Long in Different Languages
Discover 'Long' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Long
Afrikaans lank | ||
Albanian e gjate | ||
Amharic ረዥም | ||
Arabic طويل | ||
Armenian երկար | ||
Assamese দীঘল | ||
Aymara jach'a | ||
Azerbaijani uzun | ||
Bambara jan | ||
Basque luzea | ||
Belarusian доўга | ||
Bengali দীর্ঘ | ||
Bhojpuri लाम | ||
Bosnian dugo | ||
Bulgarian дълго | ||
Catalan llarg | ||
Cebuano taas | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 长 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 長 | ||
Corsican longu | ||
Croatian dugo | ||
Czech dlouho | ||
Danish lang | ||
Dhivehi ދިގު | ||
Dogri लम्मां | ||
Dutch lang | ||
English long | ||
Esperanto longa | ||
Estonian pikk | ||
Ewe didi | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) mahaba | ||
Finnish pitkä | ||
French longue | ||
Frisian lang | ||
Galician longo | ||
Georgian გრძელი | ||
German lange | ||
Greek μακρύς | ||
Guarani puku | ||
Gujarati લાંબી | ||
Haitian Creole long | ||
Hausa tsawo | ||
Hawaiian lōʻihi | ||
Hebrew ארוך | ||
Hindi लंबा | ||
Hmong ntev | ||
Hungarian hosszú | ||
Icelandic langt | ||
Igbo ogologo | ||
Ilocano atiddog | ||
Indonesian panjang | ||
Irish fada | ||
Italian lungo | ||
Japanese 長いです | ||
Javanese dawa | ||
Kannada ಉದ್ದವಾಗಿದೆ | ||
Kazakh ұзақ | ||
Khmer វែង | ||
Kinyarwanda kirekire | ||
Konkani लांब | ||
Korean 긴 | ||
Krio lɔng | ||
Kurdish dirêj | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) درێژ | ||
Kyrgyz узак | ||
Lao ຍາວ | ||
Latin longus | ||
Latvian ilgi | ||
Lingala molai | ||
Lithuanian ilgas | ||
Luganda obuwanvu | ||
Luxembourgish laang | ||
Macedonian долг | ||
Maithili लंबा | ||
Malagasy ela | ||
Malay lama | ||
Malayalam നീളമുള്ള | ||
Maltese twil | ||
Maori roa | ||
Marathi लांब | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯑꯁꯥꯡꯕ | ||
Mizo sei | ||
Mongolian урт | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ကြာရှည် | ||
Nepali लामो | ||
Norwegian lang | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kutalika | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଲମ୍ବା | ||
Oromo dheeraa | ||
Pashto اوږد | ||
Persian طولانی | ||
Polish długo | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) grandes | ||
Punjabi ਲੰਮਾ | ||
Quechua chutarisqa | ||
Romanian lung | ||
Russian долго | ||
Samoan umi | ||
Sanskrit दीर्घम् | ||
Scots Gaelic fada | ||
Sepedi telele | ||
Serbian дуго | ||
Sesotho telele | ||
Shona refu | ||
Sindhi ڊگهو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) දිගු | ||
Slovak dlho | ||
Slovenian dolga | ||
Somali dheer | ||
Spanish largo | ||
Sundanese panjang | ||
Swahili ndefu | ||
Swedish lång | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) mahaba | ||
Tajik дароз | ||
Tamil நீண்டது | ||
Tatar озын | ||
Telugu పొడవు | ||
Thai ยาว | ||
Tigrinya ነዊሕ | ||
Tsonga leha | ||
Turkish uzun | ||
Turkmen uzyn | ||
Twi (Akan) tenten | ||
Ukrainian довгота | ||
Urdu لمبا | ||
Uyghur ئۇزۇن | ||
Uzbek uzoq | ||
Vietnamese dài | ||
Welsh hir | ||
Xhosa nde | ||
Yiddish לאַנג | ||
Yoruba gun | ||
Zulu yinde |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "lank" comes from the Old Saxon "hlank" and is also used figuratively to describe time, as in "a long time ago." |
| Albanian | Albanian's "e gjate" (long) is a holdover from Classical Latin's "ē," as in Caesar's name. |
| Amharic | In Amharic, the word "ረዥም" ('long') can denote either a physical dimension or an extended period of time. |
| Arabic | "طويل" also means "tall" and comes from the same Semitic root as the English word "طول" ("to be high"). |
| Armenian | "Երկար" is also used to denote a large quantity or extent. |
| Azerbaijani | The Azerbaijani word "uzun" can also mean "distant in time or space" or "extended in quantity or amount". |
| Basque | The word "luzea" can also refer to someone who is tall, and is related to the word "luze" (length). |
| Belarusian | "Доўга" in Belarusian also translates as "eternity" and can be used in the metaphorical sense of a long period of time in the future. |
| Bengali | The word "দীর্ঘ" in Bengali can also mean 'chronic' or 'prolonged' in the context of a disease or illness. |
| Bosnian | The word "dugo" can also refer to a period of time, especially a long one. |
| Bulgarian | The Bulgarian word "дълго" also means "debt", and is cognate with the Proto-Slavic word "*dъlgъ" which had the same meaning. |
| Catalan | "Llarg" is also a Catalan synonym for a "thief" or "swindler." |
| Cebuano | In some areas of the Philippines, |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The character "长" can also mean "to grow up" or "to lead." |
| Chinese (Traditional) | "長" can also mean "elder" or "superior" in Chinese. |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "longu" can also mean "far". |
| Croatian | The word "dugo" can also mean "much" or "a long time" in Croatian. |
| Czech | The word "dlouho" is sometimes used in the sense of "for a long time" in Czech, similar to the English idiom "a long time coming". |
| Danish | The Danish word 'lang' (meaning 'long') derives from Old Norse and is related to the English word 'long' and the German word 'lang'. |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "lang" is derived from the Proto-Germanic “langa”, which also meant "slender" or "thin" |
| Esperanto | "Longa" is also the name of a dance style with slow movements. |
| Estonian | The Estonian word "pikk" also has meanings "far", "distant" and "long time ago". |
| Finnish | "Pitkä" shares etymological roots with the word "pitko", meaning "to protrude" or "to stand out". |
| French | The French word "longue" can also mean a type of musical note or the string of a racket. |
| Frisian | The word 'lang' in Frisian can also refer to a person's tongue. |
| Galician | "Longo" also means "foolish" in Galician, deriving from the Latin "longus" |
| Georgian | The Georgian word "გრძელი" (long) is etymologically related to the Proto-Indo-European root "*gʰer-/*gʷher- " meaning "to grow". |
| German | "Langeweile" (boredom) originally just meant "long time". That is why it is called "Langeweile" (long time) when something takes a long time. |
| Greek | The word "μακρύς" is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root "*meg-h-", meaning "great" or "large". |
| Gujarati | "લાંબી" also means "lazy" when referring to a person's actions or habits. |
| Haitian Creole | In Haitian Creole, "long" can also mean "tall" or "high", as in "Yon kay long" ("A tall building"). |
| Hausa | Tsawo can also refer to "tall, high" in Hausa |
| Hawaiian | The Hawaiian word lōʻihi also means "the lowest" or "the last" in a series of things. |
| Hebrew | The word "ארוך" can also refer to a person who is tall and slender. |
| Hindi | 'लंबा' के अन्य अर्थ है 'ऊँचा' और 'विस्तृत'। |
| Hmong | The word "ntev" in Hmong can also refer to a type of bamboo used for construction. |
| Hungarian | The word "hosszú" can also mean "tall" or "large" in Hungarian. |
| Icelandic | "Langt" in Icelandic can have several meanings, including "tall", "far", or "time-consuming." |
| Igbo | Igbo word "ogologo" also means "tall" and originates from the word "ogo" (height). |
| Indonesian | The Indonesian word "panjang" can also be used to mean "high" or "tall" when referring to buildings. |
| Irish | In Irish mythology, the Fada were a supernatural race of beings associated with the Otherworld and the realm of the dead. |
| Italian | Italian word 'lungo', meaning 'long', also refers to a type of strong coffee prepared by letting hot water pass slowly through finely-ground coffee beans. |
| Japanese | "長い" (long) also means "difficult or troublesome." |
| Javanese | The Javanese word 'dawa' can also mean 'far', 'distant', or 'lengthy'. |
| Kannada | The Kannada word "ಉದ್ದವಾಗಿದೆ" can also refer to something excessive or in abundance. |
| Kazakh | The word "ұзақ" in Kazakh also means "a period of time", "a distance", and "continuously for a long time". |
| Khmer | The term "វែង" can also be used to denote a person's wealth, status, or influence. |
| Korean | The word "긴" (long) shares its root with "길" (road) and "길다" (to be long), suggesting a connection between length and the path one takes in life. |
| Kurdish | The word "dirêj" is also used to describe something that is difficult or arduous. |
| Kyrgyz | "Узак" is also used to refer to the long and slow mourning ceremony held at the end of the forty-day mourning period |
| Lao | When used as a verb, "ຍາວ" carries the meaning of "to postpone" or "to delay". |
| Latin | The origin of the Latin word "longus" is disputed, but may relate to "lukos" from Proto-Indo-European (PIE), meaning "curve" or "bend". |
| Latvian | The word "ilgi" is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root "*h₂elǵʰ-," meaning "to stretch or extend." |
| Lithuanian | "Ilgas" can also mean "yearning" or "desire" in Lithuanian. |
| Luxembourgish | The Luxembourgish word "laang" derives from the Old High German word "lang" which means "tall" or "extended." |
| Macedonian | "Долг" is a loanword from Bulgarian, which derives from Proto-Slavic *dьlgu, meaning "debt", "duty" or "owing". |
| Malagasy | The word "ela" in Malagasy can also refer to height, distance, or duration. |
| Malay | The word "lama" in Malay can also mean "slow" or "late". |
| Malayalam | The word "നീളമുള്ള" in Malayalam can also mean "extensive" or "wide-ranging". |
| Maltese | The word 'twil' also has a poetic connotation, referring to something that is 'protracted' or 'extended' in time or space. |
| Maori | Roa can also be a noun for 'the length of something' and a verb for 'to lengthen something'. |
| Marathi | The Marathi word "लांब" (long) is derived from the Proto-Indo-Aryan word "*lamba", which also means "hanging down". |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word “урт” ('long') may have evolved from the Middle Mongolian word 'oirt', which shares the same meaning but also refers to a ‘stringed musical instrument’. |
| Nepali | Nepali 'लामो' is derived from the Proto-Tibeto-Burman word *rwaŋ4, which also gave rise to 'long' in English |
| Norwegian | In some parts of Norway, "lang" also means "tall" or "slow". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "Kutalika" can also mean "to extend," "to stretch," or "to lengthen." |
| Pashto | The word "اوږد" in Pashto also means "tall" and comes from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂eǵʰ- meaning "to grow". |
| Persian | طولانی derives from the Arabic word 'tūl', meaning length, distance, or duration. |
| Polish | Długo, meaning "long" in Polish, is also an obsolete word for "time" that was inherited from Proto-Slavic. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, "grandes" (long) can also refer to "great" or "big". |
| Punjabi | "ਲੰਮਾ" can also mean "tall" in Punjabi, a sense not found in the Hindi word "लम्बा". |
| Romanian | In Romanian, the word "lung" (long) has the alternate meaning of "near" or "close to". |
| Russian | "Долго" also means "debt" in Russian, deriving from the Proto-Slavic word *dolgъ, meaning "debt, obligation, duty, guilt, sin". |
| Samoan | The Samoan word 'umi' ('long') has additional meanings including 'abundant' and 'numerous'. |
| Scots Gaelic | "Fada" derives from Proto-Indo-European root "*h₂pent-," related to "extend, stretch" and the English word "pent". It's also connected to "*h₂wens-," the origin of Latin "venus" (beauty, grace) and ultimately English "win". The word has a secondary meaning of "distant, remote, alien" in the Gaelic poetic tradition. |
| Serbian | The word "дуго" can also mean "a long time" or "long ago". |
| Sesotho | In the Bantu language family, the word '-tele' also means 'many' |
| Shona | The word "refu" can also mean "length" or "distance" in Shona. |
| Sindhi | The word “ڊگهو” (“long”) in Sindhi is cognate to the words “duraaz” and “diraz” in Persian and Urdu, all of which are ultimately derived from the Middle Persian “draz” (“long”). |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | "දිගු" means "deep" in Sinhala, not just "long". |
| Slovak | "Dlhy" in Slovak doesn't only mean "long" but also "debtor." |
| Slovenian | In Slovenian, "dolga" also means "debt" |
| Somali | In Somali, "dheer" also signifies "tall" or "of great stature". |
| Spanish | "Largo" also means "generous": "es muy larga dando consejos". |
| Sundanese | "Panjang" in Sundanese can also refer to a measurement of length equivalent to approximately 1.8 meters. |
| Swahili | The word "ndefu" derives from the Proto-Bantu root "-lefu-," meaning "tall" or "long." |
| Swedish | "Lång" also means "narrow" or "stingy" in Swedish, and is related to the English word "long". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Mahaba" can also be used to describe a person who is tall and/or has a long lifespan. |
| Tajik | In some regional dialects of Tajik, "дароз" can also mean "far" or "distant". |
| Tamil | "நீண்டது" also refers to a particular musical note in Carnatic music and a particular posture in Bharatanatyam dance. |
| Telugu | The word "పొడవు" is also used to describe the duration of something. |
| Thai | The word "ยาว" can also refer to the length of time or distance, and can be used as a noun or an adjective. |
| Turkish | Uzun, 'long' in Turkish, comes from the Proto-Turkic word *uzun, meaning 'stretch, extend'. |
| Ukrainian | "Довгота" in Ukrainian also refers to the geographical measure of longitude. |
| Urdu | "لمبا" also refers to a garment that hangs loosely. |
| Uzbek | In Uzbek, "uzoq" can also be used to describe a person who is physically tall. |
| Vietnamese | In Sino-Vietnamese, "dài" also means "generation", as in family "dòng dài". |
| Welsh | The Welsh word "hir" can also mean "tall", "great", or "senior". |
| Xhosa | Xhosa has multiple forms of the word "nde", meaning both "long" and "tall" depending on context. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "לאַנג" can also mean "tall" or "large". |
| Yoruba | "Igún" refers to a long piece of cloth worn by Yoruba men or a type of yam that is very long. |
| Zulu | Yinde in Zulu also refers to a state of being tall and slender. |
| English | The Old English origin of 'long' is 'lang', which can also mean 'tall' or 'high'. |