Plus in Different Languages
Discover 'Plus' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Plus
Afrikaans meer | ||
Albanian më shumë | ||
Amharic ተጨማሪ | ||
Arabic أكثر | ||
Armenian ավելին | ||
Assamese প্লাছ | ||
Aymara ukatsti | ||
Azerbaijani daha çox | ||
Bambara ka fara o kan | ||
Basque gehiago | ||
Belarusian больш | ||
Bengali আরও | ||
Bhojpuri प्लस के बा | ||
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 ޕްލަސް | ||
Dogri प्लस | ||
Dutch meer | ||
English plus | ||
Esperanto pli | ||
Estonian rohkem | ||
Ewe kpe ɖe eŋu | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) plus | ||
Finnish lisää | ||
French plus | ||
Frisian mear | ||
Galician máis | ||
Georgian მეტი | ||
German mehr | ||
Greek περισσότερο | ||
Guarani ha avei | ||
Gujarati વધુ | ||
Haitian Creole plis | ||
Hausa kara | ||
Hawaiian hou aku | ||
Hebrew יותר | ||
Hindi अधिक | ||
Hmong ntxiv | ||
Hungarian több | ||
Icelandic meira | ||
Igbo ọzọ | ||
Ilocano plus | ||
Indonesian lebih | ||
Irish níos mó | ||
Italian di più | ||
Japanese もっと | ||
Javanese liyane | ||
Kannada ಹೆಚ್ಚು | ||
Kazakh көбірек | ||
Khmer ច្រើនទៀត | ||
Kinyarwanda wongeyeho | ||
Konkani प्लस | ||
Korean 더 | ||
Krio plus | ||
Kurdish zêde | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) کۆ | ||
Kyrgyz көбүрөөк | ||
Lao ຫຼາຍ | ||
Latin magis | ||
Latvian vairāk | ||
Lingala plus | ||
Lithuanian daugiau | ||
Luganda plus | ||
Luxembourgish méi | ||
Macedonian повеќе | ||
Maithili प्लस | ||
Malagasy bebe kokoa | ||
Malay lebih banyak lagi | ||
Malayalam കൂടുതൽ | ||
Maltese aktar | ||
Maori atu | ||
Marathi अधिक | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯄ꯭ꯂꯥꯁ ꯇꯧꯕꯥ꯫ | ||
Mizo plus | ||
Mongolian дэлгэрэнгүй | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) နောက်ထပ် | ||
Nepali अधिक | ||
Norwegian mer | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) zambiri | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଅଧିକ | ||
Oromo dabalataan | ||
Pashto نور | ||
Persian بیشتر | ||
Polish więcej | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) mais | ||
Punjabi ਹੋਰ | ||
Quechua plus | ||
Romanian mai mult | ||
Russian больше | ||
Samoan sili atu | ||
Sanskrit प्लस् | ||
Scots Gaelic tuilleadh | ||
Sepedi plus | ||
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 плюс | ||
Telugu మరింత | ||
Thai มากกว่า | ||
Tigrinya plus | ||
Tsonga plus | ||
Turkish daha | ||
Turkmen goşmaça | ||
Twi (Akan) nea ɛka ho ne | ||
Ukrainian більше | ||
Urdu مزید | ||
Uyghur plus | ||
Uzbek ko'proq | ||
Vietnamese hơn | ||
Welsh mwy | ||
Xhosa kaninzi | ||
Yiddish מער | ||
Yoruba siwaju sii | ||
Zulu okuningi |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | Afrikaans "meer" originates from the Dutch "meer" meaning "lake" and is used in toponyms to refer to large bodies of water. |
| Albanian | The Albanian word "më shumë" can also mean "much more" or "much" in English, depending on the context. |
| Amharic | The word ተጨማሪ also means "additional information" and "supplementary materials." |
| Arabic | أكثر is thought to derive from |
| Armenian | The word 'ավելին' ('plus' in Armenian) is the comparative form of the adjective 'շատ' ('much, many') and originally meant 'more' or 'greater'. |
| Azerbaijani | The word 'daha çox' in Azerbaijani can also mean 'too much' or 'more than enough' |
| Basque | The word "gehiago" can also mean "enough" or "exceedingly". |
| Belarusian | The word "больш" can also mean "more" or "greater". |
| Bengali | The word "আরও" in Bengali can also serve as a noun meaning "more". |
| Bosnian | The word 'više' is a Slavic word with various uses across the region, but in Bosnian, it primarily denotes 'more'. |
| Bulgarian | In Bulgarian, the word "Повече ▼" is also used in the sense of "more", "in addition", or "extra". |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "més" can also mean "but" or "although" in Spanish. |
| Cebuano | The Cebuano word |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "更多" (more) is pronounced "gèng duō" in pinyin. The character "更多" is composed of two components: "更" (gèng), which means "more" or "further," and "多" (duō), which means "many" or "much." |
| Chinese (Traditional) | "更多" in Traditional Chinese is composed of the characters "更" (more) and "多" (many), emphasizing a significant increase. |
| Corsican | In Corsican, “più” not only means “plus” but also “more” (e.g. more beautiful) and “too much” (e.g. too much rain). |
| Croatian | The word "više" also means "more" or "greater" in Croatian. |
| Czech | "Víc" is a shortened form of the old Czech "vice" (pronounced as 'wee-tse'), which meant "more" in the sense of "repeatedly," "multiple times" or "several times." |
| Danish | Originally "mere" also meant "many", this meaning still exists in dialects. |
| Dutch | The word "meer" also means "lake" in Dutch. |
| Esperanto | The word "pli" also has the meanings "more" and "further" and derives from the Polish word "ply". |
| Estonian | The word "rohkem" in Estonian is related to the Finnish word "runsaasti" and the Russian word "много", meaning "abundantly" or "much." |
| Finnish | The word "lisää" can also mean "to add" or "to increase" in Finnish. |
| French | In French, the word "plus" can also mean "more" or "most". |
| Frisian | The word "mear" in Frisian also means "lake" and is cognate with the English word "mere". |
| Galician | In Portuguese the word "mais" also means "but" while in Galician it only means "plus." |
| Georgian | მეტი (meti), a Kartvelian numeral suffix, is also a homonym of მეტს (mets) meaning "to be" in Proto-Kartvelian, as in the Armenian "մեծ" (met͡s) meaning "big" or "large". |
| German | "Mehr" is also used figuratively to mean "something additional" (like the French idiom "un petit extra"). |
| Greek | "Περισσότερο" can also mean "for the most part" or "more likely". |
| Gujarati | The word 'વધુ' in Gujarati can also mean 'bride' or 'wife'. |
| Haitian Creole | 'Plis' comes from 'plus', in French, meaning 'more' or 'extra'. |
| Hausa | Hausa 'kara' comes from Proto-West-Chadic *kàrá 'exceed, go beyond' |
| Hawaiian | Hou aku is also used in Hawaiian to indicate the completion of an action or achievement. |
| Hebrew | In Tanakh, the word is often used as an affirmative instead of |
| Hindi | The word "अधिक" can also mean "more", "much", "excessive", or "very" in Hindi. |
| Hmong | The word "ntxiv" can also be used to refer to adding or attaching something. |
| Hungarian | The word "több" derives from the Old Turkic word "*tüp", meaning "end" or "extreme". |
| Icelandic | The Icelandic word "meira" also means 'more'. |
| Igbo | The word "Ọzọ" in Igbo finds its root in the verb "zọ" meaning "to add" and is often used to describe an augmentative concept. |
| Indonesian | "Lebih" can also mean "more" in terms of quantity, quality or extent. |
| Italian | The Italian word "Di Più" can also mean "in addition", "furthermore", or "moreover". |
| Japanese | "もっと" is used in Japanese to mean both "further" and "not enough," as in "not good enough". |
| Javanese | Liyane' shares its root with the word 'liyane' meaning 'other' or 'different' reflecting its use as a comparison or addition. |
| Kannada | The word "ಹೆಚ್ಚು" can also mean "more" or "increase" in Kannada. |
| Kazakh | "Көбірек" can also mean "more" or "additional". |
| Khmer | The word ច្រើនទៀត is also used in Khmer to mean "more often" or "more frequently." |
| Korean | "더" can also mean "again" or "still," as in "다시"," "아직도," respectively. |
| Kurdish | The word "zêde" in Kurdish has two distinct meanings, "more" and "a little bit more than". |
| Kyrgyz | The Kyrgyz word "көбүрөөк" can also mean "more than" or "in addition to." |
| Latin | Magis's alternate meaning "rather, sooner, to a greater degree" emerged through the loss of the final syllable of *mag(i)s(ter)", meaning "more, greater" |
| Latvian | Latvian "vairāk" stems from Late PIE "h₃eǵʰros" meaning "greater," also found in Ancient Greek "αὖρος" (auros), "tomorrow," and English "ear"} |
| Lithuanian | The word "daugiau" also means "more" or "greater" in Lithuanian. |
| Luxembourgish | The word "méi" also means "more" and is derived from the Latin word "magis." |
| Macedonian | In Macedonian, "повеќе" (read as "povekje") can also mean "more" or "rather". |
| Malagasy | The expression Bebe kokoa derives from 'bebe' - meaning 'to carry' and 'kokoa' - meaning 'basket', which, together, refers to an action where something is carried via basket and, hence, a way to designate 'extra' or 'added'. |
| Malay | The word "lebih banyak lagi" in Malay can also be used to mean "more and more". |
| Malayalam | The Malayalam word “കൂടുതൽ” also means “more” or “again” in English. |
| Maltese | The word "aktar" also means "other" in Maltese |
| Maori | The word "atu" can also mean "next", "in addition to", or "as well as". |
| Marathi | The Marathi word "अधिक" is derived from the Sanskrit word "अधि", which means "over" or "above", and can also mean "more" or "in addition to". |
| Nepali | "अधिक" (adhik) is derived from the Sanskrit word "adhi," meaning "over" or "above." |
| Norwegian | The Norwegian word "mer" also means "lake." |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "Zambiri" can also be used to mean "more" or "additional". |
| Pashto | The word "نور" in Pashto can also refer to "light" or "illumination". |
| Persian | The word "بیشتر" ("plus") in Persian can also mean "more" or "most". |
| Polish | The word "więcej" in Polish can also mean "more" or "additional". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The Portuguese word "mais" may derive from the Latin "magis" ("more") or the Provençal "maes" ("plus, larger"). |
| Punjabi | The word “ਹੋਰ” can also mean “except” or “other” in Punjabi. |
| Romanian | Mai Mult is also the name of a Romanian supermarket chain, a wine brand, and a popular song by the band Paraziţii. |
| Russian | The word "Больше" (pronounced bol'she) also means "more" in Russian. |
| Samoan | "Sili atu" comes from "sili" (to stretch) and "atu" (forward), suggesting the idea of reaching forward or extending something. |
| Scots Gaelic | The word "tuilleadh" is also used as a noun to mean "excess" or "abundance". |
| Serbian | The Serbo-Croatian word "више/više" can mean "more" in the quantitative sense, or it can be used to indicate a place that is "higher up" or "further away" in space. |
| Sesotho | The word "Hape" also means to add more of a substance, to increase, to lengthen or to intensify something. |
| Shona | The word "zvimwe" can also mean "and so forth" or "moreover" in Shona. |
| Sindhi | The word "وڌيڪ" can also mean "extra" or "additional" in Sindhi. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word තවත් also means "next" or "again" in Sinhala. |
| Slovak | The word "viac" also translates to "more", "several" or "a lot" in English. |
| Slovenian | "Več" also means "more" and "several" in Slovenian, and has its origins in the Proto-Slavic word "větь" which, in turn, goes back to the Proto-Indo-European root "*wegʰ- " meaning "to increase," from which words like "vegetate" and "vigor" are also derived. |
| Somali | "Dheeraad ah" comes from the Arabic word "ziyadah" meaning "excess" or "additional". |
| Spanish | The Spanish word "más" shares etymology with the English word "more". |
| Sundanese | The word 'Tambih deui' is also used to indicate the concept of 'additional' or 'in addition' in Sundanese. |
| Swahili | In Swahili, 'zaidi' can also mean 'extra', 'more than', or 'in addition to' |
| Swedish | The word "mer" also means "more". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Higit pa" means more than just plus; it can also mean to surpass or excel. |
| Tajik | The word "Бештар" in Tajik also means "more" or "exceeding". |
| Telugu | The word "మరింత" can be etymologically traced to the Proto-Dravidian "*marə", meaning "more," and also has the synonyms "అధిక" ("excess") and "అతి" ("excessive"). |
| Thai | The word "มากกว่า" (plus) in Thai is derived from the Sanskrit word "atirek", which also means "surplus" or "excess". |
| Turkish | Daha, which means 'plus' in Turkish, also has the meaning of 'later' or 'after' in time. |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word "більше" can also mean "more" or "greater" in quantity or degree. |
| Urdu | "مزید" originally meant "strength" in Sanskrit, and later came to mean "more" in Urdu. |
| Uzbek | In the Kazakh language, 'ko'proq' also means 'many' when used with verbs |
| Vietnamese | "Hơn" in Vietnamese can also mean "more" (literally or figuratively), "to be better than," or "to exceed. |
| Welsh | In Welsh, the word "mwy" can also refer to "additional" or "further." |
| Xhosa | Kaninzi derives from the verb kaninz' ('to stretch out') and has alternate meanings of 'moreover', 'besides', and 'as well as'. |
| Yiddish | The word "מער" ("plus") in Yiddish can also refer to "more" or "in addition to." |
| Yoruba | In Yoruba, 'siwaju sii' can also refer to 'in addition to', 'moreover', or 'on top of that'. |
| Zulu | Okuningi can also mean "excessive amounts" or "plenty" in Zulu. |
| English | In mathematics, the symbol "+" (plus) may also represent the unary operation of taking the positive value of a number. |