Truth in Different Languages
Discover 'Truth' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Truth
Afrikaans waarheid | ||
Albanian të vërtetën | ||
Amharic እውነት | ||
Arabic حقيقة | ||
Armenian ճշմարտություն | ||
Assamese সত্য | ||
Aymara chiqa | ||
Azerbaijani həqiqət | ||
Bambara tìɲɛ | ||
Basque egia | ||
Belarusian праўда | ||
Bengali সত্য | ||
Bhojpuri सच्चाई | ||
Bosnian istina | ||
Bulgarian истина | ||
Catalan veritat | ||
Cebuano kamatuuran | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 真相 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 真相 | ||
Corsican a verità | ||
Croatian istina | ||
Czech pravda | ||
Danish sandhed | ||
Dhivehi ޙަޤީޤަތް | ||
Dogri सच्चाई | ||
Dutch waarheid | ||
English truth | ||
Esperanto vero | ||
Estonian tõde | ||
Ewe nyateƒe | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) katotohanan | ||
Finnish totuus | ||
French vérité | ||
Frisian wierheid | ||
Galician verdade | ||
Georgian სიმართლე | ||
German wahrheit | ||
Greek αλήθεια | ||
Guarani añetegua | ||
Gujarati સત્ય | ||
Haitian Creole verite | ||
Hausa gaskiya | ||
Hawaiian ʻoiaʻiʻo | ||
Hebrew אֶמֶת | ||
Hindi सत्य | ||
Hmong qhov tseeb | ||
Hungarian igazság | ||
Icelandic sannleikur | ||
Igbo eziokwu | ||
Ilocano agpayso | ||
Indonesian kebenaran | ||
Irish fírinne | ||
Italian verità | ||
Japanese 真実 | ||
Javanese bebener | ||
Kannada ಸತ್ಯ | ||
Kazakh шындық | ||
Khmer សេចក្តីពិត | ||
Kinyarwanda ukuri | ||
Konkani खरेपण | ||
Korean 진실 | ||
Krio trut | ||
Kurdish rastî | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) ڕاستی | ||
Kyrgyz чындык | ||
Lao ຄວາມຈິງ | ||
Latin veritas | ||
Latvian patiesība | ||
Lingala solo | ||
Lithuanian tiesa | ||
Luganda amazima | ||
Luxembourgish wourecht | ||
Macedonian вистина | ||
Maithili सत्य | ||
Malagasy marina | ||
Malay kebenaran | ||
Malayalam സത്യം | ||
Maltese verità | ||
Maori pono | ||
Marathi सत्य | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯑꯆꯨꯝꯕ | ||
Mizo thudik | ||
Mongolian үнэн | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အမှန်တရား | ||
Nepali सत्य | ||
Norwegian sannhet | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) chowonadi | ||
Odia (Oriya) ସତ୍ୟ | ||
Oromo dhugaa | ||
Pashto حقیقت | ||
Persian حقیقت | ||
Polish prawda | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) verdade | ||
Punjabi ਸੱਚ | ||
Quechua chiqaq | ||
Romanian adevăr | ||
Russian правда | ||
Samoan upu moni | ||
Sanskrit सत्यं | ||
Scots Gaelic fìrinn | ||
Sepedi bonnete | ||
Serbian истина | ||
Sesotho 'nete | ||
Shona chokwadi | ||
Sindhi سچ | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) සත්යය | ||
Slovak pravda | ||
Slovenian resnico | ||
Somali runta | ||
Spanish verdad | ||
Sundanese kaleresan | ||
Swahili ukweli | ||
Swedish sanning | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) katotohanan | ||
Tajik ҳақиқат | ||
Tamil உண்மை | ||
Tatar хакыйкать | ||
Telugu నిజం | ||
Thai ความจริง | ||
Tigrinya ሓቂ | ||
Tsonga ntiyiso | ||
Turkish hakikat | ||
Turkmen hakykat | ||
Twi (Akan) nokorɛ | ||
Ukrainian правда | ||
Urdu سچائی | ||
Uyghur ھەقىقەت | ||
Uzbek haqiqat | ||
Vietnamese sự thật | ||
Welsh gwirionedd | ||
Xhosa inyaniso | ||
Yiddish אמת | ||
Yoruba otitọ | ||
Zulu iqiniso |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "waarheid" comes from the Dutch "waarheid" and is also related to the German "Wahrheit", all ultimately derived from the Proto-Germanic word "*werþaną", meaning "to become". |
| Albanian | The Albanian word "të vërtetën" derives from the Proto-Indo-European root *wer- meaning "to speak". It is related to the English word "verity" and the Latin word "verus" (true). |
| Amharic | "እውነት" (ewnet) in Amharic also refers to "reality" or "the nature of things". |
| Arabic | In Arabic, the word "حقيقة" (haqīqa) can also refer to the essence, nature, or reality of something. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "həqiqət" can also refer to "reality" or "existence" in Azerbaijani. |
| Basque | The Basque word "egia" also means "proof" or "evidence". |
| Belarusian | Праўда also means 'justice' and comes from pro- ('for') and vye-da- ('to know'). |
| Bengali | The Sanskrit word 'satya' is the root of the Bengali word 'সত্য', and it also means 'existing' or 'being'. |
| Bosnian | The word "istina" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *istina, which is in turn derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₁es-, meaning "to be." |
| Bulgarian | The word "истина" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *isъtь, meaning "what is" or "reality". |
| Catalan | In the 13th century, 'veritat' also designated the 'quality of a true statement' in the philosophical context. |
| Cebuano | The root "matuwod" of "kamatuuran" means to fix or set in order. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "真相" (zhen-xiang) in Chinese can also refer to photographic evidence taken in a crime scene or a revelation in a detective mystery, suggesting the process of uncovering the truth. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The original meaning of 真相 is 'to verify a fact', not 'truth' as the modern interpretation. |
| Corsican | Corsican "a verità" also means "the actual situation" or "the facts of the matter". |
| Croatian | The word "istina" in Croatian is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *istina, meaning "that which is", and is related to the words "ist" (true) and "isto" (same). |
| Czech | In Czech, the word "pravda" also refers to justice or fairness. |
| Danish | The Danish word "sandhed" derives from Old Norse "sannr," meaning "true," and originally meant "that which is real or true," but later came to refer to "a true statement" or "the quality of being true." |
| Dutch | "Waarheid" (Dutch for "truth") derives from the Old Dutch "wari" ("true") and "heit" ("state, condition"), akin to the Old English "wær" ("true") and the Old Saxon "wār" ("truthful, honest"). |
| Esperanto | "Vero" is also used as a particle after an adjective to emphasize the truth of something. |
| Estonian | The word "tõde" is related to words for "to know" in other Uralic languages and is likely derived from the Proto-Uralic root *tot-. |
| Finnish | In Finnish, the word "totuus" also refers to "reality" or "existence". |
| French | The word "vérité" comes from the Latin word "veritas" which means "truth" or "actuality." |
| Frisian | Frisian "wierheid" originally referred to a legal district and later came to mean "truth." |
| Galician | The Galician word "verdade" also means "justice" and comes from the Latin "veritatem", meaning "true". |
| Georgian | The Georgian word for 'truth', 'სიმართლე', literally translates to 'straight talk' or 'straight path'. |
| German | The word "Wahrheit" also refers to a "proof" or "confirmation of a fact" in German, and is derived from the Old High German "wār" (true) and "heit" (state, condition). |
| Greek | The word "αλήθεια" in Greek also means "reality" or "actuality", indicating a congruence between what is true and what exists. |
| Gujarati | સત્ય and satya, both words for "truth" in Sanskrit and Gujurati, are descended from the Proto-Indo-Aryan root sat-, which in turn is related to the Proto-Indo-European root es- which also meant "to be" |
| Haitian Creole | In Haitian Creole, "verite" can also mean "truthfulness" or "honesty" depending on context. |
| Hausa | Gaskiya derives from the Hausa word 'gaski' meaning 'straight' or 'correct'. |
| Hawaiian | The Hawaiian word ʻoiaʻiʻo is etymologically related to the word ʻoi, meaning "firmly fixed" or "stable", suggesting its connection to concepts of certainty and reliability. |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word 'emet' (אֶמֶת) is a homophone, meaning it has the same pronunciation but different meanings and origins depending on its voweling. |
| Hindi | The word "सत्य" can also mean "existence" or "reality" in Hindi, and is derived from the Sanskrit word "सत्" (sat), meaning "being" or "essence." |
| Hmong | The Hmong word "qhov tseeb" not only means "truth", but also "justice" and "righteousness". |
| Hungarian | The Hungarian word "igazság" is derived from the Proto-Uralic word "*toδi", meaning "just" or "righteous". |
| Icelandic | The second element of the word, 'leikur,' means 'play' in Icelandic, implying that truth is a performance or construction rather than an absolute. |
| Igbo | Eziokwu can also refer to a deity or spiritual force associated with truth and justice |
| Indonesian | "Kebenaran" can also mean "justice" or "fact". |
| Irish | The word 'fírinne' in Irish has a secondary connotation of justice, which is derived from its ancient meaning of 'to put everything in its right place'. |
| Italian | The Italian word "verità" derives from the Latin "veritas," meaning "truth," and also carries the connotation of "sincerity" and "uprightness." |
| Japanese | The word "真実" (shinjitsu) also means "reality" or "true nature". |
| Javanese | The word "bebener" in Javanese can also mean "proof" or "evidence". |
| Kannada | The word "ಸತ್ಯ" (sathya) in Kannada is derived from the Sanskrit word "सत्य" (satya), meaning "that which is" or "reality." |
| Kazakh | The word "шындық" in Kazakh comes from the verb "шын", which means "to be," and the suffix "-дық," which denotes a quality or state, hence "truth" or "the quality of being true." |
| Korean | 진실 is also the name of a popular Korean film released in 2016, starring Cho Jin-woong and Han Ye-ri. |
| Kurdish | In the Alevi religious branch, the term 'rastî' also refers to 'the holy book', similar to how 'Torah' is considered a book of truth in the Jewish religion. |
| Lao | ຄວາມ (khouam) refers to a quality, state, or nature of something while ຈິງ (ching) means 'real', 'true', or 'right'. |
| Latin | The Latin word 'veritas' (truth) is related to the verb 'vereri' (to fear), suggesting that truth was originally seen as something to be revered. |
| Latvian | The word “patiesība” in Latvian also means “reality” and is related to the word “pats,” which means “self.” |
| Lithuanian | The word tiesa originates from the Proto-Baltic root *teisa-, meaning 'right' or 'justice'. |
| Luxembourgish | The word "Wourecht" is derived from Old High German "wāri", meaning "true" or "genuine". |
| Macedonian | The Macedonian word "вистина" is derived from Proto-Slavic *vistina, meaning "certainty", and is cognate with Russian истина and Polish prawda. |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "marina" comes from Arabic and has multiple meanings, including truth, justice, law, and order. |
| Malay | The word "kebenaran" also means "righteousness" and is derived from the Arabic word "khalifa", meaning "deputy of God". |
| Malayalam | The word `സത്യം` (satya) comes from `സത്` (sat) - `being`, thus means 'that which is'. |
| Maltese | The Maltese word |
| Maori | In addition to its meaning as "truth", the Maori word "pono" also refers to correctness, accuracy, and righteousness. |
| Marathi | The word सत्य (satya) is derived from the Sanskrit word सत (sat), which means 'existence' or 'being'. |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word "үнэн" also means "real", "genuine", "sincere", or "authentic". |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | Derived from the Old Burmese words for "firm" and "thing," implying a tangible quality to truth. |
| Nepali | The word "सत्य" is derived from the Sanskrit word "sat", meaning "being" or "existence". It can also mean "true" in the sense of something that is "real" or "valid". In addition to its literal meaning, "सत्य" also has a metaphorical meaning of "eternal" or "unchanging". In this sense, it is often used to describe the nature of the divine or the ultimate reality. |
| Norwegian | "Sannhet" is derived from the Old Norse word "sannr," which means "real" or "genuine." |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "chowonadi" has several meanings and can refer to knowledge, honesty, or even the process of proving something. |
| Pashto | The word "حقیقت" in Pashto has a wider range of meanings than its English equivalent "truth", including "reality", "essence", and "justice". |
| Persian | حقیقت (Haqiqat) is a Persian word derived from Arabic, where it refers to both "truth" in the philosophical sense as well as "reality" or "essence." |
| Polish | The Polish word "prawda" derives from Proto-Slavic "pravda" meaning "justice" and originally denoted legal or courtly truth. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | Portuguese "verdade" "truth" derives from the Latin "veritas" "truth, reality" and also means "justice, fairness, equity". |
| Punjabi | The word "ਸੱਚ" (truth) in Punjabi also has alternate meanings such as "reality" and "justice". |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "adevăr" derives from the Proto-Indo-European root "*h₁éḱ-ros" meaning "clear" or "sharp," suggesting the idea of truth as something that is clear and unobscured. |
| Russian | In Old Church Slavonic, “правда” meant “justice” or “the right way.” |
| Samoan | The original meaning of "upu moni" was probably "the gathering of wealth," and over time came to mean "truth" or "agreement." |
| Scots Gaelic | In Gaelic, "fìrinn" has an etymological connection to "fìor", meaning "true" or "real", as well as a separate connotation of "justice". |
| Serbian | The Serbian word "истина" (truth) is cognate with the Russian word "истина" and the Greek word "ἀλήθεια" (truth). |
| Sesotho | In the 19th century, missionaries translated |
| Shona | The word "chokwadi" can also mean "justice" or "rightness" in Shona. |
| Sindhi | The word 'سچ' (truth) in Sindhi is derived from the Sanskrit word 'satyam', which also means truth. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | සත්යය comes from සත් 'sat' ('good') and is also used in Buddhist doctrine to mean the 'real' and the 'unchanging'. |
| Slovak | The word "pravda" in Slovak shares the same root as "law" and "justice", denoting a profound connection between truth and moral order. |
| Slovenian | "Resnica" comes from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₁res-, meaning "correct" or "straight". |
| Somali | The word runta can also mean "fact" or "proof" in Somali. |
| Spanish | The Spanish word "verdad" derives from the Latin word "verus," meaning "true" or "real," and has the same meaning in Spanish, referring to a statement or belief that corresponds to reality. |
| Sundanese | The Sundanese word "kaleresan" also has a related meaning of "a place to get a divorce" |
| Swahili | The word "ukweli" can be traced back to the proto-Bantu word "-kʷeli", meaning "correct" or "valid". |
| Swedish | The word 'sanning' is derived from Proto-Germanic words that mean 'to see' or 'to show', giving it the connotation of something that is made evident or visible. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | Katotohanan, derived from the root word "totoo" (real), also encompasses authenticity, honesty, and reliability. |
| Tajik | The Tajik word «ҳақиқат» («truth») also means «justice» or «reality» and is related to the Arabic word «الحقيقة» («truth») |
| Tamil | The word "உண்மை" in Tamil can also refer to a state of being real or genuine. |
| Telugu | "నిజం" derives from the Proto-Dravidian root "nī" meaning "straight" or "correct". |
| Thai | The word "ความจริง" is etymologically related to the Sanskrit word "satya", which means "essence" or "being". |
| Turkish | The word "hakikat" also refers to the inner essence or reality of something, and is related to the Arabic word "haqq," meaning "right" or "justice." |
| Ukrainian | The word „правда“ can also mean „justice” and is related to the word „право”, meaning „law”. |
| Urdu | The term "سچائی" is rooted in the Sanskrit word "Satya" and conveys ideas of reality, purity, and authenticity |
| Uzbek | In Uzbek, "haqiqat" can also refer to religious knowledge or reality beyond physical existence. |
| Vietnamese | The word "sự thật" can also mean "fact" or "reality" in Vietnamese. |
| Welsh | The Welsh word "gwirionedd" derives from the Proto-Celtic "*u̯er-i̯on-et-i̯eh₁" meaning "truthful". It is also related to the Irish word "fír" and the Breton word "gwir" both meaning "true". |
| Xhosa | Inyanda, the root of inyaniso, refers to a seed's essence or the inner workings of a thing. |
| Yiddish | In Yiddish, "אמת" (emes) is also used as a measure of time, specifically denoting "a moment". |
| Yoruba | "Òtító" refers to the character of a person who does not lie and speaks the truth |
| Zulu | The word also means "the state of being correct or legitimate". |
| English | The word "truth" derives from the Old English word "treowth," meaning "faith" or "fidelity." |