Afrikaans matig | ||
Albanian i moderuar | ||
Amharic መካከለኛ | ||
Arabic معتدل | ||
Armenian չափավոր | ||
Assamese মধ্যমীয়া | ||
Aymara turpa | ||
Azerbaijani orta | ||
Bambara ka bɛrɛbɛn | ||
Basque moderatua | ||
Belarusian ўмераны | ||
Bengali পরিমিত | ||
Bhojpuri उदार | ||
Bosnian umjereno | ||
Bulgarian умерен | ||
Catalan moderat | ||
Cebuano kasarangan | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 中等 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 中等 | ||
Corsican moderatu | ||
Croatian umjereno | ||
Czech mírný | ||
Danish moderat | ||
Dhivehi މެދުމިން | ||
Dogri दरम्याना | ||
Dutch matig | ||
English moderate | ||
Esperanto modera | ||
Estonian mõõdukas | ||
Ewe le ve dome | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) katamtaman | ||
Finnish kohtalainen | ||
French modérer | ||
Frisian matich | ||
Galician moderado | ||
Georgian ზომიერი | ||
German mäßig | ||
Greek μέτριος | ||
Guarani akãguapy | ||
Gujarati માધ્યમ | ||
Haitian Creole modere | ||
Hausa matsakaici | ||
Hawaiian akahai | ||
Hebrew לְמַתֵן | ||
Hindi उदारवादी | ||
Hmong pes nrab | ||
Hungarian mérsékelt | ||
Icelandic í meðallagi | ||
Igbo agafeghị oke | ||
Ilocano kalalainganna | ||
Indonesian moderat | ||
Irish measartha | ||
Italian moderare | ||
Japanese 中程度 | ||
Javanese sedheng | ||
Kannada ಮಧ್ಯಮ | ||
Kazakh орташа | ||
Khmer ល្មម | ||
Kinyarwanda gishyize mu gaciro | ||
Konkani मध्यम | ||
Korean 보통의 | ||
Krio soba | ||
Kurdish navînî | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) ناوەند | ||
Kyrgyz орточо | ||
Lao ປານກາງ | ||
Latin moderari | ||
Latvian mērens | ||
Lingala malembe | ||
Lithuanian vidutinio sunkumo | ||
Luganda kyomumakati | ||
Luxembourgish moderéiert | ||
Macedonian умерено | ||
Maithili उदारवादी | ||
Malagasy mampitony | ||
Malay sederhana | ||
Malayalam മിതത്വം | ||
Maltese moderat | ||
Maori ngawari | ||
Marathi मध्यम | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯃꯌꯥꯏ ꯑꯣꯏꯔꯞ | ||
Mizo thunun | ||
Mongolian дунд зэрэг | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အလယ်အလတ် | ||
Nepali मध्यम | ||
Norwegian moderat | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) moyenera | ||
Odia (Oriya) ମଧ୍ୟମ | ||
Oromo giddugaleessa | ||
Pashto اعتدال | ||
Persian در حد متوسط | ||
Polish umiarkowany | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) moderado | ||
Punjabi ਦਰਮਿਆਨੀ | ||
Quechua moderado | ||
Romanian moderat | ||
Russian умеренный | ||
Samoan feololo | ||
Sanskrit सन्तुलित | ||
Scots Gaelic meadhanach | ||
Sepedi magareng | ||
Serbian умерен | ||
Sesotho itekanetseng | ||
Shona zvine mwero | ||
Sindhi اعتدال پسند | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) මධ්යස්ථ | ||
Slovak mierny | ||
Slovenian zmerno | ||
Somali dhexdhexaad ah | ||
Spanish moderar | ||
Sundanese sedeng | ||
Swahili wastani | ||
Swedish måttlig | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) katamtaman | ||
Tajik мӯътадил | ||
Tamil மிதமான | ||
Tatar уртача | ||
Telugu మోస్తరు | ||
Thai ปานกลาง | ||
Tigrinya ማእኸላይ | ||
Tsonga xikarhi | ||
Turkish ılımlı | ||
Turkmen ortaça | ||
Twi (Akan) kakra | ||
Ukrainian помірний | ||
Urdu اعتدال پسند | ||
Uyghur ئوتتۇراھال | ||
Uzbek o'rtacha | ||
Vietnamese vừa phải | ||
Welsh cymedrol | ||
Xhosa ngcathu | ||
Yiddish מעסיק | ||
Yoruba dede | ||
Zulu ngokulinganisela |
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "matig" is derived from the Dutch word "matig", which means "moderate" or "temperate". |
| Albanian | In Albanian, "i moderuar" is also used in the sense of "to adjust," "to regulate," or "to set in order." |
| Amharic | The word "መካከለኛ" can also mean "middle" or "in between" in Amharic. |
| Arabic | The word معتدل can also mean "tempered," "proportioned," "harmonious," or "balanced." |
| Armenian | The word չափավոր (chapavor) in Armenian derives from the Persian word "chapa" meaning "measure" and "avor" meaning "to take". |
| Azerbaijani | Orta also means the middle (of something), such as in "orta barmaq" (middle finger). |
| Basque | The Basque word "moderatua" also means "well-balanced" or "temperate". |
| Belarusian | In Belarusian, the word "ўмераны" can also mean "temperate" (in climate) or "mediocre". |
| Bengali | This word can also mean 'limited' in Bengali. |
| Bosnian | "Umjereno" has been used in Bosnia since the Middle Ages to describe food that is not too spicy or sour. |
| Bulgarian | In Bulgarian, "умерен" can also mean "temperate" or "moderate" in terms of climate. |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "moderat" can also mean "mediator" or "mediator". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 中等 literally means "middle class" but can also mean "average" or "medium" |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 中等 is literally 'medium level', a sense preserved in the traditional Chinese medical system where it designates the 'moderate' level of heat or fever. |
| Corsican | In Corsica, "moderatu" is also a dialectal form of "moderato", meaning "slow", "gentle", or "composed." |
| Croatian | The word "umjereno" in Croatian can also mean "temperate" or "balanced". |
| Czech | The Czech word "mírný" also means "mild, gentle, or calm". |
| Danish | The word "moderat" in Danish can also refer to a type of bread made with oats and rye. |
| Dutch | The Dutch word 'matig' can also refer to a unit of weight equal to half a Rotterdam pound (213.36 grams). |
| Esperanto | "Moderanto", which means "moderator", is derived from "modera" (meaning "moderate"). |
| Estonian | The word mõõdukas derives from mõõt "measure, size," hence it originally meant "of average measure," "neither large nor small." |
| Finnish | The word "kohtalainen" in Finnish means "moderate" but also has a meaning of "fair" or "okay". |
| French | Modérer in French has medieval origins, derived from the Latin word |
| Frisian | The word "matich" in Frisian can also mean "tolerant" or "gentle". |
| Galician | Galician "moderado" comes from the Latin "moderatus" meaning both "moderate" and "calm". |
| Georgian | The word ზომიერი ( |
| German | "Maß" once meant "banquet" and "mäßig" originally meant "frugal". |
| Greek | "Μέτριος" originates from the Ancient Greek "μέτρον" (English: "measure"), signifying "conforming to measurement, appropriate". |
| Gujarati | The word "માધ્યમ" can also mean "average" or "mean" in Gujarati |
| Haitian Creole | In Haitian Creole, "modere" can also refer to controlling one's anger or emotions. |
| Hausa | The Hausa word "matsakaici" shares the same root as "matsakaita," meaning "center," implying fairness and lack of bias. |
| Hawaiian | In the Hawaiian language, the word also means "half" or "intermediate". |
| Hebrew | The word "למתן" also refers to the act of "giving" or "granting" in Hebrew. |
| Hindi | The Hindi term "उदारवादी" (udārvadi) originally referred to people who followed the ideas of Western philosophers known as classical liberals. |
| Hmong | Pes nrab also means 'lukewarm', 'cool', and 'indifferent'. |
| Hungarian | In older Hungarian language, it referred to the amount of rain, meaning 'not too much but not too little'. |
| Icelandic | Originally used to refer to an average level of wealth, the word has gradually shifted over time to refer simply to a middle or moderate amount of anything. |
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| Indonesian | "Moderat" in English can also mean 'a term for an Islamic political group originating in Indonesia'. |
| Irish | The word “measartha” can also mean “mediocre” or “fair.” |
| Italian | "Moderare" is derived from the Latin "modus" which means "measure". Its other meanings include "to limit, restrain, regulate, temper, qualify, reduce, or soften." |
| Japanese | The word 中程度 can also mean "fair" or "medium" in Japanese. |
| Javanese | In Javanese, the word 'sedheng' not only denotes 'moderate', but can also imply 'straight ahead' or 'facing the opposite direction', depending on the context. |
| Kannada | The word 'ಮಧ್ಯಮ' also refers to a 'neutral gender' in Kannada grammar. |
| Kazakh | The word "орташа" is of Persian origin and can also mean "middle" or "average" in Kazakh. |
| Khmer | "ល្មម" is also used in Khmer to mean appropriate, reasonable, or fair. |
| Korean | 보통의 is an abbreviation of 보통적인, which is the Sino-Korean reading of the Japanese word 普通的な (futsuutekina) derived ultimately via Latin from the Greek polis (city). As such, it can sometimes have a slightly different connotation than the original Korean word 중간의 (junggangeui), which more strictly means “the middle” and can also be used in a spatial or numerical sense, whereas 보통의 is used more exclusively for levels of intensity or concentration such as temperature or strength. |
| Kurdish | The word "navînî" in Kurdish also refers to "novelty" or "innovation". |
| Kyrgyz | In the Kyrgyz language, орточо may also refer to a level of difficulty in traditional games or competitions. |
| Lao | The Lao word |
| Latin | The word 'moderari' originally meant 'to measure' or 'to set limits', and was derived from the Latin word 'modus', meaning 'measure' or 'limit'. |
| Latvian | The word “mērens” can translate from Latvian to English variously to describe moderate weather and moderate physical effort among many other options. |
| Lithuanian | "Vidutinio" comes from "vidurys" (middle) + "tinkamas" (appropriate) + "-inis" (ending for adjectives). |
| Macedonian | The word "умерено" in Macedonian can mean not only "moderate" but also "reasonably", "temperate" or "restrained". |
| Malagasy | Alternate use "to be well-balanced"; possibly related to Proto-Austronesian *ma(n)-pitun "seven" with an affix or reduplication. |
| Malay | The word "sederhana" can also mean "humble" or "unpretentious" in Malay. |
| Maltese | In Maltese, "moderat" can also refer to a mediator or arbitrator. |
| Maori | Maori word for 'moderate', ngawari, also refers to half-caste or mixed race people. |
| Marathi | मध्यम can also mean middle or neutral in Marathi. |
| Nepali | The word 'मध्यम' can also mean 'average', 'central' or 'middle'. |
| Norwegian | "Moderat" can also mean "courageous,''brave,'' or "determined" in Norwegian. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | Nyanja has three words for 'moderate,' but 'moyenera' also refers to 'medium-sized things'. |
| Pashto | The Pashto word اعتدال originally also meant "the day of the month when the sun crosses the equator". |
| Persian | In Persian, "در حد متوسط" can be used to mean "mediocre" or "average." |
| Polish | The word "umiarkowany" comes from the Proto-Slavic word "mīrkъ", meaning "peace" or "tranquility," and is related to the words "mercy" and "quiet." |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | "Moderado" is used in Portuguese to indicate the quality of being a medium shade of color, and is also the name of a traditional style of Portuguese guitar music. |
| Romanian | In Romanian, "moderat" can also refer to "moderately warm" weather or a "medium" level of skill. |
| Russian | Russian "умеренный" ultimately originates from the Slavic root *mer- meaning "to die" but now only means "moderate" due to semantic shift. |
| Samoan | The word "feololo" in Samoan can also mean "calm" or "meek". |
| Scots Gaelic | The word "meadhanach" is derived from the noun "meadhan" (middle), signifying a position between extremes. |
| Serbian | The word "умерен" can also mean "temperate" or "mild" in Serbian. |
| Sesotho | "Itekanetseng" also refers to a person who is not very enthusiastic or easily excited. |
| Sindhi | The word 'اعتدال پسند' ('moderate') in Sindhi is derived from the Arabic root 'اعتدال' ('to be balanced'), and can also refer to someone who is impartial or reasonable. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The Sinhala word "මධ්යස්ථ" originates from the Sanskrit word "मध्यम" (madhya), which means "middle" or "moderate", and is also used in Hindi and Marathi with the same meaning. |
| Slovak | The Slovak word "mierny" originally meant "calm" and was also used to describe a "mild" or "gentle" wind. |
| Slovenian | The word "zmerno" in Slovenian can also mean "slowly", or "evenly", depending on the context. |
| Spanish | Moderar comes from Latin "moderari"; in Spain it also means to slow down the tempo of a song, but in Latin America it means to reduce its volume instead. |
| Sundanese | The word "sedeng" in Sundanese refers to something in the middle, such as a person's height or intelligence. |
| Swahili | Wastani is derived from the Arabic word "وسط", meaning "middle", and also refers to an average or normal state. |
| Swedish | The word "måttlig" can be related to the word "mått" (measurement), referring to "something that is measured out". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Katamtaman" is derived from the root word "kataman," which also means "measure" or "standard." |
| Tajik | The word "мӯътадил" also means "balanced" and "temperate" in Tajik. |
| Tamil | The word "மிதமான" can also mean "sweet" or "pleasing" in Tamil. |
| Telugu | The word "మోస్తరు" in Telugu has an alternate meaning of "a sample" or "a specimen". |
| Thai | The word "ปานกลาง" in Thai shares its root ("ปาน") with "ปานกลาง" in Sanskrit, meaning "middle". In Sanskrit, this root also gives rise to the word "मान" (maan), meaning "measure". |
| Turkish | "Ilımlı" has another meaning, which is "slightly alcoholic". |
| Ukrainian | In Ukrainian, the word "помірний" (pomirnyi) shares a root with the word "міра" (mira), meaning "measure" or "standard", suggesting moderation as a balancing of extremes. |
| Urdu | The Urdu word اعتدال پسند can also refer to something or someone in the state of equilibrium or balance. |
| Uzbek | The word "o'rtacha" in Uzbek is derived from the Persian word "mi'tar", meaning "amount". It can also mean "medium" or "average" in some contexts. |
| Vietnamese | Vừa phải derives from the Chinese word "just enough", and also refers to "a reasonable amount" in Vietnamese. |
| Welsh | Cymedrol is derived from the Welsh words 'cym' (together) and 'mesur' (measure), implying balance and moderation. |
| Xhosa | The word "ngcathu" in Xhosa can also mean "mediocre" or "okay", depending on the context. |
| Yiddish | "מעסיק" can be interpreted as "more-sick" or "less-well" in Yiddish. |
| Yoruba | The Yoruba word "dẹdẹ" also means "gently" or "slowly". |
| Zulu | The Zulu word 'ngokulinganisela' is a compound noun formed from the noun 'ulinganiso' (balance) and the verbal particle '-ela,' which denotes a moderate or gradual action. |
| English | From the Latin word 'moderatus', meaning 'kept within measure' or 'restrained'. |