Low in Different Languages
Discover 'Low' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Low
Afrikaans laag | ||
Albanian i ulët | ||
Amharic ዝቅተኛ | ||
Arabic منخفض | ||
Armenian ցածր | ||
Assamese নিম্ন | ||
Aymara jask'a | ||
Azerbaijani aşağı | ||
Bambara fɛ́gɛn | ||
Basque baxua | ||
Belarusian нізкая | ||
Bengali কম | ||
Bhojpuri कम | ||
Bosnian niska | ||
Bulgarian ниско | ||
Catalan baix | ||
Cebuano ubos | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 低 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 低 | ||
Corsican bassu | ||
Croatian niska | ||
Czech nízký | ||
Danish lav | ||
Dhivehi ދަށް | ||
Dogri घट्ट | ||
Dutch laag | ||
English low | ||
Esperanto malalta | ||
Estonian madal | ||
Ewe bᴐbᴐ | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) mababa | ||
Finnish matala | ||
French faible | ||
Frisian leech | ||
Galician baixo | ||
Georgian დაბალი | ||
German niedrig | ||
Greek χαμηλός | ||
Guarani iguýpe | ||
Gujarati નીચા | ||
Haitian Creole ba | ||
Hausa low | ||
Hawaiian haʻahaʻa | ||
Hebrew נָמוּך | ||
Hindi कम | ||
Hmong tsawg | ||
Hungarian alacsony | ||
Icelandic lágt | ||
Igbo dị ala | ||
Ilocano ababa | ||
Indonesian rendah | ||
Irish íseal | ||
Italian basso | ||
Japanese 低 | ||
Javanese kurang | ||
Kannada ಕಡಿಮೆ | ||
Kazakh төмен | ||
Khmer ទាប | ||
Kinyarwanda hasi | ||
Konkani कमी | ||
Korean 낮은 | ||
Krio lo | ||
Kurdish nizm | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) نزم | ||
Kyrgyz төмөн | ||
Lao ຕ່ ຳ | ||
Latin humilis | ||
Latvian zems | ||
Lingala nse | ||
Lithuanian žemas | ||
Luganda wansi | ||
Luxembourgish niddereg | ||
Macedonian ниско | ||
Maithili कम | ||
Malagasy iva | ||
Malay rendah | ||
Malayalam താഴ്ന്നത് | ||
Maltese baxx | ||
Maori iti | ||
Marathi कमी | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯅꯦꯝꯕ | ||
Mizo hniam | ||
Mongolian бага | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အနိမ့် | ||
Nepali कम | ||
Norwegian lav | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) otsika | ||
Odia (Oriya) ନିମ୍ନ | ||
Oromo gadi bu'aa | ||
Pashto ټیټ | ||
Persian کم | ||
Polish niska | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) baixo | ||
Punjabi ਘੱਟ | ||
Quechua pisi | ||
Romanian scăzut | ||
Russian низкий | ||
Samoan maualalo | ||
Sanskrit न्यूनम् | ||
Scots Gaelic ìosal | ||
Sepedi fase | ||
Serbian ниска | ||
Sesotho tlase | ||
Shona pasi | ||
Sindhi گهٽ | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) අඩු | ||
Slovak nízka | ||
Slovenian nizka | ||
Somali hooseeya | ||
Spanish bajo | ||
Sundanese handap | ||
Swahili chini | ||
Swedish låg | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) mababa | ||
Tajik паст | ||
Tamil குறைந்த | ||
Tatar түбән | ||
Telugu తక్కువ | ||
Thai ต่ำ | ||
Tigrinya ውሑድ | ||
Tsonga hansi | ||
Turkish düşük | ||
Turkmen pes | ||
Twi (Akan) fam | ||
Ukrainian низький | ||
Urdu کم | ||
Uyghur تۆۋەن | ||
Uzbek past | ||
Vietnamese thấp | ||
Welsh isel | ||
Xhosa isezantsi | ||
Yiddish נידעריק | ||
Yoruba kekere | ||
Zulu phansi |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "laag" is a homonym of the English "log", referring to a tree trunk that has fallen off a tree. |
| Albanian | The word "i ulët" can also refer to a plain or valley, or to something that is humble or modest. |
| Amharic | In addition, ዝቅተኛ can also refer to someone of low social status. |
| Arabic | In addition to its literal meaning of "low," منخفض also denotes a "depression," "trough," or "sinkhole" in topography. |
| Armenian | The Armenian word "ցածր" (low) can also mean "humble" or "humble-minded" in other contexts. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "aşağı" can also mean "downstream" or "the lower part of a river" in Azerbaijani. |
| Basque | The Basque word “baxua” also means “peaceful” or “quiet”. |
| Belarusian | The word |
| Bengali | In Bengali, 'কম' can also mean 'lacking' or 'without' something. |
| Bosnian | The word 'niska' is also used in Bosnia to refer to a type of folk dance. |
| Bulgarian | Bulgarian "ниско" may be derived from the Proto-Indo-European root "*ney-", meaning "down" or "below." |
| Catalan | In Catalan, "baix" can also mean "nearby" or "underneath". |
| Cebuano | In the past, "ubos" also meant "dead" or "to kill." |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "低" can also mean humble, mean, inferior, cheap, thin, poor, or shallow. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 低 can also mean 'humility' or 'modesty' |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "bassu" is probably a pre-Indo-European substrate element, but might also be related to the Sardinian word "bassu" meaning "bottom". |
| Croatian | "niska" comes from the Proto-Indo-European root "nek-" meaning "bow, stoop" and is also related to the Latin word "nixus" meaning "effort, exertion". |
| Czech | "Nízký" is related to the adjectives "nedotknutelný" (untouchable) and "neviditelný" (invisible) and the ancient verb "níjeti" (to disappear). |
| Danish | In Danish the word "lav" (low) can also refer to the act of making a sound between yawning and laughter. |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "laag" can also mean "stratum" or "layer". |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word "malalta" can also mean "humble" or "modest". |
| Estonian | "Madal" also relates to "madaldama," meaning to lower, as well as "madalik," or depression in the earth. |
| Finnish | "Matala" originates from Proto-Uralic "*mata-l", meaning "lying on the ground" or "near the ground". |
| French | The term "faible" in French also means "weak" or "feeble". |
| Frisian | In Frisian, "leech" can also refer to a ditch or stream. |
| Galician | "Baixo" can also refer to a musical instrument, a river area, or a low-lying place, depending on the context. |
| German | The archaic meaning of "niedrig" in German was "near the ground" rather than indicating a quantitative measure of height, and the word is related to "nahe" (near) and "Niederung" (lowlands). |
| Greek | The word "χαμηλός" also means "humble" or "modest" in Greek. |
| Gujarati | "નીચા" also means "a piece of low-quality land" or "a person of low birth or character". |
| Haitian Creole | The word "ba" in Haitian Creole can also mean "low" in terms of volume or status. |
| Hausa | The Hausa word "low" can also refer to a person or group of people of low status or rank. |
| Hawaiian | Haʻahaʻa can also mean 'humble' - a virtue highly valued in traditional Hawaiian culture. |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word for 'low' is derived from the Akkadian word 'namû,' which refers to the lowest position of the sun during its daily orbit. |
| Hindi | "कम" is a homonym meaning both "low" and "less" in Hindi. |
| Hmong | The term "tsawg" also refers to a person who works slowly and does not meet others' expectations or standards. |
| Hungarian | The word "alacsony" comes from the Proto-Uralic *alak "to go down". |
| Icelandic | In Icelandic, “lágt” can also refer to a shallow depth or the lower end of a scale. |
| Igbo | The Igbo word "dị ala" also refers to someone who is humble, modest, or respectful. |
| Indonesian | Rendah is the Indonesian word for “low”, cognate with randah and landas, from Proto-Austronesian *landen – to lie down; to be flat |
| Irish | From the Proto-Celtic *īsalo-, meaning "low" or "base." |
| Italian | The Italian word "Basso" can also refer to a bass or bass guitar player in a musical ensemble. |
| Japanese | 低 (dī) can also mean “short” (of stature), “shallow,” “weak,” or “inferior.” |
| Javanese | In Javanese, 'kurang' can also refer to 'lacking' or 'insufficient'. |
| Kannada | In addition to its primary meaning of "low," "ಕಡಿಮೆ" can also mean "few," "less," or "below average" in Kannada. |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "төмен" can also refer to the bottom of a tree or a shallow section of a river. |
| Khmer | The Khmer word "ទាប" can also mean "humble" or "modest". |
| Korean | "낮은" is also used to refer to the register of speech or writing, with "낮은말" meaning "informal language". |
| Kurdish | 'Nizm' also means 'peace' in the Sorani dialect of Kurdish. |
| Kyrgyz | The word "төмөн" also means "ten thousand" in Kyrgyz, reflecting its use as a unit of measurement in the past. |
| Latin | "Humilis" can also mean "close to the ground", "of humble status", or "unpretentious." |
| Latvian | The word “zems” can also refer to geographical depression, which can be seen, for example, in the place name “Zemgale” and “Zemenes” (strawberries) - berries growing close to the ground. |
| Lithuanian | The word 'žemas' derives from the Proto-Baltic word '*žem-' which meant 'below, earth, ground'. |
| Luxembourgish | "Niddereg" stems from the Old High German "nidar", which has the meaning of "down". |
| Macedonian | The word "ниско" can also refer to a person of low social status or to something that is considered as being of a low standard. |
| Malagasy | The word IVA can also refer to a type of fish trap or a small, narrow path or passageway. |
| Malay | Rendah derives from Proto-Austronesian *landeq, meaning "ground" or "below". |
| Maltese | Baxx is also a type of small boat used for fishing in Malta. |
| Maori | The word "iti" also means "small" or "narrow" in Maori. |
| Marathi | The word "कमी" can also mean "fault". |
| Mongolian | "Бага" is also the name of an administrative unit in several Mongolian regions and means "division" or "part". |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The word "အနိမ့်" can also refer to a "small amount", "a short time", or "something that is not very important". |
| Nepali | The word "कम" also means "few" or "less" and derives from the Sanskrit word "कम". |
| Norwegian | The word "lav" in Norwegian can also refer to a type of moss, moss carpet, or growth of moss. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | Otsika can also refer to a valley or ditch. |
| Pashto | "ټیټ" can also refer to a "valley" in Pashto. |
| Persian | The word "کم" in Persian can also mean "small" or "few". |
| Polish | "Niska" can also refer to the Polish city Nisko, established in 1593. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, "baixo" can also refer to a musical instrument similar to an upright bass or a dance style with an associated musical genre. |
| Punjabi | The word "ਘੱਟ" also means "minus" or "less" in a mathematical sense. |
| Romanian | The word "scăzut" originates from the Proto-Slavic *skǫdъ, meaning "poor" or "deficient." |
| Russian | Russian word "низкий" initially meant "the lower one" and was used to describe the position of a servant in relation to the master. |
| Samoan | The word "maualalo" ("low") in Samoan can also refer to modesty. |
| Scots Gaelic | The Gaelic word "ìosal" derives from the Gaelic word "ìseal" and can also mean "humble or meek." |
| Serbian | The word "ниска" (low) in Serbian can also mean "necklace", originating from the old Slavic word for thread or string. |
| Sesotho | This word is derived form the Proto-Bantu word "tas" with the same meaning |
| Shona | "Pasi" may also have other meanings, including "short in height", "underdeveloped", or "deficient". |
| Sindhi | گهٽ may also mean 'deficient' as in an incomplete or poor harvest. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "අඩු" also means "less" or "deficient". |
| Slovak | The word "nízka" can also refer to a woman of low social status or a type of folk song. |
| Slovenian | The word "nizka" can also refer to a necklace or a string of pearls. |
| Somali | The word "hooseeya" in Somali comes from the Arabic word "'aseeya", meaning "inferior" or "humble". |
| Spanish | "Bajo" in Spanish can mean "under," "below" or "soft" depending on the context. |
| Sundanese | The word "handap" in Sundanese also has an alternate meaning of "calm" or "steady". |
| Swahili | The word "chini" in Swahili can also mean "south" or "inferior". |
| Swedish | The word "låg" can also refer to a flame or a fire. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "mababa" can also mean "cheap" or "of low quality" in Tagalog. |
| Tajik | The word "паст" also means "down" or "below" in Tajik. |
| Tamil | The Tamil word "குறைந்த" can also mean "lessened", "diminished", or "deficient". |
| Telugu | The word "తక్కువ" can also mean "lacking in value" or "inferior". |
| Thai | The Thai word "ต่ำ" (low) also means "vulgar" or "uncouth". |
| Turkish | The word "düşük" can also mean "miscarriage" in Turkish. |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word "низький" not only means "low," but also means "humble". |
| Urdu | The word 'کم' can also mean 'less', 'deficient', or 'insufficient' |
| Uzbek | The Uzbek word "past" meaning "low" also means "vile, vulgar, wicked, base, mean". |
| Vietnamese | The word "thấp" in Vietnamese also has the alternate meaning of "inferior" or "base". |
| Welsh | The Welsh word "isel" can also mean "humble" or "gentle". |
| Xhosa | Isezantsi may also refer to the region of Southern Africa, especially as named in the 'Southern Africa Development Community' or by the University of South Africa, where it refers to the southern part of their campus. |
| Yiddish | The word "נידעריק" ("nidrig") in Yiddish can also be used to refer to a person of low social status. |
| Yoruba | Yoruba "kekere" also means "small or little" as in "o mo kekere" (a small child). |
| Zulu | "Phansi" in Zulu holds associations with the depths of the earth and the realm of ancestors. |
| English | The word 'low' originates from the Proto-Germanic word '*laugaz', meaning 'bent' or 'sloping'. |