Video in Different Languages
Discover 'Video' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Video
Afrikaans video | ||
Albanian video | ||
Amharic ቪዲዮ | ||
Arabic فيديو | ||
Armenian տեսանյութ | ||
Assamese ভিডিঅ’ | ||
Aymara uñtaña | ||
Azerbaijani video | ||
Bambara wideyo | ||
Basque bideoa | ||
Belarusian відэа | ||
Bengali ভিডিও | ||
Bhojpuri वीडियो | ||
Bosnian video | ||
Bulgarian видео | ||
Catalan vídeo | ||
Cebuano video | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 视频 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 視頻 | ||
Corsican video | ||
Croatian video | ||
Czech video | ||
Danish video | ||
Dhivehi ވިޑިއޯ | ||
Dogri विडियो | ||
Dutch video- | ||
English video | ||
Esperanto video | ||
Estonian video | ||
Ewe video | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) video | ||
Finnish video- | ||
French vidéo | ||
Frisian fideo | ||
Galician vídeo | ||
Georgian ვიდეო | ||
German video | ||
Greek βίντεο | ||
Guarani techarã | ||
Gujarati વિડિઓ | ||
Haitian Creole videyo | ||
Hausa bidiyo | ||
Hawaiian wikiō | ||
Hebrew וִידֵאוֹ | ||
Hindi वीडियो | ||
Hmong duab vis dis aus | ||
Hungarian videó- | ||
Icelandic myndband | ||
Igbo vidiyo | ||
Ilocano bideo | ||
Indonesian video | ||
Irish físeán | ||
Italian video | ||
Japanese ビデオ | ||
Javanese video | ||
Kannada ವೀಡಿಯೊ | ||
Kazakh видео | ||
Khmer វីដេអូ | ||
Kinyarwanda videwo | ||
Konkani व्हिडियो | ||
Korean 비디오 | ||
Krio fim | ||
Kurdish video | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) ڤیدیۆ | ||
Kyrgyz видео | ||
Lao ວິດີໂອ | ||
Latin video | ||
Latvian video | ||
Lingala video | ||
Lithuanian vaizdo įrašą | ||
Luganda vidiyo | ||
Luxembourgish video | ||
Macedonian видео | ||
Maithili भिडियो | ||
Malagasy video | ||
Malay video | ||
Malayalam വീഡിയോ | ||
Maltese vidjo | ||
Maori ataata | ||
Marathi व्हिडिओ | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯚꯤꯗꯤꯑꯣ ꯑꯃꯥ꯫ | ||
Mizo video | ||
Mongolian видео | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ဗီဒီယို | ||
Nepali भिडियो | ||
Norwegian video | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kanema | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଭିଡିଓ | ||
Oromo viidiyoo | ||
Pashto ویډیو | ||
Persian ویدئو | ||
Polish wideo | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) vídeo | ||
Punjabi ਵੀਡੀਓ | ||
Quechua video | ||
Romanian video | ||
Russian видео | ||
Samoan vitio | ||
Sanskrit विडिओ | ||
Scots Gaelic bhidio | ||
Sepedi bitio | ||
Serbian видео | ||
Sesotho video | ||
Shona vhidhiyo | ||
Sindhi وڊيو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) වීඩියෝ | ||
Slovak video | ||
Slovenian video | ||
Somali video | ||
Spanish vídeo | ||
Sundanese video | ||
Swahili video | ||
Swedish video- | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) video | ||
Tajik видео | ||
Tamil காணொளி | ||
Tatar видео | ||
Telugu వీడియో | ||
Thai วิดีโอ | ||
Tigrinya ቪዲዮ | ||
Tsonga vhidiyo | ||
Turkish video | ||
Turkmen wideo | ||
Twi (Akan) video | ||
Ukrainian відео | ||
Urdu ویڈیو | ||
Uyghur video | ||
Uzbek video | ||
Vietnamese video | ||
Welsh fideo | ||
Xhosa ividiyo | ||
Yiddish ווידעא | ||
Yoruba fidio | ||
Zulu ividiyo |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "video" can also mean "film" or "movie". |
| Albanian | The Albanian word "video" can also refer to a "video game". |
| Amharic | The word |
| Arabic | فيديو ('video') derives from the Latin word vidēre ('to see'), and is cognate with vision, vista, visible, and view. |
| Azerbaijani | In Azerbaijani, "video" is borrowed from Russian "видео" which in its turn is borrowed from Latin "video" meaning "see". |
| Basque | "Bideoa" derives from "bioda" (appearance), a term previously used referring to the image and "audioa" (audio) refers to the sound, which is combined to form "bideoa" meaning "image and sound" used for both television and video games. |
| Bengali | "ভিডিও" is the Bengali word for "video" and is derived from the Latin word "videre" which means "to see" |
| Bosnian | The Bosnian word "video" can also mean "sight" or "vision". |
| Bulgarian | The word «видео» can also mean «vision» or «view». |
| Catalan | In Catalan, "vídeo" derives from the Latin "videre" (to see), also sharing its meaning with "video" in English and other languages. |
| Cebuano | In Cebuano, "video" can also refer to a movie or film. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 视频 can also mean "visual" or "image" in Chinese. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | In Cantonese, 視頻 (sihpien) refers to 'eyesight' and is not used in the context of video recordings. |
| Corsican | In Corsican, the word 'video' has the same meaning as in English, but can also refer to the act of recording something on video or a video camera. |
| Croatian | In Croatian, 'video' also means 'I see'. |
| Danish | In Danish, "video" can also refer to a short TV or radio report similar to a newsreel. |
| Dutch | "Video" means "I see" in Latin. |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word "video" also means "I see" or "I look". |
| Estonian | The Estonian word "video" is derived from the Latin word "videre" which means "to see" |
| Finnish | The word "video-" is often used to refer to both "video" and "audio" in Finnish, as the Finnish language doesn't have separate words for these concepts |
| French | The word "vidéo" in French can also mean "evidence" or "document". |
| Frisian | The word "fideo" in Frisian derives from the Latin word "fideus" meaning "string" or "thread" |
| Galician | In Galician, the word "vídeo" can also refer to a film or a film screening. |
| Georgian | The word ვიდეო (video) is borrowed from English and has the same meaning in Georgian. |
| German | The German word "Video" is taken from Latin and also refers to seeing or vision, like the English "Video" from the Greek word for "I see". |
| Greek | The Greek word "βίντεο" (video) derives from the Latin word "video," meaning "I see". |
| Gujarati | The word "વિડિઓ" (video) is derived from the Latin word "videre," meaning "to see," and the Greek word "οἶδα" (oida), meaning "I know." |
| Haitian Creole | The word "videyo" in Haitian Creole also means "movie" or "film". |
| Hausa | In Hausa, the word "bidiyo" is a borrowing from the English word "video". |
| Hawaiian | 'Wikiō' can also refer to a 'moving or flowing liquid', such as rain or a waterfall. |
| Hebrew | From Latin "vidēre" - "to see". |
| Hindi | "वीडियो" is derived from the Latin word "videre", meaning "to see", and is related to the English word "vision". |
| Hmong | Although "duab vis dis aus" translates to "video", it literally means "picture two eyes see out" in Hmong. |
| Hungarian | The Hungarian word "videó" also means "projection", as in a projected image. |
| Icelandic | "Myndband" is a loanword from the Danish "filmbånd" (literally "film band"), which is itself cognate with English "video tape". Thus, "myndband" originally meant "video tape", but it now also refers to any video recording, regardless of format. |
| Igbo | In the Igbo language, "vidiyo" is derived from "vidi," meaning "to look". |
| Indonesian | The word "video" in Indonesian is derived from the Latin word "videre", meaning "to see". |
| Italian | "Video" is the Latin neuter singular form of the adjective "videre" (to see), so "video" technically means "I see". It's been used in the English language since at least the 1950s to describe "a moving visual image". |
| Japanese | "ビデオ" also means "beta" as in "β-ray" (beta particle) |
| Javanese | The word "video" in Javanese can also mean "to see" or "to watch". |
| Kazakh | "Видео" in Kazakh also means "proof" or "evidence". |
| Korean | In Korean, "비디오" can also mean "secret" or "confidential information". |
| Kurdish | In Kurdish, "video" also means "look and see" |
| Kyrgyz | The Kyrgyz word "видео" can also mean "television broadcasting" or "movie". |
| Latin | In Latin, "video" means "I see," also the root of the word "vision." |
| Latvian | ''Video'' is a Latin word meaning "I see" or "I have seen." |
| Luxembourgish | In Luxemburgish, "Video" can also mean "Film" or "Movie." |
| Macedonian | The word "Видео" is derived from the Latin word "videre," meaning "to see." |
| Malagasy | In Malagasy, the word "video" is derived from the French word "vidé", which means "empty". |
| Malay | The Malay word "video" is also used to refer to a movie or film. |
| Malayalam | The word "വീഡിയോ" comes from the Greek word "eidos," meaning "form" or "shape," and the Latin word "videre," meaning "to see." |
| Maltese | "Vidjo" comes from the English word "video" and can also refer to a movie or film. |
| Maori | In Te Reo Māori, it has additional meanings such as "watch", "guard", and "lookout". |
| Marathi | The word "व्हिडिओ" is derived from the Latin word "videre", meaning "to see". |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word "видео" ("video") can also refer to a "film", "movie", or "television program". |
| Nepali | The word "भिडियो" in Nepali is derived from the English word "video", which comes from Latin "videre" meaning "to see". |
| Norwegian | In Norwegian, "video" is also a verb form of "to watch", e.g. "vide noe på YouTube" ("to watch something on YouTube"). |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "kanema'' can also refer to a television show or film. |
| Pashto | The Pashto word “ویډیو” has Persian and English origins, with “ویډ” stemming from “دید” and “و” being an English suffix. |
| Polish | "Wideo" in Polish can also refer to a person who films or records videos. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, the term "vídeo" has the same meaning as "video" in English, referring to visual content captured and played back in electronic form. |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "video" comes from the Latin word "videre", meaning "to see." |
| Russian | In Russian 'видео' is an abbreviation from the Latin 'video' - 'I see'; in English 'video' means 'sight' or 'vision' and comes from Latin 'videre' |
| Samoan | Vitio is also used in Samoan to describe a movie or television show. |
| Scots Gaelic | Scots Gaelic "bhidio" derives from French "vidéo" and English "video," both from Latin "videre" (to see). |
| Serbian | The Serbian word 'видео' ('video') comes from the Greek word 'εἶδος' ('eidos'), which means 'form' or 'appearance'. |
| Sesotho | In Sesotho, "video" can also mean "movie" or "film". |
| Shona | The word "vhidhiyo" is derived from the English word "video," and can also refer to a film or movie. |
| Sindhi | The word "وڊيو" in Sindhi is derived from the English word "video", which itself is derived from the Latin word "videre", meaning "to see". |
| Slovak | The word "video" in Slovak can also refer to the "tape" part of a videocassette recorder. |
| Slovenian | In Slovenian, "video" also refers to a type of lottery, similar to bingo. |
| Somali | In Somali, "video" also means "tape recorder". |
| Spanish | In Spanish, "vídeo" also means "I see" in the first person singular present indicative. |
| Sundanese | In Sundanese, "video" also means "show" or "broadcast." |
| Swahili | In Swahili, "video" can also refer to a television or film |
| Swedish | "Video-" kan också syfta på "insikt" eller "synlighet". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | In Tagalog, "video" is also a term used to refer to a recorded movie or television show. |
| Tajik | В таджикском языке слово «видео» также используется для обозначения «телевизионного фильма». |
| Thai | The word "วิดีโอ" in Thai can also refer to a film or movie. |
| Turkish | Video comes from the latin word "videre" meaning "to see". |
| Ukrainian | In Ukrainian, "відео" can also refer to a video game or computer graphics. |
| Urdu | The Urdu word ویڈیو is derived from the English word 'video', which has Greek roots and means 'I see' or 'I look'. |
| Vietnamese | The word "video" has its origins in the Latin word "videre," meaning "to see" or "to perceive." |
| Welsh | The Welsh word "fideo" can also mean "to spin" or "to reel". |
| Xhosa | The word "ividiyo" is also used to describe a specific type of traditional Xhosa dance. |
| Yiddish | ווידעא' derives from the Latin word 'videre,' meaning 'to see,' and also relates to the Yiddish word 'זען' ('zen'), meaning 'to see.' |
| Yoruba | Fidio is a Yoruba word that also means 'to show' |
| Zulu | The Zulu word ividiyo, meaning 'video', is a loanword from the English word 'video'. |
| English | The word "video" derives from the Latin word "videre," meaning "to see". |