More in Different Languages
Discover 'More' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
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Afrikaans meer | ||
Albanian më shumë | ||
Amharic ተጨማሪ | ||
Arabic أكثر | ||
Armenian ավելին | ||
Assamese অধিক | ||
Aymara juk'ampi | ||
Azerbaijani daha çox | ||
Bambara caman | ||
Basque gehiago | ||
Belarusian больш | ||
Bengali আরও | ||
Bhojpuri अधिका | ||
Bosnian više | ||
Bulgarian повече ▼ | ||
Catalan més | ||
Cebuano labi pa | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 更多 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 更多 | ||
Corsican più | ||
Croatian više | ||
Czech více | ||
Danish mere | ||
Dhivehi އިތުރަށް | ||
Dogri होर | ||
Dutch meer | ||
English more | ||
Esperanto pli | ||
Estonian rohkem | ||
Ewe gawu | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) higit pa | ||
Finnish lisää | ||
French plus | ||
Frisian mear | ||
Galician máis | ||
Georgian მეტი | ||
German mehr | ||
Greek περισσότερο | ||
Guarani heta | ||
Gujarati વધુ | ||
Haitian Creole plis | ||
Hausa kara | ||
Hawaiian hou aku | ||
Hebrew יותר | ||
Hindi अधिक | ||
Hmong ntxiv | ||
Hungarian több | ||
Icelandic meira | ||
Igbo ọzọ | ||
Ilocano ad-adu pay | ||
Indonesian lebih | ||
Irish níos mó | ||
Italian di più | ||
Japanese もっと | ||
Javanese liyane | ||
Kannada ಹೆಚ್ಚು | ||
Kazakh көбірек | ||
Khmer ច្រើនទៀត | ||
Kinyarwanda byinshi | ||
Konkani चड | ||
Korean 더 | ||
Krio mɔ | ||
Kurdish zêde | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) زیاتر | ||
Kyrgyz көбүрөөк | ||
Lao ຫຼາຍ | ||
Latin magis | ||
Latvian vairāk | ||
Lingala lisusu | ||
Lithuanian daugiau | ||
Luganda okwongera | ||
Luxembourgish méi | ||
Macedonian повеќе | ||
Maithili अधिक | ||
Malagasy bebe kokoa | ||
Malay lebih banyak lagi | ||
Malayalam കൂടുതൽ | ||
Maltese aktar | ||
Maori atu | ||
Marathi अधिक | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯑꯍꯦꯟꯕ | ||
Mizo belh | ||
Mongolian дэлгэрэнгүй | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) နောက်ထပ် | ||
Nepali अधिक | ||
Norwegian mer | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) zambiri | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଅଧିକ | ||
Oromo caalaa | ||
Pashto نور | ||
Persian بیشتر | ||
Polish więcej | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) mais | ||
Punjabi ਹੋਰ | ||
Quechua aswan | ||
Romanian mai mult | ||
Russian больше | ||
Samoan sili atu | ||
Sanskrit अधिकः | ||
Scots Gaelic tuilleadh | ||
Sepedi go feta | ||
Serbian више | ||
Sesotho hape | ||
Shona zvimwe | ||
Sindhi وڌيڪ | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) තවත් | ||
Slovak viac | ||
Slovenian več | ||
Somali dheeraad ah | ||
Spanish más | ||
Sundanese tambih deui | ||
Swahili zaidi | ||
Swedish mer | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) higit pa | ||
Tajik бештар | ||
Tamil மேலும் | ||
Tatar күбрәк | ||
Telugu మరింత | ||
Thai มากกว่า | ||
Tigrinya ቡዙሕ | ||
Tsonga swo tala | ||
Turkish daha | ||
Turkmen has köp | ||
Twi (Akan) dodoɔ | ||
Ukrainian більше | ||
Urdu مزید | ||
Uyghur تېخىمۇ كۆپ | ||
Uzbek ko'proq | ||
Vietnamese hơn | ||
Welsh mwy | ||
Xhosa kaninzi | ||
Yiddish מער | ||
Yoruba siwaju sii | ||
Zulu okuningi |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "meer" in Afrikaans, meaning "more," derives from the Dutch word "meerder," which also means "more." |
| Albanian | "Më shumë" (more) in Albanian comes from the Latin root "magis," meaning "greater". |
| Amharic | In Amharic, ተጨማሪ (t'ech'emare) also means 'additionally' or 'furthermore'. |
| Arabic | The word "أكثر" (more) in Arabic is derived from the root "كثـر" (to be many), and can also mean "most" or "the majority". |
| Armenian | In Western Armenian and Classical Armenian, the word also means |
| Azerbaijani | The word daha çox is a compound word. Daha means 'still' or 'yet' and çox means 'much' or 'many'. |
| Basque | The word "gehiago" in Basque is related to the words "go" and "handi," meaning "above" and "big," respectively. |
| Belarusian | The word "больш" in Belarusian can also mean "big" or "large". |
| Bengali | আরও শব্দটির ব্যুৎপত্তি সংস্কৃত শব্দ অধিকের আবারে রূপ থেকে এসেছে। |
| Bosnian | "Više" is a comparative form of the adjective "velik" (large) in Bosnian, and can also be used as a noun meaning "the majority". |
| Bulgarian | The Bulgarian word "Повече" also means "again" and is related to "повтор" ("repeat"). |
| Catalan | "Més" in Catalan stems from the Latin "magis" meaning "greater" and may also signify "rather" or "but" in some expressions. |
| Cebuano | This word is likely a combination of Cebuano root word 'labaw' (to exceed) and the infix '-i' indicating direction. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | In Cantonese, "更多" (geng duo) also means "very" in the sense of quantity or degree. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The word "更多" can also mean "furthermore" or "moreover" in Chinese. |
| Corsican | Corsican "più" derives from Latin "plus" via Vulgar Latin "*plui," like in Italian, Catalan, and French. |
| Croatian | The word "više" in Croatian can also mean "higher" or "more in quantity". |
| Czech | The word "více" in Czech can also mean "repeatedly" or "often". |
| Danish | The Danish word "mere" is cognate with the English word "more", but can also mean "lake" or "swamp". |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "meer" comes from the Old Saxon "mēr" meaning "lake" or "pond". |
| Esperanto | The word “pli” in Esperanto also means “fold” (a verb) or “pleat” (a noun). |
| Estonian | In Finnish, "rohkem" means "a lot(s)", and in Russian it means "born" or "birth". |
| Finnish | The Finnish word "lisää" can also mean "to increase" or "to add". In the context of computer programming, it is often used to add new elements to an array or list. |
| French | The French word "plus" ("more") also means "very" or "quite" in front of an adjective; it also means "no longer" in front of a verb in the simple present tense. |
| Frisian | Frisian "mear" can also mean "lake" when suffixed with "mar" to give "marmear" and its use to express "more" may date to a prehistoric Indo-European lake-dwelling people |
| Galician | "Máis" derives from the Latin word "magis" and initially had the comparative sense of "greater" or "larger", but over time it has acquired the sense of "more". |
| Georgian | The word "მეტი" can also refer to "additional" or "extra" in Georgian. |
| German | The word "Mehr" has an alternate meaning in German: "Mehr" can refer to the dowry given to a bride upon marriage. |
| Greek | The word "περισσότερο" is derived from the Greek words "πλεον" (more) and "ιστορειν" (to know), suggesting that more knowledge leads to a greater understanding. |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "વધુ" also means "wife" or "bride". |
| Haitian Creole | The word "plis" in Haitian Creole also denotes an additional amount or quantity. |
| Hausa | The Hausa word "kara" can also be used to intensify an adjective, similar to the English word "moreover". |
| Hawaiian | hou aku can also mean 'to repeat' |
| Hebrew | "יותר" is not only used in the sense of quantity, but also of quality and intensity, such as in the phrase "יותר מדיי" (too much). |
| Hindi | The word "अधिक" can also mean "excessive" or "too much". |
| Hmong | The word "ntxiv" in Hmong can also refer to "again" or "in addition". |
| Hungarian | The word "több" can also mean "several" or "a few" depending on the context. |
| Icelandic | The word "meira" in Icelandic ultimately derives from the Proto-Indo-European root *mey-, meaning "to be greater," and is related to English "more" and "mayor." |
| Igbo | Ọzọ is also an Igbo title signifying seniority, which is distinct from the use of the same word as a quantifier. |
| Indonesian | The word 'lebih' can also mean 'better' or 'excess' in Indonesian. |
| Irish | The Irish word "níos mó" can also refer to comparative or superlative forms, depending on context. |
| Italian | Di Più can mean either "more" or "of more value" depending on the context. |
| Japanese | While "もっと" means "more" in Japanese, it can also mean "again". |
| Javanese | "Liyane" has an alternate meaning, namely "different" |
| Kannada | The word "ಹೆಚ್ಚು" (hecchu) also means "increased," "abundant," or "too much" in Kannada. |
| Kazakh | "Көбірек" is the comparative form of "көп" (meaning "many") and can also mean "most" or "much". |
| Khmer | "ច្រើនទៀត" can also mean "too much" or be used to express that something is "already done". |
| Korean | "더" is also used to express a comparative degree of adjectives and adverbs. |
| Kurdish | The Kurmanji word "Zêde" is said to have roots in Persian, coming from the words "zeyad" and "izdiyad," both meaning "increase". |
| Kyrgyz | The word "көбүрөөк" is derived from the Proto-Turkic word "köb", meaning "much, many", and the suffix "-rөөк", which indicates comparison. |
| Lao | The Lao word ຫແຕ ("many") can also mean "again" or "in turn". |
| Latin | "Magis" is also used in Latin to mean "rather" or "more so." |
| Latvian | "Vairāk" is also an archaic term for "again" |
| Lithuanian | The word "daugiau" in Lithuanian can also mean "many", "several", "plenty" or "numerous". |
| Luxembourgish | In the Luxembourgish language, the word "méi" can also be used as an intensifier, meaning "very". |
| Macedonian | The word "повеќе" in Macedonian also means "again" or "once more". |
| Malagasy | The word "Bebe kokoa" literally means "add water" in Malagasy, signifying the idea of adding more to make something fuller. |
| Malay | The phrase "lebih banyak lagi" can also be used to describe something that is excessive or in abundance. |
| Malayalam | The word "കൂടുതൽ" can also refer to "excess" or "additional" in Malayalam. |
| Maltese | The word "aktar" in Maltese shares roots with "extra" and "after" in English. |
| Maori | The word "atu" in Maori can also mean "again," "yet again," and "even more." |
| Marathi | The word "अधिक" can also mean "excessive", "too much", or "extra" in Marathi. |
| Nepali | The word "अधिक" is derived from the Sanskrit word "अधिकतर" meaning "most" or "majority". |
| Norwegian | The Norwegian word "mer" can also mean "lake" |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "Zambiri" can also mean "a lot" or "many" in Nyanja, depending on the context. |
| Pashto | The word "نور" is used in Pashto to refer specifically to "natural light", as opposed to artificial light |
| Persian | The word "بیشتر" can also mean "again" or "once more" in Persian. |
| Polish | In some contexts, the word "więcej" can have the meaning of "instead" or "rather" |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | "Mais" in Portuguese, although originally meaning "more" today can also mean "but" and "however". |
| Punjabi | In colloquial Punjabi, "ਹੋਰ" can also be used to mean 'again' or 'once more'. |
| Romanian | Mai Mult derives from Latin and originally meant "many" or "several," with "more" being a secondary specialization. |
| Russian | The word "Больше" can also mean "larger" or "older" in Russian. |
| Samoan | The Samoan word "sili atu" is cognate with the Tongan word "sili aki" and both mean "more" in both languages. |
| Scots Gaelic | The Gaelic word "tuilleadh" also means "again," "further," or "additionally." |
| Serbian | The word 'више' can also mean 'higher' or 'above' in Serbian, indicating a spatial or hierarchical relationship. |
| Sesotho | In the phrase 'Hape le Hape' ('more and more'), 'Hape' is repeated to emphasize the meaning of 'more' or 'continuously'. |
| Shona | The word "zvimwe" can also refer to "others" or "the rest" in Shona. |
| Sindhi | The word "وڌيڪ" (more) in Sindhi can also mean "increase" or "exceed". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word 'තවත්' can also mean 'once more' and is derived from the Proto-Indo-Iranian root '*taw-' meaning 'this' or 'that'. |
| Slovak | In Slovak, "viac" can also refer to a small amount or quantity of something, similar to the English "a bit" or "a little." |
| Slovenian | The word "več" in Slovenian also means "evening" or "night". |
| Somali | The word "dheeraad ah" in Somali can also mean "moreover" or "in addition". |
| Spanish | The Spanish word “más” comes from the Latin “magis” and can mean both “more” and “greater”. |
| Sundanese | "Tambih deui" is also used in the Indonesian language, and its alternate meaning is "again." |
| Swahili | The word 'zaidi' is also used in Swahili to mean 'extra' or 'additional'. |
| Swedish | In Swedish, "mer" can also refer to a body of water, such as a lake or the sea. |
| Tajik | The word "Бештар" in Tajik also refers to an increase in quantity or degree. |
| Tamil | The word "மேலும்" ("more") in Tamil can also mean "further", "in addition", or "again".} |
| Telugu | In Telugu, "మరింత" can be used to indicate an increase in degree, quantity, or extent. |
| Thai | In Old Thai "มากกว่า" referred to something beyond what was acceptable; something excessive. |
| Turkish | The word "Daha" in Turkish is derived from the Persian word "deha", meaning "intelligence, talent, ingenuity, or wisdom." |
| Ukrainian | "Більше" comes from "більший," a form of the word "великий" which means "large" or "great". |
| Urdu | The Urdu word 'مزید' originally referred to 'taste' and is related to the Hindi word 'miz' meaning 'sweet. |
| Uzbek | "Ko'proq" also means "more" in Uyghur and "additional" in Turkish. |
| Vietnamese | The word "hơn" can be used as a preposition meaning "above"} |
| Welsh | The Welsh word "mwy" may also mean "greater" or "more important". |
| Xhosa | The word "Kaninzi" is also used in a plural form to mean "they" or "those". |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "מער" ("more") is related to the German word "mehr" and the Latin word "magis." |
| Yoruba | Siwaju sii derives from the Yoruba words "si" (to follow) and "waju" (forward), indicating progress or continuation. This phrase also holds a deeper meaning, implying "moving ahead" both literally and figuratively. |
| Zulu | "Okuningi" can mean either "more" or "abundance" in Zulu. |
| English | The word 'more' originates from the Proto-Indo-European root '*meh₃' meaning 'greater', which also gave rise to the word 'much'. |