Medium in Different Languages
Discover 'Medium' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Medium
Afrikaans medium | ||
Albanian mesatare | ||
Amharic መካከለኛ | ||
Arabic متوسط | ||
Armenian միջին | ||
Assamese মাধ্যম | ||
Aymara chika | ||
Azerbaijani orta | ||
Bambara hakɛ | ||
Basque ertaina | ||
Belarusian сярэдні | ||
Bengali মধ্যম | ||
Bhojpuri माध्यम | ||
Bosnian srednje | ||
Bulgarian средно | ||
Catalan mitjà | ||
Cebuano medium | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 中 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 中 | ||
Corsican mediu | ||
Croatian srednji | ||
Czech střední | ||
Danish medium | ||
Dhivehi މީޑިއަމް | ||
Dogri दरम्याना | ||
Dutch medium | ||
English medium | ||
Esperanto meza | ||
Estonian keskmine | ||
Ewe le vedome | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) daluyan | ||
Finnish keskipitkällä | ||
French moyen | ||
Frisian medium | ||
Galician medio | ||
Georgian საშუალო | ||
German mittel | ||
Greek μεσαίο | ||
Guarani mbyte | ||
Gujarati માધ્યમ | ||
Haitian Creole mwayen | ||
Hausa matsakaici | ||
Hawaiian waena | ||
Hebrew בינוני | ||
Hindi मध्यम | ||
Hmong nruab nrab | ||
Hungarian közepes | ||
Icelandic miðlungs | ||
Igbo ọkara | ||
Ilocano medio | ||
Indonesian medium | ||
Irish mheán | ||
Italian medio | ||
Japanese 中 | ||
Javanese medium | ||
Kannada ಮಾಧ್ಯಮ | ||
Kazakh орташа | ||
Khmer មធ្យម | ||
Kinyarwanda giciriritse | ||
Konkani मध्यम | ||
Korean 매질 | ||
Krio lukin-grɔn uman | ||
Kurdish medya | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) ناوەند | ||
Kyrgyz орто | ||
Lao ກາງ | ||
Latin medium | ||
Latvian vidējs | ||
Lingala katikati | ||
Lithuanian vidutinis | ||
Luganda midiyamu | ||
Luxembourgish mëttel | ||
Macedonian среден | ||
Maithili माध्यम | ||
Malagasy salasalany | ||
Malay sederhana | ||
Malayalam ഇടത്തരം | ||
Maltese medju | ||
Maori reo | ||
Marathi मध्यम | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯄꯥꯝꯕꯩ | ||
Mizo hmanrua | ||
Mongolian дунд | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အလယ်အလတ် | ||
Nepali मध्यम | ||
Norwegian medium | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) sing'anga | ||
Odia (Oriya) ମଧ୍ୟମ | ||
Oromo giddugaleessa | ||
Pashto وچ | ||
Persian متوسط | ||
Polish średni | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) médio | ||
Punjabi ਮਾਧਿਅਮ | ||
Quechua chawpi | ||
Romanian mediu | ||
Russian средняя | ||
Samoan feoloolo | ||
Sanskrit मध्यम | ||
Scots Gaelic meadhanach | ||
Sepedi dirišwago | ||
Serbian средње | ||
Sesotho mahareng | ||
Shona svikiro | ||
Sindhi وچولي | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) මධ්යම | ||
Slovak stredná | ||
Slovenian srednje | ||
Somali dhexdhexaad ah | ||
Spanish medio | ||
Sundanese sedeng | ||
Swahili kati | ||
Swedish medium | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) daluyan | ||
Tajik миёна | ||
Tamil நடுத்தர | ||
Tatar урта | ||
Telugu మధ్యస్థం | ||
Thai ปานกลาง | ||
Tigrinya ማእኸላይ | ||
Tsonga xikarhi | ||
Turkish orta | ||
Turkmen orta | ||
Twi (Akan) kwan | ||
Ukrainian середній | ||
Urdu میڈیم | ||
Uyghur ئوتتۇراھال | ||
Uzbek o'rta | ||
Vietnamese trung bình | ||
Welsh canolig | ||
Xhosa phakathi | ||
Yiddish מיטל | ||
Yoruba alabọde | ||
Zulu okulingene |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | In Afrikaans, the word "medium" can also refer to a psychic or spiritual intermediary between the living and the dead. |
| Albanian | Mesatare in Albanian can also refer to the middle voice in grammar, which indicates that an action is done by or to the subject simultaneously. |
| Amharic | The word "መካከለኛ" can also refer to a judge or arbitrator, as well as to a middle person or go-between. |
| Arabic | In addition to the common meaning of "medium," "متوسط" in Arabic can also refer to an average or mean. |
| Armenian | The word "միջին" can also refer to an intermediary person or thing |
| Azerbaijani | The word "orta" is also used to describe the middle finger, as it is considered the "medium" finger between the index and ring fingers. |
| Basque | In Basque, "ertaina" also means "something that is certain; certain thing, certainty" and "reliable, trustworthy". |
| Bengali | The word "মধ্যম" in Bangla comes from the Sanskrit word "madhya" meaning "middle," "average," or "ordinary." |
| Bosnian | In some contexts, "srednje" can also mean "average" or "moderate." |
| Bulgarian | In Bulgarian, "средно" means "average," "medium," or "intermediate." |
| Catalan | Catalan word "mitjà" derives from the Latin "medius" (in the middle), which can also translate to "average" in modern contexts. |
| Cebuano | The Cebuano word "medium" can also refer to a kind of small fish or a type of rice grain. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | In classical Chinese, "中" also means "Hit the target" |
| Chinese (Traditional) | In certain contexts, "中" can also mean "hit" or "inside". |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "mediu" can also refer to a medium of communication, such as language or art. |
| Croatian | The Croatian word "srednji" derives from the Proto-Slavic form "*sъrědĭnĭ", meaning "middle" or "central". |
| Czech | The adjective "střední" in Czech also has the meaning of "average" or "mean" in mathematics, in addition to its meaning as "medium" in size, quantity, or quality. |
| Danish | In Danish, 'medium' can also refer to a 'psychic' or someone who claims to have supernatural abilities. |
| Dutch | In Dutch, “medium” can be a medium, as in a communication channel, or the person through whom that information passes. |
| Esperanto | Esperanto's "meza" shares its root "mez-" with "met-" (middle), "inter-" (between), and "mi-" (half), which can be seen in words like "mezuro" (measure), "intereso" (interest), and "miliono" (million). |
| Estonian | Estonian "keskmine" has another meaning: "average". |
| Finnish | "Keskipitkällä" is a compound word composed of "keski- " (middle) and "pitkällä" (far), meaning "moderately far" or "midway". |
| French | In French, "moyen" can also refer to average quality or a fair amount. |
| Frisian | The word "medium" in Frisian is a loanword from Latin which can also mean "middle" or "average". |
| Galician | Galician "medio" (medium) comes from Latin "medium" (half, in the middle), which derives from "medius" (in the middle), related to English "mid" and "meet". |
| German | The word "Mittel" in German derives from the Latin word "medium", which means "in the middle", and can also refer to a substance or agent that facilitates a process. |
| Greek | The word "Μεσαίο" is derived from the Ancient Greek word "μέσος" meaning "middle" or "intermediate". |
| Gujarati | Alternate meanings of the Gujarati word "માધ્યમ" include "average", "means", and a "person through whom spirits communicate". |
| Haitian Creole | In many dialects of the Caribbean, Haitian Creole included, the term "mwayen" can also mean "bad". |
| Hausa | In Hausa, "matsakaici" also refers to a mediator or arbitrator. |
| Hawaiian | In Hawaiian, the term "waena" also means "middle" or "between". |
| Hebrew | The word "בינוני" can also mean "average" or "intermediate". |
| Hindi | The word 'मध्यम' can also refer to the middle of three or more things, or to a moderate amount or degree. |
| Hmong | The Hmong word "nruab nrab" can also mean "half" or "middle". |
| Hungarian | The word "közepes" can also mean "middle class" or "average" in Hungarian. |
| Icelandic | "Miðlungs" can also mean "mediocre" or "ordinary" in Icelandic. |
| Igbo | Ọkara is cognate with the Yoruba word àkàrà, meaning both 'medium' and 'bean cake'. |
| Indonesian | "Medium" (ukuran) comes from Dutch "middel", and "medium" (perantara) from Latin "medium" (middle). |
| Irish | In addition to its primary meaning, "mheán" can also refer to an average or a middle value. |
| Italian | The Italian word "medio" can also refer to a middle finger or a lukewarm temperature. |
| Japanese | The kanji 中 (なか) can also mean 'in', 'between', or 'center'. |
| Javanese | The Javanese word "medium" also refers to the middle finger of the hand |
| Kannada | The word "ಮಾಧ್ಯಮ" can also refer to an arbitrator, referee, or middleman. |
| Kazakh | In Kazakh, "орташа" also means "moderate" or "average". |
| Khmer | The word "មធ្យម" can also be used in Khmer to mean "ordinary" or "average." |
| Korean | 매질 can also be short for 매물 (real estate for sale). |
| Kurdish | The Kurdish word "medya" originates from the Persian word "madya" meaning "middle" or "intermediary." |
| Kyrgyz | The word "орто" in Kyrgyz also means "middle" or "in the middle." |
| Lao | The word ກາງ also means halfway, central, middle, and to measure. |
| Latin | The word "medium" in Latin can also refer to a person who acts as an intermediary between the living and the dead. |
| Latvian | In Latvian, the word "vidējs" comes from the Slavic root "вид" and initially meant "appearance". |
| Lithuanian | The word "vidutinis" (medium) in Lithuanian has several alternate meanings, including "average", "moderate", and "fair". It is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *medh-, meaning "middle" or "central". |
| Macedonian | The word "среден" can also mean "average" or "moderate" in Macedonian. |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "salasalany" is also used to describe someone who is fair-skinned or light-colored. |
| Malay | Sederhana is the Malay spelling of the Sanskrit word sadharana, meaning 'common' or 'ordinary'. |
| Malayalam | இடத்தரம் (medium) comes from the Sanskrit word 'madhya', meaning 'middle', and can also refer to an average quality or degree. |
| Maltese | The word "medju" in Maltese comes from the Arabic word "mutawassit", meaning "middle" or "intermediate". |
| Maori | Reo in Māori can also mean language. |
| Marathi | In Marathi, "मध्यम" also denotes fairness, balance, or moderation |
| Mongolian | In Mongolian, some scholars believe that the word "дунд" was borrowed from the Tibetan word "དབུ", meaning "head" or "top". |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | In Myanmar mythology, it also refers to the middle-world sandwiched between the heavenly and earthly realms. |
| Nepali | The word "मध्यम" in Nepali can also mean "middle" or "average". |
| Norwegian | In Norwegian, "medium" can refer to a medium of communication (such as a newspaper or television), or it can refer to a person who claims to be able to communicate with spirits. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | In Nyanja (Chichewa), "sing'anga" also refers to a traditional healer or herbalist. |
| Pashto | This word can also mean 'mean' or 'ordinary' in the context of quality or status. |
| Persian | The Persian word "متوسط" also means "moderate" or "middle". |
| Polish | The word "średni" in Polish also means "middle" or "average". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "médio" can also mean "average" or "mediocre" in Portuguese. |
| Punjabi | The Punjabi word "ਮਾਧਿਅਮ" also refers to one who practices spiritualism or acts as a channel between spirits and humans. |
| Romanian | The word "mediu" is derived from the Latin word "medius" and means "in the middle" as well as "medium-sized" or "average". |
| Russian | In Russian, "Средняя" can refer not only to "medium" but also to a "female high school student" or a "middle school." |
| Samoan | The term "feoloolo" in Samoan is also used to refer to a person who acts as an intermediary or go-between. |
| Scots Gaelic | The word 'meadhanach' is derived from the Old Irish word 'mediánach', which originally meant 'middle', but has come to mean 'medium' over time. |
| Serbian | The Serbian word "средње" can also mean "average" or "moderate". |
| Sesotho | The word "mahareng" likely derives from the Sesotho verb "harenga," meaning "to mediate" or "to reconcile." |
| Shona | In some Shona dialects, svikiro can also mean 'interpreter,' 'representative,' or 'envoy'. |
| Sindhi | "وچولي" is also a term used in Sindhi poetry, and means “the union of body and soul” |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "මධ්යම" (medium) in Sinhala can also refer to "average" or "moderate". |
| Slovak | The word "stredná" in Slovak can also refer to a secondary school or a female person of average height or size. |
| Slovenian | The word “srednje” can also mean “average” or “moderate” in Slovenian. |
| Somali | The word "dhexdhexaad ah" is an example of reduplication in Somali, which means that the root word "dhex" (middle) is repeated to emphasize the concept of "intermediacy". |
| Spanish | The Spanish word "medio" can also mean "half" or "average". |
| Sundanese | The word "sedeng" can also mean "half" or "moderate" in Sundanese. |
| Swahili | Kati can also refer to an informal measurement for land and can also mean "waist". |
| Swedish | In Swedish, "medium" can also refer to a middle child or something average in quality. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Daluyan" in Tagalog can also refer to a channel or a passageway. |
| Tajik | "Миёна" also refers to the middle layer of soil in agriculture. |
| Tamil | The word 'நடுத்தர' in Tamil can also refer to the middle class or to a neutral or unbiased position. |
| Thai | The word "ปานกลาง" in Thai translates to "medium," but is also used to express moderation or balance. |
| Turkish | "Orta" also means "middle" in Turkish, and can be used to describe the middle of a road, a room, or a period of time. |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word "середній" can refer not only to the average of a number but also to something intermediate in size or quantity. |
| Urdu | The word "میڈیم" (medium) in Urdu can also refer to a spiritualist or a person who claims to have the ability to communicate with the dead. |
| Uzbek | "Orta" can also mean "central" or "centre" in Uzbek. |
| Vietnamese | The word "trung bình" in Vietnamese can also refer to an "intermediate" or "normal" state. |
| Welsh | The word "canolig" in Welsh can also refer to a "middleman" or "intermediary". It is derived from the word "canol", meaning "centre" or "middle". |
| Xhosa | The word 'phakathi' has spiritual connotations, representing the middle space between the physical and spiritual realms. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "מיטל" (medium) also means "center" or "average". |
| Yoruba | "Alabọde" also means "one who has a physical, mental, or spiritual experience that provides information about the future or about something unknown |
| Zulu | In addition to its meaning of "medium," "okulingene" can also mean "go-between" or "intermediary." |
| English | The word 'medium' is derived from the Latin word 'medius', which means 'middle'. It can also refer to a means of communication or a person who claims to have supernatural abilities. |