Equal in Different Languages
Discover 'Equal' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Equal
Afrikaans gelyk is | ||
Albanian të barabartë | ||
Amharic እኩል | ||
Arabic مساو | ||
Armenian հավասար | ||
Assamese সমান | ||
Aymara kikipa | ||
Azerbaijani bərabərdir | ||
Bambara kan | ||
Basque berdinak | ||
Belarusian роўны | ||
Bengali সমান | ||
Bhojpuri बराबर | ||
Bosnian jednako | ||
Bulgarian равен | ||
Catalan igual | ||
Cebuano managsama | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 等于 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 等於 | ||
Corsican uguali | ||
Croatian jednak | ||
Czech rovnat se | ||
Danish lige | ||
Dhivehi އެއްވަރު | ||
Dogri बरोबर | ||
Dutch gelijk | ||
English equal | ||
Esperanto egala | ||
Estonian võrdsed | ||
Ewe sɔ | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) pantay | ||
Finnish yhtä suuri | ||
French égal | ||
Frisian lyk | ||
Galician igual | ||
Georgian თანაბარი | ||
German gleich | ||
Greek ίσος | ||
Guarani ojoja | ||
Gujarati બરાબર | ||
Haitian Creole egal | ||
Hausa daidai | ||
Hawaiian kaulike | ||
Hebrew שווה | ||
Hindi बराबरी का | ||
Hmong sib npaug | ||
Hungarian egyenlő | ||
Icelandic jafnir | ||
Igbo hà | ||
Ilocano kapada | ||
Indonesian sama | ||
Irish comhionann | ||
Italian pari | ||
Japanese 等しい | ||
Javanese witjaksono | ||
Kannada ಸಮಾನ | ||
Kazakh тең | ||
Khmer ស្មើ | ||
Kinyarwanda bingana | ||
Konkani समान | ||
Korean 같은 | ||
Krio ikwal | ||
Kurdish wekhev | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) یەکسان | ||
Kyrgyz барабар | ||
Lao ເທົ່າທຽມກັນ | ||
Latin aequalis | ||
Latvian vienāds | ||
Lingala ndenge moko | ||
Lithuanian lygus | ||
Luganda okwenkana | ||
Luxembourgish gläichberechtegt | ||
Macedonian еднакви | ||
Maithili बराबर | ||
Malagasy mitovy | ||
Malay sama | ||
Malayalam തുല്യമാണ് | ||
Maltese ugwali | ||
Maori ōritenga | ||
Marathi समान | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯃꯥꯟꯅꯕ | ||
Mizo intluktlang | ||
Mongolian тэнцүү | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) တန်းတူ | ||
Nepali बराबर | ||
Norwegian lik | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) ofanana | ||
Odia (Oriya) ସମାନ | ||
Oromo walqixxee | ||
Pashto مساوي | ||
Persian برابر | ||
Polish równy | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) igual | ||
Punjabi ਬਰਾਬਰ | ||
Quechua chay kaqlla | ||
Romanian egal | ||
Russian равный | ||
Samoan tutusa | ||
Sanskrit समान | ||
Scots Gaelic co-ionann | ||
Sepedi lekana | ||
Serbian једнак | ||
Sesotho lekanang | ||
Shona zvakaenzana | ||
Sindhi برابر | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) සමාන | ||
Slovak rovný | ||
Slovenian enako | ||
Somali siman | ||
Spanish igual | ||
Sundanese sarua | ||
Swahili sawa | ||
Swedish likvärdig | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) pantay | ||
Tajik баробар | ||
Tamil சமம் | ||
Tatar тигез | ||
Telugu సమానం | ||
Thai เท่ากัน | ||
Tigrinya ማዕረ | ||
Tsonga ndzingano | ||
Turkish eşit | ||
Turkmen deňdir | ||
Twi (Akan) pɛ | ||
Ukrainian рівний | ||
Urdu برابر | ||
Uyghur باراۋەر | ||
Uzbek teng | ||
Vietnamese công bằng | ||
Welsh cyfartal | ||
Xhosa kulingana | ||
Yiddish גלייך | ||
Yoruba dogba | ||
Zulu kulingana |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | In Afrikaans "gelyk is" literally means "the same". It can be used in the sense of equality, but also when something is parallel, aligned, smooth or similar. |
| Albanian | The Albanian word |
| Amharic | The word "እኩል" (equal) in Amharic derives from the Proto-Semitic root *kwl, meaning "to measure, to balance." |
| Arabic | The word "مساو" can also mean "equal in value" or "equivalent" in Arabic. |
| Armenian | The word "հավասար" (equal) in Armenian also has the alternate meaning of "balanced" or "in equilibrium". |
| Azerbaijani | The word "bərabərdir" can also mean "parallel" or "equivalent" in Azerbaijani. |
| Basque | The word "berdinak" is derived from the proto-Basque word *berdi-, meaning "same" or "equal". |
| Belarusian | In Ukrainian, "рівень" means "flat" or "level". |
| Bengali | The word "সমান" also has an alternate meaning of "level" or "smooth". |
| Bosnian | The archaic usage of "jednako" also denotes "as though", "as if" and "like" in Bosnian. |
| Bulgarian | "Равен" ultimately derives from the Proto-Slavic "*rovьnъ", meaning "even, flat". |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "igual" can also mean "similar". |
| Cebuano | Managsama may also refer to being impartial and equitable, especially in terms of treatment. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The character '等' in '等于' also means 'wait' or 'expect' in Chinese. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | In addition to "equal," "等於" also means "equivalent to" and "as good as." |
| Corsican | The plural form of "uguali" is "uguali" for both masculine and feminine words and the plural form of "uguali" is "uguali" too. |
| Croatian | The word "jednak" can also mean "nevertheless" or "however" in Croatian, showcasing its versatile nature beyond its primary meaning of "equal". |
| Czech | In Czech, "rovnat se" not only means "equal," but also "make orderly," coming from the verb "rovnat" (to straighten). |
| Danish | In Danish, 'lige' can also mean 'straight', referring to a line or path. |
| Dutch | The word "gelijk" in Dutch can also mean "similar" or "right". |
| Esperanto | The word "egala" in Esperanto comes from the Latin word "aequalis", meaning "equal". |
| Estonian | The word "võrdsed" in Estonian has Proto-Uralic etymology and can also mean "flat". |
| Finnish | "Yhtä suuri" is also used to mean "uniform" or "consistent" in Finnish. |
| French | In the Middle Ages, the term “égal” (“equal”) also referred to a person's peer or companion, a nuance that survives today in legal language. |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "lyk" is cognate with the Dutch and German "gelijk" and the Old English "gelīċ", all deriving from Proto-Germanic *ga-līka-z. |
| Galician | The word "igual" is also used to express indifference or resignation, as in "Me é igual" ("It's all the same to me"). |
| Georgian | The word "თანაბარი" is also used in Georgian to refer to a balance, scale, or pair of scales. |
| German | The word 'gleich' can also mean 'immediately' or 'straight' in German |
| Greek | It derives from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₁eǵʰ- 'to reach out' and is also related to 'ἔτος' 'year' and 'αἰών' 'eternity', as it originally meant 'reaching the same point in time' |
| Gujarati | Derived from 'bar', meaning equal, and 'abar', which means again. |
| Haitian Creole | The word 'egal' in Haitian Creole, derived from French, can also mean 'exactly' or 'precisely.' |
| Hausa | "Daidai" also means to "meet" in the sense of encountering or joining |
| Hawaiian | Kaulike originated from the Proto-Polynesian word "taulike" meaning "same" or "identical". |
| Hebrew | The root ש.ו.ה also denotes worthiness or value, giving שווה the additional meaning of 'worthwhile'. |
| Hindi | In Hindi, “बराबरी का” suggests not only equality, but also sameness and parallelism. |
| Hmong | The word "sib npaug" can also mean "the same" or "equal" in Hmong. |
| Hungarian | "Egyenlő" is derived from the Proto-Uralic word *egene-, meaning "the same". |
| Icelandic | Jafnir in Old Norse refers to "a pair, team of horses," "a horse's harness," or the goddess "Gefjun." |
| Igbo | Igbo 'hà' can also mean 'the same', 'so much', 'similar', and 'in the same way'. |
| Indonesian | The word "sama" can also mean "the same" or "together" in Indonesian. |
| Irish | The word "comhionann" in Irish is derived from the Old Irish "comthoinn" or "comthoímh," meaning "to meet" or "to come together," implying a sense of mutual agreement or correspondence. |
| Italian | The word "pari" can also mean "pair" or "even" in Italian. |
| Japanese | The word "等しい" (equal) is derived from the Chinese word "等", which means "the same" or "uniform". |
| Javanese | Witjaksono is also the name of a Javanese noble, who was later made prime minister by the first president of Indonesia, Sukarno. |
| Kannada | The Kannada word "ಸಮಾನ" not only means "equal", but also "similar" in a more general sense. |
| Kazakh | The word "тең" in Kazakh also means "flat" or "level". |
| Khmer | ស្មើ also means "to finish eating." |
| Korean | "같은" originally meant "that which is one" and later acquired the meaning of "equal". |
| Kurdish | The Kurdish word "wekhev" can also refer to a flat surface or an equal distribution. |
| Kyrgyz | The Kyrgyz word "барабар" is also used to refer to a level or flat surface. |
| Latin | The Latin word "aequalis" is associated with the concept of "levelness" or "equality of surface". |
| Latvian | The word "vienāds" is cognate with the Lithuanian word "vienas" (meaning "one") |
| Lithuanian | Lithuanian "lygus" means not only equal but also flat or even. |
| Macedonian | The word "еднакви" can also mean identical, similar, or comparable. |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "mitovy" derives from the Malay word "mitu," which means "to match". It also has alternate meanings of "resembling" and "similar." |
| Malay | The Malay word "sama" is also used to mean "together" or "similar". |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "ugwali" is derived from the Arabic "mukāffah", meaning "equal" or "equivalent". |
| Maori | The Māori word "ōritenga" can also refer to a state of harmony, balance, or symmetry. |
| Marathi | In Marathi, "समान" means not only "equal," but also "similar" or "the same." |
| Mongolian | The word тэнцүү also means 'fair' and 'balanced' in Mongolian. |
| Nepali | The word "बराबर" is derived from the Sanskrit word "सम" (sama), meaning "equal" or "level." |
| Norwegian | Lik, a Norwegian word, also means 'corpse' and is cognate with the English word 'lich'. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The Nyanja word "ofanana" is thought to be derived from the verb "fana", which means "to resemble" or "to be similar". |
| Pashto | In Pashto, "مساوي" can also mean "parallel" or "similar". |
| Persian | The word "برابر" also means "face to face" or "parallel" in Persian. |
| Polish | The word "równy" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *orvьnъ, which also means "straight" or "level" |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "igual" originates from the Latin word "æqualis" which means "of equal measure" and shares the same root as the English word "equal" |
| Punjabi | 'ਬਰਾਬਰ' is derived from Sanskrit 'barabar' meaning 'equal, same, alike, level, parallel, balanced, or similar.' |
| Romanian | The word "egal" in Romanian can also mean "similar" or "identical". |
| Russian | The word "равный" derives from Old Church Slavonic "раве" which means "similar". |
| Samoan | The word 'tutusa' is often used to describe twins, as they share a similar size, appearance, and characteristics. |
| Scots Gaelic | The Gaelic word co-ionann is also used to express the concept of 'at the same time' or 'simultaneously'. |
| Serbian | "Једнак" means both "the same" and "identical" in Serbian, making it an interesting word to discuss with Serbian language learners! |
| Sesotho | The word "lekanang" in Sesotho can also refer to a state of balance or harmony. |
| Shona | "Zvakaenzana" comes from the root word "-enzana" which also means "to weigh". Thus "zvakaenzana" literally means "that which weighs equally". |
| Sindhi | The word "برابر" also means "parallel" and "beside" in Sindhi. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The Sinhala word "සමාන" can also mean "equivalent", "adequate", or "uniform". |
| Slovak | In Czech, the word "rovný" denotes not only "equal", but also "straight" and "flat" |
| Slovenian | The word "enako" in Slovenian is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *jednakъ, meaning "alike" or "similar" |
| Somali | The word "siman" in Somali also means "twin". |
| Spanish | In 1220, 'igual' meant 'just, right'. In 1251, 'fair, equitable'. Now it usually means 'equal'. |
| Sundanese | Sarua is a Sundanese word that can also mean "straight" or "to adjust". |
| Swahili | "Sawa" also means "okay" or "all right" in Kiswahili, and it can be used to express agreement or understanding. |
| Swedish | Likvärdig is a compound formed from the words 'lik' ('like') and 'värdig' ('worthy') and literally means 'worthy of the same'. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The term "pantay" in Tagalog derives from "patag," meaning "flat" or "level," alluding to the balanced state of equality. |
| Tajik | The word "баробар" in Tajik can also refer to a "set" as in a matching set of clothing or dishes. |
| Tamil | The word "சமம்" can also mean "calm" or "peaceful" in Tamil. |
| Telugu | The word "సమానం" also means "similar" or "equivalent" and is derived from the Sanskrit word "sama" meaning "same". |
| Thai | เท่ากัน (เท่า + กัน) has a root word |
| Turkish | The word "eşit" derives from the Old Turkish verb "esitmek" meaning "to make equal, to level". |
| Ukrainian | The word "рівний" in Ukrainian also means "straight", "smooth", or "even". |
| Urdu | In addition to its common meaning of "equal" in Urdu, "برابر" can also mean "in front of" or "on behalf of" someone. |
| Uzbek | Teng is also used to indicate the number of times a repeated consonant occurs in a word. |
| Vietnamese | The word "công bằng" in Vietnamese also implies "justice," "fairness," and "impartiality." |
| Welsh | The word "cyfartal" can alternately be used as a noun in Welsh to mean "a comparison". |
| Xhosa | The word 'kulingana' is often used in Xhosa to express equality, balance, or correspondence. |
| Yiddish | Stemming from the Slavic word “glih,” this word can also express being smooth or sleek, as in skin or texture. |
| Yoruba | The word "dogba" in Yoruba can also refer to the "right hand" or "dominance". |
| Zulu | The word 'kulingana' can also refer to conformity, symmetry, or a state of equilibrium. |
| English | The Latin verb 'aequare' means 'to make level' or 'to smooth' |