Afrikaans geheel | ||
Albanian e tërë | ||
Amharic ሙሉ | ||
Arabic كامل | ||
Armenian ամբողջական | ||
Assamese সমগ্ৰ | ||
Aymara ukch'pacha | ||
Azerbaijani bütöv | ||
Bambara bakuruba | ||
Basque osoa | ||
Belarusian цэлы | ||
Bengali পুরো | ||
Bhojpuri सगरे | ||
Bosnian cijeli | ||
Bulgarian цял | ||
Catalan sencera | ||
Cebuano tibuuk | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 整个 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 整個 | ||
Corsican sanu | ||
Croatian cijela | ||
Czech celý | ||
Danish hel | ||
Dhivehi މުޅި | ||
Dogri पूरा | ||
Dutch geheel | ||
English entire | ||
Esperanto tuta | ||
Estonian terve | ||
Ewe katã | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) buo | ||
Finnish koko | ||
French tout | ||
Frisian gehiel | ||
Galician enteiro | ||
Georgian მთელი | ||
German ganz | ||
Greek ολόκληρος | ||
Guarani paite | ||
Gujarati સંપૂર્ણ | ||
Haitian Creole tout antye | ||
Hausa duka | ||
Hawaiian holoʻokoʻa | ||
Hebrew שלם | ||
Hindi संपूर्ण | ||
Hmong tag nrho | ||
Hungarian teljes | ||
Icelandic heilt | ||
Igbo dum | ||
Ilocano intero | ||
Indonesian seluruh | ||
Irish iomlán | ||
Italian intero | ||
Japanese 全体 | ||
Javanese kabeh | ||
Kannada ಸಂಪೂರ್ಣ | ||
Kazakh толығымен | ||
Khmer ទាំងមូល | ||
Kinyarwanda yose | ||
Konkani सगलें | ||
Korean 완전한 | ||
Krio ɔl | ||
Kurdish giş | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) کۆی | ||
Kyrgyz толугу менен | ||
Lao ທັງຫມົດ | ||
Latin totus | ||
Latvian viss | ||
Lingala mobimba | ||
Lithuanian visas | ||
Luganda -onna | ||
Luxembourgish ganz | ||
Macedonian целина | ||
Maithili संपूर्ण | ||
Malagasy manontolo | ||
Malay keseluruhan | ||
Malayalam മുഴുവൻ | ||
Maltese sħiħ | ||
Maori katoa | ||
Marathi संपूर्ण | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯃꯄꯨꯡ ꯑꯣꯏꯕ | ||
Mizo zavaiin | ||
Mongolian бүхэлд нь | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) တစ်ခုလုံး | ||
Nepali सम्पूर्ण | ||
Norwegian hel | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) lonse | ||
Odia (Oriya) ପୁରା | ||
Oromo guutummaasaa | ||
Pashto ټول | ||
Persian کل | ||
Polish cały | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) inteira | ||
Punjabi ਪੂਰਾ | ||
Quechua llapan | ||
Romanian întreg | ||
Russian весь | ||
Samoan atoa | ||
Sanskrit सम्पूर्ण | ||
Scots Gaelic slàn | ||
Sepedi ka kakaretšo | ||
Serbian цео | ||
Sesotho ka botlalo | ||
Shona yose | ||
Sindhi سمورو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) සමස්ත | ||
Slovak celý | ||
Slovenian celoten | ||
Somali dhan | ||
Spanish todo | ||
Sundanese sakabeh | ||
Swahili nzima | ||
Swedish hel | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) buong | ||
Tajik тамоми | ||
Tamil முழு | ||
Tatar тулы | ||
Telugu మొత్తం | ||
Thai ทั้งหมด | ||
Tigrinya ጠቅላላ | ||
Tsonga hinkwaswo | ||
Turkish tüm | ||
Turkmen tutuşlygyna | ||
Twi (Akan) ne nyinaa | ||
Ukrainian цілий | ||
Urdu پوری | ||
Uyghur پۈتۈن | ||
Uzbek butun | ||
Vietnamese toàn bộ | ||
Welsh cyfan | ||
Xhosa iphelele | ||
Yiddish גאנצע | ||
Yoruba odidi | ||
Zulu ephelele |
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | "Geheel" in Afrikaans is a cognate of the Dutch word "geheel" with the same meaning, both deriving ultimately from the Proto-West Germanic word *ga-hailaz, meaning "sound, whole, uninjured" |
| Albanian | "E tërë" is etymologically the same as "entier" in French, "întreg" in Romanian, "intero" in Italian, and "integer" in Latin, all meaning "entire". |
| Amharic | In Amharic, the word ሙሉ also means "whole" and is used in greetings such as ሙሉ ቀን! "Good day!" |
| Arabic | The name of the renowned Arab mathematician Al-Khwarizmi may derive from an area called Khwarazm in central Asia, or the Persian word "kharazm" for "entire or perfect," a fitting moniker for his contributions to the field |
| Armenian | The Armenian word "ամբողջական" (entire) is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂embʰol-, meaning "to join" or "to make whole." |
| Azerbaijani | The Azerbaijani word "bütöv" comes from the Persian word "butāv", meaning "idol" or "image". In Azerbaijani, it can also mean "solid", "strong", or "complete." |
| Basque | "Oso" in Basque can also refer to a bear. |
| Belarusian | The word "цэлы" also means "sound, whole, intact" in Belarusian. |
| Bengali | The word "পুরো" (entire) in Bengali can also mean "whole" or "full". |
| Bosnian | Bosnian "cijeli" originates from Slavic and is related to "cijel" (whole) and "cijeliti" (heal). |
| Bulgarian | The word "цял" also means "whole", "full", or "all" in Bulgarian. |
| Catalan | "Sencera" is related to the Latin word "sincera", which means "pure, unmixed". |
| Cebuano | "Tibuuk" can also mean "the whole thing" or "all of it." |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The word 整个 can also mean 'overall' or 'all together'. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 整個 can also mean the entire day, especially when it's the end of the day or night |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "sanu" can also mean "full" or "well-stocked". |
| Croatian | In Croatian, "cijela" also means "whole" as in "wholesome" or "integral". |
| Czech | "Celý" can also mean "the whole" (as in the sentence "Celý svět je krásný" meaning "The whole world is beautiful") or "every" (as in "Celý den jsem se učil" meaning "I was studying all day")." |
| Danish | Old Norse **hel** meant "whole, sound, healthy or unharmed" |
| Dutch | "Geheel" is also used in Dutch to refer to the "whole numbers". This meaning of "geheel" comes from the Latin "integer". In geometry, a figure is "geheel" when there are no holes in its interior. |
| Esperanto | "Tuta" can also mean "certain" in Esperanto. |
| Estonian | The word 'terve' in Estonian can also mean 'healthy' or 'well'. |
| Finnish | The word "koko" can also refer to the size of a group or quantity, or to the totality of something |
| French | The French word "tout" can also mean "all" or "everything" |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "gehiel" (or "gêheel") can also mean "complete", "whole", or "total". |
| Galician | The word "enteiro" in Galician also means "healthy" or "vigorous". |
| Georgian | "მთელი" is also used as an intensifier and can have the meaning of "complete, full" and "the whole, the all" in some expressions, e.g., მთელი დღე "the whole day". |
| German | The word "ganz" derives from the Proto-Germanic root „kandaz”, which meant "bright" or "shining". |
| Greek | Ολόκληρος derives from the Ancient Greek phrase "όλος και έλος" which means "everything and swamp". |
| Gujarati | The word "સંપૂર્ણ" also signifies "complete" in terms of a whole unit of something. |
| Haitian Creole | The word "tout antye" in Haitian Creole, meaning "entire", derives from the French phrase "tout entier". |
| Hausa | The Hausa word "duka" can also refer to a shop or store, as well as the concept of "everything" or "all of it". |
| Hawaiian | Holoʻokoʻa means both "entire" and "to complete or finish"} |
| Hebrew | "שלם" in Hebrew can mean "entire" but also "pay" and "whole." |
| Hindi | The word "संपूर्ण" can also mean "complete", "perfect", or "whole". |
| Hmong | The word "tag nrho" can also mean "all" or "whole." |
| Hungarian | The word "teljes" also refers to "complete" and "full" in Hungarian. |
| Icelandic | In Icelandic, "heilt" can also refer to a ghost or a phantom. |
| Igbo | 'Dum' can also mean to be 'complete' or to 'be fully cooked'. |
| Indonesian | "Seluruh" is an Indonesian word derived from Sanskrit "sarvajña", meaning "omniscient" or "all-knowing." |
| Italian | The Italian word "intero" derives from the Latin word "integer", meaning "whole" or "unbroken". In addition to its primary meaning of "entire", "intero" can also mean "complete", "sound", or "absolute". |
| Japanese | The word "全体" (zentai) is a compound of "全" (zen), meaning "whole," and "体" (tai), meaning "body." It can also mean "the whole system" or "the whole group." |
| Javanese | The Javanese word "kabeh" has the same etymology as the word "complete" in English, and can also refer to the concept of the totality of existence. |
| Kannada | The word 'ಸಂಪೂರ್ಣ' in Kannada has alternate meanings such as 'full', 'whole', 'complete', and 'perfect'. |
| Kazakh | The word "толығымен" can also mean "fully", "completely", or "in full" in Kazakh. |
| Khmer | The Khmer word "ទាំងមូល" also means "as a whole" or "in its entirety". |
| Korean | 완전한 is also used in Korean to mean "perfect" or "complete". |
| Kurdish | The word "giş" in Kurdish can also mean "all" or "whole". |
| Kyrgyz | The Kyrgyz word "толугу менен" can also mean "completely" or "wholly". |
| Latin | The neuter form "totum" is used in the sense of "the whole" in phrases such as "in toto" (as a whole). |
| Latvian | Latvian "viss, visa, visi" (entire) may be related to Lithuanian "visas" (everything) and Sanskrit "viçvah" (all). |
| Lithuanian | The word "visas" in Lithuanian, meaning "entire," also shares its roots with the word "visa," which is a document granting permission to enter or leave a country. |
| Luxembourgish | The word "ganz" in Luxembourgish can also mean "very" or "completely". |
| Macedonian | In Old Church Slavonic, the word "цѣлина" referred to uncultivated land. |
| Malagasy | The word "manontolo" in Malagasy can also mean "all" or "the whole (of something)". |
| Malay | In Indonesian, "keseluruhan" refers specifically to the 'entirety' or 'totality' of something. |
| Malayalam | The word 'മുഴുവൻ' is derived from the Proto-Dravidian root *muɭu, meaning 'complete' or 'whole'. |
| Maltese | "sħiħ" can also mean "to complete" or "to finish", and derives from the same root as "sahha" ("health") and "saħħa" ("strength"). |
| Maori | "Katoa" also means "all" and is related to "taka" (to reach for), "tau" (to tie, to join), "tatau" (to tattoo), and "kato" (a side or end). |
| Marathi | संपूर्ण is derived from the Sanskrit word सम्पूर्ण (sampūrṇa), meaning "full or complete". |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | "တစ်ခုလုံး" can refer to 'altogether' or 'in general', but is more often used as 'a whole lot of' or 'a complete lot of' when it comes to food. |
| Nepali | The word "सम्पूर्ण" derives from the Sanskrit word "सम्यक्-पूर्ण," meaning "complete in all respects." |
| Norwegian | The word 'hel' also means hell in Norse mythology. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | In Nyanja (Chichewa), "lonse" is used to refer to the whole or entirety of something, but it also has other meanings such as "in all" or "all together". |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "ټول" (entire) is derived from the Proto-Indo-Iranian root *tarpa-, meaning "to cross over, to pass beyond". |
| Persian | In Persian "کل" can also refer to a whole or aggregate of people, specifically in the sense of a family, tribe or nation. |
| Polish | The word "Cały" in Polish also means "whole," "complete," or "uninjured." |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, "inteira" also means "whole unities of a certain size". |
| Punjabi | The word 'ਪੂਰਾ' can also mean 'complete', 'fulfilled', or 'whole'. |
| Romanian | The word "întreg" can also mean "whole number" or "integral", and is derived from the Latin word "integer", meaning "whole" or "complete". |
| Russian | "Весь" is cognate with the German word "gewiss", meaning "certain", "definitely". |
| Samoan | In Samoan, "atoa" can also mean "all together" or "throughout." |
| Scots Gaelic | The word "slàn" also means "safe" or "whole" in Scots Gaelic. |
| Serbian | Цео (ceo) is a Slavic word that is cognate with the Latin word "totus" and the Greek word "holos", both meaning "entire". It is also related to the Sanskrit word "sarva", meaning "all". |
| Sesotho | In some contexts, "ka botlalo" can also refer to "everything" or "all things". |
| Shona | The word "yose" can also mean "the whole of something" or "all of them". |
| Sindhi | The word "سمورو" also means "full" or "complete" in Sindhi. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "සමස්ත" can also mean "all" or "whole". |
| Slovak | "Celý" in Slovak, besides the meaning 'entire', also refers to the 'celiac disease'. |
| Slovenian | The word "celoten" also has the archaic meaning of "healthy", as seen in the expression "celoten kot dren" (as healthy as a cornel cherry tree). |
| Somali | The word "dhan" can also mean "all" or "the whole" in Somali. |
| Spanish | The word "todo" in Spanish comes from the Latin "totus", meaning "the whole" or "complete". |
| Sundanese | Sakabeh in Sundanese originates from the Sanskrit 'sakrta' meaning 'once', and also refers to a musical interval of one octave. |
| Swahili | The word 'nzima' has alternate meanings in Swahili, including 'healthy' and 'complete'. |
| Swedish | The word "hel" in Swedish, which means "entire," is cognate with the English word "whole" and the German word "heil." |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "buong" in Tagalog is derived from the Proto-Austronesian word "*buŋaŋ", meaning "fruit" or "whole". |
| Tajik | The word "тамоми" can derive from the Persian word "تمام" and the Arabic word "تام", both meaning "complete" |
| Tamil | "முழு" means "entire" in Tamil, but it can also mean "all", "whole", or "complete". |
| Thai | The Thai word "ทั้งหมด" (entire) is derived from Sanskrit "samyak" and has alternate meanings including "completely" and "thoroughly". |
| Turkish | The word "tüm" is derived from the Mongolian word "togtom" meaning "completely". |
| Ukrainian | The word “цілий” (“entire”) in Ukrainian can also mean “whole” or “undamaged”. |
| Urdu | The word "پوری" can also mean "a whole wheat flatbread" in Urdu. |
| Uzbek | "Butun" also means "whole" in some contexts, but in a more literal sense than its meaning as "entire". |
| Vietnamese | The word "toàn bộ" in Vietnamese is ultimately derived from the Chinese word "全体" (quántǐ), which means "the whole body" or "the whole group". |
| Welsh | "Cyfan", meaning "entire", derives from the Proto-Celtic root "*kʷekʷ-lo-s", meaning "whole" or "complete." |
| Xhosa | "Iphelele" can also mean "complete", "whole", or "perfect" in Xhosa. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "גאנצע" ("gantse") can also refer to a wedding, specifically the festivities and celebration surrounding it. |
| Yoruba | The word "odidi" can also mean "completely" or "in its entirety". |
| Zulu | The Zulu word "ephelele" also means "very" or "completely". |
| English | "Entire" comes from Latin "integer," meaning "whole," and also originally meant "uninjured" and "sound". |