Average in Different Languages
Discover 'Average' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Average
Afrikaans gemiddeld | ||
Albanian mesatare | ||
Amharic አማካይ | ||
Arabic معدل | ||
Armenian միջին | ||
Assamese গড় | ||
Aymara prumiryu | ||
Azerbaijani orta | ||
Bambara hakɛlama | ||
Basque batez bestekoa | ||
Belarusian сярэдняя | ||
Bengali গড় | ||
Bhojpuri ठीक-ठाक | ||
Bosnian prosjek | ||
Bulgarian средно аритметично | ||
Catalan mitjana | ||
Cebuano average | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 平均 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 平均 | ||
Corsican mediu | ||
Croatian prosječno | ||
Czech průměrný | ||
Danish gennemsnit | ||
Dhivehi މެދުމިން | ||
Dogri दरम्याना | ||
Dutch gemiddelde | ||
English average | ||
Esperanto averaĝa | ||
Estonian keskmine | ||
Ewe ve dome | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) karaniwan | ||
Finnish keskiverto | ||
French moyenne | ||
Frisian trochsneed | ||
Galician media | ||
Georgian საშუალო | ||
German durchschnittlich | ||
Greek μέση τιμή | ||
Guarani mbytegua | ||
Gujarati સરેરાશ | ||
Haitian Creole mwayèn | ||
Hausa matsakaita | ||
Hawaiian awelika | ||
Hebrew מְמוּצָע | ||
Hindi औसत | ||
Hmong qhov nruab nrab | ||
Hungarian átlagos | ||
Icelandic meðaltal | ||
Igbo nkezi | ||
Ilocano pagtengngaan | ||
Indonesian rata-rata | ||
Irish meán | ||
Italian media | ||
Japanese 平均 | ||
Javanese rata-rata | ||
Kannada ಸರಾಸರಿ | ||
Kazakh орташа | ||
Khmer មធ្យម | ||
Kinyarwanda ugereranije | ||
Konkani सरासरी | ||
Korean 평균 | ||
Krio lɛk | ||
Kurdish navoser | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) ڕێژە | ||
Kyrgyz орточо | ||
Lao ໂດຍສະເລ່ຍ | ||
Latin mediocris | ||
Latvian vidēji | ||
Lingala moyenne | ||
Lithuanian vidutinis | ||
Luganda mumakati | ||
Luxembourgish duerchschnëttlech | ||
Macedonian просек | ||
Maithili औसत | ||
Malagasy eo ho eo | ||
Malay rata-rata | ||
Malayalam ശരാശരി | ||
Maltese medja | ||
Maori toharite | ||
Marathi सरासरी | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯆꯥꯡꯆꯠ | ||
Mizo tlanglawn | ||
Mongolian дундаж | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ပျမ်းမျှအား | ||
Nepali औसत | ||
Norwegian gjennomsnitt | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) pafupifupi | ||
Odia (Oriya) ହାରାହାରି | ||
Oromo giddu-galeessa | ||
Pashto اوسط | ||
Persian میانگین | ||
Polish średni | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) média | ||
Punjabi .ਸਤ | ||
Quechua chawpichasqa | ||
Romanian in medie | ||
Russian в среднем | ||
Samoan averesi | ||
Sanskrit माध्यम् | ||
Scots Gaelic cuibheasach | ||
Sepedi magareng | ||
Serbian просек | ||
Sesotho karolelano | ||
Shona avhareji | ||
Sindhi سراسري | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) සාමාන්යය | ||
Slovak priemer | ||
Slovenian povprečno | ||
Somali celcelis ahaan | ||
Spanish promedio | ||
Sundanese rata-rata | ||
Swahili wastani | ||
Swedish genomsnitt | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) average | ||
Tajik миёна | ||
Tamil சராசரி | ||
Tatar уртача | ||
Telugu సగటు | ||
Thai เฉลี่ย | ||
Tigrinya ማእኸላይ | ||
Tsonga ringana | ||
Turkish ortalama | ||
Turkmen ortaça | ||
Twi (Akan) adantam | ||
Ukrainian середній | ||
Urdu اوسط | ||
Uyghur ئوتتۇرىچە | ||
Uzbek o'rtacha | ||
Vietnamese trung bình cộng | ||
Welsh cyfartaledd | ||
Xhosa umndilili | ||
Yiddish דורכשניטלעך | ||
Yoruba apapọ | ||
Zulu isilinganiso |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "gemiddeld" derives from the Dutch word "gemiddeld", which means "average". The word can also refer to a person who is "ordinary" or "common". In Afrikaans, the word is often used to describe something that is "moderate" or "not too much or too little". |
| Albanian | The word "mesatare" in Albanian has roots in the word "mes" meaning "middle" and "tar" meaning "to hold". |
| Amharic | The word 'አማካይ' (average) is derived from the verb 'መከማከር' (to mediate, to be in the middle), and also has the alternate meaning of 'moderator. |
| Arabic | The Arabic word "معدل" also refers to the slope or gradient of a line, as well as the rate of change or progress, and the equalization of things. |
| Armenian | The word "միջին" ultimately comes from the Proto-Indo-European root *meǵʰyos, meaning "middle" or "between". |
| Azerbaijani | The word "orta" can also refer to a "measure", a "rate", or a "proportion" in Azerbaijani. |
| Basque | The Basque word “batez bestekoa” literally translates as “one out of many”. |
| Belarusian | The word "сярэдняя" (average) comes from the Proto-Indo-European root "medʰjo" meaning "middle" or "intermediate." |
| Bengali | The term "গড়" is also used in Bangla to mean either the average or the median, depending on context. |
| Bosnian | The word "prosjek" can also refer to the process of averaging or the result of an average. |
| Bulgarian | Средно аритметично comes from the Greek words "meson" and "arithmos", meaning "middle" and "number". |
| Catalan | Catalan word 'mitjana' comes from Latin word 'medianus', meaning 'halfway or in the middle'. |
| Cebuano | In Cebuano, "average" can also mean "ordinary" or "regular." |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "平均" (píngjūn) is also used to describe fairness and balance, such as in "平均分配" (píngjūn fēnpèi) which means "to distribute fairly". |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 平均 is a combination of the words 平 (píng) and 均 (jūn), which separately mean "level" and "equal" in Chinese. |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "mediu" can also refer to a middle ground, a compromise, or a mediator. |
| Croatian | The word "prosječno" in Croatian can also mean "on average" or "usually". |
| Czech | The word "průměrný" also has the alternate meaning of "mediocre" in Czech. |
| Danish | The word "gennemsnit" is derived from the Old Norse word "genomsnith", meaning "cut through the middle". |
| Dutch | The word "gemiddelde" in Dutch also has the meaning "arithmetic mean" in mathematics. |
| Esperanto | Esperanto's "averaĝa" may derive from French "avérer" ("to verify") or Latin "avariāre" ("to damage"). |
| Estonian | "Keskmine" also means "the one in the middle", which makes it the only Estonian word that directly translates to the origin of its English equivalent "average". |
| Finnish | The word "keskiverto" in Finnish is related to the words "keski" (middle) and "verto" (a unit of comparison), meaning "the point of comparison". |
| French | "Moyenne" can also mean "halfway" or "middle". |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "trochsneed" also means "common, vulgar, coarse, rude or rough-mannered." |
| Galician | In Galician, "media" can also refer to the middle of something or to a way or means. |
| German | The German word "durchschnittlich" originally meant "penetrating" in the context of piercing a wooden board or wall. |
| Greek | In ancient Greek, "μέση τιμή" (mèse timè) meant "middle value" or "middle ground" before it acquired its present meaning. |
| Gujarati | The word "સરેરાશ" is derived from the Sanskrit word "शराशर" (śarāśara) meaning "mixed". In Gujarati, it is also used to refer to a "collection of things" or a "miscellany". |
| Haitian Creole | "Mwayèn" derives from the Old French "moien" which also meant "temperate, moderate, mediocre, ordinary." |
| Hausa | The word "matsakaita" in Hausa is derived from the word "matsaka", meaning "middle" or "center", and is often used to refer to something that is in the middle of a range or spectrum. |
| Hawaiian | "Awēlika" has multiple meanings, including average, indifferent or lukewarm and ordinary |
| Hebrew | מְמוּצָע, "average," originally denoted the central element or axis-point.} |
| Hindi | Derived from the Sanskrit word 'utsa,' meaning 'source,' 'औसत' also refers to the initial quantity from which something is derived. |
| Hungarian | In Hungarian, "átlagos" also means "everyday", "normal", or "mediocre". |
| Icelandic | In Old Norse, "meðaltal" also means "middle" or "middle time." |
| Igbo | The word nkezi in Igbo can also refer to the middle of three or more items. |
| Indonesian | Derived from Sanskrit word 'rata' which means 'a rate' or 'a portion' and thus has the same meaning as 'rata-rata' in Indonesian. |
| Irish | In Irish, the word "meán" (pronounced "mayn") not only means "average" but also "middle" or "mean" in the sense of "contemptible". |
| Italian | In Italian, "media" can also mean "medium" or "means." |
| Japanese | The word "平均" can also mean "equal" or "balance" in Japanese. |
| Javanese | "Rata-rata" in Javanese also means "equal" or "uniform". |
| Kannada | ಸರಾಸರಿ, meaning 'average', is derived from the root 'ಸರಿ', meaning 'straight' or 'even'. |
| Kazakh | The word "орташа" in Kazakh can also mean "middle" or "medium" in terms of size or quality. |
| Khmer | The word "មធ្យម" ("average") is also used to refer to "medium". In the context of Buddhism, it also means "middle" or "central". |
| Korean | The word "평균" ("average") in Korean is derived from the Chinese word "平均, |
| Kurdish | "Navoser" is a Kurdish word meaning "common" and can also refer to "mediocrity, typicality or ordinariness". |
| Kyrgyz | The word "орточо" is not related to the Russian word "ордынцу", meaning "descendant of the Golden Horde". |
| Latin | The Latin "mediocris" also describes something halfway up a slope, as in the phrase "mediocris mons" (halfway-up mountain). |
| Latvian | The word “vidēji” derives from the adjective “vidus,” meaning "middle" or "medium". |
| Lithuanian | The word "vidutinis" is derived from the Lithuanian word "vidus", meaning "middle" or "center". |
| Luxembourgish | The word "duerchschnëttlech" is related to other words meaning "to cut" that are found across Germanic languages. |
| Macedonian | The word "просек" is derived from the verb "просекувать" meaning "to cut through" and in the past it also meant "a narrow path cut through the forest". |
| Malagasy | In Malagasy, the word "eo ho eo" means "average", but it can also refer to something that is "in between" or "moderate". |
| Malay | "Rata-rata" is a Malay reduplication meaning "mean" or "average", related to the word "rata" meaning "flat" or "level". |
| Malayalam | The word 'ശരാശരി' in Malayalam is derived from the Sanskrit word 'शरासरी' (sarāsari), which means 'straight, regular, or equal'. |
| Maltese | The word "medja" in Maltese can also refer to a "medium" or a "way".} |
| Maori | Toharite has its origins in Tohara, a type of tree in New Zealand. |
| Marathi | The word "सरासरी" is derived from the Sanskrit word "सरास," meaning "essence" or "quintessence." |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word "дундаж" can also refer to the middle of something or the center of a group. |
| Nepali | The Nepali word "औसत" is also a term for the average rainfall of a given area. |
| Norwegian | The word "gjennomsnitt" literally translates to "through-cut" or "cut through" in Norwegian. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "pafupifupi" derives from the verb "pafupifupiritsa," meaning to bring to the middle. |
| Pashto | The word "اوسط" in Pashto can also mean "fair", "just", or "moderate". |
| Persian | In Persian, "میانگین" is also used to refer to a "middle point" or "center". |
| Polish | "Średni" also means "middle" and is etymologically related to words like "heart" and "centre" in other Slavic languages. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, the word "média" not only refers to an arithmetic mean but also a type of stocking and a news organization. |
| Punjabi | In Sanskrit, the word ".ਸਤ" also means "existence" or "essence". |
| Romanian | The Romanian word ‘ăn medie’ (average) derives from the Latin phrase ‘in medio’, meaning ‘in the middle’ |
| Russian | The word "в среднем" can also mean "on average" or "an average" in Russian. |
| Samoan | The word 'averesi' comes from the English word 'average' and is typically used in the context of calculations rather than a general characteristic. |
| Scots Gaelic | "Cuibheasach" shares a root with the Scots Gaelic word "coibhneas" meaning 'equality' and "cothrom" meaning 'equivalent'" |
| Serbian | The word "просек" can also refer to a forest path. |
| Sesotho | In Sesotho, word “karolelano” means “average” but its literal meaning is “the one that has been shared evenly amongst all.” |
| Shona | The word 'avhareji' can also mean 'ordinary' or 'mediocre' in Shona. |
| Sindhi | سراسري also means all, entire, total, or full |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "සාමාන්යය" was originally used to mean "ordinary" and has since expanded to include the meaning of "average". |
| Slovak | In its original use, "priemer" meant "cross section," which is still an alternate meaning of the word. |
| Slovenian | The word 'povprečno' comes from the Proto-Slavic word 'povьrti' ('turn'), as averages were calculated by rotating a spindle on which balls representing different values were placed. |
| Somali | The Somali word "celcelis ahaan" can also refer to a "normal" or "usual" state of being. |
| Spanish | "Promedio" also refers to "proximate" (near, close)" in Spanish, from Latin word proximus, "nearest," related to prope" (near)" |
| Sundanese | The Sundanese word "rata-rata" also means "straight" or "uniform". |
| Swahili | The word "wastani" in Swahili comes from the Arabic word "wast," meaning "middle". |
| Swedish | In Swedish, the word "genomsnitt" also means "cross-section". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The Tagalog word "average" (also spelled uberah or uberage) comes from the Spanish verb "averiguar," which means "to investigate" or "to verify." |
| Tajik | The word 'миёна' ultimately derives from the Proto-Indo-European root *medʰyo-, meaning 'middle', 'between', and is cognate with words such as 'median', 'medium', and 'mediator' in English. |
| Tamil | "சராசரி" (average) also means "common" or "ordinary" in Tamil. |
| Telugu | The word "సగటు" can also refer to a fraction or a part of something in Telugu. |
| Thai | The word "เฉลี่ย" originated from the Pali word "chellā" meaning to divide or spread. |
| Turkish | In etymology, ortalama comes from the Arabic word 'arada' which means 'between'. In everyday usage, it can mean both 'average' and 'medium' depending on context. |
| Ukrainian | The word "середній" (average) derives from the Proto-Slavic word *sъrědъ, meaning "central" or "middle". |
| Urdu | The Urdu word "اوسط" can also refer to the middle or center of something, or to a moderate or middling amount. |
| Uzbek | The word "o'rtacha" also means "medium" in Uzbek, referring to something that is neither too large nor too small. |
| Vietnamese | The word "Trung bình cộng" in Vietnamese also means "equal", and is derived from the Chinese word "zhongping", which has the same meaning. |
| Welsh | The etymology of 'cyfartaledd' relates to the concept of 'sharing out in equal portions'. |
| Xhosa | Xhosa has a cognate of umndilili in i-ndili, meaning the act of rolling in something as a ball. |
| Yiddish | Yiddish 'דורכשניטלעך' comes from German 'Durchschnittsmensch', meaning 'common person', rather than its modern meaning 'average'. |
| Yoruba | The Yoruba word 'apapọ,' besides meaning 'average,' can also mean 'a meeting point, a gathering, a junction' or 'what brings people together.' |
| Zulu | The word 'isilinganiso' can also mean 'comparison' or 'analogy' in Zulu. |
| English | Derived from the Arabic word ‘awariya’, meaning ‘damaged goods’ |