Track in Different Languages
Discover 'Track' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Track
Afrikaans spoor | ||
Albanian pista | ||
Amharic ትራክ | ||
Arabic المسار | ||
Armenian ուղի | ||
Assamese ট্ৰেক | ||
Aymara uñakipaña | ||
Azerbaijani iz | ||
Bambara nɔ | ||
Basque pista | ||
Belarusian трэк | ||
Bengali ট্র্যাক | ||
Bhojpuri डड़ार | ||
Bosnian track | ||
Bulgarian писта | ||
Catalan pista | ||
Cebuano pagsubay | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 跟踪 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 跟踪 | ||
Corsican traccia | ||
Croatian staza | ||
Czech dráha | ||
Danish spore | ||
Dhivehi ޓްރެކް | ||
Dogri राह् | ||
Dutch spoor | ||
English track | ||
Esperanto trako | ||
Estonian rada | ||
Ewe gbememᴐ | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) subaybayan | ||
Finnish seurata | ||
French piste | ||
Frisian spoar | ||
Galician pista | ||
Georgian სიმღერა | ||
German spur | ||
Greek πίστα | ||
Guarani marandu ñongatuha | ||
Gujarati ટ્રેક | ||
Haitian Creole tras | ||
Hausa waƙa | ||
Hawaiian ala | ||
Hebrew מַסלוּל | ||
Hindi धावन पथ | ||
Hmong khiav | ||
Hungarian vágány | ||
Icelandic braut | ||
Igbo akara | ||
Ilocano dalan | ||
Indonesian jalur | ||
Irish rian | ||
Italian traccia | ||
Japanese 追跡 | ||
Javanese trek | ||
Kannada ಟ್ರ್ಯಾಕ್ | ||
Kazakh трек | ||
Khmer បទ | ||
Kinyarwanda inzira | ||
Konkani माग | ||
Korean 과정 | ||
Krio rod | ||
Kurdish şop | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) ڕێگا | ||
Kyrgyz трек | ||
Lao ຕິດຕາມ | ||
Latin track | ||
Latvian trase | ||
Lingala nzela | ||
Lithuanian takelis | ||
Luganda kuziga | ||
Luxembourgish verfollegen | ||
Macedonian патека | ||
Maithili पगडंडी | ||
Malagasy manara-maso | ||
Malay trek | ||
Malayalam ട്രാക്ക് | ||
Maltese track | ||
Maori ara | ||
Marathi ट्रॅक | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯊꯤꯍꯠꯄ | ||
Mizo chhui | ||
Mongolian мөр | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) လမ်းကြောင်း | ||
Nepali ट्र्याक | ||
Norwegian spor | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) track | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଟ୍ରାକ୍ | ||
Oromo daandii | ||
Pashto پلنه | ||
Persian مسیر | ||
Polish tor | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) pista | ||
Punjabi ਟਰੈਕ | ||
Quechua ñan | ||
Romanian urmări | ||
Russian трек | ||
Samoan ala | ||
Sanskrit मार्ग | ||
Scots Gaelic rian | ||
Sepedi thereke | ||
Serbian трацк | ||
Sesotho pina | ||
Shona track | ||
Sindhi ٽريڪ | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) ධාවන පථය | ||
Slovak stopa | ||
Slovenian skladbo | ||
Somali raad | ||
Spanish pista | ||
Sundanese lagu | ||
Swahili kufuatilia | ||
Swedish spår | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) subaybayan | ||
Tajik суруд | ||
Tamil டிராக் | ||
Tatar трек | ||
Telugu ట్రాక్ | ||
Thai ติดตาม | ||
Tigrinya ናይ ፅዕነት መኪና | ||
Tsonga xiporo | ||
Turkish izlemek | ||
Turkmen yzarla | ||
Twi (Akan) di akyire | ||
Ukrainian трек | ||
Urdu ٹریک | ||
Uyghur ئىز | ||
Uzbek trek | ||
Vietnamese theo dõi | ||
Welsh trac | ||
Xhosa umkhondo | ||
Yiddish שפּור | ||
Yoruba orin | ||
Zulu ithrekhi |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "spoor" not only means "track", but also figuratively "reason" or "line of thought". |
| Albanian | In Albanian, 'pista' is not only a track but also a type of bread used in communion. |
| Amharic | The word "ትራክ" is also used in Amharic to refer to the path or route of a journey. |
| Arabic | In Arabic, "المسار" can also mean "pathway" or "course of action". |
| Armenian | "Ուղի" also means "path", "way", "route", or "course" in Armenian. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "iz" also means "trail, footstep, trace, record, sign, mark" in Azerbaijani. |
| Basque | "Pista" (track) comes from the Basque word "pistu" (trail). |
| Belarusian | In Belarusian, "трэк" can also refer to a race or a racecourse, highlighting its connection to the idea of movement and competition. |
| Bengali | ট্র্যাক শব্দটি ইংরেজি 'track' থেকে এসেছে যার অর্থ 'পথ' বা 'গতিপথ'। এর বিকল্প অর্থ আছে 'পরিধান করা পথ' বা 'শব্দ বা সংগীত রেকর্ড করা পথ'। |
| Bosnian | In English, the word "track" can also refer to a musical composition or a record of a composition |
| Bulgarian | The Bulgarian word "писта" (track) derives from the Greek "πιστή" (faith, loyalty) and the Italian "pista" (road, course). |
| Catalan | Catalan "pista" derives from Medieval Latin "pista," meaning "footprint," and also refers to a road or trail. |
| Cebuano | Pagsubay is derived from the verb "subay" meaning "to test" or "to check". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 跟踪 (gēnzōng), meaning to follow up or trace, originally comes from hunting. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The Chinese word “跟踪” can also mean “trace” or “keep track of”. |
| Corsican | In French, traccia also means 'sketch' and is often used as the plural of 'trait'. |
| Croatian | Staza (track) can also refer to a path or trail. |
| Czech | Czech "dráha" is akin to Polish "droga", which can mean "path", "road", "way", or "line". |
| Danish | The Danish word "spore" can also mean a wooden plank or the trail of a deer or moose. |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "spoor" can also mean "rail" or "line". |
| Esperanto | In English, "track" can also mean to keep a record of something or to follow someone's activities. |
| Estonian | The word "rada" also refers to a clearing or glade in a forest. |
| Finnish | "Seurata" originally referred to an animal trail or game track and is also related to words for hunting and escorting. |
| French | In French, 'Piste' also means 'clue' or 'hint'. |
| Frisian | In nautical terms, 'spoar' also refers to the waterline of a ship or the distance between two places measured along the coast. |
| Galician | Galician "pista" also means "hint", a "clue" that helps solve a problem, and "step" or "trace". |
| Georgian | The Georgian word "სიმღერა" (simghera) literally translates to "song," but can also refer to a "track" in the context of music albums. |
| German | The German word "spuren" means both "track" and "to trace" or "to follow a trace." |
| Greek | "Πίστα" comes from the Italian "pista" and can also refer to a dancing floor, a runway or a slope in a ski resort |
| Gujarati | "ટ્રેક" is a cognate with "track" in English and "traccia" in Italian. |
| Haitian Creole | "Tras" in Haitian Creole can also mean "trace" or "path". |
| Hausa | The Hausa word "waƙa" initially meant "song" before acquiring its present meaning of "track" in English. |
| Hawaiian | Ala is also one of many Hawaiian words for path, way, road, course, direction, manner, method. |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word for "track," "מַסלוּל," comes from the root "סלל," meaning "to pave" or "to make a path," and is related to the word "סולם," meaning "ladder." |
| Hindi | "धावन पथ" (track in Hindi) also means 'runway', 'path', or 'footpath' in English. |
| Hmong | It's most likely a loan from the Zhuang language, but it might also be from the Khmu language. |
| Hungarian | 'Vágány' - a word meaning 'track' in Hungarian - is also used to describe the rut formed by the wheels of a cart in a road, its original meaning. |
| Icelandic | "Braut" in Icelandic also refers to a path or course of action. |
| Igbo | The Igbo word "akara" can also refer to a type of fried bean cake |
| Indonesian | In Indonesian "jalur" can also mean "stripe" or "line" because it originates from the Malay word "jarus" which refers to a line made on the ground. |
| Irish | In Manx mythology, Rhiannon was a goddess of fertility and protector of children |
| Italian | The word "traccia" in Italian also means "clue" or "trace", and derives from the Latin word "tractus", meaning "drawn". |
| Japanese | The Japanese word "追跡" (tsuiseki) literally means "to pursue a trace". |
| Javanese | The Javanese word "trek" can also refer to the process of carving or engraving. |
| Kannada | In addition to its primary meaning, "ಟ್ರ್ಯಾಕ್" (track) can also refer to a railway line, a racecourse, or a path or trail. |
| Kazakh | Трек (track) is also used to refer to a piece of music specifically for dancing. |
| Khmer | "បទ" (track) also means "song," "lesson," "chapter" or "verse," depending on context. |
| Korean | The word "과정" can also mean "process" or "course of study". |
| Kurdish | The Kurdish word "şop" can also refer to a "mark" or "trace" left by something. |
| Kyrgyz | The Kyrgyz word "трек" also means the "main branch of a tree in a forest". |
| Lao | The word |
| Latin | Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreǵʰ- meaning 'to run, drag, draw' |
| Latvian | The Latvian word "trase" is derived from the German word "Trasse" meaning "track", "route", or "corridor". |
| Lithuanian | The etymology of 'takelis' is unknown, but some speculate it may be related to the word 'takas' ('path'). |
| Luxembourgish | The word also means 'in vain' and is derived from Old French 'par fuloge' ('for nothing'). |
| Macedonian | The word "патека" is also used to refer to a path or a road, especially one that is narrow and winding. |
| Malagasy | The word "manara-maso" can also refer to a narrow path or a trail. |
| Malay | In Malay, trek (track) is originally a nautical term meaning to 'haul a ship along by a rope' |
| Malayalam | In Malayalam, 'ട്രാക്ക്' ('track') can also mean a route, a trail, a path, or a record of something. |
| Maltese | {"text": "The Maltese word "trakka" comes from the Italian word "traccia" and can also mean "trace, trail, or spoor""} |
| Maori | The Maori word "ara" can also refer to a road, way, method, or path. |
| Marathi | The word ट्रॅक (track) in Marathi also means 'evidence' or 'proof'. |
| Mongolian | The word "мөр" can also mean "mark", "trace", or "path". |
| Nepali | The word 'ट्र्याक' is derived from the English word 'track', which can also refer to a musical composition or a trace left behind by a person or animal. |
| Norwegian | The word «spor» originates from the Proto-Germanic «*spuruz» which means either «foot» or «track». |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The Nyanja (Chichewa) word "njira", which can mean "track", also refers to a "road" or a "way". |
| Pashto | The word "پلنه" can also mean "route" or "path" in Pashto. |
| Persian | The word "مسیر" primarily means "track" in Persian, but it can also refer to "path" or "route" |
| Polish | The word «tor» in Polish can also mean «a bag tied around a horse's neck to carry luggage». |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "pista" in Portuguese also means "clue" or "hint". |
| Punjabi | The Punjabi word "ਟਰੈਕ" (track) likely derives from the English word, but also carries the additional meaning of "footprint" or "trail." |
| Romanian | The word "urmări" in Romanian also has the alternate meaning of "to follow". |
| Russian | "Трек" (track) comes from the English word "track", meaning "a path or mark made by something that has passed", and can also refer to a "musical composition". |
| Samoan | "Ala" can also mean "path" or "way" in Samoan, referring to both physical and abstract concepts. |
| Scots Gaelic | In Irish, rían also means a 'secret' or 'mystery'. |
| Serbian | Трак (track) is a loan word from the English language and it can also mean 'trace' or 'scent'. |
| Sesotho | The word "pina" can also refer to a path, trace, sign, or clue in Sesotho. |
| Shona | In Shona, "track" can also refer to the physical process of following a scent with one's nose. |
| Sindhi | The word 'ٽريڪ' ('track') in Sindhi can also mean 'a trail or path' or 'a mark left by something'. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | In Sinhala, the word also refers to the course of a river and a particular way of walking. |
| Slovak | The word "stopa" also means "foot" and is related to the word "stupať" which means "to step or walk". |
| Slovenian | The word 'skladbo' is a cognate of the German word 'Stück', which can also mean 'piece' or 'work' |
| Somali | The Somali word "raad" can also mean "evidence" or "proof". |
| Spanish | The word "pista" also means "hint" or "clue" in Spanish, stemming from the Latin word "pistari" (to track or follow). |
| Sundanese | In Sundanese, 'lagu' also refers to traditional songs and melodies. |
| Swahili | Kufuatilia also means 'to pursue' or 'to follow up on' in Swahili, with various derivations from the root word.' |
| Swedish | Spår is cognate with English word 'spoor' and German 'Spur' and all derive from the PIE root '*sper-'. The latter originally means to go, travel in general, and also has cognates in Latin 'spurcus' or 'spargere', in Gaelic, Old Irish as well as in many Slavic language branches. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Subaybayan" in Tagalog can also mean "to monitor" or "to observe." |
| Tajik | The word "суруд" can also mean "way" or "manner" in Tajik. |
| Tamil | The Tamil word "டிராக்" ("track") is derived from the English word and retains its meaning as a path or route, but can also refer to a musical track or a record of an event. |
| Telugu | The term 'track' is likely derived from the Middle English word 'trac' or the Anglo-French word 'trace', which refers to the footprint of a deer or a pathway created by an animal or vehicle. |
| Thai | ติดตาม (tidtam) can also mean "to pursue" or "to follow up on". |
| Turkish | 'Izlemek' is commonly used in Turkish, but can also mean 'follow' or 'monitor'. Originating from the Arabic word 'athar', it carries the same meaning in both languages, signifying 'track' or 'trail'. |
| Ukrainian | "Трек" can also mean "suit" or "trail" in Ukrainian. |
| Urdu | In Urdu, "ٹریک" can also refer to a path or a trail, derived from the Persian word "tarīq" meaning "way" or "road."} |
| Uzbek | In Uzbek, "trek" (трек) means "track" as well as "trail", "route", or "course". |
| Vietnamese | The word "theo dõi" in Vietnamese can also mean "to spy" or "to monitor". |
| Welsh | Trac derives from the Latin word trahere, meaning "pull" or "draw." |
| Xhosa | In Xhosa, the word "umkhondo" can also refer to a trace, a path or a scent. |
| Yiddish | "שפּור" also means "trace" or "amount" in Yiddish |
| Yoruba | "Orin" can also refer to a song, tune or melody, indicating the close relationship between music and movement in Yoruba culture. |
| Zulu | The Zulu word "ithrekhi" has multiple meanings, including "footprint" and "trace". |
| English | 'Track' is a cognates of 'drag' and 'draw', meaning to pull or trace out a path. |