Afrikaans verleng | ||
Albanian zgjatet | ||
Amharic ማራዘም | ||
Arabic تمديد | ||
Armenian երկարացնել | ||
Assamese প্ৰসাৰিত | ||
Aymara jach'aptayaña | ||
Azerbaijani uzatmaq | ||
Bambara ka lasama | ||
Basque luzatu | ||
Belarusian падоўжыць | ||
Bengali প্রসারিত করা | ||
Bhojpuri बढ़ावल | ||
Bosnian produžiti | ||
Bulgarian разшири | ||
Catalan estendre | ||
Cebuano ipaabot | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 延伸 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 延伸 | ||
Corsican allargà | ||
Croatian produžiti | ||
Czech rozšířit | ||
Danish forlænge | ||
Dhivehi އިތުރުކުރުން | ||
Dogri बधाना | ||
Dutch uitbreiden | ||
English extend | ||
Esperanto etendi | ||
Estonian pikendada | ||
Ewe he ɖe ŋgɔ | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) pahabain | ||
Finnish pidentää | ||
French étendre | ||
Frisian ferlinge | ||
Galician estender | ||
Georgian ვრცელდება | ||
German erweitern | ||
Greek επεκτείνω | ||
Guarani pysove | ||
Gujarati લંબાવો | ||
Haitian Creole pwolonje | ||
Hausa miƙa | ||
Hawaiian hoʻolōʻihi | ||
Hebrew לְהַאֲרִיך | ||
Hindi विस्तार | ||
Hmong txuas ntxiv | ||
Hungarian kiterjeszt | ||
Icelandic framlengja | ||
Igbo ịgbatị | ||
Ilocano paatiddogen | ||
Indonesian memperpanjang | ||
Irish leathnú | ||
Italian estendere | ||
Japanese 拡張する | ||
Javanese ndawakake | ||
Kannada ವಿಸ್ತರಿಸಿ | ||
Kazakh ұзарту | ||
Khmer ពង្រីក | ||
Kinyarwanda kwagura | ||
Konkani विस्तार करचो | ||
Korean 넓히다 | ||
Krio gro | ||
Kurdish n | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) درێژکردنەوە | ||
Kyrgyz кеңейтүү | ||
Lao ຂະຫຍາຍ | ||
Latin extend | ||
Latvian pagarināt | ||
Lingala kokomisa mingi | ||
Lithuanian pratęsti | ||
Luganda okusembeza | ||
Luxembourgish verlängeren | ||
Macedonian прошири | ||
Maithili बढ़ेनाइ | ||
Malagasy hanitatra | ||
Malay memanjangkan | ||
Malayalam നീട്ടുക | ||
Maltese jestendi | ||
Maori whakaroa | ||
Marathi वाढवणे | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯁꯥꯡꯗꯣꯛꯄ | ||
Mizo tizau | ||
Mongolian сунгах | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) တိုးချဲ့ | ||
Nepali विस्तार | ||
Norwegian forlenge | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kuwonjezera | ||
Odia (Oriya) ବିସ୍ତାର କର | | ||
Oromo dheeressuu | ||
Pashto غځول | ||
Persian توسعه دادن، گسترش | ||
Polish poszerzać | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) ampliar | ||
Punjabi ਫੈਲਾਓ | ||
Quechua mastariy | ||
Romanian extinde | ||
Russian расширять | ||
Samoan faʻalautele | ||
Sanskrit वितनोति | ||
Scots Gaelic leudachadh | ||
Sepedi katološa | ||
Serbian проширити | ||
Sesotho atolosa | ||
Shona wedzera | ||
Sindhi وڌايو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) දිගු කරන්න | ||
Slovak predĺžiť | ||
Slovenian podaljšati | ||
Somali kordhiyo | ||
Spanish ampliar | ||
Sundanese manjangan | ||
Swahili kupanua | ||
Swedish förlänga | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) magpahaba | ||
Tajik дароз кардан | ||
Tamil நீட்ட | ||
Tatar озайту | ||
Telugu విస్తరించండి | ||
Thai ขยาย | ||
Tigrinya ኣናውሕ | ||
Tsonga engetela | ||
Turkish uzatmak | ||
Turkmen uzat | ||
Twi (Akan) trɛ mu kɔ | ||
Ukrainian розширити | ||
Urdu توسیع | ||
Uyghur كېڭەيتىش | ||
Uzbek uzaytirish | ||
Vietnamese mở rộng | ||
Welsh ymestyn | ||
Xhosa yandisa | ||
Yiddish פאַרברייטערן | ||
Yoruba faagun | ||
Zulu nweba |
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "verleng" in Afrikaans shares its etymological roots with the English word "lengthen," both derived from the Proto-Germanic term "langaz" meaning "long." |
| Albanian | The word "zgjatet" comes from the Proto-Albanian root *zgjer-, meaning "to enlarge" or "to stretch". |
| Amharic | In Amharic, the word "ማራዘም" can also refer to the act of stretching, pulling, or drawing something out. |
| Arabic | The word "تمديد" (tamdeed) also means "stretching" or "lengthening". |
| Azerbaijani | "Uzatmaq" (extend) is derived from the Proto-Turkic verb "uzad-", meaning "to grow" or "to become longer." |
| Basque | In the expression "luzatu ta murriztu" ("extend and contract"), "luzatu" can mean either "extend" or "stretch". |
| Belarusian | Падоўжыць is derived from the Proto-Slavic root *dъlžь, which also means "long" and "debt". |
| Bengali | "প্রসারিত করা" means "to stretch out" or "increase" in Bengali, but it also refers to "expansion" or "enlargement." |
| Bosnian | "Produžiti" means "to lengthen" or "to continue" in Croatian and Serbian, and "to produce" in Slovenian. |
| Bulgarian | The Bulgarian word "разшири" is derived from the Old Church Slavonic word "рашьрити", which also means "to spread out" or "to widen". |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "estendre" comes from the Latin verb "extendere", which also means "to stretch out, prolong, or enlarge". |
| Cebuano | "Ipaabot" (extend) can also mean "to give" or "to give someone something." |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 延伸 (extend) is also a Chinese surname sharing the same pronunciation but featuring different Chinese characters. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | "延伸" (extend) also means “deduction” or "implication. |
| Corsican | Allargà derives from the Latin word 'largus' and can also mean 'generous'. |
| Croatian | "Produžiti" (extend) means "to lengthen" and also "to continue" in Croatian. |
| Czech | The word "rozšířit" can also mean "to spread" or "to disperse". |
| Danish | The word "forlænge" comes from the Old Norse "forlengja," which means "to make longer". |
| Dutch | In Dutch, “uitbreiden” also means “to spread out” and is related to the English word “broad”. |
| Esperanto | Esperanto's "etendi" is derived from the Latin "extendere", meaning "to stretch out" or "to expand." |
| Estonian | The word "pikendada" can also mean "to extend in time or duration". |
| Finnish | The word "pidentää" comes from the Proto-Finnic word "*piténtä-, which also means "to stretch, to lengthen, to extend." |
| French | "Étendre" originates from the Latin "extendere", meaning "to stretch out" or "to spread out". |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "ferlinge" derives from the Proto-Germanic verb "fergan," meaning "to extend, proceed." |
| Galician | In Galician, "estender" also means "to spread" or "to lay out". |
| Georgian | The Georgian word "ვრცელდება" is derived from the Middle Persian word "𐭥𐭫𐭬𐭭𐭯𐭩", meaning "to spread out". In addition to its literal meaning, it can also be used figuratively to mean "to expand", "to increase", or "to grow". |
| German | Erweitern is cognate with the English word 'revert' and originally meant 'to turn' or 'to reverse'. |
| Greek | The word 'επεκτείνω' can also mean 'to stretch out', 'to spread out', or 'to unfold'. |
| Gujarati | "લંબાવો" can also mean "to stretch" or "to elongate". |
| Haitian Creole | The word "pwolonje" is derived from the French word "prolonger," meaning to lengthen or extend. |
| Hausa | "Miƙa" can also refer to the act of offering or presenting something. |
| Hawaiian | "Hoʻolōʻihi" can also mean "to elongate, stretch, spin out, lengthen, extend, prolong, draw out, spread out, and make long." |
| Hebrew | A related root (א.ר.ר) gives us ʼôreh which means "light" (e.g. 6 times in Gen 1) and ʼôrah (עָרָה) = "to watch" (e.g. in Judges 8:25). |
| Hindi | In astronomy, विस्तार refers to the apparent expansion of the universe. |
| Hmong | The word "txuas ntxiv" in Hmong can also be used to mean attach, add, join, continue, and extend. |
| Hungarian | The word "kiterjeszt" (extend) is related to the words "terjesz" (expand) and "terület" (area), indicating its original meaning of extending the scope of something. |
| Icelandic | The word "framlengja" is derived from the Old Norse word "framlengja", meaning "to make longer" or "to prolong". |
| Igbo | In Igbo, the word "ịgbatị" can also mean to spread, lengthen, widen, or expand. |
| Indonesian | "Memperpanjang" is also commonly used as a slang term to describe the act of stretching out or relaxing one's body. |
| Irish | The term 'leathnú' in Irish can be interpreted as both the act of extending outwardly in size or measurement, and the expansion of one's own reach or influence. |
| Italian | The word "estendere" in Italian comes from the same Latin root as the word "extent" in English, originally meaning "to stretch out". |
| Japanese | The verb '拡張する' can also mean 'to stretch' or 'to widen'. |
| Javanese | Ndawakake is a compound word that consists of "ndawa" (length) and "kake" (to make), thus literally meaning "to make long." |
| Kannada | The word 'extend' is derived from the Latin word 'extendere,' meaning 'to stretch out or expand'. |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "ұзарту" also means "to make taller" or "to make longer". |
| Khmer | ពង្រីក is also used to translate the English words: "to spread out or increase in coverage". |
| Korean | "넓히다" (extend) comes from the Sino-Korean root "넓 (넓다)" (wide) and originally meant "to make wide or spacious." |
| Kurdish | In Kurdish, "n" can also refer to "place" or "manner". |
| Kyrgyz | The word "кеңейтүү" can also mean "to widen", "to broaden", or "to enlarge" in Kyrgyz. |
| Latin | "Extend" comes from the Latin word "extendere," meaning "to stretch out or lengthen." |
| Latvian | The verb "pagarināt" can also mean "to lengthen" or "to reach out". |
| Lithuanian | "Pratęsti" also means "to continue" or "to lengthen". |
| Luxembourgish | In Luxembourgish, "verlängeren" is also used colloquially to mean "to postpone" or "to delay". |
| Macedonian | The word "прошири" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word "*pro-širь" meaning both "to extend" and "to spread out". |
| Malagasy | The word "hanitatra" can also mean "to spread out", "to stretch", or "to reach" in Malagasy. |
| Malay | It comes from the Proto-Malayo-Polynesian root *ma-manjaŋ, meaning "to be long", cognate with *pa-manjaŋ, meaning "to stretch". |
| Malayalam | The word "നീട്ടുക" can also mean "to elongate" or "to prolong". |
| Maltese | The word "jestendi" derives from the Italian "estendere", meaning "to stretch out" and also has connotations of "extending" or "expanding". |
| Maori | "Whakaroa" can also refer to the concept of "making a connection" or "reaching out" in Maori. |
| Marathi | The word 'वाढवणे' ('extend') in Marathi is derived from the Sanskrit word 'वर्ध्' ('grow' or 'increase') and has alternate meanings such as 'prolong', 'stretch', or 'promote'. |
| Mongolian | The word "сунгах" can also mean "to prolong" or "to lengthen". |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The word "တိုးချဲ့" is derived from the Pali word "tāleti," which means "to reach out" or "to spread out, and the Burmese suffix "-chè," which indicates a causative or intransitive action. |
| Nepali | The Nepali word "विस्तार" is related to the Sanskrit root word "vistr", meaning "to spread" or "to extend", and can carry similar meanings, such as expansion or enlargement. |
| Norwegian | The Norwegian word "forlenge" also means "to prolong" or "to lengthen". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "kuwonjezera" in Nyanja can also mean "to prolong", "to lengthen", or "to make last longer". |
| Pashto | The word "غځول" in Pashto shares its roots with the Persian word "گستردن" and the Sanskrit word "ग्रसते" (grasate), both meaning "to swallow". |
| Persian | The word "extend" comes from the Latin word "extendere," which means "to stretch out" or "to enlarge." |
| Polish | The word "poszerzać" is derived from the Old Polish word "poszerzyć", which means "to make wider" or "to enlarge". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The Portuguese word "ampliar" derives from the Latin word "ampliare", meaning "to increase" or "to enlarge." |
| Punjabi | ਫੈਲਾਓ can also mean 'to spread something' or 'to make something wider'. |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "extinde" shares the same Latin root as the English word "extension" but additionally means "to spread" or "to unroll". |
| Russian | "Расширять" (extend) comes from the same root as "растягивать" (stretch), meaning "to enlarge by pulling or stretching." |
| Samoan | While the initial meaning of the word “faʻalautele” in Samoan meant “extend”, through the years, it has come to be used to refer to “spread” or “open up” as well. |
| Scots Gaelic | "Leudachadh" is also an archaic term for a "lease" or "letting of land". |
| Serbian | The word "проширити" is also used in Serbian to mean "to spread" or "to expand." |
| Sesotho | The word "atolosa" can also refer to someone who has a lot of energy or who is very active. |
| Shona | The word "wedzera" derives from the Proto-Bantu root "-del-" meaning "to put or reach out." |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "وڌايو" can also mean "to add" or "to increase." |
| Slovak | The Slovak verb predĺžiť comes from the proto-Slavonic word *dlъgъ, meaning 'long'. |
| Slovenian | "Podaljšati" in Slovenian is derived from the Proto-Slavic root "*podъ" meaning "under" and the verb "dlъgъ" meaning "long". In addition to its literal meaning of "to extend," it can also mean "to prolong" or "to renew." |
| Somali | The word "kordhiyo" originates from the Arabic word "qardha" which means "loan". This suggests that the concept of "extending" something may have been originally associated with the idea of lending or borrowing. |
| Spanish | The verb "ampliar" derives from the Latin "ampliare," meaning "to enlarge," and it's also used to refer to "extending a document's validity" or "expanding one's knowledge." |
| Sundanese | The Sundanese word "manjangan" also has the meaning "to ask permission politely" and has the same root word as "manjangkeun," which means "to extend" |
| Swahili | The word "kupanua" can also mean "to stretch", "to enlarge", or "to spread out". |
| Swedish | The word 'förlänga' in Swedish has Old Norse roots, meaning 'make longer, stretch out, or prolong'. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | Magpahaba also means "to lengthen," "to add to," "to grow," or "to increase." |
| Tajik | The word "дароз кардан" can also mean "to stretch", "to expand", or "to enlarge" in Tajik. |
| Tamil | "நீட்ட" is also used to describe a long stretch of land or water. |
| Thai | ขยาย shares the same roots as ไกล (far) which comes from an old Khmer word, thus also having the connotation of distance. |
| Turkish | Uzatmak in Turkish also means 'to lengthen or make last longer', 'to stretch out' and 'to postpone'. |
| Ukrainian | The verb “rozshyryty” is a derivative from the noun “rozshyrennia,” meaning “extension,” which is of Church Slavonic origin. |
| Urdu | The word "توسیع" in Urdu can also refer to the expansion of knowledge or territory. |
| Uzbek | The word "uzaytirish" can also mean "to lengthen", "to prolong", or "to enlarge" in Uzbek. |
| Vietnamese | "Mở rộng" comes from Sino-Vietnamese and also means "to open wide" and "to expand". |
| Welsh | The word "ymestyn" in Welsh can also mean "to stretch" or "to spread out". |
| Xhosa | Yandisa also means 'to go on'} |
| Yoruba | "Faagun" also means "to prolong one's life" in Yoruba. |
| Zulu | "In Zulu, the word 'nweba' has two meanings: 'extend' and 'stretch'" |
| English | Etymology: from Medieval Latin extendere, from Latin ex- “out” + tendere “to stretch”. |