Most in Different Languages
Discover 'Most' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Most
Afrikaans die meeste | ||
Albanian shumica | ||
Amharic በጣም | ||
Arabic معظم | ||
Armenian մեծ մասը | ||
Assamese অধিকাংশ | ||
Aymara jilpachani | ||
Azerbaijani ən çox | ||
Bambara fanba | ||
Basque gehienak | ||
Belarusian большасць | ||
Bengali সর্বাধিক | ||
Bhojpuri अधिका | ||
Bosnian najviše | ||
Bulgarian най-много | ||
Catalan la majoria | ||
Cebuano kadaghanan | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 最 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 最 | ||
Corsican a maiò parte | ||
Croatian najviše | ||
Czech většina | ||
Danish mest | ||
Dhivehi އެންމެ | ||
Dogri मते | ||
Dutch meest | ||
English most | ||
Esperanto plej multaj | ||
Estonian kõige rohkem | ||
Ewe kekiake | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) karamihan | ||
Finnish useimmat | ||
French plus | ||
Frisian measte | ||
Galician a maioría | ||
Georgian ყველაზე მეტად | ||
German die meisten | ||
Greek πλέον | ||
Guarani heta | ||
Gujarati સૌથી વધુ | ||
Haitian Creole pi fò | ||
Hausa mafi | ||
Hawaiian nui loa | ||
Hebrew רוב | ||
Hindi अधिकांश | ||
Hmong feem ntau | ||
Hungarian a legtöbb | ||
Icelandic flestir | ||
Igbo ọtụtụ | ||
Ilocano kaadduan | ||
Indonesian paling | ||
Irish is mó | ||
Italian maggior parte | ||
Japanese 最も | ||
Javanese paling | ||
Kannada ಹೆಚ್ಚು | ||
Kazakh ең | ||
Khmer ភាគច្រើន | ||
Kinyarwanda byinshi | ||
Konkani चडशें | ||
Korean 대부분 | ||
Krio pas ɔl | ||
Kurdish zêdeyî | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) زۆرینە | ||
Kyrgyz көпчүлүк | ||
Lao ຫຼາຍທີ່ສຸດ | ||
Latin maxime | ||
Latvian lielākā daļa | ||
Lingala mingi | ||
Lithuanian dauguma | ||
Luganda -singa | ||
Luxembourgish meescht | ||
Macedonian повеќето | ||
Maithili अधिकतर | ||
Malagasy indrindra | ||
Malay paling | ||
Malayalam മിക്കതും | ||
Maltese l-aktar | ||
Maori nuinga | ||
Marathi सर्वाधिक | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯑꯌꯥꯝꯕ | ||
Mizo ber | ||
Mongolian хамгийн их | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အများဆုံး | ||
Nepali धेरै | ||
Norwegian mest | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kwambiri | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଅଧିକାଂଶ | ||
Oromo harka calu | ||
Pashto ډیر | ||
Persian اکثر | ||
Polish większość | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) a maioria | ||
Punjabi ਬਹੁਤੇ | ||
Quechua aswan | ||
Romanian cel mai | ||
Russian самый | ||
Samoan tele | ||
Sanskrit अधिकतमः | ||
Scots Gaelic mhòr-chuid | ||
Sepedi bontši | ||
Serbian највише | ||
Sesotho haholo | ||
Shona kunyanya | ||
Sindhi گهڻو ڪري | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) බොහෝ | ||
Slovak najviac | ||
Slovenian najbolj | ||
Somali badankood | ||
Spanish más | ||
Sundanese paling | ||
Swahili zaidi | ||
Swedish mest | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) pinaka | ||
Tajik аз ҳама | ||
Tamil பெரும்பாலானவை | ||
Tatar күпчелек | ||
Telugu అత్యంత | ||
Thai มากที่สุด | ||
Tigrinya ብጥዕሚ | ||
Tsonga swo tala | ||
Turkish çoğu | ||
Turkmen köpüsi | ||
Twi (Akan) dodoɔ | ||
Ukrainian більшість | ||
Urdu سب سے زیادہ | ||
Uyghur كۆپىنچىسى | ||
Uzbek eng | ||
Vietnamese phần lớn | ||
Welsh fwyaf | ||
Xhosa uninzi | ||
Yiddish מערסט | ||
Yoruba julọ | ||
Zulu kakhulu |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | In Afrikaans, "die meeste" can also refer to the majority or the greater part of something. |
| Albanian | The Albanian word "shumica" originates from the Proto-Albanian word "shum" meaning "many" and the suffix "-icë" meaning "abundance". |
| Amharic | The word በጣም (most) can also mean "very" or "extremely" in Amharic. |
| Arabic | "معظم" is the plural of "أكثر" which means more, but it is also used to mean most |
| Azerbaijani | "Ən çox" is used for both singular and plural words, just like "the" is used in English for both singular and plural words in front of adjectives. |
| Basque | The word "gehienak" can also refer to "the majority" in Basque. |
| Belarusian | The word |
| Bengali | The word সর্বাধিক is derived from Sanskrit 'sarv-adhik', meaning 'most superior'. |
| Bosnian | Another meaning of "najviše" is "not at all", used for denial in negative sentences |
| Bulgarian | The word "най-много" in Bulgarian is derived from the superlative form of the adjective "много" (much) and the suffix "-то" (the), meaning "the most". It can also be used as a noun to refer to the greatest number or amount of something. |
| Catalan | In Catalan, the word "la majoria" can also mean "the majority of people" or "the majority party in a parliament". |
| Cebuano | "Kadaghanan" also refers to a place where rice and other grains are stored after harvest. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 最 can also mean "beginning" or "first" in Classical Chinese. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The Chinese character '最' ('most') can also mean 'the end' or 'the extreme'. |
| Corsican | In Corsican, "a maiò parte" can also mean "the most part" or "the majority of". |
| Croatian | The word 'najviše' is the superlative form of the adjective 'visok' ('high') and can also refer to the greatest quantity or extent of something. |
| Czech | “Většina” also means “majority”, deriving from the Old Church Slavonic word “větši” meaning “greater”. |
| Danish | In Danish, the word 'mest' can also mean 'very' or 'extremely' to indicate intensity or a high degree of something. |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "meest" can also mean "dung" in some dialects. |
| Esperanto | While plej multaj means "most" in Esperanto, it's composed of plej "more" + multaj "many," emphasizing "out of many." |
| Estonian | The phrase “kõige rohkem” can also be used to express “the most of” something, like in “Mul oli kõige rohkem lõbus sinu seltskonnas” (“I had the most fun in your company”). |
| Finnish | Finnish "useimmat" may derive from "usea", meaning "several", but it may also derive from Uralic "*usema", "many" or "several", both cognate with English "much" or "mostly". |
| French | Plus derives from the Latin 'plus', meaning 'more', 'added' or 'additional'. |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "measte" derives from the Proto-Germanic word "maista" meaning "most" or "greatest". |
| Galician | In Galician, "a maioría" can refer to either the numerical majority or the political majority. |
| Georgian | "ყველაზე მეტად" is a phrase that literally translates to "more than all," but it is often used to mean "most" in the sense of "the greatest amount." |
| German | The German word "die meisten" is the superlative form of "viel" (much) and can also mean "the majority". |
| Greek | The word "πλέον" in Greek can also mean "again" or "therefore". |
| Gujarati | The word "સૌથી વધુ" can also be used in Gujarati to mean "the most important" or "the best". |
| Haitian Creole | "Pi fò" (''most'') stems from the French "plus fort" (''stronger'') but also has the connotation of "better" or "more important". |
| Hausa | The word "mafi" also means "fullness" or "completion" in Hausa |
| Hawaiian | The phrase "nui loa" can also mean "great" or "very" in Hawaiian, intensifying the degree of something. |
| Hebrew | The word "רוב" can also mean "majority" or "most of" in Hebrew |
| Hindi | The word 'अधिकांश' is derived from the Sanskrit words 'अधिक' (more) and 'अंश' (part), implying 'a greater part'. |
| Hmong | In Hmong, "feem ntau" translates from the Chinese idiom "fen da duo" which means "dividing equally." |
| Hungarian | A "le" szó "lefelé" jelentésű, a "több" szó pedig "nagyobb mennyiséget" jelent, így a "le" + "több" szóösszetétel eredetileg azt jelentette, hogy "több lefelé". |
| Icelandic | The word "flestir" in Icelandic is also used to refer to the majority or the greatest part of something. |
| Igbo | Ọtụtụ can also mean 'many' in Igbo, making it an equivalent of 'most' in the English language. |
| Indonesian | The word 'paling' in Indonesian can also mean 'fence' or 'palisade', which reflects its use as a barrier or boundary. |
| Irish | The word ''is mó'' also means ''it is'' and is conjugated from the verb ''bheith'' (to be). |
| Italian | The word "maggior parte" is derived from the Latin phrase "maior pars", meaning "greater part" or "majority". |
| Japanese | Originally meant "root" or "bottom", and was later used to mean "extreme" or "highest degree". |
| Javanese | The Javanese word "paling" can also refer to "the side" or "the edge" of something. |
| Kannada | The word "ಹೆಚ್ಚು" can also mean "more" or "greater" in Kannada. |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "ең" (most) comes from the Proto-Turkic root "*eŋ", meaning "upper or higher portion". |
| Korean | "대부분" can also mean "for the most part" or "to a great extent" in Korean. |
| Kurdish | Zêdeyî is derived from the Persian word 'ziyâd', meaning 'more'. |
| Kyrgyz | Көпчүлүк translates to "most" in English. It's also the name of the governing party in Kyrgyzstan. |
| Latin | The Latin word 'maxime' originally meant 'greatest,' and it is related to the words 'magnus' (great) and 'magister' (master). |
| Latvian | Lielākā daļa is derived from the word "liels", meaning "great". Thus, "lielākā daļa" literally translates to "great part". |
| Lithuanian | Lithuanian "dauguma" is cognate with Latvian "daudzums" (abundance) and related to Greek "δημιουργία" (creation). |
| Luxembourgish | The word "meescht" is derived from Old High German "meista" and can also mean "majority" or "greatest part". |
| Macedonian | The word "повеќето" in Macedonian also means "majority" or "most of". |
| Malagasy | The word 'indrindra' may stem from 'indra' ('strong') and the iterative prefix 'indri-'; it can also refer to something which is 'too much' or 'excessive'. |
| Malay | The word "paling" in Malay also has the meaning of "fence" or "palisade". |
| Maltese | The word "l-aktar" can also mean "the more" or "the most" in Maltese. |
| Maori | In Maori, "nuinga" can also signify "many" or "a lot." |
| Marathi | The Marathi word "सर्वाधिक" comes from the Sanskrit word "सर्वोत्तम" which also means "best" or "greatest". |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word "хамгийн их" ("most") is derived from the verb "хамгаалах" ("to protect"), indicating its original meaning of "the best way to protect or defend" |
| Nepali | The word "धेरै" also means "a lot" or "many" in Nepali. |
| Norwegian | In Bokmål, the word "mest" can also mean "particularly" or "especially". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | Kwambiri can refer to a group of things when it means "the majority," and not to a single object. |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "ډیر" can also refer to "plenty" or "abundant." |
| Persian | Persian "اکثر" comes from Arabic "أكثر" and is related to "اکثریت" which means "majority". |
| Polish | The Polish word "większość" comes from the Proto-Slavic word *vętьšь-, which meant "greater, larger, bigger". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word 'maioria' is derived from the Latin word 'maior', meaning 'greater', and can also mean 'majority' or 'the greater part'. |
| Punjabi | ਬਹੁਤੇ means "many" and is a plural form of the word "बहु", which means "much" or "many" in Sanskrit. |
| Romanian | The word "cel mai" in Romanian comes from the Latin "ille magis", meaning "that more" or "that which is more", and has evolved over time to become the superlative form of adjectives in the language. |
| Russian | The word "самый" ("most") in Russian derives from the Proto-Slavic "samъ" ("alone, self"), emphasizing uniqueness rather than quantity. |
| Samoan | The Proto-Polynesian root word *tele, meaning "most," is still encountered in many Polynesian languages, including Samoan. |
| Scots Gaelic | "Mhòr-chuid" is the Scots Gaelic phrase meaning "most" or "most of," the second part of the term deriving from the word "cuid," meaning "portion" or "share." |
| Serbian | The Serbian word "najviše" also means "highest" or "most expensive". |
| Sesotho | The word can also refer to "a lot" in the sense of "many". |
| Shona | The Shona word "kunyanya" can also refer to "very" or "greatly". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The Sinhala word "බොහෝ" also means "many", "much", or "a lot". |
| Slovak | The Slavic word "najviac" derives from the Proto-Slavic "najь" (strongest, most important, best), which is also cognate with the German "nähen" (to sew). |
| Slovenian | The word 'najbolj' is a superlative form and is related to the word 'bolj' meaning 'more'. |
| Somali | The word "badankood" is derived from the Arabic word "badana", meaning "to be prominent" or "to excel." |
| Spanish | The Spanish word "más" can also translate to "but" in certain contexts. |
| Sundanese | Sundanese "paling" can also mean "the most" as a superlative for nouns, with a form identical to its use for adverbs and adjectives: "budak paling alim" (the most knowledgeable child) |
| Swahili | Historically, 'zaidi' was used after a cardinal number, where it now precedes. |
| Swedish | Originally, the word "mesta" in Swedish could mean "the majority", a "great quantity", or "generally speaking". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "pinaka" in Tagalog can also mean "most important" or "main". |
| Tajik | "Аз ҳама" in Tajik is a derivative of the Persian word "азом", which also means "most". |
| Telugu | The word "అత్యంత" comes from the Sanskrit word "अत्यन्त" (atyánta), meaning "at the end". It can also mean "extremely" or "very much". |
| Thai | The Thai word "มากที่สุด" is composed of the words "มาก" meaning "much" and "ที่สุด" meaning "very" and literally translates to "most" |
| Turkish | The word "çoğu" comes from the Proto-Turkic verb "çok-", meaning "to be plentiful" or "to be many". |
| Ukrainian | In Ukrainian, the word "більшість" has a unique grammatical case, the vocative case, for direct address, which is used in appeals, prayers, oaths, and toasts. |
| Uzbek | The Uzbek word "eng" is a contraction of the Persian word "ang", which means "portion" or "part." |
| Vietnamese | The word "phần lớn" literally means "the big part", as in the majority of something. |
| Welsh | The word "fwyaf" in Welsh also means "best" or "greatest". |
| Xhosa | The Xhosa word “uninzi” also refers to the wild olive tree and its abundant fruit. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "מערסט" (meyrest) is derived from the Middle High German "meiste" and also means "superlative". |
| Yoruba | The Yoruba word "julọ" has a wider meaning and can also refer to the act of surpassing someone or something. |
| Zulu | The word "kakhulu" is also used to describe something that is "very good" or "very beautiful" in Zulu. |
| English | The word 'most' originated as a superlative of the adjective 'much'. |