Afrikaans talle | ||
Albanian te shumte | ||
Amharic ብዙ | ||
Arabic كثير | ||
Armenian բազմաթիվ | ||
Assamese অসংখ্য | ||
Aymara waljani | ||
Azerbaijani çoxsaylı | ||
Bambara caman bɛ yen | ||
Basque ugari | ||
Belarusian шматлікія | ||
Bengali অনেক | ||
Bhojpuri कई गो बा | ||
Bosnian brojni | ||
Bulgarian многобройни | ||
Catalan nombrosos | ||
Cebuano daghang | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 众多 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 眾多 | ||
Corsican numerosi | ||
Croatian brojne | ||
Czech četné | ||
Danish talrige | ||
Dhivehi ގިނަ އަދަދެއްގެ މީހުންނެވެ | ||
Dogri अनगिनत | ||
Dutch talrijk | ||
English numerous | ||
Esperanto multnombraj | ||
Estonian arvukalt | ||
Ewe gbogbo aɖewo | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) marami | ||
Finnish lukuisia | ||
French nombreux | ||
Frisian tal fan | ||
Galician numerosos | ||
Georgian მრავალრიცხოვანი | ||
German zahlreich | ||
Greek πολυάριθμος | ||
Guarani hetaiterei | ||
Gujarati અનેક | ||
Haitian Creole anpil | ||
Hausa da yawa | ||
Hawaiian lehulehu | ||
Hebrew רַבִּים | ||
Hindi बहुत | ||
Hmong coob | ||
Hungarian számos | ||
Icelandic fjölmargir | ||
Igbo ọtụtụ | ||
Ilocano nagadu | ||
Indonesian banyak sekali | ||
Irish iomadúla | ||
Italian numerose | ||
Japanese 多数 | ||
Javanese akeh | ||
Kannada ಹಲವಾರು | ||
Kazakh көптеген | ||
Khmer ច្រើន | ||
Kinyarwanda byinshi | ||
Konkani असंख्य आसात | ||
Korean 수많은 | ||
Krio bɔku bɔku wan | ||
Kurdish jimarzêde | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) ژمارەیەکی زۆر | ||
Kyrgyz көп | ||
Lao ມີ ຈຳ ນວນຫລາຍ | ||
Latin numerosis | ||
Latvian daudz | ||
Lingala ebele | ||
Lithuanian gausus | ||
Luganda bangi nnyo | ||
Luxembourgish vill | ||
Macedonian бројни | ||
Maithili असंख्य | ||
Malagasy maro | ||
Malay banyak | ||
Malayalam നിരവധി | ||
Maltese numerużi | ||
Maori tini | ||
Marathi असंख्य | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯃꯁꯤꯡ ꯌꯥꯝꯅꯥ ꯂꯩ꯫ | ||
Mizo tam tak a ni | ||
Mongolian олон тооны | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) မြောက်မြားစွာ | ||
Nepali असंख्य | ||
Norwegian en rekke | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) ambiri | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଅନେକ | ||
Oromo baay’eedha | ||
Pashto بې شمیره | ||
Persian بی شمار | ||
Polish liczny | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) numeroso | ||
Punjabi ਬਹੁਤ ਸਾਰੇ | ||
Quechua achka | ||
Romanian numeroase | ||
Russian многочисленные | ||
Samoan tele | ||
Sanskrit अनेकाः | ||
Scots Gaelic iomadach | ||
Sepedi tše dintši | ||
Serbian многобројни | ||
Sesotho ngata | ||
Shona dzakawanda | ||
Sindhi ڪيترائي | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) බොහෝ | ||
Slovak početné | ||
Slovenian številne | ||
Somali tiro badan | ||
Spanish numeroso | ||
Sundanese seueur pisan | ||
Swahili nyingi | ||
Swedish talrik | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) marami | ||
Tajik сершумор | ||
Tamil ஏராளமான | ||
Tatar бик күп | ||
Telugu అనేక | ||
Thai มากมาย | ||
Tigrinya ብዙሓት እዮም። | ||
Tsonga yo tala | ||
Turkish sayısız | ||
Turkmen köp | ||
Twi (Akan) dodow a ɛdɔɔso | ||
Ukrainian численні | ||
Urdu بے شمار | ||
Uyghur نۇرغۇن | ||
Uzbek juda ko'p | ||
Vietnamese nhiều | ||
Welsh niferus | ||
Xhosa ezininzi | ||
Yiddish סך | ||
Yoruba ọpọlọpọ | ||
Zulu eziningi |
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "talle" also means "measure" or "count" in Afrikaans. |
| Albanian | Possibly derives from Old Albanian *të shumtë "multitude, crowd" (definite form), cognate to Proto-Slavic *ty *sъmьtъ, which ultimately goes back to Proto-Indo-European *tḱóm-to- "great". |
| Amharic | "ብዙ" also means "much" in Amharic. |
| Arabic | The word "كثير" in Arabic does not just mean "numerous", but can also refer to "much" or "abundant". |
| Armenian | The word "բազմաթիվ" (bazmat'iv) in Armenian literally means "many-numbered" and is derived from the Armenian word "թիվ" (t'iv), which means "number". |
| Azerbaijani | Çoxsaylı means not only "numerous" but also "manifold". |
| Basque | Another meaning of "ugari" in Basque is "to be born". |
| Belarusian | The Belarusian word "шматлікія" (numerous) originates from the Proto-Slavic word *mnogъ, meaning "many". |
| Bengali | অনেক (onnek) is a derivative of the Sanskrit root अनत (anat), which means 'unlimited' or 'indefinite'. |
| Bosnian | The word "brojni" in Bosnian is derived from the Proto-Slavic word "borьnь", which also means "to fight" or "to struggle". |
| Bulgarian | The word "многобройни" in Bulgarian can also mean "manifold" or "numerous in kind". |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "nombrosos" derives from the Latin "numerosus", meaning "full of numbers" or "abundant." |
| Cebuano | In Cebuano, the word "daghan" has a secondary meaning of "heavy", indicating a weightiness in both physical and metaphorical contexts. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | In Chinese, "众多"'s literal translation is "many crowds," emphasizing the notion of abundance in terms of both quantity and diversity. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 眾 (zhòng) means "multitude, crowd" and 多 (duō) means "many, more," suggesting a large group or quantity. |
| Corsican | The word "numerosi" can also be translated as "many" in Corsican |
| Croatian | The Croatian word "brojne" can also mean "embroidery" or "numerology" |
| Czech | "Četné" can also mean "reading" or "lesson". |
| Danish | The Danish word "talrige" derives from the Old Norse "talríkr" and originally meant "a disc used for counting money". |
| Dutch | In archaic usage, "talrijk" could also mean "of great stature" or "famous, illustrious," related to the adjective "tal" meaning "noble," "great," or "tall." |
| Esperanto | "Multnombra" is an Esperanto word meaning "numerous," and it is derived from the Latin root "mult," meaning "many," and the Esperanto root "nombr," meaning "number." |
| Estonian | The word "arvukalt" can also mean "abundant" or "plentiful". |
| Finnish | "Lukuisia" (numerous) is derived from the Old Norse word "lukka," meaning "trap." |
| French | "Nombreux" in French derives from the Latin "numerus" (number), and also means "numerals" (like in "les nombres"). |
| Frisian | The word "tal fan" in Frisian is derived from the Old Frisian word "tal" meaning "number" or "count". |
| Galician | Numerosos means not only "numerous" but also "abundant" in Galician |
| Georgian | The word "მრავალრიცხოვანი" in Georgian relates to the concept of multiplicity or a great number, but it can also be used in a legal context to refer to an assembly of people who are entitled to make certain decisions collectively. |
| German | In Middle High German the word "zal" meant "time, occasion" and "richez" meant "plenty, abundance". |
| Greek | The word "πολυάριθμος" is derived from the Greek words "πολύς" (polys), meaning "many," and "αριθμός" (arithmos), meaning "number." |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "અનેક" also means "different" or "varied". |
| Haitian Creole | Anpil is derived from the French word "ample", meaning "abundant" or "copious" |
| Hausa | The word "da yawa" (numerous) is often used in informal contexts and has a connotation of abundance rather than precision. |
| Hawaiian | Lehulehu derives from the Proto-Austronesian word *lahu, meaning 'to scatter or spread out'. |
| Hebrew | The word "רַבִּים" is the plural form of the Hebrew word "רַב" (rav), meaning "great" or "chief". It is also used in a figurative sense to refer to a "multitude" or "great number" of people or things. |
| Hindi | "बहुत" in Hindi can also mean excessively, a lot, or greatly. |
| Hmong | The Hmong word "coob" can also mean "many" or "a lot". |
| Hungarian | The word "számos" can also mean "thread" or "fiber" in Hungarian, but this meaning is somewhat obsolete. |
| Icelandic | The word "fjölmargir" in Icelandic can also refer to "multitude" or "great number". |
| Igbo | The word ọtụtụ (numerous) is related to the Igbo word tụ (to be many), and its root is thought to be the Proto-Benue-Congo word *to- 'many'. |
| Indonesian | The phrase "banyak sekali" in Indonesian, literally meaning "many times", is the highest degree of quantification in the language. |
| Italian | "Numerose" also means "melodious" and shares the same etymology with the English "numerous". |
| Japanese | "多数" can also mean "plurality", "majority", or "most" in Japanese. |
| Javanese | **The word "akeh" in Javanese can also refer to "a lot" or "greatly" in contexts that are not necessarily numerical. |
| Kannada | Its Sanskrit equivalent is 'बहुलः' ('bahulah') meaning abundant, numerous. |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "көптеген" is derived from the verb "көп", meaning "to multiply" or "to make numerous", and the suffix "-ген", which indicates a past action or state. |
| Korean | "수많은" (numaneun) literally means "water countless" and is a compound of the Sino-Korean root "수" (su, "water") and the native Korean root "많은" (manun, "countless or many"). |
| Kurdish | The Kurdish word "jimarzêde" derives from the Persian "imarzade" which literally translates to "son of a building," referring to someone well protected or of high status. |
| Kyrgyz | The word "көп" can also mean "a lot" or "many" in Kyrgyz. |
| Latin | The Latin word "numerosus" not only means "numerous" but also melodious, flowing, or rhythmical |
| Latvian | {"text": "The word "daudz" derives from the Proto-Indo-European root *dʰew- ("to blow, to swell") and is related to the Sanskrit word "duhita" (daughter)."}} |
| Lithuanian | "Gausaus" is originally a word for the sound of birds chattering. |
| Luxembourgish | In Luxembourgish, "vill" can also mean "many" or "a lot" when referring to a place or group. |
| Macedonian | The word "бројни" originates from the Slavic root "бор" meaning "fight" or "struggle" and has been used in a wider sense to describe something as "strong" or "firm". |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "maro" also means "many" or "several". |
| Malay | "Banyak" comes from Proto-Austronesian *banuwa, meaning village or country, and it can also mean "vast, broad, extensive, great". |
| Malayalam | The Malayalam word "നിരവധി" is derived from the ancient Dravidian root *nīr-, meaning "long". It can also refer to a group of people or things. |
| Maltese | The word "numerużi" is derived from the Latin word "numerus," which means "a number" or "a quantity." |
| Maori | The word "tini" in Maori can also mean "many" or "a large number". |
| Marathi | The word असंख्य, in Marathi, can refer to several other concepts, like an uncountable object or something endless. |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word "олон тооны" literally means "many numbers" and can also be used to refer to "large numbers". |
| Nepali | The word असंख्य (asankhya) in Nepali can also mean 'countless, immense, or infinite'. |
| Norwegian | En rekke is a Norwegian word with multiple meanings, including “a row” and “a series”. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "ambiri" can also mean "too many" or "excessive". |
| Pashto | بې شمیره (Beshmara) literally translates as 'without count', further emphasizing its vast quantity. |
| Persian | The word "بی شمار" derives from the Persian numeral "بی" (bi) meaning "two" and the suffix "شمار" (shumar) meaning "number," hence "numerous". |
| Polish | "Liczy" is related with the verb "liczyć" (to count), and it can also mean "distinguished" or "noble". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "numeroso" is derived from the Latin word "numerosus," meaning "full of numbers" or "musical." |
| Romanian | The word "numeroase" in Romanian is related to the Latin verb "numerare" (to count) and has the secondary meaning of "abundant" or "plentiful". |
| Russian | "Многочисленные" comes from the Proto-Balto-Slavic word "menǵo", akin to the Greek "mégas", meaning "big". |
| Samoan | In Samoan, the term "tele" can also refer to a large group of people or animals gathered together in one place. |
| Scots Gaelic | The word 'iomadach' can also refer to a crowd, gathering, or assembly. |
| Serbian | The word "многобројни" in Serbian derives from the Proto-Slavic word *mogъ, meaning "much, many." |
| Sesotho | The word "ngata" has an alternate meaning of "very". |
| Shona | The word 'dzakawanda' is derived from the Shona words 'zaka' (many) and 'wanda' (like), indicating a multitude of things or people. |
| Sindhi | "ڪيترائي" derives from the Persian "كثرت" (kasrat), meaning "abundance" or "plenty". Its secondary meaning, "complexity", stems from the idea of multiple elements coming together to form something intricate. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "බොහෝ" in Sinhala (Sinhalese) originates from the Sanskrit word "बहु" (bahu), meaning "many" or "much". |
| Slovak | The word "početné" comes from the Proto-Slavic word *čьto "what" and is related to the Old Church Slavonic word *čьtъ "to number". |
| Slovenian | "Številne" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word "čьstь", meaning "honor" or "glory". |
| Somali | The Somali word "tiro badan" directly translates to "large number" in English |
| Spanish | In Spanish, "numeroso" can indicate not only quantity but also importance or influence (numeroso como orador or numeroso partido). |
| Sundanese | The word "seueur pisan" can be split into "seueur" (to pile up) and "pisan" (meaning "very" or "indeed"), denoting a large quantity or number. |
| Swahili | The Swahili word "nyingi" is also used as a noun to refer to "a group of people or animals" and can be synonymous to "wengi" |
| Swedish | The word "talrik" is derived from the Old Swedish word "tal" meaning "number" or "count." |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "marami" is derived from the Proto-Austronesian word *ma-rami, meaning "many" or "much". |
| Tajik | "Сершумор" can also mean "overcrowded" in Tajik. |
| Tamil | The word "ஏராளமான" (ērāḷamāna) is derived from the Sanskrit word "ईराल" (īrāla), meaning "a troop, a herd, a company". |
| Telugu | The word "అనేక" in Telugu can also mean "many-sided", "multifaceted", or "versatile". |
| Thai | "มากมาย" also means "plenty" in Thai. |
| Turkish | Sayısız is derived from the Persian word "şeş", meaning "six". The word is used in Turkish to refer to an indefinite or large number, especially when used in a poetic or literary context. |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word "численні" (pronounced "chislenni") derives from the Old Slavic "čьslъ", meaning "number" or "account". It is related to the Latin "numerus", meaning "number", and the English "numerous". The word can also be used to mean "abundance" or "multitude". |
| Urdu | Urdu "بے شمار" (literally "without counting") is a Persian borrowing, and it is related to the Turkic "sayısız" |
| Uzbek | In Hebrew, the root "רב" (rab) means "big" or "great," suggesting that "juda ko'p" may have Semitic origins. |
| Vietnamese | "Nhiều" means "numerous" in Vietnamese, but can also mean "much" or "many" depending on the context. |
| Welsh | The word "niferus" can also mean "abundant" or "copious". |
| Xhosa | The term 'ezininzi' means 'many' or 'a lot', but was originally coined meaning 'those of the chief (iNkosi)' because the number of subjects was seen as a measure of that chief's wealth. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "סך" derives from the Hebrew word "סך", meaning "sum" or "total". |
| Yoruba | Ọpọlọpọ also has a philosophical connotation; it is a word which captures the idea of plurality in a universal sense, meaning "the many that make up the one." |
| Zulu | "Eziningi" also means "many" or "much". |
| English | The word "numerous" originates from the Latin word "numerus" which means "number". |