Billion in Different Languages
Discover 'Billion' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Billion
Afrikaans miljard | ||
Albanian miliardë | ||
Amharic ቢሊዮን | ||
Arabic مليار | ||
Armenian միլիարդ | ||
Assamese বিলিয়ন বিলিয়ন | ||
Aymara waranqa waranqa waranqa waranqa | ||
Azerbaijani milyard | ||
Bambara miliyari caman | ||
Basque mila milioi | ||
Belarusian мільярдаў | ||
Bengali বিলিয়ন | ||
Bhojpuri अरब के रुपिया के बा | ||
Bosnian milijarde | ||
Bulgarian милиард | ||
Catalan mil milions | ||
Cebuano bilyon | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 十亿 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 十億 | ||
Corsican miliardi | ||
Croatian milijarde | ||
Czech miliarda | ||
Danish milliard | ||
Dhivehi ބިލިއަން ބިލިއަން ރުފިޔާ އެވެ | ||
Dogri अरब दा | ||
Dutch miljard | ||
English billion | ||
Esperanto miliardo | ||
Estonian miljardit | ||
Ewe biliɔn geɖe | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) bilyon | ||
Finnish miljardia | ||
French milliard | ||
Frisian miljard | ||
Galician millóns | ||
Georgian მილიარდი | ||
German milliarde | ||
Greek δισεκατομμύριο | ||
Guarani mil millones | ||
Gujarati અબજ | ||
Haitian Creole milya dola | ||
Hausa biliyan | ||
Hawaiian piliona | ||
Hebrew מיליארד | ||
Hindi एक अरब | ||
Hmong billion | ||
Hungarian milliárd, ezermillió | ||
Icelandic milljarða | ||
Igbo ijeri | ||
Ilocano bilion | ||
Indonesian milyar | ||
Irish billiún | ||
Italian miliardi | ||
Japanese 十億 | ||
Javanese milyar | ||
Kannada ಶತಕೋಟಿ | ||
Kazakh миллиард | ||
Khmer ពាន់លាន | ||
Kinyarwanda miliyari | ||
Konkani अब्ज रुपया | ||
Korean 십억 | ||
Krio bilyan bilyan | ||
Kurdish milyar | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) ملیار | ||
Kyrgyz миллиард | ||
Lao ຕື້ | ||
Latin billion | ||
Latvian miljards | ||
Lingala ba milliards ya ba milliards | ||
Lithuanian mlrd | ||
Luganda obuwumbi | ||
Luxembourgish milliard | ||
Macedonian милијарди | ||
Maithili अरब के | ||
Malagasy lavitrisa | ||
Malay bilion | ||
Malayalam ബില്ല്യൺ | ||
Maltese biljun | ||
Maori piriona | ||
Marathi अब्ज | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯕꯤꯂꯤꯌꯟ ꯕꯤꯂꯤꯌꯟ ꯑꯃꯥ ꯄꯤꯔꯤ꯫ | ||
Mizo tluklehdingawn a ni | ||
Mongolian тэрбум | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ဘီလီယံ | ||
Nepali अरबौं | ||
Norwegian milliarder | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) biliyoni | ||
Odia (Oriya) ବିଲିୟନ | ||
Oromo biiliyoona | ||
Pashto ملیارد | ||
Persian بیلیون | ||
Polish miliard | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) bilhão | ||
Punjabi ਅਰਬ | ||
Quechua waranqa waranqa waranqa | ||
Romanian miliard | ||
Russian миллиард | ||
Samoan piliona | ||
Sanskrit कोटि कोटि | ||
Scots Gaelic billean | ||
Sepedi bilione | ||
Serbian милијарде | ||
Sesotho bilione | ||
Shona bhiriyoni | ||
Sindhi ارب | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) බිලියන | ||
Slovak miliárd | ||
Slovenian milijard | ||
Somali bilyan | ||
Spanish mil millones | ||
Sundanese milyar | ||
Swahili bilioni | ||
Swedish miljard | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) bilyon | ||
Tajik миллиард | ||
Tamil பில்லியன் | ||
Tatar миллиард | ||
Telugu బిలియన్ | ||
Thai พันล้าน | ||
Tigrinya ቢልዮን ዝቑጸር እዩ። | ||
Tsonga biliyoni ya tibiliyoni | ||
Turkish milyar | ||
Turkmen milliard | ||
Twi (Akan) ɔpepepem pii | ||
Ukrainian млрд | ||
Urdu ارب | ||
Uyghur مىليارد | ||
Uzbek milliard | ||
Vietnamese tỷ | ||
Welsh biliwn | ||
Xhosa yezigidigidi | ||
Yiddish ביליאָן | ||
Yoruba bilionu | ||
Zulu isigidigidi |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | In Afrikaans, "miljard" is derived from the Dutch word "miljard" and also means "thousand million". |
| Albanian | “Miliardë” derives from the Albanian word “mijë” meaning “thousand”, and a suffix indicating many of something. |
| Amharic | The word "ቢሊዮን" is derived from the French word "billion", which originally meant "a thousand million". |
| Arabic | The word "مليار" in Arabic can also refer to a very large number, often used in an exaggerated or informal context. |
| Armenian | The word "միլիարդ" (milyard) in Armenian originally meant "a thousand million" but now means "a billion". |
| Azerbaijani | The word "milyard" in Azerbaijani is derived from the French word "milliard" and refers to a thousand million. |
| Basque | The Basque word "mila milioi" literally translates to "thousand million." |
| Belarusian | The word "мільярдаў" is derived from the French word "milliard" and also means "thousand million" in Russian. |
| Bengali | The word "বিলিয়ন" is derived from the Latin word "bi-", meaning "two", and "mille", meaning "thousand", and originally meant one million million (10^12). |
| Bosnian | The Bosnian word "milijarde" derives from the Latin "mille" (thousand) and "-jardi" (decade) |
| Bulgarian | The word "милиард" also means "milliard" in Bulgarian, indicating that it is one thousand million. |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "mil milions" literally means "thousand millions" and is equivalent to "billion" in English. |
| Cebuano | In Cebuano, "bilion" can also refer to a billion pesos or one thousand million pesos, a specific currency amount |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 十亿 also means "ten times ten million" in Chinese. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The Chinese character "十億" is itself a unit of measurement equal to 100 million, hence its use for "billion". |
| Corsican | In Corsican, the word "miliardi" also refers to the thousandth part of a coin. |
| Croatian | The word 'milijarde' is derived from the Latin word 'mille' meaning 'thousand' and the Italian word 'bilione' meaning 'two thousand million', but it means 'billion' in Croatian. |
| Czech | In Czech, the word "miliarda" has been used historically to mean both "billion" and "trillion," but now only officially means the latter. |
| Danish | "Milliard" is derived from the French "milliard" via Latin, ultimately from the Italian "mille", meaning "thousand". |
| Dutch | The word "miljard" is derived from the Italian "milliardo", meaning "a thousand million", and is used in Dutch to refer to "a billion". |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word "miliardo" is derived from the Italian word "miliardo", which means "thousand million", and is also used in some other languages, like Portuguese and Spanish, with the same meaning |
| Estonian | The Estonian word "miljardit" is derived from the French word "milliard" and originally meant "thousand million". |
| Finnish | The word "miljardia" is also used in some contexts to refer to "milliard" or "thousand million", a usage that is uncommon in most other languages. |
| French | "Milliard" also meant thousand million (one trillion) and was widely used that way until the term "billion" replaced it in the early 20th century. |
| Frisian | In Frisian, it can also mean "a large number," especially in phrases like "sa'n miljard minsken" ("such a large number of people"). |
| Galician | The word “millóns” in Galician is cognate to the Spanish “millón”, which has two different meanings depending on the place: a million in Spain, but a billion in Latin America. |
| Georgian | The word "მილიარდი" in Georgian derives from the French word "milliard" and initially meant "thousand million". |
| German | Milliarde in German derives from the French milliard, which originally meant "1000 million" but now means "1000 times a million". |
| Greek | In Greek, the word "δισεκατομμύριο" derives from "δισ- (double)" and "εκατομμύριο (million)", implying "twice a thousand millions" or "two billion". |
| Gujarati | The word "અબજ" is derived from the Sanskrit word "अब्ज" which means "lotus" or "water lily". |
| Haitian Creole | "Milya dola" is a Haitian Creole phrase that means a thousand million. It is derived from the French phrase "mille millions", which also means a thousand million. |
| Hausa | The word "biliyan" is derived from the English word "billion" and has no other meanings in Hausa. |
| Hawaiian | The Hawaiian word "piliona" also means "great multitudes". |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word for "billion", "מיליארד", is derived from the Latin word "milliard", which originally meant "a thousand million". |
| Hindi | The term एक अरब, commonly translated as "billion" in English, also has the secondary meaning of a large but indefinite number. |
| Hmong | Hmong does not have a native word for "billion"; instead, it uses the Mandarin loanword "Yi" (亿元). |
| Hungarian | In Hungarian, the word "milliárd" is often used to mean "thousand million," while "ezermillió" means "billion." |
| Icelandic | In Icelandic, 'milljarða' derives from 'mill' (thousand) and 'jarðar' (world), alluding historically to a large sum of money required to purchase an entire world. |
| Igbo | The word "ijeri" in Igbo derives from the concept of "a thousand thousands," and its root may indicate both "big" and "to count." |
| Indonesian | "Milyar" in Indonesian originally meant "million", but its meaning shifted to "billion" due to the influence of English and other European languages. |
| Irish | The Irish word "billiún" is derived from the Latin "billio" and ultimately from the Greek "chilioi," meaning "a thousand." |
| Italian | The Italian word "miliardi" originally meant "thousands of millions", and is cognate with the English word "myriad". |
| Japanese | The word 十億 (じゅうおく、じゆうおく) can also mean "ten million." |
| Javanese | The Javanese word 'milyar' derives from the Dutch 'miljard', which itself originated in the French 'milliard' meaning 'thousand million'. It has alternate meanings of 'many' or 'vast' in Javanese. |
| Kazakh | In Kazakh, "миллиард" can also mean "one hundred thousand". |
| Korean | The Korean word "십억" originally referred to a period of 100 million years, but its meaning gradually changed to refer to a number equal to 1000 million. |
| Kurdish | The word 'milyar' (meaning 'billion' in Kurdish) derives from the French 'milliard' (meaning 'thousand million'). |
| Kyrgyz | The Kyrgyz word "миллиард" is derived from the French word "milliard" and originally meant "thousand million" in English and other languages before being used to mean "billion" in English and "milliard" in American English and other languages. |
| Lao | The word 'ຕື້' can also mean 'snake' in Lao. |
| Latin | In Latin, "billion" originally meant "million million" but today means "thousand million". |
| Latvian | The word "miljards" comes from the German "Milliarde", which in turn comes from the French "milliard", which ultimately comes from the Italian "mille" (thousand). |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word "mlrd" is a contraction of "milijardas", which is itself derived from the French "milliard" and the Latin "mille" (thousand). |
| Luxembourgish | The Luxembourgish word "Milliard" can also mean "thousand million", which is the same as "billion" in English. |
| Macedonian | The word "милијарди" in Macedonian derives from the French word "milliard" which originally meant 1,000 million. |
| Malagasy | The word "lavitrisa" comes from the French word "milliard" and also means "thousand million". |
| Malay | The Malay word 'bilion' is derived from the Latin word 'bilio', which also means 'a billion'. |
| Malayalam | "બિલ્યન" (billion) is the English equivalent of "अब्ज" (abja) and "खर्व" (kharva) in Sanskrit, which originally meant tens of millions and tens of billions respectively. |
| Maltese | In Maltese, "biljun" can also refer to a large number (often a million), but is not used in a mathematical context |
| Maori | In Maori folklore, 'piriona' refers to a supernatural being with a billion eyes. |
| Marathi | The Marathi word "अब्ज" (abj) is derived from the Sanskrit word "अब्जम्" (abjam), which means "lotus flower", and is also used to denote a large number in Indian numeration systems. |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word "тэрбум" originates from the Sanskrit word "त्रिस्थलीलंब" meaning "three levels". It was used to refer to the 3 trillionth power of 10 in the long scale numerical system. |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | In the Myanmar language, "ဘီလီယံ" is a Pali word with several alternative meanings, such as "myriad" and "a hundred million." |
| Nepali | "अरबौं" is an alternate form of "अरब" (meaning "hundred million"), used to denote "billion" in Nepali, reflecting an older usage where "arab" meant "billion" in English. |
| Norwegian | In Norwegian, the word "milliard" means "billion" but can also refer to a "thousand million" (a trillion). |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "biliyoni" also means "riches" or "wealth" in Nyanja. |
| Pashto | The word مليارد "billion" is derived from an Arabic word "maliyya" which meant "treasury" or "fiscal resources." |
| Persian | The word "بیلیون" is derived from the French word "billion", which originally meant "a large, indefinite number" and was used to describe a thousand million. |
| Polish | In Polish, "miliard" originally meant thousand millions, but its meaning shifted to one thousand billion in the 20th century. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "bilhão" in Portuguese initially meant "million", but it started to mean "billion" in the 19th century, probably due to influence from French. |
| Punjabi | "ਅਰਬ" also means “Arab” (as in “the Arab world,” referring to its people or culture). |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "miliard" is derived from the French word "milliard", which originally meant "thousand million" but now means "billion" in English and American usage. |
| Russian | The word "миллиард" comes from the French word "milliard", which itself comes from the Italian word "mille" meaning "thousand." |
| Samoan | The word "piliona" in Samoan has no other meanings and is derived from the English word "billion". |
| Scots Gaelic | The Gaelic word "billean" derives from the French "billion", which originally meant "one thousand million". Today both words mean "one billion". |
| Serbian | "Милијарде" in Serbian is cognate with "mille" (thousand) in French and Italian, "mile" in English, and "mil" in Spanish and Portuguese. |
| Sesotho | The Sesotho word "bilione" is derived from the English word "billion" and has the same meaning. |
| Shona | The Shona word "bhiriyoni" may derive from the English word "million" with the addition of a prefix (bhiri-) representing the next power of ten. |
| Sindhi | The word "ارب" "billion" in Sindhi derives from the Persian "اراب" and Arabic "ارب" and its alternate meaning is 100 crore or 1000 million. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | In Sinhala, the word "බිලියන" may also refer to "a vast sum" or "a very large number". |
| Slovak | The word "miliárd" comes from the Latin word "mille" (thousand) and "ardus" (high), and its original meaning was "a thousand times a thousand thousand." |
| Slovenian | The word "milijard" comes from the French word "milliard," which originally meant "thousand million." |
| Somali | Bilyan is also a clan of the Hawiye clan family in Somalia. |
| Spanish | "Mil millones" literally means "a thousand million" in Spanish, even though it translates to "billion" in English. |
| Sundanese | The word "milyar" in Sundanese also means "the day after tomorrow". |
| Swahili | The word "bilioni" has the same meaning as "bilioni" in English and "milliard" in French, German, and other languages. |
| Swedish | Miljard, meaning 'billion', is derived from the French 'milliard' which originally meant 'one thousand million' before being standardized internationally to mean 'one billion'. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Bilyon" in Tagalog is derived from the Spanish word "billón", which itself comes from the Latin word "millio" meaning "large amount." |
| Tajik | In Tajik, "миллиард" can also refer to a trillion, as the words "billion" and "trillion" are synonymous in some contexts. |
| Tamil | In Tamil, "பில்லியன்" originally meant "a group of ten million," but its meaning has shifted over time to align with the English "billion" (one thousand million). |
| Telugu | The word "బిలియన్" is derived from the French word "billion" and means "one thousand million". |
| Thai | พันล้าน also means "thousand million" and is derived from the Sanskrit word "koti". |
| Turkish | The word "milyar" is derived from the French word "milliard" and originally meant "thousand million" in English. |
| Ukrainian | The word "млрд" in Ukrainian comes from the French "milliard," originally from the Italian "mille" meaning "thousand" and "ardo" meaning "hard." |
| Urdu | In Urdu, "ارب" ('arb) also refers to a large number that equals the square of a thousand million. |
| Uzbek | „Milliard“ sözcüğü, Fransızcada „bin milyon“ olarak da bilinir. |
| Vietnamese | In the 16th–17th century, "tỷ" meant "hundred million", but later came to mean "billion" after the French introduced the concept of "billion" (one thousand million) in 1883. |
| Welsh | In Welsh, "biliwn" means "billion". It derives from the French word "billion", which originally meant "thousand million" but has since shifted to its current meaning. |
| Xhosa | The word "yezigidigidi" is a reduplication of the word "igidi", which means "thousand". It is also used to refer to a very large number, such as a million or a billion. |
| Yiddish | In Yiddish, the word "ביליאָן" can also refer to a vast, unspecified quantity, similar to "a gazillion" in English. |
| Yoruba | In Yoruba, "bilionu" can also refer to a large sum of money, especially in the context of a debt. |
| Zulu | "Isigidigidi" is derived from the word "isigidi", which means "a thousand", and the suffix "-idi", which denotes a large number. |
| English | The word "billion" originally meant "a million million" but now usually means "a thousand million". |