Fat in Different Languages
Discover 'Fat' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Fat
Afrikaans vet | ||
Albanian yndyrë | ||
Amharic ስብ | ||
Arabic سمين | ||
Armenian ճարպ | ||
Assamese শকত | ||
Aymara lunqhu | ||
Azerbaijani yağ | ||
Bambara belebeleba | ||
Basque potolo | ||
Belarusian тлушч | ||
Bengali চর্বি | ||
Bhojpuri मोट | ||
Bosnian debeo | ||
Bulgarian дебел | ||
Catalan greix | ||
Cebuano tambok | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 脂肪 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 脂肪 | ||
Corsican grassu | ||
Croatian mast | ||
Czech tlustý | ||
Danish fed | ||
Dhivehi ފަލަ | ||
Dogri मुट्टा | ||
Dutch vet | ||
English fat | ||
Esperanto dika | ||
Estonian paks | ||
Ewe da ami | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) mataba | ||
Finnish rasvaa | ||
French graisse | ||
Frisian fet | ||
Galician graxas | ||
Georgian მსუქანი | ||
German fett | ||
Greek λίπος | ||
Guarani ñandy | ||
Gujarati ચરબી | ||
Haitian Creole grès | ||
Hausa mai | ||
Hawaiian momona | ||
Hebrew שמן | ||
Hindi मोटी | ||
Hmong rog | ||
Hungarian zsír | ||
Icelandic feitur | ||
Igbo abụba | ||
Ilocano nalukmeg | ||
Indonesian lemak | ||
Irish saille | ||
Italian grasso | ||
Japanese 太い | ||
Javanese lemu | ||
Kannada ಕೊಬ್ಬು | ||
Kazakh май | ||
Khmer ខ្លាញ់ | ||
Kinyarwanda ibinure | ||
Konkani चरबी | ||
Korean 지방 | ||
Krio bɔmp | ||
Kurdish rûn | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) قەڵەو | ||
Kyrgyz май | ||
Lao ໄຂມັນ | ||
Latin crassus | ||
Latvian tauki | ||
Lingala mafuta | ||
Lithuanian riebus | ||
Luganda obunene | ||
Luxembourgish fett | ||
Macedonian дебели | ||
Maithili मोट | ||
Malagasy matavy | ||
Malay lemak | ||
Malayalam കൊഴുപ്പ് | ||
Maltese xaħam | ||
Maori momona | ||
Marathi चरबी | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯑꯅꯣꯏꯕ | ||
Mizo thau | ||
Mongolian өөх тос | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အဆီ | ||
Nepali मोटो | ||
Norwegian fett | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) wonenepa | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଚର୍ବି | | ||
Oromo furdaa | ||
Pashto غوړ | ||
Persian چربی | ||
Polish gruby | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) gordura | ||
Punjabi ਚਰਬੀ | ||
Quechua wira | ||
Romanian gras | ||
Russian жир | ||
Samoan gaʻo | ||
Sanskrit स्थूलः | ||
Scots Gaelic geir | ||
Sepedi lekhura | ||
Serbian дебео | ||
Sesotho mafura | ||
Shona mafuta | ||
Sindhi چرٻي | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) මේදය | ||
Slovak tučný | ||
Slovenian maščobe | ||
Somali baruur | ||
Spanish grasa | ||
Sundanese gendut | ||
Swahili mafuta | ||
Swedish fett | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) mataba | ||
Tajik фарбеҳ | ||
Tamil கொழுப்பு | ||
Tatar май | ||
Telugu కొవ్వు | ||
Thai อ้วน | ||
Tigrinya ረጒድ | ||
Tsonga mafurha | ||
Turkish şişman | ||
Turkmen ýag | ||
Twi (Akan) kɛseɛ | ||
Ukrainian жиру | ||
Urdu چربی | ||
Uyghur ماي | ||
Uzbek yog ' | ||
Vietnamese mập | ||
Welsh braster | ||
Xhosa amafutha | ||
Yiddish גראָב | ||
Yoruba ọra | ||
Zulu amafutha |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | In Afrikaans, 'vet' can also refer to strength or energy. |
| Albanian | The word "yndyrë" also means "grease" or "oil". |
| Amharic | "ስብ" can also refer to the residue left on a bowl of porridge, as well as "to become numb from staying in a certain position too long". |
| Arabic | The word “سمين” in Arabic can also mean “generous” or “plentiful”. |
| Armenian | The Armenian word for "fat" (ճարպ) originated from the same Indo-European root as "grease" or "oil", and shares cognates with them across various Indo-European languages. |
| Azerbaijani | The Azerbaijani word "yağ" can alternatively mean "oil" or "grease". |
| Basque | The word "potolo" in Basque also means "swelling" or "bulge". |
| Belarusian | In Belarusian, the word "тлушч" has the same root as the verb "тлусціць" (to make greasy). |
| Bengali | In Bengali, "চর্বি" can also refer to the "grease" or "oil" used in cooking. |
| Bosnian | "Debelo" comes from the same Indo-European root as the English word "deep", denoting its primary meaning as "thick," "large." |
| Bulgarian | "Дебел" (fat) is derived from the Proto-Slavic "dъbъ", meaning "thick, strong, sturdy", which also gave rise to words like "дебелост" (thickness), "дебел (thick, massive)" |
| Catalan | In Catalan, "greix" can also refer to the thickest, juiciest parts of sausages like butifarra or fuet. |
| Cebuano | The word "tambok" in Cebuano can also refer to a person who is overweight or obese. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The character 脂 originally meant "animal oil" or "fatty substance," but its meaning extended to include "fat" in general. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The word 脂肪 in Chinese is derived from the classical Chinese word '肥脂', which referred to animal fat used in cooking. |
| Corsican | The etymology of Corsican "grassu" is uncertain, but it may come from the Latin "crassus" ("thick") or the Proto-Germanic "*krattos" ("powerful"). |
| Croatian | The Croatian word "mast" can also mean "bait" or "grease". |
| Czech | The word "Tlustý" derives from Proto-Slavic root *tlъstъ meaning "thick" or "dense" and is akin to Sanskrit sthūlá meaning "thick". |
| Danish | The word 'fed' in Danish can also refer to a unit of weight or an area of land. |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "vet" has an alternative meaning of "bold" and derives from the Old Frisian word "fēt" |
| Esperanto | "Dika" also means "fertile" in Greek |
| Estonian | "Paks", meaning "thick" or "dense", has a cognate in Finnish meaning "to swell". |
| Finnish | The word "rasvaa" can also mean "grease" or "lard" in Finnish. |
| French | "Graisse" derives from the Gaulish "graissos", meaning "lard". |
| Frisian | Fet can also mean 'good' or 'healthy', especially in the context of food. |
| Galician | Galician "graxas" has Germanic roots, but also refers to "mercy" due to phonological proximity with its Latin cognate. |
| Georgian | The word "მსუქანი" is also used to describe a person who is overweight or obese. |
| German | The word "Fett" in German is also used in the context of "fett" music, which refers to a genre of electronic music that is characterized by a heavy bassline and a repetitive beat. |
| Greek | "Λίπος" also means "fertility" in Ancient Greek, and its Latin cognate "libertas" means "freedom". |
| Gujarati | The word 'charbi' originates from Sanskrit 'charbhi' meaning 'lard' and can also refer to 'fertilizer' in Gujarati. |
| Haitian Creole | The word "grès" in Haitian Creole is derived from the French word "gras", which means "fat" or "fertile". |
| Hausa | The word "mai" also means "big" or "great" in Hausa, emphasizing the significant size or stature when referring to fatness. |
| Hawaiian | In Hawaiian, momona also conveys plumpness, freshness, and prosperity. |
| Hebrew | "שמן" (fat) in Hebrew can also refer to "oil" or "grease". |
| Hindi | The word "मोटी" (moti) is also used to refer to a large, round pearl. |
| Hmong | The word "rog" can also mean "lard" or "grease" in the Hmong language. |
| Hungarian | The word "zsír" can also mean "grease", "oil", or "wealth" in Hungarian. |
| Icelandic | Icelandic word "feitur" (meaning both "fat" and "wealthy" in modern language) derives from an Old Norse word meaning "greasy". |
| Igbo | The Igbo word "abụba" can also refer to a type of edible snail found in the region. |
| Indonesian | "Lemak" comes from the Proto-Austronesian (*pənək), meaning "oil, oil-fat, grease, lard". |
| Irish | The Irish word "saille" is derived from the Old Irish word "seilg", meaning "hunting" or "game". |
| Italian | The surname Grasso can also be a toponym, meaning "rocky place" |
| Japanese | 太い also means "thick" and is an antonym of both 細い ("thin") and 狭い ("narrow"). |
| Javanese | Lemu is also a character from Indonesian mythology, a giant bird that is said to be the origin of the Javanese people. |
| Kannada | The Kannada word "ಕೊಬ್ಬು" can also refer to "grease". |
| Kazakh | The word "май" in Kazakh can also refer to an oilseed crop known as "safflower" |
| Khmer | The word "ខ្លាញ់" (fat) can also be used to refer to the fat that is used in cooking or to the fat that is stored in the body. |
| Korean | 지방 (jibang) also means "district" or "municipality" in Korean |
| Kurdish | The word "rûn" in Kurdish can also mean "grease" or "oil". |
| Kyrgyz | In Kyrgyz, 'май' can also mean 'butter' and is derived from the Proto-Turkic root 'may' with the same meaning. |
| Latin | The surname Crassus is a Latin family name that may have originally implied 'thick' or 'slow'. |
| Latvian | The word "tauki" can also refer to a small, fatty pastry filled with meat or cabbage. |
| Lithuanian | The word "riebus" is a contraction of the Proto-Baltic root *rieb- and the suffix *-us. |
| Luxembourgish | Fett literally means 'fat', but can also refer to a 'stain', 'grease', or a 'smudge'. |
| Macedonian | The word "дебели" in Macedonian can also mean "strong" or "thick" |
| Malagasy | In the Menabe region of Madagascar, "matavy" also means "sacred" or "fertile". |
| Malay | The Malay word "lemak" also means "rich" or "oily" in the context of food. |
| Malayalam | In Malayalam, “കൊഴുപ്പ്” not only means “fat”, but also “goodness”, “generosity”, “abundance”, or “riches” |
| Maltese | The word xaħam is a loanword from Arabic and can also refer to 'oil', particularly lamp oil |
| Maori | The word "momona" in Maori not only means "fat," but also "plump," "stout," or "fertile." |
| Marathi | चरबी ('fat') is derived from Sanskrit 'charbhi', which also means 'grease' or 'ointment'. |
| Mongolian | Өөх тос is the Mongolian word for 'fat'; in some Mongolian dialects and in the written Mongolian alphabet, it also refers to 'oil'. |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The term "အဆီ" is a loanword from Mon (a member of the Mon-Khmer group) "ဆို" but may have originally come from the Proto-Tai "*hɤŋ". |
| Nepali | मोटो also means "big" in the context of physical size and "great" in the context of quantity. |
| Norwegian | In Norwegian, the word "fett" has a culinary connotation and refers to fats used in cooking such as butter, cream, and lard, rather than body fat. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | "Wonenepa" shares the same etymology with the phrase "kuwononga nepho," which means "to put in the sun". |
| Pashto | The word "غوړ" in Pashto can also refer to an "abundance" or "large quantity" of something, not just "fat". |
| Persian | The word "چربی" is also used to refer to the fatty part of meat or the fat that is rendered from meat or poultry. |
| Polish | The word "gruby" can also mean "coarse" or "rough" in Polish, possibly due to its historical association with the unrefined nature of fat. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, 'gordura' is derived from the Latin 'grossus', meaning 'thick' or 'heavy', and can also refer to thickness, richness, or wealth. |
| Punjabi | The word "charbi" can also refer to an ointment or salve in Punjabi. |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "gras" also means "thick" or "dense".} |
| Russian | The word "жир" in Russian can also refer to "the main part" or "the most important thing". |
| Samoan | Samoan word "gaʻo" also means "fullness" and "satiety". |
| Scots Gaelic | The word "geir" can also mean "greed" or "avarice" in Scots Gaelic. |
| Serbian | In Bulgarian, the word "дебел" ("debel") has the same meaning as "дебео" in Serbian, but it also means "thick" or "stout". |
| Sesotho | Mafura, which shares the same spelling and pronunciation as 'fat,' also refers to the fruit of a tree. |
| Shona | The Shona word "mafuta" can also mean "wealth" or "riches". |
| Sindhi | The word "چرٻي" (fat) in Sindhi may also refer to a type of bread traditionally made with animal fat. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | In ancient Sinhala texts, "මේදය" referred to the oil and fat in certain plants and animals, not just the bodily fat. |
| Slovak | The word "tučný" in Slovak can also mean "bold" or "rich". |
| Slovenian | In Slovene, "maščobe" can also translate to "grease" or "oil". |
| Somali | In the Somali language, "baruur" also refers to "the fat of an animal" or "the fat of the body", and can also mean "grease" or "oil". |
| Spanish | The Spanish word "grasa" is derived from the Latin word "crassus," meaning "thick" or "solid."} |
| Sundanese | The word "gendut" in Sundanese also means "cute" or "adorable" in some contexts. |
| Swahili | The word 'mafuta' also refers to the essence or spirit of something in Swahili. |
| Swedish | In Swedish, the word 'fett' can also refer to 'greatness' or 'abundance'. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The Tagalog word "mataba" is derived from the Malay word "tapah". It also means "thick". |
| Tajik | The word "фарбеҳ" can also mean "fertile" or "rich" in Tajik. |
| Tamil | The word "கொழுப்பு" in Tamil can also mean "grease" or "oil", and is derived from the Proto-Dravidian root *kol- "to be fat". |
| Telugu | The word "కొవ్వు" in Telugu is related to the Sanskrit word "कुम्भ" (kumbha) meaning "pot" or "vessel", and is also used in other languages such as Hindi and Marathi with the same meaning. |
| Thai | The word "อ้วน" can also refer to "to be pregnant" or "to be full" in Thai. |
| Turkish | The word "şişman" in Turkish likely derives from the Persian word "şişm" or "çişm" meaning "plump" or "fattened". |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word "жиру" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word "*žirъ", meaning "fat, oil, or grease." |
| Urdu | چربی can also mean 'dirt', 'stain' or 'grease' in Urdu. |
| Uzbek | The Uzbek word "yog'" can also mean "oil" or "grease". |
| Vietnamese | Mập is derived from the Mon-Khmer word "maap," meaning "to swell" or "to puff up." |
| Welsh | Braster, meaning 'fat' in Welsh, originates from the root word 'bras,' meaning 'thick' or 'coarse.' |
| Xhosa | Amafutha also means 'money' as it symbolises wealth and plenty in Xhosa culture. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "גראָב" is cognate with the German word "grob" and the English word "crave" and has the alternate meaning of "rough" or "coarse". |
| Yoruba | "Ọra" also means "plenty", "abundant", "wealth" and "riches", which are all good things in Yoruba culture. |
| Zulu | In the context of cattle, "amafutha" can also refer to calves. |
| English | The word "fat" comes from the Proto-Germanic word "*fatuz", meaning "a vessel, a cask". |