Age in Different Languages
Discover 'Age' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Age
Afrikaans ouderdom | ||
Albanian mosha | ||
Amharic ዕድሜ | ||
Arabic عمر | ||
Armenian տարիք | ||
Assamese বয়স | ||
Aymara irara | ||
Azerbaijani yaş | ||
Bambara si | ||
Basque adina | ||
Belarusian узрост | ||
Bengali বয়স | ||
Bhojpuri उमिर | ||
Bosnian dob | ||
Bulgarian възраст | ||
Catalan edat | ||
Cebuano edad | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 年龄 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 年齡 | ||
Corsican età | ||
Croatian dob | ||
Czech stáří | ||
Danish alder | ||
Dhivehi އުމުރު | ||
Dogri बरेस | ||
Dutch leeftijd | ||
English age | ||
Esperanto aĝo | ||
Estonian vanus | ||
Ewe ƒe | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) edad | ||
Finnish ikä | ||
French âge | ||
Frisian leeftyd | ||
Galician idade | ||
Georgian ასაკი | ||
German alter | ||
Greek ηλικία | ||
Guarani arykuéra | ||
Gujarati ઉંમર | ||
Haitian Creole laj | ||
Hausa shekaru | ||
Hawaiian makahiki | ||
Hebrew גיל | ||
Hindi उम्र | ||
Hmong muaj hnub nyoog | ||
Hungarian kor | ||
Icelandic aldur | ||
Igbo afọ | ||
Ilocano tawen | ||
Indonesian usia | ||
Irish aois | ||
Italian età | ||
Japanese 年齢 | ||
Javanese umur | ||
Kannada ವಯಸ್ಸು | ||
Kazakh жас | ||
Khmer អាយុ | ||
Kinyarwanda imyaka | ||
Konkani पिराय | ||
Korean 나이 | ||
Krio ej | ||
Kurdish kalbûn | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) تەمەن | ||
Kyrgyz жаш | ||
Lao ອາຍຸ | ||
Latin aetate | ||
Latvian vecums | ||
Lingala mbula | ||
Lithuanian amžiaus | ||
Luganda emyaaka | ||
Luxembourgish alter | ||
Macedonian возраст | ||
Maithili आयु | ||
Malagasy taona | ||
Malay umur | ||
Malayalam പ്രായം | ||
Maltese età | ||
Maori tau | ||
Marathi वय | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯆꯍꯤ | ||
Mizo kum | ||
Mongolian нас | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အသက် | ||
Nepali उमेर | ||
Norwegian alder | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) zaka | ||
Odia (Oriya) ବୟସ | ||
Oromo umurii | ||
Pashto عمر | ||
Persian سن | ||
Polish wiek | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) era | ||
Punjabi ਉਮਰ | ||
Quechua hayka wata | ||
Romanian vârstă | ||
Russian возраст | ||
Samoan tausaga | ||
Sanskrit वयः | ||
Scots Gaelic aois | ||
Sepedi mengwaga | ||
Serbian старост | ||
Sesotho lilemo | ||
Shona zera | ||
Sindhi عمر | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) වයස | ||
Slovak vek | ||
Slovenian starost | ||
Somali da ' | ||
Spanish años | ||
Sundanese umur | ||
Swahili umri | ||
Swedish ålder | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) edad | ||
Tajik синну сол | ||
Tamil வயது | ||
Tatar яшь | ||
Telugu వయస్సు | ||
Thai อายุ | ||
Tigrinya ዕድመ | ||
Tsonga vukhale | ||
Turkish yaş | ||
Turkmen ýaşy | ||
Twi (Akan) mfeɛ | ||
Ukrainian вік | ||
Urdu عمر | ||
Uyghur يېشى | ||
Uzbek yoshi | ||
Vietnamese tuổi tác | ||
Welsh oed | ||
Xhosa ubudala | ||
Yiddish עלטער | ||
Yoruba ọjọ ori | ||
Zulu ubudala |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "ouderdom" is derived from the Dutch word "ouderdom" meaning "old age" or "age". |
| Albanian | "Mosha" comes from Proto-Albanian *mošā, probably from a Balkan substratum language (compare Bulgarian/Macedonian възраст, from Slavic, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wes- "to live, endure".) |
| Amharic | "ዕድሜ" derives from the root word "ወዳ" (to do or happen), indicating a period of change and growth. |
| Arabic | The word "عمر" also means "prosperity" or "flourishing" in Arabic. |
| Armenian | The Armenian word for "age," Տարիք, finds its roots in the Proto-Indo-European word "yeti-", signifying life. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "yaş" in Azerbaijani, meaning "age," is also used to refer to a "person's lifetime" or "the time period during which something exists." |
| Basque | The word "adina" also refers to the lifespan of plants, animals, and objects in Basque. |
| Belarusian | Белорусское слово “узрост” восходит к древнему корню, означающему “рост, возвышение”. |
| Bengali | The word "বয়স" (age) in Bengali can also mean "old age" or "seniority". |
| Bosnian | The word "dob" also means "time" or "moment" in Serbian and Croatian. |
| Bulgarian | In Old Bulgarian, "възраст" also meant "growth" or "height". |
| Catalan | The word "edat" in Catalan ultimately derives from the Latin word "aetas" and can also refer to a specific era or historical epoch. |
| Cebuano | "Edad" is also a Filipino term used to denote "era" or "period of time" and is not limited to the age of a person or thing. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The character "年" in "年龄" originally meant "harvest" and was used to calculate a person's age based on the number of harvests they had witnessed. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The word "年齡" can also refer to someone's seniority or experience, or to the age of an object. |
| Corsican | The word "età" in Corsican also means "time" or "era". |
| Croatian | The word "dob" in Croatian can also mean "good" or "kind". |
| Czech | Stáří in Czech also means old age, senescence, senility and antiquity. |
| Danish | The Danish word "alder" can also refer to the trees in the genus Alnus, commonly known as alders in English. |
| Dutch | In some regions of the Netherlands, "leeftijd" refers to the amount of time of someone's life, while in others it refers to one's age in years. |
| Esperanto | "Aĝo" also means "act" or "performance" and comes from the same root as "agenti" (to act). |
| Estonian | "Vanus" also means "power" or "ability" in Estonian, which reflects the concept that age brings wisdom and experience. |
| Finnish | The word "ikä" can also refer to a chronological era or a period of time (e.g., "kivikautinen ikä" = "Stone Age"). |
| French | The French word "âge" can also refer to the time or epoch of a person's life, as in "l'âge de la retraite" (retirement age). |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "leeftyd" can also refer to "lifetime" or "timespan". |
| Galician | "Idade" is a Galician word derived from the Latin "aetas", which means both "age" and "life stage". |
| Georgian | In Old Georgian, "ასაკი" was also a synonym of "time, season" |
| German | The word "Alter" in German can also mean "altar" or "elder". |
| Greek | The word "ηλικία" in Greek can also refer to a "generation" of people or to the "maturity" of a plant. |
| Gujarati | ઉંમર ('age' in Gujarati) originally meant 'time' and is derived from the Sanskrit word 'ayu', also meaning 'time'. |
| Haitian Creole | The word "laj" in Haitian Creole can also refer to a period of time, such as a decade or a century. |
| Hausa | The Hausa word 'shekaru' also refers to a cycle, or period of time |
| Hawaiian | Makahiki in Hawaiian can also refer to an annual festival or a period of cultivation. |
| Hebrew | Although its most common meaning in Hebrew is “age,” the word "גיל" also translates as “joy” or “happiness,” and is a common name for boys in Israel. |
| Hindi | The Hindi word 'उम्र' ('age') can also refer to 'lifetime' or 'era', and is derived from the Arabic word 'umr' ('life'). |
| Hmong | "Muaj hnub nyoog" literally means "the day of maturity," referring to the age of a person. |
| Hungarian | Kor's Proto-Uralic root word is *ke̮re̮, meaning to revolve, rotate or go round. |
| Icelandic | Cognate with Old English "ealdor", "alderman" and "aldor", "prince", from Proto-Germanic "*aldraz", meaning "leader", "chieftain", or "old". |
| Igbo | Igbo word “afọ” signifies a period of 3 or 4 calendar years |
| Indonesian | "Usia" also means "duration" or "period" in Indonesian. |
| Irish | From the Old Irish word aos, "age," and is also used as a form of address for older people. |
| Italian | The Italian word "età" can refer to either biological or chronological age and comes from the Latin "aetas". |
| Japanese | "年齢" (age) can also mean "mental age" or "maturity" in Japanese. |
| Javanese | The Javanese word "umur" also has the alternate meaning of "lifetime." |
| Kannada | While the word "ವಯಸ್ಸು" means "age" in Kannada, it can also be used to refer to a specific period of time, such as a decade or a century. |
| Kazakh | Kazakh "жас" can also mean "youth", "youthfulness", or "teen", derived from the Old Turkic root *yaš- meaning "to grow". |
| Khmer | The Khmer word "អាយុ" (ayŭ) also means "life" or "vitality" in ancient Khmer, reflecting the ancient Khmer belief that age is a manifestation of life force and energy. |
| Korean | 나이(age) is related to the word 날(day) and it can also mean "time". |
| Kurdish | The word "kalbûn" can also mean "time" or "era". |
| Kyrgyz | The word "жаш" can also mean "fresh" or "green" in Kyrgyz. |
| Lao | In Lao, ອາຍຸ ('age') also means 'lifespan', 'existence', 'duration', 'term', 'length of time', 'time period', 'epoch', 'era', 'generation', 'period', 'stage', 'phase', 'interval', 'spell', 'bout', 'fit', 'turn', and 'while'. |
| Latin | Aetate is derived from a root that refers to a lifetime or a generation, and is related to words like “age” and “eon.” |
| Latvian | The word "vecums" can also refer to the term of someone's office or the maturity of a person or thing. |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word "amžius" is a loanword from Polish, originally meaning "eternity". |
| Luxembourgish | In Luxembourgish, the word "Alter" has two meanings: age and altar. |
| Macedonian | The word "возраст" can also mean "century" in Macedonian. |
| Malagasy | The word "TAONA" can also mean "ancient" or "old" in Malagasy. |
| Malay | "Umur" derives from the Sanskrit "āyuh", meaning lifespan, or the duration of a being's existence. |
| Malayalam | പ്രായം (prāyam) also means "mostly" and is derived from Sanskrit "prāya" meaning "near" or "resembling". |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "età" is derived from Latin "aetas, aetatis", but can also refer to the "era" of a historical period. |
| Maori | In Maori mythology, 'tau' can also refer to a primordial ancestor who existed before time and was responsible for creating the universe. |
| Marathi | In Sanskrit, वय derives from the Proto-Indo-European root *we- “to blow” and in Marathi it also means “to weave” and is the root of both “weaver” and “loom.” |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word "нас" (age) is derived from the Mongolian word "насанд" (to be born). |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The word "အသက်" in Myanmar (Burmese) can also refer to "life" or "the duration of life". |
| Nepali | Nepali 'उमेर' (age) is cognate to Sanskrit 'आयु' (life), Latin 'aevum' (age), Greek 'αἰών' (time), and English 'ever'. |
| Norwegian | 'Alder' also means alderwood, the hardwood species |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | Nyanja has two nouns that are spelled "zaka": one means "age" and derives from Proto-Bantu "-taga", while the other means "inheritance" and comes from Proto-Bantu "-taka" |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "عمر" (age) is derived from the Middle Persian word "omr" (age), and also means "life" or "duration". |
| Persian | سن (age) is also the first-person singular form of the present continuous tense of the verb "to be" and thus means "I am" or "I live". |
| Polish | "Wiek" in Polish can also refer to a specific period of time or a generation of people. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | Em português, a palavra "era" pode também significar "era geológica" ou "período da história humana". |
| Punjabi | The word "ਉਮਰ" can also refer to a period of time, such as an era or epoch. |
| Romanian | "Vârstă" comes from Proto-Slavic *vъrstъ, meaning "growth, height", or maybe "time, season". |
| Russian | The Russian noun "возраст" ("age") is derived from the verb "расти" ("to grow"), and it can also refer to a "level" or a "stage". |
| Samoan | "Tausaga" also means "year" in Samoan. |
| Scots Gaelic | The Gaelic word "aois" can also mean "generation" or "era". |
| Serbian | In Serbian the word ''старост (starost)-age'' also has an alternative older meaning ''elder'', a person in the community with some authority. |
| Sesotho | The Sesotho word "lilemo" has a secondary meaning of "years" or "time period". |
| Shona | The word "zera" in Shona also means "a generation" or "a period of time". |
| Sindhi | "عُمر" also means "the lifetime of a person or thing." "عُمر شریف" is the name of a popular 20th century Egyptian actor and film producer. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | In Sinhala, 'වයස' ('age') can also refer to one's "seniority" or "level of respect" within a group or society. |
| Slovak | In Slovak, "vek" also encompasses the period of someone's life, their lifetime, or an epoch. |
| Slovenian | The word "starost" in Slovenian can also refer to an elderly person or a period of time. |
| Somali | The Somali word "da'" can also refer to a period of time, a season, or an epoch. |
| Spanish | "Años" is also a term used in genealogy to refer to the number of generations separating two people. |
| Sundanese | In Sundanese, "umur" can also mean "life" or, when used as an adjective, "old". |
| Swahili | "Umri" is also used to refer to a person's lifespan or "life". |
| Swedish | The Swedish word 'ålder' is also used in a figurative sense, referring to an era or a stage in life. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The Tagalog word "edad" shares its root with the Spanish word "edad". Both words originate from the Latin word "aetas", which means "age" or "time". |
| Tajik | The word "синну сол" in Tajik can also refer to a "period of time" or a "generation". |
| Tamil | "வயது" can also refer to a season or the duration of a tenure. |
| Telugu | The word వయస్సు is also used in Telugu to indicate maturity or the proper time for something |
| Thai | In Thai, 'อายุ' can also refer to a period of time or the duration of something's existence, akin to the English word 'span'. |
| Turkish | The Turkish word "yaş" not only means "age" but also "wet" or "damp". |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word "вік" shares a root with the Latin word "aevum," both meaning "a long period of time." |
| Urdu | The Urdu word "عمر" (ʿumr) also connotes "lifetime" and "span of existence." |
| Uzbek | The word "yoshi" can also mean "years" or "time" in Uzbek. |
| Vietnamese | Tuổi tác, a Vietnamese word for age, is also used metaphorically to refer to experience or seniority. |
| Welsh | The Welsh word "oed" can also mean "lifetime" or "generation". |
| Xhosa | The Xhosa word "ubudala" also means "old age" or "senility" |
| Yiddish | Yiddish "עלטער" is also an affectionate name for the father in a family and is related to the English "elder" as a person of authority, or an alderman, who in medieval times was an official appointed by a king to look after civic or judicial affairs in a borough. |
| Yoruba | "Ọjọ ori" also means `birthday` or `day of birth`, as well as the `day of one's coming into being`. |
| Zulu | The word 'ubudala' also refers to a group of people who are of the same age group, or a generation. |
| English | "Age" can also mean a period in history, as in the "Age of Enlightenment." |