Many in Different Languages
Discover 'Many' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Many
Afrikaans baie | ||
Albanian shumë | ||
Amharic ብዙዎች | ||
Arabic كثير | ||
Armenian շատերը | ||
Assamese অনেক | ||
Aymara walja | ||
Azerbaijani çox | ||
Bambara caman | ||
Basque asko | ||
Belarusian шмат | ||
Bengali অনেক | ||
Bhojpuri ढेर | ||
Bosnian mnogi | ||
Bulgarian много | ||
Catalan molts | ||
Cebuano daghan | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 许多 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 許多 | ||
Corsican assai | ||
Croatian puno | ||
Czech mnoho | ||
Danish mange | ||
Dhivehi ބައިވަރު | ||
Dogri केईं | ||
Dutch veel | ||
English many | ||
Esperanto multaj | ||
Estonian palju | ||
Ewe geɖewo | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) marami | ||
Finnish monet | ||
French beaucoup | ||
Frisian folle | ||
Galician moitos | ||
Georgian ბევრი | ||
German viele | ||
Greek πολλά | ||
Guarani heta | ||
Gujarati ઘણા | ||
Haitian Creole anpil | ||
Hausa da yawa | ||
Hawaiian lehulehu | ||
Hebrew רב | ||
Hindi अनेक | ||
Hmong coob leej | ||
Hungarian sok | ||
Icelandic margir | ||
Igbo ọtụtụ | ||
Ilocano adu | ||
Indonesian banyak | ||
Irish go leor | ||
Italian molti | ||
Japanese たくさんの | ||
Javanese akeh | ||
Kannada ಅನೇಕ | ||
Kazakh көп | ||
Khmer ជាច្រើន | ||
Kinyarwanda benshi | ||
Konkani खुबशे | ||
Korean 많은 | ||
Krio bɔku | ||
Kurdish gelek | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) زۆر | ||
Kyrgyz көп | ||
Lao ຫຼາຍ | ||
Latin multis | ||
Latvian daudzi | ||
Lingala ebele | ||
Lithuanian daugelis | ||
Luganda -ngi | ||
Luxembourgish vill | ||
Macedonian многумина | ||
Maithili बहुत रास | ||
Malagasy maro | ||
Malay banyak | ||
Malayalam പലരും | ||
Maltese ħafna | ||
Maori maha | ||
Marathi अनेक | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯃꯌꯥꯝ | ||
Mizo tam tak | ||
Mongolian олон | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အများကြီး | ||
Nepali धेरै | ||
Norwegian mange | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) ambiri | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଅନେକ | ||
Oromo hedduu | ||
Pashto ډیری | ||
Persian زیاد | ||
Polish wiele | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) muitos | ||
Punjabi ਬਹੁਤ ਸਾਰੇ | ||
Quechua achka | ||
Romanian mulți | ||
Russian многие | ||
Samoan tele | ||
Sanskrit बहवः | ||
Scots Gaelic mòran | ||
Sepedi ntši | ||
Serbian многи | ||
Sesotho tse ngata | ||
Shona zvakawanda | ||
Sindhi گهڻا | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) විවිධ | ||
Slovak veľa | ||
Slovenian veliko | ||
Somali badan | ||
Spanish muchos | ||
Sundanese seueur | ||
Swahili nyingi | ||
Swedish många | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) marami | ||
Tajik бисёр | ||
Tamil பல | ||
Tatar күп | ||
Telugu చాలా | ||
Thai มากมาย | ||
Tigrinya ቡዙሕ | ||
Tsonga swotala | ||
Turkish birçok | ||
Turkmen köp | ||
Twi (Akan) bebree | ||
Ukrainian багато | ||
Urdu بہت | ||
Uyghur نۇرغۇن | ||
Uzbek ko'p | ||
Vietnamese nhiều | ||
Welsh llawer | ||
Xhosa ezininzi | ||
Yiddish פילע | ||
Yoruba ọpọlọpọ awọn | ||
Zulu eziningi |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "baie" has an alternate meaning of "very" or "much" and is derived from the Dutch word "beï". |
| Albanian | The word "shumë" is derived from Proto-Albanian *šumī, itself from Proto-Indo-European *sú-meh₁ "much, many". |
| Amharic | The word "ብዙዎች" means "many" but can also refer to a group of people. |
| Arabic | The word "كثير" also means "a lot of" or "much" in Arabic. |
| Armenian | "Շատերը" also means "most" in Armenian, and can be used to refer to the majority of a group. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "çox" in Azerbaijani is cognate with "çok" in Turkish, "çoq" in Crimean Tatar, "чох" in Karachay-Balkar, and "чox" in Nogai. |
| Basque | The Basque word "asko", meaning "many" or "a lot", has an Indo-European origin with a cognate in "a lot" in modern English. |
| Belarusian | 'Шмат' means 'many' in Belarusian, but it can also mean 'piece' depending on the context. |
| Bengali | The word "অনেক" can also mean "much", "a lot", or "abundantly" in Bengali. |
| Bosnian | The word 'mnogi' is most often a simple and direct synonym of 'mnogo', but, in certain uses, carries a strong meaning of multitude, in that of countless, unspecified amount, and, as such, can be often found where this nuance needs to be stressed to highlight a size of a collective, or even simply in contexts dealing with huge amounts to accentuate the scale. |
| Bulgarian | The word "много" can also mean "a lot of" or "much" in Bulgarian. |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "molts" is also an abbreviation of the Latin phrase "multum et saepe" (much and often). |
| Cebuano | The word "daghan" in Cebuano can also refer to a large amount or quantity of something. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The phrase "许多" was first used over 1,100 years ago to describe the "many" parts of a song |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The word "許多" (pronounced "xǔduō") can also mean "much" or "a great deal" in Chinese. |
| Corsican | Corsican assai and Italian assai have a distinct origin from the Latin satis, but they share the meaning "enough". |
| Croatian | Croatian 'puno' derives from a Slavic word for 'full' and may also mean 'full', 'rich' or 'fertile'. |
| Czech | The word "mnoho" has Slavic origins, deriving from the Proto-Slavic root *mъnogъ, meaning "many, much". |
| Danish | The Danish word "mange" has Old Norse roots and can have secondary meanings like "several" or "a lot" depending on the context. |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "veel" has cognates in English like "fulfil" and "filthy" but its etymology remains uncertain. |
| Esperanto | The word "multaj" can also refer to a large number of people, animals, or things. |
| Estonian | The word "palju" can also refer to a large amount of something, such as a lot of money or a large number of people. |
| Finnish | 'Monet' can also mean 'several' or 'some', which are less than 'many'. |
| French | "Beaucoup" can also mean "very" or "a lot" in French, similar to "molto" in Italian and "muito" in Portuguese. |
| Frisian | The word "folle" in Frisian is cognate with the English word "full" and means both "many" and "full". |
| Galician | "Moitos" in Galician is derived from the Latin "multitudo" but it can also be a synonym of "lungs" in some contexts. |
| Georgian | The word "ბევრი" originally meant "much" or "a lot" in Old Georgian, and is related to the word "ბევრი" ("abundance") in Modern Georgian. |
| German | In Austrian German, "viele" can have the same meaning as "viel" in Standard German, referring to "a lot of" or "much". |
| Greek | "Πολλά" derives from the ancient Greek word "πολύς" (polús), meaning "much" or "numerous," and in modern Greek it can also mean "so much" or "too much" |
| Gujarati | The word "ઘણા" can also mean "much" or "a lot" depending on the context. |
| Haitian Creole | The word "anpil" in Haitian Creole has Bantu origins and is related to the words "bangi" and "mingi" in other Bantu languages, all of which mean "much" or "many". |
| Hausa | The Hausa word ''da yawa'' can also refer to a large amount or a great deal. |
| Hawaiian | The Hawaiian word "lehulehu" can also refer to a crowd of people, indicating both a large number and a collective aspect. |
| Hebrew | The word "רב" can also mean "great", "master", or "teacher" in Hebrew. |
| Hindi | The word 'अनेक' (anek) in Hindi is derived from the Sanskrit word 'अनु' (anu), meaning 'after' or 'in succession', and 'एक' (eka), meaning 'one', referring to the idea of many things occurring in a sequence or together. |
| Hmong | The verb 'coob leej' in Hmong can also mean 'to multiply' or 'to increase' in quantity. |
| Hungarian | The word "sok" is also used in the sense of "much", "a lot of", or "plenty of". |
| Icelandic | In Icelandic, "margur" is the singular form of "margir," meaning "many," and the singular form is used when referring to a quantity of people or things that is not countable. |
| Igbo | Ọtụtụ also denotes a large number of people or things that are gathered together for a common purpose. |
| Indonesian | The Javanese word "kathah" is the root of the Indonesian word "banyak". |
| Irish | In Munster Irish, "go leor" commonly means "much" or "very" rather than "many". |
| Italian | "Molti" shares the same Latin etymology as "moltitudine" meaning "multitude". |
| Japanese | Lots can also be said in Japanese as “ippai”, while “yoku” is a somewhat uncommon version of “lots”, which is more popular in Kansai regions. |
| Javanese | "Akeh" can also mean "much" or "plenty" depending on the context. |
| Kannada | The word 'ಅನೇಕ' is also used to refer to a large quantity or number of things, as in 'ಅನೇಕ ಜನರು' ('a large number of people'). |
| Kazakh | "Көп" also means "to increase" and "to multiply" in Kazakh. |
| Khmer | ជាច្រើន originates from Middle Khmer with Sanskrit influence, originally meaning both "much" and "difficult". |
| Korean | The word "많은" can also mean "much" or "a lot". |
| Kurdish | The word "gelek" also refers to a specific type of Kurdish dance, typically performed by women in a line formation. |
| Kyrgyz | The word "көп" in Kyrgyz can also mean "much" or "plenty". |
| Lao | The word "ຫຼາຍ" in Lao is derived from the Proto-Tai-Kadai word *plaːj, meaning "group, company, multitude". |
| Latin | The word "multis" in Latin is the plural form of "multus" which also means "much" or "great". |
| Latvian | "Daudzi" is a Latvian word that is not etymologically related to its cognates in Germanic and Slavic languages, where it usually corresponds to the concept of "two". |
| Lithuanian | The word "daugelis" is derived from the Proto-Baltic root *daug- meaning "much, many". |
| Luxembourgish | The word 'vill' in Luxembourgish can also be used to refer to a particular place where there are many houses, similar to the English word 'village'. |
| Macedonian | The word “многумина” originally meant “a crowd” and is related to the word “многу” meaning “much”. |
| Malagasy | Malagasy "maro" can also mean "a lot", "very", "great", "many", or "much" |
| Malay | The word "banyak" also means "much", "plenty", or "a lot" depending on the context. |
| Malayalam | The word "പലരും" in Malayalam can also mean "several" or "a few," depending on the context. |
| Maltese | In Maltese, "ħafna" can also be used to express a large number of people, animals, or objects. |
| Maori | The word 'maha' means 'many' in Maori and can describe a large quantity of objects or people that are seen as plentiful. |
| Marathi | The Marathi word "अनेक" ultimately derives from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₁enǵʰ- meaning "one by one". |
| Mongolian | "Олон" is plural in Mongolian, but if used as a noun it means "time" or "occasion" |
| Nepali | The Nepali word "धेरै" is derived from the Sanskrit word "धृ" meaning "hold". It can also mean "much", "a lot", or "in great quantity". |
| Norwegian | The word "mange" in Norwegian can also refer to a skin disease in animals. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word 'ambiri' can be traced back to Proto-Bantu *bili, meaning 'two'. |
| Pashto | The word "ډیری" in Pashto can also mean "plenty" or "abundant". |
| Persian | The Persian phrase 'ziaad az haad' means 'excessive' and also derives from Persian word 'ziad', that means 'a lot'. Hence 'ziad az haad' can also be considered as 'much of much'. |
| Polish | The word "wiele" finds its roots in Proto-Slavic "velьmi", meaning "very". It also corresponds to the Latin "valde" and the German "wahl". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | "Muitos" is cognate with the Spanish, Italian and French "mucho" and its Latin root "multus." |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "mulți" originates from the Latin root "multus". However, in modern Romanian slang, it is often used to mean "cool" or "awesome" |
| Russian | The Russian word "многие" can also refer to "a multitude" or "most". |
| Samoan | "Tele" in Samoan also refers to a gathering or meeting. |
| Scots Gaelic | The word 'mòran' is cognate with the Irish word 'mór' ('big'), and can also mean 'much' or 'great' in Scots Gaelic. |
| Serbian | The word "многи" also has a secondary meaning of "various" or "different". |
| Shona | "Zvakawanda" can also refer to a group of people or animals. |
| Sindhi | The word "گهڻا" (many) in Sindhi is likely derived from the Sanskrit word "गण" (gana), which also means "group" or "multitude." |
| Slovak | The Slovak word "veľa" originates from the Proto-Indo-European root "*wel- " meaning "to wrap" or "to cover". |
| Slovenian | The word 'veliko' has cognates in most other Slavic languages and is similar to the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European form *wel- |
| Somali | The word "badan" also refers to an object used for counting beads in traditional Somali prayer necklaces. |
| Spanish | In 16th century Spain, "muchos" was an intensive, meaning "very." This usage became obsolete. |
| Sundanese | The word "seueur" is derived from the Proto-Austronesian word "*saŋuR". The word "seueur" can also mean "large", "much", and "abundant". |
| Swahili | The word "nyingi" can also mean "much". In Swahili, the concept of "much" is more closely associated with non-count nouns, while "many" is used for count nouns. |
| Swedish | Cognate with the English word "many" and the German word "Menge" |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Marami" also refers to a species of Philippine anchovy. |
| Tajik | The word "бисёр" in Tajik can also mean "a lot" or "plenty". |
| Tamil | The word 'பல' in Tamil is derived from the Proto-Dravidian root '*par-a', which also means 'multitude' or 'army'. |
| Telugu | "చాలా" also means "enough" or "very" when used as an adverb. |
| Thai | The Thai word "มากมาย" ("many") can also be used to describe a large amount or quantity of something. |
| Turkish | The word "birçok" in Turkish shares its etymology with the word "bir" (one) and can also mean "several" or "a few" in some contexts. |
| Ukrainian | The word "багато" (many) in Ukrainian is derived from the Proto-Slavic *bogъ, which also meant "god" or "wealth". |
| Urdu | "بہت" is derived from Sanskrit "bahuta" and has alternate meanings like "excessive" or "a lot". |
| Uzbek | Ko'p also means "group" or "bunch", especially when referring to people ("ko'p odam") or similar concepts. |
| Vietnamese | The word “nhiều” can also mean “much” or “a lot”, depending on the context. |
| Welsh | In place names, 'llawer' may derive from 'llaw' meaning 'flowing' or 'stream'. |
| Xhosa | The word "ezininzi" can also be used to mean "abundant" or "greatly increased" in Xhosa. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "פילע" (many) is derived from the German word "viel" (much). |
| Zulu | Eziningi in Zulu also refers to the number '1,000' and 'an abundance'. |
| English | Alternate meanings of "many" include a group or company of people, or a vast number or amount. |