Limited in Different Languages
Discover 'Limited' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Limited
Afrikaans beperk | ||
Albanian i kufizuar | ||
Amharic ውስን | ||
Arabic محدودة | ||
Armenian սահմանափակ | ||
Assamese সীমিত | ||
Aymara limitado ukhamawa | ||
Azerbaijani məhduddur | ||
Bambara dan ye | ||
Basque mugatua | ||
Belarusian абмежавана | ||
Bengali সীমাবদ্ধ | ||
Bhojpuri सीमित बा | ||
Bosnian ograničena | ||
Bulgarian ограничена | ||
Catalan limitat | ||
Cebuano limitado | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 有限 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 有限 | ||
Corsican limitatu | ||
Croatian ograničena | ||
Czech omezený | ||
Danish begrænset | ||
Dhivehi ލިމިޓެޑް | ||
Dogri सीमित | ||
Dutch beperkt | ||
English limited | ||
Esperanto limigita | ||
Estonian piiratud | ||
Ewe seɖoƒe li na | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) limitado | ||
Finnish rajoitettu | ||
French limité | ||
Frisian beheind | ||
Galician limitado | ||
Georgian შეზღუდულია | ||
German begrenzt | ||
Greek περιορισμένος | ||
Guarani limitado | ||
Gujarati મર્યાદિત | ||
Haitian Creole limite | ||
Hausa iyakance | ||
Hawaiian kaupalena | ||
Hebrew מוגבל | ||
Hindi सीमित | ||
Hmong luag | ||
Hungarian korlátozott | ||
Icelandic takmarkað | ||
Igbo amachi | ||
Ilocano limitado | ||
Indonesian terbatas | ||
Irish teoranta | ||
Italian limitato | ||
Japanese 限定 | ||
Javanese winates | ||
Kannada ಸೀಮಿತವಾಗಿದೆ | ||
Kazakh шектеулі | ||
Khmer មានកំណត់ | ||
Kinyarwanda bigarukira | ||
Konkani मर्यादीत आसा | ||
Korean 제한된 | ||
Krio limited | ||
Kurdish bi sînor kirin | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) سنووردارە | ||
Kyrgyz чектелген | ||
Lao ຈຳ ກັດ | ||
Latin stricto | ||
Latvian ierobežots | ||
Lingala ezali na ndelo | ||
Lithuanian ribotas | ||
Luganda ekoma | ||
Luxembourgish limitéiert | ||
Macedonian ограничен | ||
Maithili सीमित | ||
Malagasy voafetra | ||
Malay terhad | ||
Malayalam പരിമിതപ്പെടുത്തിയിരിക്കുന്നു | ||
Maltese limitat | ||
Maori whāiti | ||
Marathi मर्यादित | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯂꯤꯃꯤꯇꯦꯗ ꯑꯣꯏꯕꯥ꯫ | ||
Mizo tihkhawtlai a ni | ||
Mongolian хязгаарлагдмал | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ကန့်သတ် | ||
Nepali सीमित | ||
Norwegian begrenset | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) zochepa | ||
Odia (Oriya) ସୀମିତ | | ||
Oromo daangeffamaadha | ||
Pashto محدود | ||
Persian محدود | ||
Polish ograniczony | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) limitado | ||
Punjabi ਸੀਮਤ | ||
Quechua limitasqa | ||
Romanian limitat | ||
Russian ограниченное | ||
Samoan faʻatapulaʻa | ||
Sanskrit सीमितम् | ||
Scots Gaelic cuibhrichte | ||
Sepedi e lekanyeditšwego | ||
Serbian ограничен | ||
Sesotho lekanyelitsoeng | ||
Shona zvishoma | ||
Sindhi محدود | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) සීමිතයි | ||
Slovak obmedzený | ||
Slovenian omejena | ||
Somali xaddidan | ||
Spanish limitado | ||
Sundanese diwatesan | ||
Swahili mdogo | ||
Swedish begränsad | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) limitado | ||
Tajik маҳдуд | ||
Tamil வரையறுக்கப்பட்டவை | ||
Tatar чикләнгән | ||
Telugu పరిమితం | ||
Thai ถูก จำกัด | ||
Tigrinya ውሱን እዩ። | ||
Tsonga swi pimiwile | ||
Turkish sınırlı | ||
Turkmen çäklendirilen | ||
Twi (Akan) anohyeto | ||
Ukrainian обмежена | ||
Urdu محدود | ||
Uyghur چەكلىك | ||
Uzbek cheklangan | ||
Vietnamese hạn chế | ||
Welsh cyfyngedig | ||
Xhosa lilinganiselwe | ||
Yiddish לימיטעד | ||
Yoruba ni opin | ||
Zulu kunqunyelwe |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "beperk" is derived from Dutch and can also mean circumscribed or narrow. |
| Albanian | Albanian "i/e kufizuar" also derives from Latin "confiniis" which can mean both "limit" and "border". |
| Amharic | The word "ውስን" can also refer to a "corner" or "edge" in Amharic. |
| Arabic | In Arabic, "محدودة" not only means "limited" but can also refer to a company with limited liability. |
| Azerbaijani | The word |
| Basque | "Mugatua" as an adjective means "limited", but "Mugatua" as a noun means the "boundary" of a field. |
| Belarusian | The Belarusian word "абмежавана" is a cognate of the Russian word "ограничена" and has the same root as the word "предел". The word can also be used in a figurative sense to describe a person who is narrow-minded or has a limited worldview. |
| Bengali | "সীমাবদ্ধ" is derived from the Sanskrit word "seema" meaning 'boundary' and "bandha" meaning 'bond' or 'restriction'. |
| Bosnian | The verb "ograničiti" can also mean "to restrict" or "to restrain" in Bosnian, and in that sense can be used in the context of human behavior or physical movement. |
| Bulgarian | The word "ограничена" also means "confined" or "circumscribed" in Bulgarian. |
| Catalan | «Limit» in Catalan shares roots with the word limits in languages like English, deriving from the Proto-Indo-European base «ley-», indicating a line or boundary. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 有限 (yǒu xiàn) also means 'bounded' or 'finite' |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 有限 literally means 'finite' and thus has the sense of being bounded or restricted. |
| Corsican | In antiquity, the Corsican word “limitatu” also designated a “frontier” or a “border”, which explains its current meaning of “limited”. |
| Croatian | The word 'ograničena' in Croatian can also mean 'conditional' or 'restricted'. |
| Czech | The word "omezený" in Czech can also mean "narrow-minded" or "bigoted". |
| Danish | The Danish word "begrænset" comes from the Old Norse word "grense", meaning "boundary". In addition to its literal meaning of "limited", "begrænset" can also be used figuratively to mean narrow-minded or prejudiced. |
| Dutch | Beperkt is cognate with 'beggar' and 'poor' in Old English, and with 'begging' and 'request' in Middle Dutch. |
| Esperanto | The word "limigita" (limited) is derived from the Latin word "limes" (limit), which means a boundary or a barrier. |
| Estonian | The word "piiratud" in Estonian is derived from the verb "piirama" (to limit) and shares a root with the word "piir" (border or boundary). |
| Finnish | The word "rajoitettu" in Finnish comes from the word "raja", meaning "border" or "limitation", and the suffix "-tettu", which indicates a passive state or result of an action. |
| French | The plural form of "limité" is "limités" which also means "finite" or "restricted". |
| Frisian | The word "beheind" in Frisian can also mean "behind" or "hindered" |
| Galician | In Galician, "limitado" can also refer to a person with physical or mental disabilities. |
| Georgian | In addition to its primary meaning of "limited", the Georgian word "შეზღუდულია" can also refer to "restricted" or "confined." |
| German | The German word "begrenzt" can also mean "finite", "confined", or "modest" depending on the context. |
| Greek | The word περιορισμένος is derived from the Greek verb περιορίζω, meaning "to limit" or "to bound". |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word 'મર્યાદિત' also has connotations of 'restricted', 'confined', or 'bounded' |
| Haitian Creole | The Haitian Creole word "limite" can also mean "boundary" or "border". |
| Hausa | "Iyakan" is also an expression for "something that is enough" or that "does not need to be added to" in Hausa. |
| Hawaiian | The word 'kaupalena' also means 'restricted, inhibited, or confined' in Hawaiian. |
| Hebrew | The word "מוגבל" in Hebrew also has alternate meanings such as "defined" or "specific." |
| Hindi | The word सीमित (sīmit) in Hindi shares the same Indo-European root as the English word "mete". In both languages, the root refers to the idea of apportioning or setting a boundary. |
| Hmong | The Hmong word "luag" can also refer to a person's appearance or character. |
| Hungarian | The word "korlátozott" is derived from the verb "korlátozni", meaning "to restrain" or "to restrict". |
| Icelandic | "Takmörk" is the modern form of the word, and it originally referred to the boundaries or limits of a jurisdiction. |
| Igbo | In the Igbo language, the word "amachi" can also mean "a little bit" or "small in quantity". |
| Indonesian | The word "terbatas" comes from the root word "batas", meaning "boundary" or "limit." |
| Irish | The word "teoranta" also means "to prevent" or "to hinder" in Irish. |
| Italian | "Limitato" also means "narrow-minded" in Italian. |
| Japanese | The kanji "限" in "限定" can also mean "to restrict" or "to fix". |
| Javanese | "Winates" is a Sanskrit-derived word that also means "victory" in Javanese. |
| Kannada | ಸೀಮಿತವಾಗಿದೆ is also a technical term in mathematics meaning the boundary of a set. |
| Kazakh | The word "шектеулі" also means "restricted" or "confined" in Kazakh. |
| Korean | The word "제한된" also means "prohibited" or "restricted" in Korean. |
| Kurdish | The word is also used to refer to something being 'narrow' or 'confined'. |
| Kyrgyz | The word "чектелген" is related to the verb "чектелме" which means to make something stop or end, such as a fire or a battle. |
| Lao | "ຈຳ ກັດ" can also refer to a time period or quantity being restricted or constrained, indicating a certain level of control or limitation. |
| Latin | Stricto is not only used to mean "limited" in Latin, but also "by the sword" in Medieval Latin, in the sense of "to the letter". |
| Latvian | The word "ierobežots" in Latvian, meaning "limited," comes from the word "robeža," meaning "border" or "boundary," and the suffix "-ots," which means "covered" or "surrounded." |
| Lithuanian | " Ribotas " is a Lithuanian word meaning both "limited" and "striped. |
| Macedonian | The word "ограничен" in Macedonian can also mean "finite" or "bounded". |
| Malagasy | In addition to its literal meaning, "voafetra" can also refer to the idea of "a limit to one's strength" or "a person who is unable to do something". The word has its roots in the verb "voafera," which means "to be unable to do something." |
| Malay | The word "terhad" is a loanword from Arabic and originally meant something that is forbidden. |
| Maltese | The word "limitat" in Maltese comes from the Latin word "limitare", meaning "to bound" or "to restrict". |
| Maori | "Whāiti (limited)" originates from the verb "whā", meaning to close or shut off. |
| Marathi | मर्यादित is also used to denote a person who is dignified and virtuous. |
| Nepali | The Nepali word "सीमित" is derived from Sanskrit "seema", meaning "boundary" or "limitation". |
| Norwegian | The word "begrenset" derives from the Old Norse word "byrgr", meaning "fortress". This origin suggests that the word originally described something that was confined or restricted within a certain space. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word “zochepa” in Nyanja (Chichewa) is derived from the word “zochera” which means “to enclose” or “to limit”. |
| Pashto | In Pashto, محدود (maḥdūd) can also mean 'confined', 'constrained', 'demarcated', or 'defined'. |
| Persian | Persian word "محدود" (limited) has the synonyms "معین" and "مُعین". Also it means "defined" and "certain". |
| Polish | "Ograniczony" can also mean "closed off", "confined", or "constrained". |
| Punjabi | The word "सीमित" (limited) in Punjabi can also refer to boundaries, frontiers, or restrictions. |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "limitat" (limited) stems from the Latin language, meaning "separated by boundaries", but colloquially, it can describe someone with reduced intellectual capacity or narrow vision. |
| Russian | Its other meanings are 'reserved', 'confined', 'restricted', 'circumscribed', 'finite', 'narrow', 'partial', 'selective', and 'withdrawn'. |
| Samoan | The Samoan word "faʻatapulaʻa" also means "to restrict" or "to confine". |
| Scots Gaelic | The word "cuibhrichte" is thought to be cognate with the Irish word "cuibhridh" meaning "boundary" or "confine". |
| Serbian | The word "ограничен" comes from the Old Church Slavonic root "gran", meaning "border" or "boundary". |
| Sesotho | The word "lekanyelitsoeng" can also be used to describe something that is incomplete or unfinished. |
| Shona | "Zvishoma" in Shona can also mean "depending on" or "relying on". |
| Sindhi | The term "محدود" in Sindhi can also denote an action that has reached its endpoint or is complete. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | This word is used in Sinhala to refer to a restricted or bounded area. |
| Slovak | The word "obmedzený" can also mean "narrow-minded" or "bigoted". |
| Slovenian | "Omejen" also means "narrow" and "bounded." |
| Somali | The word "xaddidan" in Somali also means "narrow" or "restricted". |
| Spanish | The Spanish word 'limitado' originally meant 'tied up' and is related to the verb 'limitar,' which means 'to bind' or 'to restrain'. |
| Sundanese | The word "diwatesan" is derived from the Old Javanese word "wawatesan" which means "boundary". |
| Swahili | In Swahili, "mdogo" can also refer to a child or an immature animal. |
| Swedish | "Begränsad" comes from the Swedish word "gränsa" (to set boundaries), but can also mean "limited" or "narrow-minded". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Limitado" (limited) comes from the Spanish word "limite" (border, boundary), which also has the root word "limite" in Tagalog, meaning "edge, limit, boundary". |
| Tajik | The word "маҳдуд" is derived from the Arabic word "حد", meaning "border" or "limitation." |
| Telugu | The word "పరిమితం" is derived from the Sanskrit word "परिमित," which also means "limited," "confined," or "restricted." |
| Thai | The word "ถูก จำกัด" also means "to be confined" or "to be restricted" in English |
| Turkish | Kökeni 'sınır' sözcüğüne dayanan 'sınırlı' kelimesi, bir şeyin kapsamlı ya da yetersiz olma durumu için de kullanılabilir. |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word "обмежена" ('limited') is related to the word "обмеження" ('limitation') and can also be used as a noun meaning 'restriction' or 'constraint' |
| Urdu | In Urdu, "محدود" also means "defined" or "finite" instead of just "limited" |
| Uzbek | Cheklangan, meaning "limited", shares the same root with "chek", meaning "edge". |
| Vietnamese | The word "hạn chế" is derived from the Chinese word "限制", which means "to restrict" or "to limit". |
| Welsh | The root 'cyfyng' is also used in other words like 'cyffin' (border) |
| Xhosa | The word 'lilinganiselwe' is a passive verb form of the verb 'linganisela', which means 'to compare or to measure' |
| Yiddish | The word "לימיטעד" also has a slang meaning in Yiddish, referring to a person who is "stuck-up" or "snobbish." |
| Yoruba | "Ni opin" literally means "in a corner" suggesting a constraint or limitation. |
| Zulu | The word "kunqunyelwe" is derived from the Zulu word "kunqunyela", which means "to tie up" or "to restrict". |
| English | Limited can also mean 'criticized' as in 'a limited play' or 'a limited career'. |