Afrikaans alles | ||
Albanian gjithçka | ||
Amharic ሁሉም ነገር | ||
Arabic كل شىء | ||
Armenian ամեն ինչ | ||
Assamese সকলো | ||
Aymara taqi | ||
Azerbaijani hər şey | ||
Bambara bɛɛ | ||
Basque dena | ||
Belarusian усё | ||
Bengali সব | ||
Bhojpuri हर चीजु | ||
Bosnian sve | ||
Bulgarian всичко | ||
Catalan tot | ||
Cebuano tanan | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 一切 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 一切 | ||
Corsican tuttu | ||
Croatian sve | ||
Czech všechno | ||
Danish alt | ||
Dhivehi ހުރިހާ އެއްޗެއް | ||
Dogri सब किश | ||
Dutch alles | ||
English everything | ||
Esperanto ĉio | ||
Estonian kõike | ||
Ewe nu sia nu | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) lahat | ||
Finnish kaikki | ||
French tout | ||
Frisian alles | ||
Galician todo | ||
Georgian ყველაფერი | ||
German alles | ||
Greek τα παντα | ||
Guarani opaite | ||
Gujarati બધું | ||
Haitian Creole tout bagay | ||
Hausa komai | ||
Hawaiian nā mea āpau | ||
Hebrew הכל | ||
Hindi सब कुछ | ||
Hmong txhua yam | ||
Hungarian minden | ||
Icelandic allt | ||
Igbo ihe niile | ||
Ilocano amin a banag | ||
Indonesian segala sesuatu | ||
Irish gach rud | ||
Italian qualunque cosa | ||
Japanese すべて | ||
Javanese kabeh | ||
Kannada ಎಲ್ಲವೂ | ||
Kazakh бәрі | ||
Khmer អ្វីគ្រប់យ៉ាង | ||
Kinyarwanda byose | ||
Konkani सगलें | ||
Korean 모두 | ||
Krio ɔl wetin | ||
Kurdish hemû | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) هەموو شتێک | ||
Kyrgyz баары | ||
Lao ທຸກສິ່ງທຸກຢ່າງ | ||
Latin omnia | ||
Latvian viss | ||
Lingala biloko nyonso | ||
Lithuanian viskas | ||
Luganda buli kimu | ||
Luxembourgish alles | ||
Macedonian сè | ||
Maithili सब किछु | ||
Malagasy ny zava-drehetra | ||
Malay semuanya | ||
Malayalam എല്ലാം | ||
Maltese kollox | ||
Maori nga mea katoa | ||
Marathi सर्वकाही | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯄꯨꯝꯅꯃꯛ | ||
Mizo engpawh | ||
Mongolian бүх зүйл | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အရာအားလုံး | ||
Nepali सबै | ||
Norwegian alt | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) chilichonse | ||
Odia (Oriya) ସବୁକିଛି | ||
Oromo waa hunda | ||
Pashto هرڅه | ||
Persian همه چيز | ||
Polish wszystko | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) tudo | ||
Punjabi ਸਭ ਕੁਝ | ||
Quechua llapan | ||
Romanian tot | ||
Russian все | ||
Samoan mea uma | ||
Sanskrit सर्वम् | ||
Scots Gaelic a h-uile dad | ||
Sepedi dilo ka moka | ||
Serbian све | ||
Sesotho tsohle | ||
Shona zvese | ||
Sindhi سڀ ڪجھ | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) සියල්ල | ||
Slovak všetko | ||
Slovenian vse | ||
Somali wax walba | ||
Spanish todo | ||
Sundanese sadayana | ||
Swahili kila kitu | ||
Swedish allt | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) lahat ng bagay | ||
Tajik ҳама чиз | ||
Tamil எல்லாம் | ||
Tatar барысы да | ||
Telugu ప్రతిదీ | ||
Thai ทุกอย่าง | ||
Tigrinya ኩሉ ነገር | ||
Tsonga hinkwaswo | ||
Turkish herşey | ||
Turkmen hemme zat | ||
Twi (Akan) biribiara | ||
Ukrainian все | ||
Urdu سب کچھ | ||
Uyghur ھەممە نەرسە | ||
Uzbek hamma narsa | ||
Vietnamese mọi điều | ||
Welsh popeth | ||
Xhosa yonke into | ||
Yiddish אַלץ | ||
Yoruba ohun gbogbo | ||
Zulu konke |
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | Afrikaans and German have separate etymologies of the word "alles" which is confusing to native English speakers. |
| Albanian | "Gjithçka" has multiple possible etymologies within Albanian, deriving from either Proto-Albanian or Proto-Illyrian roots. |
| Amharic | The word "everything" in Amharic, "ሁሉም ነገር" (hullum negger), literally translates to "all of the thing". |
| Arabic | The word "كل شىء" is derived from the Arabic word "شيء" which means "thing". |
| Azerbaijani | In Azerbaijani, "hər şey" is cognate with the Persian word "har cheez" meaning "whole thing" and was most likely derived from the older Persian word "har si" meaning "every" or "all". |
| Basque | "Dena" is also the plural form for "thing", |
| Belarusian | "Усё" in the Belarusian language can refer to the whole universe, or even a single entity, depending on context and usage |
| Bengali | সব ('sob') in Bengali also means 'all' or 'whole' as in 'সবদিকে' ('shobdikey', 'on all sides'). |
| Bosnian | In some contexts, "sve" can also be used to mean "each other" or "together". |
| Bulgarian | "Всичко" is also occasionally used to mean "everyone" in Bulgarian. |
| Catalan | The word "tot" also means "very" and is used to intensify adjectives or adverbs. |
| Cebuano | Tan-an's root word is 'tanaw' with an infix /-in-/, meaning, the result of an action done by someone or a group of people. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The Chinese word for "everything" ("一切") originated from the Buddhist term "sarvastitva," which means "everything exists." |
| Chinese (Traditional) | "一" means 'one' in Chinese, while "切" refers to 'every part' or a 'slice' |
| Corsican | The Corsican word 'tuttu' is derived from the Latin 'totus', meaning 'the whole' or 'entire'. |
| Croatian | The Proto-Slavic root *su, meaning "one's own", is the likely root of "sve", as is "svoj" (meaning "one's own, personal"). |
| Czech | "Všechno" is also a name for the whole number zero in some old Czech sources. |
| Danish | Alt can also mean a generation, or to age or grow old in Danish. |
| Dutch | Dutch "alles" can also mean "everybody" or be used as a term of endearment. |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word "ĉio" is also used in the sense of "all things" in the phrase "la vero, la tuto, kaj nenio sed la tuta ĉio" ("the truth, the whole, and nothing but the whole truth"). |
| Estonian | Kõike shares the same etymological root as the Finnish word “kaikki” (everything) and the Hungarian word “keleti” (east), with all three sharing a Proto-Uralic origin |
| Finnish | The word "kaikki" originates from the Proto-Finnic word "*kajkki", meaning "abundance, plenty". |
| French | The French word "tout" comes from Latin *totus* which has the same meaning, but can also mean "the whole", |
| Frisian | Frisian “alles” has Germanic cognates that mean “other” or “foreign”. |
| Galician | The noun “todo” also means “each one” in Galician, as it derives from the Latin “totum”, which means “the whole” |
| German | 'Alles' originated from Middle Low German 'alles' and Proto-Germanic 'alaz' |
| Greek | The phrase 'τα παντα' is often used in Greek to refer to the universe or the totality of things. |
| Haitian Creole | The Haitian Creole word "tout bagay" means "everything" but literally translates to "all things" in French, reflecting its complex history. |
| Hausa | In Hausa, 'komai' also refers to a type of spice blend used for soups and stews, and can be derived from the word 'koma', meaning 'complete' or 'whole'. |
| Hawaiian | The Hawaiian word "nā mea āpau" is literally translated as "the things that are everywhere". |
| Hebrew | The word "הכל" also means "the whole" or "the entire" in Hebrew. |
| Hindi | The word "सब कुछ" is derived from the Sanskrit words "सर्व" (all) and "कुछ" (something), meaning "all things" or "the whole thing". |
| Hmong | Txhua yam means "all things" in the Hmong language and is composed of "txhua" meaning "all or every" and "yam" meaning "thing." |
| Hungarian | "Minden" also means "every" and is related to "mindegyik" (each), "mindenki" (everybody), and "mindenhol" (everywhere). |
| Icelandic | The word "allt" in Icelandic shares a common Proto-Germanic root with the German "alles". |
| Igbo | The word "ihe niile" can also mean "the whole world" or "the universe" in Igbo. |
| Indonesian | The word "segala sesuatu" in Indonesian is derived from the Sanskrit word "sarva-sattva", meaning "all beings". |
| Irish | The word "gach rud" in Irish derives from the Old Irish expression "gach n-uid", meaning "every existence". |
| Italian | The word "qualunque cosa" can also mean "whatever" or "anything" in Italian. |
| Japanese | "すべて" originated from "総べて", or "all", which gradually changed throughout history. |
| Javanese | "Kabeh" also means "entirely" or "completely" in Javanese. |
| Kannada | ಎಲ್ಲವೂ can also mean "all the time" or "always" in Kannada. |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "бәрі" also has the meaning of "all," "everyone," or "the whole." The word originated in Proto-Turkic, from which it spread into various modern Turkic languages. |
| Khmer | This word is derived from the word "អ្វី" (what) and "គ្រប់" (all), so it literally means "what all". |
| Korean | The word "모두" can also mean "all" or "everyone" in Korean. |
| Kurdish | "Hemû" in Kurdish can refer to a place of gathering or an assembly. |
| Kyrgyz | The word "баары" also means "all of them" or "the whole of them" in Kyrgyz. |
| Latin | In the feminine plural form (omnium), "omnia" also means "everything" as a noun. |
| Latvian | The Latvian word ''viss'' is cognate with Lithuanian ''vis'' and Slavic ''ves'', meaning "everywhere, all". |
| Lithuanian | "Viskas" comes from the Proto-Baltic root "wes-," meaning "all, whole," and is related to the Old Prussian "wisan" and the Latvian "viss." |
| Luxembourgish | The word 'alles' in Luxembourgish is derived from the Old High German word 'alliu', which means 'all' or 'complete'. |
| Macedonian | "Сè" is used in the Macedonian language as an indefinite pronoun which means anyone, anything or anywhere. |
| Malagasy | In Malagasy, the word "ny zava-drehetra" translates to "all things," implying wholeness, comprehensiveness, and totality. |
| Malay | In Javanese, 'semuanya' is the word for 'all together'. |
| Malayalam | The word "എല്ലാം" is derived from the Tamil word "எல்லாம்", which also means "everything". |
| Maltese | Kollox's origin is from the Arabic 'kul', meaning "all," but the word is used colloquially in a variety of contexts. |
| Maori | In Maori, "nga mea katoa" means "everything," but it literally translates to "the things all." |
| Marathi | The word "सर्वकाही" in Marathi, meaning "everything," also has alternate meanings such as "the whole thing" or "the all-encompassing whole." |
| Mongolian | The word "бүх зүйл" can also refer to the universe, the totality of all things. |
| Nepali | The word "सबै" ultimately derives from the Sanskrit "सर्व" (sarva), meaning "all" or "entire," and is cognate with the English word "superlative." |
| Norwegian | In Norse, "alt" has additional meanings such as "age" and "world". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "Chilichonse" in Nyanja can also mean "every time" or "each time" |
| Pashto | The word "هرڅه" is derived from the Persian "هر چیز" (har cheez) meaning "every single thing" or "each and every thing." |
| Persian | The word "همه چیز" (everything) literally translates to "all the things" in Persian. |
| Polish | "Wszystko" derives from "istnienie", meaning "existence". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "tudo" in Portuguese derives from the Latin "totum," meaning "all," "whole," or "complete." |
| Punjabi | The word "ਸਭ ਕੁਝ" can also refer to "all things" or "the totality of something" in Punjabi. |
| Romanian | Tot is derived from a Latin word meaning "entirely", and it can also mean "everything", "all", or "the whole" in Romanian. |
| Russian | The Russian word "все" also has the meaning "all of us," akin to the "us" in "let's go." |
| Samoan | In Samoan, 'mea uma' can also mean 'a thing' or 'a matter'. |
| Scots Gaelic | "A h-uile dad" is "every bit, each bit" or "all the better" in Irish Gaelic. |
| Serbian | The Serbian word "све" (everything) is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *vьsь, which also means "all" or "entire". |
| Sesotho | "Tsohle" is cognate with the word "izinto" from Nguni languages, and both probably derive from a Proto-Bantu term meaning "things". |
| Shona | The word 'zvese' in Shona originated from the Proto-Bantu root '-vesa', meaning 'to spread out' or 'to scatter'. |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "سڀ ڪجھ" is sometimes used to refer to the universe or creation. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "සියල්ල" (siyalla) in Sinhala is derived from the Sanskrit word "सर्व" (sarva), meaning "all" or "entire." |
| Slovak | The Slovak word "všetko" is derived from the Old Slavonic word "vьsь", meaning "whole" or "entire." |
| Slovenian | "Vse" derives from the Proto-Slavic "vьsь" meaning "all, entire". |
| Somali | Wax walba is also used when asking questions in Somali; it means 'what' in such contexts. |
| Spanish | The word «todo» in Spanish is derived from the Latin word «totus», meaning «whole» or «entire» and is related to «together» in English, as in «put together». |
| Sundanese | The word "sadayana" also has a connotation of "all the time" or "always". |
| Swahili | The Swahili word "kila kitu" is a compound word derived from the root "ki-", meaning "one", and the noun "kitu", meaning "thing". This word can also be used to refer to "the whole world", or "all that exists." |
| Swedish | The word 'allt' in Swedish comes from the Old Norse word 'allt' meaning 'completely' or 'entirely'. |
| Tajik | The Tajik word "ҳама чиз" can also mean "totality" or "entirely". |
| Tamil | எல்லாம் means 'completely', 'in all respects', or 'altogether', also 'every', as the subject and is sometimes a reflexive pronoun. |
| Telugu | In Telugu, the word "ప్రతిదీ" ("everything") also has the connotation of "each and every thing," emphasizing the totality and inclusiveness of its scope. |
| Thai | The word "thuk yang" could be interpreted as "each thing" due to being a compound of "thuk" and "yang" |
| Turkish | "Herşey" is a Turkish word that is often used to mean 'everything', but it can also be used to refer more specifically to one's possessions or property. |
| Ukrainian | “Все” (everything) is a shortened form of “всех” (of all), which originates from the Proto-Slavic “vьsьkh” (of all). |
| Urdu | In Sanskrit, the word सब कुछ (sab kuch) translates to "all of that" or "the totality." |
| Uzbek | The word "hamma narsa" is a compound of "hamma" (all) and "narsa" (thing), and can also mean "every kind of thing" or "all sorts of things". |
| Vietnamese | Mọi điều (literally "all matters") originates from the Chinese idiom 万事 (Wàn shì), meaning "everything" |
| Welsh | The word "popeth" in Welsh also refers to the universe or the totality of existence. |
| Xhosa | Yonke into, or "everything," comes from yonke (all) and into (things) in Xhosa. |
| Yiddish | The word "אַלץ" in Yiddish is cognate with the German "alles" and dates back to the Middle High German "alliz". |
| Yoruba | "Ohun gbogbo" also means "everything" and is formed from "ohun" (which in isolation means "thing") and "gbogbo" (which independently means "all") |
| Zulu | "Konke" is also used to form the absolute superlative degree of an adjective or adverb. |
| English | The word "everything" is derived from the Old English words "eall" (all) and "thing" (thing) |