Afrikaans beplan | ||
Albanian planifikoj | ||
Amharic ዕቅድ | ||
Arabic خطة | ||
Armenian պլանավորել | ||
Assamese পৰিকল্পনা | ||
Aymara plan | ||
Azerbaijani plan | ||
Bambara fɛɛrɛ | ||
Basque plana | ||
Belarusian план | ||
Bengali পরিকল্পনা | ||
Bhojpuri योजना | ||
Bosnian plan | ||
Bulgarian план | ||
Catalan pla | ||
Cebuano plano | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 计划 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 計劃 | ||
Corsican pianu | ||
Croatian plan | ||
Czech plán | ||
Danish plan | ||
Dhivehi ރޭވުން | ||
Dogri प्लान | ||
Dutch plan | ||
English plan | ||
Esperanto plano | ||
Estonian plaan | ||
Ewe ɖoɖo | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) plano | ||
Finnish suunnitelma | ||
French plan | ||
Frisian plan | ||
Galician plan | ||
Georgian გეგმა | ||
German planen | ||
Greek σχέδιο | ||
Guarani aponde'a | ||
Gujarati યોજના | ||
Haitian Creole plan | ||
Hausa shirya | ||
Hawaiian hoʻolālā | ||
Hebrew לְתַכְנֵן | ||
Hindi योजना | ||
Hmong txoj kev npaj | ||
Hungarian terv | ||
Icelandic skipuleggja | ||
Igbo atụmatụ | ||
Ilocano plano | ||
Indonesian rencana | ||
Irish plean | ||
Italian piano | ||
Japanese 予定 | ||
Javanese rencana | ||
Kannada ಯೋಜನೆ | ||
Kazakh жоспар | ||
Khmer ផែនការ | ||
Kinyarwanda gahunda | ||
Konkani प्लान | ||
Korean 계획 | ||
Krio plan | ||
Kurdish pîlan | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) پلان | ||
Kyrgyz план | ||
Lao ແຜນການ | ||
Latin consilium | ||
Latvian plāns | ||
Lingala plan | ||
Lithuanian planas | ||
Luganda okuteekateeka | ||
Luxembourgish plangen | ||
Macedonian план | ||
Maithili योजना | ||
Malagasy alamino mialoha | ||
Malay merancang | ||
Malayalam പദ്ധതി | ||
Maltese pjan | ||
Maori mahere | ||
Marathi योजना | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯊꯧꯔꯥꯡ | ||
Mizo duang | ||
Mongolian төлөвлөгөө | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အစီအစဉ် | ||
Nepali योजना | ||
Norwegian plan | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) konzani | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଯୋଜନା | ||
Oromo karoora | ||
Pashto پلان | ||
Persian طرح | ||
Polish plan | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) plano | ||
Punjabi ਯੋਜਨਾ | ||
Quechua plan | ||
Romanian plan | ||
Russian строить планы | ||
Samoan fuafuaga | ||
Sanskrit योजना | ||
Scots Gaelic phlana | ||
Sepedi leano | ||
Serbian план | ||
Sesotho moralo | ||
Shona kuronga | ||
Sindhi منصوبو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) සැලැස්ම | ||
Slovak plán | ||
Slovenian načrt | ||
Somali qorshe | ||
Spanish plan | ||
Sundanese rencana | ||
Swahili mpango | ||
Swedish planen | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) plano | ||
Tajik нақша | ||
Tamil திட்டம் | ||
Tatar план | ||
Telugu ప్రణాళిక | ||
Thai วางแผน | ||
Tigrinya ትልሚ | ||
Tsonga kungu | ||
Turkish plan | ||
Turkmen meýilnama | ||
Twi (Akan) nhyehyɛeɛ | ||
Ukrainian плану | ||
Urdu منصوبہ | ||
Uyghur plan | ||
Uzbek reja | ||
Vietnamese kế hoạch | ||
Welsh cynllun | ||
Xhosa icebo | ||
Yiddish פּלאַן | ||
Yoruba gbero | ||
Zulu ukuhlela |
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "beplan" is derived from the Dutch word "plannen" which means "to make a plan". |
| Albanian | In some contexts it can also refer to the plot of an artistic or literary work. |
| Amharic | Amharic word "ዕቅድ" is also used in the sense of "decision" or "resolve" in the legal or judicial context. |
| Arabic | In Arabic, "خطة" can refer to a blueprint, map, or a person's physical stature. |
| Armenian | The Armenian word "պլանավորել" derives from the French word "plan" and ultimately from the Latin word "planus" meaning "flat". |
| Azerbaijani | In the Azerbaijani language, the word "plan" can also mean a "plot" or "conspiracy". |
| Basque | Basque "plana" is derived from Latin "planus" (flat) and also refers to a river's flood plain or wetlands. |
| Belarusian | The word “план” also means “surface” and is often used in construction or engineering. |
| Bengali | The word 'পরিকল্পনা' is originally derived from the Sanskrit word 'परिकल्पना', which means 'hypothesis' or 'assumption'. |
| Bosnian | The word "plan" can also mean "map" or "outline" in Bosnian. |
| Bulgarian | Bulgarian "план" can also mean "a plate" or "a tray". |
| Catalan | "Pla" comes from the Latin word "planus", meaning "flat" or "level". |
| Cebuano | The Cebuano word 'plano' also means 'map' or 'drawing' in English. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 计划 originally meant "to calculate" but now means "plan" and is also used in phrases like 五年计划 (Five-Year Plan). |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The word "計劃" (plan) can also refer to a type of drawing or diagram in Chinese. |
| Corsican | From Italian 'piano', perhaps from Latin 'planus' ('flat' or 'level'). |
| Croatian | The Croatian word "plan" also means "mountain". |
| Czech | In Czech, "plán" also refers to a square, flat cake, especially one with a sweet filling. |
| Danish | In Danish, "plan" can also mean "flat" or "level." |
| Dutch | Dutch "plan" can also mean "floor" of a building, deriving from Old French "planche" (plank). |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word "plano" derives from the Latin word "planum", meaning "flat" or "level." |
| Estonian | In Estonian, the word "plaan" has an alternate meaning as "an agreement between two or more parties." |
| Finnish | The word "suunnitelma" is derived from the verb "suunnitella" ("to plan"), which in turn comes from the word "suunta" ("direction"). |
| French | The French word "plan" shares the same origin as the English word "plane", as both originally come from the Latin word "planus" meaning "flat". |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "plan" can also mean "floor" or "level" of a building, like in Dutch. |
| Galician | The Galician word "plan" can also refer to a large piece of land or a level surface. |
| Georgian | The Georgian word "გეგმა" ("gegma") may share a common root with the Old Iranian word "gāma-", meaning "step" or "pace", and it can also mean "pattern", "design", or "map". |
| German | In Middle High German, "planen" meant to make flat, even out, or level. |
| Greek | The Greek word "σχέδιο" can also refer to a diagram, drawing, or design, reflecting its root in the verb "σχεδιάζω," meaning "to draw" or "to sketch." |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "યોજના" (yojna) is akin to the Sanskrit word "योजना" (yojana), which originally referred to a unit of distance equal to eight miles. |
| Haitian Creole | The Haitian Creole word for "plan" also means "map" or "diagram". |
| Hausa | The Hausa word "shirya" is derived from the Arabic word "shara", meaning "to prepare" or "to make ready". |
| Hawaiian | "Hoʻolālā" literally means "to cause to spread out" in Hawaiian. |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "לְתַכְנֵן" (l'tachnen) has a second, less common meaning of "to intend". |
| Hindi | "योजना" is a Sanskrit word that can also mean 'thought' or 'scheme'. |
| Hungarian | The word "terv" is derived from the Proto-Turkic word "terüg" meaning "direction, turn, way". |
| Icelandic | The Old Norse word skipuleggja means both a 'sail-plank' on a ship and a plan for a ship, from skip 'ship' and leggja 'to lay'. |
| Igbo | The Igbo word "atụmatụ" is etymologically related to the words "atụ" (to set down or establish) and "matụ" (to plant or establish anew), and can have the additional connotation of "arrangement" or "foundation." |
| Indonesian | The word 'rencana' is a cognate of the Malay word 'rancang', which has the same meaning.} |
| Irish | The Irish word "plean" means both "plan" and "noise" |
| Italian | In Italian, 'piano' also means 'floor' or 'level' in a building. |
| Japanese | 予定 is also used to refer to a woman's menstrual period. |
| Javanese | Rencana is also used in Javanese to describe a type of batik pattern featuring a geometric design. |
| Kannada | ಯೋಜನೆ (yojane) is derived from the Sanskrit word 'yuj' meaning 'to join', and refers to a 'scheme' or 'project'. |
| Kazakh | The word "жоспар" in Kazakh also means "scheme" or "intention". |
| Khmer | The word "ផែនការ" (plan) in Khmer can also refer to a strategy, program, or design. |
| Korean | The Sino-Korean term 계 (계획, 계획) 'plan' is shared with Chinese and Japanese, with similar characters, 計画 (きかく), kế hoạch (plan), and 計畫 (kế hoạch). |
| Kurdish | The Kurdish word "pîlan" also means "intriguing thoughts". |
| Kyrgyz | The word "план" ("plan") in Kyrgyz can also refer to a "scheme" or a "device." |
| Latin | "Consilium" also means "council" in Latin, indicating a group's collaborative planning process. |
| Latvian | In Latvian, the word “plāns” can also refer to a floor plan or drawing. |
| Lithuanian | In geometry, "plokščiuma" is a plane figure. |
| Luxembourgish | The word "plangen" in Luxembourgish is derived from the French word "plan" which means "blueprint". |
| Macedonian | The word "план" also means "mountain" in Macedonian. |
| Malagasy | The word "ALAMINO MIALOHA" comes from the Malagasy word "LAMINO", meaning "draw" or "trace", and "MIALOHA", meaning "heart". It therefore implies the idea of drawing a plan from the heart. |
| Malay | The word "merancang" originally referred to the act of drawing or sketching. |
| Malayalam | "പദ്ധതി" can also refer to a design, scheme, or project. |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "pjan" derives from the Italian word "piano", meaning "flat surface" or "drawing". |
| Maori | In some dialects, the word 'mahere' can also mean 'to tie', referring to the idea of binding together ideas or tasks into a coherent whole. |
| Marathi | The word "योजना" in Marathi also refers to a measure of distance, approximately 8 miles. |
| Mongolian | "Төлөвлөгөө" (plan) shares a root word with "төл" (payment), signifying a plan as a payment towards a future outcome. |
| Nepali | "योजना" can also refer to the concept of "karma" in Hindu and Buddhist philosophy. |
| Norwegian | The Norwegian word "plan" also means "plane" in English. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "konzani" in Nyanja (Chichewa) also refers to a type of dance performed at traditional ceremonies. |
| Pashto | "پلان" in Pashto comes from the Sanskrit "Prakriti," meaning "nature" or "cause". |
| Persian | The word "طرح" is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root "*dher-," meaning "to hold, support, or carry." |
| Polish | The word plan could also refer to a drawing representing something or a part of something, or a model. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | "Plano" has its origin in the Latin "planus" (flat, horizontal), and is also the name of one of Portugal's 18 districts. |
| Punjabi | The word 'ਯੋਜਨਾ' is derived from the Sanskrit word 'योजना', which means 'a measure of distance' or 'a journey'. |
| Romanian | In Romanian, the word "plan" can also refer to a document that outlines a proposed course of action or a specific architectural design. |
| Russian | The Russian verb "строить планы" ("plan") derives from the word "строй" ("line, order"), indicating the idea of creating something organized and logical. |
| Samoan | The word "fuafuaga" can also mean "design" or "pattern" in Samoan. |
| Scots Gaelic | The noun "phlana" is the mutation of the verb "planadh" meaning a planning or plan. |
| Serbian | The word 'план' in Serbian can also refer to a type of large flatbread that is similar to a pita. |
| Sesotho | The word "moralo" can also refer to an intention, purpose, or objective. |
| Shona | Kuronga can also mean "to arrange" or "to set up" something, such as a meeting or gathering. |
| Sindhi | The word "منصوبو" is also used in Sindhi to refer to an appointed or elected official. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | සැලැස්ම refers to the structure of a house including its outer walls, pillars, roofs, windows, etc. |
| Slovak | The noun “plán” is etymologically related to |
| Slovenian | In addition to meaning a plan, the Slovenian word 'načrt' can also indicate a design, draft, or layout. |
| Somali | In Somali, the word "qorshe" (plan) has alternate meanings, including "scheme" and "intention." |
| Spanish | The Spanish word "plan" can also mean "scheme", "design", or "purpose". |
| Sundanese | The word "rencana" in Sundanese has a broader meaning that encompasses both "plan" and "map" |
| Swahili | In Swahili, the word "mpango" can also refer to a blueprint, a scheme, or a method. |
| Swedish | In Swedish, the word "planen" also refers to a surface or plane, as in a geometrical plane. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | In Tagalog, "plano" also signifies a type of sweet pancake or crepe and the shape of the face, particularly the lower portion. |
| Tajik | The word "нақша" can also mean "image" or "painting" in Tajik. |
| Telugu | The word "ప్రణాళిక" is derived from the Sanskrit word "प्रणय" (love), indicating a plan that is made with care and attention. |
| Thai | The verb วางแผน not only means "to plan" but it also means "to place" or "to put (something) in order". |
| Turkish | The Turkish word "plan" originally meant "a flat surface" or "a field" before acquiring its current meaning of "plan". |
| Ukrainian | The word |
| Urdu | منصوبہ" is derived from the Arabic word "nasaba" meaning "to set up, design, or intend." |
| Uzbek | "Reja" may mean "plan", "schedule", "system", "plot", or "design" in Uzbek. |
| Vietnamese | The word "kế hoạch" derives from the Old Chinese word "計", meaning "calculate, plan, or strategy". |
| Welsh | In Welsh, "cynllun" originates from the word "cynnal", meaning "to support" or "to hold together", emphasizing the foundational and structural aspects of a plan. |
| Xhosa | The word "icebo" in Xhosa can also mean "to be prepared" or "to be ready." |
| Yiddish | "פלאן" is closely related to the German "plan" as well as French "plan" or Latin "planum" all originating from Latin "plānus". |
| Yoruba | In the Yoruba language, 'gbero' also signifies a 'deliberation' upon which a strategy or course of action is determined. |
| Zulu | In Zulu, "ukuhlela" not only means "to plan" but also "to make a choice; decide; or intend to do something." |
| English | The verb 'plan' derives from the Old French verb 'plainer', which originally meant 'to smooth out' or 'to make straight'. |