Calculate in Different Languages
Discover 'Calculate' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Calculate
Afrikaans bereken | ||
Albanian llogarit | ||
Amharic ማስላት | ||
Arabic احسب | ||
Armenian հաշվարկել | ||
Assamese গণনা কৰ | ||
Aymara jakthapiña | ||
Azerbaijani hesablamaq | ||
Bambara jatebɔ kɛ | ||
Basque kalkulatu | ||
Belarusian вылічыць | ||
Bengali গণনা | ||
Bhojpuri गणना करे के बा | ||
Bosnian izračunati | ||
Bulgarian изчисли | ||
Catalan calcular | ||
Cebuano kuwentaha | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 计算 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 計算 | ||
Corsican calculà | ||
Croatian izračunati | ||
Czech vypočítat | ||
Danish beregn | ||
Dhivehi ހިސާބުކުރުން | ||
Dogri गणना करो | ||
Dutch berekenen | ||
English calculate | ||
Esperanto kalkuli | ||
Estonian arvutama | ||
Ewe bu akɔnta | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) kalkulahin | ||
Finnish laskea | ||
French calculer | ||
Frisian rekkenje | ||
Galician calcular | ||
Georgian გამოთვალეთ | ||
German berechnung | ||
Greek υπολογίζω | ||
Guarani okalkula haguã | ||
Gujarati ગણત્રી | ||
Haitian Creole kalkile | ||
Hausa lissafta | ||
Hawaiian helu | ||
Hebrew לחשב | ||
Hindi calculate | ||
Hmong suav | ||
Hungarian kiszámítja | ||
Icelandic reikna | ||
Igbo gbakọọ | ||
Ilocano kalkularen | ||
Indonesian menghitung | ||
Irish ríomh | ||
Italian calcolare | ||
Japanese 計算する | ||
Javanese ngetung | ||
Kannada ಲೆಕ್ಕಾಚಾರ | ||
Kazakh есептеу | ||
Khmer គណនា | ||
Kinyarwanda kubara | ||
Konkani गणना करप | ||
Korean 계산하다 | ||
Krio kɔlkyul | ||
Kurdish hesabkirin | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) حیساب بکە | ||
Kyrgyz эсептөө | ||
Lao ຄິດໄລ່ | ||
Latin calculate | ||
Latvian aprēķināt | ||
Lingala kosala calcul ya kosala calcul | ||
Lithuanian apskaičiuoti | ||
Luganda okubala | ||
Luxembourgish auszerechnen | ||
Macedonian пресметај | ||
Maithili गणना करब | ||
Malagasy kajy | ||
Malay mengira | ||
Malayalam കണക്കാക്കുക | ||
Maltese ikkalkula | ||
Maori tatau | ||
Marathi गणना करा | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯍꯤꯁꯥꯕ ꯇꯧꯕꯥ꯫ | ||
Mizo chhut chhuah rawh | ||
Mongolian тооцоолох | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) တွက်ချက်သည် | ||
Nepali हिसाब गर्नुहोस् | ||
Norwegian regne ut | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kuwerengera | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଗଣନା କର | ||
Oromo shallaguu | ||
Pashto محاسبه | ||
Persian محاسبه | ||
Polish oblicz | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) calcular | ||
Punjabi ਗਣਨਾ ਕਰੋ | ||
Quechua yupay | ||
Romanian calculati | ||
Russian вычислить | ||
Samoan fuafua | ||
Sanskrit गणयतु | ||
Scots Gaelic obrachadh a-mach | ||
Sepedi bala | ||
Serbian израчунати | ||
Sesotho bala | ||
Shona kuverenga | ||
Sindhi حساب ڪريو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) ගණනය කරන්න | ||
Slovak vypočítať | ||
Slovenian izračunajte | ||
Somali xisaabi | ||
Spanish calcular | ||
Sundanese ngitung | ||
Swahili hesabu | ||
Swedish beräkna | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) kalkulahin | ||
Tajik ҳисоб кардан | ||
Tamil கணக்கிடுங்கள் | ||
Tatar исәпләү | ||
Telugu లెక్కించండి | ||
Thai คำนวณ | ||
Tigrinya ምሕሳብ | ||
Tsonga hlayela | ||
Turkish hesaplamak | ||
Turkmen hasapla | ||
Twi (Akan) bu akontaa | ||
Ukrainian обчислити | ||
Urdu حساب لگائیں | ||
Uyghur ھېسابلاپ بېقىڭ | ||
Uzbek hisoblash | ||
Vietnamese tính toán | ||
Welsh cyfrifwch | ||
Xhosa ukubala | ||
Yiddish רעכענען | ||
Yoruba iṣiro | ||
Zulu bala |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | "Bereken", Afrikaans for "calculate", is cognate with the Dutch verb "berekenen", likely stemming from the Middle Dutch "rekenen", meaning "to stretch out". Figuratively, this meant "to extend an amount" or "to count". |
| Albanian | The word "llogarit" is derived from the Latin word "logarithmus", meaning "a number that indicates the ratio between two other numbers". |
| Amharic | The verb ማስላት is also used to mean "to consider" or "to assume" something. |
| Arabic | The Arabic word "احسب" also carries connotations of estimation or conjecture. |
| Azerbaijani | "Hesablamaq" also means "to make an excuse, a reason" and "to find out, to discover, to determine, to resolve". |
| Basque | The word "kalkulatu" comes from the Latin "calculare," meaning "to count" or "to reckon." |
| Belarusian | Belarusian "вылічыць" (calculate) comes from the Proto-Slavic "*līčiti", which means "count" or "calculate". |
| Bengali | The word "গণনা" is derived from the Sanskrit word "गणना" (ganana), which means "to count, calculate, or reckon."} |
| Bosnian | The word 'izračunati' in Bosnian derives from the Proto-Slavic word 'račьnъti' and has the alternate meaning of 'to consider' or 'to ponder'. |
| Bulgarian | The word "изчисли" can also mean "to count" or "to enumerate" in Bulgarian. |
| Catalan | The Catalan verb "calcular" can also mean "to consider" or "to think". |
| Cebuano | The root word of kuwentaha is "kuwenta," which means "account" or "computation" in Spanish. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | “计算”一词最早见于《易经》，意为“占卜”或“预测” |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The word 計算 (calculate) in Traditional Chinese is composed of two characters, 计 (ji) and 算 (suan), which both originated as counting rods used in ancient arithmetic. |
| Corsican | Calculà derives from the Vulgar Latin word *calculare* and is related to the Italian word *calcolare*. |
| Croatian | The verb "izračunati" is derived from the Slavic root "račun", meaning "account" or "reckoning." |
| Czech | The word can also mean "to compute" or "to figure out." |
| Danish | Beregn comes from two words, "berede" meaning "determine" or "prepare" and "regne", which means "account". |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "berekenen" not only means "calculate," but also "charge." |
| Esperanto | "Kalkuli" is related to the word "calculus"} |
| Estonian | Besides 'to calculate', the Estonian verb 'arvutama' can translate to 'to rate', 'to value' and 'to assess', all stemming from its root 'arv', meaning 'value'. |
| Finnish | Laskea also refers to the act of counting something. |
| French | In French, "calculer" can also mean "to reckon with" or "to take into account". |
| Frisian | A similar Frisian word is 'rekkening' ('account') and the name 'Rekke' may originate from 'rekken'. |
| Galician | In Galician, "calcular" also means "to think carefully" or "to consider". |
| German | The word 'Berechnung' can also mean `computation` or `reckoning`. |
| Greek | "Υπολογίζω" derives from the ancient Greek root "λογίζω," meaning "to speak." |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "ગણત્રી" also refers to mathematics, counting, or statistics. |
| Haitian Creole | The Haitian Creole word 'kalkile' can also mean 'think about' or 'consider,' and is derived from the French word 'calculer.' |
| Hausa | The Hausa word "lissafta" originates from the word "lis" meaning "sand", implying counting as in sand divination which used 16 different sand patterns known as siffodi used for divination, healing etc as well as "safta" meaning "divination". |
| Hawaiian | The word "helu" also means "to count, to reckon, to enumerate, to tally, to number, to cipher" in Hawaiian. |
| Hebrew | The verb "לחשב" also means "consider" and in that sense is conjugated differently |
| Hindi | The word 'calculate' derives from the Latin 'calculus', meaning 'pebble', as pebbles were used to represent numbers in Roman abacuses. |
| Hmong | The word "suav" in Hmong can also mean "measure" or "to consider carefully". |
| Hungarian | "Kiszedi szám szerint a kártyákat a pakliból" jelentése: kihúz egy lapot a pakliból |
| Icelandic | "Reikna" is derived from the Proto-Germanic root word for "calculation." |
| Igbo | The Igbo word "gbakọọ" derives from the Proto-Igbo root *gbák, meaning "to count or measure". |
| Indonesian | The word "menghitung" in Indonesian is derived from the Proto-Austronesian word *quriŋ, which also means "to count". |
| Irish | The word "ríomh" also means "number" or "computation" in Irish, and its root word "rí" means "king" or "chieftain" |
| Italian | The word 'calcolare' in Italian derives from the Latin 'calculus,' meaning 'pebble,' which was used in ancient times to perform calculations. |
| Japanese | "計算" derives from "算用", a Chinese concept meaning "method of counting" or "arithmetic" referring to counting with the abacus. |
| Javanese | "Ngetung" also means "to estimate" or "to predict" in Javanese. |
| Kannada | The word "ಲೆಕ್ಕಾಚಾರ" is derived from the Sanskrit word "लेखाचार" (lekhaacara), which means "the science of accounting or calculation". |
| Kazakh | Kazakh "есептеу" can also mean "to think" or "to suppose" depending on the context. |
| Khmer | The word "គណនា" also refers to "arithmetic" or "computation". |
| Korean | 계산하다 also has the connotation of 'intending to do something' |
| Kurdish | The word "hesabkirin" can also mean "accounting" or "settlement of accounts" in Kurdish. |
| Kyrgyz | The word "эсептөө" comes from the root word "эс" (mind) and the suffix "-төө" (action), meaning "to think about something" or "to reason something out" |
| Lao | The Lao word ຄິດໄລ່ ('calculate') is derived from the Sanskrit word 'kalpa', meaning 'a long period of time', and also refers to the Hindu concept of a 'cosmic cycle'. |
| Latin | The Latin word "calculus" (literally "stone") was originally used for counting stones, hence the related English word "calculate". |
| Latvian | The word "aprēķināt" in Latvian is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *rek-, meaning "to stretch". It shares this etymology with Latvian "rākis" ("rod"), "rīks" ("tool"), and "rāmi" ("frame"). |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word "apskaičiuoti" derives from the Proto-Indo-European root *keh₂- "to watch, observe, understand" and is cognate with Latin "computare" and Greek "σκοπείν". |
| Luxembourgish | The etymology of "auszerechnen" is from German "ausrechnen". The verb is sometimes also translated as "to compute". |
| Macedonian | The word "пресметај" can also mean "to estimate" or "to count". |
| Malagasy | Derived from Arabic "hisab", "calculation", via Persian and Swahili. |
| Malay | The word "mengira" in Malay can also mean "to estimate" or "to guess". |
| Maltese | The Maltese word for 'calculate' (ikkalkula) also means 'to think over' or 'to consider' in a more abstract sense. |
| Maori | In Maori, "tatau" can also refer to making a mark or impression, reflecting the process of measurement and calculation. |
| Marathi | The Marathi word 'गणना करा' ('calculate') is also used to refer to taking a count or census. |
| Mongolian | The word "тооцоолох" derives from the Mongolian word "тоо" which means "number" and the suffix "-лох" which denotes an action. |
| Nepali | The root of 'हिसाब गर्नुहोस्' ('calculate') is 'हिसाब' ('account'), suggesting accounting or financial calculations. |
| Norwegian | The word "regne ut" can also mean to "figure out" or "understand" something. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The Chichewa word 'kuwerengera' can also mean 'to measure' or 'to estimate'. |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "محاسبه" is derived from the Arabic root word "حاسب which also means "to reckon" and "to account". |
| Persian | 'محاسبه' comes from the Arabic root 'حسب', meaning 'to count, to reckon', and has alternate meanings, including 'accounting' and 'audit'. |
| Polish | The verb "obliczyć" in Polish can also mean "to blame" or "to accuse". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "calcular" also means "count" in Portugal. |
| Romanian | The word "calculati" in Romanian has a secondary meaning of "to plot or scheme". |
| Russian | In addition to 'calculate', 'вычислить' also means 'to detect' or 'to find'. |
| Samoan | Fuafua also means 'to plan' and 'to decide' in Samoan. |
| Scots Gaelic | The word can also mean 'to reckon' or 'to count'. |
| Serbian | The word "израчунати" in Serbian can also mean "to deduce" or "to infer". |
| Sesotho | In Sesotho the word "bala" can mean "calculate" or "deduct". |
| Shona | The word 'kuverenga' also means to 'read, count or compute'. |
| Sindhi | The word "حساب ڪريو" also means "to account for" or "to take into account" in Sindhi. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word ගණනය කරන්න (calculate) is derived from the Sanskrit word 'ganana' which means 'counting' or 'number'. It is also used in mathematics to refer to the process of finding the value of a variable or expression. |
| Slovak | The original meaning comes likely from 'to compute', not specifically from mathematics as it's generally used nowadays. |
| Slovenian | Izračunajte also means calculation, estimate, computation. |
| Somali | "Xisaabi" also means "to think" and "to plan or devise." |
| Spanish | "Calcular" derives from the Latin "calculare" meaning "to count on pebbles," referring to the use of pebbles in Roman abacuses. |
| Sundanese | "Ngitung" also means "to think" or "to consider" in some contexts. |
| Swahili | "Hesabu" is based on the Arabic word "hisab", which also means "account". |
| Swedish | "Beräkna" (to calculate) comes from the Old Norse "rekna" which also means "to think". So "beräkna" also has the meanings "to consider" or "to judge". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Kalkulahin" is derived from the Spanish word "calcular", which means "to compute". |
| Tajik | The verb "ҳисоб кардан" can also mean "to consider" or "to think" in Tajik. |
| Thai | The Thai word "คำนวณ" (calculate) also means "to determine the time". |
| Turkish | Hesaplamak also means to settle accounts in Turkish |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word "обчислити" (calculate) has roots in the Proto-Indo-European language and is related to words meaning "to reckon" in other Slavic languages. |
| Uzbek | The word "hisoblash" in Uzbek also means "to account for". |
| Vietnamese | The word "tính toán" can mean either to "calculate" or to "plan". It comes from the Chinese word 計算 (jísuàn). |
| Welsh | The word 'cyfrifwch' ultimately derives from the Latin word 'ciphra', meaning 'zero' |
| Xhosa | The Xhosa word "ukubala" can also mean "to count" or "to tell". |
| Yiddish | "רעכענען" in Yiddish can also mean "to argue" |
| Yoruba | "ìṣìrọ" can also mean to "calculate" or "estimate" something or to "ponder" about something |
| Zulu | "Bala" can also mean "to make an impression" or "to leave a mark" in Zulu. |
| English | 'Calculate' derives from Latin 'calculus' meaning 'small stone' and was originally used for counting. |