Brief in Different Languages
Discover 'Brief' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Brief
Afrikaans kort | ||
Albanian të shkurtër | ||
Amharic አጭር | ||
Arabic نبذة | ||
Armenian կարճ | ||
Assamese চমু | ||
Aymara juk'aki | ||
Azerbaijani qısa | ||
Bambara surunma | ||
Basque laburra | ||
Belarusian кароткі | ||
Bengali সংক্ষিপ্ত | ||
Bhojpuri छोटहन | ||
Bosnian kratak | ||
Bulgarian кратко | ||
Catalan breu | ||
Cebuano mubu | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 简要 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 簡要 | ||
Corsican breve | ||
Croatian kratak | ||
Czech stručný | ||
Danish kort | ||
Dhivehi ވަރަށް ކުޑަ | ||
Dogri मुखसर | ||
Dutch kort | ||
English brief | ||
Esperanto mallonga | ||
Estonian lühike | ||
Ewe kpuie | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) maikli | ||
Finnish lyhyt | ||
French bref | ||
Frisian koart | ||
Galician breve | ||
Georgian მოკლედ | ||
German kurz | ||
Greek σύντομος | ||
Guarani sapy'aite | ||
Gujarati સંક્ષિપ્તમાં | ||
Haitian Creole kout | ||
Hausa a takaice | ||
Hawaiian pōkole | ||
Hebrew קָצָר | ||
Hindi संक्षिप्त करें | ||
Hmong luv luv | ||
Hungarian rövid | ||
Icelandic stutt | ||
Igbo nkenke | ||
Ilocano biit | ||
Indonesian singkat | ||
Irish gairid | ||
Italian breve | ||
Japanese 簡単な | ||
Javanese ringkes | ||
Kannada ಸಂಕ್ಷಿಪ್ತ | ||
Kazakh қысқаша | ||
Khmer សង្ខេប | ||
Kinyarwanda muri make | ||
Konkani संक्षिप्त | ||
Korean 간결한 | ||
Krio shɔt | ||
Kurdish kin | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) کورت | ||
Kyrgyz кыска | ||
Lao ໂດຍຫຍໍ້ | ||
Latin brevis | ||
Latvian īss | ||
Lingala mokuse | ||
Lithuanian trumpai | ||
Luganda mu bufunze | ||
Luxembourgish kuerz | ||
Macedonian краток | ||
Maithili संक्षिप्त | ||
Malagasy famintinana | ||
Malay ringkas | ||
Malayalam ചുരുക്കത്തിലുള്ള | ||
Maltese qasira | ||
Maori poto | ||
Marathi थोडक्यात | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯁꯝꯂꯞꯄ | ||
Mizo tawite | ||
Mongolian товч | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အကျဉ်း | ||
Nepali संक्षिप्त | ||
Norwegian kort | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) mwachidule | ||
Odia (Oriya) ସଂକ୍ଷିପ୍ତ | ||
Oromo gabaabaa | ||
Pashto لنډ | ||
Persian مختصر | ||
Polish krótki | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) breve | ||
Punjabi ਸੰਖੇਪ | ||
Quechua uchuylla | ||
Romanian scurt | ||
Russian краткий | ||
Samoan puʻupuʻu | ||
Sanskrit साक्षिप्तं | ||
Scots Gaelic ghoirid | ||
Sepedi kopana | ||
Serbian кратак | ||
Sesotho lekgutshwanyane | ||
Shona pfupi | ||
Sindhi مختصر | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) කෙටියෙන් | ||
Slovak stručné | ||
Slovenian kratek | ||
Somali kooban | ||
Spanish breve | ||
Sundanese singget | ||
Swahili kifupi | ||
Swedish kort | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) maikli | ||
Tajik мухтасар | ||
Tamil சுருக்கமான | ||
Tatar кыска | ||
Telugu క్లుప్తంగా | ||
Thai สั้น ๆ | ||
Tigrinya ሓፂር | ||
Tsonga nkomiso | ||
Turkish kısa | ||
Turkmen gysga | ||
Twi (Akan) tiawa | ||
Ukrainian короткий | ||
Urdu مختصر | ||
Uyghur قىسقا | ||
Uzbek qisqacha | ||
Vietnamese ngắn gọn | ||
Welsh briff | ||
Xhosa imfutshane | ||
Yiddish קורץ | ||
Yoruba finifini | ||
Zulu mfushane |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | "Kort" can also mean "short" or "small" in the sense of not enough or inferior. |
| Amharic | The word "አጭር" also means "short" or "narrow" in Amharic. |
| Arabic | "نبذة" in Arabic can also refer to a synopsis or a summary of a subject. |
| Armenian | The Armenian word 'կարճ' ('brief') also has the alternate meaning of 'short in stature'. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "qısa" also means "short" in Azerbaijani, "short" in Ottoman Turkish, and "narrow" in Turkish. |
| Basque | The Basque word "laburra" derives from the Proto-Basque root *labur-, meaning "short" or "brief," and is related to the Spanish word "labor" and the English word "labour." |
| Belarusian | Кароткі is the Belarusian word for "short", and also means "brief," "concise," "cursory," and "summary". |
| Bengali | The Bengali word "সংক্ষিপ্ত" has Sanskrit origins and relates to the concept of "conciseness" or "summary." |
| Bosnian | "Kratak" derives from the Proto-Slavic word *kъrtъkъ, meaning "short, cut-off", which also gave rise to "krūtas" in Lithuanian, "kratak" in Slovenian, and "kratok" in Macedonian. |
| Bulgarian | In some contexts, "кратко" can also mean "concise", "succinct" or "to the point" |
| Catalan | Catalan word "breu" may be a contraction of "brevior" or a shortening of the Latin "brevis". |
| Cebuano | The word 'mubu' in Cebuano can also refer to a pair of shorts or a summary. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "简" originally meant "select" and "要" meant "important". |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The term "簡要" in Chinese can also refer to "simplicity" or "conciseness" beyond its primary meaning of "brief". |
| Corsican | In Corsican, “breve” means both “brief” and “sheep”. |
| Croatian | Kratak comes from the Proto-Indo-European root *ker-, meaning 'to cut', and is related to words like 'create' and 'criterion'. |
| Czech | The Czech word "stručný" not only means "brief", but also "concise", "terse", and "succinct". |
| Danish | Kort in Danish also means 'map' or 'playing card' and is related to the English word 'chart'. |
| Dutch | The word "kort" also means "short" in the sense of shortness in length or duration, and "curt" in the sense of being rudely brief or abrupt. |
| Esperanto | "Mallonga" in Esperanto comes from the Latin "male longus," meaning "not long." |
| Estonian | The Estonian word "lühike" also refers to a short distance. |
| Finnish | "Lyhyt" is also the root of "lyhenne" which means an abbreviation. |
| French | The French word "bref" can also mean "in short" or "in a nutshell". |
| Frisian | Koart is related to the English word 'short', and also means 'tight' |
| Galician | In Galician, 'breve' can also mean 'letter' or 'document' |
| Georgian | The Georgian word "მოკლედ" can also mean "in short" or "concisely" in English. |
| German | The word "kurz" in German is also used to refer to a musical note or a type of sausage. |
| Greek | In ancient Greek, the word “σύντομος” had a broader meaning and referred to anything that was concise, concise, or easy to understand. |
| Haitian Creole | The etymology of "kout" ("brief") is uncertain but may derive from the French word "court" meaning "short" which may have been corrupted to "kout." |
| Hausa | The word "a takaice" is also used to refer to an excerpt. |
| Hawaiian | The word "pōkole" in Hawaiian can also mean "stunted" or "short-lived". |
| Hebrew | קָצָר in Hebrew can refer to a short person or animal, as is seen with the קָצָר dog breed and the expression “קָצָר וגוץ,” meaning “short and squat.” |
| Hindi | The Hindi word 'संक्षिप्त करें' also means 'to condense' or 'to abridge'. |
| Hmong | In Hmong, the word "luv luv" also means "to quickly finish something" or "to make something very short" |
| Hungarian | The Hungarian word "rövid" also means "short" in length or duration, and has cognates in several Uralic languages suggesting an origin from Proto-Uralic *räpät "to break off, to shorten, to abbreviate". |
| Icelandic | "stutt" may refer to "stunted" or "short" in English. |
| Igbo | "Nkenke" in Igbo can also mean 'a short period of time' or 'a brief moment' in addition to 'brief' (as an adjective describing something short). |
| Indonesian | The word "singkat" in Indonesian also has the meaning of "shorthand" or "abbreviation". |
| Irish | In Irish, 'gairid' also means 'short' and is related to the Old Irish word 'gair', meaning 'near' or 'close'. |
| Italian | Breve in Italian also refers to notes having a duration equal to two whole notes or four half notes in music |
| Japanese | The word "簡単な" (brief) is derived from the word "簡易" (simple, easy), which is itself derived from the Chinese word "簡易" (easy, convenient). |
| Javanese | "Ringkes" is an archaic word in Javanese and a term used in traditional Javanese literature, but it still can be used in the modern Javanese language with equivalent meaning to the word "cekak". |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "қысқаша" also means "shortly" or "in brief". |
| Korean | "간결한" can also mean "concise" or "succinct" |
| Kurdish | The Kurdish word "kin" also means "short" or "small". |
| Kyrgyz | The word "кыска" in Kyrgyz can also mean "short" or "narrow". |
| Latin | Latin "brevis" also means "ephemeral, short-lived" and is related to "breviare" (to abbreviate). |
| Latvian | The word "īss" likely originates from the Proto-Indo-European root "*eis-", meaning "to go fast" or "to hurry". |
| Lithuanian | "Trumpas" also means "small" or "narrow" in the Lithuanian language. |
| Luxembourgish | The Luxembourgish word "kuerz" is derived from the German word "kurz" and can also mean "short" or "concise" |
| Macedonian | The word "краток" comes from the Proto-Slavic word *kratъkъ, which also meant "short", "concise", or "quick." |
| Malagasy | "Famintinana" also means "in the blink of an eye" or "in short" in Malagasy, indicating a brief or short period of time. |
| Malay | The word "ringkas" can also mean "short (in length)" or "concise" in Malay. |
| Maltese | The word "qasira" in Maltese comes from the Arabic word "qaṣīra", meaning "short" or "brief". It can also refer to a type of traditional Maltese shortbread cookie. |
| Maori | In Maori, "poto" can also refer to the length of a garment or to a cut of meat. |
| Marathi | The Marathi word "थोडक्यात" can also mean "in a nutshell" or "in summary". |
| Mongolian | Mongolian word "товч" originally meant "close, narrow" before also acquiring the meaning of "brief" in the 16th century. |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | In Myanmar, the word "အကျဉ်း" (brief) can also refer to the essential or precise points of an idea or topic. |
| Nepali | The term संक्षिप्त in Nepali is derived from the Sanskrit word "samkshipta" which signifies conciseness or abbreviation. |
| Norwegian | Although 'kort' usually means 'brief', it can also refer to playing cards as in 'kortstokk' 'deck of cards' |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "mwachidule" can also refer to a summary or abstract. |
| Pashto | The word "لنډ" ("brief") in Pashto can also mean "narrow" or "thin." |
| Persian | Originally from Arabic, "مختصر" is a verbal noun and its literal Persian translation is "condensed, shortened", "compendious", not necessarily short in length. |
| Polish | "Krótki" derives from the Proto-Slavic "kortokъ" and relates to the words "kruk" (raven), "kraka" (crow), and "kurcz" (hen), possibly from the birds' short legs. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, "breve" can refer to a type of musical notation indicating a short note. |
| Punjabi | The word "ਸੰਖੇਪ" (sankhep) in Punjabi is derived from the Sanskrit word "संक्षिप्त" (sankshipta), meaning "contracted" or "abbreviated". |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "scurt" is derived from the Latin word "curtus", meaning "short" or "brief". |
| Russian | "Краткий" also means "concise, succinct" or "curt, abrupt" (e.g. to answer krajko, which translates to "bluntly, without beating around the bush"). |
| Samoan | The word "pu'upu'u" can also refer to a hill or mound in Samoan. |
| Scots Gaelic | The term "ghoirid" in Scots Gaelic can also denote "shortly" or "in a little while." |
| Serbian | In Old Church Slavonic, "кратакъ" meant "short", but in Serbian, it also means "momentary" and "short-lived". |
| Sesotho | The Sesotho word "lekgutshwanyane" can also mean "shorts" or "a pair of shorts". |
| Shona | The word "pfupi" comes from the Proto-Bantu root "*-pupi" and is related to the concepts of "shortness", "smallness", and "lacking substance". |
| Sindhi | The word "مختصر" in Sindhi can also mean "summary" or "abridged version." |
| Slovak | The word "stručné" also means "concise" and "laconic" in Slovak. |
| Slovenian | In Russian, "краткий" also means "brief," but its other related meanings are "concise," "condensed," and "summary." |
| Somali | In older Somali, 'kooban' also meant 'difficult' or 'narrow'. |
| Spanish | The Spanish word "breve" comes from the Latin word "brevis", meaning "short" or "concise". |
| Sundanese | The word 'singget' in Sundanese can also refer to a traditional Sundanese instrument composed of a tube, string, and coconut shell. |
| Swahili | "Kifupi" also means "short" or "small" and can be used figuratively to refer to something concise or insignificant. |
| Swedish | The word 'kort' in Swedish also has the alternate meaning of 'short' in length or stature. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word |
| Tajik | The word "мухтасар" also means "short" or "concise" in Tajik. |
| Thai | สั้น ๆ can also mean "shortly" or "in short". |
| Turkish | The Turkish word "kısa" not only means "brief" but also "short" in length or time. |
| Ukrainian | "Короткий" comes from the Old Russian word "кырьтити", which means "to cut". It originally referred to something that was cut short, hence its meaning of "brief". |
| Urdu | The word "مختصر" can also mean "precise" or "succinct" in Urdu. |
| Uzbek | The word "qisqacha" in Uzbek can also mean "short" or "succinct". |
| Vietnamese | "Ngắn gọn" (brief) comes from "ngắn" (short) and "gọn" (concise), highlighting the shortness and conciseness of something. |
| Welsh | The Welsh word "briff" also colloquially refers to a summary or digest, akin to its English etymology. |
| Xhosa | In Nguni languages like Xhosa and Zulu, "imfutshane" also refers to a type of traditional short-handled axe. |
| Yiddish | In Yiddish, the word "קורץ" (kurtz) also means "short" or "small". |
| Yoruba | The word "finifini" also means "concise, succinct, short, or compact" in Yoruba. |
| Zulu | "Mfushane" can also refer to a short person or a brief moment. |
| English | Brief, meaning a short period of time, comes from the 14th century and derives from the Latin brevis, meaning 'short'. |