build

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Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *buþlijan Old English bytlan Middle English bylden English build From Middle English bilden, bulden, bylden, from Old English byldan and bytlan, bytlian (“to build”), from Proto-West Germanic *buþlijan (“to build”), from Proto-Germanic *buþlą, *bōþlą (“house, dwelling, farm”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhuH- (“to become, grow, thrive, be, live, dwell”). Related to Old English botl (“building, house”). More at bottle. False cognate of German bilden.

302 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: телосложе́ние (telosložénie) — physique
• Dutch: bouw — physique
• Finnish: ruumiinrakenne — physique
• French: carrure — physique
• Georgian: აგებულება (agebuleba) — physique
• Georgian: აღნაგობა (aɣnagoba) — physique
• German: Bau — physique
• German: Körperbau — physique
• Irish: déanamh — physique
• Irish: cruth — physique
• Māori: hanga — physique
• Norwegian Bokmål: bygning — physique
• Norwegian Bokmål: kroppsbygning — physique
• Polish: budowa ciała — physique
• Portuguese: físico — physique
• Russian: телосложе́ние (telosložénije) — physique
• Scottish Gaelic: dèanamh — physique
• Slovak: postava — physique
• Spanish: complexión — physique
• Spanish: complixión — physique
• Spanish: contextura — physique
• Swedish: byggnad — physique
• Swedish: kroppsbyggnad — physique
• Turkish: çerçeve — physique
• Ottoman Turkish: جثه (cüsse) — physique
• Bulgarian: версия (versija) — any version of a software during its development
• Czech: sestavení — any version of a software during its development
• Esperanto: muntaĵo — any version of a software during its development
• Finnish: versio — any version of a software during its development
• Finnish: koontiversio — any version of a software during its development
• French: version — any version of a software during its development
• Japanese: ビルド (birudo) — any version of a software during its development
• Polish: kompilacja — any version of a software during its development
• Russian: сборка (sborka) — any version of a software during its development
• Serbo-Croatian: međuverzija — any version of a software during its development
• Serbo-Croatian: kompilacija — any version of a software during its development
• Slovak: verzia — any version of a software during its development
• Swedish: bygge — any version of a software during its development
• Afrikaans: bou — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Albanian: ndërtoj — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Southern Altai: јазаар (ǰazaar) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Southern Altai: тӧзӧӧр (tözöör) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Southern Altai: эдер (eder) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Amharic: መገንባት (mägänbat) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Arabic: بَنَى (banā) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Algerian Arabic: بْنى (bna) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Arabic: بْنى (bna) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Arabic: بْنى (bána) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Armenian: կառուցել (kaṙucʻel) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Armenian: շինել (šinel) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Armenian: սարքել (sarkʻel) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Armenian: կերտել (kertel) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Assamese: সাজ (xaz) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Assamese: বনা (bona) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Asturian: construyir — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Azerbaijani: qurmaq — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Bangi: tonga — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Basque: eraiki — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Belarusian: будава́ць (budavácʹ) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Belarusian: пабудава́ць (pabudavácʹ) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Bengali: নির্মাণ করা (nirman kora) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Breton: sevel — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Bulgarian: строя́ (strojá) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Bulgarian: градя́ (gradjá) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Burmese: ဆောက် (hcauk) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Burmese: ဆောက်လုပ် (hcauklup) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Catalan: construir — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Catalan: edificar — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Chechen: хьал да (ḥral da) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Cherokee: ᎠᏁᏍᎨᎭ (anesgeha) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Cherokee: ᎠᏐᏲᎭ (asoyoha) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Chinese Cantonese: 建設 /建设 (gin3 cit3) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Chinese Cantonese: 建造 (gin3 zou6) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Chinese Mandarin: 建設 /建设 (jiànshè) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Chinese Mandarin: 建造 (jiànzào) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Cornish: gwruthyl — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Cornish: byldya — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Cornish: derevel — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Cornish: drehevel — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Czech: stavět — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Czech: postavit — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Czech: budovat — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Czech: vybudovat — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Danish: bygge — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Dutch: bouwen — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Egyptian: A35-D40 (qd) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Esperanto: konstrui — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Estonian: ehitama — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Ewe: tu — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Faroese: byggja — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Finnish: rakentaa — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• French: construire — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• French: édifier — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• French: ériger — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• French: bâtir — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Ge'ez: ሐነጸ (ḥänäṣä) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Georgian: აშენება (ašeneba) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Georgian: აგება (ageba) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• German: bauen — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Gothic: 𐍄𐌹𐌼𐍂𐌾𐌰𐌽 (timrjan) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Greek: χτίζω (chtízo) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Ancient Greek: οἰκοδομέω (oikodoméō) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Ancient Greek: δέμω (démō) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Ancient Greek: μηχανάομαι (mēkhanáomai) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Ancient Greek: πήγνυμι (pḗgnumi) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Ancient Greek: ποιέω (poiéō) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Ancient Greek: τεύχω (teúkhō) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Hebrew: בָּנָה (baná) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Hindi: तामीर करना (tāmīr karnā) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Hindi: निर्माण करना (nirmāṇ karnā) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• White Hmong: kho — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Hungarian: épít — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Icelandic: byggja — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Ido: konstruktar — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Indonesian: membangun — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Indonesian: mendirikan — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Ingrian: rakentaa — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Ingrian: stroittaa — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Ingush: хьал де (ḥral de) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Irish: tóg — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Old Irish: con·utaing — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Italian: costruire — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Italian: edificare — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Japanese: 建てる (tateru) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Japanese: 築く (kizuku) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Japanese: 建設する (kensetsu suru) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Japanese: 構築する (kōchiku suru) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Javanese: mbangun — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Karachay-Balkar: этерге (eterge) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Karachay-Balkar: кураргъа (kurarğa) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Kashubian: bùdowac — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Kazakh: салу (salu) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Kazakh: құру (qūru) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Khmer: សង់ (sɑng) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Khmer: កសាង (kɑɑ saang) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Kituba: tunga — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Kituba: kutunga — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Korean: 만들다 (mandeulda) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Korean: 짓다 (jitda) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Korean: 건설하다 (geonseolhada) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Central Kurdish: دروستکردن (drustkirdin) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Northern Kurdish: ava kirin — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Kyrgyz: куруу (kuruu) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Kyrgyz: салуу (saluu) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Ladino: fraguar — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Lao: ກໍ່ສ້າງ (kǭ sāng) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Lao: ກໍ່ (kǭ) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Lao: ສ້າງ (sāng) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Latin: mūniō — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Latin: aedificō — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Latin: struō — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Latin: construō — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Latvian: celt — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Lingala: tónga — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Lithuanian: statyti — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Low German: boen — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Macedonian: гради (gradi) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Malay: membina — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Malayalam: നിർമ്മിക്കുക (niṟmmikkuka) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Maltese: bena — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Māori: hanga — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Marathi: बांधणे (bāndhṇe) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Mongolian: барих (barix) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Mongolian: босгох (bosgox) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Classical Nahuatl: chīhua — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Nepali: निर्माण गर्नु (nirmāṇ garnu) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Norman: construithe — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Norman: bâti — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Norwegian Bokmål: bygge — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Norwegian Nynorsk: byggja — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Occitan: construire — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Old English: timbran — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Old Norse: byggja — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Oromo: ijaaruu — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Iranian Persian: ساخْتَن (sâxtan) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Polish: budować — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Polish: zbudować — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Polish: wybudować — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Polish: stawiać — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Polish: postawić — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Polish: wznosić — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Polish: wznieść — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Portuguese: construir — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Romanian: clădi — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Romanian: construi — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Russian: стро́ить (stróitʹ) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Russian: постро́ить (postróitʹ) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Scots: build — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Scots: big — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Scottish Gaelic: tog — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Serbo-Croatian: гра́дити — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Serbo-Croatian: изгра́дити — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Serbo-Croatian: gráditi — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Serbo-Croatian: izgráditi — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Shan: ၵေႃႇသၢင်ႈ (kàu sāang) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Slovak: stavať — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Slovak: postaviť — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Slovene: graditi — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Lower Sorbian: twariś — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Sotho: haha — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Spanish: construir — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Spanish: edificar — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Spanish: labrar — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Swahili: -jenga — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Swedish: anlägga — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Swedish: bygga — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Swedish: förfärdiga — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Swedish: uppföra — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Swedish: uppresa — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Swedish: upprätta — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Sylheti: ꠛꠣꠘꠣꠘꠤ (banani) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Sylheti: ꠢꠣꠎꠣ (haza) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Tajik: сохтан (soxtan) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Tatar: төзү (tözü) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Tatar: ясау (yasaw) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Thai: ก่อ (gɔ̀ɔ) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Thai: สร้าง (sâang) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Thai: ก่อสร้าง (gɔ̀ɔ-sâang) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Tibetan: བརྒྱབ (brgyab) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Tibetan: བཟོས (bzos) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Turkish: yapmak — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Turkish: inşa etmek — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Turkish: kurmak — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Ukrainian: будува́ти (buduváty) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Ukrainian: збудува́ти (zbuduváty) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Urdu: تَعْمِیر کَرْنا (ta'mīr karnā) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Uyghur: سالماق (salmaq) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Uyghur: قىلماق (qilmaq) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Uzbek: qurmoq — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Uzbek: solmoq — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Venetan: costruir — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Vietnamese: xây — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Vietnamese: xây dựng — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Volapük: bumön — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Walloon: basti — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Welsh: codi — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Welsh: adeiladu — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Yiddish: בויען (boyen) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Yiddish: אויסבויען (oysboyen) — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Zhuang: hwnj — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Zhuang: caux — (transitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Armenian: կերտել (kertel) — (transitive) to develop or give form to according to a plan or process
• Bulgarian: строя́ (strojá) — (transitive) to develop or give form to according to a plan or process
• Esperanto: konstrui — (transitive) to develop or give form to according to a plan or process
• Finnish: rakentaa — (transitive) to develop or give form to according to a plan or process
• French: monter — (transitive) to develop or give form to according to a plan or process
• Latvian: celt — (transitive) to develop or give form to according to a plan or process
• Latvian: veidot — (transitive) to develop or give form to according to a plan or process
• Slovak: budovať — (transitive) to develop or give form to according to a plan or process
• Slovak: vybudovať — (transitive) to develop or give form to according to a plan or process
• Swedish: bygga — (transitive) to develop or give form to according to a plan or process
• Swedish: forma — (transitive) to develop or give form to according to a plan or process
• Swedish: skapa — (transitive) to develop or give form to according to a plan or process
• Venetan: costruir — (transitive) to develop or give form to according to a plan or process
• Dutch: opbouwen — (transitive) to increase or strengthen by adding gradually to
• Finnish: rakentaa — (transitive) to increase or strengthen by adding gradually to
• Slovak: budovať — (transitive) to increase or strengthen by adding gradually to
• Slovak: vybudovať — (transitive) to increase or strengthen by adding gradually to
• Swedish: bygga upp — (transitive) to increase or strengthen by adding gradually to
• Swedish: hopa — (transitive) to increase or strengthen by adding gradually to
• Swedish: stegra — (transitive) to increase or strengthen by adding gradually to
• Swedish: öka — (transitive) to increase or strengthen by adding gradually to
• Bulgarian: основа́вам (osnovávam) — (transitive) to establish a basis for
• Finnish: perustaa — (transitive) to establish a basis for
• Finnish: rakentaa — (transitive) to establish a basis for
• French: fonder — (transitive) to establish a basis for
• Ancient Greek: κτίζω (ktízō) — (transitive) to establish a basis for
• Slovak: založiť — (transitive) to establish a basis for
• Slovak: zakladať — (transitive) to establish a basis for
• Swedish: bygga — (transitive) to establish a basis for
• Swedish: grunda — (transitive) to establish a basis for
• Ewe: tu — (intransitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Finnish: rakentua — (intransitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• French: monter — (intransitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Slovak: stavať — (intransitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Swedish: anläggas — (intransitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Swedish: byggas — (intransitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Swedish: förfärdigas — (intransitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Swedish: uppföras — (intransitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Swedish: uppresas — (intransitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Swedish: upprättas — (intransitive) to form by combining materials or parts
• Finnish: rakentua — (intransitive) to develop in magnitude or extent
• French: croître — (intransitive) to develop in magnitude or extent
• Swedish: byggas upp — (intransitive) to develop in magnitude or extent
• Swedish: hopa sig — (intransitive) to develop in magnitude or extent
• Swedish: stegras — (intransitive) to develop in magnitude or extent
• Swedish: ökas — (intransitive) to develop in magnitude or extent
• Bulgarian: компили́рам (kompilíram) — (transitive, computing) to construct software by compiling its source code
• Catalan: compilar — (transitive, computing) to construct software by compiling its source code
• Esperanto: munti — (transitive, computing) to construct software by compiling its source code
• Finnish: koota — (transitive, computing) to construct software by compiling its source code
• Finnish: buildata — (transitive, computing) to construct software by compiling its source code
• French: compiler — (transitive, computing) to construct software by compiling its source code
• Galician: compilar — (transitive, computing) to construct software by compiling its source code
• Polish: kompilować — (transitive, computing) to construct software by compiling its source code
• Portuguese: compilar — (transitive, computing) to construct software by compiling its source code
• Russian: собра́ть (sobrátʹ) — (transitive, computing) to construct software by compiling its source code
• Spanish: compilar — (transitive, computing) to construct software by compiling its source code
• Finnish: koota — (intransitive, computing) to be constructed by compilation of source code
• Finnish: buildata — (intransitive, computing) to be constructed by compilation of source code
• French: compiler — (intransitive, computing) to be constructed by compilation of source code
• Polish: kompilować — (intransitive, computing) to be constructed by compilation of source code