Lots in Different Languages
Discover 'Lots' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Lots
Afrikaans baie | ||
Albanian shumë | ||
Amharic ብዙ | ||
Arabic الكثير | ||
Armenian շատերը | ||
Assamese বহুত | ||
Aymara lotes ukanaka | ||
Azerbaijani çoxlu | ||
Bambara lot (loti) caman | ||
Basque asko | ||
Belarusian шмат | ||
Bengali প্রচুর | ||
Bhojpuri ढेर सारा बा | ||
Bosnian puno | ||
Bulgarian много | ||
Catalan molts | ||
Cebuano daghan | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 很多 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 很多 | ||
Corsican assai | ||
Croatian puno | ||
Czech spousty | ||
Danish masser | ||
Dhivehi ގިނަ އަދަދެކެވެ | ||
Dogri ढेर सारे | ||
Dutch veel | ||
English lots | ||
Esperanto multe | ||
Estonian palju | ||
Ewe lots | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) marami | ||
Finnish paljon | ||
French beaucoup | ||
Frisian lots | ||
Galician moitos | ||
Georgian უამრავი | ||
German viele | ||
Greek πλήθος | ||
Guarani lote-kuéra | ||
Gujarati ઘણાં | ||
Haitian Creole anpil | ||
Hausa kuri'a | ||
Hawaiian hailona | ||
Hebrew הרבה | ||
Hindi बहुत सारे | ||
Hmong ntau ntau | ||
Hungarian sok | ||
Icelandic mikið | ||
Igbo nza | ||
Ilocano lote | ||
Indonesian banyak | ||
Irish go leor | ||
Italian molte | ||
Japanese たくさん | ||
Javanese akeh | ||
Kannada ಸಾಕಷ್ಟು | ||
Kazakh көп | ||
Khmer ច្រើន | ||
Kinyarwanda ubufindo | ||
Konkani भरपूर | ||
Korean 많은 | ||
Krio bɔku bɔku tin dɛn | ||
Kurdish gelek | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) زۆر | ||
Kyrgyz көп | ||
Lao ຫຼາຍ | ||
Latin lots | ||
Latvian daudz | ||
Lingala ebele | ||
Lithuanian daug | ||
Luganda ebibanja | ||
Luxembourgish vill | ||
Macedonian многу | ||
Maithili बहुत रास | ||
Malagasy antsapaka | ||
Malay banyak | ||
Malayalam ഒത്തിരി | ||
Maltese lottijiet | ||
Maori rota | ||
Marathi बरेच | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯂꯣꯠꯁꯤꯡ ꯂꯩ꯫ | ||
Mizo lots a ni | ||
Mongolian олон | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အများကြီး | ||
Nepali धेरै | ||
Norwegian masse | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) zambiri | ||
Odia (Oriya) ବହୁତ | ||
Oromo lootii | ||
Pashto ډیری | ||
Persian مقدار زیادی | ||
Polish wiele | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) grande quantidade | ||
Punjabi ਬਹੁਤ | ||
Quechua lotes | ||
Romanian multe | ||
Russian лоты | ||
Samoan tele | ||
Sanskrit लोट् | ||
Scots Gaelic tòrr | ||
Sepedi dilotho tše dintši | ||
Serbian много | ||
Sesotho lotho | ||
Shona mijenya | ||
Sindhi تمام گهڻو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) කැබලි අක්ෂර | ||
Slovak veľa | ||
Slovenian veliko | ||
Somali badan | ||
Spanish un montón | ||
Sundanese kavling | ||
Swahili kura | ||
Swedish massor | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) marami | ||
Tajik қуръа | ||
Tamil நிறைய | ||
Tatar лот | ||
Telugu మా | ||
Thai จำนวนมาก | ||
Tigrinya ዕጫታት | ||
Tsonga lots | ||
Turkish çok | ||
Turkmen köp | ||
Twi (Akan) lots | ||
Ukrainian багато | ||
Urdu بہت | ||
Uyghur lot | ||
Uzbek ko'p | ||
Vietnamese rất nhiều | ||
Welsh llawer | ||
Xhosa amaqashiso | ||
Yiddish גורל | ||
Yoruba ọpọlọpọ | ||
Zulu inkatho |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "baie" can also refer to a "berry" or "bay". |
| Albanian | The word "shumë" is borrowed from Turkish and shares its original meaning of "many" or "a lot". It was likely introduced into the Albanian language during the Ottoman period. |
| Amharic | In Amharic, the word "ብዙ" can also mean "many" or "much". |
| Arabic | الكثير means "the many" in Arabic and is used to describe a group of people or things. |
| Armenian | The word "շատերը" is derived from the Proto-Indo-European word "*ple-to-s", which also means "full" or "many". |
| Azerbaijani | The word "çoxlu" is derived from the Old Turkic word "çok", meaning "much" or "many". In modern Azerbaijani, "çoxlu" can refer to a large quantity or number, or it can be used to indicate a multiplicity of choices or options. |
| Basque | In the context of Basque cuisine, "asko" can refer to the remains of a meal in the pot. |
| Belarusian | "Шмат" also means "piece" in Belarusian, similar to Russian "кусок." |
| Bengali | The word 'প্রচুর' is derived from the Sanskrit word 'प्रचुर' (pracura), which means 'abundant', 'copious', or 'ample'. |
| Bosnian | The word 'puno' in Bosnian can also refer to a large amount or quantity of something. |
| Bulgarian | The word “много” also means “different” and “very”. |
| Catalan | "Molts" in Catalan can also mean "many" or "a lot". |
| Cebuano | In Cebuano, "daghan" can also mean "greatly" or "very much". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | In Cantonese, '很多' means 'very', while in Shanghainese, it means 'many'. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 很多 (pinyin: hěn duō) can also refer to "many people". |
| Corsican | In Corsican, "assai" can also mean "very", "many" or "a lot of". |
| Croatian | The word "puno" in Croatian can also mean "full" or "very much of something". |
| Czech | The word "spousty" is derived from the Proto-Slavic root *spǫsti, meaning "to let fall, to throw down". |
| Danish | The word "masser" in Danish also has the archaic meaning of "much, a quantity". |
| Dutch | The word 'veel' in Dutch also means 'calf' |
| Esperanto | "Multe" is also the Latin word for "fine" or "penalty", and is related to the English word "multitude". |
| Estonian | The word "palju" in Estonian is derived from the Proto-Finnic word "paljoŋ", meaning "many, much" or "a great deal". |
| Finnish | The word "paljon" has a possible origin in the Proto-Finnic word "*paljo", which could mean "many" or "great in size". |
| French | The word "beaucoup" comes from the Late Latin word "baucalis", meaning "a great deal" or "abundance" |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "lots" can also mean "fate" or "destiny". |
| Galician | Galician "moitos" comes from the same root as English "much" and Latin "multus," and can also mean "shrubby brushwood." |
| Georgian | The word "უამრავი" can also mean "very many" or "a great number" in Georgian. |
| German | The German word "viele" (lots) is derived from the Old High German word "fela", meaning "much" or "many". |
| Greek | In modern Greek, the word "πλήθος" also means "crowd" or "large number" |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "ઘણાં" can also mean "many" or "much" |
| Haitian Creole | The Haitian Creole word "anpil" also means "many" or "a lot of" in French. |
| Hausa | The Hausa word "kuri'a" can refer to the act of drawing lots, the objects used for divination, or the outcome of a lottery or gambling game. |
| Hawaiian | The word hailona, meaning "lots," is derived from the Proto-Polynesian word for "to draw," suggesting its original connection to the practice of casting lots. |
| Hebrew | The verb that the noun הרהבה "lots" derives from, implies an increase, which is why הרהבה can both mean "lots" and "enlargement". |
| Hindi | The Hindi word 'बहुत सारे' is derived from the Sanskrit word 'bahulata', meaning 'abundance' or 'multitude'. |
| Hmong | The Hmong word "ntau ntau" also means "many" or "numerous". |
| Hungarian | The Hungarian word "sok" is ultimately derived from Proto-Turkic "*šok", meaning "plenty" or "abundance". |
| Icelandic | Mikið can also refer to an excessive amount, or be used to express amazement, in which case its approximate English translation would be "my goodness" |
| Igbo | Igbo 'nza' shares a root with 'nsa,' meaning 'to divide,' and derives from the Proto-Benue-Congo verb 'nzá,' meaning 'draw lots.' |
| Indonesian | The word "banyak" originally meant "many" in Old Malay and is also used in some other Austronesian languages. |
| Irish | An alternative rendering of the phrase is “go leor agus go maith”, which can be translated as “lots and lots and lots”. |
| Italian | "Molte" in Italian originates from the Latin "multus," meaning "abundant" or "in great quantity. It also denotes large sums of money or a vast number of persons or items." |
| Japanese | The word たくさん (takusan) can also mean "a great deal," "plenty," or "much," and it is often used to express gratitude or appreciation for something. |
| Javanese | The word "akeh" in Javanese can also mean "many" or "much" |
| Kannada | The word "ಸಾಕಷ್ಟು" is derived from Sanskrit and means "sufficient" or "adequate". |
| Kazakh | The word "көп" in Kazakh derives from the Proto-Turkic root *köp-, which also means "many" or "much" in other Turkic languages. |
| Khmer | The Khmer word "ច្រើន" can also mean "many" or "abundant." |
| Korean | In Middle Korean, "많은" was written as "만흔" (manh-heun), which had the meanings of "excessive" or "abundant". |
| Kurdish | The word "gelek" also refers to a type of Kurdish rug with colorful geometric patterns. |
| Kyrgyz | 'Көп' также имеет значение 'много' и 'обширный'. |
| Lao | The Lao word "ຫຼາຍ" can be used as an adjective meaning "many" or an adverb meaning "frequently" or "often." |
| Latin | The Latin plural of "lot" also implies a distribution of land in small subdivisions in colonial territories. |
| Latvian | The word "daudz" is also sometimes used as a noun, meaning "a lot" or "amount". |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word "daug" is also related to the Latvian word "daudz", the Old Prussian word "dauto", and the Sanskrit word "duhitas". |
| Luxembourgish | Etymology: from Medieval Latin villa "country estate, village" |
| Macedonian | The Macedonian word "многу" ultimately derives from the Proto-Indo-European root "*men-, *mon-" meaning "to think" or "to measure." |
| Malagasy | "antsapaka" is a cognate of "antsapa" which means "four" in Malagasy and "apat" which means "four" in Sanskrit. |
| Malay | The word 'banyak' is derived from the Proto-Austronesian word *baŋa, which means 'to spread out'. It also has an alternate meaning of 'many' in several other Austronesian languages. |
| Malayalam | The word "ഒത്തിരി" (oṭṭiri) in Malayalam is derived from the Dravidian root "*ott-," which means "to abound" or "to be plentiful." |
| Maltese | The word "lottijiet" in Maltese is derived from the Italian word "lotto," and it can also mean "a plot of land" or "a piece of property." |
| Maori | The word 'rota' in Māori can also refer to a group of people taking turns to do something. |
| Marathi | The Marathi word "बरेच" (barech) also means "fairly" or "considerably". |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian term "олон" is derived from the verb "олох" meaning "to live" or "to exist". It can also refer to "a great number" or "a multitude". |
| Nepali | धेरै can also mean 'many' or 'much'. |
| Norwegian | The word "masse" can also mean "mass" or "crowd" in Norwegian. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The Nyanja (Chichewa) word "zambiri" is originally from Arabic, with the literal meaning of "many". |
| Pashto | The word ډیری ("lots") in Pashto also means "many" or "abundant." |
| Persian | In Persian, "مقدار زیادی" can also mean "a great deal" or "a lot". |
| Polish | The word "wiele" (lots) is related to the Slavic word "vek" (age), suggesting an association between age and abundance. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | "Grande quantidade" is the Portuguese translation of "a large amount", which can also mean "a great deal", "a lot", or "plenty". |
| Punjabi | The word "ਬਹੁਤ" also means "very" or "excessive" in Punjabi. |
| Romanian | The Romanian word «multe» also means «fines» and derives from the Latin «multa» (penalty), itself deriving from the Proto-Indo-European root «*mel-» (to punish). |
| Russian | **Лоты** могут быть как объектами аукциона, так и единицей измерения длины, равной 3 аршинам (213 см). |
| Samoan | Samoan "tele" is derived from the Proto-Polynesian root "tele", meaning "many, many, large, heavy", and also means "thick"} |
| Scots Gaelic | Tòrr can also mean a heap, pile or mound |
| Serbian | The word "много" originally meant "many" or "great" in Old Church Slavonic, and is related to the Sanskrit word "mahat" meaning "great". |
| Sesotho | The word "lotho" is also the name for a popular South African lottery. |
| Shona | The word mijenya is also used to describe a group of people who are responsible for distributing land in a community. |
| Sindhi | The term "تمام گهڻو" is also used to refer to the process of choosing the winner or outcome of a contest or event. |
| Slovak | "Veľa" is also the Slovak translation of "whale," a word which in Slovak is used metaphorically to describe something that is large. |
| Slovenian | The Slavic word "veliko" (great) is related to the Proto-Indo-European root *wegʰ-, meaning "to carry off," hence "big, heavy, important." |
| Somali | The word "badan" is also used in Somali to mean "body" or "person." |
| Spanish | The phrase "un montón" has its origins in the Arabic word "munton" which means "a pile" and arrived in Spanish through Andalusian Arabic. |
| Sundanese | The term 'kavling' also refers to a division of a property into smaller units or plots of land for sale or development. |
| Swahili | The Swahili word "kura" can also refer to a place where people gather to vote or to a council of elders. |
| Swedish | In Swedish, massor means 'masses', but in English it refers to a 'large quantity'. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word 'marami' originates from the Proto-Austronesian *maRami, meaning 'many, plentiful'. |
| Tajik | In some contexts, the word "қуръа" can also refer to a lottery or raffle. |
| Tamil | "நிறைய" means both "lots" and "colours" in Tamil, with "lots" possibly being an extended usage of the word representing abundance in different aspects. |
| Telugu | The word "మా" can also mean "our" or "ours" in Telugu. |
| Thai | The Thai word "จำนวนมาก" can mean both "a lot" and "many" in English. |
| Turkish | The word "çok" is derived from the Old Turkic word "çokı" and is also related to the Hungarian word "sok" and the Turkic words "çok" (abundance) and "çoq" (much). |
| Ukrainian | The word 'багато' comes from the Proto-Slavic word 'bogъto' which also meant 'rich'. |
| Urdu | The word "बहुत" can also mean "very" or "excessive" in Urdu. |
| Uzbek | The Uzbek word "ko'p" is also derived from the Persian word "kebud" or "kabud", which means "many" or "abundant" |
| Vietnamese | The word "rất nhiều" can also mean "very much" or "very many" in Vietnamese. |
| Welsh | The word 'llawer' also means 'plenty' and 'large number' in Welsh. |
| Xhosa | The Xhosa word 'amaqashiso' can also refer to the act of gambling or drawing lots. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "גורל" is used in reference to two biblical passages involving the division of possessions by drawing lots. |
| Yoruba | In some contexts, "ọpọlọpọ" can mean "many" or "a lot." |
| Zulu | Inkathu also means the 'right to cast lots to determine who will occupy the homestead' or 'the right to occupy a homestead' |
| English | Historically, "lots" could refer to objects used in divination or to the act of casting lots (random selection). |