English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage ) [etyl] Middle English thought , ithoȝt , from (deprecated template usage ) [etyl] Old English þōht , ġeþōht ( “ process of thinking, thought; mind; a thought, idea, purpose; decree; compassion, viscera ” ) and geþeaht ( “ thought, consideration, counsel, advice, direction; design, contrivance, scheme; council, assembly ” ) , from (deprecated template usage ) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *þanhtaz , *gaþanhtą ( “ thought ” ) , from (deprecated template usage ) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *teng- ( “ to think ” ) . Cognate with Scots thocht ( “ thought ” ) , Saterland Frisian Toacht ( “ thought ” ) , (deprecated template usage ) [etyl] West Frisian oandacht ( “ attention, regard, thought ” ) , Dutch gedachte ( “ thought ” ) , (deprecated template usage ) [etyl] German Andacht ( “ reverence, devotion, prayer ” ) , Icelandic þóttur ( “ thought ” ) . Related to thank .
Pronunciation
Noun
thought (countable and uncountable , plural thoughts )
Form created in the mind , rather than the forms perceived through the five senses ; an instance of thinking .
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( uncountable ) The process by which such forms arise or are manipulated ; thinking .
Paul Fix
The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it’s unfamiliar territory.
A way of thinking (associated with a group , nation or region ).
"Eastern thought ".
Derived terms
Terms derived from thought (noun)
Translations
process
Arabic: فِكْر (ar) m ( fikr ) , تَفْكِير m ( tafkīr )
Armenian: մտորում (hy) ( mtorum ) , մտածմունք (hy) ( mtacmunkʻ )
Asturian: pensamientu m
Bulgarian: размисъл (bg) m ( razmisǎl )
Catalan: pensament (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 思考 (zh) ( sīkǎo ) , 考慮 / 考虑 (zh) ( kǎolǜ ) , 考虑 (zh) ( kǎolǜ )
Czech: myšlení (cs) n
Danish: tankevirksomhed c
Esperanto: penseco , pensado
Ewe: susu , tamebubu
Finnish: ajattelu (fi)
French: pensée (fr) f
Galician: pensamento (gl) m
Georgian: ფიქრი ( pikri ) , აზროვნება ( azrovneba )
Greek: σκέψη (el) f ( sképsi )
Hebrew: מחשבות f pl ( makhshavót )
Hindi: विचार (hi) m ( vichaar )
Hungarian: gondolkodás (hu)
Icelandic: hugsun (is) f
Italian: pensiero (it) m
Japanese: 考慮 (ja) ( kōryo ) , 思考 (ja) ( shikō ) , 思考力 ( shikōryoku ) , 思索 (ja) ( shisaku ) , 考え (ja) ( kangae )
Latin: cogitatio f , putatio f
Latvian: domāšana f
Lithuanian: mąstymas (lt) m
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Macedonian: мисла f ( mísla ) , мислење n ( míslenje )
Malay: pemikiran
Malayalam: ചിന്ത (ml) ( cinta ) , ആലോചന (ml) ( ālōcana )
Marathi: विचार n ( vicāra )
Meru: mathuganio
Mirandese: pensamiento
Norwegian:
Bokmål: tanke (no) m , tenkning m or f
Nynorsk: tanke m , tenking f
Old English: ġehyġd n
Persian: اندیشه (fa) ( andishe ) , فِکر (fa) , تفکر (fa)
Polish: myśl (pl) f , pomysł (pl) m
Portuguese: pensamento (pt) m
Romanian: gândire (ro) f , cugetare (ro) f
Russian: мысль (ru) f ( myslʹ ) , мышле́ние (ru) n ( myšlénije ) , рассужде́ние (ru) n ( rassuždénije ) , размышле́ние (ru) n ( razmyšlénije )
Sicilian: pinzeri (scn) m
Spanish: pensamiento (es) m
Swahili: dhana (sw) , fikira (sw) , gezo (sw)
Swedish: tanke (sv) , fundering (sv)
Tajik: фикр (tg) ( fikr ) , тафаккур ( tafakkur )
Tocharian A: mem
Tocharian B: maim
Turkish: düşünüş (tr) , düşünme (tr)
ǃXóõ: ǂʻán
Translations to be checked
Verb
thought
simple past and past participle of think