхать», «удумать», «заботить» |
| Telugu | The word 'ఆలోచిస్తూ' is derived from the Sanskrit word 'चिन्ता'. It can also mean 'worrying' or 'meditating'. |
| Thai | The word "ความคิด" (khwam-kheet) in Thai can also mean "idea", "opinion", or "thought process" |
| Turkish | In Turkish, 'düşünme' also refers to a state of trance or daydream, a meaning absent in English. |
| Ukrainian | The word "мислення" derives from the Proto-Indo-European root *men- meaning "mind" or "think". |
| Urdu | The word "सोचना" (sochana) in Urdu is derived from the Sanskrit word "चिन्ता" (chinta), which means "thought" or "worry". |
| Uzbek | The Uzbek word "fikrlash" also refers to the concept of meditation, contemplation, and introspection. |
| Vietnamese | "Suy nghĩ" is a Vietnamese word composed of "suy" (consider) and "nghĩ" (think). |
| Welsh | The Welsh word meddwl derives from Proto-Celtic *med-to and is related to Irish meath, Scottish Gaelic meadh and Breton pred "thought, idea". |
| Xhosa | "Ukucinga" is derived from the word "ingcinga," meaning "thought or reflection." |
| Yiddish | טראכטן can also mean 'to desire', from the German word 'trachten' with the same meaning. |
| Yoruba | The Yoruba word 'lerongba' also refers to the act of meditating or contemplating. |
| Zulu | The Zulu word 'ecabanga' also means 'meditation' or 'reflection'. |
| English | The word "thinking" is derived from the Old English word "thencan," meaning "to consider" or "to remember." |