Proportion in Different Languages
Discover 'Proportion' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Proportion
Afrikaans proporsie | ||
Albanian proporcioni | ||
Amharic የተመጣጠነ | ||
Arabic نسبة | ||
Armenian համամասնություն | ||
Assamese অনুপাত | ||
Aymara proporción ukampi | ||
Azerbaijani nisbət | ||
Bambara hakɛ min bɛ sɔrɔ | ||
Basque proportzioa | ||
Belarusian прапорцыя | ||
Bengali অনুপাত | ||
Bhojpuri अनुपात के बा | ||
Bosnian proporcija | ||
Bulgarian пропорция | ||
Catalan proporció | ||
Cebuano katimbangan | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 比例 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 比例 | ||
Corsican prupurzioni | ||
Croatian proporcija | ||
Czech poměr | ||
Danish del | ||
Dhivehi ނިސްބަތެވެ | ||
Dogri अनुपात च | ||
Dutch proportie | ||
English proportion | ||
Esperanto proporcion | ||
Estonian proportsioon | ||
Ewe agbɔsɔsɔme si sɔ | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) proporsyon | ||
Finnish osuus | ||
French proportion | ||
Frisian ferhâlding | ||
Galician proporción | ||
Georgian პროპორცია | ||
German anteil | ||
Greek ποσοστό | ||
Guarani proporción rehegua | ||
Gujarati પ્રમાણ | ||
Haitian Creole pwopòsyon | ||
Hausa rabo | ||
Hawaiian kaulike | ||
Hebrew פּרוֹפּוֹרצִיָה | ||
Hindi अनुपात | ||
Hmong feem | ||
Hungarian arány | ||
Icelandic hlutfall | ||
Igbo nkezi | ||
Ilocano proporsion ti bagi | ||
Indonesian proporsi | ||
Irish comhréire | ||
Italian proporzione | ||
Japanese 割合 | ||
Javanese proporsi | ||
Kannada ಅನುಪಾತ | ||
Kazakh пропорция | ||
Khmer សមាមាត្រ | ||
Kinyarwanda igipimo | ||
Konkani प्रमाणांत मेळटा | ||
Korean 비율 | ||
Krio di prɔpɔshɔn | ||
Kurdish ebramberî | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) ڕێژە | ||
Kyrgyz пропорция | ||
Lao ສັດສ່ວນ | ||
Latin ratio | ||
Latvian proporcija | ||
Lingala proportion na yango | ||
Lithuanian proporcija | ||
Luganda ekigerageranyo | ||
Luxembourgish undeel | ||
Macedonian пропорција | ||
Maithili अनुपात के अनुसार | ||
Malagasy arakaraka | ||
Malay perkadaran | ||
Malayalam അനുപാതം | ||
Maltese proporzjon | ||
Maori ōwehenga | ||
Marathi प्रमाण | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯄ꯭ꯔꯣꯄꯣꯔꯁꯟ ꯂꯩꯕꯥ꯫ | ||
Mizo proportion a ni | ||
Mongolian харьцаа | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အချိုးအစား | ||
Nepali अनुपात | ||
Norwegian proporsjon | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kuchuluka | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଅନୁପାତ | ||
Oromo pirooppoorshinii | ||
Pashto تناسب | ||
Persian تناسب، قسمت | ||
Polish proporcja | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) proporção | ||
Punjabi ਅਨੁਪਾਤ | ||
Quechua proporción nisqa | ||
Romanian proporţie | ||
Russian пропорция | ||
Samoan fua faatatau | ||
Sanskrit अनुपातः | ||
Scots Gaelic cuibhreann | ||
Sepedi karolelano | ||
Serbian пропорција | ||
Sesotho tekanyo | ||
Shona chikamu | ||
Sindhi تناسب | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) අනුපාතය | ||
Slovak pomerný | ||
Slovenian delež | ||
Somali saamiga | ||
Spanish proporción | ||
Sundanese babandingan | ||
Swahili uwiano | ||
Swedish andel | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) proporsyon | ||
Tajik таносуб | ||
Tamil விகிதம் | ||
Tatar пропорция | ||
Telugu నిష్పత్తి | ||
Thai สัดส่วน | ||
Tigrinya ብዝሒ ምምዝጋብ | ||
Tsonga mpimo wa xiringaniso | ||
Turkish oran | ||
Turkmen gatnaşygy | ||
Twi (Akan) nkyɛmu | ||
Ukrainian пропорція | ||
Urdu تناسب | ||
Uyghur نىسبەت | ||
Uzbek mutanosiblik | ||
Vietnamese tỷ trọng | ||
Welsh cyfran | ||
Xhosa inani | ||
Yiddish פּראָפּאָרציע | ||
Yoruba ipin | ||
Zulu isilinganiso |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | "Proporsie" in Afrikaans originates from the Portuguese word "proporção", ultimately derived from the Latin word "proportio". |
| Albanian | The Albanian word "proporcioni" can also mean "the relationship between the size of the body and its parts." |
| Amharic | The word "የተመጣጠነ" in Amharic also means "balanced" and it is the past participle of the verb "መመጣጠን" ("to make balanced"). |
| Arabic | The word "proportion" derives from the Latin word "pro" (before), and "portio" (part), from "port" (to carry), and it is related to "portion". |
| Armenian | The Armenian word "համամասնություն" (proportion) derives from the Greek word "συμμετρία" (symmetry), which in turn comes from the Greek words "σύν" (with) and "μέτρον" (measure). |
| Azerbaijani | The word "nisbət" derives from the Arabic verb "nasaba", meaning "to link" or "to attribute". |
| Basque | The Basque word "proportzioa" derives from the Latin "proportio", meaning "proper arrangement" or "matching relation". |
| Bengali | The word "অনুপাত" derives from the Sanskrit word "अनुपात" (anupāt), which means "measure" or "reckoning" |
| Bosnian | In a more general sense, "proporcija" can mean "relation" or "connection" between two or more people or things |
| Bulgarian | The word "пропорция" (proportion) in Bulgarian is a loanword from the Latin "proportio". |
| Catalan | The word 'proporció' comes from the Latin 'proportio', meaning 'balance' or 'symmetry'. |
| Cebuano | "Katimbangan" also means "fairness" in Cebuano, reflecting its significance as a guiding principle for ensuring equity and justice. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "比例"（proportion）在中文中的词源或其他含义：与“例”（례）有关，表示“依据准则或规定分配”或“大小相称地分配” |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The term 比例 (bǐlì) was borrowed from the Latin "proportio", meaning "a proper ratio". |
| Corsican | In Corsican "prupurzioni" also means "fairness", "due measure" or "equilibrium". |
| Croatian | The verb proporiti, from which the noun proporcija derives, means "to adjust," "to set" or "to apportion" rather than compare. |
| Czech | Poměr can also mean 'relation' or 'ratio'. |
| Danish | The Danish word "del" can also refer to a part or a piece of something. |
| Dutch | Proportie can also mean dowry in Dutch. |
| Esperanto | Proporcion is a loanword from Spanish and has the same meaning as proporcio in Esperanto, but it can also mean "ratio" or "proportionality". |
| Estonian | "Proportsioon" derives from two Latin words meaning "for" and "part" and can also mean "ratio" in Estonian. |
| Finnish | "Osuus" also means "cooperative" in Finnish and can be roughly translated as "a group of people who work together for a common goal". |
| French | In French, the word « proportion » derives from the Latin « proportio », meaning both « proportion » and « balance ». |
| Frisian | The word "ferhâlding" has the same root as the Dutch word "verhouding", which means "relationship". This suggests that the concept of proportion was originally understood in terms of relationships. |
| Galician | The term "proporción" in Galician can also refer to the proportion of a geometric figure, the ratio between two quantities, or the balance between different parts of a whole. |
| Georgian | "პროპორცია" (proportion) derives from the Greek words "pros" (toward) and "portio" (part) to mean literally "toward a part" or "in the right part." In mathematics, proportion represents the relationship between two amounts based on their sizes. In other uses, proportion refers to the size relationship of various parts of a whole, the arrangement of something according to size or relationship, or size relative to the rest of something." |
| German | Der Begriff „Anteil“ bedeutet im Lateinischen „partem“ und „pars“ und kann auch „Rolle“ oder „Part“ bedeuten. |
| Greek | The word "ποσοστό" is derived from the Greek word "πόσος", meaning "how much" or "how many". |
| Gujarati | The word "પ્રમાણ" in Gujarati is an adaptation of the Sanskrit word "प्रमाण" and can also mean "proof", "evidence", "testimony", or "authority" in Gujarati. |
| Haitian Creole | The word "pwopòsyon" in Haitian Creole also means "ratio". |
| Hausa | The word "rabo" in Hausa also means "tail" or "posterior". |
| Hawaiian | The Hawaiian word "kaulike" also means "to be equal" or "to be just". |
| Hebrew | פּרוֹפּוֹרצִיָה comes from the Latin "proportio", meaning "agreement in size, relation, or quantity", "relative measurement", "proportion", "balance", "symmetry", "measure" or "rule". |
| Hindi | The word "अनुपात" in Hindi originates from Sanskrit and means both "proportion" and "ratio". |
| Hmong | The Hmong word "feem" also means "piece", "amount", "part", or "some". |
| Hungarian | "Arány" (proportion) derives from the verb "érni" (to reach), hence its literal meaning is "coming to", "touching" |
| Icelandic | The Icelandic word "hlutfall" is derived from the words "hluti" (part, share) and "fall" (fall, drop). |
| Igbo | Nkezi also refers to a measurement of length, a proportion often expressed as a percentage. |
| Indonesian | The Indonesian word "proporsi" also means "percentage" or "ratio" in English. |
| Irish | Comhréire shares its root with comhra ('conversation'), implying a shared understanding of relative size or value. |
| Italian | In Italian, "proporzione" can also refer to a mathematical ratio or a musical interval. |
| Japanese | 割合 means "ratio" in Japanese, and it can also refer to "percentage" or "proportion". |
| Javanese | The Javanese word 'proporsi' may also refer to a type of traditional Javanese song or a style of Javanese dance. |
| Kannada | ಅನುಪಾತ (Anupata) is a Kannada word derived from Sanskrit 'Anu' and 'Pat', meaning 'after' and 'fall' respectively, suggesting a sense of following a pattern or relationship. |
| Kazakh | In Kazakh, "пропорция" can also mean "fraction" or "ratio". |
| Khmer | The word ភ្មឭពេន ("proportion") in Khmer also means "balance" or "symmetry." |
| Korean | 비율 (比率) is a Sino-Korean word originating from the Chinese words '比' (compare) and '率' (rate), and is also occasionally used with the meaning 'probability'. |
| Kurdish | Ebramberî is derived from the Persian word "ebrā" meaning "brow" and "merî" meaning "measurement", referring to the concept of measuring ratios by comparing the length of eyebrows. |
| Kyrgyz | The Kyrgyz word "пропорция" is derived from the Russian word "пропорция", which comes from the Latin word "proportio", meaning "a part in relation to a whole." |
| Latin | The Latin term 'ratio' originates from the root 'reor' ('reckon') and means 'the state of reckoning,' 'an account,' 'proportion,' and 'rate'. |
| Latvian | The Latvian word "proporcija" is derived from Latin meaning “a part” or "relation". |
| Lithuanian | "Proporcija" derives from the Latin word "proportio", meaning "similarity between two quantities." |
| Luxembourgish | The word "Undeel" also means "share", "fraction", and "ratio" in Luxembourgish. |
| Macedonian | The word "proportion" comes from the Latin word "proportio", meaning "ratio" or "relation". |
| Malagasy | The word "arakaraka" can also be used to describe the ratio between two quantities or the relationship between two things. |
| Malay | "Perkadaran" is also used to describe the ratio of ingredients in a recipe or the balance of elements in a system. |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "proporzjon" is derived from the Latin word "proportio", meaning "balance" or "ratio". |
| Maori | The Maori word "ōwehenga" also means "equal" or "similarity" depending on the context in which it is used. |
| Marathi | The word "प्रमाण" in Marathi comes from the Sanskrit root "mā", meaning "to measure" or "to know". |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word "харьцаа" can also mean "ratio" or "relationship". |
| Nepali | "अनुपात" (proportion) likely comes from the Sanskrit root "anu" (near) and "pat" (fall), thus referring to the nearness or similarity of two quantities. |
| Norwegian | “Proporsjon” can also refer to a geometrical figure with a particular ratio between its sides. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "kuchuluka" can also mean "to grow" or "to increase in size". |
| Pashto | This Pashto word is ultimately borrowed from Greek, where it meant 'harmony'. In Arabic and Persian it came to refer to a mathematical concept. |
| Persian | The word "تناسب، قسمت" derives from the Arabic root "نسب" meaning "relation" or "proportion" and can also refer to "share" or "portion". |
| Polish | "Proporcja" also means "face" or "figure" in Polish. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | Despite being spelled the same, the Portuguese word "proporção" has three different etymologies and meanings according to the word's grammatical function. |
| Romanian | In Romanian, "proporţie" can also refer to a percentage, ratio, or measure. |
| Russian | "Пропорция" means "proportion" in Russian, but it also refers to a mathematical equation that expresses the equality of two ratios. |
| Samoan | Fua faatatau is composed of the words fua (fruit) and faatatau (to compare), and figuratively refers to comparing two things to find a proportion. |
| Scots Gaelic | Scots Gaelic "cuibhreann" has been linked to Old Irish "com-rind", meaning "a body part"} |
| Serbian | The word 'пропорција' can also refer to a mathematical ratio or a section of a musical composition. |
| Sesotho | The word "tekanyo" in Sesotho also means "measure or standard" and is derived from the verb "tekanya" which means "to measure or compare". |
| Shona | In some dialects, "chikamu" also refers to a unit of measurement equivalent to a length of cloth that would extend from the fingertips of one hand, across the back, and to the opposite fingertips. |
| Sindhi | The word تناسب can also be translated as "balance". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | අනුපාතය (anupātaya) can mean 'a share' or 'an opportunity' in addition to 'proportion'. |
| Slovak | The Slovak word “pomerný” is derived from the Proto-Slavic root *pъrmь, meaning 'row', 'order', or 'sequence' |
| Slovenian | The word "delež" comes from the Slavic word "del", meaning "part". |
| Somali | "Saamiga" also means "partner" and "portion" and derives from the verb "qeybin" (meaning "to divide"). |
| Spanish | The Spanish word "proporción" is derived from the Latin word "proportio," which means "similarity," "equality," or "balance." |
| Sundanese | The word "babandingan" also means "relationship" or "correspondence". |
| Swahili | The word "uwiano" in Swahili can also mean "symmetry" or "balance". |
| Swedish | In Old Swedish, 'andel' signified 'a share', particularly with regard to landownership. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "proporsyon" is derived from the Spanish word "proporción", itself from the Latin word "proportio", meaning a proper or balanced ratio or relation. |
| Tajik | The word "таносуб" can also mean "coordination" or "harmony" in Tajik. |
| Tamil | The word 'விகிதம்' is derived from the Sanskrit word 'vikrti', meaning 'change' or 'modification'. |
| Telugu | The word 'నిష్పత్తి' is derived from the Sanskrit word 'निष्पत्ति' (nishpatti), which means 'establishment', 'completion', or 'accomplishment'. |
| Thai | The word "สัดส่วน" (proportion) in Thai can also refer to the "body ratio" of a person, especially a woman. |
| Turkish | The word "oran" in Turkish can also mean "rate" or "ratio". |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word “пропорція” also means “ratio” or "relation". |
| Urdu | The word تناسب can also mean 'harmony', 'balance', or 'moderation'. |
| Uzbek | The word "mutanosiblik" has the additional connotation of "agreement" or "suitability" in Uzbek. |
| Vietnamese | The word "tỷ trọng" can also refer to a person's height and weight ratio |
| Welsh | cyfran is a borrowing from Middle English 'cifre' and ultimately from Arabic 'sifr' ('cipher') via a Catalan intermediary |
| Xhosa | The word 'inani' is a noun in Xhosa which refers to the body and a person's being. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "פּראָפּאָרציע" can also mean "measurement" or "dimension". |
| Yoruba | The Yoruba word "ipin" has various meanings depending on context, including "share," "lot," or "part," but its primary definition is "proportion." |
| Zulu | The word "isilinganiso" in Zulu also means "likeness" or "resemblance". |
| English | The word "proportion" derives from the Latin word "pro" (meaning 'forward') and "portio" (meaning 'part') and originally meant a part or allotment. |