Lean in Different Languages
Discover 'Lean' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Lean
Afrikaans maer | ||
Albanian ligët | ||
Amharic ዘንበል | ||
Arabic الخالية من | ||
Armenian նիհար | ||
Assamese ক্ষীণ | ||
Aymara alt'aña | ||
Azerbaijani arıq | ||
Bambara ka jɛngɛn | ||
Basque argala | ||
Belarusian худы | ||
Bengali রোগা | ||
Bhojpuri दुबला | ||
Bosnian mršav | ||
Bulgarian постно | ||
Catalan magre | ||
Cebuano maniwang | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 靠 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 靠 | ||
Corsican magre | ||
Croatian mršav | ||
Czech opírat se | ||
Danish læne | ||
Dhivehi ލީން | ||
Dogri लिस्सा | ||
Dutch slank | ||
English lean | ||
Esperanto malgrasa | ||
Estonian lahja | ||
Ewe blɔ | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) sandalan | ||
Finnish nojata | ||
French maigre | ||
Frisian meager | ||
Galician delgada | ||
Georgian მჭლე | ||
German lehnen | ||
Greek άπαχος | ||
Guarani porãguerojera | ||
Gujarati દુર્બળ | ||
Haitian Creole mèg | ||
Hausa durƙusa | ||
Hawaiian wīwī | ||
Hebrew רָזֶה | ||
Hindi दुबला | ||
Hmong lean | ||
Hungarian sovány | ||
Icelandic halla | ||
Igbo dabere | ||
Ilocano agsanggir | ||
Indonesian kurus | ||
Irish lean | ||
Italian magra | ||
Japanese リーン | ||
Javanese ramping | ||
Kannada ನೇರ | ||
Kazakh сүйену | ||
Khmer គ្មានខ្លាញ់ | ||
Kinyarwanda kunanuka | ||
Konkani बारीक | ||
Korean 기대다 | ||
Krio lin | ||
Kurdish paldan | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) خوار بوونەوە | ||
Kyrgyz арык | ||
Lao ບໍ່ຕິດ | ||
Latin inniti | ||
Latvian liekties | ||
Lingala moke | ||
Lithuanian liesas | ||
Luganda okwesigama | ||
Luxembourgish schlank | ||
Macedonian посно | ||
Maithili झुकल | ||
Malagasy mahia | ||
Malay bersandar | ||
Malayalam മെലിഞ്ഞ | ||
Maltese dgħif | ||
Maori hiroki | ||
Marathi दुबळा | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯉꯥꯕ | ||
Mizo awn | ||
Mongolian туранхай | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ပိန် | ||
Nepali दुबै | ||
Norwegian lene seg | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) tsamira | ||
Odia (Oriya) ପତଳା | | ||
Oromo hirkachuu | ||
Pashto نری | ||
Persian لاغر | ||
Polish pochylać się | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) magro | ||
Punjabi ਚਰਬੀ | ||
Quechua kumuy | ||
Romanian a se sprijini | ||
Russian опираться | ||
Samoan paee | ||
Sanskrit कृशः | ||
Scots Gaelic lean | ||
Sepedi otile | ||
Serbian нагнути | ||
Sesotho otlolohile | ||
Shona onda | ||
Sindhi ڪِير | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) කෙට්ටු | ||
Slovak chudý | ||
Slovenian vitka | ||
Somali caato | ||
Spanish apoyarse | ||
Sundanese cekéng | ||
Swahili konda | ||
Swedish mager | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) sandalan | ||
Tajik лоғар | ||
Tamil ஒல்லியான | ||
Tatar арык | ||
Telugu లీన్ | ||
Thai ยัน | ||
Tigrinya ምግዳም | ||
Tsonga khegela | ||
Turkish yağsız - yağsız | ||
Turkmen arkaýyn | ||
Twi (Akan) twere | ||
Ukrainian худий | ||
Urdu دبلی پتلی | ||
Uyghur ئورۇق | ||
Uzbek oriq | ||
Vietnamese dựa vào | ||
Welsh heb lawer o fraster | ||
Xhosa ngqiyame | ||
Yiddish דאַר | ||
Yoruba titẹ si apakan | ||
Zulu ukuncika |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | Maer is the older Germanic word for 'lean' and is still used in Dutch, Swedish, and Afrikaans. |
| Albanian | "Ligët" can also mean "graceful" or "agile" in Albanian, deriving from the Proto-Albanian word *likwóts, meaning "pliable" or "flexible". |
| Amharic | "ዘንበል" (lean) is derived from the root "ዘና" (to make thin) and can also mean "narrow" or "tightly fitted." |
| Arabic | The word "الخالية من" (lean) is derived from the Arabic root "خ ل و" (to be empty or void), suggesting the concept of removing or reducing something. |
| Azerbaijani | "Arıq" means also "pure". The root "ar" in common Turkic languages refers both to "purification from sins or dirt", as well to "thin" in size. |
| Basque | The word "argala" is also used in Basque to describe a thin and bony animal. |
| Belarusian | Худы (lean) is derived from the Old Belarusian word худѣи (lean, thin), which in turn comes from the Proto-Slavic word *hudъ, meaning “thin, slender”. |
| Bengali | The word "রোগা" in Bengali is cognate with the word "रोग" (disease) in Sanskrit. |
| Bosnian | The Bosnian word 'mršav' likely originated from the word 'maršav,' which shares its meaning with the French word 'maigre.' |
| Bulgarian | In Bulgarian, the word "postno" can also mean "fasting" (as in abstaining from food) as it derives from the Old Church Slavonic word for "fast" ("post"). |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "magre" is of Latin origin and is related to the words "magnus" (great) and "macer" (thin or lean). |
| Cebuano | The Cebuano word for 'lean' or 'skinny', 'maniwang', may come from the Proto-Austronesian word *manipaw, which also means 'lean'. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 靠 (kào) can also mean 'depend on', 'rely on', or 'trust'. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The character '靠' can also mean 'trust' or 'rely on'. |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "magre" can also mean "bad" or "unfortunate". |
| Croatian | The word "mršav" can also refer to someone who is stingy or miserly. |
| Czech | "Opírat se" means "to lean on" and is related to the word "opora" („support") and "opěrný" („supporting"). |
| Danish | The word "læne" in Danish can also mean "to borrow" or "to lend". |
| Dutch | Dutch "slank" also means "cunning" or "shrewd" besides "lean". |
| Esperanto | Esperanto's "malgrasa" also means "bad fat" and comes from "mal" (bad) + "grasa" (fat). |
| Estonian | The word "lahja" comes from the Proto-Finnic word "*lahki" which means "open, loose" and is related to the Estonian word "lahtine" which means "open" |
| Finnish | The word also denotes a 'lean', thin person. |
| French | Maigre can mean 'skinny' but also 'sparse' or 'stingy'. |
| Frisian | Frisian word "meager" can also mean "thin or skimpy" like a fabric texture, deriving from Old English "mæger" meaning "thin". |
| Galician | In Galician, "delgada" is also used to refer to a type of traditional Galician pancake. |
| Georgian | The word "მჭლე" ("lean") also has the alternate meaning of "lean meat" in Georgian. |
| German | The German verb "lehnen" derives from the Proto-Indo-European root "legh-", meaning "to lie" or "to recline". It is related to the English word "lay" and the Latin word "locus" (place). |
| Greek | The word "άπαχος" (lean) is derived from the Greek word "απαχής", meaning "delicate" or "gentle." |
| Gujarati | The word "દુર્બળ" also means "difficult" or "weak" in Gujarati, but is commonly used to refer to physical leanness. |
| Haitian Creole | Haitian Creole "mèg" comes from the French word "maigre", also meaning "lean". |
| Hausa | The word "durƙusa" in Hausa also means "to bow down" or "to kneel". |
| Hawaiian | "Wīwī" can also refer to the act of bending over.} |
| Hebrew | רָזֶה, meaning "lean," is also related to the term סוֹד (sod), meaning "secret," implying a hidden, unseen aspect to leanness |
| Hindi | The word "दुबला" or "dublā" in Hindi shares its etymology with the English word "double", both derived from the Proto-Indo-European root "*dwe-bʰlo-", meaning "twice". |
| Hmong | The word "lean" comes from the Old English word "hlǣnian," which means "to support" or "to prop up." |
| Hungarian | "Sovány" means "lean" in Hungarian but also "hungry" in Mongolian. |
| Icelandic | The word 'halla' in Icelandic can also refer to a lean-to structure or a type of traditional Icelandic folk song. |
| Igbo | While it means 'lean' in Igbo, 'dabere' also connotes the virtues of being 'trustworthy' and 'reliable'. |
| Indonesian | The word "kurus" in Indonesian, which means "lean" or "thin," is thought to have originated from the Proto-Austronesian word *kulut, which also means "thin" or "slender." |
| Irish | In Irish, the word "leann" means "mead" and is related to the Welsh word "llynn". |
| Italian | The Italian word "magra" is derived from the late Latin "macra", which meant both "thin" and "scanty". |
| Japanese | Lean (リーン) is pronounced with a long 'e' sound (pronounced 'lay-n') to refer to lean cuisine or the Toyota Production System. |
| Javanese | In Javanese, the word "ramping" primarily means "leaning" but can also refer to someone who is quick-witted or agile. |
| Kannada | The word "ನೇರ" can also mean "straight", "direct", or "honest" in Kannada. |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "сүйену" can also refer to the act of seeking support or relying on someone or something. |
| Khmer | The word "គ្មានខ្លាញ់" is related to the Sanskrit word "krshna" meaning "dark" or "black" and can also refer to a dark or black horse. |
| Korean | 기대다 can also mean 'to expect' or 'to look forward to' something. |
| Kurdish | The Kurdish word "paldan" is thought to be related to the Persian word "paradan," meaning "to be lean or thin." |
| Kyrgyz | "Арык" in Kyrgyz means "stream" or "channel that delivers water to crops". The word has the same root as the word "аруу" which means "clean" or "pure." |
| Latin | The Latin word 'inniti' also means to rest on or to rely on. |
| Latvian | "Liekties" comes from the Proto-Indo-European root "leig-," also found in English "lie," "lean" and "lazy". |
| Lithuanian | In Lithuanian, "liesas" also means "pale" or "without fat or grease on the surface." |
| Luxembourgish | In Luxembourgish, "schlank" can also refer to a person who is quick or agile. |
| Macedonian | Macedonian word "посно" derives from Old Church Slavonic "постьный" and, in addition to "lean" can also mean "fasting" or "fasting food". |
| Malagasy | The term 'mahia' is also used in Malagasy to refer to a type of traditional alcoholic beverage distilled from various local ingredients. |
| Malay | "Bersandar" also means "to depend on" and "to rely on". |
| Malayalam | In Malayalam, 'മെലിഞ്ഞ' ('lean') also denotes a person of slight build. |
| Maltese | In Maltese, the word "dgħif" can also mean "thin" or "dilute", and its origin is unknown |
| Maori | The word hiroki in Maori also has alternate meanings including "narrow", "thin", and "slender." |
| Marathi | The word "दुबळा" in Marathi is derived from the Sanskrit word "दुर्बल," which also means "weak" or "frail." |
| Mongolian | "Туранхай" is also used with the meaning of "having little fat; thin, meagre." |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The word "ပိန်" also means "to be crooked" or "to be bent". |
| Nepali | The word **दुबै** also exists in Hindi to mean 'thin/narrow' as an alternate meaning. |
| Norwegian | The word "lene" in Norwegian also means "to recline" or "to lean back". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | In Nyanja, "tsamira" can also mean "to be narrow" or "to be thin" |
| Pashto | نری "lean, thin" comes from Middle Iranian *narak- and is cognate with Persian ناریک "slender, small" (from Middle Persian nārak-, from Old Persian naraka-). |
| Persian | "لاغر" in Persian is a loanword from the Arabic "نحيف" meaning "thin" or "slender" |
| Polish | The word "pochylać się" derives from the Proto-Slavic word *počьnąti, meaning "to begin" or "to start". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "magro" is derived from the Latin word "macer," meaning "thin" or "lean." |
| Punjabi | The word "charbi" is derived from the Sanskrit word "charman," meaning "skin," and can also refer to the outer layer of food or the fat covering an animal's body. |
| Romanian | "A se sprijini" can also mean "to rely" or "to depend" in Romanian. |
| Russian | "Опираться" also means "to trust" or "to rely on". |
| Samoan | In Samoan, the word "paee" can also refer to food, especially meat |
| Scots Gaelic | Scots Gaelic "leann" (meaning "child") and "lean/linn" (meaning "pool") are not related to English "lean" (meaning "skinny"). |
| Serbian | "Нагнути" can also mean "to bend over" or "to stoop down" in Serbian. |
| Sesotho | 'Otlholohile' may also refer to a person who is lazy or idle. |
| Shona | The word "onda" in Shona also means "to be thin or emaciated". |
| Sindhi | In Sindhi, the word "ڪِير" (kir) can also refer to the act of removing excess liquid from a substance, such as curd or yogurt. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The derivative 'කෙට්ටුම' is used to refer to the characteristic of being brief or concise, and can be used to describe a person's speech or writing. |
| Slovak | The word "chudý" in Slovak can also mean "poor" or "needy". |
| Slovenian | The word 'vitka' may also refer to a thin or narrow band or strip |
| Somali | The Somali word "caato" can also mean "dry" or "thin". |
| Spanish | Apoyarse can also mean "to trust" or "to rely on", emphasizing reliance rather than physical movement. |
| Sundanese | In Sundanese, |
| Swahili | "Konda" can also refer to a type of tree in Swahili. |
| Swedish | The word "mager" can also refer to the lean part of a piece of meat, or to a person who is thin and scrawny. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The verb "sandalan" can also mean "to lean against" or "to rely on" in Tagalog. |
| Tajik | In other dialects of the Persian language, "лоғар" and "логерда" mean "tall" and "skinny." |
| Telugu | The Telugu word "లీన్" ("lean") can also mean "attached to" or "inclined towards". |
| Thai | In Thai, "ยัน" can also mean "to support", "to prop up", or "to press against". |
| Turkish | Yağsız ('lean') comes from 'yağ' ('fat') + '-sız' ('lacking'), meaning 'fat-free'. |
| Ukrainian | The word "худий" in Ukrainian can also refer to "skinny", "slim", or "poor". |
| Urdu | The word "دبلی پتلی" can also refer to a person who is malnourished or emaciated. |
| Uzbek | The word 'oriq' is possibly derived from the Persian 'nâzook', meaning 'delicate, elegant'. |
| Vietnamese | The word "dựa vào" can also mean to rely on or depend on something. |
| Welsh | The Welsh expression "heb lawer o fraster" is related to "trawsder", meaning "stout, thick" or "plump" and "braster", meaning "proud". |
| Xhosa | The Xhosa word "ngqiyame" can also mean "to be poor" or "to be in need". |
| Yiddish | In Yiddish, "דאַר" can mean both "lean" and "thin" in a more general sense, while in some Yiddish dialects, it also means "narrow". |
| Yoruba | "Titẹ si akaan" literally translates to "being close to one's bones", which figuratively suggests a lack of flesh on one's frame, hence leanness. |
| Zulu | The Zulu word 'ukuncika' also means to be slender, thin, or bony. |
| English | The word "lean" also means "angle or curve" and comes from the Old English word "hlynian" meaning "to incline or slope." |