Violence in Different Languages
Discover 'Violence' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Violence
Afrikaans geweld | ||
Albanian dhuna | ||
Amharic ዓመፅ | ||
Arabic عنف | ||
Armenian բռնություն | ||
Assamese হিংসা | ||
Aymara yanqhachawi | ||
Azerbaijani şiddət | ||
Bambara tɔɲɔnli | ||
Basque indarkeria | ||
Belarusian гвалт | ||
Bengali সহিংসতা | ||
Bhojpuri हिंसा | ||
Bosnian nasilje | ||
Bulgarian насилие | ||
Catalan violència | ||
Cebuano kapintasan | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 暴力 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 暴力 | ||
Corsican viulenza | ||
Croatian nasilje | ||
Czech násilí | ||
Danish vold | ||
Dhivehi އަނިޔާ | ||
Dogri हिंसा | ||
Dutch geweld | ||
English violence | ||
Esperanto perforto | ||
Estonian vägivald | ||
Ewe avuwɔwɔ | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) karahasan | ||
Finnish väkivalta | ||
French la violence | ||
Frisian geweld | ||
Galician violencia | ||
Georgian ძალადობა | ||
German gewalt | ||
Greek βία | ||
Guarani mbaretejeporu | ||
Gujarati હિંસા | ||
Haitian Creole vyolans | ||
Hausa tashin hankali | ||
Hawaiian hana ʻino | ||
Hebrew אַלִימוּת | ||
Hindi हिंसा | ||
Hmong kev ua phem | ||
Hungarian erőszak | ||
Icelandic ofbeldi | ||
Igbo ime ihe ike | ||
Ilocano panangrugsot | ||
Indonesian kekerasan | ||
Irish foréigean | ||
Italian violenza | ||
Japanese 暴力 | ||
Javanese panganiaya | ||
Kannada ಹಿಂಸೆ | ||
Kazakh зорлық-зомбылық | ||
Khmer អំពើហឹង្សា | ||
Kinyarwanda urugomo | ||
Konkani हिंसा | ||
Korean 폭력 | ||
Krio kuskas | ||
Kurdish cebr | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) توندوتیژی | ||
Kyrgyz зомбулук | ||
Lao ຄວາມຮຸນແຮງ | ||
Latin violentiam | ||
Latvian vardarbība | ||
Lingala mobulu | ||
Lithuanian smurtas | ||
Luganda obukambwe | ||
Luxembourgish gewalt | ||
Macedonian насилство | ||
Maithili हिंसा | ||
Malagasy herisetra | ||
Malay keganasan | ||
Malayalam അക്രമം | ||
Maltese vjolenza | ||
Maori te tutu | ||
Marathi हिंसा | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯈꯠꯅ ꯆꯩꯅꯕ | ||
Mizo tharumthawh | ||
Mongolian хүчирхийлэл | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အကြမ်းဖက်မှု | ||
Nepali हिंसा | ||
Norwegian vold | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) chiwawa | ||
Odia (Oriya) ହିଂସା | ||
Oromo goolii | ||
Pashto تاوتریخوالی | ||
Persian خشونت | ||
Polish przemoc | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) violência | ||
Punjabi ਹਿੰਸਾ | ||
Quechua waqayasqa | ||
Romanian violenţă | ||
Russian насилие | ||
Samoan saua | ||
Sanskrit अपद्रव | ||
Scots Gaelic fòirneart | ||
Sepedi dikgaruru | ||
Serbian насиља | ||
Sesotho pefo | ||
Shona mhirizhonga | ||
Sindhi تشدد | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) ප්රචණ්ඩත්වය | ||
Slovak násilie | ||
Slovenian nasilje | ||
Somali rabshad | ||
Spanish violencia | ||
Sundanese kekerasan | ||
Swahili vurugu | ||
Swedish våld | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) karahasan | ||
Tajik зӯроварӣ | ||
Tamil வன்முறை | ||
Tatar көч куллану | ||
Telugu హింస | ||
Thai ความรุนแรง | ||
Tigrinya ዓመጽ | ||
Tsonga madzolonga | ||
Turkish şiddet | ||
Turkmen zorluk | ||
Twi (Akan) basabasayɔ | ||
Ukrainian насильство | ||
Urdu تشدد | ||
Uyghur زوراۋانلىق | ||
Uzbek zo'ravonlik | ||
Vietnamese bạo lực | ||
Welsh trais | ||
Xhosa ubundlobongela | ||
Yiddish גוואַלד | ||
Yoruba iwa-ipa | ||
Zulu udlame |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | "Geweld" derives from the Dutch word "geweld", meaning "power" or "force," and is related to the archaic English word "welde," meaning "to rule". |
| Albanian | "Dhuna" can also mean "rage", "fury," or "wrath". |
| Amharic | The word "ዓመፅ" has alternate meanings like "an uproar or rebellion" and has an etymology rooted in the Semitic term for "crowd". |
| Arabic | The Arabic word "عنف" (unf) is the origin of the English word "offense" which has the meanings of attack or crime. |
| Azerbaijani | In Azerbaijani, |
| Basque | Indarkeria in Basque is cognate with “strength” and “vigor” in neighboring languages |
| Belarusian | "Гвалт" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word "golti", meaning "death" or "murder." |
| Bosnian | "Nasilje" comes from the Slavic root "sila", meaning "force", and can refer to both physical or psychological violence. |
| Bulgarian | The word "насилие" can also refer to "abuse" or "maltreatment." |
| Catalan | The word "violència" in Catalan derives from the Latin word "violentia", meaning "force" or "impetuosity". |
| Cebuano | The word "kapintasan" is derived from the root word "pintas," meaning "to cut or wound," and originally referred to physical violence. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 暴力 (bào lì) literally means "exposure to force" and can be used in a wider sense to refer to coercion or compulsion. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | Derived from the Chinese idiom '以暴易暴', 暴力 means 'violent' or 'to use violence'. |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "viulenza" also carries a sense of injustice or unfairness. |
| Croatian | The word 'nasilje' originates from the Proto-Slavic verb 'nasiliti' meaning 'to force' or 'to compel'. |
| Czech | The related Czech word "násilný" means "violent" but in law may also mean "rape". |
| Danish | Vold shares the same Proto-Germanic root as the English words "will," "violence," "wild," "wield," and "voluntary." |
| Dutch | Geweld can also mean power, authority, or jurisdiction in Dutch. |
| Esperanto | "Perforto" (violence) comes from Latin "perfertus" (pierced, broken, destroyed). |
| Estonian | "Vägivald" (''violence'') derives from the word "vägi" ('force'), and also means 'act of force', 'coercion' and 'rape'. |
| Finnish | In Finnish, "väkivalta" also refers to "force" and "authority". |
| Frisian | In Frisian, |
| Galician | A palavra "violencia" possui o mesmo significado em galego e português, derivando do latim "violentia". |
| German | The term 'Gewalt' derives from Old High German and means not only physical force, but also legal power and authority. |
| Greek | The Greek word "βία" also denotes physical strength and power. |
| Gujarati | The word हिंसा may also refer to physical assault or brutality on another person. |
| Haitian Creole | In Haitian Creole, vyolans is also used to mean 'a strong or serious matter'. |
| Hausa | In addition to its primary meaning of "violence," "tashin hankali" can also mean "anger" or "rage" in Hausa. |
| Hawaiian | The Hawaiian word "hana ʻino" has many meanings such as "evil doing," but also "war," "crime," "sin," "murder," or "treason" depending on the context. |
| Hebrew | "אַלִימוּת" means brutality, ruthlessness, violence, and force in Hebrew, and it derives from the Hebrew root" א.ל.ם" meaning"mute, silent", because violence silences and brutalizes its victims. |
| Hindi | "हिंसा" literally means "to hurt" but can also refer to non-physical violence like verbal abuse. |
| Hmong | In addition to its literal meaning of "violence," "kev ua phem" can also refer to "war," "fighting," or "abuse." |
| Icelandic | The word "ofbeldi" can also refer to a state of extreme exertion or distress. |
| Igbo | The Igbo phrase |
| Indonesian | In Indonesian, "kekerasan" not only means "violence" but also "hardness" or "firmness." |
| Irish | The Gaelic word foréigean initially did not carry negative connotations but could have referred to 'excesses' or 'deeds of valour' |
| Italian | The Italian word "violenza" comes from the Latin term "violentus", meaning "impetuous" or "passionate". |
| Japanese | "暴力" literally means "power" or "force", and is often used to describe both physical and non-physical forms of violence. |
| Javanese | The Javanese word "panganiaya" derives from "pan", meaning "the act of," and "aniya", meaning "oppressing". |
| Kannada | The word "ಹಿಂಸೆ" in Kannada can also refer to physical injury, suffering, or pain inflicted upon a person or animal. |
| Khmer | The Khmer word "អំពើហឹង្សា" ("violence") comes from the Sanskrit word "hiṃsā" ("injury") and refers not only to physical injury but also to mental harm, abuse, and emotional distress. |
| Korean | "폭력" (violence) is cognate with "법력" (law power) and "약력" (medicinal power), suggesting that "폭" originally meant "power". |
| Kurdish | The term "cebr" in Kurdish is etymologically related to the Persian term "zoor" and the Arabic term "jabr," both of which mean "force" or "coercion." |
| Kyrgyz | Зомбулук ultimately derives from the Persian word for 'club' and can also mean 'riot' or 'unrest' in Kyrgyz. |
| Latin | The word "violentiam" in Latin can also mean "force" or "impetuosity". |
| Latvian | "Vardarbība" (violence) is derived from the word "varder", which means "to guard, to protect". It originally meant "the act of defending oneself or others" but has since taken on a more negative connotation. |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word "smurtas" is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *smr- or *smrt-, meaning "remember" or "think". |
| Luxembourgish | In Luxembourgish, "Gewalt" can also refer to "power" or "authority", highlighting its nuanced meaning beyond violence. |
| Malagasy | HERISETRA can be analyzed as "herisetra" which stands for "a violent action" |
| Malay | "Keganasan", meaning "violence" in Malay, also has the archaic meaning of a person afflicted with a disease or evil spirits. |
| Malayalam | The word "അക്രമം" in Malayalam also means "lawlessness" and "injustice" |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "vjolenza" is derived from the French word "violence" and the Italian word "violenza". |
| Maori | The Maori word |
| Marathi | Marathi 'हिंसा' originates from the Sanskrit word 'हिंसा,' which means 'killing' or 'injury.' |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | It can mean 'violence' in a general sense, or it can refer specifically to physical or psychological harm. |
| Nepali | The Nepali word "हिंसा" can also mean "injury" or "damage". |
| Norwegian | The word "vold" in Norwegian can also refer to an area of land that has been cleared of trees. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "chiwawa" in Nyanja can also refer to a particular type of axe or hoe. |
| Persian | The word "خشونت" in Persian can also mean "harshness" or "severity". |
| Polish | "Przemoc" can also mean "power" or "coercion". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "violência" in Portuguese stems from the Latin "violentia", meaning "force, injury, or outrage." |
| Punjabi | "ਹਿੰਸਾ" (/hɪnsɑː/), meaning violence, stems from the Sanskrit root "hiṃs" (to strike, injure, kill). In the Vedas, it referred to the "harm done" to the body, mind, or speech of another being. |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "violență" derives from the Latin "violentia", meaning "fierceness, eagerness, impetuosity." |
| Russian | "Насилие" can also refer to coercion or constraint, not just physical violence. |
| Samoan | The word 'saua' can also mean 'war' or 'battle' in Samoan. |
| Scots Gaelic | In a figurative sense, the word 'fòirneart' can also refer to a violation of a law or right. |
| Serbian | The word "насиља" also means "wrongdoing" or "coercion" in Serbian. |
| Shona | The Shona word "mhirizhonga" also means "to be hard" or "to be unyielding". |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word 'تشدد' is also used to refer to 'fanaticism' or 'extremism'. |
| Slovak | The term "násilie" in Slovak encompasses both physical and verbal harm, as well as the notion of constraint or coercion. |
| Slovenian | The word "nasilje" ultimately derives from the Proto-Slavic root *nasilь, meaning "force, power, compulsion". |
| Sundanese | The term 'kekerasan' in Sundanese can also refer to 'harshness' or 'severity', such as the harshness of the weather or the severity of a situation. |
| Swahili | "Vurugu" is derived from the Arabic word "wuruq" (papers), referring to the chaos and destruction caused by riots |
| Swedish | The word "våld" in Swedish is derived from the Old Norse word "vald," meaning "power," and has a broader meaning encompassing "force, oppression, and abuse of power." |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | 'Karahasan' also means the 'ferocious' or 'violent', as in a typhoon. |
| Tajik | In Tajik, "зӯроварӣ" originally meant "forcible conquest of something" before acquiring its modern meaning of "violence." |
| Thai | The Thai word "ความรุนแรง" (khwam ruanraeng) can also refer to "severity" or "intensity" depending on context. |
| Turkish | The word "şiddet" can also mean "intensity" or "severity". |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word "насильство" can also refer to "rape" or "sexual coercion". |
| Urdu | In Arabic, "شدة" (shidda) primarily signifies "severity" or "intensity," and is used to convey extremes of weather, physical sensations, and emotional states, encompassing both positive and negative connotations. |
| Uzbek | The word "zo'ravonlik" can also mean "injustice" or "oppression" in Uzbek, highlighting the broader implications of violent acts and the need for fair and ethical behavior in society. |
| Vietnamese | Bạo lực derives from the same Chinese characters as the word “power” (quyền lực). |
| Welsh | The word "trais" in Welsh may also refer to an excess or abundance of something, as in the phrase "trais o fwyd" (an abundance of food). |
| Yiddish | "גוואַלד," in addition to meaning "violence," is a Yiddish exclamation expressing shock, anger, or fear. |
| Yoruba | Iwa-ipa may also mean "bad character" or "immoral behavior". |
| Zulu | The Zulu word "udlame" is also used to refer to the "act of killing" or "murder." |
| English | "Violence" derives from the Latin "violentia," meaning both "force" and "outrage." |