Mad in Different Languages
Discover 'Mad' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Mad
Afrikaans mal | ||
Albanian i çmendur | ||
Amharic እብድ | ||
Arabic غاضب | ||
Armenian խելագար | ||
Assamese পগলা | ||
Aymara luqhi | ||
Azerbaijani dəli | ||
Bambara fatɔ | ||
Basque eroa | ||
Belarusian шалёны | ||
Bengali পাগল | ||
Bhojpuri पगलेट | ||
Bosnian luda | ||
Bulgarian луд | ||
Catalan boig | ||
Cebuano nasuko | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 狂 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 狂 | ||
Corsican pazzu | ||
Croatian lud | ||
Czech šílený | ||
Danish gal | ||
Dhivehi މޮޔަ | ||
Dogri पागल | ||
Dutch boos | ||
English mad | ||
Esperanto freneza | ||
Estonian vihane | ||
Ewe dze aɖaʋa | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) galit | ||
Finnish hullu | ||
French furieux | ||
Frisian gek | ||
Galician tolo | ||
Georgian შეშლილი | ||
German wütend | ||
Greek τρελός | ||
Guarani pochy | ||
Gujarati પાગલ | ||
Haitian Creole fache | ||
Hausa mahaukaci | ||
Hawaiian huhū | ||
Hebrew מְטוּרָף | ||
Hindi पागल | ||
Hmong chim | ||
Hungarian őrült | ||
Icelandic vitlaus | ||
Igbo ara | ||
Ilocano napungtot | ||
Indonesian gila | ||
Irish as a mheabhair | ||
Italian pazzo | ||
Japanese 狂った | ||
Javanese edan | ||
Kannada ಹುಚ್ಚು | ||
Kazakh жынды | ||
Khmer ឆ្កួត | ||
Kinyarwanda umusazi | ||
Konkani पिसो | ||
Korean 미친 | ||
Krio vɛks | ||
Kurdish bêbawer | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) شێت | ||
Kyrgyz жинди | ||
Lao ບ້າ | ||
Latin ad insaniam convertunt | ||
Latvian traks | ||
Lingala liboma | ||
Lithuanian piktas | ||
Luganda obulalu | ||
Luxembourgish verréckt | ||
Macedonian луд | ||
Maithili पागल | ||
Malagasy adala | ||
Malay marah | ||
Malayalam ഭ്രാന്തൻ | ||
Maltese ġenn | ||
Maori haurangi | ||
Marathi वेडा | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯑꯉꯥꯎꯕ | ||
Mizo a | ||
Mongolian галзуу | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အရူး | ||
Nepali पागल | ||
Norwegian gal | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) wamisala | ||
Odia (Oriya) ପାଗଳ | ||
Oromo maraataa | ||
Pashto لیونۍ | ||
Persian دیوانه | ||
Polish szalony | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) louco | ||
Punjabi ਪਾਗਲ | ||
Quechua waqa | ||
Romanian nebun | ||
Russian без ума | ||
Samoan valea | ||
Sanskrit मत्तः | ||
Scots Gaelic cuthach | ||
Sepedi gafa | ||
Serbian луд | ||
Sesotho hlanya | ||
Shona kupenga | ||
Sindhi چريو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) පිස්සු | ||
Slovak šialený | ||
Slovenian jezen | ||
Somali waalan | ||
Spanish enojado | ||
Sundanese gelo | ||
Swahili wazimu | ||
Swedish galen | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) galit | ||
Tajik девона | ||
Tamil பைத்தியம் | ||
Tatar акылдан язган | ||
Telugu పిచ్చి | ||
Thai บ้า | ||
Tigrinya ዕቡድ | ||
Tsonga penga | ||
Turkish deli | ||
Turkmen däli | ||
Twi (Akan) dam | ||
Ukrainian божевільний | ||
Urdu پاگل | ||
Uyghur ساراڭ | ||
Uzbek telba | ||
Vietnamese điên | ||
Welsh yn wallgof | ||
Xhosa ndiyaphambana | ||
Yiddish ווילד | ||
Yoruba asiwere | ||
Zulu uyahlanya |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "mal" in Afrikaans derives from the Dutch word "mal", meaning "feeble" or "weak". |
| Albanian | The term "i çmendur" is also used colloquially to describe someone who is eccentric or quirky. |
| Amharic | Alternate meanings of the word "እብድ" in Amharic include 'crazy' and 'foolish'. |
| Arabic | The word "غاضب" also means "full" or "abundant" in Arabic, referring to the overflowing of emotions or water. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "dəli" can also mean "brave" or "foolish" in Azerbaijani. |
| Basque | The word "eroa" comes from Proto-Basque "eraun", meaning "crazy" or "furious". |
| Belarusian | The word comes from the Proto-Slavic word *šalьnyjь, which also meant "playful" or "foolish." |
| Bengali | "পাগল" is also used to refer to a mischievous or playful person, or a jester or fool. |
| Bosnian | Bosnian word "luda" (derived from Turkish "lütuv") can also colloquially refer to a naughty or mischievous person. |
| Bulgarian | "луд" ( |
| Catalan | The word "boig" in Catalan also refers to a person who is eccentric or unpredictable, or to something that is strange or unusual. |
| Cebuano | The Cebuano word "nasuko" is thought to be derived from the Proto-Austronesian word "*ŋaũuko", meaning "angry" or "furious." |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The second character in "狂" (mad) is "广" (wide), which suggests that madness is a state of being overly expansive. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | "狂" has different meanings and pronunciations: "疯狂" and "狂妄" means arrogant, and "狂风" means gale.} |
| Corsican | Corsican `pazzu` derives from the Italian `pazzo` (“fool, madman”), which in turn comes from the Latin `pattĭus` (“open, gaping”). |
| Croatian | In some dialects, 'lud' also means 'folk' or 'people'. |
| Czech | Šílený shares a root with "šíliti", meaning "to sharpen", and originally meant "to become sharp-minded". |
| Danish | Derived from an old Norse word, “gal,” meaning “unruly, quarrelsome, or ill-tempered.” |
| Dutch | The word "boos" in Dutch is most likely related to Middle Dutch words meaning "crazy" and "angry." |
| Esperanto | "Freneza" can also mean "ecstasy" or "frenzy" in Esperanto. |
| Estonian | "Viha" is an old word that means "anger" or "wrath". The word "vihane" is its derivative and means "angry" or "mad". |
| Finnish | "Hullu" is also used in the sense of 'daring' or 'wild'. |
| French | The word 'furieux' has an etymology rooted in the Latin word 'furiae' and can also be used in the sense of 'stormy' or 'raging' in French. |
| Frisian | The word 'gek' can also mean 'strange' or 'funny' in Frisian. |
| Georgian | The word "შეშლილი" in Georgian can also mean "bewildered" or "confused". |
| German | The German word "wütend" originally referred to the rage of a wild animal but has since broadened to include human anger. |
| Greek | The word "τρελός" has been used to describe the mentally ill since at least the 15th century, and may be related to "τρέμω" ("tremble"). |
| Gujarati | The word 'પાગલ' is derived from the Sanskrit word 'पागलं', which means 'afflicted' or 'insane'. |
| Haitian Creole | The Haitian Creole word "fache" is derived from the French word "fâché" which means "angry" or "upset". |
| Hausa | Hausa mahaukaci also signifies 'mad', and 'extraordinary', 'wonderful', or an action carried out in an uncommon way. |
| Hawaiian | The word "huhū" also means "crazy" or "wild" in Hawaiian, and is related to the word "hulu" meaning "feathers". |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "מְטוּרָף" (m'turaph) literally means "thrown off" or "driven out," and is related to the Aramaic word טריף (tareph), meaning "torn." |
| Hindi | The Hindi word "पागल" (mad) is derived from the Sanskrit word "पागल" (pagal), which means "to be disturbed" or "to be crazy". |
| Hmong | The Hmong word "chim" also refers to a type of spirit or deity. |
| Hungarian | The word "őrült" is a derivative of "őr" which means "guard", so it originally meant "vigilance". |
| Icelandic | The word "vitlaus" in Icelandic is derived from the Old Norse word "vítillaus," meaning "not in one's right mind," and is cognate with the English word "witless." |
| Igbo | The word 'ara' in Igbo also means 'wicked' or 'mean'. |
| Indonesian | The word "gila" can also mean "extravagant" or "extraordinary" in Indonesian. |
| Irish | "as a mheabhair" comes from the Old Irish for "with great madness" |
| Italian | The word "pazzo" in Italian has ancient roots, deriving from the Latin "passus," meaning "step," and later "dance," suggesting a connection between madness and uncontrolled movement or behavior. |
| Japanese | The word 狂った (kuru_tta) is an adjective that can mean 'mad' in Japanese, but it can also mean 'crazy,' 'wild,' or 'frenzied,' depending on the context. |
| Javanese | The word "edan" in Javanese can also mean "different" or "unique", and is derived from the word "eda" which means "to change". |
| Kannada | The word 'ಹುಚ್ಚು' (mad) in Kannada is derived from the Sanskrit word 'उच्छु' (utschu), which means 'to jump or leap'. |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "жынды" is a homophone, meaning both "mad" and "red-hot." |
| Khmer | The word "ឆ្កួត" (mad) in Khmer could also refer to rabies or epilepsy. |
| Korean | 미친 ('micin') is also used in Korea to refer to someone who is very good at something, like a 'mad' genius. |
| Kurdish | The Kurdish word "bêbawer" can also mean "unfaithful" or "irresponsible". |
| Kyrgyz | The word "жинди" in Kyrgyz may also refer to a type of traditional Kyrgyz felt rug. |
| Lao | The Lao word ບ້າ ("mad") is cognate with the Thai word บ้า, which also means "crazy" or "foolish". |
| Latin | In Latin, 'ad insaniam convertunt' can also mean "to drive to madness" or "to cause to become insane". |
| Latvian | The Latvian word "traks" can also refer to a "crazy person" or a "madman." |
| Lithuanian | The etymology of "piktas" is uncertain but it may derive from a Proto-Balto-Slavic root meaning "hot; angry". |
| Macedonian | The word "луд" in Macedonian also has the alternate meaning of "fiery" or "burning". |
| Malagasy | The Proto-Austronesian root *galak "fierce, savage" has also produced words for "angry" such as Malagasy *adala "mad", in the latter instance having undergone an inversion where the voiced stop became voiceless and vice-versa. |
| Malay | The word marah has two meanings, namely "anger" and "prohibition."} |
| Malayalam | The Malayalam word 'bhranthan' ('mad') is derived from the Sanskrit word 'bhranta,' meaning 'wandering' or 'deluded,' suggesting a state of mental disorientation or confusion. |
| Maltese | The word 'ġenn' also has connotations with 'insanity' and 'frenzy'. |
| Maori | In some Eastern dialects, hau rangi may mean 'strong wind'. |
| Marathi | The etymology of the Marathi word "वेडा" is traced to Sanskrit, meaning "possessed", and it can also refer to someone who is arrogant. |
| Mongolian | "Галзуу" means "mad" but its original meaning is "angry" that has been transferred by metonymy to mad. The word "gal" can be still used separately meaning "anger". |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | အရူး can also be used to mean 'crazy', 'insane' or even 'foolish' |
| Nepali | The term पागल can refer to an intoxicated or crazy person, with the word potentially sharing origins with Sanskrit or Tibetan words for "mad" |
| Norwegian | Gal is also used to describe animals, such as the crazy toad (galpadde). |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The Nyanja word 'wamisala' can also refer to people who behave or talk in an unusual manner. |
| Pashto | The word "لیونۍ" in Pashto is derived from the Persian word "دیوانه" (dīvāna), meaning "crazy" or "insane." |
| Persian | The Persian word "دیوانه" can also refer to a "dervish", a member of a Muslim religious order who practices extreme forms of asceticism and often engages in ecstatic dancing. |
| Polish | The word "szalony" derives from the Old Polish word "szałoć", meaning "fury or rage". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, "louco" can also refer to an eccentric or extravagant person. |
| Punjabi | The word "ਪਾਗਲ" also means "an ascetic who has renounced worldly pleasures" in Punjabi. |
| Romanian | The word "nebun" in Romanian is thought to originate from the Latin word "nebulosus," meaning "cloudy" or "misty." |
| Samoan | Valea, the Samoan word for "madness or insanity," also refers to certain types of destructive behavior, curses, and curses in general. |
| Scots Gaelic | Cuthach can also mean 'wild' or 'ferocious' and is often used to describe animals or the weather. |
| Serbian | In Serbian, the word 'луд' can also mean 'insane' or 'mentally ill'. |
| Sesotho | In Sesotho, the word 'hlanya' also means 'clever' or 'shrewd'. |
| Shona | The word "kupenga" in Shona, meaning "mad," also refers to a type of fishing net. |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "چريو" also means "wild" or "crazy". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | පිස්සු is often used to describe something that is very hot, spicy, or unpleasant |
| Slovak | The word "šialený" comes from the Proto-Slavic word "*šьlьnъ", meaning "wild" or "furious". |
| Slovenian | The word 'jezen' is of Slavic origin and is related to the Proto-Slavic word 'jьzъ', which means 'wild beast'. |
| Somali | Waalan is also used to describe a person who is very passionate or enthusiastic about something. |
| Spanish | The Spanish word "enojado" finds its root in the Latin "indignare", meaning "to arouse indignation". |
| Sundanese | Alternately means 'uncontrollable anger' or 'wild' and often refers to animals. |
| Swahili | The word "wazimu" in Swahili can also refer to supernatural beings or spirits. |
| Swedish | The word 'galen' is thought to have originated from the Old Norse word 'galinn', which means 'fierce' or 'wild'. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Galit" can also refer to "itch" in Tagalog |
| Tajik | The word "девона" is derived from the Proto-Indo-Iranian word "*dʰeu̯h-nóh₂"," which also means "intoxicated" or "furious". |
| Tamil | "Paittiyam" (பைத்தியம்) derives from the Sanskrit "paiti" (away) and "ti" (to be) and can also mean "outside of oneself". |
| Telugu | The word 'పిచ్చి' (mad) in Telugu also refers to 'extreme excitement' or 'great joy'. |
| Thai | "บ้า" (mad) can also refer to the wild nature of forests and hills or of animals that dwell far from civilization. |
| Turkish | The Turkish word "deli" also means "brave", "strong", or "crazy", depending on the context in which it is used. |
| Ukrainian | The word "божевільний" is derived from "Бог" and "вільний" in Ukrainian, which originally meant "free of God" and was used to refer to people with mental issues. |
| Urdu | The Urdu word "پاگل" can also refer to a type of dance, where the dancer wears bright colors and dances in a playful and carefree manner. |
| Uzbek | The word 'Telba' can also refer to a type of cotton fabric or a species of bird. |
| Vietnamese | "Điên" also means "lightning" in Sino-Vietnamese because the word is a loanword from the Chinese word "电" (diàn), which means "electricity". |
| Xhosa | The Xhosa word "ndiyaphambana" also refers to a state of being "over the moon" or feeling "ecstatic." |
| Yiddish | ווילד can mean wild, furious, violent, or savage in Yiddish. |
| Yoruba | The word 'asiwere' in Yoruba can also refer to someone who is overly excited, eccentric, or unusual in behavior. |
| Zulu | The word 'uyahlanya' originates from 'ihlanya,' meaning the 'forest,' alluding to the notion of being in a state of wilderness or disorientation, synonymous with madness. |
| English | "Mad" comes from the Middle English word "madde," meaning "furious" or "out of control." |