Growth in Different Languages
Discover 'Growth' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Growth
Afrikaans groei | ||
Albanian rritje | ||
Amharic እድገት | ||
Arabic نمو | ||
Armenian աճ | ||
Assamese বৃদ্ধি | ||
Aymara jiltawi | ||
Azerbaijani böyümə | ||
Bambara jiidiya | ||
Basque hazkundea | ||
Belarusian рост | ||
Bengali বৃদ্ধি | ||
Bhojpuri विकास | ||
Bosnian rast | ||
Bulgarian растеж | ||
Catalan creixement | ||
Cebuano pagtubo | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 成长 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 成長 | ||
Corsican crescita | ||
Croatian rast | ||
Czech růst | ||
Danish vækst | ||
Dhivehi ހެދިބޮޑުވުން | ||
Dogri बाद्धा | ||
Dutch groei | ||
English growth | ||
Esperanto kresko | ||
Estonian kasvu | ||
Ewe tsitsi | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) paglago | ||
Finnish kasvu | ||
French croissance | ||
Frisian groei | ||
Galician crecemento | ||
Georgian ზრდა | ||
German wachstum | ||
Greek ανάπτυξη | ||
Guarani kakuaa | ||
Gujarati વૃદ્ધિ | ||
Haitian Creole kwasans | ||
Hausa girma | ||
Hawaiian ulu ana | ||
Hebrew צְמִיחָה | ||
Hindi विकास | ||
Hmong kev loj hlob | ||
Hungarian növekedés | ||
Icelandic vöxtur | ||
Igbo uto | ||
Ilocano panagdakkel | ||
Indonesian pertumbuhan | ||
Irish fás | ||
Italian crescita | ||
Japanese 成長 | ||
Javanese wuwuh | ||
Kannada ಬೆಳವಣಿಗೆ | ||
Kazakh өсу | ||
Khmer កំណើន | ||
Kinyarwanda gukura | ||
Konkani विकास | ||
Korean 성장 | ||
Krio gro | ||
Kurdish zêdebûnî | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) گەشە | ||
Kyrgyz өсүш | ||
Lao ການຂະຫຍາຍຕົວ | ||
Latin incrementum | ||
Latvian izaugsmi | ||
Lingala bokoli | ||
Lithuanian augimas | ||
Luganda okukula | ||
Luxembourgish wuesstem | ||
Macedonian раст | ||
Maithili वृद्धि | ||
Malagasy fitomboana | ||
Malay pertumbuhan | ||
Malayalam വളർച്ച | ||
Maltese tkabbir | ||
Maori tupuranga | ||
Marathi वाढ | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯁꯥꯍꯧ ꯂꯩꯕ | ||
Mizo thang | ||
Mongolian өсөлт | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) တိုးတက်မှုနှုန်း | ||
Nepali वृद्धि | ||
Norwegian vekst | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kukula | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଅଭିବୃଦ୍ଧି | | ||
Oromo guddina | ||
Pashto وده | ||
Persian رشد | ||
Polish wzrost | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) crescimento | ||
Punjabi ਵਿਕਾਸ ਦਰ | ||
Quechua wiñay | ||
Romanian creştere | ||
Russian рост | ||
Samoan tuputupu aʻe | ||
Sanskrit वृद्धि | ||
Scots Gaelic fàs | ||
Sepedi kgolo | ||
Serbian раст | ||
Sesotho kholo | ||
Shona kukura | ||
Sindhi واڌ | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) වර්ධනය | ||
Slovak rast | ||
Slovenian rast | ||
Somali koritaanka | ||
Spanish crecimiento | ||
Sundanese kamekaran | ||
Swahili ukuaji | ||
Swedish tillväxt | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) paglaki | ||
Tajik афзоиш | ||
Tamil வளர்ச்சி | ||
Tatar үсеш | ||
Telugu పెరుగుదల | ||
Thai การเจริญเติบโต | ||
Tigrinya ዕቤት | ||
Tsonga ku kula | ||
Turkish büyüme | ||
Turkmen ösüşi | ||
Twi (Akan) onyini | ||
Ukrainian зростання | ||
Urdu نمو | ||
Uyghur ئۆسۈش | ||
Uzbek o'sish | ||
Vietnamese sự phát triển | ||
Welsh twf | ||
Xhosa ukukhula | ||
Yiddish וואוקס | ||
Yoruba idagba | ||
Zulu ukukhula |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | "Groei" in Afrikaans comes from the Old Dutch word "groeve" meaning "pit" or "depression". Hence its other meaning is "mine" or "quarry". |
| Albanian | In Albanian, the word "rritje" also means "education" or "upbringing". |
| Amharic | The word "እድገት" can also mean "development" or "progress". |
| Arabic | The word "نمو" can also mean "height" or "stature" in Arabic, particularly when referring to a person's physical appearance. |
| Armenian | The word "աճ" is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root "*h₂eǵ-h₃, |
| Azerbaijani | "Böümə" is also used to indicate the act of getting rich and developing in general. |
| Basque | The first syllable of the word "hazkundea" can also be translated as "grow" (as in "grow tomatoes"). |
| Belarusian | "Рост" also means "height" in Belarusian, and its root is a Proto-Indo-European word meaning "to rise". |
| Bengali | The word "বৃদ্ধি" ("growth") in Bengali comes from the Sanskrit word "वृद्धि" ("increase"), which itself is derived from the root "वृध्" ("to grow"). |
| Bosnian | Rast also means 'expenditure' or a 'burden' in some contexts. |
| Bulgarian | The word "растеж" can also refer to the increase in the size or number of something, such as the growth of a population or the growth of a business. |
| Catalan | Creixement" shares its origin with the English word "increase" and the Latin word "cresco" (to grow). |
| Cebuano | Pagtubo can also refer to the process of growth, development, or progress. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "成长" is composed of the characters "长" (long, increase) and "成" (become, achieve), and also means cultivating and fostering. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 成長 (growth) is also used to refer to the process of development or maturation. |
| Corsican | In Corsican, the word 'crescita' can also refer to the increase in height of a person or animal. |
| Croatian | The word "rast" (growth) in Croatian is cognate with "rest" and "рост (rost)" in Russian. |
| Czech | "Růst" has an alternate meaning in Czech that is "rate of change". |
| Danish | Historically, "vækst" did not only refer to a physical magnitude, but also to the increase in value of animals and money |
| Dutch | In the Middle Ages the word 'groei' was also used for the time when cattle were driven from the pasture to the stable, an old custom still practiced at the end of October. |
| Esperanto | Kresko also has an alternate meaning of "flourish, develop, improve." |
| Estonian | In Finnish, “kasvu” also means “profit”. |
| Finnish | The Finnish word "kasvu" can refer to both physical and economic growth. |
| French | The French word "croissance" also means "increasing prosperity". |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "groei" is related to the English "grow". |
| Galician | The word "crecemento" in Galician derives from the Latin verb "crescere" (to grow), and also has the meaning of "increase" or "development". |
| Georgian | The Georgian word ზრდა can be translated as 'growth,' but it has the additional meanings of 'reproduction' and 'advancement' |
| German | The German word 'Wachstum' ('growth') comes from the Old High German 'wahsan' ('to grow'), which is related to the Latin 'augeo' ('to increase'). |
| Greek | Despite its original meaning as "to make known," ανάπτυξη has come to mean "growth." |
| Gujarati | The word "વૃદ્ધિ" (growth) in Gujarati also means "increase" or "accumulation". |
| Haitian Creole | The Haitian Creole word "kwasans" also means "development". |
| Hausa | Hausa "girma" stems from "giram" (to increase in number, amount, or length) and also means "progress" or "development." |
| Hawaiian | "Ulu ana" also means "the child of" when used in a genealogical context. |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "צְמִיחָה" also means "sprouting" or "vegetation." |
| Hindi | The Sanskrit root of the Hindi word for "development" also relates to the meaning "to create". |
| Hmong | Kev loj hlob literally translates to "the growing of flesh" in Hmong. |
| Hungarian | In Old Hungarian, the word "növekedés" could also mean "vegetation". |
| Icelandic | "vöxtur" is also an Icelandic name, most commonly given to girls. |
| Igbo | 'Uto' also means 'to sprout' and 'germinate' in Igbo. |
| Indonesian | Pertumbuhan in Indonesian can also refer to "development" or "progress". |
| Irish | The word "fás" can also mean "prophecy" or "omen" in Irish. |
| Italian | The word "crescita" originally derives from the Latin participle "crescitus," meaning "to increase" or "to grow." |
| Japanese | The word "成長" in Japanese means not only "growth" in the biological sense, but also "improvement" in skills, knowledge, or experience. |
| Javanese | "Wuwuh" in Javanese can also refer to a pregnant woman's belly, or to the growing of plants or animals. |
| Kannada | "ಬೆಳವಣಿಗೆ" can also refer to the act of unfolding, expansion, or development in a larger sense. |
| Kazakh | The word "өсу" in Kazakh also means "progress" or "development". |
| Khmer | "កំណើន" can also refer to "progress" or "improvement" in Khmer, not just physical growth. |
| Korean | The Hanja for '성장' was originally used in a negative sense, referring to 'disturbance' or 'obstruction'. |
| Kurdish | The word “zêdebûnî” in Kurdish has etymological connections to the concept of development |
| Kyrgyz | The word "өсүш" can also refer to "progress" or "development" in Kyrgyz. |
| Latin | "Incrementum" can also refer to an increase in value, especially in a financial context. |
| Latvian | Latvian "izaugsmi" comes from "izstigt" (to get out, emerge) or from "augt" (to grow), meaning literally something that comes from within. |
| Lithuanian | "Augimas" is a derivative of the Proto-Indo-European root "*aug-", meaning "to increase" or "to grow". |
| Luxembourgish | In Luxembourgish, "Wuesstem" can also refer to "the state of being damp" or "the action of growing". |
| Macedonian | The word 'раст' can also refer to the process of growth or development in a general sense. |
| Malagasy | The word "fitomboana" derives from the root "-ombo-" meaning "to grow" and the prefix "fi-" indicating a passive or reflexive form. |
| Malay | The term "pertumbuhan" in Malay comes from the root word "tumbuh", meaning "to grow", and also holds the connotation of "development" or "progress". |
| Malayalam | The word "വളർച്ച" (growth) in Malayalam also refers to the process of developing or maturing. |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "tkabbir" is derived from the Arabic word "takbîr", meaning "greatening" or "magnification". |
| Maori | Tūpuna (ancestors) + rangi (sky, heavens) = tūpuranga (growth, progress, evolution) |
| Marathi | The Marathi word वाढ or वाधा can also refer to increase, enlargement, a rise in level. |
| Mongolian | Өсөлт may also refer to an increase or increment |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | In English, "growth" can also refer to the increase in size or amount of something, or its development. |
| Nepali | The word "वृद्धि" also means "increase" or "gain" in Sanskrit and Nepali. |
| Norwegian | It also means 'interest', 'increase' and 'exchange'. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "kukula" in Nyanja also means "to increase" or "to become bigger". |
| Pashto | "وده" can refer to bodily growth as well as the increase in height that comes with getting older |
| Persian | رشد is also a unit of measurement for land, which is 8m x 8m. |
| Polish | "Wzrost" can also refer to a person's weight or height. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portugal, "crescimento" can refer to physical growth or to the increase of profits or revenues. |
| Punjabi | The Punjabi noun "વિકાસ દર" means not only "rate of growth", as is the case for the corresponding English word "growth."; it also means simply, "growth." |
| Romanian | "Creştere" comes from the Latin word "creare," meaning "to create," and the Slavic word "*rastь", meaning "to increase." |
| Russian | The word "рост" also means "height" and is cognate with the English word "raise". |
| Samoan | In some contexts, "tuputupu aʻe" can also refer to "development" or "progress" |
| Scots Gaelic | 'Fàs' can also mean 'slope' or 'slant' in Scots Gaelic, possibly due to its connection to the act of growing, where something rises from the ground at an angle. |
| Serbian | The word "раст" can also refer to a plant or a child. |
| Sesotho | Kholo can also refer to the process of increasing in size. |
| Shona | Shona 'kukura' means 'growth' or 'maturity' and can refer to 'the increase in size or weight of a person or animal' or 'the development of a person's mind or character'. |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "واڌ" also means "increasing," "addition," and "development." |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The Sinhalese word "වර්ධනය" is derived from Sanskrit and holds connotations of "increasing" or "prospering". |
| Slovak | The word "rast" also means "height" or "stature" in Slovak. |
| Slovenian | The word 'rast' also means 'growth of a plant' and is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root '*reh₁-' meaning 'to grow'. |
| Somali | The Somali word "koritaanka" can also refer to the process of development or maturation. |
| Spanish | In botany, "crecimiento" also refers to the process of plant development from seed to maturity. |
| Sundanese | The Sundanese word "kamekaran" can also refer to the process of development, or the result of something that has developed or become more mature. |
| Swahili | "Ukuaji" can also refer to the process of development or progress, or the increase in size or number over time. |
| Swedish | The word "tillväxt" originally meant "increase" or "addition" in Swedish, and is related to the verb "växa" (to grow). |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The Tagalog word "paglaki" can also mean "increase in size" or "expansion." |
| Tajik | The word "афзоиш" in Tajik can also mean "increase" or "amplification." |
| Tamil | "வளர்ச்சி" can also refer to the increase in size, quantity, or intensity of something, or to the development or progress of something over time. |
| Telugu | "పెరుగుదల" also means the increase of something in thickness but not in size. |
| Thai | The word "การเจริญเติบโต" can also refer to "development", "progress", or "advancement". |
| Turkish | The word "büyüme" also means "enlargement", "expansion" and "development" in Turkish. |
| Ukrainian | The word "зростання" can also refer to an increase in the intensity of a process or phenomenon over time. |
| Urdu | Urdu word "نمو" ("growth") also means "development", "expansion", "progress", and "increase". |
| Uzbek | "O'sisha", which is the term for growth, can also refer to a type of fruit or a kind of bird, depending on its context in a sentence. |
| Vietnamese | "Phát triển" (development) also refers to physical or mental maturity and expansion of scope or content. |
| Welsh | In the medieval period, 'twf' also meant 'increase' and the 'growing of crops' |
| Xhosa | "Ukukhula" also means "to rise" in Xhosa. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word “וואוקס” (“growth”) is cognate with the German word “Wuchs” (“growth”) and the English word “wax”. |
| Yoruba | Idagba also means "progress" or "prosperity" and is often used as a personal name. |
| Zulu | "In Zulu, ukukhula has the alternative meanings of "to arise", "to grow", "to spread", and "to increase." |
| English | The verb 'grow' is of Germanic origin and is cognate with the German 'grôen' and Dutch 'groeien'. |