Hundred in Different Languages
Discover 'Hundred' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Hundred
Afrikaans honderd | ||
Albanian njëqind | ||
Amharic መቶ | ||
Arabic مائة | ||
Armenian հարյուր | ||
Assamese শত | ||
Aymara ciento | ||
Azerbaijani yüz | ||
Bambara kɛmɛ | ||
Basque ehun | ||
Belarusian сто | ||
Bengali একশ | ||
Bhojpuri सौ | ||
Bosnian stotinu | ||
Bulgarian сто | ||
Catalan centenars | ||
Cebuano gatusan | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 百 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 百 | ||
Corsican centu | ||
Croatian stotina | ||
Czech sto | ||
Danish hundrede | ||
Dhivehi ސަތޭކަ | ||
Dogri सौ | ||
Dutch honderd | ||
English hundred | ||
Esperanto cent | ||
Estonian sada | ||
Ewe alafa | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) daan | ||
Finnish sata | ||
French cent | ||
Frisian hûndert | ||
Galician cen | ||
Georgian ასი | ||
German hundert | ||
Greek εκατό | ||
Guarani sa'aty | ||
Gujarati સો | ||
Haitian Creole san | ||
Hausa dari | ||
Hawaiian haneli | ||
Hebrew מֵאָה | ||
Hindi सौ | ||
Hmong puas | ||
Hungarian száz | ||
Icelandic hundrað | ||
Igbo narị | ||
Ilocano sangagasut | ||
Indonesian ratus | ||
Irish céad | ||
Italian centinaio | ||
Japanese 百 | ||
Javanese atus | ||
Kannada ನೂರು | ||
Kazakh жүз | ||
Khmer រយ | ||
Kinyarwanda ijana | ||
Konkani शंभर | ||
Korean 백 | ||
Krio ɔndrɛd | ||
Kurdish sed | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) سەد | ||
Kyrgyz жүз | ||
Lao ຮ້ອຍ | ||
Latin centum | ||
Latvian simts | ||
Lingala nkama | ||
Lithuanian šimtas | ||
Luganda kikumi | ||
Luxembourgish honnert | ||
Macedonian сто | ||
Maithili सैय | ||
Malagasy -jato | ||
Malay ratus | ||
Malayalam നൂറ് | ||
Maltese mija | ||
Maori rau | ||
Marathi शंभर | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯆꯥꯝꯃ | ||
Mizo za | ||
Mongolian зуу | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) တရာ | ||
Nepali सय | ||
Norwegian hundre | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) zana | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଶହେ | ||
Oromo dhibba | ||
Pashto سل | ||
Persian صد | ||
Polish sto | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) cem | ||
Punjabi ਸੌ | ||
Quechua pachak | ||
Romanian sută | ||
Russian сотня | ||
Samoan selau | ||
Sanskrit शतकः | ||
Scots Gaelic ceud | ||
Sepedi lekgolo | ||
Serbian стотину | ||
Sesotho lekholo | ||
Shona zana | ||
Sindhi سئو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) සියය | ||
Slovak sto | ||
Slovenian sto | ||
Somali boqol | ||
Spanish cien | ||
Sundanese saratus | ||
Swahili mia | ||
Swedish hundra | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) daan | ||
Tajik сад | ||
Tamil நூறு | ||
Tatar йөз | ||
Telugu వంద | ||
Thai ร้อย | ||
Tigrinya ሚእቲ | ||
Tsonga dzana | ||
Turkish yüz | ||
Turkmen ýüz | ||
Twi (Akan) ɔha | ||
Ukrainian сотня | ||
Urdu سو | ||
Uyghur يۈز | ||
Uzbek yuz | ||
Vietnamese trăm | ||
Welsh cant | ||
Xhosa ikhulu | ||
Yiddish הונדערט | ||
Yoruba ogorun | ||
Zulu ikhulu |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "honderd" also means "a lot or many" in colloquial usage. |
| Albanian | The word 'njëqind' (hundred) derives from Proto-Albanian '*ni̯á-kʼent' and Proto-Indo-European '*sm̥-ḱm̥tóm', both meaning 'hundred'. |
| Amharic | The Amharic word "መቶ" also refers to a unit of time equal to three hours. |
| Arabic | The word "مائة" (pronounced "miāa:") derives from the Proto-Semitic word "*mʾt" meaning "fullness, abundance". |
| Armenian | "Հարյուր" is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ḱm̥tóm, which also gives rise to the English word "hundred". |
| Azerbaijani | In ancient Turkic "yüz" meant "people" and it came to mean "hundred" later. |
| Basque | In the word “ehun” (“hundred”) the root “hun” is of Indo-European origin and means “ten”. |
| Belarusian | The Belarusian word "сто" (hundred) is cognate with the Russian word "сотня" (hundred), both deriving from the Proto-Slavic word *stotъ. |
| Bengali | একশ (ēkôsh) comes from the Sanskrit word 'śata' meaning 'hundred' and also refers to the one-hundredth part of a rupee in colloquial Bengali. |
| Bosnian | The word "stotinu" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word "*stъ" meaning "hundred" and the suffix "-inu" indicating a group of things or people. |
| Bulgarian | The word "сто" can also mean "cost" or "value". |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "centenars" originated from the Latin word "centenarius" and also refers to a group of 100 people in the Balearic Islands. |
| Cebuano | The Cebuano word "gatusan" can also refer to a gathering of exactly 100 people or a large number of people. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "百" can also mean "many" or "all". |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The character "百" is sometimes used as a general term for "many" or "a lot" in Chinese, such as "百川" (baichuan, many rivers). |
| Corsican | The plural, "centi", is also used for "thousand" and "hundred thousand". |
| Croatian | Stotina, besides its primary meaning "hundred", also historically meant "district" and "tax".} |
| Czech | "Sto" is an abbreviation of the Old Slavonic "sъto" meaning "to stand" or "to be in place". |
| Danish | The Danish word "hundrede" is derived from the Old Norse word "hundrað", meaning "a hundred", and is related to the English word "hundred". |
| Dutch | The word "honderd" originates from the Proto-Germanic word "*hundradą", meaning "a unit of one hundred". |
| Esperanto | "Cent" is also the name of a U.S. coin worth one hundredth of a dollar. |
| Estonian | Sada is related to Sanskrit shatam meaning a hundred or a collection of a hundred. |
| Finnish | The word 'sata' can also mean 'many' or 'very much'. |
| French | "Cent" (hundred) also means "a hundred times" in French, as in "cent fois" (a hundred times). |
| Frisian | 'Hûndert' likely comes from 'te hûndert', which means 'by the hundred', referring to the way Frisians counted up to twelve, then counting in hundreds and thousands beyond. |
| Galician | "Cen" is a numeral, but it can also be used in the composition of words to indicate a large quantity or a vague number. |
| Georgian | The word "ასი" in Georgian is cognate to the Proto-Kartvelian word "*ɔsi" and the Indo-European word "*ḱ́ṃtom". |
| German | The word "hundert" is cognate with Old English "hund" and Latin "centum", meaning "a hundred". |
| Greek | The word "εκατό" is also used in Greek to refer to a large, indeterminate number, similar to the English phrase "a hundred and one". |
| Gujarati | "સો" can also mean "beautiful", "good-looking" or "pleasing" in Gujarati. |
| Haitian Creole | The word "san" also means "holy" in Haitian Creole, derived from the French word "saint". |
| Hausa | In Hausa, the word "dari" not only means "hundred" but also refers to a unit of currency or a round calabash used for storing grains. |
| Hawaiian | In Hawaiian, the word "haneli" can also refer to a group of 100 people or objects. |
| Hebrew | The word 'מאה' ('hundred') and the word 'מאות' ('hundreds') are cognates of the word 'מאת' ('from'), due to the fact that numbers in ancient Semitic languages were often used as ordinal numbers. |
| Hindi | In Sanskrit, 'सौ'(sau) is a variation of the word 'शत' (śata), which means 'many' or 'crowd', and is also used in the context of 'group of hundreds'. |
| Hmong | "Puas" shares the same root word as "pas", which means "ten" in Hmong and is also found in other Tai-Kadai languages. |
| Hungarian | "Száz" can also mean "century" and is related to the word "shoot" in archery. |
| Icelandic | Old Norse 'hundrath' means 'a hundred men', a unit used for military conscription. |
| Igbo | In the Nsukka dialect of Igbo, "narị" also refers to a bundle of fifty kolanuts. |
| Indonesian | The word "ratus" in Indonesian is derived from the Sanskrit word "śata", meaning "hundred". |
| Irish | The word "céad" in Modern Irish also means "first" or "time". |
| Italian | The word "centinaio" is derived from the Latin word "centuria", meaning "a group of 100". |
| Japanese | The kanji 百 can also mean “all,” or “everything,” as in 百花繚乱 (hyakka ryouran) or “a dazzling array of flowers.” |
| Javanese | "Atus" can also refer to a large amount or a group of people. |
| Kannada | "ನೂರು" is etymologically linked to the Tamil word "நூறு" (nūru), meaning "thread or yarn" which were often used as a form of currency in the past, 100 coins being worth 1 nūru. |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "жүз" comes from the Proto-Turkic word "üz" meaning "face, appearance" and is related to the Persian word "چهره" (chehre) meaning "face, appearance, countenance". |
| Khmer | In Khmer, the word "រយ" (hundred) also denotes a hundred years, a century. |
| Korean | The word "백" (百) is derived from the Chinese character for "hundred" and also means "white" in Korean. |
| Kurdish | The word "sed" is also used as a slang term meaning "very" or "extremely". |
| Kyrgyz | In Kyrgyz, the word "жүз" ("hundred") also means "face", "kind", "tribe", and "century". |
| Lao | ຮ້ອຍ is also the classifier used for things that come in pairs |
| Latin | Centum can also mean "a group of a hundred," a "century," "a division of the Roman people," or a "company of soldiers" in Latin. |
| Latvian | The word 'simts' has a Germanic root and is related to the English word 'hundred', the German word 'hundert' and the Swedish word 'hundrade'. |
| Lithuanian | The word "šimtas" derives from the Proto-Indo-European root "*ḱm̥tóm", which means "hundred" or "much". |
| Luxembourgish | The word "honnert" has been used to mean both "hundred" and "canton" in Luxembourgish. |
| Macedonian | The word "сто" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word "*sъto" and is related to the words "стог" (stack) and "стоять" (to stand). |
| Malagasy | -jato (hundred) derives from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *jaqatu, but also means "to be born" and "to be complete". |
| Malay | The word "ratus" in Malay also means "complete" or "perfect". |
| Malayalam | The Malayalam equivalent for "hundred" is believed to be rooted in Proto-Dravidian, sharing similar origins with the numerals for "hundred" in other Dravidian languages like Tamil (எண்ணார், "nūru") and Telugu (ಕೆನ್, "nūra"). |
| Maltese | The word "mija" in Maltese derives from the Arabic "mi'a", meaning "hundred", and also has the alternate meaning of "family" or "group of people". |
| Maori | The word "rau" in Maori, meaning "hundred," also denotes multiple, many, all, a group, the public, as well as numerous collective items. |
| Marathi | The word "शंभर" has another meaning, "a large number; innumerable". |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word "зуу" (hundred) is derived from the Mongolian word "зуун" (big, many). |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | "တရာ" in Myanmar also refers to 120 and is a unit of counting used for some items such as eggs. |
| Nepali | "सय" (say) is also a synonym for "सो" (so), meaning "thousand" or "a lot of money" in Nepali. |
| Norwegian | Hundre derives from the Old Norse word "hundrað", which referred to a group of 120 fighters. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | "Zana" also refers to a unit of counting in the Nyanja/Chichewa culture. Traditionally in Nyanja, counting from one to seven is the common way of counting, and larger quantities are counted in units of seven. In this context, "zana" refers to the number 14. |
| Pashto | The word "سل" also refers to a unit of land area equivalent to 100 jaribs or approximately 100 acres. |
| Persian | صد (sad) in Persian derives from the Proto-Indo-European root *ḱm̥tóm, meaning "hundred," also seen in Greek he-katón and Latin centum. |
| Polish | The Polish word "sto" is cognate with Russian "сто" (sto) and Latin "centum" (hundred). |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | cem also means "a great amount" in Portugal |
| Punjabi | In ancient times, 'ਸੌ' also meant a 'hundred thousand' in Punjabi. |
| Romanian | The word "sută" also means "row" in certain contexts, such as in the phrase "sută de porumb" ("row of corn"). |
| Russian | "Сотня" also means "a group of a hundred" or "a military unit of a hundred". |
| Samoan | The word "selau" originally meant a type of large canoe. |
| Scots Gaelic | The word "ceud" can also refer to a "hundredweight" or a "long hundred," which is 120 units. |
| Serbian | The word "стотину" is also used to describe a group of 100 people. |
| Sesotho | The word "lekholo" comes from the Proto-Bantu word "-kɔro", meaning "group" or "flock". This suggests that the concept of a hundred was originally based on the size of a herd of animals. |
| Shona | The word "zana" in Shona can also refer to a "heap" or a "pile" of something. |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "سئو" can also refer to a long or tall thing, such as a tree or a pole. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The Sinhala word "සියය" (hundred), also means "great quantity." |
| Slovak | The word "sto" in Slovak can also mean "floor" or "table", and is related to the word "stat" (to stand). |
| Slovenian | The word 'sto' is cognate with the Latin 'centum' and the Greek 'hekaton' via Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm. |
| Somali | The Somali word |
| Spanish | The word "cien" also means "certainty" in Spanish, derived from the Latin word "certus" meaning "sure". |
| Sundanese | Saratus can also mean 'all' or 'entire' in Sundanese, similar to the English word 'total'. |
| Swahili | The term 'mia' is also used in a figurative sense to express 'many' or 'plenty' as in the phrase 'Mia ya shida' ('A multitude of problems'). |
| Swedish | 'Hundra' also means 'red' in Swedish, which can be seen in the names of animals like the fox and squirrel. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "daan" (literally meaning "road" or "way") also carries the meaning of "hundred" as in "daan milyon" (hundred million). |
| Tajik | The word "сад" also means "time" in certain compound words. |
| Tamil | The word 'நூறு' ('hundred') in Tamil is derived from the Proto-Dravidian word 'nūṟu'. |
| Telugu | "వంద" can also mean "a group of 12".} |
| Thai | The Thai word "ร้อย" (hundred) also means "connect" or "join". |
| Turkish | "Yüz" ayrıca "yüz" anlamına gelir ve Eski Türkçe *yüz "yüz, yüzey, görünüş" kelimesinden türemiştir. |
| Ukrainian | The word quot;сотняquot; also means quot;a military unit of 100 menquot; in Ukrainian. |
| Urdu | It shares the same etymology as the English word "century". Also, it can refer to something that is of low quality. |
| Uzbek | The word "yuz" is also used to refer to a group of 100 people, such as a military unit or a tribe. |
| Vietnamese | The word "trăm" derives from the Austroasiatic root "-trăm" meaning "gather together". |
| Welsh | In Welsh, the word "cant" also refers to the traditional administrative division or a part of a county. |
| Xhosa | The word "ikhulu" also carries the concept of many or all, and in the context of people, it can refer to a community or a clan. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "הונדערט" can alternately mean "a lot" or "many". |
| Yoruba | Ogorun, a Yoruba word for 'hundred', is also associated with the concept of completeness, implying a full cycle or set. |
| Zulu | Ikhulu also means "a lot" or "many" in Zulu and is often used to express a large, unspecified quantity. |
| English | The word "hundred" originates from the Old English "hundrede," meaning a group of a hundred hides of land or a territorial division. |