Vision in Different Languages
Discover 'Vision' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Vision
Afrikaans visie | ||
Albanian vizionin | ||
Amharic ራዕይ | ||
Arabic رؤية | ||
Armenian տեսլական | ||
Assamese দৃষ্টি | ||
Aymara uñtawi | ||
Azerbaijani görmə | ||
Bambara jiralifɛn | ||
Basque ikusmena | ||
Belarusian зрок | ||
Bengali দৃষ্টি | ||
Bhojpuri नजर | ||
Bosnian vizija | ||
Bulgarian зрение | ||
Catalan visió | ||
Cebuano panan-aw | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 视力 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 視力 | ||
Corsican visione | ||
Croatian vizija | ||
Czech vidění | ||
Danish vision | ||
Dhivehi ވިޝަން | ||
Dogri लक्ष्य | ||
Dutch visie | ||
English vision | ||
Esperanto vizio | ||
Estonian nägemus | ||
Ewe nukpɔkpɔ | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) pangitain | ||
Finnish näkemys | ||
French vision | ||
Frisian fisy | ||
Galician visión | ||
Georgian ხედვა | ||
German vision | ||
Greek όραμα | ||
Guarani techa | ||
Gujarati દ્રષ્ટિ | ||
Haitian Creole vizyon | ||
Hausa hangen nesa | ||
Hawaiian hihio | ||
Hebrew חָזוֹן | ||
Hindi विजन | ||
Hmong kev pom kev | ||
Hungarian látomás | ||
Icelandic sýn | ||
Igbo ọhụụ | ||
Ilocano parmata | ||
Indonesian penglihatan | ||
Irish fís | ||
Italian visione | ||
Japanese ビジョン | ||
Javanese sesanti | ||
Kannada ದೃಷ್ಟಿ | ||
Kazakh көру | ||
Khmer ចក្ខុវិស័យ | ||
Kinyarwanda icyerekezo | ||
Konkani नदर | ||
Korean 전망 | ||
Krio si | ||
Kurdish qaweta çavdîtinê | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) دیدگا | ||
Kyrgyz көрүнүш | ||
Lao ວິໄສທັດ | ||
Latin vision | ||
Latvian vīzija | ||
Lingala emonaneli | ||
Lithuanian vizija | ||
Luganda okulaba | ||
Luxembourgish visioun | ||
Macedonian визија | ||
Maithili दृष्टि | ||
Malagasy fahitana | ||
Malay penglihatan | ||
Malayalam കാഴ്ച | ||
Maltese viżjoni | ||
Maori matakite | ||
Marathi दृष्टी | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯃꯤꯠꯌꯦꯡ | ||
Mizo hmathlir | ||
Mongolian алсын хараа | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ရူပါရုံ | ||
Nepali दर्शन | ||
Norwegian syn | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) masomphenya | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଦର୍ଶନ | ||
Oromo mul'ata | ||
Pashto لید | ||
Persian چشم انداز | ||
Polish wizja | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) visão | ||
Punjabi ਦਰਸ਼ਨ | ||
Quechua qaway | ||
Romanian viziune | ||
Russian видение | ||
Samoan faʻaaliga | ||
Sanskrit दृष्टि | ||
Scots Gaelic lèirsinn | ||
Sepedi ponelopele | ||
Serbian визија | ||
Sesotho pono | ||
Shona chiratidzo | ||
Sindhi نظارو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) දැක්ම | ||
Slovak vízia | ||
Slovenian vid | ||
Somali aragti | ||
Spanish visión | ||
Sundanese visi | ||
Swahili maono | ||
Swedish syn | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) paningin | ||
Tajik рӯъё | ||
Tamil பார்வை | ||
Tatar күренеш | ||
Telugu దృష్టి | ||
Thai วิสัยทัศน์ | ||
Tigrinya ራእይ | ||
Tsonga xivono | ||
Turkish vizyon | ||
Turkmen görüş | ||
Twi (Akan) anisoadehunu | ||
Ukrainian зір | ||
Urdu اولین مقصد | ||
Uyghur كۆرۈش | ||
Uzbek ko'rish | ||
Vietnamese tầm nhìn | ||
Welsh gweledigaeth | ||
Xhosa umbono | ||
Yiddish זעאונג | ||
Yoruba iran | ||
Zulu umbono |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | In Afrikaans, 'visie' can also refer to a 'view' from a particular angle or a 'visionary' or an 'ideologist'. |
| Albanian | "Vizionin" in Albanian has roots in the Latin "visio," also meaning "vision". |
| Amharic | The word "ራዕይ" (vision) is also used in Amharic to refer to a "dream, vision, or revelation." |
| Arabic | رؤية means vision but it also can mean a plan, a sight, or a revelation that comes from a dream or trance |
| Azerbaijani | In Azerbaijani, the word "görmə" can also refer to "appearance" or "view". |
| Basque | Ikusmena derives from the proto-Basque ikus-, “to see”, and -men, “action, effect, consequence”. |
| Belarusian | "Зрок" is related to "look","view","sight" which are derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weḱ- "to see, watch". |
| Bengali | The word "দৃষ্টি" can also refer to "a view" or "an opinion". |
| Bosnian | "Vizija" is a loanword from the Turkish word "vücut", meaning "embodiment" in Bosnian. |
| Bulgarian | The word "зрение" is derived from the Proto-Slavic root *zьr-, meaning "to see". |
| Catalan | Catalan "visió" derives from the Latin "visio", with the original meaning of "act of seeing". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 视力 ('vision') means a wide variety of things in Chinese, from seeing, to observing, to managing. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 視力 ('vision') in Chinese is not only the ability to see, but also refers to 'perspective' or 'viewpoint'. |
| Corsican | The term "visione" also has a specific meaning in Corsican, referring to a trance-like state induced by spiritual practices. |
| Croatian | Croatian 'vizija' derives from the Latin 'video' (to see) like its English counterpart. |
| Czech | "Vidění" also means "apparition" or "phantom" in Czech. |
| Danish | Vision in Danish is spelled the same as the English word but means "idea" or "song" instead of "vision." |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "visie" comes from the Latin word "visio," which also means "appearance" or "sight." |
| Estonian | "Nägemus" also means "specter" or "phantom" in Estonian. |
| Finnish | The word "näkemys" in Finnish has a wider meaning than the English word "vision", and can also refer to a perspective, view, or opinion. |
| French | In French, the word "vision" can also mean a hallucination or a prophetic dream. |
| Frisian | Fis also means 'fish' in Frisian, while a 'fishy' dream was seen as a prophetic dream by the ancient Frisians. |
| Galician | The Galician word |
| Georgian | The word "ხედვა" can also refer to a "point of view" or "perspective". |
| German | In addition to its meaning as "vision," "Vision" can also refer to "dream" or "phantom" in German. |
| Greek | The word "όραμα" in Greek can also mean "goal" or "purpose" |
| Gujarati | The word "દ્રષ્ટિ" in Gujarati can also refer to a person's perspective or viewpoint. |
| Haitian Creole | Vizyon means "vision" in Haitian Creole, but it can also mean "look" or "appearance". |
| Hausa | The Hausa word "hangen nesa" can also refer to the experience of seeing a ghost or evil spirit. |
| Hawaiian | In Hawaiian, "hihio" can also refer to the act of looking, a glimpse, or a thought. |
| Hebrew | The word "חָזוֹן" (khazon) can also refer to a prophecy or a dream. |
| Hindi | The Hindi word "विजन" (vision) is derived from the Sanskrit word "विष्ट" (to see), and also means "knowledge" or "understanding". |
| Hmong | The Hmong term "kev pom kev" translates to "vision," but also implies perception, clarity, and insight. |
| Hungarian | The Hungarian word "látomás" originates from the Proto-Indo-European root "*wel" meaning "to see" or "to look". |
| Icelandic | The word "sýn" derives from Proto-Germanic "*sehwaną", meaning "to see" and is related to the word "sjá" meaning "to see" in modern Icelandic. |
| Igbo | The word ọhụụ can also mean "apparition", "phantom", or "ghost" in Igbo. |
| Indonesian | "Penglihatan" also means "premonition". |
| Irish | The Irish word "fís" refers both to "physical" characteristics and "appearance". |
| Italian | The Italian word "visione" comes from the Latin word "visio," which also means "sight" or "appearance." |
| Japanese | 「ビジョン」は英語の「vision」に由来し、将来の目標や理想像を表す言葉として用いられる。 |
| Javanese | In the Serat Centhini, "sesanti" is also used in the sense of a "motto" or a "guiding principle". |
| Kannada | The Kannada word "ದೃಷ್ಟಿ" (vision) is derived from the Sanskrit word "दृष्टि" (dṛṣṭi), which also means "sight", "view", or "opinion". |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "көру" can also mean "to read" or "to look through" something, such as a book or a window. |
| Korean | "전망" (vision) also means "viewpoint or perspective" |
| Kurdish | "Qaweta çavdîtinê" is likely derived from the Old Anatolian word "qawd-ta", meaning "to look or glimpse." |
| Kyrgyz | The word "көрүнүш" can also mean "appearance" or "aspect" in Kyrgyz. |
| Latin | The Latin word "visio" originally meant "apparition", "phantom", or "mental image". |
| Latvian | The word "vīzija" derives from the Proto-Indo-European root *weyd-, meaning "to see". |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word "vizija" derives from the Latin word "visio" and can also mean imagination, foresight or a hallucination. |
| Luxembourgish | The Luxembourgish word "Visioun" is related to the Old French "vision", which also meant "illusion" or "hallucination". |
| Macedonian | The word "визија" also has the alternate meanings "sight" and "appearance." |
| Malagasy | "Fahitana" also means "a prediction" or "a prophecy" in Malagasy. |
| Malay | The Malay word "penglihatan" can also mean "eyeball" or "sight". |
| Malayalam | The word "കാഴ്ച" in Malayalam can also mean "sight" or "view". |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "viżjoni" comes from the Latin word "visio", meaning "act of seeing". |
| Maori | Matakite is also a term used to describe a type of visionary or seer in Maori culture. |
| Marathi | The Marathi word "दृष्टी" (drishti) is derived from the Sanskrit word "दृश" (drish), meaning "to see" or "to look at". |
| Mongolian | The word алсын хараа ('vision') literally translates to 'distant sight', as алсын ('distant') is derived from the Mongolian алс ('far'). |
| Nepali | दर्शन comes from the Sanskrit term 'drish', meaning 'to see', and can also refer to 'philosophy', 'knowledge', or 'opinion'. |
| Norwegian | The word "syn" can also refer to the sense of sight, a synonym for "synsevne". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word 'masomphenya' can also mean 'ability to see' or 'understanding'. |
| Pashto | The Pashto word لید (pronounced "lid") can also refer to a "hint" or "clue" in the context of a riddle or puzzle. |
| Persian | "چشم انداز" (vision) comes from the Persian words "چشم" (eye) and "انداز" (measurement), and can also mean "perspective" or "viewpoint". |
| Polish | "Wizja" means "vision" in Polish, but it also shares a root with the English word "vision" and can mean "revelation" or the ability to perceive something extraordinary. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | "Visão" can refer to a spiritual experience or divine revelation |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "viziune" derives from Latin "visionem" and denotes either "sight" or a "mental image". |
| Russian | "Видение" comes from the Proto-Slavic word "viděti", meaning "to see" or "to know". |
| Samoan | The word "faʻaaliga" can also mean "miracle" or "manifestation" in Samoan. |
| Scots Gaelic | The Gaelic word lèirsinn has also been applied to 'prophecy' and 'sight' within the context of second sight. |
| Serbian | The word "визија" in Serbian also means "a ghost". |
| Sesotho | "Pono" originally meant "dream". |
| Shona | The word "chiratidzo" in Shona can also mean a "sign" or an "omen." |
| Sindhi | Sindhi word "نظارو" (vision) comes from Persian "نِظارت" (supervision), and can also mean "lookout" or "inspection". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | දැක්ම, derived from the root word දකි, can also mean 'knowledge', 'understanding', or 'insight'. |
| Slovak | The Slovak word "vízia" can also refer to an apparition or a hallucination |
| Slovenian | The word "vid" in Slovenian can also mean "appearance" or "spectacle". |
| Somali | The term “aragti” also implies insight or understanding of a particular subject matter. |
| Spanish | The word "visión" in Spanish can also refer to a "goal", "aim", or "outlook". |
| Sundanese | In Sundanese, "visi" shares an etymology with the Indonesian word "visi" and ultimately descends from the Sanskrit word "vishaya" meaning "sense object" or "matter." |
| Swahili | "Maono" can also refer to a miraculous gift or ability. |
| Swedish | "Syn" also means "sin" and "sight" in Swedish, and can refer to eyesight, appearance, or insight. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Paningin" can also mean "viewpoint" or "perspective". |
| Tajik | The word "рӯъё" (vision) in Tajik also means "face" and "appearance". |
| Telugu | The word "దృష్టి" can also mean "attention" or "concentration" in Telugu. |
| Thai | The word "วิสัยทัศน์" can also refer to a perspective, point of view, or concept. |
| Turkish | Vizyon and its derivatives can also mean prophecy, dream, appearance, manifestation, or the thing that someone sees in dreams. |
| Ukrainian | "Зір" also means "look" or "glance" in Ukrainian. |
| Urdu | The word 'اولین مقصد' ('vision') literally means the 'first destination' in Urdu. |
| Uzbek | The word "ko'rish" in Uzbek can also refer to "a meeting of minds" or "the act of seeing something with the eyes". |
| Vietnamese | The word "tầm nhìn" can also refer to foresight or insight. |
| Welsh | "Gweledigaeth" has an alternate meaning of "apparition," and comes from the Welsh word "gweledig," meaning "that which is seen." |
| Xhosa | In Xhosa, the word "umbono" not only means "vision" but also signifies "the ability to see beyond the physical world". |
| Yiddish | The word 'זעאונג' in Yiddish can also mean 'appearance' or 'sight'. |
| Yoruba | "Iran" also means "watchful" or "careful". |
| Zulu | The word ‘umbono' derives its meaning from isiZulu word ‘ubona' meaning insight or perception which is the essence or the beginning stage of a vision. |
| English | The word "vision" comes from the Latin word "videre," meaning "to see," and is related to words like "video" and "videotape." |