Length in Different Languages
Discover 'Length' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Length
Afrikaans lengte | ||
Albanian gjatësia | ||
Amharic ርዝመት | ||
Arabic الطول | ||
Armenian երկարություն | ||
Assamese দৈৰ্ঘ্য | ||
Aymara qawch'asa | ||
Azerbaijani uzunluq | ||
Bambara janya | ||
Basque luzera | ||
Belarusian даўжыня | ||
Bengali দৈর্ঘ্য | ||
Bhojpuri लंबाई | ||
Bosnian dužina | ||
Bulgarian дължина | ||
Catalan llargada | ||
Cebuano gitas-on | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 长度 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 長度 | ||
Corsican lunghezza | ||
Croatian duljina | ||
Czech délka | ||
Danish længde | ||
Dhivehi ދިގުމިން | ||
Dogri लंबाई | ||
Dutch lengte | ||
English length | ||
Esperanto longeco | ||
Estonian pikkus | ||
Ewe didime | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) haba | ||
Finnish pituus | ||
French longueur | ||
Frisian lingte | ||
Galician lonxitude | ||
Georgian სიგრძე | ||
German länge | ||
Greek μήκος | ||
Guarani pukukue | ||
Gujarati લંબાઈ | ||
Haitian Creole longè | ||
Hausa tsawon | ||
Hawaiian lōʻihi | ||
Hebrew אורך | ||
Hindi लंबाई | ||
Hmong ntev | ||
Hungarian hossz | ||
Icelandic lengd | ||
Igbo ogologo | ||
Ilocano kaatiddog | ||
Indonesian panjangnya | ||
Irish fad | ||
Italian lunghezza | ||
Japanese 長さ | ||
Javanese dawane | ||
Kannada ಉದ್ದ | ||
Kazakh ұзындығы | ||
Khmer ប្រវែង | ||
Kinyarwanda uburebure | ||
Konkani लांबी | ||
Korean 길이 | ||
Krio lɔng | ||
Kurdish dirêjî | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) درێژی | ||
Kyrgyz узундук | ||
Lao ຄວາມຍາວ | ||
Latin longitudinem | ||
Latvian garums | ||
Lingala bolai | ||
Lithuanian ilgio | ||
Luganda obuwanvu | ||
Luxembourgish längt | ||
Macedonian должина | ||
Maithili लंबाई | ||
Malagasy halavan'ny | ||
Malay panjang | ||
Malayalam നീളം | ||
Maltese tul | ||
Maori roa | ||
Marathi लांबी | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯑꯁꯥꯡꯕ | ||
Mizo dung | ||
Mongolian урт | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အရှည် | ||
Nepali लम्बाइ | ||
Norwegian lengde | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kutalika | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଲମ୍ବ | ||
Oromo dheerina | ||
Pashto اوږدوالی | ||
Persian طول | ||
Polish długość | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) comprimento | ||
Punjabi ਲੰਬਾਈ | ||
Quechua chutarisqa | ||
Romanian lungime | ||
Russian длина | ||
Samoan umi | ||
Sanskrit दैर्घ्यम् | ||
Scots Gaelic faid | ||
Sepedi botelele | ||
Serbian дужина | ||
Sesotho bolelele | ||
Shona kureba | ||
Sindhi ڊيگهه | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) දිග | ||
Slovak dĺžka | ||
Slovenian dolžina | ||
Somali dherer | ||
Spanish longitud | ||
Sundanese panjangna | ||
Swahili urefu | ||
Swedish längd | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) haba | ||
Tajik дарозӣ | ||
Tamil நீளம் | ||
Tatar озынлык | ||
Telugu పొడవు | ||
Thai ความยาว | ||
Tigrinya ንውሓት | ||
Tsonga vulehi | ||
Turkish uzunluk | ||
Turkmen uzynlygy | ||
Twi (Akan) tenten | ||
Ukrainian довжина | ||
Urdu لمبائی | ||
Uyghur ئۇزۇنلۇقى | ||
Uzbek uzunlik | ||
Vietnamese chiều dài | ||
Welsh hyd | ||
Xhosa ubude | ||
Yiddish לענג | ||
Yoruba gigun | ||
Zulu ubude |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "lengte" derives from the Dutch word "lengte", ultimately originating from the Proto-Germanic word *langijaz (long) |
| Albanian | The Albanian word "gjatësia" comes from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵʰleh₃tos-, meaning "step," as in "footprint" or "track." It also shares a root with another Albanian word, "gjurma," meaning "track" or "footstep." |
| Amharic | The word ርዝመት also means 'duration' in Amharic. |
| Arabic | The word "طول", meaning "length", is also used to refer to "altitude" or "height" in Arabic. |
| Armenian | The word may also refer to a unit of measurement equal to about 20 inches or 50 centimeters. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "uzunluq" in Azerbaijani also means "tallness" or "height" and is derived from the Turkish word "uzun", meaning "long". |
| Basque | "Luzera" is related to the Proto-Basque root *luz-, *lut "long" and is part of the word for "year" (*urte*). It also means "thread" or "rope" in some dialects. |
| Belarusian | The word "даўжыня" (length) in Belarusian is derived from the Proto-Slavic *dъlьgъ, meaning "long" or "far". |
| Bengali | "দৈর্ঘ্য" comes from Sanskrit and means "from one end to the other" or "extending". It can also mean "duration" or "distance". |
| Bosnian | The word "dužina" can also refer to the dimension of an object. |
| Bulgarian | "Дължина" also means "longitude" in Bulgarian. |
| Catalan | "Llargada" (length) derives from the Latin "largus" (abundant, wide), which also gave Catalan "larg" (wide) and "llarguer" (stretch)" |
| Cebuano | The Cebuano word "gitas-on" (length) is derived from the Proto-Austronesian root word "*gitas" meaning "measure". It is cognate with the Tagalog word "gitas" (measure) and the Indonesian word "gitas" (length). |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 长度 can also refer to the number of beats in a piece of music or lines in a poem. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The character 長 can also mean “grow,” while 度 can also mean “extent.” |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "lunghezza" not only means "length," but also "distance," "interval," and "pause." |
| Croatian | The word 'duljina' is also used to refer to the distance between two points in a line. |
| Czech | The Czech word "délka" also means "duration" and "height." |
| Danish | In Danish, "længde" also refers to longitude (as opposed to latitude), and derives from the Old Norse "lengd" meaning "distance". |
| Dutch | The word "lengte" is derived from the Proto-Germanic word "langa", meaning "long". |
| Esperanto | The word "longeco" (length) comes from Latin "longus" (long), which originally meant to be long in space or time. |
| Estonian | In Estonian folk tradition "pikkus" also meant "time", as in "a long time ago" and "a short time ago". |
| Finnish | "Pitu is" means "she/he is tall" in Finnish. |
| French | The word "longueur" in French also refers to a slow, drawn-out, or tedious quality in a piece of writing, speech, or performance. |
| Frisian | In Frisian, the word "lingte" can also refer to the length of time taken to complete a task or the amount of something required. |
| Galician | The word “lonxitude” in Galician comes from the Latin word “longitudo”, which also means “distance” or “duration”. |
| Georgian | "Sigrdze" also means the "length of time" or "duration". |
| German | "Länge" also refers to "boredom" in Austrian and Bavarian German. |
| Greek | The term 'μήκος' is used to describe both linear extent as well as duration of an event in ancient Greek. |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "લંબાઈ" is derived from the Sanskrit word "लम्बाई" which also means "length" and has the same etymology in both languages. |
| Haitian Creole | "Longè" also means "far" in French and Haitian Creole, and "longitudinally" in Haitian Creole. |
| Hausa | The Hausa word "tsawon" can also mean "measurement", "measure", or "extent". |
| Hawaiian | The verb form of lōʻihi means "to extend," as in making something longer or pulling something out. |
| Hebrew | "אורך" also means "light" and is used in contexts like "the light of day" |
| Hindi | The word "लंबाई" can also refer to height or stature, and is related to the word "लंबा" meaning "tall". |
| Hmong | The word "ntev" also means "stretch" or "distance" in Hmong. |
| Hungarian | In Hungarian, "hossz" also refers to the duration of an event or the size of a person's step. |
| Icelandic | The Icelandic word "lengd" is cognate to the English word "ling" and referred to a fish before it referred to length. |
| Igbo | Igbo word 'ogologo' is also used to describe the length of time or distance. |
| Indonesian | Panjang is also the Indonesian equivalent for the Chinese term 'zhang' used for measuring the length of silk or cloth. |
| Irish | The word fad also means ‘length’ in Irish, and comes from the Proto-Indo-European word for ‘cord’. |
| Italian | "Lunghezza" also means "boredom" in Italian, probably because it derives from the Latin word "longitudo," which means both "length" and "slowness." |
| Japanese | "長さ" (length) originally refers to the length of cloth and has a nuance of "the length of something hanging down." |
| Javanese | The Javanese word dawane also means 'to stretch out', referring to its physical connotation. |
| Kannada | "ಉದ್ದ" in Kannada means "distance", "extent", or "height". |
| Kazakh | "ұзындығы" is also used to refer to the duration or time span of something. |
| Korean | "길이" is also used to refer to the "duration" of something, such as a movie or song. |
| Kurdish | The word "dirêjî" is derived from the Old Iranian word "darga" meaning "long." |
| Kyrgyz | The word "узундук" also means "a box for storing clothes" in Kyrgyz. |
| Lao | In addition to its primary meaning, the Lao word ຄວາມຍາວ (kham-yaaw) can refer to the "duration" of an event or the "extent" of a space. |
| Latin | The Latin word 'longitudinem' can also refer to the length of a vowel sound or the duration of a note. |
| Latvian | In ancient times, "garums" meant "height" in Latvian, not "length". |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word "ilgis" is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root "*h₂elǵʰ-", meaning "to stretch". It is cognate with the Latin word "longus" and the English word "long". |
| Luxembourgish | The word "Längt" (length) originates from the Middle High German word "lengde" and also has the meaning of "height". |
| Macedonian | The Slavic word "должина" has cognates in most other Slavic languages, all relating to length and extension. |
| Malagasy | The word "halavan'ny" in Malagasy also means "to extend". |
| Malay | The Malay word "panjang" can also mean "long-winded" or "exaggerated". |
| Malayalam | The Malayalam word "നീളം" is derived from the Sanskrit word "नील" which means "dark blue" or "black". |
| Maltese | The word "tul" comes from the Arabic word "tūl", which means "length". It can also refer to the height or width of something. |
| Maori | The Maori word "roa" also means "tall" or "distant". |
| Marathi | "लांबी" (length) is a feminine form of "लांब" (long) in Marathi, which also means "tall". |
| Mongolian | In Mongolian, 'урт' can also refer to a long object, such as a rod or a pole, or to the distance between two points. |
| Nepali | The term "लम्बाइ" is also commonly used for "distance", as both are based on measuring the expanse between extremities. |
| Norwegian | The word "lengde" is derived from the Old Norse word "lengd", which also means "distance" or "height". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | "Kutalika" is derived from the Proto-Bantu root "-tala-", meaning "to stretch" or "to be long." |
| Pashto | اوږدوالی (length) is also used to refer to the "duration" of an event or the "distance" traveled. |
| Persian | The word "طول" can also be used to denote the "duration" or "term". |
| Polish | The word "długość" also refers to mathematical longitude. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, "comprimento" relates to "compliment" and "meet and greet" due to its root word "comprir", meaning "to embrace". |
| Punjabi | The Punjabi word "ਲੰਬਾਈ" not only refers to length or distance, but can also indicate the duration of something or the extent or degree of a quality or feeling. |
| Romanian | Lungime is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *dl̥gъ meaning "long" or "distance". |
| Russian | "Длина" also means "wave" as in electromagnetic waves or other similar phenomena. |
| Samoan | The word "umi" can also refer to the space between two things or the depth of something. |
| Scots Gaelic | The Gaelic word "faid" can also mean "delay" or "slowness". |
| Serbian | "Дужина" means "length" in Serbian, but also "a dozen" or "a set of a dozen". |
| Sesotho | The etymology of "bolelele" is unknown, but it may be related to the word "lelele", which means "to stretch or extend". |
| Shona | "Kureba" can also mean a period of time (typically 24 hours) |
| Sindhi | The word "ڊيگهه" in Sindhi can also mean "duration" or "distance." |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | දිග (diga) also means a 'period of time' or a 'long time interval'. |
| Slovak | The Slovak word "dĺžka" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *dĭlga, which originally meant "a long object" and later came to refer to the length of an object. |
| Slovenian | The word 'dolžina' in Slovenian also refers to a unit of measurement for fabric, specifically the length along the warp. |
| Somali | "Dheerer" also means "elongated" and is often used to describe people or objects that are tall or long in stature. |
| Spanish | Longitud, "length" in Spanish, derives from the Latin word longitūdo, meaning "distance" or "extent." |
| Sundanese | Panjangna is also used to refer to a person's height or stature. |
| Swahili | The word "urefu" in Swahili also refers to the height or stature of a person or animal, and can be used figuratively to describe the duration or extent of something. |
| Swedish | Längd is cognate with the English word 'long', and also means 'longitude' in Swedish. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Haba" in Tagalog can also refer to the period of time a pregnant woman carries a fetus. |
| Tajik | The word "дарозӣ" (length) in Tajik is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *dʰregh-, meaning "to stretch" or "to grow". |
| Tamil | "நீளம்" is also used to refer to the musical scale or raga and the longitude of a place. |
| Telugu | The word "పొడవు" can also refer to a "portion" or a "period of time" in Telugu. |
| Thai | The word "ความยาว" can also refer to the "duration" of an event or the "extent" of something. |
| Turkish | The word "uzunluk" also means "delay" in Turkish. |
| Ukrainian | "Довжина" is derived from the ancient Indo-European word "delg-," meaning "elongated". |
| Urdu | The word "لمبائی" can also mean "height" or "depth" in Urdu, depending on the context. |
| Uzbek | The word "uzunlik" is derived from the Proto-Turkic word *uzun*, meaning "long". |
| Vietnamese | The word "chiều dài" literally means "the length of a day". In ancient times, people measured the length of an object by the amount of time it took for the sun to move from one end to the other. |
| Welsh | Hyd can also mean a 'tide', the 'season', or an 'age'. |
| Xhosa | Ubude is the Xhosa word for "length" or "distance," and can refer to geographical distance or the length of an object. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "לענג" comes from the German "Länge" and can also mean "longing" or "yearning". |
| Yoruba | "Gigun" also means "delay" in Yoruba. |
| Zulu | "Ubude" is also a noun meaning "age" or "generation". |
| English | The word "length" originates from the Old English word "lenge" meaning "long" or "tall". |