Grow in Different Languages
Discover 'Grow' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Grow
Afrikaans groei | ||
Albanian rriten | ||
Amharic ማደግ | ||
Arabic تنمو | ||
Armenian աճել | ||
Assamese বিকশিত হোৱা | ||
Aymara jilaña | ||
Azerbaijani böyümək | ||
Bambara ka falen | ||
Basque hazten | ||
Belarusian расці | ||
Bengali বৃদ্ধি | ||
Bhojpuri बढ़ल | ||
Bosnian rasti | ||
Bulgarian растат | ||
Catalan créixer | ||
Cebuano motubo | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 增长 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 增長 | ||
Corsican cresce | ||
Croatian rasti | ||
Czech růst | ||
Danish dyrke | ||
Dhivehi ބޮޑުވުން | ||
Dogri बधना | ||
Dutch toenemen | ||
English grow | ||
Esperanto kreski | ||
Estonian kasvama | ||
Ewe tsi | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) lumaki | ||
Finnish kasvaa | ||
French grandir | ||
Frisian groeie | ||
Galician medrar | ||
Georgian იზრდება | ||
German wachsen | ||
Greek καλλιεργώ | ||
Guarani kakuaa | ||
Gujarati વધવા | ||
Haitian Creole grandi | ||
Hausa girma | ||
Hawaiian ulu | ||
Hebrew לגדול | ||
Hindi बढ़ना | ||
Hmong loj hlob | ||
Hungarian nő | ||
Icelandic vaxa | ||
Igbo too | ||
Ilocano dumakkel | ||
Indonesian tumbuh | ||
Irish fás | ||
Italian crescere | ||
Japanese 成長する | ||
Javanese tuwuh | ||
Kannada ಬೆಳೆಯಿರಿ | ||
Kazakh өсу | ||
Khmer លូតលាស់ | ||
Kinyarwanda gukura | ||
Konkani वाड | ||
Korean 자라다 | ||
Krio gro | ||
Kurdish mezinbûn | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) گەشەکردن | ||
Kyrgyz өсүү | ||
Lao ເຕີບໃຫຍ່ | ||
Latin crescere | ||
Latvian augt | ||
Lingala kokola | ||
Lithuanian augti | ||
Luganda okukula | ||
Luxembourgish wuessen | ||
Macedonian растат | ||
Maithili बढ़नाइ | ||
Malagasy mitombo | ||
Malay tumbuh | ||
Malayalam വളരുക | ||
Maltese jikber | ||
Maori whakatipu | ||
Marathi वाढू | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯆꯥꯎꯈꯠꯄ | ||
Mizo thang | ||
Mongolian өсөх | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ကြီးထွားလာတယ် | ||
Nepali बढ्नु | ||
Norwegian vokse | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kukula | ||
Odia (Oriya) ବ grow ନ୍ତୁ | | ||
Oromo guddachuu | ||
Pashto وده کول | ||
Persian رشد | ||
Polish rosnąć | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) crescer | ||
Punjabi ਵਧਣ | ||
Quechua wiñay | ||
Romanian crește | ||
Russian расти | ||
Samoan tupu | ||
Sanskrit परिवर्धते | ||
Scots Gaelic fàs | ||
Sepedi gola | ||
Serbian расти | ||
Sesotho hola | ||
Shona kukura | ||
Sindhi وڌڻ | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) වැඩෙන්න | ||
Slovak rásť, pestovať | ||
Slovenian rastejo | ||
Somali koraan | ||
Spanish crecer | ||
Sundanese tumuh | ||
Swahili kukua | ||
Swedish växa | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) lumaki | ||
Tajik калон шудан | ||
Tamil வளர | ||
Tatar үсә | ||
Telugu పెరుగు | ||
Thai เติบโต | ||
Tigrinya ዕበ | ||
Tsonga kula | ||
Turkish büyümek | ||
Turkmen ösmek | ||
Twi (Akan) nyini | ||
Ukrainian зростати | ||
Urdu بڑھ | ||
Uyghur ئۆسۈڭ | ||
Uzbek o'sadi | ||
Vietnamese lớn lên | ||
Welsh tyfu | ||
Xhosa khula | ||
Yiddish וואַקסן | ||
Yoruba dagba | ||
Zulu khula |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | "Groei" also means "green" in Afrikaans |
| Albanian | The word "rriten" can also mean "to increase" or "to develop". |
| Amharic | "ማደግ" is derived from the Proto-Semitic root *w-d-g, meaning "to stretch" or "to lengthen." |
| Arabic | The Arabic verb 'تنمو' ('tanmū') shares its etymological root with 'name' (اسم), which reflects the concept of something gradually taking on a distinct identity. |
| Armenian | The verb 'աճել' (grow) is also used figuratively to describe personal or professional advancement, or the increase in intensity or size of something. |
| Azerbaijani | The Azerbaijani word |
| Basque | "Hazten" comes from the proto-Basque *egarten "to increase, to become plentiful". |
| Belarusian | The word "расці" can also mean "to educate" or "to bring up" in Belarusian. |
| Bengali | In Assamese, the word "বৃদ্ধি" can also mean "to grow old". |
| Bosnian | "Rastem" is a cognate of the Polish verb "rosnąć" and the Russian verb "расти", all deriving from the Proto-Slavic root *rast- "to grow, become taller". |
| Bulgarian | Растет is also a verb that means to become, to develop into something. |
| Catalan | "Créixer" (Catalan for "grow") comes from the Latin "crescere" (to grow) and is related to words like "increase," "crescent," and "decrescendo." |
| Cebuano | Motubo also means "to sprout" or "to increase" in Cebuano. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The character '增' in '增长' means 'increase', and the character '长' means 'length': so the compound literally means 'increasing in length' |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The word "增長" can also mean "to increase" or "to grow in strength or size". |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "cresce" derives from the Latin "crescere" and can also mean "to get bigger" or "to increase". |
| Croatian | The word "rasti" has Indo-European roots dating back to the Proto-Indo-European verb *h₁reǵ-, which meant "to stretch or extend". |
| Czech | In Czech, "růst" also means "increase" or "rise" in the context of prices or values. |
| Danish | The Danish verb 'dyrke' not only means 'to grow' but also 'to worship' or 'to practise'. |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "toenemen" can also mean "to increase" or "to gain strength". |
| Esperanto | The word "kreski" in Esperanto is borrowed from Polish and also means "to draw" or "to sketch". |
| Estonian | "Kasvama" in addition to 'grow', also relates to a 'growth' in the sense of an interest payment or an increase in capital. |
| Finnish | The verb "kasvaa" derives from the Proto-Finnic root "*kasV-," meaning "to sprout". It is cognate with the Estonian verb "kasvama" and the Veps verb "kazvada." |
| French | The word "grandir" in French comes from the Latin word "grandis," meaning "large" or "tall." |
| Frisian | The Frisian word 'groeie' also means 'succeed' or 'prosper' |
| Galician | In medieval Galician, "medrar" could also mean "to improve one's behavior or social status". |
| German | Wachsen can also mean "to wax" or "to increase", and is related to the English word "wax". |
| Greek | The Greek word "καλλιεργώ" (grow) comes from the words "καλός" (beautiful) and "έργον" (work). Figuratively, it's used to describe mental and spiritual growth. |
| Gujarati | "વધવા" is the Gujurati word for "grow", but can also mean to "increase" or "gain" something. |
| Haitian Creole | Haitian Creole "grandi" also means "to raise" (e.g. animals, children) or "to enlarge" (e.g. a building) |
| Hausa | The Hausa word 'girma' is related to the word 'giramma' which means 'to get bigger' or 'to increase' in size or quantity. |
| Hawaiian | In Hawaiian, 'ulu' can also mean 'breadfruit' or 'to develop (mentally)'. |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "לגדול" also means "to become important" or "to become great." |
| Hindi | बढ़ना (baṛhnā) is a verb derived from the Sanskrit word 'vṛdh' meaning 'to increase' and also has a secondary meaning of 'to mature'. |
| Hmong | The alternate meaning of "loj hlob" is "to gain weight". |
| Hungarian | "Nő" also means "woman" or "wife" in Hungarian. |
| Icelandic | The word is cognate with the Sanskrit word 'vaksa' which means 'increase' and 'progress'. |
| Igbo | The Igbo verb "too" can also mean "to be born" or "to come into existence." |
| Indonesian | The Indonesian word "tumbuh" derives from the Proto-Austronesian term for "sprout" or "shoot", reflecting its primary connotation of plant growth. |
| Irish | The word "fás" is also used in Irish to refer to "a period of growth or development", or "a stage in a process". |
| Italian | The Latin verb "crescere" also means "to increase" or "to become greater". |
| Japanese | Japanese word "成長する" literally means "to be successful," but it is often used to mean "to grow". |
| Javanese | The Javanese word "tuwuh" has alternate meanings including "to emerge" and "to arise." |
| Kannada | "ಬೆಳೆಯಿರಿ" (grow) comes from the Proto-Dravidian root *wiRi- meaning "to become large" or "to increase in size". |
| Kazakh | "Өсу" also means "development" or "progress". |
| Korean | "자라다" (grow) also means "to be born" or "to ripen" in Korean. |
| Kurdish | The word "mezinbûn" also means "to be weaned" in Kurdish. |
| Kyrgyz | In the Kyrgyz language, "өсүү" means to increase in size or extent, similar to the English word "growth". |
| Latin | Latin 'crescere' shares its root with 'creation' and 'increase'. |
| Latvian | The word "augt" can also mean "to increase" or "to develop." |
| Lithuanian | Lithuanian word "augti" also means "to raise" or "to breed" livestock. |
| Luxembourgish | The word "wuessen" in Luxembourgish can also mean "to become" or "to get". |
| Macedonian | The verb "растат" in Macedonian also means "to develop", "to increase", or "to get bigger". |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "mitombo" not only means "to grow" physically, but also "to increase" in wealth, status, or knowledge. |
| Malay | The word "tumbuh" in Malay can also mean "to increase in size or quantity" or "to develop or mature". |
| Malayalam | In Malayalam, "വളരുക" shares an etymological root with "വലിയ" ("large") and "വളഞ്ഞ" ("curved"), suggesting size increase and change in form. |
| Maltese | The word 'jikber' is also used figuratively to mean 'to increase' or 'to multiply'. |
| Maori | In Maori, the verb 'Whakatipu' can also mean 'to develop', 'to educate', or 'to bring into being'. |
| Marathi | The root word of वढू meaning “increase” also suggests a sense of “progress by gradual evolution.” |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word "өсөх" can also mean "to prosper" or "to increase in size or number". |
| Nepali | The root of the word बढ्नु is the Sanskrit word वृध्, which also means 'increase' or 'expand' |
| Norwegian | The word "vokse" is cognate with "wax" and "axis" from Old Norse "vǫ́xtr", ultimately from Proto-Indo-European "*weg-/*woǵ-" ("to move"). |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | "Kukula" can also mean "to be ripe" when referring to fruit, or "to ripen" when referring to fruit ripening. |
| Pashto | The Pashto verb وده کول also means "develop" and "increase." |
| Persian | The word "رشد" also means "development" or "progress" in Persian. |
| Polish | In the 19th century the word "rosnąć" was used with the meaning of "to be born". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The verb "crescer" in Portuguese derives from Latin "*crescere" and means not only "to grow" but also "to develop" or "to improve". |
| Punjabi | Its root stems from the Sanskrit 'vrih,' meaning 'increase,' reflecting its semantic connection to growth. |
| Romanian | Romanian "crește" derives from the Proto-Indo-European root *ker, meaning "to increase or grow," and is related to the English "harvest" and the Sanskrit "kri" (to do, make or create). |
| Russian | The Russian verb "расти" not only means "to grow", but also "to be born", "to appear". |
| Samoan | "Tupu" also means "chief" in Samoan, and is often used to address those in positions of authority. |
| Scots Gaelic | The word "fàs" in Gaelic translates literally to the English "growth" or "that which increases". |
| Serbian | In botany, the word 'расти' can also refer to 'vegetation' or 'plants'. |
| Sesotho | "Hola" is also a homophone of "ho la" (to go) and an archaic form of "ho ela" (to come). |
| Shona | The word "kukura" can also mean "to increase" or "to multiply" in Shona. |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "وڌڻ" can also mean "to be born" or "to be created". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | "වැඩෙන්න" can also mean "to be constructed" or "to be improved" in Sinhala. |
| Slovak | It is cognate with 'rosnąc' in Polish and both come from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reǵ- 'to grow, to become stiff'. |
| Slovenian | The verb "rastejo" can also refer to the expansion of dough or yeast. |
| Somali | Koraan, meaning "to grow", shares roots with the word "kormor", meaning "a plant that is grown and cultivated in a garden". |
| Spanish | The Spanish verb "crecer" derives from the Latin "crescere", meaning "to increase" or "to become larger". |
| Sundanese | Tumuh also means 'to appear' or 'to be born' in Sundanese, sharing its root with the word 'tumunggang' (to be on top of something). |
| Swahili | The Swahili word "kukua" can also refer to "to progress" or "to develop." |
| Swedish | "Växa" also means "to wax" in Old English. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The Tagalog word "lumaki" can also mean "to become mature" or "to increase in size, strength, or importance". |
| Tajik | Калон шудан Калон из арабского корнево "головакон" (корневой став или) и "сиринговак" (корневой сторона). |
| Tamil | The Tamil word "வளர" can also mean "to become wealthy" or "to expand". |
| Telugu | The word "పెరుగు" (grow) in Telugu is derived from the Sanskrit word "प्ररूढः" meaning "grown" or "sprouted." |
| Thai | The Thai word "เติบโต" can also mean "to mature" or "to develop". |
| Turkish | The word 'büyümek' in Turkish comes from the Old Turkic word 'büri-' meaning 'to become' or 'to change'. |
| Ukrainian | The word “зростати” (“grow”) is cognate with the words “рост” (“growth”), “род” (“genus”), “рожати” (“to give birth”) and “урожай” (“harvest”). |
| Urdu | The Urdu word “बढ़,” which means “grow,” might come from the Sanskrit word “वर्ध” or the Proto-Indo-European language word “*werd”. |
| Uzbek | The word "o'sadi" can also mean "to increase". |
| Vietnamese | The word "lớn lên" literally means "menjadi besar" (to become large) or "menjadi tua" (to become old) |
| Welsh | The word 'tyfu' originally meant 'swell,' 'expand', or 'inflate,' and this earlier sense is still visible in its literal and extended senses. |
| Xhosa | The Xhosa word 'khula' carries the connotation of 'getting bigger' or 'becoming more prominent' in a broader sense, beyond mere physical growth. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word 'וואַקסן' ('vaksn') is cognate with the German word 'wachsen' and the English word 'wax,' reflecting its shared Indo-European root. |
| Yoruba | The verb "dagba" in Yoruba, meaning "to grow", is derived from the word "agba", which means "elder" or "senior". This reflects the importance placed on growth and maturity in Yoruba culture. |
| Zulu | The Zulu word "khula" can also mean "to open" or "to be wide". |
| English | "Grow" derives from Old English "grōwan," meaning "to thrive," and is related to "green" and "grass." |