Extraordinary in Different Languages
Discover 'Extraordinary' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Extraordinary
Afrikaans buitengewone | ||
Albanian i jashtëzakonshëm | ||
Amharic ያልተለመደ | ||
Arabic استثنائي | ||
Armenian արտասովոր | ||
Assamese অসাধাৰণ | ||
Aymara amtatarjama | ||
Azerbaijani qeyri-adi | ||
Bambara dákabana | ||
Basque apartekoa | ||
Belarusian надзвычайны | ||
Bengali অসাধারণ | ||
Bhojpuri असाधारण | ||
Bosnian izvanredno | ||
Bulgarian извънредно | ||
Catalan extraordinari | ||
Cebuano talagsaon nga | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 非凡 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 非凡 | ||
Corsican straordinariu | ||
Croatian izvanredno | ||
Czech mimořádný | ||
Danish ekstraordinær | ||
Dhivehi އާދަޔާ ޚިލާފު | ||
Dogri गैर-ममूली | ||
Dutch buitengewoon | ||
English extraordinary | ||
Esperanto eksterordinara | ||
Estonian erakordne | ||
Ewe si to vovo sã | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) pambihira | ||
Finnish epätavallinen | ||
French extraordinaire | ||
Frisian bûtengewoan | ||
Galician extraordinario | ||
Georgian საგანგებო | ||
German außergewöhnlich | ||
Greek έκτακτος | ||
Guarani jepivegua'ỹva | ||
Gujarati અસાધારણ | ||
Haitian Creole ekstraòdinè | ||
Hausa na ban mamaki | ||
Hawaiian kamahaʻo | ||
Hebrew יוצאת דופן | ||
Hindi असाधारण | ||
Hmong txawv tshaj plaw | ||
Hungarian rendkívüli | ||
Icelandic óvenjulegt | ||
Igbo pụrụ iche | ||
Ilocano sangsangayan | ||
Indonesian luar biasa | ||
Irish neamhghnách | ||
Italian straordinario | ||
Japanese 並外れた | ||
Javanese mirunggan | ||
Kannada ಅಸಾಮಾನ್ಯ | ||
Kazakh ерекше | ||
Khmer អស្ចារ្យ | ||
Kinyarwanda bidasanzwe | ||
Konkani अलोकीक | ||
Korean 이상한 | ||
Krio rili spɛshal | ||
Kurdish bêfêrane | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) نا ئاسایی | ||
Kyrgyz укмуштуу | ||
Lao ພິເສດ | ||
Latin incredibili | ||
Latvian ārkārtējs | ||
Lingala ya kokamwa | ||
Lithuanian nepaprastas | ||
Luganda ekibejjo | ||
Luxembourgish aussergewéinlech | ||
Macedonian извонредна | ||
Maithili असाधारण | ||
Malagasy miavaka | ||
Malay luar biasa | ||
Malayalam അസാധാരണമായത് | ||
Maltese straordinarja | ||
Maori faahiahia | ||
Marathi विलक्षण | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯇꯣꯉꯥꯟꯕ | ||
Mizo tha bik | ||
Mongolian ер бусын | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) မင်္ဂလာပါ | ||
Nepali असाधारण | ||
Norwegian ekstraordinær | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) zachilendo | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଅସାଧାରଣ | ||
Oromo wanta gonkumaa hin baratamin | ||
Pashto غیر معمولي | ||
Persian خارق العاده | ||
Polish niezwykły | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) extraordinário | ||
Punjabi ਅਸਾਧਾਰਣ | ||
Quechua aswan allin | ||
Romanian extraordinar | ||
Russian необычный | ||
Samoan tulaga ese | ||
Sanskrit विलक्षण | ||
Scots Gaelic iongantach | ||
Sepedi fetišišago | ||
Serbian изванредно | ||
Sesotho e sa tloaelehang | ||
Shona zvinoshamisa | ||
Sindhi غيرمعمولي | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) අසාමාන්යයි | ||
Slovak mimoriadny | ||
Slovenian izredno | ||
Somali aan caadi ahayn | ||
Spanish extraordinario | ||
Sundanese rongkah | ||
Swahili ajabu | ||
Swedish utöver det vanliga | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) pambihira | ||
Tajik ғайриоддӣ | ||
Tamil அசாதாரண | ||
Tatar гадәттән тыш | ||
Telugu అసాధారణ | ||
Thai วิสามัญ | ||
Tigrinya ዘይተለመደ | ||
Tsonga swo hlamarisa | ||
Turkish olağanüstü | ||
Turkmen adatdan daşary | ||
Twi (Akan) soronko koraa | ||
Ukrainian надзвичайний | ||
Urdu غیر معمولی | ||
Uyghur پەۋقۇلئاددە | ||
Uzbek ajoyib | ||
Vietnamese phi thường | ||
Welsh hynod | ||
Xhosa engaqhelekanga | ||
Yiddish ויסערגעוויינלעך | ||
Yoruba extraordinary | ||
Zulu okungajwayelekile |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "buitengewone" literally translates to "outside the ordinary". |
| Albanian | "Jashtëzakonshëm" comes from the root word "zakon," meaning "law". |
| Amharic | The word "ያልተለመደ" can also mean "uncommon" or "rare" in Amharic. |
| Arabic | The word "استثنائي" can also mean "exceptional" or "outstanding" in Arabic. |
| Azerbaijani | "Qeyri-adi" originates from Persian "ğeyr" "other, different" + Arabic "ʿādī" "common". In some cases, "qeyri-adi" means "unusual or unnatural". |
| Basque | The word "apartekoa" in Basque literally translates to "that which is set apart" |
| Belarusian | The word "надзвычайны" (extraordinary) is derived from the Old Church Slavonic "на дъвъ", meaning "beyond the ordinary." |
| Bengali | The word "অসাধারণ" can have multiple meanings, besides "extraordinary". It can mean "unique" or "uncommon". |
| Bosnian | Izvanredno also means 'urgent' or 'abnormal' in Bosnian. |
| Bulgarian | The word "извънредно" in Bulgarian can also mean "urgent" or "emergency". |
| Catalan | The etymology of "extraordinari" is from the Latin "extraordinarius" which means "beyond the usual order". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "非凡"本意为非同凡响,出众,后指超过一般,不同寻常. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The word 非凡 is a compound word composed of the two characters 非 (fēi) meaning "not" and 凡 (fán) meaning "ordinary". Therefore, it can also mean "uncommon" or "rare". |
| Corsican | The word "straordinariu" in Corsican originally meant "outside of the ordinary", and is a derivative of "stra" (meaning "extra") and "ordinariu" (meaning "ordinary"). |
| Croatian | The word 'izvanredno' also translates to mean 'off-campus' as a reference to classes that were traditionally held in separate, extramural buildings. |
| Czech | The word "mimořádný" in Czech is derived from "mimo řád," meaning "outside the order" or "exceptional." |
| Danish | In Danish, 'ekstraordinær' not only means 'extraordinary' but also 'additional' or 'special'. |
| Dutch | "Buitengewoon" is derived from the Middle Dutch "buten" (outside) and "gewoon" (habitual), so it originally meant "something that is outside the habitual".} |
| Esperanto | The word “eksterordinara” is derived from the Latin word “extraordinarius”, which means “beyond the ordinary”. |
| Estonian | "Erakordne" is derived from the word "erakord" (order) and means that something is out of the ordinary. |
| Finnish | The word "epätavallinen" literally means "not usual", hinting at its original meaning of "abnormal" or "peculiar". |
| French | The French word "extraordinaire" can also refer to a public prosecutor or attorney-general |
| Frisian | The Frisian word 'bûtengewoan' derives from the Old Frisian 'bûtaghewane', which initially meant 'unusual'. |
| Galician | The Galician word "extraordinario" can also mean "extra-large" or "exceptional". |
| Georgian | The word "საგანგებო" is derived from the Proto-Kartvelian "*gan- " ("separate") and can also mean "special" or "peculiar."} |
| German | The root word of "außergewöhnlich" is the adjective "außer", which in English would mean "outside", "beyond", or "above". The term thus describes what is "beyond" the usual or regular. |
| Greek | In addition to its meaning as "extraordinary," έκτακτος can also mean "emergency" or "exceptional." |
| Haitian Creole | Ekstraòdinè ('extraordinary') comes from the French word 'extraordinaire', which itself comes from the Latin word 'extraordinarius' ('beyond the ordinary'). |
| Hausa | Derived from "na ba mamaki" meaning "that which causes surprise." |
| Hawaiian | The Hawaiian word "kamaha'o" also means "god" or "priest". |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word יוצאת דופן (yotz'at dophan) literally translates to “going out of the way” or “exception”. |
| Hindi | The Hindi word "असाधारण" not only means "extraordinary", but also means "different from others". |
| Hmong | "Txawv tshaj plaw" literally means "over the edge of the cliff". |
| Hungarian | The word "rendkívüli" is derived from the words "rend" (order) and "kívül" (outside), meaning "outside of the ordinary". |
| Icelandic | The word "óvenjulegt" is derived from the words "óvinur" (friend) and "júgur" (lie), and originally meant "unusual" or "out of the ordinary". |
| Igbo | The Igbo word "pụrụ iche" can also refer to something "set apart" or "different from the usual"} |
| Indonesian | The word 'luar biasa' (literally 'outside the ordinary') is often used informally to mean 'great' or 'very good'. |
| Italian | The noun form of straordinario, "straordinario", can also refer to a type of special edition of a newspaper or magazine. |
| Japanese | "並" in "並外れた" has the alternate meaning of "ordinary" |
| Javanese | The Javanese word 'mirunggan' can also mean 'abnormal' or 'unusual'. |
| Kannada | The word "ಅಸಾಮಾನ್ಯ" is derived from the Sanskrit words "असामान्य" (asāmanya) meaning "not ordinary" and "अन्य" (anya) meaning "different, other, or else". It can also mean "uncommon, unusual, or rare". |
| Kazakh | The word "ерекше" is derived from the Proto-Turkic word "*eriq-*, meaning "other, different, unusual" |
| Korean | The word "이상한" can also mean "abnormal" or "strange". |
| Kurdish | The word 'bêfêrane' also means 'extraordinarily large' or 'immense' in Kurdish. |
| Kyrgyz | The word "укмуштуу" can also mean "outstanding" or "distinguished" in Kyrgyz. |
| Latin | The Latin word incredibili can also mean "unbelievable" or "impossible". |
| Latvian | The word "ārkārtējs" may refer to exceptional or unusual situations, measures, or qualities. |
| Lithuanian | The word "nepaprastas" is derived from the Lithuanian words "ne" (no) and "paprastas" (simple), and it can also mean "unusual" or "remarkable". |
| Macedonian | “Извонредена” in Macedonian can also mean “abnormal”. |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "miavaka" can also refer to a type of Malagasy folk tale. |
| Malay | "Luar biasa" literally means "outside of the norm" in Malay, reflecting its connotation of something exceptional. |
| Malayalam | The word "അസാധാരണമായത്" (asādharanamaayath) is also used to describe anything that is especially worthy of admiration or respect, or that goes beyond the ordinary. |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "straordinarja" is an adjective that means "extraordinary" or "out of the ordinary". It is derived from the Latin word "extraordinarius", meaning "beyond the ordinary". |
| Maori | The Maori word "faahiahia" also means "to be in need" or "to be poor." |
| Marathi | The Marathi word "विलक्षण" originally meant "distinctive" or "unusual" and later evolved to mean "extraordinary". |
| Mongolian | The word "ер бусын" in Mongolian is derived from the root "ер", meaning "unusual, uncommon". |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The word "မင်္ဂလာပါ" is a Burmese word which is often used as a greeting. It is derived from the Pali word "mangala" which means "auspicious" or "fortunate." |
| Nepali | The word 'असाधारण' is derived from the Sanskrit word 'अतिसाधारण', meaning 'very different'. |
| Norwegian | Det norske ordet "ekstraordinær" har sin opprinnelse i latinske "extra ("utenfor")" og "ordinem ("rekke, orden")", altså "utenfor det vanlige", mens det på engelsk opprinnelig ble brukt som et astrologisk begrep for planeter utenfor "de ordnede banene" (i forhold til Jorden). |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "zachilendo" is derived from "chilendo," which means "a little," and "za," which means "to surpass" or "to go beyond. |
| Pashto | Extraordinary in Pashto, literally translates to "out of the common" from the words "غیر" (out) and "معمول" (common). |
| Persian | The word خارق العاده (kharq al-adah) is derived from the Arabic phrase "خرق العادة" (kharaq al-adah), which means "to break the habit". In Persian, it is used to describe something that is exceptional or out of the ordinary. |
| Polish | The word "niezwykły" literally means "not unusual" |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, "extraordinário" also refers to someone who has exceptional abilities or qualities. |
| Punjabi | The word "Asadharan" can also mean "unique" or "rare", hinting at its root word "sadharan" which means "ordinary" or "common". |
| Romanian | In Romanian, "extraordinar" can also mean "odd" or "strange", while in English, "extraordinary" only has a positive connotation. |
| Russian | The word "необычный" literally means "not common", but it can also refer to something that is unique or exceptional. |
| Samoan | The etymology of "tulaga ese" means "not ordinary" or "out of the norm". |
| Scots Gaelic | The word "iongantach" in Scots Gaelic also means "wonderful" and "marvellous". |
| Serbian | The word "izvanredno" derives from the Proto-Slavic word "*izъvr̥xъ", meaning "from above". Originally, it referred to supernatural phenomena, and only later acquired the meaning of "extraordinary". |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word 'غيرمعمولي' is borrowed from Arabic and also means 'anomalous' and 'irregular'. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "අසාමාන්යයි" comes from the root "samānya," which means "common" or "ordinary," and the prefix "a," which negates the meaning of the root. |
| Slovak | The word "mimoriadny" is derived from the Latin word "memor" (memory) and can also mean "unforgettable" or "remarkable". |
| Slovenian | The word "izredno" can also mean "out of order". |
| Spanish | Extraordinario can also mean 'out of the ordinary', 'remarkable', or 'unusual'. |
| Sundanese | The word "rongkah" in Sundanese also means "a big chunk" or "a large mass". |
| Swahili | The word "ajabu" in Swahili can also mean "wonderful" or "surprising." |
| Swedish | The word 'utöver det vanliga' literally means 'beyond what is common' in Swedish. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Pambihira" in Tagalog also refers to something rare, unusual, or hard to come by. |
| Tajik | The word "ғайриоддӣ" originally meant "different from the norm" but now refers to anything exceptional. |
| Telugu | "అసాధారణ" is an adjective which means "special," "out of the ordinary," or "uncommon," and also means "abnormal" or "unusual."} |
| Thai | The Thai word “วิสามัญ” (wisammaan) originally meant “not normal” but later became associated with violence, leading to its current meaning of “extraordinary”. |
| Turkish | It can also mean 'out of the ordinary' or 'remarkable'. |
| Ukrainian | "Надзвичайний" shares the same common Slavic root, "*nad" meaning "above, over," with words for emergencies and calamities in other Slavic languages, such as Russian "чрезвычайный" or Polish "nadzwyczajny." |
| Urdu | غیر معمولی means 'out of the ordinary' and is derived from the Arabic root غر meaning 'to be strange or unusual'. |
| Uzbek | The Uzbek word "ajoyib" is derived from the Persian word "ajab", meaning "strange" or "wonderful" |
| Vietnamese | "Phi thường" literally means "out of the ordinary" in Vietnamese. |
| Welsh | The word "hynod" in Welsh is derived from the Proto-Celtic root *sindos, meaning "separate" or "apart." |
| Xhosa | The word "engaqhelekanga" in Xhosa can also refer to something that is "unbelievable" or "amazing". |
| Yiddish | The word "ויסערגעוויינלעך" comes from the German "aussergewöhnlich," meaning "exceptional" |
| Yoruba | The word “extraordinary” is derived from the Yoruba word “ajogun,” which means “more than ordinary.” |
| Zulu | Okungajwayelekile is derived from the root word 'jwayela' meaning to do or perform a usual or frequent action. Hence, okungajwayelekile means something that is not frequently done or something out of the norm. |
| English | The word 'extraordinary' derives from the Latin term 'extra ordinarius,' meaning 'outside of the usual order.' |