Working in Different Languages
Discover 'Working' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Working
Afrikaans werk | ||
Albanian duke punuar | ||
Amharic መሥራት | ||
Arabic العمل | ||
Armenian աշխատող | ||
Assamese কাম কৰি থকা | ||
Aymara irnaqkasa | ||
Azerbaijani işləyir | ||
Bambara baara | ||
Basque lanean | ||
Belarusian працуе | ||
Bengali কাজ | ||
Bhojpuri कामकाजी | ||
Bosnian radi | ||
Bulgarian работещ | ||
Catalan treball | ||
Cebuano nagtrabaho | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 加工 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 加工 | ||
Corsican travagliendu | ||
Croatian radeći | ||
Czech pracovní | ||
Danish arbejder | ||
Dhivehi މަސައްކަތްކުރުން | ||
Dogri नौकरीशुदा | ||
Dutch werken | ||
English working | ||
Esperanto laborante | ||
Estonian töötavad | ||
Ewe le dɔwɔm | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) nagtatrabaho | ||
Finnish toimi | ||
French travail | ||
Frisian wurkje | ||
Galician traballando | ||
Georgian მუშაობს | ||
German arbeiten | ||
Greek εργαζόμενος | ||
Guarani mba'apokuaa | ||
Gujarati કામ કરે છે | ||
Haitian Creole k ap travay | ||
Hausa aiki | ||
Hawaiian e hana ana | ||
Hebrew עובד | ||
Hindi काम कर रहे | ||
Hmong ua haujlwm | ||
Hungarian dolgozó | ||
Icelandic að vinna | ||
Igbo na-arụ ọrụ | ||
Ilocano agtar-tarabaho | ||
Indonesian kerja | ||
Irish ag obair | ||
Italian lavorando | ||
Japanese ワーキング | ||
Javanese makarya | ||
Kannada ಕೆಲಸ | ||
Kazakh жұмыс істейді | ||
Khmer ធ្វើការ | ||
Kinyarwanda gukora | ||
Konkani वावुरपी | ||
Korean 일 | ||
Krio wokin | ||
Kurdish dixebitin | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) کارکردن | ||
Kyrgyz иштеп жатат | ||
Lao ເຮັດວຽກ | ||
Latin working | ||
Latvian strādā | ||
Lingala kosala mosala | ||
Lithuanian darbo | ||
Luganda okukola | ||
Luxembourgish schaffen | ||
Macedonian работи | ||
Maithili काम करए बला | ||
Malagasy miasa | ||
Malay bekerja | ||
Malayalam പ്രവർത്തിക്കുന്നു | ||
Maltese xogħol | ||
Maori mahi | ||
Marathi काम करत आहे | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯊꯕꯛ ꯇꯧꯔꯤꯕ | ||
Mizo hnathawk | ||
Mongolian ажиллаж байна | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အလုပ်လုပ်နေတယ် | ||
Nepali काम गर्दै | ||
Norwegian jobber | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kugwira ntchito | ||
Odia (Oriya) କାମ କରୁଛି | ||
Oromo hojjechuu | ||
Pashto کار کول | ||
Persian کار کردن | ||
Polish pracujący | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) trabalhando | ||
Punjabi ਕੰਮ ਕਰਨਾ | ||
Quechua llamkay | ||
Romanian lucru | ||
Russian за работой | ||
Samoan galue | ||
Sanskrit करोति | ||
Scots Gaelic ag obair | ||
Sepedi go šoma | ||
Serbian рад | ||
Sesotho sebetsa | ||
Shona kushanda | ||
Sindhi ڪم ڪري رهيو آهي | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) වැඩ කරනවා | ||
Slovak pracujúci | ||
Slovenian delujoče | ||
Somali shaqeeya | ||
Spanish trabajando | ||
Sundanese damel | ||
Swahili kufanya kazi | ||
Swedish arbetssätt | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) nagtatrabaho | ||
Tajik кор | ||
Tamil வேலை | ||
Tatar эшләү | ||
Telugu పని | ||
Thai ทำงาน | ||
Tigrinya ምስራሕ | ||
Tsonga ku tirha | ||
Turkish çalışma | ||
Turkmen işlemek | ||
Twi (Akan) reyɛ adwuma | ||
Ukrainian робочий | ||
Urdu کام کرنا | ||
Uyghur ئىشلەۋاتىدۇ | ||
Uzbek ishlaydigan | ||
Vietnamese đang làm việc | ||
Welsh gweithio | ||
Xhosa iyasebenza | ||
Yiddish ארבעטן | ||
Yoruba ṣiṣẹ | ||
Zulu ukusebenza |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | "Werk" can also mean "pain" or "labor (birth)" in Afrikaans. |
| Albanian | The Albanian word "duke punuar" can mean either "working" or "while working". It shares an etymology with the preposition "duke" and the verb "punoj". |
| Arabic | The word "العمل" in Arabic can also mean "deed", such as in the phrase "good deeds" (الأعمال الصالحة). |
| Azerbaijani | The word "işləyir" in Azerbaijani can also mean "being in operation", "functioning", or "being active". |
| Basque | The word 'lanean' in Basque can also refer to 'in the path' or 'in the direction of'. |
| Belarusian | The word "працуе" derives from the Proto-Slavic word *orbota, meaning "service" or "corvée". |
| Bengali | The Bengali word 'কাজ' (kaaj) can also refer to a specific task or duty, or to a job or occupation. |
| Bosnian | "Radi" also means "for the sake of" or "because of". |
| Bulgarian | The word "работещ" in Bulgarian can have an alternate meaning "working class". |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "treball" originates from the Latin word "tripalium," which referred to a three-legged stool used as a torture device for slaves. |
| Cebuano | Nagtrabaho, the Cebuano word for "working," is derived from the Spanish "trabajo," meaning "labor" or "work." |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The original meaning of the Chinese character “加工” is “adding something to” and later took the meaning “processing” (as in processing materials and making products). |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 加工 is also used in the sense of "processing" or "manufacturing". |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "travagliendu" derives from the Latin word "trabaliare," which means "to torment" or "to torture." |
| Croatian | "Radeći" can also mean "while" when used as a conjunction in a subordinate clause. |
| Czech | In addition to "working", pracovni can also mean "business" or "employment, " with the plural "pracovni" meaning "works." |
| Danish | The word "arbejder" also has an alternate meaning of "member of the working class" in Danish. |
| Dutch | In Limburgish and Flemish dialects, 'werken' can also refer to 'cooking'. |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word "laborante" is derived from the Latin word "laborans", meaning "toiling" or "suffering". |
| Estonian | The Estonian word "töötavad" also means "functional". |
| Finnish | Toimi is derived from the Proto-Finnic verb *toime- ('to act, to work') and is cognate with Estonian toimima ('to function'). |
| French | In French, |
| Frisian | "Wurkje" is related to the English word "work", but also means "to act" or "to function" in Frisian. |
| Galician | Galician "traballando" comes from Medieval Latin "trabaculare," meaning "to fasten with a bar" or "to secure." |
| German | Arbeiten, like other similar words such as 'operari' or 'εργάζομαι' likely stems from Proto-Indo-European roots. |
| Greek | The word "εργαζόμενος" also means "doing work" or "having a profession or employment" in Greek. |
| Haitian Creole | "K ap travay" can refer to both "working" in general and "having a job" or "being employed". |
| Hausa | The word "aiki" in Hausa can also mean "to do" or "to perform" an action. |
| Hawaiian | Hana can also refer to a particular job, duty, or occupation |
| Hebrew | The word 'עובד' can also mean 'servant' or 'worshipper' in Hebrew. |
| Hindi | Hindi word "काम कर रहे" can also refer to "operating" or "functioning" in an abstract or practical sense. |
| Hmong | The word "ua haujlwm" in Hmong has alternate meanings such as "to do a job" or "to make a living". |
| Hungarian | Dolgozó is a gerund form of the verb "dolgozni" (to work) and it can also mean "worker" or "employee". |
| Icelandic | The Icelandic word "að vinna" can also mean "to gain" or "to acquire," reflecting its Indo-European roots. |
| Igbo | The Igbo word "na-arụ ọrụ" can also refer to "effort" or "activity" in a general sense, not necessarily limited to work-related tasks. |
| Indonesian | The Indonesian word |
| Irish | 'Ag obair', meaning 'working' in Irish, also derives from the Irish word 'obaid', meaning 'vessel' or 'utensil', and is related to the English word 'operate' |
| Italian | «Lavorando» derives from the Latin «laborare», meaning «to toil» or «to suffer». |
| Japanese | The word "ワーキング" (working) in Japanese can also mean "functioning" or "operating". |
| Javanese | "Makarya" also means "to study" or "to pray" in Javanese. |
| Kannada | The word "ಕೆಲಸ" is also used to describe a task or job, or the act of performing an action. |
| Khmer | The Khmer word “ធ្វើការ” also means “performing a function” and is used to describe inanimate objects or abstract concepts doing something. |
| Korean | 일 can be an abbreviation for 일자리 (job) or 일이요 (work) |
| Kurdish | The term "dixebitin" may be related to the root "deb," meaning "to strive" or "to exert oneself," indicating the concept of effort involved in labor. |
| Latin | The Latin word "working", "opus", also means a literary or musical composition. |
| Latvian | "Strādā" is cognate with the Slavic words for "suffering" and "pain." |
| Lithuanian | The word "darbo" in Lithuanian also means "labor" or "workforce". |
| Luxembourgish | In Luxembourgish, "schaffen" is a loanword from German, where "schaffen" also means "to create" or "to make". |
| Macedonian | The word 'работи' also has the meaning of 'things'. |
| Malagasy | In the Mahafaly dialect it also refers to the process of a young man building up his reputation and prestige in order to marry and form his own household. |
| Malay | The word 'bekerja' originates from Sanskrit, where it meant 'to perform an action'. |
| Maltese | The term "xogħol" is possibly derived from the Arabic word "shughl" denoting "occupation, concern," or from the Sicilian equivalent " travagghiu", as a possible cognate of the Italian "travail" signifying "toil, labour". |
| Maori | The Maori word "mahi" also means "to strive" or "to exert oneself". |
| Marathi | The Marathi verb "काम करत आहे" not only means "working" but also refers to "doing a task or a job" or "performing an action". |
| Mongolian | The word "ажиллаж байна" can also mean "to be busy" or "to be engaged in an activity". |
| Nepali | The term 'working' may refer to performing assigned tasks but also to putting effort into improving something |
| Norwegian | I jobber med noe is a synonym for the more common jeg arbeider med noe. |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "کار کول" also has a colloquial meaning of "to carry out a task or mission", with "کار" meaning "deed" or "task" and "کول" meaning "to carry" or "to do". |
| Polish | The word "pracujący" can also refer to a person who is capable of working or fit for work. |
| Punjabi | The word 'ਕੰਮ ਕਰਨਾ' can also be interpreted as 'doing service', emphasizing the value of contributing to society. |
| Romanian | The alternate meaning for 'lucru', which is uncommon, is 'thing'. |
| Russian | The phrase "за работой" in Russian can also mean "at work" or "during work." |
| Samoan | Galue is related to the word 'galu', meaning 'movement' or 'wave'. |
| Scots Gaelic | "Ag obair" can also be used to refer to "giving birth." |
| Serbian | Serbian 'рад' also means 'happy' in Russian, the same root being behind the English word 'dear' |
| Sesotho | Derived from Proto-Bantu *sɛ́bɛ́tsɑ̀, a term related to 'to make' or 'to create'. |
| Shona | The word "kushanda" in Shona also means "to be in use, to be employed, or to be engaged in a particular activity." |
| Slovak | Pracující (literally 'labourers') is also an obsolete name for the working class or organised workers. |
| Slovenian | The word "delujoče" also means "effective" or "producing the desired result". |
| Somali | In addition to meaning "working," "shaqeeya" can also refer to a type of traditional Somali dance. |
| Spanish | Trabajar derives from the Latin "tripalium", meaning "instrument of torture," and also refers to the three poles of a tripod. |
| Sundanese | The Sundanese word "damel" also refers to an action or task. |
| Swahili | The Swahili word "kufanya kazi" also means "to strive" or "to exert effort". |
| Swedish | While it is still used in this sense, "arbetssätt" increasingly means "method of work" as well as "working." |
| Tajik | The word "кор" (working) is also used to refer to the process of "doing" or "making" something. |
| Tamil | "வேலை" can also mean a job or task, or even a role or position within a company or organization. |
| Telugu | The word "పని" is also used to refer to a task, chore, job, or function. |
| Thai | "ทำงาน" can also refer to the process of doing something or creating something, as in "ทำงานศิลปะ" (doing art). |
| Turkish | In Ottoman Turkish, "çalışma" meant "to turn, to revolve," and later, "to move, to go." |
| Urdu | کام کرنا originates from the Sanskrit word 'karma', meaning 'deeds' or 'actions'. |
| Uzbek | The word "ishlaydigan" has a similar root to "ish", which means "work," and conveys the ongoing or habitual nature of the action. |
| Vietnamese | The verb "đang làm việc" can also mean "in progress" or "under construction". |
| Welsh | The word "gweithio" in Welsh also implies "causing to become" or "forming" in some cases. |
| Xhosa | "Iyasebenza" is rooted in "sebenza" (to work) which in turn comes from the word "ebenza" (work). |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word “ארבעטן” (arbeiten) comes from the German word “arbeiten,” which itself derives from the Latin “arare” (to plow) and the Proto-Indo-European root “*ar” (to plow, till) |
| Yoruba | "Ṣiṣẹ" derives from "iṣẹ," meaning "work" or "task," and is further related to "ṣe," meaning "to do" or "to make." |
| Zulu | In addition to "working," ukusebenza can also mean "to operate" or "to function." |
| English | The word "working" derives from the Old English word "weorc", meaning "pain" or "suffering". |