Century in Different Languages
Discover 'Century' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Century
Afrikaans eeu | ||
Albanian shekulli | ||
Amharic ክፍለ ዘመን | ||
Arabic مئة عام | ||
Armenian դար | ||
Assamese শতিকা | ||
Aymara tunka mara | ||
Azerbaijani əsr | ||
Bambara sànkɛmɛ | ||
Basque mendean | ||
Belarusian стагоддзя | ||
Bengali শতাব্দী | ||
Bhojpuri सदी | ||
Bosnian vijeka | ||
Bulgarian век | ||
Catalan segle | ||
Cebuano siglo | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 世纪 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 世紀 | ||
Corsican seculu | ||
Croatian stoljeću | ||
Czech století | ||
Danish århundrede | ||
Dhivehi ޤަރުނު | ||
Dogri शतक | ||
Dutch eeuw | ||
English century | ||
Esperanto jarcento | ||
Estonian sajandil | ||
Ewe ƒe alafa ɖeka | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) siglo | ||
Finnish vuosisadalla | ||
French siècle | ||
Frisian ieu | ||
Galician século | ||
Georgian საუკუნე | ||
German jahrhundert | ||
Greek αιώνας | ||
Guarani sa ary | ||
Gujarati સદી | ||
Haitian Creole syèk la | ||
Hausa karni | ||
Hawaiian kenekulia | ||
Hebrew מֵאָה | ||
Hindi सदी | ||
Hmong caug xyoo | ||
Hungarian század | ||
Icelandic öld | ||
Igbo narị afọ | ||
Ilocano sangagasut a tawen | ||
Indonesian abad | ||
Irish haois | ||
Italian secolo | ||
Japanese 世紀 | ||
Javanese abad | ||
Kannada ಶತಮಾನ | ||
Kazakh ғасыр | ||
Khmer សតវត្សទី | ||
Kinyarwanda ikinyejana | ||
Konkani शतक | ||
Korean 세기 | ||
Krio wan ɔndrɛd ia | ||
Kurdish sedsal | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) سەدە | ||
Kyrgyz кылым | ||
Lao ສະຕະວັດ | ||
Latin saeculum | ||
Latvian gadsimtā | ||
Lingala ekeke | ||
Lithuanian amžiaus | ||
Luganda ekikumi | ||
Luxembourgish joerhonnert | ||
Macedonian век | ||
Maithili सदी | ||
Malagasy taonjato | ||
Malay abad | ||
Malayalam നൂറ്റാണ്ട് | ||
Maltese seklu | ||
Maori rautau | ||
Marathi शतक | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯆꯍꯤꯆꯥ | ||
Mizo za | ||
Mongolian зуун | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ရာစုနှစ် | ||
Nepali शताब्दी | ||
Norwegian århundre | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) zaka zana limodzi | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଶତାବ୍ଦୀ | ||
Oromo jaarraa | ||
Pashto پیړۍ | ||
Persian قرن | ||
Polish stulecie | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) século | ||
Punjabi ਸਦੀ | ||
Quechua pachak wata | ||
Romanian secol | ||
Russian век | ||
Samoan seneturi | ||
Sanskrit शताब्दी | ||
Scots Gaelic linn | ||
Sepedi ngwagakgolo | ||
Serbian века | ||
Sesotho lekholo la lilemo | ||
Shona zana remakore | ||
Sindhi صدي | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) සියවස | ||
Slovak storočia | ||
Slovenian stoletja | ||
Somali qarnigii | ||
Spanish siglo | ||
Sundanese abad | ||
Swahili karne | ||
Swedish århundrade | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) siglo | ||
Tajik аср | ||
Tamil நூற்றாண்டு | ||
Tatar гасыр | ||
Telugu శతాబ్దం | ||
Thai ศตวรรษ | ||
Tigrinya ዘመን | ||
Tsonga khume ra malembe | ||
Turkish yüzyıl | ||
Turkmen asyr | ||
Twi (Akan) mfeha | ||
Ukrainian століття | ||
Urdu صدی | ||
Uyghur ئەسىر | ||
Uzbek asr | ||
Vietnamese kỷ | ||
Welsh ganrif | ||
Xhosa kwinkulungwane | ||
Yiddish יאָרהונדערט | ||
Yoruba orundun | ||
Zulu ikhulu leminyaka |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "eeu" can also refer to a large amount or quantity of something. |
| Albanian | The word "shekulli" comes from "shekull" (100 years), which in turn came from the Latin "saeculum" (age, generation). |
| Arabic | The word "مئة عام" literally means "one hundred years" in Arabic, but it can also refer to a period of time that is not necessarily exactly 100 years. |
| Armenian | In Armenian, the word "դար" can also refer to "time" or "era". |
| Azerbaijani | In Arabic, from which Azerbaijani borrowed the word, "əsr" means "an era or a generation". |
| Basque | The Basque word "mendean" can also mean "epoch" or "era". |
| Belarusian | Стагоддзя comes from the word стаг (stag) and its alternate meaning includes a male deer during summer. |
| Bengali | শতাব্দী শব্দটির আরেকটি অর্থ হল 'ব্যক্তির জীবনের ১০০ বছর'। |
| Bosnian | "Vijeka" comes from Latin "vicus", which meant "village" or "district". |
| Bulgarian | The word "век" in Bulgarian has an additional meaning of "a long period of time", not just "a century". |
| Catalan | "Segle" comes from the Latin word "saeculum" which means both "century" and "generation". |
| Cebuano | The word "siglo" comes from the Latin word "saeculum", or age. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 世纪 is used in Chinese to refer to a 100-year period, and also figuratively to any period of time that seems especially significant. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The word "世紀" also has a meaning of "generation" or "era" in the context of human history or culture. |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "seculu" also means "world" or "universe". |
| Croatian | The word "stoljeće" derives from the Proto-Slavic "stъľьta," meaning "hundred," and has cognates in other Slavic languages such as Russian "столетие" and Polish "stulecie." |
| Czech | Czech "století" originated as a measure of the distance covered in a hundred paces and, in addition to "century," has meanings like "column" and "heap". |
| Danish | The Danish word "århundrede" literally translates to "a hundred years", reflecting its etymology. |
| Dutch | Eeuw is a cognate of the English word 'age' and can also refer to a person's lifetime or a particular era. |
| Esperanto | Jarcent is derived from the Latin word "cent" and means "per one hundred". It can also refer to a certain period of time (100 years) or a group of 100 people. |
| Estonian | The word "sajand" comes from the Old Germanic *hund "hundred" and the suffix *-and "period of time". |
| Finnish | In Finnish, "vuosisadalla" literally means "by hundreds" or "with hundreds". |
| French | The word "siècle" comes from the Latin word "saeculum," which means "age," "generation," or "human life." |
| Frisian | "Ieu" is both singular and plural, and can also mean "age" or "human life." |
| Galician | The Galician word "século" can also mean "period of time", "age", or "era". |
| Georgian | It is also used figuratively to refer to a long period of time or a particular time period, regardless of its length. |
| German | The German word 'Jahrhundert' literally translates to 'year-hundred' and also refers to a period of one hundred years. |
| Greek | The Greek word "αιώνας" also means "eternity" or "an indefinitely long period of time." |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "સદી" (sadi) is cognate with the Hindi and Sanskrit words "सदी" (sadi) and "शत" (shata), all of which mean "hundred". |
| Haitian Creole | The word "syèk la" in Haitian Creole is derived from the French word "siècle", meaning "century" or "epoch". |
| Hausa | The word "karni" is used as a unit of measure to count periods of ten days instead of centuries. |
| Hawaiian | The Hawaiian word "kenekulia" originates from the word "kēkē", meaning "hundred" |
| Hebrew | The word 'מֵאָה' ('century') in Hebrew is related to the word 'counting' ('סַפִירָה'), suggesting its original meaning was 'a group of 100'. |
| Hindi | "सदी" (century) comes from the Sanskrit word "शताब्दि" (śatābdi), meaning "hundred years," and can also mean "age" or "era." |
| Hmong | The Hmong word "caug xyoo" also means "one hundred years". |
| Hungarian | Század's other meaning is 'hundred', deriving from the Proto-Hungarian word 'szaz', meaning 'hundred'. |
| Icelandic | "Öld" also means "age", and it's related to the word "aldur" (which means the same). |
| Igbo | "Narị afọ" is derived from the words "narị" (hundred) and "afọ" (year), and can also refer to a long period of time. |
| Indonesian | The word "abad" can also mean "long time" or "era". |
| Irish | In Old Irish, "haois" was pronounced "wess" or "wes" and meant "lifetime" or "age". |
| Italian | The word "secolo" in Italian can also mean "world" or "age", reflecting its Latin origin "saeculum". |
| Japanese | The word "世紀" also means "world" or "generation" in Japanese. |
| Javanese | In Javanese, the word "abad" can also mean "great-grandfather" or "great-grandmother". |
| Kannada | The word 'ಶತಮಾನ' is derived from Sanskrit and can also mean a 'hundredth part' or a 'short period'. |
| Kazakh | The word ғасыр (ğasır) in Kazakh comes from the Arabic word غَسْق (ğasq), which means "twilight" or "dusk." |
| Korean | Though written with the Chinese characters for 'world and generation,' '세기' also means 'century' in Korean. |
| Kurdish | The word "sedsal" also means "age" or "era" in Kurdish. |
| Kyrgyz | The word "кылым" can also mean "world" or "eternity" in Kyrgyz. |
| Lao | The word "ສະຕະວັດ" can also be used to refer to a long period of time, or to a particular time period in history. |
| Latin | In Latin, "saeculum" initially meant a generation or an age, and only later took on the meaning of "century". |
| Latvian | In Latvian, "gadsimtā" literally means "year of hundreds". |
| Lithuanian | The word "amžius" derives from the Proto-Baltic word *amžus, meaning "age" or "lifetime". |
| Luxembourgish | The Luxembourgish word "Joerhonnert" also refers to the "turn of the century" or a "hundred-year period" in time. |
| Macedonian | The word "век" can also mean "age" or "era". |
| Malagasy | Taonjato is derived from 'taona', meaning 'year', and 'zato', denoting something 'complete' or 'perfect'. |
| Malay | "Abad" is related to the Arabic word "ibadah" (worship), suggesting a notion of "period of time dedicated to worship". |
| Malayalam | "നൂറ്റാണ്ട്" also means "one hundred years" in Malayalam, which is cognate with the English word "century". |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "seklu" ultimately derives from the Latin word "saeculum", meaning both "century" and "generation" or "age". |
| Maori | Rautau is also a Maori word for "hundred". |
| Marathi | "शतक" in Marathi not only refers to a century in the Western sense (100 years), but also carries the meaning of a group of 100 items, such as a collection of poems or flowers. |
| Mongolian | The word |
| Nepali | In its alternative form "शतकी", "शताब्दी" also means "a woman who has lived for a hundred years." |
| Norwegian | In Old Norse, "árhundre" meant "hundred years", but could also mean "generation" or "lifetime". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "zaka zana limodzi" is often translated as "century" but it can also mean a period of 100 years, a group of 100 people, or a period of 100 days. |
| Pashto | In Pashto, the word "پیړۍ" ("peerai") can also refer to a "generation" or "decade" |
| Persian | The word "قرن" can also refer to a ram's horn or a trumpet. |
| Polish | The word 'stulecie' derives from the German word 'Stuhl' which is a seat for official meetings. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, the word "século" not only refers to a century but also to a secular (non-religious) perspective or mindset. |
| Punjabi | The word 'ਸਦੀ' ('century') in Punjabi also means 'lifetime' or 'age'. |
| Romanian | The term "secol" derives from Latin word "saeculum" meaning "generation" or "age". |
| Russian | In Old Russian, "век" could also mean "a person's lifetime" or "eternity". |
| Samoan | The Samoan word 'seneturi' is derived from the English word 'century' and also refers to a group of 100 people or things. |
| Scots Gaelic | The word derives from the Old Gaelic "linn", meaning "a pool". |
| Serbian | The Serbian word "veka" also means "eyelash" and is related to the Polish word "wieko" meaning "lid". |
| Shona | Zana remakore is an idiomatic expression which is also used metaphorically to imply "a long, very long" time. |
| Sindhi | The word "صدي" also means "hundred" when used as a number. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | In Sinhala usage, the word "සියවස" may refer to a century in general (as in the Gregorian calendar), but it can also mean "one's own era", which could refer to any unspecified time period. |
| Slovak | The word "storočia" in Slovak can also mean "era" or "age". |
| Slovenian | The word "stoletje" comes from the Old Slavic word "stoletije" which meant a "hundred years". |
| Somali | The word "qarnigii" in Somali derives from the Arabic word "qarn" meaning "century" or "a period of about 100 years." |
| Spanish | "Siglo" derives from the Latin "saeculum," which can also mean "generation" or "age". |
| Sundanese | The word "abad" can also mean "long time" or "year". |
| Swahili | The name is thought to derive from the Arabic qarn "generation" or "age". |
| Swedish | The word "århundrade" comes from the Old Norse word "árhund", which means "hundred years", and is cognate with the English word "hundred." |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Siglo" is also an obsolete Spanish unit of currency worth 1⁄20 of a peso. |
| Tajik | The Tajik word "аср" (aspr) comes from the Arabic word "عصر" (ʿaṣr), which means both "century" and "afternoon". |
| Tamil | நூற்றாண்டு (nootraandu) literally means 100 years, but figuratively refers to an important milestone or a period of great change. |
| Telugu | The Telugu word శతాబ్దం (satābdam) is ultimately derived from Sanskrit "śata" meaning "hundred" and refers to a century or a period of one hundred years. |
| Thai | "ศตวรรษ" can also refer to the 100 parts or items that make up something. |
| Turkish | "Yüzyıl" originally referred to "100 horses" |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word "століття" can also mean "generation" or "lifetime". |
| Urdu | The word 'صدی' ('century') in Urdu is derived from the Arabic word 'sad' ('hundred'), and can also refer to a group of one hundred or a ratio of 1 to 100. |
| Uzbek | The Uzbek word "asr" derives from the Arabic word "aṣr" (عصر) meaning both "time" or "era" and the afternoon prayer. |
| Vietnamese | The word "kỷ" also means "era" or "period" in Vietnamese. |
| Welsh | The word 'ganrif' in Welsh can also refer to a 'hundred' or a 'large number'. |
| Xhosa | "Khulukhulu" in the word may mean "old" or "senior". In Xhosa lore, a "kwinkulungwane" is an elderly, respected person worthy of honor. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "יאָרהונדערט" has two etymological roots, the Old High German *jar- "year" + *hun(d)ert "hundred." |
| Yoruba | "Orundun" also means "age" or "era" in Yoruba, implying the cyclical nature of time and the repetition of events over long periods. |
| Zulu | Ikhulu leminyaka originates from the ancient Zulu concept of time denoted by periods of a lunar month. |
| English | The word `century` derives from the Latin word `centum`, meaning "hundred," and is commonly used to refer to a period of 100 years. |