Land in Different Languages
Discover 'Land' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Land
Afrikaans land | ||
Albanian tokë | ||
Amharic መሬት | ||
Arabic أرض | ||
Armenian հող | ||
Assamese ভূমি | ||
Aymara uraqi | ||
Azerbaijani torpaq | ||
Bambara duguma | ||
Basque lurra | ||
Belarusian зямлі | ||
Bengali জমি | ||
Bhojpuri जमीन | ||
Bosnian zemljište | ||
Bulgarian земя | ||
Catalan terra | ||
Cebuano yuta | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 土地 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 土地 | ||
Corsican terra | ||
Croatian zemljište | ||
Czech přistát | ||
Danish jord | ||
Dhivehi ބިން | ||
Dogri जमीन | ||
Dutch land- | ||
English land | ||
Esperanto tero | ||
Estonian maa | ||
Ewe anyigbã | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) lupain | ||
Finnish maa | ||
French terre | ||
Frisian lân | ||
Galician terra | ||
Georgian მიწა | ||
German land | ||
Greek γη | ||
Guarani yvy | ||
Gujarati જમીન | ||
Haitian Creole peyi | ||
Hausa ƙasar | ||
Hawaiian āina | ||
Hebrew ארץ | ||
Hindi भूमि | ||
Hmong thaj av | ||
Hungarian föld | ||
Icelandic land | ||
Igbo ala | ||
Ilocano daga | ||
Indonesian tanah | ||
Irish talamh | ||
Italian terra | ||
Japanese 土地 | ||
Javanese tanah | ||
Kannada ಭೂಮಿ | ||
Kazakh жер | ||
Khmer ដី | ||
Kinyarwanda butaka | ||
Konkani जमीन | ||
Korean 나라 | ||
Krio land | ||
Kurdish welat | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) زەوی | ||
Kyrgyz жер | ||
Lao ທີ່ດິນ | ||
Latin terra | ||
Latvian zeme | ||
Lingala mabele | ||
Lithuanian žemės | ||
Luganda ensi | ||
Luxembourgish land | ||
Macedonian земјиште | ||
Maithili जमीन | ||
Malagasy tany | ||
Malay tanah | ||
Malayalam ഭൂമി | ||
Maltese art | ||
Maori whenua | ||
Marathi जमीन | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯂꯝ | ||
Mizo ram | ||
Mongolian газар | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) မြေ | ||
Nepali जग्गा | ||
Norwegian land | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) nthaka | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଜମି | ||
Oromo lafa | ||
Pashto ځمکه | ||
Persian زمین | ||
Polish wylądować | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) terra | ||
Punjabi ਜ਼ਮੀਨ | ||
Quechua allpa | ||
Romanian teren | ||
Russian земля | ||
Samoan laueleele | ||
Sanskrit भूः | ||
Scots Gaelic fearann | ||
Sepedi naga | ||
Serbian земљиште | ||
Sesotho naha | ||
Shona nyika | ||
Sindhi زمين | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) ඉඞම් | ||
Slovak pôda | ||
Slovenian zemljišča | ||
Somali dhul | ||
Spanish tierra | ||
Sundanese darat | ||
Swahili ardhi | ||
Swedish landa | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) lupa | ||
Tajik замин | ||
Tamil நில | ||
Tatar җир | ||
Telugu భూమి | ||
Thai ที่ดิน | ||
Tigrinya መሬት | ||
Tsonga phatsama | ||
Turkish arazi | ||
Turkmen ýer | ||
Twi (Akan) asase | ||
Ukrainian землі | ||
Urdu زمین | ||
Uyghur يەر | ||
Uzbek er | ||
Vietnamese đất đai | ||
Welsh tir | ||
Xhosa umhlaba | ||
Yiddish לאַנד | ||
Yoruba ilẹ | ||
Zulu umhlaba |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "land" can also refer to a "country" or "a plot of cultivated ground." |
| Albanian | Etymology unknown, but may be related to the Latin terra or the Greek topos. |
| Amharic | The term "መሬት" also signifies "the world," reflecting the ancient concept of the Earth as the central point of the universe. |
| Arabic | The Arabic word "أرض" also means "earth" or "ground". |
| Armenian | "Հող" can also refer to soil or clay in Armenian, not just a geographical area. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "torpaq" in Azerbaijani is derived from the Proto-Turkic word "torp" meaning "earth". |
| Basque | "Lur" is related to the verb "lur" (to give birth) |
| Belarusian | The word |
| Bengali | The word "জমি" also means "ground" or "earth" in Bengali. |
| Bosnian | In Serbo-Croatian languages "zemlja" means both "earth" and "land" and comes from the Proto-Slavic word *zemlja, which is cognate with Latin humus "soil". |
| Bulgarian | The Russian "земля" and Polish "ziemia" are cognates, sharing a common Slavic root meaning "ground" and "territory". |
| Catalan | The Catalan word «terra», meaning «land», comes from the Latin word «terra», which also means «earth» or «soil». |
| Cebuano | Yuta can also mean 'soil' or 'dirt', particularly in the context of farming and gardening. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | Land ('土地') in Chinese refers not only to the ground, but also to its fertility, which is why it can be written as '土' (earth) combined with '地' (bottom). |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The character "土" in "土地" also means "earth" or "soil". |
| Corsican | In Corsican, "terra" can also refer to the earth as a planet, a territory or a homeland. |
| Croatian | The word "zemljište" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word "zemlja", meaning "earth" or "soil". |
| Czech | The Czech word "přistát" also means "to land in trouble" or "to arrive in an unpleasant situation". |
| Danish | The Danish word "jord" is cognate with the English word "earth" and originally meant "the ground". |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "land" can also refer to a country, territory, or region. |
| Esperanto | "Tero" in Esperanto shares its root with the Ancient Greek "terra" (earth) and the Latin "terra" (land), ultimately tracing back to the Proto-Indo-European "*ters-" (dry). |
| Estonian | "Maa" also means "ground" or "substance". |
| Finnish | The word 'maa' in Finnish is also used to refer to 'country' or 'earth'. |
| French | Old French word 'terre' derives from Latin 'terra', also meaning 'earth,' 'country,' and 'region'. |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "lân" derives from Proto-West-Germanic *landam, and also means "area of settlement" and "territory". |
| Galician | In Galician, "terra" can also refer to "soil" or "earth", as in the phrase "a terra é fértil" (the soil is fertile). |
| Georgian | The word 'მიწა' can also mean 'soil' or 'dirt' in Georgian. |
| German | The German word "Land" can also refer to a state or territory within a country, or to the people living in a particular area. |
| Greek | The Greek word "γη" (land) is also connected to the word "γέα" (earth) and may derive from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵʰḗm, meaning "earth" or "ground." |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "જમીન" (jamīn) is also related to the Sanskrit word "जन" (jana), which means "people" or "race". |
| Haitian Creole | In Haitian Creole, "peyi" also refers to one's homeland or birthplace and is often used to evoke a sense of national pride and identity. |
| Hausa | In Hausa, "ƙasar" also refers to one's homeland, native land, or country of origin. |
| Hawaiian | 'Āina also refers to that which feeds or nourishes, including sustenance from the land or spiritual nourishment. |
| Hebrew | Eretz (ארץ) can also mean earth, country, fatherland, territory or homeland in Hebrew |
| Hindi | The word "भूमि" is derived from the Sanskrit word "भू", meaning "to be" or "to exist". |
| Hmong | Hmong word "thaj av" comes from Proto-Sino-Tibetan root *tʰa "ground" or *tʰa "earth". |
| Hungarian | "Föld" in Hungarian also means soil, or the ground. In fact, it is cognate with the English word "field". |
| Icelandic | The Icelandic word "land" can also refer to a country or a farm. |
| Igbo | In addition, ala can mean "ground" or "earth" in Igbo. |
| Indonesian | The Indonesian word "tanah" is derived from the Sanskrit word "sthāna," meaning "place" or "position." |
| Irish | The word "talamh" in Irish can also mean "the world" or "the earth". |
| Italian | The Latin word "terra" (earth) survives in the Italian words "terrena" (ground floor), "terrace" (flat-roofed structure) and "terreno" (soil). |
| Japanese | 土地 (tochi) can also mean "real estate" or "property." |
| Javanese | "Tanah" can also mean "ground, earth, or territory." |
| Kannada | The Kannada word "ಭೂಮಿ" (bhoomi) also refers to the Hindu goddess Bhudevi, representing Earth, and can mean "earth" or "soil" in general. |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "жер" does not have any alternate meanings. |
| Khmer | "ដី" can also refer to a place or a country. |
| Korean | The Korean word "나라" (nara) also means "country" and "kingdom," and is cognate with the Mongolian word "nar," meaning "sun." |
| Kurdish | The word "welat" in Kurdish is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *wel- meaning "to turn, roll, or revolve" and can also refer to a "nation, people, or country". |
| Kyrgyz | The word "жер" can also refer to a specific plot of land, such as a farm or pasture. |
| Lao | The Lao word "ທີ່ດິນ" ("land") can also refer to a specific area of land, such as a field or a plot of land. |
| Latin | "Terra" also means "earth" in Latin, cognate with the Greek "gē" and Proto-Indo-European "*ǵʰérm-." It is a component of many words, including "terrain" and "terrarium." |
| Latvian | The word "zeme" in Latvian derives from Proto-Baltic and Indo-European roots, also seen in Lithuanian, Russian, and Sanskrit. |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word "žemė" also has the alternate meaning of "world" and is cognate with the Latvian and Old Prussian words for "land". |
| Luxembourgish | In addition to its primary meaning, "Land" can also refer to the country of Luxembourg in Luxembourgish. |
| Macedonian | The word "земјиште" in Macedonian is cognate with the Slavic word "zemlya," which means both "land" and "earth." |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word “tany” is also used to mean “place” and “island”. |
| Malay | Tanah is a Austronesian root word for |
| Malayalam | The word "ഭൂമി" is derived from the Sanskrit word "bhūmi," which also means "earth" or "world." |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "art" can also refer to a field, or a plot of land. |
| Maori | Whenua comes from 'whenua' meaning 'placenta' or 'afterbirth' and relates to the significance of the whenua as the nurturing provider of life. |
| Marathi | While the primary meaning of जमीन is "land" in Marathi, it can also refer to property in general or the land surrounding a city. |
| Mongolian | Mongolian 'газар' may be derived from 'газ' ('surface') and relate to 'газлах' ('to spread out'). |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The word "မြေ" in Myanmar can also refer to the ground, earth, or soil. |
| Nepali | The word "जग्गा" is derived from Sanskrit and also means "immovable property". |
| Norwegian | The Norwegian word "land" can also refer to a country ("land") or property ("eiendom"). |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The etymology of "nthaka" is the verb "kutha," which means "to take, hold, or seize." |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "ځمکه" also refers to the planet Earth, akin to "earth" in English. |
| Persian | The Persian word "زمین" derives from the Proto-Indo-European root *dʰǵʰom-, meaning "level surface" or "earth." |
| Polish | The word "wylądować" comes from the Old Polish word "lądować", which means "to sink" or "to plunge". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "terra" comes from the Latin word "terra" and can also mean "soil", "earth", or "homeland" in Portuguese. |
| Punjabi | The word "ਜ਼ਮੀਨ" (land) derives from the Persian word "zamin," meaning "ground" or "earth." |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "teren" originates from the Latin "terra" and also means "field" or "domain." |
| Russian | In addition to its primary meaning of 'land', 'земля' can also refer to 'soil', 'earth', or 'country' in Russian. |
| Samoan | The Samoan word 'laueleele' can also refer to a village or a district. |
| Scots Gaelic | The Gaelic word for 'land', 'fearann', originally meant 'fertile' or 'grassy' land |
| Serbian | The Serbian word "земљиште" comes from the Proto-Slavic word *zemljь, which also meant "earth" and "soil" |
| Sesotho | The Sesotho word "naha" also means "homeland" or "country" and is related to the Nguni word "ikhaya" with the same meanings. |
| Shona | The word "nyika" in Shona can also refer to a specific region or territory, rather than just land in general. |
| Sindhi | In Sindhi, the word 'زمين' can also mean 'ground' or 'foundation'. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word 'ඉඞම්' may also refer to a country or a piece of territory. |
| Slovak | The word "pôda" in Slovak also means "soil". |
| Slovenian | The Slovenian word "zemljišča" can also refer to "real estate". |
| Spanish | In Spanish, 'tierra' can also refer to 'soil', 'earth', or 'country'. |
| Sundanese | The Sundanese word "darat" can also mean "earth" as an elemental substance (like dirt). |
| Swahili | The Swahili word "ardhi" means "land," and also has alternate meanings like "ground," "territory," "property," and "real estate." |
| Swedish | The word "landa" also means "to land" in Swedish, deriving from the Old Norse word "landa" meaning "to come to land". |
| Tajik | The word "замин" in Tajik has its roots in the Persian word "zamin", which also means "earth" or "world". |
| Tamil | In Tamil, 'நில' (land) can also mean 'ground', 'condition', 'situation', or 'state of being'. |
| Telugu | The word 'భూమి' also means the planet Earth or the ground itself. |
| Thai | "ที่ดิน" can also mean "a place to stay" or a "farmland". |
| Turkish | The word "arazi" is derived from the Arabic word "ارض" (pronounced "arḍ"), meaning "ground" or "earth." |
| Ukrainian | In Ukrainian, 'землі' (zemli) is a plural form of 'земля' (zemlya), both meaning 'land' but with nuances in usage. |
| Urdu | "زمین" comes from the Persian word "zamīn," which can also mean "surface," "ground," or "site." |
| Uzbek | In Uzbek, "er" originally meant "man", which transitioned to meaning "land" over time. |
| Vietnamese | "Đất" also means earth, soil, ground, or real estate and is commonly used in this sense in legal and official documents. |
| Welsh | "Tir" also means "food" or "nutriment" in Welsh. |
| Xhosa | In Xhosa, "umhlaba" can also refer to the Earth or the cosmos, highlighting its fundamental and interconnected nature. |
| Yiddish | The word "לאַנד" (land) in Yiddish also means "country" or "nation". |
| Yoruba | The word 'ilẹ' in Yoruba also refers to the earth, the world, or a place of residence. |
| Zulu | 'Umhlaba' also figuratively means 'human world' or 'earth' |
| English | "Land" comes from an Old English word referring to ploughed soil. |