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Here is a summary of words meaning "life."
-- l --
English: life
Dutch: leven
Afrikaans.: lewe
German: Leben
-- v --
Spanish: vida
Portuguese: vida
Italian: vita
French: vie
Romanian: viață
-- b --
Usik: Bis
Greek: βίος [bios]
Welsh: bywyd (masc.) ['bəwɪd]
Vannetais Breton: buhé
Tabalog: buhay
Lingala: bomoyi
Setswana: Botshelo
Irish: beatha
(a concept...as that which separates living things from dead or inanimate things)
Scottish Gaelic: beatha
(a concept)
Iloko: Biag
-- p --
Iloko: Panagbiag
-- j --
Russian: жизнь
Ukrainian: життя
Hindi: जीवन [jīvana]
Malayalam: ജീവിതം [jeevitham]
Japanese: 人生(じんせい) [jinsei]
Angloromani: jiaben
-- z --
Urdu: ذندگی [zindgi]
Dari: زندگی
Greek: ζωή [zoe]
Croatian: život
-- ch --
ไทย (Thai) : ชีวิต [chīwit]
-- s --
Irish: saol
(one's existence)
Scottish Gaelic: saoghal
(one's existence)
-- sh --
Chinese: 生活/生活 [shēnghuó]
Chinese: 生命 [sheng ming]
-- i --
Korean: 인생 [insaeng]
Japanese: 命(いのち) [inochi]
-- y --
Nahuatl: Yolli
-- u --
Chewa: umoyo
Bemba: ubumi
Kirundi: ubuzima
-- h --
Arabic: حياة [hayat]
Azerbaijan: Heyat
Shona : Hupenyu
Welsh: hoedl
(one's existence)
Malay: hidup
(We life in this world is to worship God.)
-- k --
Quechua: Kawsay
Hawaiian: Ke ola
Vietnamese: cuộc đời (局𠁀), cuộc sống (局𤯨)
-- m --
Swahili: maisha
Angloromani: merripen
-- n --
Malay: nyawa
(Your life is in my hand. I can stab you anytime!)
-- d --
Vietnamese: đời (𠁀), đời sống (𠁀𤯨)
-- a --
Egyptian: ☥
-- e --
Hungarian: élet
