Plus in Different Languages
Discover 'Plus' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Updated on March 6, 2024
The word 'plus' is a small but powerful term, denoting addition or positive values in various contexts. Its significance extends beyond mathematics, as it represents growth, collaboration, and the concept of 'more' in everyday life. Plus has cultural importance in many societies, symbolizing progress and prosperity.
Given the global prevalence of this term, understanding its translations in different languages can be both enlightening and practical. For instance, in Spanish, 'plus' becomes 'más,' while in French, it's 'plus.' In Mandarin Chinese, it's '加' (jiā), and in Japanese, it's 'プラス' (purasu).
Delving into the translations of plus offers a glimpse into how diverse cultures express the idea of addition and positivity. This exploration can spark curiosity about linguistic nuances and cultural similarities and differences. Join us as we embark on this journey, discovering the many faces of 'plus' in various languages.
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Plus in Sub-Saharan African Languages
| Afrikaans | meer | ||
| Afrikaans "meer" originates from the Dutch "meer" meaning "lake" and is used in toponyms to refer to large bodies of water. | |||
| Amharic | ተጨማሪ | ||
| The word ተጨማሪ also means "additional information" and "supplementary materials." | |||
| Hausa | kara | ||
| Hausa 'kara' comes from Proto-West-Chadic *kàrá 'exceed, go beyond' | |||
| Igbo | ọzọ | ||
| The word "Ọzọ" in Igbo finds its root in the verb "zọ" meaning "to add" and is often used to describe an augmentative concept. | |||
| Malagasy | bebe kokoa | ||
| 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'. | |||
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | zambiri | ||
| The word "Zambiri" can also be used to mean "more" or "additional". | |||
| Shona | zvimwe | ||
| The word "zvimwe" can also mean "and so forth" or "moreover" in Shona. | |||
| Somali | dheeraad ah | ||
| "Dheeraad ah" comes from the Arabic word "ziyadah" meaning "excess" or "additional". | |||
| Sesotho | hape | ||
| The word "Hape" also means to add more of a substance, to increase, to lengthen or to intensify something. | |||
| Swahili | zaidi | ||
| In Swahili, 'zaidi' can also mean 'extra', 'more than', or 'in addition to' | |||
| Xhosa | kaninzi | ||
| Kaninzi derives from the verb kaninz' ('to stretch out') and has alternate meanings of 'moreover', 'besides', and 'as well as'. | |||
| Yoruba | siwaju sii | ||
| In Yoruba, 'siwaju sii' can also refer to 'in addition to', 'moreover', or 'on top of that'. | |||
| Zulu | okuningi | ||
| Okuningi can also mean "excessive amounts" or "plenty" in Zulu. | |||
| Bambara | ka fara o kan | ||
| Ewe | kpe ɖe eŋu | ||
| Kinyarwanda | wongeyeho | ||
| Lingala | plus | ||
| Luganda | plus | ||
| Sepedi | plus | ||
| Twi (Akan) | nea ɛka ho ne | ||
Plus in North African & Middle Eastern Languages
| Arabic | أكثر | ||
| أكثر is thought to derive from | |||
| Hebrew | יותר | ||
| In Tanakh, the word is often used as an affirmative instead of | |||
| Pashto | نور | ||
| The word "نور" in Pashto can also refer to "light" or "illumination". | |||
| Arabic | أكثر | ||
| أكثر is thought to derive from | |||
Plus in Western European Languages
| Albanian | më shumë | ||
| The Albanian word "më shumë" can also mean "much more" or "much" in English, depending on the context. | |||
| Basque | gehiago | ||
| The word "gehiago" can also mean "enough" or "exceedingly". | |||
| Catalan | més | ||
| The Catalan word "més" can also mean "but" or "although" in Spanish. | |||
| Croatian | više | ||
| The word "više" also means "more" or "greater" in Croatian. | |||
| Danish | mere | ||
| Originally "mere" also meant "many", this meaning still exists in dialects. | |||
| Dutch | meer | ||
| The word "meer" also means "lake" in Dutch. | |||
| English | plus | ||
| In mathematics, the symbol "+" (plus) may also represent the unary operation of taking the positive value of a number. | |||
| French | plus | ||
| In French, the word "plus" can also mean "more" or "most". | |||
| Frisian | mear | ||
| The word "mear" in Frisian also means "lake" and is cognate with the English word "mere". | |||
| Galician | máis | ||
| In Portuguese the word "mais" also means "but" while in Galician it only means "plus." | |||
| German | mehr | ||
| "Mehr" is also used figuratively to mean "something additional" (like the French idiom "un petit extra"). | |||
| Icelandic | meira | ||
| The Icelandic word "meira" also means 'more'. | |||
| Irish | níos mó | ||
| Italian | di più | ||
| The Italian word "Di Più" can also mean "in addition", "furthermore", or "moreover". | |||
| Luxembourgish | méi | ||
| The word "méi" also means "more" and is derived from the Latin word "magis." | |||
| Maltese | aktar | ||
| The word "aktar" also means "other" in Maltese | |||
| Norwegian | mer | ||
| The Norwegian word "mer" also means "lake." | |||
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | mais | ||
| The Portuguese word "mais" may derive from the Latin "magis" ("more") or the Provençal "maes" ("plus, larger"). | |||
| Scots Gaelic | tuilleadh | ||
| The word "tuilleadh" is also used as a noun to mean "excess" or "abundance". | |||
| Spanish | más | ||
| The Spanish word "más" shares etymology with the English word "more". | |||
| Swedish | mer | ||
| The word "mer" also means "more". | |||
| Welsh | mwy | ||
| In Welsh, the word "mwy" can also refer to "additional" or "further." | |||
Plus in Eastern European Languages
| Belarusian | больш | ||
| The word "больш" can also mean "more" or "greater". | |||
| Bosnian | više | ||
| The word 'više' is a Slavic word with various uses across the region, but in Bosnian, it primarily denotes 'more'. | |||
| Bulgarian | повече ▼ | ||
| In Bulgarian, the word "Повече ▼" is also used in the sense of "more", "in addition", or "extra". | |||
| Czech | více | ||
| "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." | |||
| Estonian | rohkem | ||
| The word "rohkem" in Estonian is related to the Finnish word "runsaasti" and the Russian word "много", meaning "abundantly" or "much." | |||
| Finnish | lisää | ||
| The word "lisää" can also mean "to add" or "to increase" in Finnish. | |||
| Hungarian | több | ||
| The word "több" derives from the Old Turkic word "*tüp", meaning "end" or "extreme". | |||
| Latvian | vairāk | ||
| Latvian "vairāk" stems from Late PIE "h₃eǵʰros" meaning "greater," also found in Ancient Greek "αὖρος" (auros), "tomorrow," and English "ear"} | |||
| Lithuanian | daugiau | ||
| The word "daugiau" also means "more" or "greater" in Lithuanian. | |||
| Macedonian | повеќе | ||
| In Macedonian, "повеќе" (read as "povekje") can also mean "more" or "rather". | |||
| Polish | więcej | ||
| The word "więcej" in Polish can also mean "more" or "additional". | |||
| Romanian | mai mult | ||
| Mai Mult is also the name of a Romanian supermarket chain, a wine brand, and a popular song by the band Paraziţii. | |||
| Russian | больше | ||
| The word "Больше" (pronounced bol'she) also means "more" in Russian. | |||
| Serbian | више | ||
| 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. | |||
| Slovak | viac | ||
| The word "viac" also translates to "more", "several" or "a lot" in English. | |||
| Slovenian | več | ||
| "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. | |||
| Ukrainian | більше | ||
| The Ukrainian word "більше" can also mean "more" or "greater" in quantity or degree. | |||
Plus in South Asian Languages
| Bengali | আরও | ||
| The word "আরও" in Bengali can also serve as a noun meaning "more". | |||
| Gujarati | વધુ | ||
| The word 'વધુ' in Gujarati can also mean 'bride' or 'wife'. | |||
| Hindi | अधिक | ||
| The word "अधिक" can also mean "more", "much", "excessive", or "very" in Hindi. | |||
| Kannada | ಹೆಚ್ಚು | ||
| The word "ಹೆಚ್ಚು" can also mean "more" or "increase" in Kannada. | |||
| Malayalam | കൂടുതൽ | ||
| The Malayalam word “കൂടുതൽ” also means “more” or “again” in English. | |||
| Marathi | अधिक | ||
| 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 | ||
| "अधिक" (adhik) is derived from the Sanskrit word "adhi," meaning "over" or "above." | |||
| Punjabi | ਹੋਰ | ||
| The word “ਹੋਰ” can also mean “except” or “other” in Punjabi. | |||
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | තවත් | ||
| The word තවත් also means "next" or "again" in Sinhala. | |||
| Tamil | மேலும் | ||
| Telugu | మరింత | ||
| The word "మరింత" can be etymologically traced to the Proto-Dravidian "*marə", meaning "more," and also has the synonyms "అధిక" ("excess") and "అతి" ("excessive"). | |||
| Urdu | مزید | ||
| "مزید" originally meant "strength" in Sanskrit, and later came to mean "more" in Urdu. | |||
Plus in East Asian Languages
| Chinese (Simplified) | 更多 | ||
| "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 | ||
| "更多" in Traditional Chinese is composed of the characters "更" (more) and "多" (many), emphasizing a significant increase. | |||
| Japanese | もっと | ||
| "もっと" is used in Japanese to mean both "further" and "not enough," as in "not good enough". | |||
| Korean | 더 | ||
| "더" can also mean "again" or "still," as in "다시"," "아직도," respectively. | |||
| Mongolian | дэлгэрэнгүй | ||
| Myanmar (Burmese) | နောက်ထပ် | ||
Plus in South East Asian Languages
| Indonesian | lebih | ||
| "Lebih" can also mean "more" in terms of quantity, quality or extent. | |||
| Javanese | liyane | ||
| Liyane' shares its root with the word 'liyane' meaning 'other' or 'different' reflecting its use as a comparison or addition. | |||
| Khmer | ច្រើនទៀត | ||
| The word ច្រើនទៀត is also used in Khmer to mean "more often" or "more frequently." | |||
| Lao | ຫຼາຍ | ||
| Malay | lebih banyak lagi | ||
| The word "lebih banyak lagi" in Malay can also be used to mean "more and more". | |||
| Thai | มากกว่า | ||
| The word "มากกว่า" (plus) in Thai is derived from the Sanskrit word "atirek", which also means "surplus" or "excess". | |||
| Vietnamese | hơn | ||
| "Hơn" in Vietnamese can also mean "more" (literally or figuratively), "to be better than," or "to exceed. | |||
| Filipino (Tagalog) | plus | ||
Plus in Central Asian Languages
| Azerbaijani | daha çox | ||
| The word 'daha çox' in Azerbaijani can also mean 'too much' or 'more than enough' | |||
| Kazakh | көбірек | ||
| "Көбірек" can also mean "more" or "additional". | |||
| Kyrgyz | көбүрөөк | ||
| The Kyrgyz word "көбүрөөк" can also mean "more than" or "in addition to." | |||
| Tajik | бештар | ||
| The word "Бештар" in Tajik also means "more" or "exceeding". | |||
| Turkmen | goşmaça | ||
| Uzbek | ko'proq | ||
| In the Kazakh language, 'ko'proq' also means 'many' when used with verbs | |||
| Uyghur | plus | ||
Plus in Pacific Languages
| Hawaiian | hou aku | ||
| Hou aku is also used in Hawaiian to indicate the completion of an action or achievement. | |||
| Maori | atu | ||
| The word "atu" can also mean "next", "in addition to", or "as well as". | |||
| Samoan | sili atu | ||
| "Sili atu" comes from "sili" (to stretch) and "atu" (forward), suggesting the idea of reaching forward or extending something. | |||
| Tagalog (Filipino) | higit pa | ||
| "Higit pa" means more than just plus; it can also mean to surpass or excel. | |||
Plus in American Indigenous Languages
| Aymara | ukatsti | ||
| Guarani | ha avei | ||
Plus in International Languages
| Esperanto | pli | ||
| The word "pli" also has the meanings "more" and "further" and derives from the Polish word "ply". | |||
| Latin | magis | ||
| 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" | |||
Plus in Others Languages
| Greek | περισσότερο | ||
| "Περισσότερο" can also mean "for the most part" or "more likely". | |||
| Hmong | ntxiv | ||
| The word "ntxiv" can also be used to refer to adding or attaching something. | |||
| Kurdish | zêde | ||
| The word "zêde" in Kurdish has two distinct meanings, "more" and "a little bit more than". | |||
| Turkish | daha | ||
| Daha, which means 'plus' in Turkish, also has the meaning of 'later' or 'after' in time. | |||
| Xhosa | kaninzi | ||
| Kaninzi derives from the verb kaninz' ('to stretch out') and has alternate meanings of 'moreover', 'besides', and 'as well as'. | |||
| Yiddish | מער | ||
| The word "מער" ("plus") in Yiddish can also refer to "more" or "in addition to." | |||
| Zulu | okuningi | ||
| Okuningi can also mean "excessive amounts" or "plenty" in Zulu. | |||
| Assamese | প্লাছ | ||
| Aymara | ukatsti | ||
| Bhojpuri | प्लस के बा | ||
| Dhivehi | ޕްލަސް | ||
| Dogri | प्लस | ||
| Filipino (Tagalog) | plus | ||
| Guarani | ha avei | ||
| Ilocano | plus | ||
| Krio | plus | ||
| Kurdish (Sorani) | کۆ | ||
| Maithili | प्लस | ||
| Meiteilon (Manipuri) | ꯄ꯭ꯂꯥꯁ ꯇꯧꯕꯥ꯫ | ||
| Mizo | plus | ||
| Oromo | dabalataan | ||
| Odia (Oriya) | ଅଧିକ | ||
| Quechua | plus | ||
| Sanskrit | प्लस् | ||
| Tatar | плюс | ||
| Tigrinya | plus | ||
| Tsonga | plus | ||