Transfer in Different Languages
Discover 'Transfer' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Transfer
Afrikaans oordrag | ||
Albanian transferimi | ||
Amharic ማስተላለፍ | ||
Arabic نقل | ||
Armenian փոխանցում | ||
Assamese স্থানান্তৰ | ||
Aymara maysarstayaña | ||
Azerbaijani köçürmə | ||
Bambara ka ci | ||
Basque transferentzia | ||
Belarusian перадача | ||
Bengali স্থানান্তর | ||
Bhojpuri स्थानांतरण | ||
Bosnian transfer | ||
Bulgarian прехвърляне | ||
Catalan transferència | ||
Cebuano pagbalhin | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 转让 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 轉讓 | ||
Corsican trasferimentu | ||
Croatian prijenos | ||
Czech převod | ||
Danish overførsel | ||
Dhivehi ބަދަލުކުރުން | ||
Dogri ट्रांसफर | ||
Dutch overdracht | ||
English transfer | ||
Esperanto translokigo | ||
Estonian üleandmine | ||
Ewe tsɔ yi teƒe bubu | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) paglipat | ||
Finnish siirtää | ||
French transfert | ||
Frisian oerdrage | ||
Galician transferir | ||
Georgian გადაცემა | ||
German transfer | ||
Greek μεταφορα | ||
Guarani mbohasa | ||
Gujarati સ્થાનાંતરણ | ||
Haitian Creole transfè | ||
Hausa canja wuri | ||
Hawaiian hoʻoili | ||
Hebrew לְהַעֲבִיר | ||
Hindi स्थानांतरण | ||
Hmong hloov chaw | ||
Hungarian átruházás | ||
Icelandic flytja | ||
Igbo nyefe | ||
Ilocano iyakar | ||
Indonesian transfer | ||
Irish aistriú | ||
Italian trasferimento | ||
Japanese 転送 | ||
Javanese transfer | ||
Kannada ವರ್ಗಾವಣೆ | ||
Kazakh аудару | ||
Khmer ផ្ទេរ | ||
Kinyarwanda ihererekanyabubasha | ||
Konkani स्थलांतर | ||
Korean 이전 | ||
Krio transfa | ||
Kurdish derbaskirin | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) گواستنەوە | ||
Kyrgyz өткөрүп берүү | ||
Lao ການໂອນຍ້າຍ | ||
Latin translatio | ||
Latvian nodošana | ||
Lingala kotinda esika mosusu | ||
Lithuanian perkėlimas | ||
Luganda okusindika | ||
Luxembourgish iwwerweisen | ||
Macedonian трансфер | ||
Maithili स्थानांतरण | ||
Malagasy famindrana | ||
Malay pindah | ||
Malayalam കൈമാറ്റം | ||
Maltese trasferiment | ||
Maori whakawhitinga | ||
Marathi हस्तांतरण | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯡꯥꯗꯣꯈꯄ | ||
Mizo sawn | ||
Mongolian шилжүүлэх | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) လွှဲပြောင်း | ||
Nepali स्थानान्तरण | ||
Norwegian overføre | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kusamutsa | ||
Odia (Oriya) ସ୍ଥାନାନ୍ତର | ||
Oromo dabarsuu | ||
Pashto لیږدول | ||
Persian انتقال | ||
Polish transfer | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) transferir | ||
Punjabi ਤਬਾਦਲਾ | ||
Quechua astay | ||
Romanian transfer | ||
Russian перечислить | ||
Samoan faaliliuina | ||
Sanskrit स्थानांतरण | ||
Scots Gaelic gluasad | ||
Sepedi fetišetša | ||
Serbian пренос | ||
Sesotho phetiso | ||
Shona chinja | ||
Sindhi منتقلي | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) මාරු | ||
Slovak prevod | ||
Slovenian prenos | ||
Somali wareejin | ||
Spanish transferir | ||
Sundanese mindahkeun | ||
Swahili uhamisho | ||
Swedish överföra | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) paglipat | ||
Tajik интиқол | ||
Tamil பரிமாற்றம் | ||
Tatar күчерү | ||
Telugu బదిలీ | ||
Thai โอน | ||
Tigrinya ምምሕልላፍ | ||
Tsonga hundzisela | ||
Turkish aktar | ||
Turkmen geçirmek | ||
Twi (Akan) mane | ||
Ukrainian передача | ||
Urdu منتقلی | ||
Uyghur يۆتكەش | ||
Uzbek o'tkazish | ||
Vietnamese chuyển khoản | ||
Welsh trosglwyddo | ||
Xhosa ukudlulisa | ||
Yiddish אַריבערפירן | ||
Yoruba gbigbe | ||
Zulu ukudlulisa |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "oordrag" is derived from the Dutch word "overdracht", which also means "transfer", and can also refer to a "handing over" or "conveyance". |
| Albanian | The word "transferimi" in Albanian can also refer to a "file transfer" or a "money transfer". |
| Amharic | The Amharic word "ማስተላለፍ" can also mean "to carry over" or "to convey". |
| Arabic | In Arabic, "نقل" can also refer to a form of traditional folk poetry. |
| Armenian | The Armenian word "փոխանցում" also refers to the act of delegating or transmitting authority or a duty. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "köçürmə" in Azerbaijani can also mean "relocation", "migration", or "deportation". |
| Basque | The word "transferentzia" comes from the Latin word "transferre", which means "to carry across" or "to transfer". This Latin root is also found in many other languages, including English and French. The Basque word for "transfer" can also be used to refer to the movement of heat or energy from one place to another, as in a heat exchanger or a transformer. |
| Belarusian | In Belarusian, "перадача" can also mean "transmission", "gear" or "hand-over". |
| Bengali | It derives from the Sanskrit word "sthāna" meaning "place" and "antara" meaning "between." |
| Bosnian | Transfers in Bosnian can also mean to transport or translate something. |
| Bulgarian | In aviation, "прехвърляне" is the moment when the pilot releases the steering wheel and the plane continues flying in a straight line. The term can also mean "rollover" in financial transactions. |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "transferència" (transfer) also means "transference" (of an emotion from one person to another), coming from the Latin word "transferre" (to carry across). |
| Cebuano | The word "pagbalhin" in Cebuano is thought to be derived from the Proto-Philippine word *balhin* meaning "move" or "change location". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | '转让' (transfer) originally meant 'to turn around' and later came to mean 'to transfer'. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 轉讓 has an alternate meaning in Chinese: to turn a corner while driving. |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "trasferimentu" also means "removal" or "deportation". |
| Croatian | "Prijenos" can also mean "pregnancy" in Croatian, deriving from the verb "prijeniti" (to transfer). |
| Czech | The Czech word "převod" can also mean a conversion, a transformation, or a transmission. |
| Danish | In Danish, "overførsel" can also refer to financial transactions, legal assignments, or the act of bringing something into another place, such as knowledge or culture. |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "overdracht" derives from the Middle Dutch "overdraghen", meaning "to carry across". |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word "translokigo" can also refer to the act of translating something into another language. |
| Estonian | In Estonian, "üleandmine" originally referred to the handover of land, but its meaning has since expanded to include any form of transfer of ownership or responsibility. |
| Finnish | The word "siirtää" is also used in the sense of "to move" or "to relocate". |
| French | In French, 'transfert' can refer to the psychoanalytic concept of transference as well as the transfer of funds or data. |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "oerdrage" is cognate with the English word "portage", and the Old Norse word "burðr". |
| Galician | "Transferir" means "to transfer" in English, but it also means "to move" or "to change" in Galician. |
| German | The German word "Transfer" also means "transfer" or "move". |
| Greek | Μεταφορά comes from the verb "φέρω", which means "to bear", and the prefix "μετα-", which can mean "change" or "across". |
| Gujarati | In Gujarati, the word "સ્થાનાંતરણ" also means "displacement" or "movement from one place to another." |
| Haitian Creole | Transfè (Haitian Creole) derives from the French word "transfert" (transfer), meaning the movement of something from one place to another. |
| Hausa | In Hausa, 'canja wuri' also means 'to escape' or 'to flee'. |
| Hawaiian | The word "hoʻoili" has alternate meanings such as "to convey" or "to transmit". |
| Hebrew | The verb "להעביר" also means to "cause to pass," as in "to pass a law" or "to pass sentence." |
| Hindi | The word "स्थानांतरण" can also mean "displacement" or "migration". |
| Hmong | Hmong word "hloov chaw" can also mean "exchange" or "trade". |
| Hungarian | The word "átruházás" can also refer to the act of delegating or assigning responsibility or authority to another person. |
| Icelandic | 'Fyltja' is a term in Icelandic chess, meaning 'castling' (the manoeuvre of the king and one of the rooks). |
| Igbo | In Igbo, the word "nyefe" also means "to take from one place to another." |
| Indonesian | Transfer comes from Old French 'transferer', from Latin 'transferre', meaning 'to carry across'. |
| Irish | The word 'aistriú' is derived from the Latin word 'transferre', meaning 'to carry across'. |
| Italian | The word "trasferimento" can also mean "removal" or "exile". |
| Japanese | 「転送」の意味：その1 物資などを送ること。その2 データなどをコンピュータから別のコンピュータへと送ること。 |
| Javanese | The Javanese word "transfer" can also mean "to copy" or "to move". |
| Kannada | The verb "transfer" is cognate with Sanskrit "ud-kram" which means "to step out". |
| Kazakh | "Аударту" means "translation" and "retelling" in Kazakh. |
| Khmer | The word "ផ្ទេរ" (transfer) is also used in Khmer to refer to the act of moving something from one place to another. |
| Korean | The word "이전" also originally meant "to move house" and is related to the word "이사" ("moving"). |
| Kurdish | "Derbaskirin" originated from the Persian word "tabadol" (exchange, interchange) and was assimilated into Kurdish language |
| Latin | In late antiquity, translatio studii (“transfer of study”) referred to the preservation of classical Greek learning in the Latin-speaking West. |
| Latvian | The word “nodošana” is derived from the Latin word “datum”, meaning “given”. It can also refer to the act of transferring information or data from one place to another. |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word "perkėlimas" can also refer to the transfer of information from one computer or device to another. |
| Luxembourgish | The word "iwwerweisen" can also mean to "send" or "to refer". |
| Macedonian | ''Трансфер'' is derived from the Latin word ''transferre'', meaning to carry or move across. |
| Malagasy | Derived from the Malay word famihindrana, "famindrana" also refers to an exchange of objects. |
| Malay | "Pindah" (transfer) may also mean "moving house" or "shifting" in other contexts. |
| Malayalam | The Malayalam word "കൈമാറ്റം" (kaimata) is cognate to "hand" and "exchange" in English, indicating its origins in physical transfer or the exchange of goods. |
| Maltese | Maltese "trasferiment" derives from Italian "trasferimento", from Latin "trans-ferre", meaning "to carry across". |
| Maori | "Whakawhitinga" is the Māori word for "transfer" but can also mean "exchange" or "delivery". |
| Marathi | In Sanskrit the word has a medical etymology and refers to 'placing the patient's body in another person's hands', and also to 'the movement of a limb' |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word "шилжүүлэх" can also mean "to translate" or "to move". |
| Nepali | " स्थानान्तरण" is a Sanskrit term derived from "sthāna," meaning "place," indicating a change or movement of location or position. |
| Norwegian | Overføre can also mean 'to exaggerate' or 'to overstate'. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "kusamutsa" may refer to the transfer of money, property, or other goods. |
| Pashto | لیږدول can also metaphorically refer to the act of assigning a task or responsibility to another person or entity. |
| Persian | انتقال can also mean a change, conversion, or shift. |
| Polish | The word "transfer" can also refer to a file, a student moving to a different school, or a sum of money being moved from one account to another. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | Transferir is derived from the Latin "transferre" and means "to carry across". |
| Punjabi | The word 'ਤਬਾਦਲਾ' (transfer) is derived from the Persian word 'tabadul', which means 'exchange' or 'change'. |
| Romanian | In Romanian, "transfer" can also refer to a musical cadence or a surgical procedure. |
| Russian | The verb "перечислить" in Russian language also means "to list" or "to itemize". |
| Samoan | In Samoan, 'fa'a-liliu-ina' literally means 'to make a turn' or 'to change direction'. |
| Scots Gaelic | "Gluasad" in Scots Gaelic is cognate with "closure", and originally had a more literal meaning of "shutting" (e.g. "gluasad doruis", "shutting a door"). |
| Serbian | In Slavic languages, the word "prenos" has additional meanings like 'carry-over' and 'attribution of responsibility' besides 'transfer' |
| Sesotho | The word "phetiso" can also refer to a fee paid for transferring property. |
| Shona | The word "chinja" is sometimes used as a term of respect when addressing an elder or a person of authority. |
| Sindhi | منتقلي is derived from the Sanskrit word 'अंतिम' ('Antima') meaning 'end' or 'last'. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "මාරු" can also mean "exchange" or "substitute" in Sinhala. |
| Slovak | The word "prevod" in Slovak is derived from the Proto-Slavic word "perevodъ," which means "to lead across" or "to translate." |
| Slovenian | Prenoso, an archaic synonym for 'prenos', survives only in figurative sense. |
| Somali | Wareejin is also a type of animal, a hare. |
| Spanish | The Spanish verb "transferir" can also mean "to move" or "to bring over." |
| Sundanese | Mindahkeun also means to move something to a different location in Sundanese. |
| Swahili | Uhamisho can also refer to a relocation or change of residence. |
| Swedish | The word "överföra" can also mean "to convey" or "to transmit" in Swedish. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The Tagalog word "paglipat" can also mean "change of residence" or the "relocation of a population group". |
| Tajik | The word "интиқол" (transfer) in Tajik also has the meanings "transition" and "conveyance". |
| Tamil | The word "பரிமாற்றம்" (parimāṟṟam) is derived from the Sanskrit word "परिवर्तन" (parivartan), meaning "change" or "alteration". |
| Telugu | The word "బదిలీ" also means "change" or "alteration" in Telugu. |
| Thai | "โอน" is also a Thai word for "carry". |
| Turkish | The word "Aktar" in Turkish has its roots in the Arabic word "Naql" meaning "to carry" or "to move" and also refers to the occupation of a pharmacist. |
| Ukrainian | In Russian, the word "передача" can also mean a TV or radio broadcast. |
| Urdu | In its original Arabic, 'muntaqil' means 'to move' or 'to shift' something, and is often used in a context of relocation. |
| Uzbek | The word "o'tkazish" can also refer to transferring information or data. |
| Vietnamese | The word "chuyển khoản" is derived from the Chinese word "轉款", which also means "transfer" or "remittance". |
| Welsh | The Welsh word 'trosglwyddo' can also mean to 'transplant' or to 'hand over'. |
| Xhosa | The word “ukudlulisa” also means “to be removed” or "to relocate". |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "אַריבערפירן" originally meant "to carry over", but its meaning has since expanded to include "to translate" and "to transport". |
| Yoruba | The Yoruba word 'gbigbe' also means 'to move' or 'to carry'. |
| Zulu | The word "ukudlulisa" in Zulu is related to the verb "ukudlula," meaning "to pass by or through". |
| English | The word "transfer" originated from the Latin word "transferre," meaning "to carry across" or "to convey." |