Decade in Different Languages
Discover 'Decade' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Decade
Afrikaans dekade | ||
Albanian dekadë | ||
Amharic አስር አመት | ||
Arabic عقد | ||
Armenian տասնամյակ | ||
Assamese দশক | ||
Aymara tunka marata | ||
Azerbaijani onillik | ||
Bambara san tan | ||
Basque hamarkada | ||
Belarusian дзесяцігоддзе | ||
Bengali দশক | ||
Bhojpuri दशक | ||
Bosnian decenija | ||
Bulgarian десетилетие | ||
Catalan dècada | ||
Cebuano dekada | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 十年 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 十年 | ||
Corsican decenniu | ||
Croatian desetljeće | ||
Czech desetiletí | ||
Danish årti | ||
Dhivehi ޑިކޭޑް | ||
Dogri द्हाका | ||
Dutch decennium | ||
English decade | ||
Esperanto jardeko | ||
Estonian kümnendil | ||
Ewe ƒe ewo | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) dekada | ||
Finnish vuosikymmenen ajan | ||
French décennie | ||
Frisian dekade | ||
Galician década | ||
Georgian ათწლეული | ||
German dekade | ||
Greek δεκαετία | ||
Guarani pa ary | ||
Gujarati દાયકા | ||
Haitian Creole deseni | ||
Hausa shekaru goma | ||
Hawaiian ʻumi makahiki | ||
Hebrew עָשׂוֹר | ||
Hindi दशक | ||
Hmong xyoo caum | ||
Hungarian évtized | ||
Icelandic áratugur | ||
Igbo afọ iri | ||
Ilocano dekada | ||
Indonesian dasawarsa | ||
Irish deich mbliana | ||
Italian decennio | ||
Japanese 十年 | ||
Javanese dasawarsa | ||
Kannada ದಶಕ | ||
Kazakh он жылдық | ||
Khmer មួយទសវត្សរ៍ | ||
Kinyarwanda imyaka icumi | ||
Konkani दशक | ||
Korean 열개의 | ||
Krio tɛn ia | ||
Kurdish dehsal | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) دەیە | ||
Kyrgyz он жылдык | ||
Lao ທົດສະວັດ | ||
Latin decennium | ||
Latvian desmitgade | ||
Lingala bambula zomi | ||
Lithuanian dešimtmetis | ||
Luganda emyaaka kumi | ||
Luxembourgish jorzéngt | ||
Macedonian декада | ||
Maithili दशक | ||
Malagasy folo taona | ||
Malay dekad | ||
Malayalam ദശാബ്ദം | ||
Maltese għaxar snin | ||
Maori tekau tau | ||
Marathi दशक | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯆꯍꯤ ꯇꯔꯥꯒꯤ ꯈꯨꯖꯤꯡ | ||
Mizo kum sawm | ||
Mongolian арван жил | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ဆယ်စုနှစ် | ||
Nepali दशक | ||
Norwegian tiår | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) zaka khumi | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଦଶନ୍ଧି | ||
Oromo waggaa kudhan | ||
Pashto لسيزه | ||
Persian دهه | ||
Polish dekada | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) década | ||
Punjabi ਦਹਾਕਾ | ||
Quechua chunka wata | ||
Romanian deceniu | ||
Russian десятилетие | ||
Samoan sefulu tausaga | ||
Sanskrit दशकं | ||
Scots Gaelic deichead | ||
Sepedi ngwagasome | ||
Serbian декада | ||
Sesotho lilemo tse leshome | ||
Shona gumi | ||
Sindhi ڏهاڪي | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) දශකය | ||
Slovak desaťročie | ||
Slovenian desetletje | ||
Somali toban sano | ||
Spanish década | ||
Sundanese dékade | ||
Swahili miaka kumi | ||
Swedish årtionde | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) dekada | ||
Tajik даҳсола | ||
Tamil தசாப்தம் | ||
Tatar унъеллык | ||
Telugu దశాబ్దం | ||
Thai ทศวรรษ | ||
Tigrinya ዓሰርተ ዓመት | ||
Tsonga khume ra malembe | ||
Turkish onyıl | ||
Turkmen onýyllyk | ||
Twi (Akan) mfedu | ||
Ukrainian десятиліття | ||
Urdu دہائی | ||
Uyghur ئون يىل | ||
Uzbek o'n yil | ||
Vietnamese thập kỷ | ||
Welsh degawd | ||
Xhosa ishumi leminyaka | ||
Yiddish יאָרצענדלינג | ||
Yoruba ọdun mẹwa | ||
Zulu iminyaka eyishumi |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "dekade" does not mean "decade" but "decay" whereas the word "dekades" means "decades". |
| Albanian | Dekadë, a Albanian loanword from Greek, also means a group of ten people or things. |
| Amharic | The term "asər ammət" (decade) can also refer to a period of a hundred years, equivalent to a century. |
| Arabic | In Arabic, "عقد" can also refer to a contract, a marriage vow, or a necklace. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "onillik" is derived from the Turkic root "on" meaning "ten" and the suffix "-lik" forming nouns indicating a set or quantity. |
| Basque | The Basque word "hamarkada" also means "a group of ten" and is related to "hama" ("ten") and "-kada" (a suffix indicating a group). |
| Belarusian | This word comes from the Old Church Slavonic language and shares the same root as the Russian word "десять" (ten). |
| Bengali | "দশক" (dashôk) means "a decade" from the Sanskrit word "dashaka", meaning "a group of ten". |
| Bosnian | The Bosnian word "decenija" can also mean "a period of ten years, especially a period of ten years from a particular date or event." |
| Bulgarian | The Russian word "десетилетие" also means "decennial", which is an adjective that means "lasting or occurring once in ten years". |
| Catalan | The word "dècada" in Catalan shares its root with "decade" in English, as both come from the Latin word "decas," meaning "ten." |
| Cebuano | In Cebuano, "dekada" can also refer to a ten-day religious festival or a group of ten people. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 十年 is also a unit of time in Chinese astrology, and represents a specific period within a person's life cycle. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 十年 can also mean "ten years" and "a long time". |
| Corsican | The word "decenniu" derives from the Latin word "decennium" and also means "ten years". |
| Croatian | 'Desetljeće', meaning 'decade' in Croatian, comes from the Proto-Slavic word 'desętъ', meaning 'ten', and the suffix '-лѣт', meaning 'year'. |
| Czech | The Czech word "desetiletí" can also mean a "ten-year period" or an "era characterized by a particular trend or style". |
| Danish | The Danish word "årti" ("decade") is derived from the Latin "decem" ("ten"), which also appears in words like "decimal" and "decagon". |
| Dutch | Het Latijnse woord decennium, dat in het Nederlands "decennium" werd, was oorspronkelijk een periode van tien dagen. |
| Esperanto | "Jardeko" also means "a set of ten objects" in Esperanto, such as a set of ten eggs or a set of ten cards. |
| Estonian | "Kümnendil" derives from the Old Prussian word "kumen" and is also used in Old Lithuanian, Old Latvian, and Albanian. |
| Finnish | The word "vuosikymmenen ajan" is a compound word formed by "vuosikymmen", meaning "decade" and the adessive case ending "n", denoting duration of time or a particular period in time. |
| French | The word «décennie» comes from the Latin word «decem» which means ten, and from the suffix «-ennium» which indicates a period of time. |
| Frisian | In addition to meaning "decade", the Frisian word "dekade" can also be used to refer to a "group of ten" or a "dodecahedron". |
| Galician | The Galician word "década" can also mean "ten days" or a "group of ten". |
| Georgian | The Georgian word "ათწლეული" can also refer to an "era" or "epoch" rather than a period of ten years. |
| German | The word "Dekade" in German can also refer to a group of ten people or things, or to a period of ten days. |
| Greek | The word "δεκαετία" (decade) in Greek also means "a group of ten people". |
| Gujarati | The word "દાયકા" (decade) in Gujarati shares its etymology with "dekha","dekhada," "dashak," and "dasha" in other Indo-Aryan languages and ultimately derives from "dasa," meaning "ten." |
| Haitian Creole | Deseni is also used in Haitian Creole to refer to the 200, 500 and 1000 notes issued by the Bank of the Republic of Haiti. |
| Hausa | The Hausa word "shekaru goma" can also refer to a period of nine years, nine months, or nine days. |
| Hawaiian | 'Umi makahiki literally means a 'gathering or group of ten years,' akin to English 'decade.' |
| Hebrew | In the Bible, "עָשׂוֹר" can also mean a "tithe", a contribution of one-tenth of one's income to the Temple. |
| Hindi | The word "दशक" (dashak) can trace its roots back to the Sanskrit word "दश" (dasha), meaning "ten". |
| Hmong | The Hmong word "xyoo caum" is an example of a compound word in which the first word means "year" and the second word means "ten." |
| Hungarian | Evtized is also used to refer to the period of ten years during which the grape variety Kadarka grows and becomes viable. |
| Icelandic | "Áratugur" is the Icelandic word for "decade" and it comes from the Old Norse word "ár" meaning "year" and "tug" meaning "ten." |
| Igbo | In the Igbo lexicon, the term 'afọ iri' encapsulates two distinct meanings: 'a period of 10 years' and 'the period between childhood and adulthood'. |
| Indonesian | "Dasawarsa" is a compound of Javanese terms "dasa", meaning "ten" and "warsa", meaning "period of one orbit around Earth" (year), so the full meaning is closer to "ten years" rather than "decade". |
| Irish | "Deich mbliana" means "ten years" in Irish and is a calque of the Latin "decem" and "annus". |
| Italian | The word 'decennio' is derived from the Latin words 'decem' (ten) and '-ennium' (year). It can also refer to a period of ten years, or a group of ten. |
| Japanese | The word decade in Japanese, 十年, also means "long, prolonged" or "a decade or years", depending on the context. |
| Javanese | "Dasawarsa" also means "ten years" in Indonesian. |
| Kannada | The Kannada word "ದಶಕ" also means "a period of ten days" or "the tenth part of a fortnight". |
| Kazakh | The term "он жылдық" is also used in the Kazakh language to refer to a period of ten years in the past. |
| Khmer | Besides a period of ten years, "មួយទសវត្សរ៍" also means "a set of ten". |
| Korean | "열개의" is a Sino-Korean word for "decade", meaning "a period of ten years". |
| Kurdish | The word "dehsal" in Kurdish derives from the Persian word "dah" meaning "ten" and the Arabic word "sal" meaning "year." |
| Kyrgyz | The phrase originally meant "ten years," "period consisting of ten years," and "period consisting of several years". |
| Lao | The Lao word for decade, ທົດສະວັດ, is derived from the Sanskrit word दशक (daśaka) which originally meant "group of ten", and can also mean "ten" or "ten times" in Lao. |
| Latin | Decennium, "decade" in modern usage, initially meant a period of 10 days and later came to mean 10 years. |
| Latvian | In Latvian, “desmitgade” is sometimes used to describe a span of ten years, while in other contexts it can refer to a specific period of history, such as the 1920s or the 1960s. |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word "dešimtmetis" also means a boy or girl in their teens. |
| Luxembourgish | "Jorzéngt" comes from French "quarantaine", which also refers to a period of 40 days spent praying or in confinement. |
| Macedonian | The word "декада" can also refer to a ten-day period. |
| Malagasy | The word "folo taona" in Malagasy, meaning "decade," comes from the French word "décade," which itself comes from the Greek word "dekas," meaning "ten." |
| Malay | The word "dekad" can also mean "group of ten" in Malay. |
| Malayalam | In Malayalam, "ദശാബ്ദം" means both "decade" and "ten-year period in the life of a person" |
| Maltese | In Maltese, "għaxar snin" literally means "ten years". "Għaxar" is derived from the Arabic number "عشر" (pronounced "a'shar"), while "snin" is the plural form of the Arabic word "سنة" (pronounced "sana") meaning "year". The word "decade" has other meanings in English that are not reflected in this Maltese translation. |
| Maori | In Māori, tekau tau also refers to the length of a person's lifetime or a generation. |
| Marathi | The word "दशक" (dashak) in Marathi can also refer to a group of ten villages or a period of ten years. |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word "арван жил" (arvan jil) can also refer to a period of ten years, like a decade in English but not necessarily a period of exactly ten calendar years. |
| Nepali | Dashak, which comes from the Sanskrit word dashaka, can also refer to a set of ten items, a group of ten people, or a period of ten years. |
| Norwegian | The word 'tiår' is derived from the Old Norse words 'tíu' (ten) and 'ár' (year). In Norway it can also be used to refer to a group of 10 people or objects. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "zaka khumi" is also used in Nyanja to refer to a period of ten days or a "tenner". |
| Pashto | لسيزه can also mean "a book of ten leaves"; in Persian, it also signifies "a book". |
| Persian | The word "دهه" can also refer to a period of ten years in the Persian calendar, which is equivalent to about 600 solar years. |
| Polish | In Polish, "dekada" (decade) originally meant a group of 10 days, and only later acquired the meaning of "10 years" |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "década" in Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) also means a group of ten and a measure unit. |
| Punjabi | The word "ਦਹਾਕਾ" (dahaka) in Punjabi is also used to refer to a group of ten or a set of ten items. |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "deceniu" also means "indecent" in Latin. |
| Russian | The word "десятилетие" is derived from the Old Church Slavonic word "десятъ", meaning "ten", and the suffix "-ие", which indicates a period of time; it originally meant "a period of ten years" but now has the more general meaning of "a period of ten years or more". |
| Samoan | Decade in Samoan is called "sefulu tausaga", which also means "ten years." |
| Scots Gaelic | The Gaelic word "deichead" also means "ten" or "tithe". |
| Serbian | The word "декада" in Serbian can also mean a "ten-day period", and is derived from Greek "δεκάς (dekas)". |
| Shona | The word 'gumi' can also refer to the 'decade beads' used in the Catholic Church. |
| Sindhi | ڏهاڪي, which means "decade," comes from the word "ڏه," meaning "ten," and the suffix "-اڪي." |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The term "දශකය" also refers to the 10-day period immediately prior to the festival of Poson in Sri Lanka. |
| Slovak | "Desaťročie" in Slovak literally translates to "ten years" rather than "decade." |
| Slovenian | The word 'desetletje' derives from the Proto-Slavic word 'desęť', meaning 'ten', and the suffix '-letje', meaning 'a period of time'. It can also refer to a group of ten people or things. |
| Somali | The word "toban sano" can also refer to a period of 10 years, a decade, or a group of 10 people. |
| Spanish | The word "década" in Spanish shares its etymology with the English word "decade" and also has the alternate meaning of "group of ten". |
| Sundanese | The word "dékade" in Sundanese can also mean "the act of being deceived" or "a lie". |
| Swahili | The Swahili word "miaka kumi" can also refer to a "ten year period" |
| Swedish | The word "årtionde" is derived from the Old Swedish word "år", meaning "year" and the suffix "-tionde", meaning "tenth". It originally referred to a period of ten years. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Dekada" also refers to the decimal system in the Philippines and can also mean "tens". |
| Tajik | The word 'daҳsola' not only means 'decade', but also translates to 'a period of ten years' and 'the 10th anniversary'} |
| Tamil | தசாப்தம் refers not just to years but also to any group of ten other objects |
| Telugu | The word "దశాబ్దం" (Dashabdam) can also refer to a period of ten years, or a group of ten. |
| Thai | The word ทศวรรษ comes from Sanskrit and also means "group of three." |
| Turkish | In Turkish, "onyıl" literally means "ten years" and is used in the same context as "decade" in English. |
| Ukrainian | The word "десятиліття" literally means "ten years" in Ukrainian, and can also refer to a period of ten days. |
| Urdu | "دہائی" not only means "decade" in Urdu, it can also refer to a cry for help during difficult times, particularly when seeking divine intervention. |
| Uzbek | The word "o'n yil" literally means "ten years" in Uzbek. |
| Vietnamese | "Thập kỷ" also means "a period of ten days" in Vietnamese. |
| Welsh | The Welsh word "degawd" can also refer to a group of ten animals, or to a group of people who live in close proximity. |
| Xhosa | The literal meaning of 'ishimi leminyaka' is 'one turn of the years'. |
| Yiddish | In Yiddish, the word 'יאָרצענדלינג' refers both to a 'decade' as well as to the memorial candle lit in memory of a loved one on the anniversary of their death. |
| Yoruba | "Ọdun mẹwa" can refer to a decade, a period of ten years, or it can also refer to a period of one hundred years, a century. |
| Zulu | The Zulu word "iminyaka eyishumi" means "ten years" and is made up of two words: "iminyaka", meaning "years", and "eyishumi", meaning "ten". |
| English | The word "decade" is derived from the Greek word "dekas," meaning "ten." It can refer to a period of ten years, a group of ten, or a musical composition with ten variations. |