Earth in Different Languages
Discover 'Earth' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Earth
Afrikaans aarde | ||
Albanian toka | ||
Amharic ምድር | ||
Arabic أرض | ||
Armenian երկիր | ||
Assamese পৃথিৱী | ||
Aymara uraqi | ||
Azerbaijani yer | ||
Bambara dugukolo | ||
Basque lurra | ||
Belarusian зямля | ||
Bengali পৃথিবী | ||
Bhojpuri धरती | ||
Bosnian zemlja | ||
Bulgarian земя | ||
Catalan terra | ||
Cebuano yuta | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 地球 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 地球 | ||
Corsican terra | ||
Croatian zemlja | ||
Czech země | ||
Danish jorden | ||
Dhivehi ދުނިޔެ | ||
Dogri धरत | ||
Dutch aarde | ||
English earth | ||
Esperanto tero | ||
Estonian maa | ||
Ewe anyigba | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) lupa | ||
Finnish maa | ||
French terre | ||
Frisian ierde | ||
Galician terra | ||
Georgian დედამიწა | ||
German erde | ||
Greek γη | ||
Guarani yvy | ||
Gujarati પૃથ્વી | ||
Haitian Creole latè | ||
Hausa ƙasa | ||
Hawaiian honua | ||
Hebrew כדור הארץ | ||
Hindi पृथ्वी | ||
Hmong lub ntiaj teb | ||
Hungarian föld | ||
Icelandic jörð | ||
Igbo ụwa | ||
Ilocano lubong | ||
Indonesian bumi | ||
Irish domhain | ||
Italian terra | ||
Japanese 地球 | ||
Javanese bumi | ||
Kannada ಭೂಮಿ | ||
Kazakh жер | ||
Khmer ផែនដី | ||
Kinyarwanda isi | ||
Konkani पृथ्वी | ||
Korean 지구 | ||
Krio dunya | ||
Kurdish erd | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) زەوی | ||
Kyrgyz жер | ||
Lao ແຜ່ນດິນໂລກ | ||
Latin terra | ||
Latvian zeme | ||
Lingala mabele | ||
Lithuanian žemė | ||
Luganda ensi | ||
Luxembourgish äerd | ||
Macedonian земјата | ||
Maithili धरती | ||
Malagasy eto an-tany | ||
Malay bumi | ||
Malayalam ഭൂമി | ||
Maltese art | ||
Maori whenua | ||
Marathi पृथ्वी | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯄ꯭ꯔꯤꯊꯤꯕꯤ | ||
Mizo khawvel | ||
Mongolian дэлхий | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ကမ္ဘာမြေ | ||
Nepali पृथ्वी | ||
Norwegian jord | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) dziko lapansi | ||
Odia (Oriya) ପୃଥିବୀ | ||
Oromo dachee | ||
Pashto ځمکه | ||
Persian زمین | ||
Polish ziemia | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) terra | ||
Punjabi ਧਰਤੀ | ||
Quechua tiqsimuyu | ||
Romanian pământ | ||
Russian земля | ||
Samoan lalolagi | ||
Sanskrit पृथ्वी | ||
Scots Gaelic talamh | ||
Sepedi lefase | ||
Serbian земља | ||
Sesotho lefats'e | ||
Shona pasi | ||
Sindhi زمين | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) පොළොවේ | ||
Slovak zem | ||
Slovenian zemlja | ||
Somali dhulka | ||
Spanish tierra | ||
Sundanese bumi | ||
Swahili dunia | ||
Swedish jorden | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) daigdig | ||
Tajik замин | ||
Tamil பூமி | ||
Tatar җир | ||
Telugu భూమి | ||
Thai โลก | ||
Tigrinya መሬት | ||
Tsonga misava | ||
Turkish dünya | ||
Turkmen ýer | ||
Twi (Akan) asase | ||
Ukrainian землі | ||
Urdu زمین | ||
Uyghur يەر | ||
Uzbek er | ||
Vietnamese trái đất | ||
Welsh ddaear | ||
Xhosa umhlaba | ||
Yiddish ערד | ||
Yoruba ayé | ||
Zulu umhlaba |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | In addition to its literal meaning, 'aarde' can also figuratively refer to 'land', as in 'my home country' or 'my homeland'. |
| Albanian | Toka, in Albanian, can also mean "foundation" or "base" of a structure or object. |
| Amharic | The word |
| Arabic | While the Arabic word أرض (ard) primarily means 'earth', its root word also refers to 'firmness' and 'steadfastness'. |
| Armenian | The word "երկիր" (earth) in Armenian is also used to refer to "land", "country", or "nation". |
| Azerbaijani | {"text": "The word "yer" in Azerbaijani is derived from the Proto-Turkic word *yert, meaning "land, country, homeland". It also has the alternate meaning of "floor" or "ground" in Azerbaijani."} |
| Basque | The Basque word "lurra" may originate from the Proto-Basque word "*lurre" or "*luṟe," meaning "ground" or "soil." |
| Belarusian | The word "зямля" can also mean "land" or "soil" in Belarusian. |
| Bengali | "পৃথিবী" is derived from the Sanskrit word "Prthvi", meaning "wide" or "broad", referring to the Earth's vastness. |
| Bosnian | The word "zemlja" in Bosnian is derived from the Proto-Slavic word "zemlja", meaning "land" or "ground". |
| Bulgarian | The word "земя" in Bulgarian also means "land" or "soil". |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "terra" also means "land" or "country". |
| Cebuano | In Cebuano, 'yuta' can also mean 'soil', 'land', or 'world'. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The Chinese word "地球" can also mean "the world" and, in the context of ancient astrology, the "central star". |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The Chinese character "地球" can also mean "spherical object" or "globe". |
| Corsican | In Corsican, "terra" can refer to a specific territory or the countryside outside the city. |
| Croatian | In Croatian mythology, 'Zemlja' was a goddess of the Earth, mother of the sun, moon, and the stars. |
| Czech | The word "Země" is also used to refer to the Czech Republic, the native name of which is "Česká republika". |
| Danish | The word "jorden" in Danish derives from the same root as the English word "year" and suggests the yearly revolution of the Earth around the Sun. |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "aarde" is derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *h₂er-, meaning "ground, soil, earth, world". |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word "tero" not only means "earth" but also "soil" and "ground." |
| Estonian | The word "maa" in Estonian can also refer to the land or the country, as well as being used in a figurative sense to mean "home" or "motherland". |
| Finnish | The Finnish word "maa" also means "country" and is related to the Estonian word "maa" ("land") and the Hungarian word "magyar" ("Hungarian"). |
| French | The French word 'Terre' derives from the word 'Tellus' in Latin, the Goddess of the land. |
| Frisian | The word 'ierde' in Frisian also means 'soil' or 'ground'. |
| Galician | In Galician, "terra" can mean "earth" or "land," including agricultural land. |
| German | In some dialects of German, "Erde" also refers to a type of ceramics or earthenware. |
| Greek | Its meaning can be extended to include not only literal ground, but also a person’s native town or country, or the world as a whole. |
| Gujarati | The word पृथ्वी can also refer to a square or rectangle, or to a type of sacrifice. |
| Haitian Creole | The word 'latè' in Haitian Creole, meaning 'earth', is also used to refer to 'the world' or 'society'. |
| Hausa | The Hausa word ƙasa is also used to refer to a country or region. |
| Hawaiian | "Honua" also means "large" and was used in reference to the land mass "honua-nui-o-Hawaii" meaning "Big Island" |
| Hebrew | The word "earth" has different meanings depending on the context: a planet ("" כדור הארץ ""), soil ("אדמה") or a direction ("" ארצה"). |
| Hindi | The word पृथ्वी comes from Sanskrit and literally means "broad" or "wide" referring to its vast expanse. |
| Hmong | The Hmong word "lub ntiaj teb" (earth) can also refer to the entire natural world, including both the physical and spiritual realms. |
| Hungarian | "Föld" (earth) can also refer to a land area, soil or dirt, or the world. |
| Icelandic | In Old Norse, "jörð" also refers to the soil or the surface of the land |
| Igbo | "Uwa" in Igbo also means "time", "age", "era", or "a period of life." |
| Indonesian | "Bumi" is derived from Sanskrit "bhumi", which means "ground", "soil", but also "world" or "universe". |
| Irish | The Irish word "domhain" can also mean "the world" or "the universe". |
| Italian | The word "terra" in Italian can also refer to a pottery or earthenware object, such as a vase or a flower pot. |
| Japanese | The first character of the Japanese word "地球" (earth) means "big" or "great," and the second character means "ball" or "planet." |
| Javanese | The Javanese word 'bumi' is also used to refer to one's homeland or birthplace. |
| Kannada | The word "ಭೂಮಿ" (bhoomi) in Kannada is derived from Sanskrit and also means "the ground" or "soil". |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "жер" can also refer to "land as a territory" or "surface". |
| Khmer | The Khmer word "ផែនដី" can also mean "universe" or "world". |
| Korean | 지구 (earth) is also used as a prefix in names of planets and satellites, such as 지구권 (geospheres), 지구 과학 (geoscience), 지구물리학 (geophysics), 지구화학 (geochemistry), and 지구학 (earth science). |
| Kurdish | The word "erd" in Kurdish is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *er-, meaning "earth" or "ground". |
| Kyrgyz | "Жер" is also used in Kyrgyz to mean "world", "country", or "land". |
| Latin | Latin "terra" also means "dry land" or "continent" and appears in names like "terra firma" or "Terra Australis". |
| Latvian | The word “zeme” can also refer to a country or a region. |
| Lithuanian | "Žemė" shares the same root as the word "žmogus" (human) and refers to the substance and essence out of which life springs. |
| Luxembourgish | The word "Äerd" in Luxembourgish shares Germanic roots with the English word "earth," as well as similar words in other languages like German ("Erde") and Dutch ("aarde"). |
| Macedonian | The word "земјата" also means "country" in Macedonian. |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "eto an-tany" has another meaning: "the universe". |
| Malay | The word "bumi" in Malay also means "native inhabitant" or "indigenous person". |
| Malayalam | The word "ഭൂമി" can also mean "globe" or "planet". |
| Maltese | In Maltese, the word "art" means "heavenly body", including the moon and stars, or any celestial phenomenon. |
| Maori | Maori word |
| Marathi | The word पृथ्वी in Marathi not only means 'earth' but also refers to 'a large or heavy object' or 'something that is broad and flat'. |
| Mongolian | "Дэлхий" also refers to "the world of human society, the human world, mankind" |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The word "ကမ္ဘာမြေ" in Myanmar (Burmese) is ultimately derived from Sanskrit "Kumbha" or "Kumbhera" ("potter" or "earthen pot") or "Bhuma" ("earth"), signifying the material for creating pottery, i.e., earth. |
| Nepali | The word पृथ्वी (earth) in Nepali, derived from the Sanskrit word 'prithvi', also holds the alternate meaning of 'expansive' or 'wide' in the context of physical space or quantity. |
| Norwegian | "The Old Norse word "jǫrð," from which "jord" derives, also referred to the Greek goddess Gaia or Terra." |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "dziko lapansi" can also mean "the world" or "the universe". |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "ځمکه" comes from the Proto-Indo-European root *dʰǵʰom, meaning "land" or "earth." |
| Persian | The word " زمین" also means "country" or "land" in Persian. |
| Polish | "Ziemia" is also an archaic Polish spelling of the name "Zbigniew" |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | "Terra" also means "land" in Portuguese, referring to a specific geographical area, such as a country or a region. |
| Punjabi | The word "ਧਰਤੀ" (dhartī) in Punjabi also refers to the "land" or "soil" that one owns. |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "Pământ" comes from the Proto-Indo-European root "*dʰǵʰóm̥" meaning "earth" or "soil." |
| Russian | The word "Земля" (Earth) in Russian also refers to the land, soil, or ground, and is related to the Proto-Slavic word *zemlja* with the same meaning. |
| Samoan | "Lalolagi" also translates to "the great expanse that stretches on all sides. |
| Scots Gaelic | The Gaelic word "talamh" is also used metaphorically to refer to homeland or territory. |
| Serbian | The Serbian word "земља" also means "country" and is cognate with the Russian word "земля". |
| Sesotho | 'Lefats'e' shares its root with the word 'fa' meaning 'to give' as soil is a giver of life. |
| Shona | 'Pasi' originated from Proto-Bantu '*masi' ('earth, dust'). |
| Sindhi | "زمين" also means 'land' and 'base' |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | පොළොවේ may also mean 'ground', 'land', 'soil', 'the world', 'the universe' or 'an abode' in Sinhala. |
| Slovak | The word "zem" in Slovak comes from the Proto-Slavic word *zemь, which also means "ground" and "land". |
| Slovenian | The word "zemlja" in Slovenian can also mean "soil", "country", or "land". |
| Somali | "Dhulka" can also refer to a land dispute or a piece of property. |
| Spanish | In Spanish, "tierra" can also refer to land, territory, homeland, soil, or dust. |
| Sundanese | Sundanese 'bumi' can also refer to a person's birthplace or hometown. |
| Swahili | The word 'dunia' in Swahili is derived from the Arabic word 'dunyā', which means 'the present world' or 'the temporal world'. |
| Swedish | The Swedish word "jorden" derives from the Old Norse "jorð", which meant "gravel" or "sandy soil". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word “daigdig” in Tagalog is derived from the root word “dig,” which means “to till” or “to cultivate.” |
| Tajik | The Tajik word "замин" is cognate with Avestan "zam-", which has the same meaning, and Persian "زمین". |
| Tamil | பூமி (bhūmi) also means "ground" and "land" and is cognate with Skt. "bhūmi" and Pkt. "bhūmi" with the same meanings. |
| Telugu | The word 'భూమి' can also refer to 'soil' or 'land' in Telugu. |
| Thai | The word โลก (earth) is derived from the Sanskrit word |
| Turkish | Dünya', which denotes the Earth, derives from "dön", meaning circle, implying the Earth's orbit around the Sun. |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word "землі" derives from the Proto-Slavic "or-mъ" meaning "arable land". |
| Urdu | زمین's alternate meaning is a 'flat surface'. |
| Uzbek | As an alternate meaning, "er" can also refer to a specific type of plow used in agriculture. |
| Vietnamese | Trái đất derives from the Classical Chinese word 地 (địa), meaning landmass, terrain, soil, or earth element. |
| Welsh | Ddaear can also refer to the ground, soil, or land, and is related to the Breton word douar, the Cornish word dor, and the Irish word talamh. |
| Xhosa | Xhosa word 'umhlaba' also means 'ground', 'soil', 'land', 'area', 'region', 'country', 'nation', 'world', 'universe', and 'earth'. |
| Yiddish | "ערד" in Yiddish can also refer to a city in Israel, meaning "fiery" in Hebrew. |
| Yoruba | The Yoruba word "ayé" can also refer to the world or to a person's lifetime. |
| Zulu | The literal translation of "umhlaba" is "that which sustains"} |
| English | The word "earth" can also refer to the soil or ground, as well as the world or planet we live on. |