Travel in Different Languages
Discover 'Travel' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
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Afrikaans reis | ||
Albanian udhëtim | ||
Amharic ጉዞ | ||
Arabic السفر | ||
Armenian ճանապարհորդություն | ||
Assamese ভ্ৰমণ | ||
Aymara ch'usasiwi | ||
Azerbaijani səyahət | ||
Bambara ka taama | ||
Basque bidaiatzea | ||
Belarusian падарожжа | ||
Bengali ভ্রমণ | ||
Bhojpuri जतरा | ||
Bosnian putovanje | ||
Bulgarian пътуване | ||
Catalan viatjar | ||
Cebuano pagbiyahe | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 旅行 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 旅行 | ||
Corsican viaghjà | ||
Croatian putovati | ||
Czech cestovat | ||
Danish rejse | ||
Dhivehi ދަތުރުކުރުން | ||
Dogri जात्तरा | ||
Dutch reizen | ||
English travel | ||
Esperanto vojaĝi | ||
Estonian reisima | ||
Ewe zɔ̃ mᴐ | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) paglalakbay | ||
Finnish matkustaa | ||
French voyage | ||
Frisian reizgje | ||
Galician viaxar | ||
Georgian მოგზაურობა | ||
German reise | ||
Greek ταξίδι | ||
Guarani guatapuku | ||
Gujarati પ્રવાસ | ||
Haitian Creole vwayaje | ||
Hausa tafiya | ||
Hawaiian huakaʻi | ||
Hebrew לִנְסוֹעַ | ||
Hindi यात्रा | ||
Hmong mus ncig ua si | ||
Hungarian utazás | ||
Icelandic ferðalög | ||
Igbo njem | ||
Ilocano agbiahe | ||
Indonesian perjalanan | ||
Irish taisteal | ||
Italian viaggio | ||
Japanese トラベル | ||
Javanese lelungan | ||
Kannada ಪ್ರಯಾಣ | ||
Kazakh саяхат | ||
Khmer ធ្វើដំណើរ | ||
Kinyarwanda ingendo | ||
Konkani भोंवडी | ||
Korean 여행 | ||
Krio travul | ||
Kurdish gerrîn | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) گەشتکردن | ||
Kyrgyz саякаттоо | ||
Lao ທ່ອງທ່ຽວ | ||
Latin itinerantur | ||
Latvian ceļot | ||
Lingala kosala mobembo | ||
Lithuanian kelionė | ||
Luganda okutambula | ||
Luxembourgish reesen | ||
Macedonian патува | ||
Maithili यात्रा | ||
Malagasy tsangatsangana | ||
Malay melancong | ||
Malayalam യാത്ര | ||
Maltese ivvjaġġar | ||
Maori haerenga | ||
Marathi प्रवास | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯂꯝ ꯀꯣꯏꯕ | ||
Mizo zin | ||
Mongolian аялал | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ခရီးသွား | ||
Nepali यात्रा | ||
Norwegian reise | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kuyenda | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଭ୍ରମଣ | ||
Oromo imaluu | ||
Pashto سفر | ||
Persian مسافرت رفتن | ||
Polish podróżować | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) viagem | ||
Punjabi ਯਾਤਰਾ | ||
Quechua illay | ||
Romanian voiaj | ||
Russian путешествовать | ||
Samoan malaga | ||
Sanskrit यात्रा | ||
Scots Gaelic siubhal | ||
Sepedi sepela | ||
Serbian путовати | ||
Sesotho ho eta | ||
Shona kufamba | ||
Sindhi سفر | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) ගමන් | ||
Slovak cestovanie | ||
Slovenian potovanja | ||
Somali safarka | ||
Spanish viajar | ||
Sundanese ngumbara | ||
Swahili kusafiri | ||
Swedish resa | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) paglalakbay | ||
Tajik саёҳат | ||
Tamil பயணம் | ||
Tatar сәяхәт | ||
Telugu ప్రయాణం | ||
Thai การท่องเที่ยว | ||
Tigrinya ምጉዓዝ | ||
Tsonga teka rendzo | ||
Turkish seyahat | ||
Turkmen syýahat | ||
Twi (Akan) tu kwan | ||
Ukrainian подорожі | ||
Urdu سفر | ||
Uyghur ساياھەت | ||
Uzbek sayohat | ||
Vietnamese du lịch | ||
Welsh teithio | ||
Xhosa uhambo | ||
Yiddish אַרומפאָרן | ||
Yoruba irin-ajo | ||
Zulu ukuhamba |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | Originally borrowed from Dutch "reis", it can also refer to a round trip or a journey with a specific direction. |
| Albanian | In Albanian, the Albanian word 'udhëtim' (travel) is thought to derive from a Proto-Indo-European root, where its cognates include words like the Latin 'iter' (journey) and Sanskrit 'i-ti' (to go). |
| Amharic | In Ethiopia, people call long journeys by foot “ጉዞ” which also means “pilgrimage”. |
| Arabic | The Arabic word "السفر" ("travel") also means "the Bible" or "scripture"} |
| Azerbaijani | The word "səyahət" can also mean "journey" or "voyage" in Azerbaijani. |
| Basque | 'Bidaiatzea' means 'travel', but it also referred to the custom of children leaving home after their marriage to settle in the home of their spouse's family. |
| Belarusian | The word "парожжа" also means a "rein" and originated from a Proto-Indo-European root meaning "rope". |
| Bengali | The word "ভ্রমণ" derives from Sanskrit and can also mean "wandering" or "erratic movement" |
| Bosnian | "Put" stands for road, way, path and journey, and "ovanje" means going somewhere, so literally "putovanje" means "going somewhere on a road". |
| Bulgarian | "Пътуване" derives from the Proto-Slavic word *pǫt- ("way, path"), denoting movement from one place to another. |
| Catalan | "Viatjar" is derived from the Latin "via" meaning "way," and also means "living" in Catalan. |
| Cebuano | The word "pagbiyahe" is derived from the Spanish word "viaje". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 旅行 originates from the term 行獵, which refers to hunting trips, and the character 呂 added to the right denotes a form of punishment |
| Chinese (Traditional) | "旅行" originally means "to hunt" in ancient Chinese, reflecting the nomadic lifestyle of early Chinese people. |
| Corsican | The verb 'viaghjà' comes from the Latin verb 'viaggiare' with the same meaning, and refers not only to physical travel, but also to a spiritual or metaphorical journey. |
| Croatian | The word "putovati" is derived from the Proto-Slavic root "*pъtь", meaning "path" or "way". It is related to the English word "path" and the German word "Pfad". |
| Czech | The word "cestovat" can also mean "to journey" or "to roam" in Czech. |
| Danish | The word 'rejse' is derived from the Old Norse word 'reisa' ('to rise') and primarily means 'to set out' or 'to go on a journey'. |
| Dutch | "Reizen" in Dutch also means "to stir up" or "to bother" in an idiomatic sense. |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word 'vojaĝi' can also mean 'journey' or 'cruise'. |
| Estonian | The word "reisima" also means "to go on a trip" or "to take a journey". |
| Finnish | Matkustaa can also mean 'journey' or 'navigate', sharing a root with the word 'matka' ('trip'). |
| French | The word "voyage" comes from the Latin word "viaticum," which means "provisions for a journey." |
| Frisian | The word "reizgje" comes from the Old Frisian word "reize", which also means "journey" or "trip". |
| Galician | Viaxar derives from the Latin word via and can also refer to the journey of life or a particular route or path. |
| German | The German noun “Reise” originates from the Old High German “reisa” and describes both a journey and an event of moving, like an army |
| Greek | The word 'ταξίδι' ultimately derives from the ancient greek word 'τάξις', meaning 'order' or 'arrangement'. |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "પ્રવાસ" can also refer to a journey of the mind or spirit, or a pilgrimage to a holy place. |
| Haitian Creole | The word "vwayaje" is derived from the French word "voyage", meaning "travel". In English, however, the word "vwayaje" can also refer to a journey or trip. |
| Hausa | The Hausa word "tafiya" can also refer to walking, going on a business journey, or migrating to a new location. |
| Hawaiian | Huakaʻi can also refer to the journey into the afterlife in Hawaiian culture. |
| Hebrew | The verb לִנְסוֹעַ ultimately derives from the Akkadian word nassahu, which means "to pull" or "to draw out". |
| Hindi | The word 'यात्रा' (travel) in Hindi can also refer to a pilgrimage or spiritual journey. |
| Hmong | The alternate meaning of "mus ncig ua si" is "to visit." |
| Hungarian | "Utazás" originally meant "journey on foot" and also "trip to a spa" before it gained its modern meaning. |
| Icelandic | The word "ferðalög" can also refer to a diary or a journal of travels. |
| Igbo | "Njem" can also refer to a journey or expedition. |
| Indonesian | Perjalanan, a word for 'travel' in Indonesian, originally meant 'a journey', derived from the ancient Javanese word 'prajana', meaning 'to wander'. |
| Irish | The modern spelling, taisteal, is also used in Scottish Gaelic. |
| Italian | The word 'viaggio' comes from the Latin word 'viaticum', which means 'provisions for a journey'. |
| Japanese | The word "travel" comes from the Old French word "travail," which meant "work" or "labor." |
| Javanese | The word 'lelungan' in Javanese can also refer to a pilgrimage or journey for spiritual purposes. |
| Kannada | The usage of the word "ಪ್ರಯಾಣ" is also seen to refer to the movement of celestial bodies. |
| Kazakh | The word "саяхат" in Kazakh originates from the Arabic word "سفر" (safar), which means "journey" or "travel." |
| Korean | "여행" (travel) can also mean "a trip" or "a journey". |
| Kurdish | In Kurdish, the word "gerrîn" can also mean "to roam". |
| Kyrgyz | The word "саякаттоо" can also refer to "wandering" or "traveling for leisure" in Kyrgyz. |
| Lao | The Lao word ທ່ອງທ່ຽວ, or "travel", is also used in colloquial speech to mean tourism, and can thus be used to refer to a trip or excursion without the connotation of movement. |
| Latin | Itinerantur can also mean a group of judges travelling around a province to enforce justice |
| Latvian | The word "ceļot" also means "to weigh" in Latvian, stemming from the Proto-Baltic root *kel-. |
| Lithuanian | Lithuanian word "kelionė" comes from the verb "keliauti", which means "to travel" but can also mean "to move", "to wander", "to go from one place to another". |
| Luxembourgish | The word "reesen" is derived from the Old High German word "reisan," which also means "to travel". |
| Macedonian | The Macedonian word "патува" is derived from the Greek "πάθος" meaning "suffering or experience," suggesting travel as a transformative journey. |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "Tsangatsangana" not only means "travel", but also "to carry on the back" and "to wander". |
| Malay | Malay "melancong" derives from Sanskrit "mala" (flower garland) and "conga" (movement), denoting a leisurely excursion adorned with garlands. |
| Malayalam | The word "യാത്ര" in Malayalam shares a common root with "travel" in English, where "tra" refers to going across or passing through. |
| Maltese | The word "ivvjaġġar" originates from the Arabic word "safar" which also means "journey" or "travel." |
| Maori | The word 'haerenga' in Maori also refers to 'a journey of life' or 'a path of action'. |
| Marathi | The word "प्रवास" (pravas) in Marathi is derived from the Sanskrit word "प्रवासन" (pravasan), which means "sojourning in a foreign land", and also has the connotation of "migration" or "exile". |
| Mongolian | The word "аялал" can also mean "journey" or "expedition". |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The word "ခရီးသွား" in Burmese (Myanmar) is derived from the Pali word "cariya", meaning "going, wandering, or a journey". It has a secondary meaning as "a traveler". |
| Nepali | The word "यात्रा" can also mean "pilgrimage" or "journey to a holy place" in a religious context. |
| Norwegian | The Norwegian word "reise" is derived from the Proto-Germanic word "raisjan," meaning "to rise" or "to move upwards." |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "kuyenda" is also used figuratively in Nyanja to refer to "progress" or "going somewhere in life." |
| Pashto | "سفر" can also mean "a book" in Persian. |
| Persian | The Persian word for 'travel' (مسافرت رفتن) is derived from the Arabic word 'safar' (سفر), which means 'journey' or 'departure'. |
| Polish | The word 'podróżować' derives from 'droga' ('road'), and initially meant 'to go along the road', whereas now it has a broader meaning of 'to travel'. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "viagem" in Portuguese can also refer to a "trip", "journey", "voyage", or "flight". |
| Punjabi | "ਯਾਤਰਾ" can also mean the act of going on a pilgrimage, a religious journey undertaken to a holy place. |
| Romanian | "Voiaj" comes from the French "voyage" and in some contexts, can also refer to a person who travels a lot. |
| Russian | "Путешествовать" is derived from "путь" (way) and "шествовать" (walk), therefore it literally means "walk the way". |
| Samoan | "Malaga" can also mean "to leave", |
| Scots Gaelic | 'Siubhal' is the Scots Gaelic word for 'travel', but it also means 'to walk' or 'to move'. |
| Serbian | The word "путовати" can also refer to walking or wandering, particularly in a religious context. |
| Sesotho | Sesotho "ho eta" is also used figuratively to mean "to go or arrive at a certain point in time, state, or condition, or to reach a certain level or degree." |
| Shona | "Kufamba" also means "to walk". |
| Sindhi | The word "سفر" in Sindhi can also refer to a "chapter" of a book, reflecting its shared root with Arabic, where it means "to travel" and "book." |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word ගමන් also means a village or a journey. |
| Slovak | The word "cestovanie" also means "tourism" and "traveling" in Slovak. |
| Slovenian | "Potovanje" can also refer to a book or a TV show that provides information on various destinations. |
| Somali | The word 'safarka' in Somali can also refer to a 'journey' or an 'expedition'. |
| Spanish | "Viajar" in Spanish comes from the Latin "via" (way), and also means "to drift" or "to roam." |
| Sundanese | The word "ngumbara" in Sundanese also refers to a type of musical performance involving travel and storytelling. |
| Swahili | The word "kusafiri" in Swahili comes from the root "sfr," meaning "to journey" and is related to the Arabic word "safar," meaning "travel." |
| Swedish | From Old Swedish, resa meant to run or walk along, and was originally used to refer to the migration of the people in early history. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "paglalakbay" can also mean "journey", "pilgrimage", or "odyssey". |
| Tajik | The Tajik word "саёҳат" is derived from the Persian word "سیاحت", which can also mean "tourism" or "sightseeing". |
| Tamil | The Tamil word "பயணம்" can also refer to a journey of personal or spiritual growth and transformation. |
| Telugu | The word 'ప్రయాణం' is derived from the Sanskrit word 'pra-yāna', which means 'to go' or 'to move'. |
| Thai | The Thai word "การท่องเที่ยว" literally means "to go around looking at things". |
| Turkish | The word "seyahat" in Turkish originates from the Arabic word "sayr" meaning "walking" or "traveling". |
| Ukrainian | The word "подорожі" in Ukrainian is cognate with the word "дорога" meaning "road". |
| Urdu | Its plural form, اسفار, (asfaar) also means "books." |
| Uzbek | "Sayohat" is derived from the Arabic "sayyah" meaning "explorer", giving the word a broader sense of adventure beyond mere "travel". |
| Vietnamese | "Du lịch" can also mean "tour" or "excursion" in Vietnamese. |
| Welsh | The word "teithio" can also mean "journey" or "excursion". |
| Xhosa | The Xhosa word "uhambo" is also used to refer to a journey, an expedition, or a pilgrimage. |
| Yiddish | Yiddish "אַרומפאָרן" (lit. "to drive around") is cognate with the German "umfahren", meaning "to bypass". |
| Yoruba | In the "Ijebu" dialect of Yoruba, the word "irin-ajo" means "to take a journey or go on a trip," but in the "Ekiti" dialect, it means "to come or arrive." |
| Zulu | In Zulu, the word 'ukuhamba' also means a 'journey to the underworld' in cultural mythology. |
| English | "Travel" originates from the Old French "travail," meaning "work" or "labor," suggesting that travel was once a strenuous undertaking. |