eureka

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• US: /jʊˈɹiː.kə/
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From Ancient Greek εὕρηκα (heúrēka, “I have found”), perfect active indicative first person singular of εὑρίσκω (heurískō, “to find”). Archimedes supposedly exclaimed this when he figured out how to determine the density of an object. First use appears c. 1603 in a text by Philemon Holland.

44 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: eureka — exclamation indicating sudden discovery
• Albanian: e gjeta — exclamation indicating sudden discovery
• Albanian: aha — exclamation indicating sudden discovery
• Arabic: يُورِيكَا (yūrīkā) — exclamation indicating sudden discovery
• Arabic: لَقَدْ وَجَدتُهَا! (laqad wajadtuhā!) — exclamation indicating sudden discovery
• Belarusian: э́ўрыка (éwryka) — exclamation indicating sudden discovery
• Bulgarian: е́врика (évrika) — exclamation indicating sudden discovery
• Catalan: eureka — exclamation indicating sudden discovery
• Chinese Mandarin: 尤里卡 (yóulǐkǎ) — exclamation indicating sudden discovery
• Chinese Mandarin: 我發現了! /我发现了! (Wǒ fāxiàn le!) — exclamation indicating sudden discovery
• Chinese Mandarin: 我找到了! (Wǒ zhǎo dào le!) — exclamation indicating sudden discovery
• Czech: heuréka — exclamation indicating sudden discovery
• Danish: heureka — exclamation indicating sudden discovery
• Finnish: heureka — exclamation indicating sudden discovery
• French: eurêka — exclamation indicating sudden discovery
• German: heureka — exclamation indicating sudden discovery
• Greek: εύρηκα (évrika) — exclamation indicating sudden discovery
• Hungarian: heuréka — exclamation indicating sudden discovery
• Icelandic: það tókst — exclamation indicating sudden discovery
• Icelandic: þar kom það — exclamation indicating sudden discovery
• Icelandic: ég hef fundið það — exclamation indicating sudden discovery
• Italian: eureka — exclamation indicating sudden discovery
• Japanese: 我発見せり (ware hakken seri) — exclamation indicating sudden discovery
• Japanese: わかった (wakatta) — exclamation indicating sudden discovery
• Japanese: 見つけた (mitsuketa) — exclamation indicating sudden discovery
• Japanese: ユーレカ (yūreka) — exclamation indicating sudden discovery
• Japanese: エウレカ (eureka) — exclamation indicating sudden discovery
• Macedonian: еуре́ка (euréka) — exclamation indicating sudden discovery
• Macedonian: е́врека (évreka) — exclamation indicating sudden discovery
• Malayalam: യുറീക്ക (yuṟīkka) — exclamation indicating sudden discovery
• Persian: یافتم (yâftam) — exclamation indicating sudden discovery
• Polish: eureka — exclamation indicating sudden discovery
• Polish: heureka — exclamation indicating sudden discovery
• Portuguese: heureca — exclamation indicating sudden discovery
• Portuguese: eureca — exclamation indicating sudden discovery
• Romanian: evrica — exclamation indicating sudden discovery
• Russian: э́врика (évrika) — exclamation indicating sudden discovery
• Spanish: eureka — exclamation indicating sudden discovery
• Swedish: heureka — exclamation indicating sudden discovery
• Swedish: eureka — exclamation indicating sudden discovery
• Turkish: evreka — exclamation indicating sudden discovery
• Turkish: buldum — exclamation indicating sudden discovery
• Ukrainian: е́врика (évryka) — exclamation indicating sudden discovery
• Vietnamese: ơ-rê-ca — exclamation indicating sudden discovery