War in Different Languages
Discover 'War' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
War
Afrikaans oorlog | ||
Albanian luftë | ||
Amharic ጦርነት | ||
Arabic حرب | ||
Armenian պատերազմ | ||
Assamese যুদ্ধ | ||
Aymara ch'axwa | ||
Azerbaijani müharibə | ||
Bambara kɛlɛ | ||
Basque gerra | ||
Belarusian вайны | ||
Bengali যুদ্ধ | ||
Bhojpuri लड़ाई | ||
Bosnian rata | ||
Bulgarian война | ||
Catalan guerra | ||
Cebuano gubat | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 战争 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 戰爭 | ||
Corsican guerra | ||
Croatian rat | ||
Czech válka | ||
Danish krig | ||
Dhivehi ހަނގުރާމަ | ||
Dogri लाम | ||
Dutch oorlog | ||
English war | ||
Esperanto milito | ||
Estonian sõda | ||
Ewe aʋa | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) digmaan | ||
Finnish sota | ||
French guerre | ||
Frisian oarloch | ||
Galician guerra | ||
Georgian ომი | ||
German krieg | ||
Greek πόλεμος | ||
Guarani ñorãirõ | ||
Gujarati યુદ્ધ | ||
Haitian Creole lagè | ||
Hausa yaƙi | ||
Hawaiian kaua | ||
Hebrew מִלחָמָה | ||
Hindi युद्ध | ||
Hmong tsov rog | ||
Hungarian háború | ||
Icelandic stríð | ||
Igbo agha | ||
Ilocano gubat | ||
Indonesian perang | ||
Irish cogadh | ||
Italian guerra | ||
Japanese 戦争 | ||
Javanese perang | ||
Kannada ಯುದ್ಧ | ||
Kazakh соғыс | ||
Khmer សង្គ្រាម | ||
Kinyarwanda intambara | ||
Konkani झुज | ||
Korean 전쟁 | ||
Krio wɔ | ||
Kurdish şerr | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) جەنگ | ||
Kyrgyz согуш | ||
Lao ສົງຄາມ | ||
Latin bellum | ||
Latvian karš | ||
Lingala bitumba | ||
Lithuanian karas | ||
Luganda olutalo | ||
Luxembourgish krich | ||
Macedonian војна | ||
Maithili युद्ध | ||
Malagasy ady | ||
Malay perang | ||
Malayalam യുദ്ധം | ||
Maltese gwerra | ||
Maori pakanga | ||
Marathi युद्ध | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯂꯥꯟ | ||
Mizo indona | ||
Mongolian дайн | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) စစ် | ||
Nepali युद्ध | ||
Norwegian krig | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) nkhondo | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଯୁଦ୍ଧ | ||
Oromo waraana | ||
Pashto جګړه | ||
Persian جنگ | ||
Polish wojna | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) guerra | ||
Punjabi ਜੰਗ | ||
Quechua awqay | ||
Romanian război | ||
Russian война | ||
Samoan taua | ||
Sanskrit जंग | ||
Scots Gaelic cogadh | ||
Sepedi ntwa | ||
Serbian рата | ||
Sesotho ntoa | ||
Shona hondo | ||
Sindhi جنگ | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) යුද්ධය | ||
Slovak vojna | ||
Slovenian vojna | ||
Somali dagaal | ||
Spanish guerra | ||
Sundanese perang | ||
Swahili vita | ||
Swedish krig | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) giyera | ||
Tajik ҷанг | ||
Tamil போர் | ||
Tatar сугыш | ||
Telugu యుద్ధం | ||
Thai สงคราม | ||
Tigrinya ውግእ | ||
Tsonga nyimpi | ||
Turkish savaş | ||
Turkmen uruş | ||
Twi (Akan) ɔko | ||
Ukrainian війни | ||
Urdu جنگ | ||
Uyghur ئۇرۇش | ||
Uzbek urush | ||
Vietnamese chiến tranh | ||
Welsh rhyfel | ||
Xhosa imfazwe | ||
Yiddish מלחמה | ||
Yoruba ogun | ||
Zulu impi |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | In Afrikaans, "oorlog" can also refer to a game of marbles played with a large metal hoop. |
| Albanian | Luftë shares the same root, lupt-, with its Latin counterpart pugna (battle/combat). |
| Amharic | The word "ጦርነት" can also refer to a "conflict" or "dispute" in Amharic. |
| Arabic | The Arabic word حرب (harb) originated as a verb meaning "to strive" and later acquired the noun form meaning "war". |
| Armenian | The Armenian word "պատերազմ" (paterazm) is derived from the Indo-European root *wer-, meaning "to defend" or "to protect." |
| Azerbaijani | The word |
| Basque | The Basque word 'gerra' also means 'conflict', 'fight' or 'violence' depending on context, and possibly comes from an ancient Indo-European root meaning 'heavy' or 'difficult'. |
| Belarusian | "Вайны" (в множественном числе) также может означать "истории" или "рассказы". |
| Bosnian | "Rata" can also mean "installment" or "payment by installments" |
| Bulgarian | The word "война" in Bulgarian has alternate meanings, such as "campaign" and "struggle." |
| Catalan | The word "guerra" in Catalan derives from a Germanic term meaning "quarrel" or "strife". |
| Cebuano | Its alternate meaning is "fight" or "struggle" in a figurative sense, as in "gubat sa poverty" (fighting poverty). |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The word "战争" is often used to refer to armed conflicts between nation-states, but it can also be used in a more general sense to refer to any type of intense conflict. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 戦争 is also used in Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese to mean "war" or "battle". |
| Corsican | In Corsican, "guerra" can also mean "quarrel" or "dispute". |
| Croatian | The Croatian word "rat" can also mean "count" or "installment". |
| Czech | Válka is cognate with the Polish word "wojak," which means "soldier." |
| Danish | In archaic Danish, krig ('war') also meant 'quarrel' or 'disagreement', a sense still retained in the compound word krigsråd ('war council'). |
| Dutch | "Oorlog" shares a root with "oor" (ear), likely referring to the sounds associated with battles. |
| Esperanto | The word "milito" in Esperanto can also refer to a "soldier" or "military service". |
| Estonian | The Estonian word for "war" is derived from an ancient Proto-Finno-Ugric word meaning "quarrel" or "dispute". |
| Finnish | The Finnish word "sota" is also used to refer to a game or competition. |
| French | The French word "guerre" originally meant a fight or quarrel, and is cognate with the Old Norse word "ver" (fight). |
| Frisian | Frisian 'oarloch' is a cognate of Old English 'orlege' (battle, strife, war) and Old Norse 'orlog' (destiny), and originally had a more general meaning of 'fate' or 'judgment'. |
| Galician | "Guerra" also means "garden" (as in "vegetable garden") in southern Galician and Portuguese |
| Georgian | The word "ომი" in Georgian can also refer to the mythological figure of a war god. |
| German | The Old High German root of "Krieg" is "krijan", which in turn derives from the Proto-Germanic "*krigôz", meaning "fight" or "quarrel." |
| Greek | The word 'πόλεμος' also means 'toil' or 'work' in Greek, emphasizing the exertion and effort involved in warfare. |
| Gujarati | The word "યુદ્ધ" (yuddha) in Gujarati ultimately derives from the Sanskrit word "yudha" which also means "fight, combat, or battle". |
| Haitian Creole | In Haitian Creole, the word "lagè" can also mean "battle" or "campaign." |
| Hausa | The Hausa word "yaƙi" can also refer to a dispute or disagreement. |
| Hawaiian | "Kaua" can also mean "battle," "quarrel," "fight," or "conflict." |
| Hebrew | The term מִלחָמָה (milchamah) is used in the Bible to refer both to an internal conflict within a nation and to international war. |
| Hindi | In Sanskrit and Pali languages, "युद्ध" also means "a battle between two parties" |
| Hungarian | The Hungarian word for "war," "háború," can also mean "disturbance" or "noise." |
| Icelandic | Icelandic 'stríð' is thought to be derived from the Proto-Germanic word 'strīþuz', meaning 'strife'. |
| Igbo | "Agha" literally translates to "fight against an enemy" in the Igbo language and can also refer to war, hostilities, or battle. |
| Indonesian | The word “perang” can also refer to a kind of traditional Indonesian martial art. |
| Irish | In addition to the literal meaning of "war", the Irish word "cogadh" is sometimes figuratively translated as "battle", "dispute", or "quarrel". |
| Italian | The Italian word "guerra" originally meant "dispute" or "quarrel" and is related to the Latin word "querella". |
| Japanese | The word "戦争" (sensō) is derived from the Japanese words "sen" (battle) and "sō" (dispute), and can also refer to a "conflict" or "contest". |
| Javanese | It is the same word as 'perang' in Indonesian, which means 'fight' or 'quarrel'. |
| Kannada | ಯುದ್ಧ also means 'an event that causes great upheaval or change' in Kannada. |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "соғыс" is also used to refer to struggles or conflicts other than physical warfare. |
| Khmer | The Khmer word for "war" is derived from the Sanskrit word "samgrama," meaning "struggle" and has a broader meaning in Khmer, encompassing a clash of any kind. |
| Korean | 전쟁 is derived from the Middle Korean word 전쟁 (jŏnjŏng), which can also mean "battle" or "military campaign." |
| Kurdish | The Kurdish word "şerr" has alternate meanings including "evil" and "misfortune". |
| Kyrgyz | The word, cognate to Mongolian |
| Latin | Bellum also referred to a Roman "legal war" fought in accordance with the "jus fetiale" or law of nations. |
| Latvian | The word "karš" also means "wrath" or "punishment" in Latvian. |
| Lithuanian | The word "karas" in Lithuanian can also refer to a species of Eurasian freshwater fish. |
| Luxembourgish | The Luxembourgish word "Krich" derives from the Old High German word "Krihh", which also means "discord" or "quarrel". |
| Macedonian | The verb 'војна' in Macedonian also means 'to fight' or 'to engage in military combat'. |
| Malagasy | The word "ady" in Malagasy can also refer to a "battle" or the "struggle of life." |
| Malay | Perang, meaning 'war' in Malay, derives from the Sanskrit word 'prang', meaning 'battle' or 'fight'. |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "gwerra" originates from the Sicilo-Arabic "werra", which in turn derives from the Arabic root word for "attack" or "raid". |
| Maori | The word 'pakanga' can also refer to a quarrel or a dispute. |
| Mongolian | Originally referred to battle in wrestling, 'дайн' has come to mean any type of combat. |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | In Myanmar, the word "စစ်" also means "battle" and "contest" |
| Nepali | The Nepali word "युद्ध" is derived from the Sanskrit word "युध्" which means "to fight". |
| Norwegian | The Norwegian word "krig" is also used in the phrase "krig og fred" which means "war and peace". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | Nkhondo in Nyanja also refers to a war dance performed to remember great battles and warriors, and to encourage unity and courage. |
| Pashto | The Pashto word جګړه, like the English "battle," can also refer to a fight or struggle beyond armed conflict. |
| Persian | In Persian, "جنگ" can also mean "struggle". |
| Polish | The word "wojna" in Polish also means "quarrel" or "dispute". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, the word "guerra" also means "fight" or "contention". |
| Punjabi | The Punjabi word "ਜੰਗ" (jang) also means "battlefield" or "combat zone." |
| Romanian | The word 'război' is derived from the Slavic word 'razbiti', meaning 'to break' or 'to destroy'. |
| Russian | The word война (voyna) is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *vojna, which meant 'military expedition' or 'campaign'. |
| Samoan | The word 'taua' in Samoan also means 'battle' or 'conflict', and it is related to the Polynesian word 'tau', which means 'to fight' or 'to engage in combat'. |
| Scots Gaelic | Cogadh derives from the Proto-Celtic stem *ko-gad-yos, from *kom- (battle) and *-gad-yos (act of). |
| Serbian | The Serbian word 'rata' derives from the Proto-Slavic word 'or-ti' meaning 'time' or 'age', signifying war as a period of disturbance in the normal course of life. |
| Sesotho | The word "ntoa" can also refer to a military conflict or a battle. |
| Shona | The word "hondo" in Shona also means "firewood" or "fuel", denoting the destructive nature of war. |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "جنگ" ("jang") also means "battlefield" or "fighting ground". |
| Slovak | The Slovak word "vojna" is a cognate of the Russian word "война" and the Czech word "válka", all sharing an ancient Slavic root meaning "quarrel" or "conflict". |
| Slovenian | Vojna can also refer to a military conflict or battle. |
| Somali | Dagaal is also used figuratively to refer to a dispute or conflict of any kind. |
| Spanish | The word "guerra" in Spanish comes from the Basque word "gerra" meaning "battle". |
| Sundanese | As an archaic form, perang may also mean a battle formation. |
| Swahili | The Swahili word "vita" can also mean "affair" or "matter"} |
| Swedish | The word 'krig' is related to the Old Norse word 'krigja', meaning 'to make war' or 'to strive'. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | Giyera is a loanword from the Spanish word guerra, with the original meaning of "army" or "fighting force" still occasionally being used in modern Tagalog. |
| Tajik | The word “ҷанг” can also mean “struggle” or “conflict” in Tajik. |
| Tamil | போர் ('pōr') is also used in Tamil to refer to a group of people engaged in a common activity. |
| Telugu | యుద్ధం (Yuddham) is derived from the Sanskrit word yuddha, meaning 'fight, battle, or combat'. |
| Thai | สงคราม derives from Sanskrit 'samgarama' (gathering or fighting together) and is cognate with 'sangram' meaning battle in Hindi. Its alternate meanings include a competition, struggle, or fight between two or more entities. |
| Turkish | In Turkish, 'savaş' can also refer to 'battle', 'campaign', 'conflict' or 'struggle'. |
| Ukrainian | "Війна" originates from the Proto-Slavonic word "voina", which meant "quarrel"} |
| Urdu | The word "جنگ" (war) in Urdu can also mean "battle" or "conflict". |
| Uzbek | The word "urush" can also mean "fight" or "battle" in Uzbek. |
| Vietnamese | In Vietnamese, chiến tranh means "war" but is composed of the Vietnamese words for "fighting" and "fighting of the sexes." |
| Xhosa | The Xhosa word 'imfazwe' also refers to the traditional method of hunting, using a net to encircle a large area and drive game towards a central killing ground. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word מלחמה (malchama) derives from the Hebrew word 'מלחמה' (milchamah), and also means 'battle' or 'quarrel'. |
| Yoruba | Yoruba word "ogun" is also the name of the war god, the deity of iron, and a type of iron tool. |
| Zulu | The word "impi" can also refer to a Zulu regiment or army. |
| English | The word "war" derives from the Old English word "werre," meaning "strife" or "quarrel." |