Grain in Different Languages
Discover 'Grain' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Grain
Afrikaans graan | ||
Albanian kokërr | ||
Amharic እህል | ||
Arabic الحبوب | ||
Armenian հացահատիկային | ||
Assamese দানা | ||
Aymara qulu | ||
Azerbaijani taxıl | ||
Bambara kisɛ | ||
Basque alea | ||
Belarusian збожжа | ||
Bengali শস্য | ||
Bhojpuri अनाज | ||
Bosnian zrno | ||
Bulgarian зърно | ||
Catalan gra | ||
Cebuano mga lugas | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 粮食 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 糧食 | ||
Corsican granu | ||
Croatian žitarica | ||
Czech obilí | ||
Danish korn | ||
Dhivehi އޮށް | ||
Dogri दाना | ||
Dutch graan | ||
English grain | ||
Esperanto greno | ||
Estonian teravili | ||
Ewe nukui | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) butil | ||
Finnish viljaa | ||
French grain | ||
Frisian nôt | ||
Galician gran | ||
Georgian მარცვლეული | ||
German korn | ||
Greek σιτηρά | ||
Guarani ra'ỹi | ||
Gujarati અનાજ | ||
Haitian Creole grenn | ||
Hausa hatsi | ||
Hawaiian palaoa | ||
Hebrew תְבוּאָה | ||
Hindi अनाज | ||
Hmong nplej | ||
Hungarian gabona | ||
Icelandic korn | ||
Igbo ọka | ||
Ilocano bukel | ||
Indonesian gandum | ||
Irish gráin | ||
Italian grano | ||
Japanese 粒 | ||
Javanese gandum | ||
Kannada ಧಾನ್ಯ | ||
Kazakh астық | ||
Khmer គ្រាប់ធញ្ញជាតិ | ||
Kinyarwanda ingano | ||
Konkani धान्य | ||
Korean 곡물 | ||
Krio sid | ||
Kurdish zad | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) گەنم | ||
Kyrgyz дан | ||
Lao ເມັດພືດ | ||
Latin grano | ||
Latvian grauds | ||
Lingala mbuma | ||
Lithuanian grūdai | ||
Luganda empeke | ||
Luxembourgish kären | ||
Macedonian жито | ||
Maithili अनाज | ||
Malagasy voa | ||
Malay bijirin | ||
Malayalam ധാന്യം | ||
Maltese qamħ | ||
Maori witi | ||
Marathi धान्य | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯍꯋꯥꯏ ꯆꯦꯡꯋꯥꯏ | ||
Mizo buhfang | ||
Mongolian үр тариа | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ဘောဇဉ် | ||
Nepali अन्न | ||
Norwegian korn | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) tirigu | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଶସ୍ୟ | ||
Oromo ija midhaanii | ||
Pashto غله | ||
Persian غلات | ||
Polish ziarno | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) grão | ||
Punjabi ਅਨਾਜ | ||
Quechua muru | ||
Romanian cereale | ||
Russian зерно | ||
Samoan saito | ||
Sanskrit अन्न | ||
Scots Gaelic gràn | ||
Sepedi lebele | ||
Serbian жито | ||
Sesotho lijo-thollo | ||
Shona zviyo | ||
Sindhi اناج | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) ධාන්ය | ||
Slovak obilie | ||
Slovenian žita | ||
Somali hadhuudh | ||
Spanish grano | ||
Sundanese sisikian | ||
Swahili nafaka | ||
Swedish spannmål | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) butil | ||
Tajik ғалла | ||
Tamil தானிய | ||
Tatar ашлык | ||
Telugu ధాన్యం | ||
Thai เมล็ดข้าว | ||
Tigrinya እኽሊ | ||
Tsonga ndzoho | ||
Turkish tane | ||
Turkmen däne | ||
Twi (Akan) aburo | ||
Ukrainian зерна | ||
Urdu اناج | ||
Uyghur ئاشلىق | ||
Uzbek don | ||
Vietnamese ngũ cốc | ||
Welsh grawn | ||
Xhosa iinkozo | ||
Yiddish קערל | ||
Yoruba ọkà | ||
Zulu okusanhlamvu |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word 'graan' is derived from the Old Dutch word 'gren', which also means 'grain', and is related to the English word 'corn'. |
| Albanian | "Kokërr" derives from Proto-Indo-European "*korgos". In some dialects of southern Albanian, the term refers to a cluster of grapes or figs. |
| Amharic | Amharic እህል ('grain') comes from Proto-Semitic *ḥnṭ, also the origin of 'wheat' in many other languages, including English. |
| Arabic | The word "الحبوب" can also refer to coffee beans or the birth control pill in Arabic. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "taxıl" can also refer to a field where grain or wheat is grown or a barn or granary where grain is stored. |
| Basque | "Alea" (grain) is also synonymous with "random" or "chance" in Basque, as the outcome of a throw of dice is as uncertain as the harvest. |
| Belarusian | In Old Belarusian, "збожжа" could also refer to a "crop" or a "year's supply of grain" |
| Bengali | শস্য also refers to a type of grass or plant that is used for food or other purposes. |
| Bosnian | In Bosnian, "zrno" can also refer to a grape seed or a very small piece of something. |
| Bulgarian | The word “зърно” (grain) also means “pupil of the eye” and derives from Proto-Slavic *zьrnъ, from *zir-, meaning “to see.” |
| Catalan | The word "gra" also refers to a unit of weight equal to a grain of barley. |
| Cebuano | The word "mga lugas" may have originated from the Sanskrit word "laga," meaning "cooked rice." |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 粮食 (simplified Chinese) is a loanword from Japanese, and is also used in Korean, where it means "food" or "rice". |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 糧 is literally translated as 'a type of basket', originally referred to containers for rice. |
| Corsican | The word "granu" in Corsican can also refer to a type of bread made from durum wheat. |
| Croatian | In Croatian, "žitarica" is a type of bread made from a mixture of different grains, such as wheat, rye, and oats. |
| Czech | The word "obilí" is cognate with the Old Slavic "obilu" which means "good" or "abundant" and refers to the importance of grains as a food source. |
| Danish | In Danish, "korn" can also refer to an unmarried or single person, which may derive from the old agricultural tradition of unmarried young men being responsible for the harvest. |
| Dutch | In Dutch, "graan" can also refer to a specific type of coin, particularly a quarter guilder. |
| Esperanto | Esperanto's "greno" derives from "granum", the Latin word for a grain of cereal or fruit, as well as "granum tinctorium", or "scarlet grain," from which a scarlet dye was produced. |
| Estonian | 'Teravili' is also used in Estonian to refer to 'cereal' as a foodstuff. |
| Finnish | Viljaa can also refer to a person who is simple, naive, or gullible. |
| French | The French word "grain" derives from the Latin word "granum", meaning "seed" or "small particle". |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "nôt" also has a meaning of "a bundle of flax" from an older meaning "rope, string." |
| Galician | In Galician, "gran" can also refer to the unit of measurement for weight equivalent to 50 kilograms. |
| German | "Korn" also refers to a distilled beverage made from various grains, particularly rye. |
| Greek | Σιτηρά comes from the Greek word σῖτος, which means "wheat," and originally referred specifically to this type of grain. |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "अनाज" (grain) derives from the Proto-Indo-European word *ǵréh₁nom, meaning to grow, and is related to the English word "grain". |
| Haitian Creole | Greenn in Haitian Creole is also the word for 'seed' or 'kernel'. |
| Hausa | Hausa "hatsi" is related to the word "hatsike" in Kanuri, "sata" in Mandinka, and "shado" in Songhai, all meaning "grain". |
| Hawaiian | The Hawaiian word "palaoa" can refer to any type of grain, including taro, breadfruit, and rice, which are all important staples in the Hawaiian diet. |
| Hebrew | "תבואה" is also a feminine singular form of the biblical Hebrew noun "תבואה" meaning "yielding, income, crop, grain, food" which derives from the verb "בא" (Bo) meaning "to come". |
| Hindi | The word "अनाज" (grain) in Hindi also refers to the first food given to a baby after breast milk. |
| Hmong | The word "nplej" can also refer to a single grain or seed, or to the process of threshing or harvesting grain. |
| Hungarian | The word "gabona" is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root "*ghabh-nó- " meaning "to give birth, to produce". The word is also used to refer to a type of cereal grain, or to the act of planting or harvesting grain. |
| Icelandic | Körn, the Icelandic word for 'grain', comes from the Old Norse word 'korn', which also meant 'small bird' or 'small horse'. |
| Igbo | The word "ọka" in Igbo can also refer to a type of bird known as the guinea fowl. |
| Indonesian | The word "gandum" is an Austronesian loanword originating from the Proto-Austronesian word "*dagem", meaning "ripe". It is cognate with the Tagalog word "dagami", meaning "cut rice straw", and the Malay word "padi", meaning "rice plant". |
| Irish | "Gráin" also means "sun" in Irish, cognate with the Latin word "granum" meaning "seed." |
| Italian | While "grano" in Italian refers to "cereal grain" (e.g. wheat), the plural form "grani" can also mean "specks" or "dots". |
| Japanese | The Japanese word 粒 (つぶ) also means 'dot', 'small granule', or 'small amount'. |
| Javanese | The Javanese word "gandum" is also used to refer to wheat specifically, as opposed to rice or other grains. |
| Kannada | "Dhaanya" literally means "the wealth". As per its etymological root "dh" means wealth hence wealth that sustains is rice, so "Dhaanya" stands for rice or grains in Kannada. |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "астық" (grain) is thought to derive from the Proto-Turkic word "at-sïγ" (horse meat) |
| Khmer | 'គ្រាប់ធញ្ញជាតិ' is cognate to the Thai word 'กระบี่' which means 'spear' and to the Sanskrit word 'शस्त्र' which means 'weapon' or 'sharp'. This is because in older times the seeds of certain grains were used as sharp objects or weapons. |
| Korean | The word "곡물" is derived from the Old Korean word "곡", meaning "fruit or seed," and the suffix "-물", meaning "thing or matter." |
| Kurdish | The Kurdish word "zad" can also refer to wheat or barley. |
| Kyrgyz | In Kyrgyz, 'дан' can also refer to a type of cereal crop or the unit of measurement for grain. |
| Latin | The Latin word "grano" can also mean "wrath" or "anger"} |
| Latvian | In the 13th century, a "grauds" was also a unit of currency |
| Lithuanian | "Grūdai" (grain) is also used to refer to "beans" or a "small spherical object". |
| Luxembourgish | In Luxembourgish, "Kä'ren" can also be used to refer to "chaff", or the dry stems of plants that are separated from the rest of the plant. |
| Macedonian | The word "жито" in Macedonian is derived from the Proto-Slavic word "*žito", which originally meant "life" or "sustenance". |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "voa" can also refer to the plant's seed or the meal made from the ground seed. |
| Malay | The word "bijirin" is derived from the Arabic word "bajara", which means "millet" or "small grain". |
| Malayalam | In Old Malayalam, "ധാന്യം" referred to any type of food and not exclusively to grains as it does today. |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "qamħ" likely originates from the Arabic "qamh" (wheat) and also refers to a type of large wooden barrel. |
| Maori | Besides the edible seed of certain grasses, "witi" refers to a class of New Zealand ferns whose spores were dried, made into cakes and eaten. |
| Marathi | The word 'धान्य' also means wealth or prosperity in Marathi, derived from the Sanskrit root 'dhanya' meaning 'rich' or 'fortunate'. |
| Mongolian | In Mongolian, "үр тариа" can also refer to the "yield of crops" or a "large quantity of grain." |
| Nepali | The Sanskrit word "anna" also refers to "food". |
| Norwegian | In Norwegian, the word "korn" can also refer to the seed of a cereal or to a small, hard bead. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The Nyanja word “tirigu” also has roots in the Shona language, where it means “maize”. |
| Pashto | The word "غله" in Pashto can also mean 'the portion of the produce given to the owner of land for allowing someone to cultivate it', 'rent', 'revenue', 'profit', or 'income'. |
| Persian | "غلات" is derived from the Arabic word "غلّة" meaning "produce" or "yield" and can also refer to cereal grains, legumes, or other agricultural products. |
| Polish | The Polish word "ziarno" has Slavic roots and is cognate with the Russian "зерно" and the Serbian "зрно", all meaning "seed" or "kernel". In botany, it can refer to the reproductive unit of seed-bearing plants, while in cooking, it is used to describe various types of edible seeds, such as wheat, rye, barley, and oats. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | "Grão" (grain in Portuguese) has multiple meanings that relate to its original sense of "something grown," or that derives from the ground, such as a small seed (grain), a kidney stone, a freckle, a pimple, a blemish, or gravel. |
| Punjabi | In Punjabi, "ਅਨਾਜ" (grain) also refers to the concept of sustenance or livelihood. |
| Romanian | In Romanian, "cereale" is derived from Latin "cerealis", meaning "grain"; it can also refer to "cereal", a breakfast food. |
| Russian | In Old Russian, "зерно" also meant "pupil of the eye" |
| Samoan | The word saito is also used to refer to fine sand and is related to the word sai, meaning "to rub" |
| Scots Gaelic | The Scots Gaelic word "gràn" has alternate meanings of "wrinkle" or "groan". |
| Serbian | The word 'жито' ('grain') is cognate to the Russian 'жито', and both derive from the Proto-Slavic word 'žitъ' |
| Sesotho | "Lijo-thollo" is also used figuratively to mean "a great deal," "a lot," or "a large quantity." |
| Shona | The word "zviyo" can also refer to a group of people, especially in the context of a dance or other performance. |
| Sindhi | The word "اناج" in Sindhi is derived from the Sanskrit word "anna", meaning "food" or "sustenance". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "ධාන්ය" is often referred to the five main grains that are grown in Sri Lanka, such as rice, millet, green gram, black gram, and sesame. |
| Slovak | The word "obilie" also means "abundance" in Slovak, which is related to its meaning as "grain", as grain was a symbol of wealth and prosperity in the past. |
| Slovenian | The Slovenian word "žita" comes from the Proto-Slavic word "*žitъ", which originally meant "food". |
| Somali | The Somali word 'hadhuudh' also refers to a specific type of small black seed used in traditional medicine and as a spice. |
| Spanish | "Grano" also means pimple or skin blemish in Spanish. |
| Sundanese | The word "sisikian" in Sundanese can also refer to a small stone or seed used in traditional games. |
| Swahili | The word "nafaka" in Swahili can also refer to food, provisions, or sustenance. |
| Swedish | "Spannmål" is derived from the Old Norse verb "spana", meaning "to measure, to stretch" and is a cognate the English "span". It refers to the measuring of grain, in Swedish "spanns" which were a unit of volume, before modern metrics and standardized weights. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word “butil” can also be used to refer to the seeds of plants or the kernels of corn. |
| Tajik | In Tajik, the word ғалла (“grain”) also means “the price of grain. |
| Tamil | The Tamil word 'தானிய' ('thaniya') is an umbrella term that covers both seeds and grains, in contrast to its English equivalent 'grain' that usually refers only to cereals. |
| Telugu | The word 'ధాన్యం' is derived from the Sanskrit word 'धानी' ('dhāni'), meaning 'that which nourishes'. |
| Thai | "เมล็ดข้าว" (grain) comes from the Sanskrit word "milam", meaning "to be small or fine." |
| Turkish | The word "tane" in Turkish originally meant "seed" or "kernel" and is still used in this sense in some dialects. |
| Ukrainian | "Зерна" (grain) is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *zerno*, which also means "kernel" or "seed". |
| Urdu | The word "اناج" also refers to a type of precious stone or bead found in jewelry in Urdu. |
| Uzbek | Don is also a term of respect and affection for a male elder. |
| Vietnamese | "Ngũ cốc" literally means "five cereals" in Chinese, referring to rice, wheat, millet, barley, and soybeans. |
| Welsh | The Welsh word 'grawn' also means 'sorrow' or 'grief', highlighting the close connection between food and sustenance with emotional well-being in Welsh culture. |
| Xhosa | In a figurative sense, iinkozo also refers to the 'staple' of the family or the lineage, or the 'foundation' or 'basis' of something. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word 'קערל' ('kern') also means 'seed' in Russian, and it is cognate with the English word 'corn' and the German word 'Korn'. |
| Yoruba | "Ọ̀kà" in Yoruba also means "corn" or "maize," deriving from the Proto-Benue-Congo term "*kà." |
| Zulu | The word "okusanhlamvu" can also refer to the act of reaping grain. |
| English | The word grain derives from the Latin granum, meaning seed or kernel and from the French word grain, meaning fruit or kernel. |