Comparison in Different Languages
Discover 'Comparison' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Comparison
Afrikaans vergelyking | ||
Albanian krahasimi | ||
Amharic ንፅፅር | ||
Arabic مقارنة | ||
Armenian համեմատություն | ||
Assamese তুলনা কৰা | ||
Aymara kikipayaña | ||
Azerbaijani müqayisə | ||
Bambara sangali | ||
Basque konparazioa | ||
Belarusian параўнанне | ||
Bengali তুলনা | ||
Bhojpuri तुलना | ||
Bosnian poređenje | ||
Bulgarian сравнение | ||
Catalan comparació | ||
Cebuano pagtandi | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 比较 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 比較 | ||
Corsican paragone | ||
Croatian usporedba | ||
Czech srovnání | ||
Danish sammenligning | ||
Dhivehi ފަރަޤުކުރުން | ||
Dogri मकाबला | ||
Dutch vergelijking | ||
English comparison | ||
Esperanto komparo | ||
Estonian võrdlus | ||
Ewe nusɔnu | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) paghahambing | ||
Finnish vertailu | ||
French comparaison | ||
Frisian fergeliking | ||
Galician comparación | ||
Georgian შედარება | ||
German vergleich | ||
Greek σύγκριση | ||
Guarani mbojoja | ||
Gujarati સરખામણી | ||
Haitian Creole konparezon | ||
Hausa kwatancen | ||
Hawaiian hoʻohālikelike | ||
Hebrew השוואה | ||
Hindi तुलना | ||
Hmong sib piv | ||
Hungarian összehasonlítás | ||
Icelandic samanburður | ||
Igbo tụnyere | ||
Ilocano panangiyasping | ||
Indonesian perbandingan | ||
Irish comparáid | ||
Italian confronto | ||
Japanese 比較 | ||
Javanese bandhingane | ||
Kannada ಹೋಲಿಕೆ | ||
Kazakh салыстыру | ||
Khmer ការប្រៀបធៀប | ||
Kinyarwanda kugereranya | ||
Konkani तुळा करप | ||
Korean 비교 | ||
Krio kɔmpia | ||
Kurdish mûqayese | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) بەراوردکردن | ||
Kyrgyz салыштыруу | ||
Lao ການປຽບທຽບ | ||
Latin collatio | ||
Latvian salīdzinājums | ||
Lingala bokokanisi | ||
Lithuanian palyginimas | ||
Luganda okugattika | ||
Luxembourgish verglach | ||
Macedonian споредба | ||
Maithili तुलना | ||
Malagasy fampitahana | ||
Malay perbandingan | ||
Malayalam താരതമ്യം | ||
Maltese paragun | ||
Maori whakataurite | ||
Marathi तुलना | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯆꯥꯡꯗꯝꯅꯕ | ||
Mizo khaikhinna | ||
Mongolian харьцуулалт | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) နှိုင်းယှဉ် | ||
Nepali तुलना | ||
Norwegian sammenligning | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kuyerekezera | ||
Odia (Oriya) ତୁଳନା | ||
Oromo wal bira qabuu | ||
Pashto پرتله | ||
Persian مقایسه | ||
Polish porównanie | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) comparação | ||
Punjabi ਤੁਲਨਾ | ||
Quechua tinkuchiy | ||
Romanian comparaţie | ||
Russian сравнение | ||
Samoan faatusatusaga | ||
Sanskrit तुलना | ||
Scots Gaelic coimeas | ||
Sepedi papetšo | ||
Serbian упоређивање | ||
Sesotho papiso | ||
Shona kuenzanisa | ||
Sindhi ڀيٽيو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) සංසන්දනය | ||
Slovak porovnanie | ||
Slovenian primerjava | ||
Somali isbarbardhiga | ||
Spanish comparación | ||
Sundanese ngabandingkeun | ||
Swahili kulinganisha | ||
Swedish jämförelse | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) paghahambing | ||
Tajik муқоиса | ||
Tamil ஒப்பீடு | ||
Tatar чагыштыру | ||
Telugu పోలిక | ||
Thai การเปรียบเทียบ | ||
Tigrinya ምውድዳር | ||
Tsonga fananisa | ||
Turkish karşılaştırma | ||
Turkmen deňeşdirmek | ||
Twi (Akan) ntotoho | ||
Ukrainian порівняння | ||
Urdu موازنہ | ||
Uyghur سېلىشتۇرۇش | ||
Uzbek taqqoslash | ||
Vietnamese sự so sánh | ||
Welsh cymhariaeth | ||
Xhosa uthelekiso | ||
Yiddish פאַרגלייַך | ||
Yoruba ifiwera | ||
Zulu ukuqhathanisa |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "vergelyking" is derived from the Dutch word "vergelijken", meaning "to compare". |
| Albanian | The word "krahasimi" in Albanian comes from the Proto-Albanian word *kʷr̥h₂os-, meaning "to examine, compare". |
| Amharic | In some contexts, "ንፅፅር" can also refer to a "balance" or "equilibrium", as when comparing two things. |
| Arabic | The word "مقارنة" can also mean "analogy" or "comparison to" in Arabic. |
| Azerbaijani | Müqayisə is derived from the Arabic word qiyas and means comparison, estimation, or analogy. |
| Basque | The Basque word "konparazioa" means "comparison", but it also refers to the act of comparing. |
| Bengali | Derived from Sanskrit तुलन (tulana), meaning 'weighing,' 'balancing,' or 'estimating.' |
| Bosnian | The word 'poređenje' is a noun meaning 'comparison' and is derived from the verb 'porediti' meaning 'to compare'. |
| Bulgarian | The Bulgarian word "сравнение" can also refer to a comparison photo, a type of photo that shows a subject before and after a transformation. |
| Catalan | The Catalan word 'comparació' comes from the Latin word 'comparatio', meaning 'comparison' but also 'arrangement' or 'preparation'. |
| Cebuano | Cognate with Malay "banding", Javanese "pambandingan", Indonesian "perbandingan". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "比较" (comparison) is a Chinese word with a long history, and has been used to indicate "beautiful" and "good" in ancient texts. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The word "比較" (comparison) in Traditional Chinese has a broader meaning than the English word "comparison" and can also include the idea of "contrasting" or "juxtaposing". |
| Corsican | In Corsican, the word "paragone" can also refer to a "model" or "example". |
| Croatian | The verb 'uporediti' and noun 'usporedba' both come from the Proto-Slavic word '*porti'. The word 'usporedba' also means 'proportion' or 'relation'. |
| Czech | The word "srovnání" can also mean "alignment" in Czech. |
| Danish | The Danish word "sammenligning" can also refer to a comparison of two or more quantities to determine their relative value. |
| Dutch | In the 13th century, "vergelijking" also meant a reconciliation or settlement. |
| Esperanto | "Komparo" can also mean "a comparison to" and "a comparison to him/her." |
| Estonian | "Võrdlus" is the Estonian word for "comparison" and also can refer to a stanza in a runo-song accompanied by the kannel. |
| Finnish | Vertailu (comparison) comes from the verb 'verrata', meaning 'to compare' |
| French | In Old French, "comparaison" had the additional meaning of "promise, pledge, contract." |
| Frisian | Derived from the Old Frisian 'fergelîc' which also gave 'fergelje' and 'fergeljen', which all have similar meanings to comparison. |
| Galician | No Galician, "comparación" is also a "match" in the context of a sports championship. |
| Georgian | The word "შეདარება" can also mean "ratio" or "proportion". |
| German | "Vergleich" also means "compromise" in German, deriving from the Old High German word "verlihhan" meaning "to lend". |
| Greek | The word σύγκριση is derived from the Greek verb συγκρίνω, meaning “to separate, distinguish, resolve, decide”. |
| Haitian Creole | The word "konparezon" also means "a comparison of two things to find their differences and similarities" in Haitian Creole. |
| Hausa | The Hausa word "kwatancen" is likely derived from the verb "kwatanta," meaning "to equate" or "to make equal." |
| Hawaiian | "Hoʻohālikelike" can also refer to an action in which one is causing another to resemble; it's not just used for simple comparisons. |
| Hebrew | "השוואה" can also mean an equation in a mathematical formula |
| Hindi | ** तुलना ** in Sanskrit, Pali, Prakrit and Bengali means scales i.e. weighing balance. |
| Hmong | The word "sib piv" is derived from the words "sib" (to compare) and "piv" (view). |
| Hungarian | The word "összehasonlítás" is a compound word consisting of "össze" (together) and "hasonlítás" (likeness), suggesting the act of putting two or more things side by side to examine their similarities and differences. |
| Icelandic | Samanburður's cognate in Old Norse, samanburðr, also means 'comparison of strength' or 'duel'. |
| Igbo | Tụnyere derives from the Igbo word "tụ" (gather) and "nyere" (give), suggesting the act of gathering and giving two or more things to compare them. |
| Indonesian | The word "perbandingan" can also mean "ratio" or "proportion". |
| Irish | The Irish word "comparáid" is derived from the Latin "comparare" meaning "to get together" (literally "put with" in the sense "of equal worth with"). |
| Italian | In Italian, "confronto" can also mean "face-to-face meeting" or "opposition". |
| Japanese | 比較 (hi-kaku) is derived from the characters 比 (hi) meaning "compare" or "ratio" and 較 (kaku) meaning "examine". |
| Javanese | In Javanese, 'bandhingane' also refers to a type of wooden box for storing valuables. |
| Kannada | The term "ಹೋಲಿಕೆ" (comparison) in Kannada is also used to refer to a type of Indian classical dance. |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "салыстыру" can also refer to a "ratio" or "proportion". |
| Khmer | The word "ការប្រៀបធៀប" (comparison) can also refer to the process of making such a comparison or to the result of that process. |
| Korean | In Korean, 비교 can also refer to 'ratio' or 'proportion'. |
| Kurdish | The word "mûqayese" in Kurdish derives from the Arabic word "muqāyasa", meaning "comparison". It ultimately stems from the Proto-Indo-European root "*meǵ-", meaning "to measure". |
| Kyrgyz | The term "салыштыруу" (comparison) originates from the verb "салыштыруу" (to compare), which originally referred to the act of comparing two objects to determine which one is better or more desirable. |
| Lao | The word "ການປຽບທຽບ" can also be used to refer to contrasting two or more objects, or to the process of judging the relative merits of different things. |
| Latin | The word 'collatio' also refers to the act of gathering food or money for a common purpose, such as a meal or a religious offering. |
| Latvian | The Latvian word "salīdzinājums" originates from the verb "salīdzināt," which means "to compare." |
| Lithuanian | Palyginimas is also used to refer to a 'figure' in the rhetorical sense (like 'similie' or 'metonymy'). |
| Luxembourgish | In German "Vergleich" also means "compromise" or "settlement". |
| Macedonian | Споредба in Macedonian derives from Old Church Slavonic "сравьнити", meaning "to compare something with something". In contemporary usage, "споредба" can also refer to the act of measuring or evaluating something in relation to a standard, as in a grading assessment or scientific experiment. |
| Malagasy | Fampitahana comes from the word "fitaha" which means "to start something". |
| Malay | In Malay, the word "perbandingan" can also mean "ratio" or "proportion". |
| Malayalam | "താരതമ്യം" can also be interpreted as a "star-like" or a "divine" comparison |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "paragun" (comparison) is derived from the Sicilian "paraguni" (comparison), which in turn comes from the Latin "paragōnē" (comparison). |
| Maori | The word "whakataurite" is also used in Maori language to mean "to compare or contrast". |
| Marathi | तुलना can also refer to the act of copying someone or something. |
| Nepali | The word "तुलना" is derived from the Sanskrit word "तुल", meaning "to weigh" or "to measure". |
| Norwegian | The word 'sammenligning' derives from the Old Norse word 'samannlikning', meaning 'equal comparison'. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "kuyerekezera" can also mean "to try" or "to attempt" in Nyanja. |
| Pashto | “پرتله” is derived from the Sanskrit word “प्रतिलः” and means “copy, counterpart, or resemblance”. |
| Persian | The word "مقایسه" derives from Arabic and has the additional meaning of "balancing". |
| Polish | "Porównanie" can also refer to a literary trope or a ratio in mathematics. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, 'comparação' also means 'dating' or 'courting'. |
| Romanian | The word "comparaţie" comes from the Latin "comparare", meaning "to put together" or "to compare". |
| Russian | The word "сравнение" can also mean "comparison" in the sense of "a comparison of two or more things to determine their relative value or worth." |
| Samoan | Faatusatusaga also means "a story or fable" |
| Scots Gaelic | Scots Gaelic 'coimeas' also means 'measurement' and may be related to 'comas' ('a sign, a prophecy'). |
| Serbian | 'Упоређивање' (comparison) also means 'setting' or 'fixing' in some other Slavic languages (such as Russian). |
| Sesotho | papiso is also a noun referring to an event of bringing people from different areas/families for the purposes of marriage arrangements. |
| Shona | The word "kuenzanisa" can also mean "to be similar to" or "to be equal to" something else. |
| Sindhi | The word ڀيٽيو (comparison) is derived from the word ڀيٽ (to meet or encounter). |
| Slovak | The word "porovnanie" can also mean "a tie" in a sports competition. |
| Slovenian | The word "primerjava" also means "antagonism" when used with the preposition "z" (with). |
| Somali | The word "isbarbardhiga" is derived from the Somali roots "is" meaning "to make" and "barbardhig" meaning "to show, exhibit, or compare". |
| Spanish | "Comparación" can also mean "match" or "duel" when two entities have similar strength or ability. |
| Sundanese | The Sundanese word "ngabandingkeun" is also used to refer to an "example" or to "prove a point", similar to the English phrase "for instance". |
| Swahili | The word "kulinganisha" can also refer to "similarities" or "likenesses". |
| Swedish | The Swedish word 'jämförelse' comes from the verb 'att jämföra' ('to compare'), and literally means 'to carry together'. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "paghahambing" can also mean "comparison" or "analogy". |
| Tajik | The word "муқоиса" is derived from the Persian word "مقائسه" and its root verb "قاس" meaning "to measure". Its alternate meaning is "contrast". |
| Tamil | The word "ஒப்பீடு" can mean "to liken" or "to resemble" in Tamil. |
| Telugu | The word 'పోలిక' can also mean 'similarity', 'resemblance', or 'analogy'. |
| Thai | The Thai word "การเปรียบเทียบ" also means "to compare things to each other". |
| Turkish | The word "karşılaştırma" also means "confrontation" in Turkish. |
| Ukrainian | The word "порівняння" can also mean "analogy" or "parable". |
| Urdu | The word "موازنہ" is derived from the Arabic word "وزن" meaning "weight". |
| Uzbek | The word "taqqoslash" is derived from the Arabic word "taqsim", which means "division" or "partition". |
| Vietnamese | The word "sự so sánh" literally means "the thing of putting together" in Vietnamese, implying the act of bringing two or more entities together for examination and judgment. |
| Welsh | The Welsh word 'cymhariaeth' is derived from the Latin 'comparare', meaning 'to match' or 'to pair'. |
| Xhosa | Uthelekiso' also means 'exchange', 'conversion', 'translation' or 'interchange'. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word פאַרגלייַך also means 'similitude,' 'analogy,' 'example,' 'illustration,' 'anecdote,' 'tale,' 'parable,' 'fable,' 'allegory,' 'proverb,' 'maxim,' 'motto,' 'epigram,' 'aphorism,' 'saw,' 'quip,' 'joke,' and 'anecdote'. |
| Yoruba | In Yoruba, "ifiwera" also means "weighing scale" and "a situation where two things are weighed against each other to determine their relative worth or value." |
| Zulu | The term 'ukuqhathanisa' comes from the verb 'uqhatha' meaning 'to throw' or 'to shoot', implying the act of aiming or throwing one thing against another for comparison. |
| English | The word 'comparison' (also known as simile, metaphor, analogy, or contrast) in English can also refer to the comparison of two or more items to determine their similarities and dissimilarities. |