Expand in Different Languages
Discover 'Expand' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
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Afrikaans uit te brei | ||
Albanian zgjerohet | ||
Amharic አስፋ | ||
Arabic وسعت | ||
Armenian ընդլայնել | ||
Assamese সম্প্ৰসাৰণ কৰা | ||
Aymara jach'aptayaña | ||
Azerbaijani genişləndirmək | ||
Bambara ka janya | ||
Basque zabaldu | ||
Belarusian пашырыць | ||
Bengali বিস্তৃত করা | ||
Bhojpuri बढ़ावऽ | ||
Bosnian proširiti | ||
Bulgarian разширяване | ||
Catalan ampliar | ||
Cebuano pagpalapad | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 扩大 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 擴大 | ||
Corsican allargà | ||
Croatian proširiti | ||
Czech rozšířit | ||
Danish udvide | ||
Dhivehi އިތުރުކުރުން | ||
Dogri बस्तार करना | ||
Dutch uitbreiden | ||
English expand | ||
Esperanto ekspansiiĝi | ||
Estonian laienema | ||
Ewe keke | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) palawakin | ||
Finnish laajentaa | ||
French développer | ||
Frisian útwreidzje | ||
Galician ampliar | ||
Georgian გაფართოება | ||
German erweitern | ||
Greek επεκτείνουν | ||
Guarani myasãi | ||
Gujarati વિસ્તૃત કરો | ||
Haitian Creole elaji | ||
Hausa fadada | ||
Hawaiian hoʻonui | ||
Hebrew לְהַרְחִיב | ||
Hindi विस्तार | ||
Hmong nthuav | ||
Hungarian kiterjed | ||
Icelandic stækka | ||
Igbo gbasaa | ||
Ilocano palawaen | ||
Indonesian memperluas | ||
Irish leathnú | ||
Italian espandere | ||
Japanese 展開 | ||
Javanese nggedhekake | ||
Kannada ವಿಸ್ತರಿಸಲು | ||
Kazakh кеңейту | ||
Khmer ពង្រីក | ||
Kinyarwanda kwagura | ||
Konkani विस्तारावप | ||
Korean 넓히다 | ||
Krio gro | ||
Kurdish firehkirin | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) فراوانکردن | ||
Kyrgyz кеңейтүү | ||
Lao ຂະຫຍາຍ | ||
Latin capitulum quintum | ||
Latvian paplašināties | ||
Lingala kokomisa monene | ||
Lithuanian plėstis | ||
Luganda okugaziwa | ||
Luxembourgish erweideren | ||
Macedonian прошири | ||
Maithili फैलेनाइ | ||
Malagasy hanitatra | ||
Malay mengembang | ||
Malayalam വികസിപ്പിക്കുക | ||
Maltese jespandu | ||
Maori whakarake | ||
Marathi विस्तृत करा | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯆꯥꯎꯊꯣꯛꯄ | ||
Mizo tilian | ||
Mongolian өргөжүүлэх | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ချဲ့ထွင် | ||
Nepali विस्तार गर्नुहोस् | ||
Norwegian utvide | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kukulitsa | ||
Odia (Oriya) ବିସ୍ତାର କର | | ||
Oromo bal'isuu | ||
Pashto پراخول | ||
Persian بسط دادن | ||
Polish rozszerzać | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) expandir | ||
Punjabi ਫੈਲਾਓ | ||
Quechua mastariy | ||
Romanian extinde | ||
Russian расширять | ||
Samoan faʻalautele | ||
Sanskrit आतन् | ||
Scots Gaelic leudachadh | ||
Sepedi katološa | ||
Serbian проширити | ||
Sesotho atolosa | ||
Shona wedzera | ||
Sindhi وڌايو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) පුළුල් කරන්න | ||
Slovak rozširovať | ||
Slovenian razširiti | ||
Somali ballaadhin | ||
Spanish expandir | ||
Sundanese ngagedéan | ||
Swahili panua | ||
Swedish bygga ut | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) palawakin | ||
Tajik васеъ кардан | ||
Tamil விரிவாக்கு | ||
Tatar киңәйтү | ||
Telugu విస్తరించండి | ||
Thai ขยาย | ||
Tigrinya ምስፍሕፋሕ | ||
Tsonga ndlandlamuxa | ||
Turkish genişletmek | ||
Turkmen giňeltmek | ||
Twi (Akan) trɛ mu | ||
Ukrainian розширювати | ||
Urdu پھیلائیں | ||
Uyghur كېڭەيتىش | ||
Uzbek kengaytirish | ||
Vietnamese mở rộng | ||
Welsh ehangu | ||
Xhosa yandisa | ||
Yiddish יקספּאַנד | ||
Yoruba faagun | ||
Zulu nweba |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans verb "uit te brei" can also mean to "elaborate" or "develop". |
| Albanian | Etymology: zgjeroj < Slavic *šir- (“wide”) |
| Amharic | The word "asfa" can also mean "to unfold" or "to spread out". |
| Arabic | "وسعت" is the feminine singular form of "وسعت" in the active participle form and also a past form as it is related to an intransitive verb. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "genişləndirmək" comes from the Persian word "gashidan", meaning "to spread" or "to extend". It can also refer to the act of expanding one's knowledge or understanding. |
| Basque | "Zabaltxu" (from "zabaldu") means both "to open up" and "the hole through which the sea goes in and out of the coast". |
| Belarusian | Belarusian "пашырыць" is derived from the Old Church Slavonic word "ширити", meaning "to spread", and also shares a root with the words "пышны" ("lush") and "пух" ("down feathers"). |
| Bengali | The Bengali word "বিস্তৃত করা" can also mean "to spread out" or "to extend". |
| Bosnian | "Proširiti" can also mean "to extend" or "to spread out". |
| Bulgarian | The Bulgarian word "разширяване" also means "to broaden," "to enlarge," or "to extend." |
| Catalan | Catalan "ampliar" derives from Latin "ampliare" and also means "to make wider" or "to broaden". |
| Cebuano | "Pagpalapad" can also mean "widening" or "stretching". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The word "扩大" not only means "expand" but also implies "to spread out" or "to enlarge". |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 擴大 means 'expand', 'enlarge', 'broaden', 'amplify', 'extend'. |
| Corsican | "Allargà" in Corsican may also refer to a type of local bread or a type of dance. |
| Croatian | The word `proširiti` also means 'to spread' or 'to prolong'. |
| Czech | The word "rozšířit" can also mean "to spread out" or "to extend" in Czech. |
| Danish | The word "udvide" can also refer to the enlargement of an area or territory. |
| Dutch | The word "uitbreiden" is also used in Dutch to refer to the growth of a town or city, with new homes and businesses being built. |
| Esperanto | The word "ekspansiiĝi" derives from the Latin word "expansus" which means "spread out". |
| Estonian | The Estonian word "laienema" can also refer to a type of fabric or a method of making fabric. |
| Finnish | The word "laajentaa" is derived from the Proto-Finnic word *laajen- meaning "to expand, to grow". |
| French | The French noun "développeur" (developer) originally meant "revealer or unwraper" and can still mean "processor or amplifier". |
| Frisian | The word "útwreidzje" can also mean "to unfold", "to spread out", or "to develop". |
| Galician | In Galician, "ampliar" can also mean "to extend" or "to prolong" in the temporal sense. |
| German | The verb "erweitern" can also mean "to extend" or "to amplify" in German. |
| Greek | "επεκτείνουν" originates from the Greek word "έκτασις" (éktasis), meaning "extension" or "stretching". |
| Haitian Creole | The word "elaji" in Haitian Creole derives from the French word "élargir" which also means "to broaden" or "to widen". |
| Hausa | Hausa word "fadada" originated from "fadama", meaning floodplain or wetlands with abundant water in the rainy season that dries up completely in the dry season. |
| Hawaiian | "Hoʻonui" also means "to make big, to enlarge, to increase, to augment, to multiply, to exaggerate, to amplify, to extend, to magnify, to prolong, to add to." |
| Hebrew | In biblical Hebrew, לְהַרְחִיב can also mean "to live long," as in Psalms 91:16. |
| Hindi | The Hindi word "विस्तार" also means an "explanation", "description" or "exposition." |
| Hmong | The word "nthuav" has an alternate meaning of "to grow". |
| Hungarian | The verb "kiterjed" also means "to spread out" or "to stretch out". |
| Icelandic | "Stækka" derives from the Old Norse word "stækkva," meaning "to jump", perhaps related to the notion of something increasing in size by "jumping" up. |
| Igbo | "Gbasaa" also means to increase in size, volume, or quantity. |
| Indonesian | The term “memperluas” is a blend of prefix "men-," root word "per-," and verb stem "-luar." In Old Malay the prefix "me-," which refers to active voice in verb conjugations in Modern Indonesian, was “Meng-". |
| Irish | The Irish word "leathnú" can also refer to the broadening of horizons or the widening of understanding. |
| Italian | "Espandere" derives from the Old Provençal word "espandre," meaning "to scatter" or "to sow". |
| Japanese | "展開" literally means "to spread out," and it can refer to both physical and metaphorical expansion. |
| Javanese | The word 'nggedhekake' is also used in Javanese to refer to 'making something bigger' or 'enlarging something'. |
| Kannada | The Sanskrit word "vistŗ" (to spread) is the origin for "vistharisalu" in Kannada. |
| Kazakh | The word "кеңейту" in Kazakh originates from the Proto-Turkic word "keŋ" meaning "wide" or "spacious". |
| Khmer | The word "ពង្រីក" is derived from the Sanskrit word "vyakra" meaning "to extend" or "to enlarge". |
| Korean | "넓히다" has the Sino-Korean root "屢", which also appears in "넓(broad)" and refers to horizontal width. |
| Kurdish | The word 'firehkirin' in Kurdish can also mean 'to spread out' or 'to scatter'. |
| Kyrgyz | The word "кеңейтүү" can also mean "to widen" or "to broaden" in Kyrgyz. |
| Lao | The word ຂະຫຍາຍ can also refer to the concept of "extending" or "broadening" something. |
| Latin | The capitulum quintum, a term used in ancient Roman law, was a clause added to a will in which a testator could change the terms of the will or appoint a new heir. |
| Latvian | The word "paplašināties" also has the alternate meanings of "broadening, widening, enlarging". |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word "plėstis" comes from the Proto-Indo-European root "*pleth-", meaning "to spread out" or "to widen". |
| Luxembourgish | The verb "erweideren" is related to the French word "élargir" and the German word "erweitern", which also mean "expand". |
| Macedonian | Proširi can also mean to increase or extend something. |
| Malagasy | In Malagasy, the word "hanitatra" also means "to develop" or "to increase". |
| Malay | "Mengembang" also means "to have pimples" in Malay. |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "jespandu" is derived from the Italian word "espandere", which means "to spread" or "to extend". |
| Maori | 'Whakarake' in Maori can also refer to opening something like a door or gate. |
| Marathi | विस्तृत करा means to expand in Marathi. |
| Mongolian | The word "өргөжүүлэх" also means "to enlarge", "to extend", "to develop", and "to increase". |
| Nepali | Expand comes from the Latin word 'expandere', which means to spread out or enlarge. |
| Norwegian | It also appears in the word 'vidde', meaning 'plateau', as well as 'vide', meaning 'wide' and 'extensive'. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The verb "kukulitsa" also means "to grow" or "to increase" in size or number. |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "پراخول" also means "to spread out" or "to scatter". |
| Persian | The root of "بسط دادن" is the Arabic word "بسط" meaning both "to spread" and "to explain". |
| Polish | **Rozszerzać** can also mean to dilute or extend, referring to the action of making something less concentrated or longer. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, the word "expandir" derives from the Latin word "expendere," which means to spread or unfold, and can also refer to stretching or extending something. |
| Punjabi | The word "फैलाਓ" in Punjabi can also refer to the act of spreading or distributing something. |
| Romanian | In Romanian, the word "extinde" can also mean to "lengthen" or "prolong". |
| Russian | The Russian word "расширять" can also mean "to spread", "to enlarge", or "to amplify". |
| Samoan | The word "faʻalautele" can also mean "to stretch" or "to pull" in Samoan. |
| Scots Gaelic | The word "leudachadh" can also refer to the act of spreading or scattering something, or to the creation of space for something. |
| Serbian | The verb "проширити" (expand) is derived from the Old Church Slavonic word "прострѣти" (to spread out), which is related to the Latin word "porrigere" (to stretch out). |
| Sesotho | "Atolosa" also means "to inflate/swell" or "to be swollen/puffed up" in Sesotho. |
| Shona | The Shona word "wedzera" can also mean to increase, multiply, or enlarge. |
| Sindhi | "وڌايو" means "to spread out" or "to be distributed" in Sindhi. |
| Slovak | "Rozširovať" (to expand) comes from Proto-Slavic *širь "to scatter, spread" (also in "share" and German "scheren" "to cut (sheep)"). |
| Slovenian | The word "razširiti" is derived from the Proto-Slavic root *širъ, meaning "wide". |
| Somali | The Somali word 'ballaadhin' also has the alternate meaning 'to make or become wider, larger, broader' (when referring to physical objects). |
| Spanish | 'Expandir' in Spanish shares the same Latin root ('expendere') as 'spend', and it can also mean 'to spend' in some contexts |
| Sundanese | The word "ngagadéan" also means "to spread out" or "to extend". |
| Swahili | The word "panua" can also refer to the act of stretching or enlarging something |
| Swedish | The word "bygga ut" is derived from the Old Norse word "byggja", meaning "to build" or "to settle." |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word 'palawakin' can also mean to grow, widen, or increase in size or scope. |
| Tajik | It is based on the Persian word "گشادن" with the same meaning |
| Tamil | The word "விரிவாக்கு" is derived from the Sanskrit word "वृद्धि" (vr̥ddhi), which means "growth" or "increase". |
| Thai | "ขยาย" (expand) also means "enlarge" or "increase". |
| Turkish | "Genişletmek" (to expand) stems from the Persian word "geniş" (wide) and the Turkish suffix "-letmek" (to cause to). |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word "розширювати" derives from the Proto-Slavic root різ-, meaning "to cut or split", suggesting an original meaning of "to make wider". |
| Urdu | The Urdu word "پھیلائیں" derives from the Sanskrit root "prasara" meaning "to spread" and also has the alternate meaning of "to make known". |
| Uzbek | The word "kengaytirish" is derived from the Turkic root word "keng", which means "wide" or "broad." |
| Vietnamese | "Mở rộng" is a Vietnamese word that can also mean "to elaborate" or "to develop". |
| Welsh | The Welsh word 'ehangu' can also refer to the act of 'stretching' or 'extending' something. |
| Xhosa | The verb "yandisa" in Xhosa can also mean "to grow, flourish, or thrive." |
| Yiddish | "יקספּאַנד" is a Yiddish word of Latin origin, meaning to enlarge, unfold, or extend. |
| Yoruba | In the Ijebu dialect, "faagun" also means "to spread out or open the hands or legs". |
| Zulu | The Zulu word "nweba" also has the alternate meaning of "to spread out" or "to widen". |
| English | Etymology: from Latin 'expando', meaning 'to spread out or unfold'. |