User in Different Languages
Discover 'User' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
User
Afrikaans gebruiker | ||
Albanian përdorues | ||
Amharic ተጠቃሚ | ||
Arabic المستعمل | ||
Armenian օգտագործող | ||
Assamese ব্যৱহাৰকাৰী | ||
Aymara apnaqiri | ||
Azerbaijani istifadəçi | ||
Bambara baarakɛla | ||
Basque erabiltzailea | ||
Belarusian карыстальнік | ||
Bengali ব্যবহারকারী | ||
Bhojpuri प्रयोगकर्ता के बा | ||
Bosnian korisnik | ||
Bulgarian потребител | ||
Catalan usuari | ||
Cebuano tiggamit | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 用户 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 用戶 | ||
Corsican utilizatore | ||
Croatian korisnik | ||
Czech uživatel | ||
Danish bruger | ||
Dhivehi ޔޫޒަރ | ||
Dogri उपयोगकर्ता | ||
Dutch gebruiker | ||
English user | ||
Esperanto uzanto | ||
Estonian kasutaja | ||
Ewe zãla | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) gumagamit | ||
Finnish käyttäjä | ||
French utilisateur | ||
Frisian brûker | ||
Galician usuario | ||
Georgian მომხმარებელი | ||
German nutzer | ||
Greek χρήστης | ||
Guarani puruhára | ||
Gujarati વપરાશકર્તા | ||
Haitian Creole itilizatè | ||
Hausa mai amfani | ||
Hawaiian mea hoʻohana | ||
Hebrew מִשׁתַמֵשׁ | ||
Hindi उपयोगकर्ता | ||
Hmong neeg siv | ||
Hungarian felhasználó | ||
Icelandic notandi | ||
Igbo onye ọrụ | ||
Ilocano nga agus-usar | ||
Indonesian pengguna | ||
Irish úsáideoir | ||
Italian utente | ||
Japanese ユーザー | ||
Javanese pangguna | ||
Kannada ಬಳಕೆದಾರ | ||
Kazakh пайдаланушы | ||
Khmer អ្នកប្រើ | ||
Kinyarwanda umukoresha | ||
Konkani वापरपी | ||
Korean 사용자 | ||
Krio yuzman we de yuz am | ||
Kurdish bikaranîvan | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) بەکارهێنەر | ||
Kyrgyz колдонуучу | ||
Lao ຜູ້ໃຊ້ | ||
Latin usor | ||
Latvian lietotājs | ||
Lingala mosaleli | ||
Lithuanian vartotojas | ||
Luganda omukozesa | ||
Luxembourgish benotzer | ||
Macedonian корисник | ||
Maithili उपयोगकर्ता | ||
Malagasy mpampiasa | ||
Malay pengguna | ||
Malayalam ഉപയോക്താവ് | ||
Maltese utent | ||
Maori kaiwhakamahi | ||
Marathi वापरकर्ता | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯌꯨꯖꯔ ꯑꯃꯥ ꯑꯣꯏꯅꯥ ꯁꯤꯖꯤꯟꯅꯔꯤ꯫ | ||
Mizo user | ||
Mongolian хэрэглэгч | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အသုံးပြုသူကို | ||
Nepali प्रयोगकर्ता | ||
Norwegian bruker | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) wosuta | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଉପଯୋଗକର୍ତ୍ତା | | ||
Oromo fayyadamaa | ||
Pashto کارن | ||
Persian کاربر | ||
Polish użytkownik | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) do utilizador | ||
Punjabi ਉਪਭੋਗਤਾ | ||
Quechua usuario | ||
Romanian utilizator | ||
Russian пользователь | ||
Samoan tagata faʻaaoga | ||
Sanskrit उपयोक्ता | ||
Scots Gaelic neach-cleachdaidh | ||
Sepedi mosebedisi | ||
Serbian корисник | ||
Sesotho mosebelisi | ||
Shona mushandisi | ||
Sindhi استعمال ڪندڙ | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) පරිශීලක | ||
Slovak používateľ | ||
Slovenian uporabnik | ||
Somali isticmaale | ||
Spanish usuario | ||
Sundanese pangguna | ||
Swahili mtumiaji | ||
Swedish användare | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) gumagamit | ||
Tajik корбар | ||
Tamil பயனர் | ||
Tatar кулланучы | ||
Telugu వినియోగదారు | ||
Thai ผู้ใช้ | ||
Tigrinya ተጠቃሚ | ||
Tsonga mutirhisi | ||
Turkish kullanıcı | ||
Turkmen ulanyjy | ||
Twi (Akan) ɔde di dwuma | ||
Ukrainian користувач | ||
Urdu صارف | ||
Uyghur ئىشلەتكۈچى | ||
Uzbek foydalanuvchi | ||
Vietnamese người dùng | ||
Welsh defnyddiwr | ||
Xhosa umsebenzisi | ||
Yiddish באַניצער | ||
Yoruba olumulo | ||
Zulu umsebenzisi |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | In Afrikaans, "gebruiker" is also used to refer to people who consume illegal substances. |
| Albanian | The Albanian word "përdorues" is derived from the Latin word "usus," meaning "use," and its cognates in other Romance languages, such as the Spanish "usuario" and the French "utilisateur." |
| Amharic | The Amharic word "ተጠቃሚ" is derived from the verb "ተጠቀመ," meaning "to use" or "to benefit from." |
| Basque | The Basque word "erabiltzailea" can also refer to a "consumer" or a "client". |
| Bengali | ব্যবহারকারী (user) শব্দটির ব্যুৎপত্তিগত অর্থ হল 'ব্যবহার করা'। |
| Bosnian | The word "korisnik" finds its roots in the Slavic word "korist" meaning "use" or "utility" and is commonly used in Slavic languages to denote a person who utilizes a product or service. |
| Bulgarian | The Bulgarian word "потребител" comes from the verb "потребявам" which means "to consume". |
| Cebuano | The Cebuano word "tiggamit" is rooted in the Malayo-Polynesian word for "to have been made" or "to have been used". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "用户" (user) also means "account" or "guest" in Chinese (Simplified). |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 用戶在漢語中是'使用者'的意思，源於『用』與『戶』兩字的組合，原意為『使用物品的人』或『居住在某處的人』 |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "utilizatore" can also refer to a beneficiary or consumer. |
| Croatian | The word 'korisnik' in Croatian shares its etymology with 'korist' (usefulness), and can also mean 'beneficiary' or 'recipient'. |
| Danish | The word "bruger" comes from the Old Norse word "brúkari", meaning "enjoyer" or "possessor". |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "gebruiker" is derived from the Middle Dutch word "gebruiken" (use) and the Old High German word "*bruhhārjan" (enjoy). |
| Esperanto | The word "uzanto" in Esperanto can also refer to a custom or practice. |
| Estonian | Kasutaja can mean both 'user' and 'consumer', and originated as a translation from Russian. |
| Finnish | The Finnish word "käyttäjä" is a derivative of the verb "käyttää," meaning "to use" or "to apply." |
| French | "Utilisateur" comes from Latin "ūsus" meaning both "use" and "custom. |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "brûker" is derived from the Old Frisian word "brūka", meaning "to use" or "to enjoy." |
| Galician | En Galicia, «usuario» también designa el lugar destinado para las basuras. |
| German | The German word "Nutzer" not only means "user" in English, but it also literally means "usufructuary," someone with the right to use and benefit from a property. |
| Greek | The word "χρήστης" in Greek can also mean "oracle" or "prophet". |
| Haitian Creole | "Itilizatè" likely comes from the French word "utiliser," meaning "to use". |
| Hausa | The Hausa word "mai amfani" can also mean "beneficiary" or "consumer." |
| Hawaiian | The Hawaiian word "mea hoʻohana" has a primary meaning of "user," but it may also refer to "implement" or "tool". |
| Hebrew | The word מִשׁתַמֵשׁ (mishtamesh) in Hebrew also means "someone who is dependent on someone else". |
| Hindi | The word 'उपयोगकर्ता' ('user') in Hindi is derived from the Sanskrit verb 'उपयोग करना' ('to use'), and the word 'कर्ता' ('doer') or 'व्यक्ति' ('person'). |
| Hmong | The word "neeg siv" (user) in Hmong also means "person who does something". |
| Hungarian | "Felhasználó" is also archaic Hungarian for "husband" because husbands were expected to "use" their wives for domestic tasks. |
| Icelandic | The word "notandi" in Icelandic can also refer to an official notice or a memo |
| Igbo | The Igbo word "onye ọrụ" literally translates to "person of work" and can also refer to a worker or employee. |
| Indonesian | Originally 'pengguna' was used to refer to a bride or groom |
| Italian | The word "utente" in Italian can also refer to someone who is receiving a service or benefit. |
| Japanese | ユーザー (yūzā) comes from the English word "user" and originally referred to an owner, rather than a consumer, in Japanese. |
| Javanese | 'Pangguna' also means someone who has been used. |
| Korean | In linguistics, "사용자" can refer to either native speakers or second language speakers. |
| Kurdish | The term bikaranîvan may also refer to a person who is employed for a particular task. |
| Kyrgyz | The Kyrgyz word "колдонуучу" can also mean "customer" or "consumer". |
| Latvian | Latvian word "lietotājs" may also refer to the act or status of using something, not just someone who uses. |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word "Vartotojas" can also refer to a "consumer" or "client". |
| Luxembourgish | The word "Benotzer" comes from the French "bénéficiaire", meaning "beneficiary" or "receiver", reflecting the user's role in benefiting from a service or product. |
| Macedonian | The word "корисник" in Macedonian is derived from the Old Church Slavonic word "користь", meaning "benefit". It can also have the alternate meaning of "consumer" or "customer". |
| Malagasy | The word "mpampiasa" literally means "one who uses" in Malagasy. |
| Malay | Pengguna can also refer to a drug user, a gambler, or someone who uses something habitually or excessively. |
| Maltese | The word "utent" in Maltese is unrelated to "user" in other Latin languages, but instead derives from English "attendant". |
| Marathi | The word 'वापरकर्ता' can also refer to the person who performs a function or action, similar to 'doer' or 'performer'. |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word "хэрэглэгч" can also mean "consumer" or "customer". |
| Nepali | The word "प्रयोगकर्ता" comes from the Sanskrit word "प्रयोग", meaning experiment or application. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "wosuta" in Nyanja (Chichewa) derives from the verb "kuwosera" (to use) and can also mean "exploiter" or "abuser". |
| Persian | The word "کاربر" can also mean "client" or "customer" in Persian, depending on the context. |
| Polish | The Polish word "użytkownik" originally meant "tenant" or "beneficiary", but it has come to be used more broadly to refer to the user of a product or service. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, "do utilizador" can mean "custom" (as in "built to order"), "user" (as in "computer user"), or "self-employed" (as in "freelance"). |
| Romanian | The Romanian "utilizator" comes from the French "utilisateur," also meaning "user," and ultimately from the Latin "uti," meaning "to use." |
| Russian | The word "пользователь" can also mean "beneficiary" or "consumer" in Russian, highlighting its broader semantic range beyond the technical context of computing. |
| Samoan | In Samoan, "tagata faʻaaoga" can also refer to a person who benefits from something or someone who has a special relationship with a particular place. |
| Serbian | The word 'корисниқ' is of Slavic origin and shares a root with the word 'кор', meaning benefit or profit. |
| Sesotho | The word 'mosebelisi' in Sesotho also refers to a person who benefits from something. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The term 'පරිශීලක' in Sinhala is rooted in the Sanskrit word 'parikshalaka' and translates to an examiner or an individual conducting research. |
| Slovak | The word "používateľ" can also mean "consumer" or "utilizer" in Slovak. |
| Slovenian | The word 'uporabnik' comes from the Slavic word 'upotreba' ('use'), and it can also refer to a subscriber, customer, or client. |
| Somali | The word "isticmaal" in Somali originates from the Arabic word "isti'maal" meaning "usage" or "consumption." |
| Spanish | The Spanish word "usuario" derives from the Latin "usus" and "fructus" (use and fruit), denoting someone who has a right to use or enjoy something. |
| Sundanese | The word "pangguna" in Sundanese can also refer to the "owner" or "possessor" of something. |
| Swahili | The term 'mtumiaji' also derives from 'mtumia', meaning 'to apply or utilize something'. |
| Swedish | In addition to 'user', 'användare' can also mean 'consumer' in Swedish. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "gumagamit" is a combination of "gamit," meaning "to use," and the affix "-um," which indicates a state of being, resulting in "a user." |
| Tajik | The word "корбар" comes from the Persian word "کاربر" meaning "worker" |
| Thai | In Thai, the word "ผู้ใช้" can also be used to refer to a driver of a vehicle or animal. |
| Turkish | The word "kullanıcı" is the equivalent of the English term "user" but originally meant "servant" in Ottoman Turkish. |
| Ukrainian | The word "користувач" can also refer to a "consumer" or "client". |
| Urdu | The Urdu word "صارف" (sārif) can also refer to a "grammarian" or a "spender". |
| Uzbek | The Uzbek word "foydalanuvchi" derives from the verb "foydalanish" meaning "to use" and signifies one who engages in the act of using something. |
| Vietnamese | The word "người dùng" is also a calque of the French word "usager". |
| Xhosa | Also used to refer to someone who performs a service for a person in a position of authority. |
| Yiddish | The word "באַניצער" derives from the German "Benutzer" with the same meaning, though is sometimes mistakenly derived from the Hebrew"בונים" (banim) or Aramaic "בניה" (benaya) meaning "to build". |
| Yoruba | "Olumulo" (user) might also refer to a person who performs or has performed an action, such as a debtor or a criminal. |
| Zulu | 'Umsebenzisi' is also used in Zulu to refer to a person who is using something, such as a machine or a tool. |
| English | The term "user" is derived from the Latin word "usus", meaning "use" or "practice". In the context of computing, a user is someone who interacts with a computer system or program. |