Venture in Different Languages
Discover 'Venture' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Venture
Afrikaans waag | ||
Albanian sipërmarrje | ||
Amharic ሽርክና | ||
Arabic المغامر | ||
Armenian ձեռնարկություն | ||
Assamese উদ্যম | ||
Aymara impirisa | ||
Azerbaijani təşəbbüs | ||
Bambara ka taga awantiri la | ||
Basque abentura | ||
Belarusian прадпрыемства | ||
Bengali উদ্যোগ | ||
Bhojpuri उद्यम | ||
Bosnian poduhvat | ||
Bulgarian начинание | ||
Catalan aventura | ||
Cebuano pagpanimpalad | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 冒险 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 冒險 | ||
Corsican impresa | ||
Croatian pothvat | ||
Czech podnik | ||
Danish vove sig | ||
Dhivehi ވެނޗުއަރ | ||
Dogri उद्दम | ||
Dutch onderneming | ||
English venture | ||
Esperanto entrepreno | ||
Estonian ettevõtmine | ||
Ewe dze agbagba | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) pakikipagsapalaran | ||
Finnish hanke | ||
French entreprise | ||
Frisian weagje | ||
Galician aventura | ||
Georgian წამოწყება | ||
German wagen | ||
Greek τόλμημα | ||
Guarani mba'apoha renda | ||
Gujarati સાહસ | ||
Haitian Creole antrepriz | ||
Hausa kamfani | ||
Hawaiian hoʻāʻo | ||
Hebrew מיזם | ||
Hindi वेंचर | ||
Hmong kev koom ua ke | ||
Hungarian vállalkozás | ||
Icelandic hættuspil | ||
Igbo ịmalite | ||
Ilocano baro a negosio | ||
Indonesian usaha | ||
Irish fiontar | ||
Italian avventurarsi | ||
Japanese ベンチャー | ||
Javanese usaha | ||
Kannada ಸಾಹಸೋದ್ಯಮ | ||
Kazakh тәуекел | ||
Khmer បណ្តាក់ទុន | ||
Kinyarwanda umushinga | ||
Konkani आस्थापन | ||
Korean 투기 | ||
Krio prɔjɛkt | ||
Kurdish bizava | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) سەرکەش | ||
Kyrgyz ишкана | ||
Lao ຮ່ວມທຸລະກິດ | ||
Latin venture | ||
Latvian riska | ||
Lingala mosala | ||
Lithuanian įmonė | ||
Luganda omwoleso | ||
Luxembourgish venture | ||
Macedonian потфат | ||
Maithili उद्यम | ||
Malagasy barotra | ||
Malay usaha | ||
Malayalam സംരംഭം | ||
Maltese riskju | ||
Maori umanga | ||
Marathi उपक्रम | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯊꯕꯛ ꯑꯃ | ||
Mizo tuar huam thil ti | ||
Mongolian хөрөнгө оруулалт | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အကျိုးတူ | ||
Nepali उद्यम | ||
Norwegian våge | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) ntchito | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଉଦ୍ୟମ | ||
Oromo imala balaa qabuu fi sodaachisaa | ||
Pashto وینچر | ||
Persian ریسک | ||
Polish przedsięwzięcie | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) risco | ||
Punjabi ਉੱਦਮ | ||
Quechua ruwana | ||
Romanian aventură | ||
Russian предприятие | ||
Samoan taumafaiga | ||
Sanskrit अभ्युत्सह् | ||
Scots Gaelic iomairt | ||
Sepedi phonkgelela | ||
Serbian подухват | ||
Sesotho khoebo | ||
Shona venture | ||
Sindhi منصوبو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) ව්යාපාරය | ||
Slovak trúfať si | ||
Slovenian podviga | ||
Somali ganacsi | ||
Spanish riesgo | ||
Sundanese usaha | ||
Swahili ubia | ||
Swedish våga | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) pakikipagsapalaran | ||
Tajik тавлид | ||
Tamil துணிகர | ||
Tatar венчур | ||
Telugu వెంచర్ | ||
Thai กิจการ | ||
Tigrinya ኣብ ሓደጋ ኣውደቐ | ||
Tsonga nghena | ||
Turkish girişim | ||
Turkmen kärhana | ||
Twi (Akan) wura mu | ||
Ukrainian підприємство | ||
Urdu وینچر | ||
Uyghur تەۋەككۈلچىلىك | ||
Uzbek shovqin | ||
Vietnamese liên doanh | ||
Welsh menter | ||
Xhosa venture | ||
Yiddish פירנעם | ||
Yoruba afowopaowo | ||
Zulu venture |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | "Waag" also means "scale" or "balance" in Dutch, its language of origin. |
| Albanian | The word "sipërmarrje" (venture) in Albanian is derived from the Latin word "superemere", meaning "to buy above the market price". It can also refer to a "speculative enterprise" or a "risky undertaking". |
| Amharic | "ሽርክና" (venture) derives from the root "ሽር" (to go). |
| Arabic | In some Arab dialects, "المغامر" (al-mughāmir) means "a gambler" or "a risk-taker." |
| Azerbaijani | "Təşəbbüs" sözünün kökü Orta Farsça "sābuxt, sābuxti" ("başla(ma), başla(yan)") olup, sonradan Arapçaya "tasabbub" şeklinde geçmiştir. |
| Basque | The Basque word "abentura" also means "fate" or "destiny". |
| Belarusian | The Belarusian word “прадпрыемства” is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *prędъprijętije, which means "to undertake" or "to start a business". |
| Bengali | The word "উদ্যোগ" comes from the Sanskrit word "udyama," meaning "effort," "undertaking," or "enterprise." |
| Bosnian | In Bosnian, "poduhvat" is derived from the Old Slavic word "podъjati" meaning "to undertake" and can also refer to a risky enterprise or a challenge. |
| Bulgarian | The word "начинание" is derived from the Old Church Slavonic word "начинати", meaning "to begin". |
| Catalan | The word "aventura" in Catalan comes from the Latin word "adventura", meaning "what is about to happen". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The word "冒险" (venture) is a compound of the two characters "冒" (to brave) and "险" (danger), which suggests the act of engaging in a risky or daring undertaking. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | (冒險) 冒：草叢叢生貌；險：高也。本指叢生的野草長得參差高低不一。後引申指事情錯綜複雜、充滿艱難和危險。 |
| Corsican | Corsican "impresa" can also mean "impresa, business" or "undertaking, task". |
| Croatian | The word "pothvat" is cognate with the Czech verb "pokusit", which also means "to attempt" or "to undertake", and the Proto-Slavic root "*peth", meaning "to go". In addition to its primary meaning of "venture", "pothvat" can also refer to a "task" or "undertaking". |
| Czech | The word "podnik" in Czech comes from the German word "unternehmen," meaning "enterprise" or "business." |
| Danish | In Danish, there is a phrase known as "vove sig," which comes from the Low German roots of "wagen" meaning to risk as well as "sich" meaning oneself, creating the idiomatic phrase of “vagging your way towards.” |
| Dutch | "Onderneming" also means "company" and derives from the Middle Dutch term "ondernemen" ("to undertake"). |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word "entrepreno" derives from the French "entreprendre", meaning "to undertake" or "to begin." |
| Estonian | The word "ettevõtmine" also means "undertaking" or "enterprise" in Estonian. |
| Finnish | The word "hanke" is also used to refer to a project or undertaking, which is in line with its etymological origin from the Proto-Finnic word "hankoija" meaning "to try". |
| French | Entreprise, a French word for venture, originally meant "something undertaken". |
| Frisian | The word "weagje" in Frisian also means "way" or "path". |
| German | The word "wagen" in German comes from the Old High German word "wagin", meaning "to dare" or "to risk". |
| Greek | Τόλμημα is derived from the Greek root τολμάω (tolmao), meaning "to endure, bear, dare," and is related to the Latin word tolerare. |
| Gujarati | The word "સાહસ" can also mean "adventure" or "enterprise" in Gujarati. |
| Haitian Creole | The word "antrepriz" in Haitian Creole, derived from the French "entreprise," also refers to a business or company. |
| Hausa | The word "kamfani" in Hausa may have originated from the Arabic word "kumfāniyyah" (company). |
| Hawaiian | The Hawaiian word 'hoʻāʻo' also has the sense of 'to try, attempt, undertake, or endeavor'. |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "מיזם" can also refer to a "scheme" or a "project". |
| Hindi | The word "वेंचर" is of Sanskrit origin and can also refer to a desire or undertaking. |
| Hmong | The phrase "kev koom ua ke" literally means "to do something to the other side." |
| Hungarian | "Vállalkozás" is derived from the Hungarian word "váll", which means "shoulder", suggesting the idea of taking on a burden or responsibility. |
| Icelandic | Old Norse "hætta" (risk) + "spil" (game) |
| Igbo | The word 'ịmalite' also means to take a risk or gamble. |
| Indonesian | "Usaha" also has the alternate meaning of "attempt" in Indonesian. |
| Irish | In the 16th century, 'fiontar' was used to refer to the crew of pirates that sailed from Ireland. |
| Italian | In Italian, "avventurarsi" comes from the Latin "adventurare", meaning "to happen". It can also mean "to risk" or "to speculate". |
| Japanese | ベンチャー is also the Japanese word for "adventure" or "daring undertaking". |
| Javanese | The word "usaha" in Javanese is derived from the Sanskrit word "upāya" meaning "means, expedient, plan, project". |
| Kannada | The Kannada word "ಸಾಹಸೋದ್ಯಮ" can also refer to an adventure or a risk. |
| Kazakh | The word "тәуекел" in Kazakh also means "trust" or "reliance", suggesting the idea of taking a calculated risk based on faith or trust in oneself or others. |
| Korean | The word "투기" (venture) derives from the Chinese word "投機" (t'ou chi), meaning "to invest in business." |
| Kurdish | The Kurdish word "bizava" is ultimately derived from the Old Persian word "vizar" meaning "trust" or "confidence". It is related to the Kurdish word "biz" meaning "we" and the Sanskrit word "visvas" meaning "faith". |
| Kyrgyz | The word "ишкана" in Kyrgyz can also mean "to start a business" or "to take a risk." |
| Latin | The Latin word "adventura" (from which "venture" is derived) originally meant "what happens," "event," or "occurrence." |
| Latvian | Riska can also mean "a trip across a body of water" or "a hazardous or daring act". |
| Lithuanian | The word "įmonė" in Lithuanian derives from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₁me- "to set in motion, to go, to send", cognate with the Latin word "impetus" and the English word "impetus". |
| Luxembourgish | In Luxembourgish, "venture" can also mean "adventure" or "undertaking". |
| Macedonian | The word "потфат" can also refer to an attempt or an undertaking. |
| Malagasy | The word "barotra" can also mean "adventure" or "exploration" in Malagasy. |
| Malay | The word "usaha" is derived from the Sanskrit word "uṣas" meaning "dawn," and has also been used in Malay to refer to "effort" and "work". |
| Malayalam | The Malayalam word "സംരംഭം" is derived from Sanskrit "संरम्भ" (samrambha), which means "commencement, undertaking, effort, endeavour, or attempt" and can also refer to "enthusiasm, excitement". |
| Maltese | The word 'riskju' derives from the Italian 'rischio', ultimately from the Arabic 'rizq' (sustenance, livelihood). |
| Maori | The word "umanga" also has the meaning of "to endeavour" in Maori. |
| Marathi | The word "उपक्रम" also means "initiative" or "undertaking" in Marathi. |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The word "အကျိုးတူ" (venture) in Myanmar (Burmese) is derived from the Pali word "kalyāṇa" (something that is good or beneficial) and the Sanskrit word "karma" (action). |
| Nepali | उद्यम is derived from the Sanskrit word 'udyama' meaning 'effort' or 'enterprise'. It can also refer to a business or a project. |
| Norwegian | The word "våge" is also a cognate of the English word "wager" |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "ntchito" in Nyanja can also refer to a "company" or a "job". |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "وینچر" also means "to risk" or "to dare". |
| Persian | ریسک comes from Arabic word rizq, meaning provision or sustenance, and is related to the concept of taking a chance in order to gain something. |
| Polish | The word "przedsięwzięcie" has multiple meanings, including "undertaking," "enterprise," and "project" |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | "Risco" originates from old Portuguese "risco" or Latin "rīsus" (laugh), indicating the initial sense of undertaking something daring to mock others' disapproval. |
| Punjabi | ਉੱਦਮ" likely originates from the Sanskrit word "uttama," meaning "best" or "excellent." |
| Russian | The word "предприятие" can also mean "enterprise" or "firm". |
| Samoan | The word "taumafaiga" in Samoan can also mean "a struggle", "an endeavor", or "a challenge." |
| Scots Gaelic | The Gaelic word "iomairt" derives from the Middle Irish word "imirt," originally meaning "to play" or "to game." |
| Serbian | In Proto-Slavic the etymology derives from *podъ-vъzati, from *vъzeti, “to take”. |
| Sesotho | The word "khoebo" can also mean "a chance" or "an opportunity" in Sesotho. |
| Sindhi | The word "منصوبو" can also refer to a type of poem that consists of three or four verses, each of which has the same meter and rhyme scheme. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "ව්යාපාරය" can also mean "business" or "occupation". It is derived from the Sanskrit word "vyāpāra", meaning "activity" or "enterprise". |
| Slovak | "Trúfať si" also means "daring" or "having the courage to do something". |
| Slovenian | The word "podviga" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *podъvigъ, which originally meant "effort" or "feat of strength". |
| Somali | The term 'ganacsi' additionally refers to 'commerce' and 'affairs'. |
| Spanish | The Spanish word "riesgo" also means "risk" or "danger" and comes from the Latin word "riscus", meaning "cliff"} |
| Sundanese | In Sundanese, 'usaha' can also refer to an 'effort' or a 'project'. |
| Swahili | The word "ubia" can also mean "explore" or"investigate". |
| Swedish | In Swedish, the word "våga" also means "wave", highlighting the connection between risk-taking and the unpredictable nature of the ocean. |
| Tajik | The word "тавлид" comes from the Arabic word "تولد" and literally means "birth" or "origin". |
| Tamil | The Tamil word "துணிகர" (tunikara) also means "boldness" or "courage." |
| Thai | "กิจการ" means business enterprise, especially one involving hazardous risk, speculation, or the like. |
| Turkish | "Girişim", Türkçede "giriş" ve "iş" kelimelerinin birleşiminden oluşur ve "başlangıç aşamasında bir iş" anlamına da gelir. |
| Ukrainian | The word 'підприємство' also refers to a 'company' and 'business enterprise', indicating its broad range of meanings. |
| Urdu | The term 'وینچر' (venture) was derived from the Latin word 'veni', which means 'to come'. |
| Uzbek | Uzbek "shovqin" also means a "fuss" and "commotion". |
| Vietnamese | The word "liên doanh" in Vietnamese is derived from the Chinese characters "聯營", meaning "joint venture" or "affiliate company." |
| Welsh | The word "menter" can also mean "to meditate" or "to ponder" in Welsh. |
| Xhosa | In Xhosa, 'venture' also means 'to embark on a journey'. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "פֿירנעם" is derived from the root "פֿאַרנעם" meaning "to grasp" or "to understand". |
| Yoruba | "Afowopaowo" is derived from "afo" (trade), "o" (to do), "pa" (to come), "owo" (money). It can also mean "to take a risk" or "to gamble". |
| Zulu | In Zulu, the word 'venture' also means 'to gamble' or 'to take a risk'. |
| English | Borrowed from Old Norman French *aventure*, from Vulgar Latin *ad + ventura "about to come," past participle of venire "to come," |