instinct

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• /ˈɪn.stɪŋkt/
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From Latin īnstīnctus, past participle of īnstinguō (“to incite, to instigate”), from in (“in, on”) + stinguō (“to prick”).

95 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: instink — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Albanian: instinkt — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Arabic: غَرِيزَة (ḡarīza) — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Arabic: سَلِيقَة (salīqa) — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Arabic: فِطْرَة (fiṭra) — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Armenian: բնազդ (bnazd) — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Azerbaijani: instinkt — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Azerbaijani: sövqi-təbii — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Azerbaijani: سوق طبيعى (sövq-i-tæbiyi) — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Belarusian: інсты́нкт (instýnkt) — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Bulgarian: инсти́нкт (instínkt) — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Catalan: instint — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Chinese Mandarin: 本能 (běnnéng) — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Chinese Mandarin: 天性 (tiānxìng) — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Crimean Tatar: sevq-i tabiiy — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Czech: instinkt — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Czech: pud — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Danish: instinkt — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Dutch: instinct — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Esperanto: instinkto — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Estonian: instinkt — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Finnish: vaisto — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Finnish: vietti — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• French: instinct — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Georgian: ინსტიქტი (insṭikṭi) — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• German: Instinkt — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Greek: ένστικτο (énstikto) — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Greek: ένστιχτο (énstichto) — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Hebrew: אִינְסְטִינְקְט (instínkt) — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Hebrew: יֵצֶר (yétser) — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Hindi: फ़ितरत (fitrat) — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Hindi: वृत्ति (vŕtti) — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Hindi: प्रवृत्ति (pravŕtti) — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Hindi: मूल प्रवृत्ति (mūl pravŕtti) — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Hindi: सहज वृत्ति (sahaj vŕtti) — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Hindi: सहज प्रवृत्ति (sahaj pravŕtti) — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Hindi: नैसर्गिक प्रवृत्ति (naisargik pravŕtti) — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Hindi: नैसर्गिक वृत्ति (naisargik vŕtti) — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Hungarian: ösztön — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Icelandic: eðlishvöt — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Indonesian: naluri — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Italian: istinto — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Japanese: 本能 (honnō) — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Kazakh: инстинкт (instinkt) — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Khmer: សភាវគតិ (sɑɑ phiəw kĕəʼteʼ) — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Korean: 본능 (bonneung) — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Northern Kurdish: xerîze — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Kyrgyz: инстинкт (instinkt) — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Lao: ສັນຊາດຕະຍານ (san sāt ta nyān) — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Lao: ສັນຊາດຍານ (san sā da nyān) — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Latvian: instinkts — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Lithuanian: instinktas — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Macedonian: инстинкт (instinkt) — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Malay: naluri — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Malay: garizah — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Malay: insting — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Malayalam: ജന്മവാസന (janmavāsana) — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Malayalam: സഹജാവബോധം (sahajāvabōdhaṁ) — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Māori: rongo ā-puku — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Norwegian Bokmål: instinkt — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Norwegian Nynorsk: instinkt — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Pashto: غريزه (ǧariza) — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Dari: غَرِیزَه (ġarīza) — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Iranian Persian: غَریزِه (ġarize) — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Polish: instynkt — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Portuguese: instinto — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Romanian: instinct — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Russian: инсти́нкт (instínkt) — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Serbo-Croatian: ѝнстинкт — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Serbo-Croatian: на́гон — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Serbo-Croatian: ìnstinkt — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Serbo-Croatian: nágon — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Slovak: inštinkt — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Slovene: nagon — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Sotho: tshekamelo — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Spanish: instinto — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Swedish: instinkt — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Tajik: ғариза (ġariza) — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Tajik: инстинкт (instinkt) — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Tatar: инстинкт (instinkt) — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Thai: สัญชาตญาณ (sǎn-châat-dtà-yaan) — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Turkish: içgüdü — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Turkish: insiyak — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Turkish: sevkitabii — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Ottoman Turkish: سوق طبیعی (sevq-i tabii) — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Ottoman Turkish: طبیعتك دورتمهسی (tabiatın dürtmesi) — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Ottoman Turkish: دورتش (dürtüş) — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Ukrainian: інсти́нкт (instýnkt) — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Urdu: فِطْرَت (fitrat) — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Uzbek: instinkt — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Vietnamese: bản năng — natural or inherent impulse or behaviour
• Bulgarian: интуи́ция (intuícija) — intuitive reaction not based on rational conscious thought
• Finnish: vaisto — intuitive reaction not based on rational conscious thought
• Indonesian: insting — intuitive reaction not based on rational conscious thought
• Russian: интуи́ция (intuícija) — intuitive reaction not based on rational conscious thought