Number in Different Languages
Discover 'Number' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Number
Afrikaans nommer | ||
Albanian numri | ||
Amharic ቁጥር | ||
Arabic رقم | ||
Armenian թիվ | ||
Assamese সংখ্যা | ||
Aymara jakhu | ||
Azerbaijani nömrə | ||
Bambara nimɔrɔ | ||
Basque zenbakia | ||
Belarusian нумар | ||
Bengali সংখ্যা | ||
Bhojpuri संख्या | ||
Bosnian broj | ||
Bulgarian номер | ||
Catalan número | ||
Cebuano numero | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 数 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 數 | ||
Corsican numeru | ||
Croatian broj | ||
Czech číslo | ||
Danish nummer | ||
Dhivehi ނަންބަރު | ||
Dogri नंबर | ||
Dutch aantal | ||
English number | ||
Esperanto nombro | ||
Estonian number | ||
Ewe xexlẽdzesi | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) numero | ||
Finnish määrä | ||
French nombre | ||
Frisian nûmer | ||
Galician número | ||
Georgian ნომერი | ||
German nummer | ||
Greek αριθμός | ||
Guarani papapy | ||
Gujarati નંબર | ||
Haitian Creole nimewo | ||
Hausa lamba | ||
Hawaiian helu | ||
Hebrew מספר | ||
Hindi संख्या | ||
Hmong tus naj npawb | ||
Hungarian szám | ||
Icelandic númer | ||
Igbo nọmba | ||
Ilocano bilang | ||
Indonesian jumlah | ||
Irish uimhir | ||
Italian numero | ||
Japanese 数 | ||
Javanese nomer | ||
Kannada ಸಂಖ್ಯೆ | ||
Kazakh нөмір | ||
Khmer ចំនួន | ||
Kinyarwanda nimero | ||
Konkani आंकडो | ||
Korean 번호 | ||
Krio nɔmba | ||
Kurdish jimare | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) ژمارە | ||
Kyrgyz номери | ||
Lao ຈໍານວນ | ||
Latin numerus | ||
Latvian numuru | ||
Lingala nimero | ||
Lithuanian numeris | ||
Luganda omuwendo | ||
Luxembourgish zuel | ||
Macedonian број | ||
Maithili संख्या | ||
Malagasy isa | ||
Malay nombor | ||
Malayalam നമ്പർ | ||
Maltese numru | ||
Maori tau | ||
Marathi संख्या | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯃꯁꯤꯡ | ||
Mizo a zat | ||
Mongolian дугаар | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) နံပါတ် | ||
Nepali संख्या | ||
Norwegian antall | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) nambala | ||
Odia (Oriya) ସଂଖ୍ୟା | ||
Oromo lakkoofsa | ||
Pashto شمیره | ||
Persian عدد | ||
Polish numer | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) número | ||
Punjabi ਗਿਣਤੀ | ||
Quechua yupay | ||
Romanian număr | ||
Russian количество | ||
Samoan numera | ||
Sanskrit संख्या | ||
Scots Gaelic àireamh | ||
Sepedi nomoro | ||
Serbian број | ||
Sesotho nomoro | ||
Shona nhamba | ||
Sindhi نمبر | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) අංකය | ||
Slovak číslo | ||
Slovenian številko | ||
Somali tirada | ||
Spanish número | ||
Sundanese nomer | ||
Swahili nambari | ||
Swedish siffra | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) numero | ||
Tajik рақам | ||
Tamil எண் | ||
Tatar саны | ||
Telugu సంఖ్య | ||
Thai จำนวน | ||
Tigrinya ቑጽሪ | ||
Tsonga nomboro | ||
Turkish numara | ||
Turkmen sany | ||
Twi (Akan) nɔma | ||
Ukrainian номер | ||
Urdu نمبر | ||
Uyghur سان | ||
Uzbek raqam | ||
Vietnamese con số | ||
Welsh rhif | ||
Xhosa inombolo | ||
Yiddish נומער | ||
Yoruba nọmba | ||
Zulu inombolo |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | In Afrikaans, “nommer” can refer to either a telephone number or a street address. |
| Albanian | Numri in Albanian is derived from the Latin "numerus" (plural "numeri"), which also refers to a "troop of soldiers". |
| Amharic | ቁጥር derives from the Old Ge'ez word וקטר ('wəḳtar), which also meant "number" |
| Arabic | The Arabic word "رقم" is thought to derive from "رقم" (raqama), "to mark," and also denotes a "letter" in the Arabic numerals system. |
| Armenian | The word "թիվ" (number) in Armenian is also used to refer to a date, with the specific meaning depending on the context. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "nömrə" in Azerbaijani is derived from the Persian word "numrah", which itself comes from the Arabic word "numāra". It has the alternate meaning of "number" in the sense of a grade or mark, as well as "item" or "piece", for example in the phrase "bir nömrə şəkər" (one piece of sugar). |
| Basque | Zenbakia, meaning "number" in Basque, also originates from "zenbat" (how much) from which other related words derive like "zenbait" (some, certain, certain quantity) and "zenbateko" (how many of, percentage). |
| Belarusian | In Belarusian, нумар also means a magazine issue and a telephone number. |
| Bengali | The word "সংখ্যা" is derived from the Sanskrit word "सङ्ख्या" meaning "counting", and also refers to a "list" or "enumeration". |
| Bosnian | The word 'broj' is also used figuratively to refer to a person of importance or influence in the community. |
| Bulgarian | The word "номер" in Bulgarian is a false friend, as it means "room" in English. |
| Catalan | Catalan "número" has the same origin as "numerable" or "denumerable" in English: all stem from the Latin verb "numerare" or "to count." |
| Cebuano | In Cebuano, "numero" is ultimately derived from the Spanish "número," but can also mean "way," "manner," or "style." |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The character "数" (number) also means "several", "some" and "a number of". |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The character "數" (Traditional Chinese for "number") also refers to "mathematics" and "counting". |
| Corsican | In Corsican, "numeru" can also refer to the mathematical operation of division |
| Croatian | The Croatian word "broj" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *borti, meaning "to count". |
| Czech | The word "číslo" is also a term used in grammar to refer to the singular/plural form of a noun (singular: {"jednotné číslo"}, plural: {"množné číslo"}). |
| Danish | The Danish word "nummer" is derived from the Latin word "numerus", meaning "count", and can also refer to a phone number or a size in clothing. |
| Dutch | The word "aantal" is related to the English words "account" and "amount", both of which derive from the Old French word "acounter" meaning "to count or to reckon." |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word 'nombro' comes from the Latin word 'numerus', meaning not only 'number' but also 'rhythm' or 'melody'. |
| Estonian | The word "number" in Estonian, "number", can also mean "figure" or "digit". |
| Finnish | The term "määrä" also refers to a measure or quantity of something, and can be used in a variety of contexts. |
| French | In French, the plural form 'nombres' can also refer to a series of exercises given to a student or a set of accounts or figures. |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "nûmer" can also mean a numeral or a figure. |
| Galician | "Número" (number) comes from the Latin "numerus". The plural, "números", means "melody" too. |
| Georgian | In Georgian, "ნომერი" (nomeri) originated from the Greek word "αριθμός" (arithmos), meaning "number," and also designates a "room" in a hotel or other building. |
| German | The word "Nummer" in German is derived from the Latin word "numerus", meaning "group" or "collection". |
| Greek | In Ancient Greek, “αριθμός” also meant a list, a group or a sum. |
| Gujarati | "નંબર" is derived from the Latin word "numerus", meaning "set of objects". |
| Haitian Creole | The Haitian word "nimewo" comes from the French word "numéro" which also means "number" in English. |
| Hausa | The Hausa word "lamba" is also used in a proverb that means "a person who is always in trouble" |
| Hawaiian | "Helu" is also the word for "to count" or "to read" in Hawaiian. |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "מספר" ("mispar") can also mean "story" or "account." |
| Hindi | संख्या also means "calculation" or "computation" in Hindi. |
| Hmong | Although the Hmong word "tus naj npawb" has the primary meaning of "number," it also carries the meaning "quantity" or "amount." |
| Hungarian | The Hungarian word "szám" originally meant "account" or "reckoning". |
| Icelandic | The word "númer" can also refer to a prison cell in Icelandic slang. |
| Igbo | "Nọmba" in Igbo signifies 'total amount' or 'aggregate' and comes from the Proto-Igbo word *nombɔ́, which means 'to count'. |
| Indonesian | The Indonesian word "jumlah" also means "sum", and like "jumlah" in Arabic and "jumlah" in Malay, it derives from the Arabic "jumla", meaning "total, sum". |
| Irish | The Irish word "uimhir" is ultimately derived from the Latin word "numerus" and was originally used to refer to a "multitude" or "troop". |
| Italian | The word "numero" in Italian comes from the Latin word "numerus," which means "number," but it can also mean "issue," "way," or "verse." |
| Japanese | The character "数" can also mean "to count" or "to calculate". |
| Javanese | The root word 'nom' can mean to 'follow', as with the word 'nompo', which refers to the ritual following of another. |
| Kannada | The word "ಸಂಖ್ಯೆ" (samkhye) in Kannada is derived from the Sanskrit word "संख्या" (saṃkhyā), which originally meant "a counting"} |
| Kazakh | The word "нөмір" is also used in Kazakh to refer to a postal code, a phone number, or a license plate number. |
| Khmer | ចំនួន's Khmer origin comes from ancient Sanskrit, "samkhyā", which is related to the Proto-Austronesian root "-usa", which also gives us "suan" in Thai. |
| Korean | The word "번호" ("number") can also mean "ticket" or "license plate". |
| Kurdish | The word 'jimare' is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ḱm̥t- 'hundred'. |
| Kyrgyz | The word "номери" in Kyrgyz can also refer to a type of musical score or a musical instrument similar to a harmonica. |
| Latin | The Latin word "numerus" can also refer to a rhythmical arrangement of syllables, a troop of soldiers, or a group of musical instruments. |
| Latvian | The word "numuru" is also a Latvian verb meaning "to name" or "to call". |
| Lithuanian | The word "numeris" can also mean "mark" or "grade". |
| Luxembourgish | The Proto-Germanic root of "Zuel" is also found in the English word "tale". |
| Macedonian | The word "број" (meaning "number" in Macedonian) comes from the Proto-Slavic word *borjь, which is related to the Proto-Germanic word *burjaz (compare: "borrow" in English and "bürde" in German). |
| Malagasy | "Isa" can also mean "first" or "one" as an ordinal number in Malagasy. |
| Malay | "Nombor" comes from the Tamil word "numbar" ( |
| Maltese | Numru could derive from Ancient Greek "arithmos" or "numerus" used in Latin and Romance languages |
| Maori | The word "tau" also means "hundred" or "multitude" in Maori. |
| Marathi | "संख्या "also means "arithmetic" or "mathematics" in Marathi , and can refer to a particular branch of mathematics like "संख्याशास्त्र" (algebra) or "त्रिकोणमिती" (trigonometry). |
| Mongolian | The word "дугаар" originally meant "a mark on a bone used for counting." |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | In mathematics, "နံပါတ်" also refers to an element of a set, but only if the set is used to represent numbers. |
| Nepali | The Sanskrit word 'संख्या' is related to the Latin word 'numerus', meaning 'group' or 'collection'. |
| Norwegian | In Norwegian, the word "antall" also means a particular collection of things or a quantity of a given kind. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | "Nambale" in Chichewa (Nyanja) has connotations of "something to count" and can refer to a specific entity being counted rather than a cardinal value. |
| Pashto | Another meaning of "شمیره" is "an amount of money". |
| Persian | The word 'adad' is of Arabic origin and also means 'evidence' or 'proof' in Persian. |
| Polish | "Numer" has multiple meanings: the value, the symbol of the value (a digit) and the street address. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "número" derives from the Latin "numerus," meaning "multitude" or "quantity." |
| Punjabi | The word "ਗਿਣਤੀ" can also refer to a mathematical operation, such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division. |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "număr" comes from the Latin word "numerus", which also means "rhythm", "verse", or "song". |
| Russian | The word "количество" also means "amount" or "quantity" in Russian. |
| Samoan | The word 'numera' also means 'value', 'worth', or 'importance' in Samoan. |
| Scots Gaelic | The Gaelic word "àireamh" can also refer to a gathering or a counting-place. |
| Serbian | Alternate meanings: the letter б in Old Cyrillic (also known as Cyrillica Bulgarica българа); and also a form of the Cyrillic numeral system for denoting numbers (similar but not equal to the Greek isopsephy system) Фит, Е (700), where the numeral used also had an equivalent letter (e.g. the numeral for 30, which also was the form ю). |
| Sesotho | In Sesotho, 'nomoro' is also used to mean 'name' or 'title', and can refer to a person's given name, surname, or a title such as 'chief' or 'doctor'. |
| Shona | "Nhamba" also means "count" and may be related to the word "nyamba" which means "cut" or "divide". |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "نمبر" also means "mark" or "symbol". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word “අංකය” originates from the Sanskrit word “अंक” which means “to mark” or “to write”. |
| Slovak | The word "číslo" in Slovak also means "code" or "cipher". |
| Slovenian | In mathematics, "številko" (number) can also refer to the concept of an abstract object which quantifies objects according to some commonality. |
| Somali | In Somali, "tirada" also means "to walk or travel." |
| Spanish | In Spanish, "número" can also refer to a musical composition or a set of performers. |
| Sundanese | The Sundanese word "nomer" is a cognate of the Malay word "nombor", which is itself derived from the Portuguese word "numero". |
| Swahili | Derived from the Arabic word "'adadi" meaning "quantity" or "amount." |
| Swedish | The word "siffra" (number) originally meant "sum," which is cognate with "cipher". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | In Filipino, "numero" can also refer to a type of lottery. |
| Tajik | The word "рақам" can also refer to a numeral, digit, or a numerical value in Tajik. |
| Tamil | The Tamil root word 'எண்' relates to 'counting', 'measuring', 'thinking', 'supposing' or 'weighing something' |
| Telugu | సంఖ్య (Saṃkhyā) comes from Sanskrit and means "reckoning" or "counting" but can also refer to a philosophical system or the female deity associated with it. |
| Thai | จำนวน is a compound word consisting of two words, จำ (memorize) and นวน (to repeat), referring to the idea of memorizing repeated items. |
| Turkish | In Turkish, "numara" also refers to a play or a theatrical performance. |
| Ukrainian | The word "номер" in Ukrainian also means "room" or "issue" of a periodical publication. |
| Urdu | The word "نمبر" can also be used to refer to a "telephone number" in Urdu. |
| Uzbek | In Uzbek, the term |
| Vietnamese | The word "con số" in Vietnamese can also refer to a figure or amount. |
| Welsh | The Welsh word "rhif" can also refer to a person's place in a series or order. |
| Xhosa | In Xhosa, the word "inombolo" also refers to a specific number between 20 and 50. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "נומער" (number) is derived from the German word "Nummer" and also refers to a "room" or "house number". |
| Yoruba | "Nomba" also means "to count" and "to be counted" in Yoruba. |
| Zulu | The word 'inombolo' in Zulu derives from the noun 'inombolo' meaning 'a joint' or 'a node', metaphorically referring to the joints or nodes of a counting stick used for keeping track of numbers. |
| English | Number derives from an Old French word that meant "to count" and is related to the Latin word "numerus," which means both "a number" and "a crowd." |