Best in Different Languages
Discover 'Best' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Best
Afrikaans beste | ||
Albanian më të mirë | ||
Amharic ምርጥ | ||
Arabic الأفضل | ||
Armenian լավագույնը | ||
Assamese সৰ্বোত্তম | ||
Aymara waliki | ||
Azerbaijani yaxşı | ||
Bambara fisaya | ||
Basque onena | ||
Belarusian лепшае | ||
Bengali সেরা | ||
Bhojpuri सबसे नीमन | ||
Bosnian najbolje | ||
Bulgarian най-добре | ||
Catalan millor | ||
Cebuano labing maayo | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 最好 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 最好 | ||
Corsican megliu | ||
Croatian najbolje | ||
Czech nejlepší | ||
Danish bedst | ||
Dhivehi އެންމެ ރަނގަޅު | ||
Dogri बधिया | ||
Dutch het beste | ||
English best | ||
Esperanto plej bona | ||
Estonian parim | ||
Ewe nyuietᴐ | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) pinakamahusay | ||
Finnish parhaat | ||
French meilleur | ||
Frisian bêst | ||
Galician mellor | ||
Georgian საუკეთესო | ||
German beste | ||
Greek καλύτερος | ||
Guarani iporãvéva | ||
Gujarati શ્રેષ્ઠ | ||
Haitian Creole pi bon | ||
Hausa mafi kyau | ||
Hawaiian ʻoi aku ka maikaʻi | ||
Hebrew הטוב ביותר | ||
Hindi श्रेष्ठ | ||
Hmong zoo tshaj plaws | ||
Hungarian legjobb | ||
Icelandic best | ||
Igbo kacha mma | ||
Ilocano kasayaatan | ||
Indonesian terbaik | ||
Irish is fearr | ||
Italian migliore | ||
Japanese ベスト | ||
Javanese paling apik | ||
Kannada ಅತ್ಯುತ್ತಮ | ||
Kazakh жақсы | ||
Khmer ល្អបំផុត | ||
Kinyarwanda byiza | ||
Konkani उत्तम | ||
Korean 베스트 | ||
Krio bɛst | ||
Kurdish baştirîn | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) باشترین | ||
Kyrgyz мыкты | ||
Lao ດີທີ່ສຸດ | ||
Latin optimum | ||
Latvian labākais | ||
Lingala malamu koleka | ||
Lithuanian geriausia | ||
Luganda ekisinga | ||
Luxembourgish bescht | ||
Macedonian најдобар | ||
Maithili सब सं बढ़ियां | ||
Malagasy tsara indrindra | ||
Malay terbaik | ||
Malayalam മികച്ചത് | ||
Maltese l-aħjar | ||
Maori pai rawa atu | ||
Marathi सर्वोत्तम | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯈ꯭ꯋꯥꯏꯗꯒꯤ ꯐꯕ | ||
Mizo tha ber | ||
Mongolian хамгийн сайн | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အကောင်းဆုံး | ||
Nepali उत्तम | ||
Norwegian beste | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) zabwino | ||
Odia (Oriya) ସର୍ବୋତ୍ତମ | ||
Oromo kan hunda caalu | ||
Pashto غوره | ||
Persian بهترین | ||
Polish najlepsza | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) melhor | ||
Punjabi ਵਧੀਆ | ||
Quechua aswan allin | ||
Romanian cel mai bun | ||
Russian лучший | ||
Samoan sili | ||
Sanskrit श्रेष्ठः | ||
Scots Gaelic as fheàrr | ||
Sepedi kaonekaone | ||
Serbian најбоље | ||
Sesotho molemo ka ho fetisisa | ||
Shona zvakanaka | ||
Sindhi بهترين | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) හොඳම | ||
Slovak najlepšie | ||
Slovenian najboljše | ||
Somali ugu fiican | ||
Spanish mejor | ||
Sundanese pangsaéna | ||
Swahili bora | ||
Swedish bäst | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) pinakamahusay na | ||
Tajik беҳтарин | ||
Tamil சிறந்தது | ||
Tatar иң яхшы | ||
Telugu ఉత్తమమైనది | ||
Thai ดีที่สุด | ||
Tigrinya ምሩፅ | ||
Tsonga antswa | ||
Turkish en iyi | ||
Turkmen iň gowusy | ||
Twi (Akan) papa pa ara | ||
Ukrainian найкраще | ||
Urdu بہترین | ||
Uyghur ئەڭ ياخشى | ||
Uzbek eng yaxshi | ||
Vietnamese tốt | ||
Welsh orau | ||
Xhosa okona kulungileyo | ||
Yiddish בעסטער | ||
Yoruba ti o dara julọ | ||
Zulu okuhle kakhulu |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "beste" is derived from the Dutch word "beste" meaning "best" and can also be used as a form of address for a close friend or family member. |
| Albanian | In Albanian, "më të mirë" not only means "best", but also "better" in certain contexts like comparisons. |
| Amharic | "ምርጥ" is derived from the root "ምረጥ", which means "to choose". |
| Arabic | The Arabic word "الأفضل" also means "the most appropriate" and has the same consonants as "الفاضل" ("virtuous"). |
| Armenian | The Armenian word "լավագույնը" is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root "*h₂weh₂g-os", which also gives rise to the English word "best" and the Latin word "bonus". |
| Azerbaijani | The word "yaxşı" is derived from the Persian word "behtar", meaning "better" or "good". |
| Basque | The Basque word 'onena' comes from the Proto-Basque root *on-, meaning 'good' or 'better'. |
| Belarusian | The word "лепшае" is a cognate with the Polish word "lepsze", both meaning "better", and is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *lěpъšij, which meant "more pleasant" or "more beautiful." |
| Bengali | সেরা is derived from the Sanskrit word 'श्रेष्ठ' (śreṣṭha), meaning 'best' or 'most excellent'. |
| Bosnian | The word "najbolje" in Bosnian is derived from the Slavic root "bolj", meaning "more" or "better", and the suffix "-je", which denotes a superlative form. |
| Bulgarian | The Bulgarian word "най-добре" also means "the most well" or "optimally". |
| Catalan | The word millor (meaning "best" in Catalan) may also refer to an old coin from Majorca. |
| Cebuano | The word "labing maayo" is derived from the Cebuano word "labing," meaning "very" or "most," and the Spanish word "bueno," meaning "good." |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The term "最好" (best) is also used to express the superlative of adjectives and adverbs, as well as the meaning of "very much" or "a lot". |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The word 最好 (best) also has the connotation of "most appropriate" or "most optimal". |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "megliu" is derived from the Latin word "melior," meaning "better," but in Corsican it has evolved to mean "best." |
| Croatian | The word "najbolje" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word "naj" meaning "most" and "bolje" meaning "good". |
| Czech | The word "nejlepší" is derived from the Czech word "nej" (meaning "most") and the comparative suffix "-jší" (meaning "-er"). |
| Danish | In Danish, "bedst" holds the alternate meaning of "at the end" or "last". |
| Dutch | In Dutch, "het beste" not only means "the best" but also "the most" or "all of it." |
| Esperanto | Originating from the superlative form of the Latin adjective "bonus" (good), "plej bona" (best) in Esperanto has preserved its semantic meaning in a more recognizable form to Latin speakers than other words of similar lineage. |
| Estonian | The word "parim" in Estonian also means "very much" or "really". |
| Finnish | Its origin is the word "parhain", an adjective that in its superlative form is "paras". The Estonian equivalent, "parim", has a similar use and origin. |
| French | The word "meilleur" in French, although it shares the meaning "best" with its English cognate, also has a connotation of "the most ripe, the ripest" in some contexts. |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "bêst" is related to the English "beast", and means "big" or "large". |
| Galician | The word "mellor" in Galician can also mean "better" or "more". |
| Georgian | The Georgian word "saꭝketeso" can also refer to "good" or "well", |
| German | The word "Beste" in German can also mean "east" or "beast". |
| Greek | The Greek word "καλύτερος" ("best") comes from the Proto-Indo-European word "*kel-," meaning "to surpass" or "to excel." |
| Gujarati | In ancient Sanskrit, |
| Haitian Creole | The term 'pi bon' in Haitian Creole is a calque from the French phrase 'le plus bon' ('the most good'). |
| Hausa | Hausa word "mafi kyau" also means "most beautiful, handsome or fine." |
| Hawaiian | 'Oi aku ka maikaʻi' ('best') also means 'more good' or 'more excellent' when used in comparative form. |
| Hebrew | The word "הטוב ביותר" literally means "the best of the good" in Hebrew. |
| Hindi | The word "श्रेष्ठ" comes from the Sanskrit word "śreṣṭha", which means "excellent" or "preeminent". |
| Hmong | The Hmong word "zoo tshaj plaws" can also mean "very good" or "excellent." |
| Hungarian | In Hungarian, "legjobb" also means "most right" or "most correct". |
| Icelandic | Icelandic "besti" has a secondary meaning that's related to "beat" meaning the defeat of another individual or group and its derivatives "beta" and "beat". |
| Igbo | In Igbo, "kacha mma" also means "most excellent" and is used to denote superiority or extreme quality. |
| Indonesian | The root word 'baik' in 'terbaik' means 'good', and the prefix 'ter-' denotes the superlative form, hence 'the best'. |
| Irish | The Irish word "is fearr" can also mean "better" or "superior", and is related to the comparative form of the adjective "maith" (good). |
| Italian | The word "migliore" originally meant "more sweet" in Latin, which is the root of the English word "meliorism". |
| Japanese | The word "ベスト" ("besuto") in Japanese can also refer to a vest or a waistcoat, deriving from the English word "vest". |
| Javanese | The word "paling apik" in Javanese also means "most beautiful" or "most handsome". |
| Kazakh | "Жақсы" is a word with positive connotations and can also mean "good", "well", or "nice" |
| Khmer | The word "ល្អបំផុត" in Khmer can also be used to refer to a person's superior or an object of highest quality. |
| Korean | The word '베스트' has alternate meanings of 'vest' and 'guest' in Korean. |
| Kurdish | The term baştirîn originates from the Persian language and is composed of "ser" which refers to "head" and "ter" which indicates "highest", therefore meaning "best" or "optimal". |
| Kyrgyz | The Kyrgyz word "мыкты" (best) is also used to mean "strong" or "firm". |
| Latin | The Latin word 'optimum' originally meant 'most advantageous' and was used in the context of agriculture. |
| Latvian | The word "labākais" is derived from the Old East Baltic word "laba", meaning "good", and the comparative suffix "-kais", used to indicate a greater degree of goodness. |
| Lithuanian | The word "geriausia" in Lithuanian shares the same root with the word "geras" (good). |
| Luxembourgish | The Luxembourgish word "bescht" can also refer to a type of pastry filled with fruit or chocolate. |
| Macedonian | The word "најдобар" in Macedonian originates from the Proto-Slavic root "naj-", which also means "most" or "greatest." |
| Malagasy | The word "tsara indrindra" is derived from the words "tsara" (good) and "indrindra" (most), and can also mean "excellent" or "very good." |
| Malay | Terbaik is the Bahasa form of the Arabic word tayyib, which holds the same meaning or better in the sense of goodness, excellent, pleasant, well, etc. |
| Malayalam | മികച്ചത് is a term used in India to describe a person or thing with exceptional qualities, often referring to the best in a particular category or field. |
| Maltese | Maltese word l-aħjar (best) is derived from the Arabic al-khayr (good) and also means "good" and "better". |
| Maori | Pai rawa atu is also a term of endearment, used to express love or admiration for someone. |
| Marathi | In Sanskrit, the word "सर्वोत्तम" (sarvottama) means "most excellent" and is used as an honorific title for deities or highly respected individuals. |
| Mongolian | The word 'хамгийн сайн' (best) in Mongolian is derived from the Old Mongolian word 'хамаг' (all) and the suffix '-сайн' (good), meaning 'all-good' or 'the best'. It is also used to express the abstract idea of 'goodness' or 'excellence' and the plural form of 'сайн' (good). |
| Nepali | The term उत्तम (uttam) in Nepali, derived from Sanskrit, also refers to a specific type of rice cultivated in the country. |
| Norwegian | Norwegian "beste" means "best" (as an adjective), but can also mean "grandmother" or "aunt" (as a noun). |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "zabwino" in Nyanja (Chichewa) is also used as a noun to refer to the good or excellent qualities of something. |
| Pashto | The word "غوره" in Pashto also means "top" or "uppermost part" of something. |
| Persian | The word 'بهترین' can also mean 'most' or 'top' in Persian. |
| Polish | Although it means "the best" in Polish, "Najlepsza" can also be a female first name of Polish origin. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word 'melhor' is derived from the Latin 'melior', meaning 'better', and shares a root with the English word 'mellowness'. |
| Punjabi | The word "ਵਧੀਆ" can also mean "good" or "beautiful" in Punjabi. |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "Cel mai bun" is also used to mean "very good" or "the best of the best." |
| Russian | The word "Лучший" is derived from the Old Slavonic word "людъштии", meaning "more people's" or "the people's choice." |
| Samoan | Sili also has a dual meaning and can be used to describe the chief or leader of a group or village. |
| Scots Gaelic | The Scots Gaelic phrase "as fheàrr" may also refer to health, well-being, or excellence in a particular domain. |
| Serbian | The word "најбоље" (best) in Serbian comes from the Proto-Slavic word *najboljь, which also meant "better." |
| Shona | The word "zvakanaka" can also mean "very good" or "excellent" in Shona. |
| Sindhi | The word 'بهترين' in Sindhi originates from the Persian word 'بهتر,' which means 'good' or 'better,' and can also imply superiority or excellence. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | "හොඳම" is also used to denote the highest grade in a school or university examination. |
| Slovak | "Najlepšie" derives from "liepe," meaning "linden tree," and thus signifies "under the linden tree," a site often used for village meetings. |
| Slovenian | The word "najboljše" is derived from the superlative form of the adjective "dobro" (good). |
| Somali | The Somali word "ugu fiican" (best) originates from the Arabic phrase "al-fuʾqa fi al-ḥāl" (the highest in rank or quality). |
| Spanish | The word "mejor" comes from the Latin "melior", meaning "better" or "more excellent". |
| Sundanese | Pangsaéna derives from 'sangsaéna' which could mean perfect, complete, or excellent |
| Swahili | The word "bora" in Swahili also means "good". |
| Swedish | The word "bäst" in Swedish can also mean "feast" or "banquet". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "pinakamahusay na" is derived from the root word "husay" which means "skill" or "ability". |
| Tajik | The word "беҳтарин" can also mean "excellent" or "very good" in Tajik. |
| Telugu | Derived from the Sanskrit 'uttama', meaning 'highest' or 'most excellent', implying an incomparable degree of quality. |
| Thai | The word "ดีที่สุด" is also used to refer to a favorite or most beloved person or thing. |
| Turkish | "En iyi" is also a common phrase meaning "in the best way" or "in the best manner." |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word "найкраще" is derived from the Old Church Slavonic word "наи-краще", which means "most beautiful". |
| Urdu | The word "بہترین" is derived from the Arabic word "بهر" meaning "abundance" or "plenty." |
| Uzbek | The Uzbek word "eng yaxshi" can also refer to "most favorable" or "most advantageous." |
| Vietnamese | Tốt originated from the Chinese character tốt (好), which can mean good, well, fine, nice, excellent, beautiful, pleasant, favorable, beneficial, advantageous, and satisfactory. |
| Welsh | Orau, which appears in the names of several locations in Wales, derives from the Middle Welsh word "awr" (hour) and may have been used to denote places where religious services were held at specific times. |
| Xhosa | The word 'okona kulungileyo' literally means 'the one who has done right' in Xhosa. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "בעסטער" (best) is derived from the German word "besser" (better) and also means "boyfriend" in Yiddish slang. |
| Yoruba | The word "ti o dara julọ" in Yoruba means "most favored" or "most excellent" and is often used to describe people or things that are highly valued or praised. |
| Zulu | The Zulu word "okuhle kakhulu" literally translates to "very good" or "extremely good". |
| English | "Best" originates from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₁ésti, meaning "excellent" or "superlative." |