Heavily in Different Languages
Discover 'Heavily' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Heavily
Afrikaans swaar | ||
Albanian shumë | ||
Amharic በጣም | ||
Arabic بشدة | ||
Armenian մեծապես | ||
Assamese গধুৰভাৱে | ||
Aymara wali ch’amawa | ||
Azerbaijani ağır | ||
Bambara ka gɛlɛn | ||
Basque asko | ||
Belarusian моцна | ||
Bengali ভারী | ||
Bhojpuri भारी पड़ गइल | ||
Bosnian jako | ||
Bulgarian силно | ||
Catalan fortament | ||
Cebuano bug-at kaayo | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 大量 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 大量 | ||
Corsican assai | ||
Croatian jako | ||
Czech těžce | ||
Danish stærkt | ||
Dhivehi ވަރަށް ބޮޑަށް | ||
Dogri भारी | ||
Dutch zwaar | ||
English heavily | ||
Esperanto peze | ||
Estonian tugevalt | ||
Ewe vevie | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) mabigat | ||
Finnish voimakkaasti | ||
French fortement | ||
Frisian swier | ||
Galician fortemente | ||
Georgian მძიმედ | ||
German schwer | ||
Greek βαριά | ||
Guarani tuicha mba’e | ||
Gujarati ભારે | ||
Haitian Creole lou | ||
Hausa da nauyi | ||
Hawaiian kaumaha loa | ||
Hebrew בִּכְבֵדוּת | ||
Hindi भारी | ||
Hmong hnyav dua | ||
Hungarian súlyosan | ||
Icelandic þungt | ||
Igbo kpamkpam | ||
Ilocano nadagsen ti bagina | ||
Indonesian berat | ||
Irish go mór | ||
Italian pesantemente | ||
Japanese ひどく | ||
Javanese akeh banget | ||
Kannada ಹೆಚ್ಚು | ||
Kazakh ауыр | ||
Khmer យ៉ាងខ្លាំង | ||
Kinyarwanda cyane | ||
Konkani जडपणान | ||
Korean 무겁게 | ||
Krio i bin rili bad | ||
Kurdish bi giranî | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) بە قورسی | ||
Kyrgyz оор | ||
Lao ຢ່າງ ໜັກ | ||
Latin heavily | ||
Latvian smagi | ||
Lingala makasi | ||
Lithuanian stipriai | ||
Luganda nnyo | ||
Luxembourgish schwéier | ||
Macedonian силно | ||
Maithili भारी | ||
Malagasy mafy | ||
Malay berat | ||
Malayalam കനത്ത | ||
Maltese bil-kbir | ||
Maori taumaha | ||
Marathi जोरदारपणे | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯌꯥꯝꯅꯥ ꯋꯥꯅꯥ꯫ | ||
Mizo a rit hle | ||
Mongolian хүнд | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အကြီးအကျယ် | ||
Nepali भारी | ||
Norwegian tungt | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kwambiri | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଭାରି | ||
Oromo ulfaataadha | ||
Pashto دروند | ||
Persian به شدت | ||
Polish ciężko | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) pesadamente | ||
Punjabi ਭਾਰੀ | ||
Quechua llumpay | ||
Romanian puternic | ||
Russian сильно | ||
Samoan mamafa | ||
Sanskrit गुरुतया | ||
Scots Gaelic gu mòr | ||
Sepedi ka boima | ||
Serbian јако | ||
Sesotho haholo | ||
Shona zvakanyanya | ||
Sindhi تمام گھڻو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) දැඩි ලෙස | ||
Slovak ťažko | ||
Slovenian močno | ||
Somali culus | ||
Spanish fuertemente | ||
Sundanese beurat pisan | ||
Swahili sana | ||
Swedish kraftigt | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) mabigat | ||
Tajik вазнин | ||
Tamil பெரிதும் | ||
Tatar авыр | ||
Telugu భారీగా | ||
Thai อย่างหนัก | ||
Tigrinya ብኸቢድ | ||
Tsonga hi ku nonoka | ||
Turkish ağır şekilde | ||
Turkmen agyr | ||
Twi (Akan) denneennen | ||
Ukrainian сильно | ||
Urdu بھاری | ||
Uyghur ئېغىر | ||
Uzbek og'ir | ||
Vietnamese nặng nề | ||
Welsh yn drwm | ||
Xhosa kakhulu | ||
Yiddish שווער | ||
Yoruba darale | ||
Zulu kakhulu |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "swaar" is derived from the Proto-Germanic root *swer-, which also gave rise to the English word "heavy". It can also have the meaning "difficult" or "burdensome" in Afrikaans. |
| Albanian | The word "shumë" in Albanian also means "lot" or "great number or quantity." |
| Amharic | The word "በጣም" can also mean "very" or "extremely" in Amharic. |
| Arabic | The word "بشدة" can also mean "intensely" or "greatly" in Arabic. |
| Azerbaijani | "Ağır" also means "respectable, influential, esteemed, venerable". |
| Basque | "Asko" in Basque means "a lot," but not in a negative sense like "too much"—more like when expressing gratitude. |
| Belarusian | The word "моцна" can also mean "strong" or "powerful" in Belarusian. |
| Bengali | In Bengali, “ভারী” can also mean “very” or “quite”. |
| Bosnian | The word "jako" is derived from the Old Slavonic word "jak", meaning "strong" or "powerful". |
| Bulgarian | The word "силно" is derived from the Old Church Slavonic word "сльнъ", meaning "strong" or "powerful". |
| Catalan | The Catalan adverb "fortament" derives from the Latin "fortis", meaning "strong" or "brave". |
| Cebuano | The Cebuano word "bug-at kaayo," meaning "heavily," also has the alternate meaning of "very fat" or "very overweight." |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The word "大量" also means "large amount" when used as a noun. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 大量(dàliàng) means “heavily” in Mandarin and is also used in Japanese as ダグリ (だいりょう or 大量), which means “large amount” or “great quantity”. |
| Corsican | "Assai" can also mean to try or attempt (provare a fare una cosa) |
| Croatian | The word "jako" meaning "heavily/very" comes from the German word "jack". |
| Czech | The word "těžce" in Czech has its roots in the Old Slavic word "tjagŭ" meaning "weight" or "burden". |
| Danish | The Danish word "stærkt" can also mean "greatly", "very", "strongly", or "powerfully". |
| Dutch | Zwaar (heavily) originates from the Proto-West-Germanic word *swaraz, meaning 'heavy' or 'troubled'. |
| Esperanto | The word "peze" in Esperanto is a loanword from German "pese" and shares the same root as the English word "poise". |
| Estonian | Tugevalt is also synonymously used with "very" (as a synonym for "väga") but without implying physical strength or weight. |
| Finnish | The word "voimakkaasti" originally meant "with force" or "violently", but its meaning has since broadened to include "greatly" or "intensely". |
| French | The word "fortement" in French comes from the Latin word "fortis," which means "strong" or "brave." |
| Frisian | It's originally from the old Dutch word 'sweren' which meant 'pain' |
| Galician | The word "fortemente" comes from the Latin word "fortis" (meaning strong or brave), or could mean "in a loud or powerful way, vigorously, or strongly." |
| Georgian | The Georgian word "მძიმედ" can also mean "sadly" or "with difficulty". |
| German | Originating from the Proto-Indo-European root *s(w)er-, "schwer" (heavily) also bears meanings such as "difficult" and "important" in German. |
| Greek | The word 'βαριά' derives from 'βάλλω,' meaning 'to throw or weigh' and can also mean 'severely, badly,' or 'slowly, sluggishly' depending on context. |
| Gujarati | The word "ભારે" can also mean "excessive" or "severe" in Gujarati. |
| Haitian Creole | The word "lou" in Haitian Creole can also mean "a lot" or "very much". |
| Hausa | The word "da nauyi" in Hausa also means "with difficulty" or "with hardship". |
| Hawaiian | The Hawaiian word "kaumaha loa" literally translates to "heavy thoughts" or "burdensome thoughts". |
| Hebrew | The word בִּכְבֵדוּת also means with honor or with respect in Hebrew. |
| Hindi | 'भारी' in Hindi can also mean 'significant' or 'important'. |
| Hmong | The word "hnyav dua" is a dual form of the word "hnyav" and can also mean "very heavy". |
| Hungarian | Súlyosan was once also used in the meaning "fat", "corpulent", but this has been obsolete for about 500 years |
| Icelandic | "Þungt" originally referred to a weight of a certain size used in trading. |
| Igbo | The word "kpamkpam" can also mean "with great force" or "with emphasis" in Igbo. |
| Indonesian | "Berat" is also a city in West Sumatra, Indonesia and a type of Turkish coin minted during the Ottoman Empire. |
| Irish | The Irish word "go mór" can also refer to "greatly" or "much." |
| Italian | The word "pesantemente" can also mean "in a heavy manner" or "with force". |
| Japanese | "ひどく" can also mean 'greatly, very much' or 'extremely' |
| Javanese | In Indonesian, the adverb "akeh banget" means 'a lot', but in Javanese it means "heavy" or "very". |
| Kannada | The word "ಹೆಚ್ಚು" can also mean "more" or "excess" in Kannada. |
| Kazakh | In addition to meaning "heavily," the Kazakh word "ауыр" can also mean "difficult" or "expensive." |
| Korean | 무겁게 also means 'hard to bear' as a weight or burden in Korean. |
| Kurdish | The word 'bigiranî' is formed from two Kurdish words: 'bî' (without) and 'giran' (heavy) |
| Kyrgyz | Kyrgyz "оор" ultimately derives from "*oγur" in Proto-Turkic, meaning "heavy," and is cognate with Turkish "ağır," Tuvan "оор," and Uzbek "og'ir." |
| Latin | The Latin root of "heavily" is "gravis," which also means "serious" or "important." |
| Latvian | Although "smagi" means "heavily" in Latvian, the word "smagt" originally meant "to smell". |
| Lithuanian | "Stipriai" is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *s(t)er- "to spread out" and is related to words such as "stir" and "strain" in English. |
| Macedonian | "Силно" is an adverb in Macedonian with the main meaning “heavily,” but it is also used in the sense of “powerfully,” “intensely,” and “strongly." |
| Malagasy | The word "mafy" can also mean "very" or "too". |
| Malay | "Berat" shares the same Indonesian and Javanese cognates with Sanskrit root word, "bhara": 'support', and Proto-Austronesian, "baRaR": 'burden, mass'. |
| Malayalam | The word "കനത്ത" has Sanskrit origins and can also refer to "thick" or "dense." |
| Maltese | "Bil-kbir" also means "with much" or "abundantly" in some cases. |
| Maori | Taumaha is used metaphorically to describe deep emotional distress. |
| Marathi | The word 'जोरदारपणे' can also mean 'firmly' or 'forcefully' in Marathi. |
| Mongolian | The word "хүнд" can also mean "person" or "human being" in Mongolian. |
| Nepali | The word "भारी" ("bharī") can also refer to something that is valuable, costly or significant. |
| Norwegian | "Tung" can also mean "difficult" or "sad" in Norwegian. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | In Swahili, 'kwambiri' is an adverb meaning 'in great numbers' or 'very much'. |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "دروند" (darvand) also refers to a type of small animal trap or snare. |
| Persian | The word “به شدت” (“heavily”) in Persian is derived from Arabic, where it means “very” or “strongly”. |
| Polish | The word "ciężko" also means "hard" or "difficult" in Polish. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, "pesadamente" can also mean "boring" or "tediously" in addition to its more literal meaning of "heavily". |
| Punjabi | ਭਾਰੀ is derived from the Sanskrit word 'Bhari', which means 'heavy', 'weighty' or 'large'. |
| Romanian | The Latin word "potenti" translates to "strong" or "powerfully" and is at the root of many European languages' words for "heavy" or "abundant" |
| Russian | "Сильно" is related to "сила" (force) and "силиться" (to try hard), but it also refers to "power" (influence). |
| Samoan | The word "mamafa" in Samoan is derived from the Proto-Polynesian word "mamafa", meaning "weighty" or "heavy". |
| Scots Gaelic | The Scots Gaelic word "gu mòr" can also refer to "greatly" or "severely." |
| Serbian | "Јако" in Serbian can also mean "very" and is cognate with "який" in Ukrainian and "які" in Bulgarian, all meaning strong. |
| Sesotho | The word "haholo" can also refer to a large amount or quantity. |
| Shona | The term "zvakanyanya" literally translates to "with heaviness" |
| Sindhi | "تمام گھڻو" also means "very much" or "excessively" in Sindhi. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | "දැඩි ලෙස" can be used to refer to the severity, strength of a condition or action rather than the weight of an object |
| Slovak | "Ťažko" was borrowed from the Slavic dialect as the word for "difficult". |
| Slovenian | The word 'močno' has Germanic origins, and shares a root with 'močan' ('strong'). |
| Somali | Cululus means "heavily" in Somali, but also refers to a large round gourd used as a container or water bottle |
| Spanish | "Fuertamente" can also mean "strongly" or "firmly" depending on the context. |
| Sundanese | "Beurat pisan" literally means "very heavy" in Sundanese, but it can also be used figuratively to describe something that is very difficult or challenging. |
| Swahili | The word "sana" in Swahili can also mean "really" or "very much". |
| Swedish | The word "kraftigt" can also mean "vigorous" or "strong" in Swedish. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "MABIGAT" came from the root word "BIGAT" that means "to be heavy" or "weight". |
| Tajik | The word “вазнин” also means: burdensome, important, substantial. |
| Telugu | The word 'భారీగా' has a separate usage of 'exaggerated' in Telugu, which is a meaning not found in English. |
| Thai | The Thai word "อย่างหนัก" can also mean "severely" or "badly", as in "เขาป่วยอย่างหนัก" (He is severely ill). |
| Turkish | "Ağır" means "heavy" in Turkish, but it can also mean "serious" or "important". |
| Ukrainian | The word "сильно" also means "very much" in Ukrainian. |
| Urdu | The word 'بھاری' also means 'weighty', 'burdensome', and 'oppressive' in Urdu. |
| Uzbek | The word "og'ir" also means "hard", "difficult", or "burdensome". |
| Vietnamese | In Vietnamese, "nặng nề" not only means "heavily" but can also refer to a sense of sadness or burden. |
| Welsh | "Yn drwm" means "heavily" in modern Welsh, but it originally meant "strongly" or "with force". |
| Xhosa | "Kakhulu" is also an exclamation expressing surprise or approval. |
| Yiddish | In Yiddish, "שווער" also means "father-in-law" or "difficult, burdensome". |
| Yoruba | The Yoruba word "darale" has the alternate meaning of "firmly." |
| Zulu | "Kakhulu" also means "a great multitude, a great group" |
| English | The adverb “heavily” is derived from the Old English word “hefiġ,” which means “heavy” or “weighty.” |