Quick in Different Languages
Discover 'Quick' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Quick
Afrikaans vinnig | ||
Albanian i shpejtë | ||
Amharic ፈጣን | ||
Arabic بسرعة | ||
Armenian արագ | ||
Assamese দ্ৰুত | ||
Aymara jank'aki | ||
Azerbaijani cəld | ||
Bambara teliman | ||
Basque azkarra | ||
Belarusian хутка | ||
Bengali দ্রুত | ||
Bhojpuri झट से | ||
Bosnian brzo | ||
Bulgarian бързо | ||
Catalan ràpid | ||
Cebuano dali | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 快 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 快 | ||
Corsican prestu | ||
Croatian brz | ||
Czech rychlý | ||
Danish hurtig | ||
Dhivehi އަވަސް | ||
Dogri फौरन | ||
Dutch snel | ||
English quick | ||
Esperanto rapida | ||
Estonian kiire | ||
Ewe kaba | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) mabilis | ||
Finnish nopea | ||
French rapide | ||
Frisian gau | ||
Galician rápido | ||
Georgian სწრაფი | ||
German schnell | ||
Greek γρήγορα | ||
Guarani pya'e | ||
Gujarati ઝડપી | ||
Haitian Creole rapid | ||
Hausa sauri | ||
Hawaiian wikiwiki | ||
Hebrew מָהִיר | ||
Hindi शीघ्र | ||
Hmong nrawm | ||
Hungarian gyors | ||
Icelandic fljótur | ||
Igbo ngwa ngwa | ||
Ilocano napartak | ||
Indonesian cepat | ||
Irish sciobtha | ||
Italian presto | ||
Japanese 速い | ||
Javanese cepet | ||
Kannada ತ್ವರಿತ | ||
Kazakh жылдам | ||
Khmer រហ័ស | ||
Kinyarwanda vuba | ||
Konkani जलद | ||
Korean 빨리 | ||
Krio kwik | ||
Kurdish zû | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) خێرا | ||
Kyrgyz тез | ||
Lao ໄວ | ||
Latin quick | ||
Latvian ātri | ||
Lingala noki | ||
Lithuanian greitai | ||
Luganda mangu | ||
Luxembourgish séier | ||
Macedonian брз | ||
Maithili जल्दी | ||
Malagasy tsara ho | ||
Malay cepat | ||
Malayalam പെട്ടെന്നുള്ള | ||
Maltese malajr | ||
Maori tere | ||
Marathi द्रुत | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯊꯨꯅꯥ | ||
Mizo rang | ||
Mongolian хурдан | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) မြန်မြန် | ||
Nepali छिटो | ||
Norwegian rask | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) mofulumira | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଶୀଘ୍ର | ||
Oromo ariitii | ||
Pashto ګړندی | ||
Persian سریع | ||
Polish szybki | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) rápido | ||
Punjabi ਤੇਜ਼ | ||
Quechua utqay | ||
Romanian rapid | ||
Russian быстрый | ||
Samoan vave | ||
Sanskrit तीव्र | ||
Scots Gaelic sgiobalta | ||
Sepedi potlako | ||
Serbian брзо | ||
Sesotho ka potlako | ||
Shona nekukurumidza | ||
Sindhi تڪڙو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) ඉක්මන් | ||
Slovak rýchlo | ||
Slovenian hitro | ||
Somali dhakhso leh | ||
Spanish rápido | ||
Sundanese gancang | ||
Swahili haraka | ||
Swedish snabbt | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) mabilis | ||
Tajik зуд | ||
Tamil விரைவான | ||
Tatar тиз | ||
Telugu శీఘ్ర | ||
Thai รวดเร็ว | ||
Tigrinya ቀልጠፈ | ||
Tsonga xihatla | ||
Turkish hızlı | ||
Turkmen çalt | ||
Twi (Akan) ntɛm | ||
Ukrainian швидко | ||
Urdu جلدی | ||
Uyghur تېز | ||
Uzbek tez | ||
Vietnamese nhanh chóng | ||
Welsh cyflym | ||
Xhosa ngokukhawuleza | ||
Yiddish שנעל | ||
Yoruba iyara | ||
Zulu ngokushesha |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "vinnig" is the Afrikaans form of "fenig" in Dutch or "finnig" in German, meaning "nimble" or "deft" (as in nimble fingers, or a "fast" and deft movement). |
| Albanian | The Albanian word "i shpejtë" derives from the Proto-Albanian root *shpē-, meaning "to hurry" or "to run." |
| Amharic | The word "ፈጣን" is of Geʽez origin and was borrowed into Amharic |
| Arabic | The word "بسرعة" can also mean "in a hurry" or "hastily". |
| Armenian | "Արագ" is thought to be derived from the Proto-Indo-European *h₂erǵʰ- ( |
| Azerbaijani | The word "cəld" also means "sharp" or "keen" in Azerbaijani. |
| Basque | The word "azkarra" possibly comes from the Arabic word "askar" meaning "army" or "soldier", with the ending "-ra" used to refer to a specific member. |
| Belarusian | The word "хутка" in Belarusian can also refer to a "minute" of time. |
| Bengali | The word "দ্রুত" is derived from the Sanskrit root "dru" meaning "to run". |
| Bosnian | Brzo means 'quickly' but can be used to form a compound adjective as well |
| Bulgarian | Although "бързо" now only means "fast" in Bulgarian, its root in Old Church Slavonic carries the meaning of "sharp" or "keen". |
| Catalan | "Ràpid" is also an adverb that means "quickly" or "in a fast manner". |
| Cebuano | The word "dali" can also mean "immediately" or "at once" in Cebuano. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "快" can also mean "happy" or "joyous". |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The word 快 (quick) can also mean 'happy' or 'comfortable' as in the phrase 一路平安 (have a comfortable journey). |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "prestu" is thought to derive from the Latin word "praesto", meaning "ready" or "at hand". |
| Croatian | The word "brz" is also used to describe someone who is sharp-tongued or has a sharp wit |
| Czech | The word "rychlý" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *rychъ, meaning "fast" or "swift". |
| Danish | Hurtig is also a surname, and a toponym for a small island in Norway. |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "snel" can also mean "bald" or "skinny". |
| Esperanto | The word "rapida" is also a form of the verb "rapidi", meaning "to speed up". |
| Estonian | The word "kiire" can also mean "tight" or "narrow" in Estonian. |
| Finnish | The word "nopea" is derived from the Proto-Finnic word "*nopsa", meaning "sharp" or "brisk". |
| French | "Rapide" in French also means "a shoal or rapid in a river". |
| Frisian | The name of the frisian village Gau originates from the Frisian word “gau” which means: water in the sense of floodplains in the Netherlands. |
| Galician | In Galician, "rápido" also means "rapidly" or "hastily". |
| Georgian | The Georgian word "სწრაფი" can also mean "eager", "energetic", and "keen" in English |
| German | "Schnell" is also used to describe a person who is agile or nimble, as in "er ist ein schneller Läufer" (he is a fast runner). |
| Greek | Γρήγορα in Greek comes from the root γρεγορα which means "watch" and is related to words like αγρυπνεία, επιγρηγορα, and εγηρσις. |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "ઝડપી" can also mean "alert," "clever," or "swift." |
| Haitian Creole | In Haitian Creole, 'rapid' can also mean 'rough' or 'harsh'. |
| Hausa | The word "sauri" can also refer to "quickly". |
| Hawaiian | In Hawaiian, "wiki-wiki" not only means "quick" but also describes a type of water conduit. |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "מָהִיר" can also mean "bright" or "shining". |
| Hindi | The word "शीघ्र" in Hindi comes from the Sanskrit root "शीघ्र" which means "quickly, soon" and is related to the word "शीघ्रता" meaning "quickness, speed". |
| Hmong | "Nrawm" in Hmong also refers to the sound of a footstep. |
| Hungarian | "Gyors" is derived from the Proto-Uralic word *kor, meaning "early" or "at the right time". |
| Icelandic | In Icelandic, "fljótur" not only means "fleeting" or "in a hurry", but also "shallow" or "unwise". |
| Igbo | The Igbo word "ngwa ngwa" can also refer to a type of dance or music. |
| Indonesian | Cepat is a Proto-Malay word cognate with words for "lightning" in other Southeast Asian languages such as Javanese "chepet" and Thai "chop". |
| Irish | The word "sciobtha" in Irish is cognate with the Latin word "celer" and the Greek word "ταχύς", both meaning "swift" or "quick". |
| Italian | The word "presto" also means "now" or "at once" in Italian. |
| Japanese | 速い derives from the same kanji as the name for "tachometer" (速度計), suggesting its original meaning was likely related to "speed." |
| Javanese | "Cepet" can also mean "clever" or "fast learners". |
| Kannada | The alternate meaning of ತ್ವರಿತ is 'excessive' or 'too much'. |
| Kazakh | The Turkic word "жылдам" is also used in the sense of "fast", "swift", and "agile". |
| Khmer | Etymology: From Pali "rahaso" meaning "secrete" or "hidden". |
| Korean | 빨리 is a sino-Korean word and is also used to mean 'hurriedly', 'quickly', or 'rashly'. |
| Kurdish | "Zû" is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root "*ǵʰéw-/, which also gives rise to words like "swift" and "hurry" in English. |
| Kyrgyz | The word "тез" (quick) comes from the Persian word "tez" meaning sharp or hasty. |
| Lao | The word "ໄວ" is also used as a prefix to indicate frequency, as in "ໄວໆ" (repeatedly), or to indicate urgency, as in "ໄວ" (hurry). |
| Latin | The Latin word "vivus" has the additional meaning of "alive" in English. |
| Latvian | Ātri is also the archaic Latvian word for "in the morning". |
| Lithuanian | "Greitai" also means "quickly" in Lithuanian. |
| Luxembourgish | The word "séier" is derived from the Germanic root "saiws" meaning "to rush" or "to flow". |
| Macedonian | Брз (quick) comes from Proto-Slavic *bъrzъ meaning "fast" and also refers to an old Slavic god of the wind. |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "TSARA HO" can also mean "good" or "well". |
| Malay | The Malay word "cepat" also has a derived meaning of "clever" and is related to the word "ceplak", meaning "squint-eyed". |
| Malayalam | The term “പെട്ടെന്നുള്ള” can also refer to something happening unexpectedly and can also be employed in the context of “a sudden jolt.” |
| Maltese | Malajr is derived from the Arabic word 'malik', meaning 'to possess or own' and is also used to refer to something that is 'ready' or 'available'. |
| Maori | The word "tere" in Maori also means "to pass" or "to go across". |
| Marathi | "द्रुत" is derived from the Sanskrit word "druta" meaning "fast" or "quickly", and also means "molten" or "liquid" in a different context. |
| Mongolian | The word "хурдан" also means "wind" or "hurricane" in Mongolian. |
| Nepali | "छिटो" is cognate with many Indo-Aryan languages including Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, and Gujarati. |
| Norwegian | "Rask" is also a type of crispbread in Norwegian. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word 'mofulumira' comes from the verb 'fulumira' which means to move or run quickly. |
| Pashto | "ګړندی" can also mean "lively" or "sharp-witted" in Pashto. |
| Persian | The word "سریع" also has the meaning of "fast" and "swift" in Persian. |
| Polish | The word "szybki" can also refer to an electric circuit or a kind of knot in sailing. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | "Rápido": from Latin "rapidus", meaning swift or moving with great speed, or from Latin "rapax", meaning grasping or snatching, and can also refer to the "rapidity of a river" (its swiftness of current). |
| Punjabi | The word "ਤੇਜ਼" also means "sharp" in Punjabi, reflecting its connection to the concept of cutting through something quickly. |
| Romanian | In Romanian, "rapid" can also mean "river", a usage derived from the Latin "rapidus" (fast-flowing). |
| Russian | The Russian word "быстрый" has origins in a Proto-Slavic root and its derivatives can also mean "fierce, cruel, impetuous" |
| Samoan | The word "vave" in Samoan can also mean "speed" or "hurry". |
| Scots Gaelic | Sgiobalta can mean either "quick" or "squint-eyed" |
| Serbian | The word "брзо" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word "*br̥zъ", meaning "fast" or "swift." |
| Sesotho | In Sesotho, "ka potlako" (quick) can also mean hasty or impatient. |
| Shona | The word "nekukurumidza" in Shona also means "to hasten" or "to hurry up". |
| Sindhi | The word "تڪڙو" also means "a thin, narrow strip of land". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "ඉක්මන්" is also used in the sense of "immediately" or "as soon as possible." |
| Slovak | The word "rýchlo" is cognate with the English word "rapid" and the German word "rasch". |
| Slovenian | Cognate with 'hitro(st)av', which can refer to a quick horse, a type of plant with fast growing stalks or an agile person. |
| Somali | The term may be a compound derived from "da" (to do something swiftly) and "akhsa" (limp) or "dhekh" (to look), hence "moving fast and slightly unsteady." |
| Spanish | In some regions of Spain, "rápido" also means "robbery", as a noun. |
| Sundanese | The word "gancang" in Sundanese also means "sharp" or "fast-moving", and is related to the word "cangcut" which means "to cut". |
| Swahili | The Swahili word 'haraka' not only means 'quick', but also refers to a type of traditional African dance. |
| Swedish | Snabbt, a word of Old Norse origin, also referred to as "hastigt" and "kvickt" in Swedish, can also translate as "rapid", "hurried", and even "prompt". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "mabilis" in Tagalog has an alternate meaning: "easy" or "effortless." |
| Tajik | The Tajik word "зуд" also means "itch" in English. |
| Tamil | "விரைவான" is cognate with the Sanskrit term "वेगवान" meaning "quick". |
| Telugu | "శీఘ్ర" is also the name of a raga in Indian classical music, which is known for its fast tempo and lively melody. |
| Thai | The Thai word "รวดเร็ว" is a compound of "รวด" (meaning "smooth") and "เร็ว" (meaning "fast"). |
| Turkish | The Turkish word "hızlı" comes from the Arabic root "hrz", meaning "to hurry". |
| Ukrainian | In Ukrainian, "швидко" is also used figuratively to mean "immediately" or "without delay". |
| Urdu | The word "جلدی" can also mean "in a hurry" or "impatiently" in Urdu. |
| Uzbek | The original meaning of “tez” was “sharp” or “fierce”, still visible in many idioms. |
| Vietnamese | "Nhanh chóng" is a compound word of "Nhanh" (fast) and "Chóng" (urgent). |
| Welsh | The word 'cyflym' also means 'swift' and 'rapid' and perhaps derives from 'cyflymu', 'to set in motion'. |
| Xhosa | The word "ngokukhawuleza" is derived from the verb "ukukhawuleza" meaning "to hurry" or "to move quickly". |
| Yiddish | The word "שנעל" can also refer to a "shoe lace" or "shoe nail" in Yiddish. |
| Yoruba | The word 'iyara,' meaning 'quick' in Yoruba, shares its root with 'iya,' meaning 'mother,' highlighting the association between swiftness and the protective, nurturing nature of mothers. |
| Zulu | Ngokusesha has an alternate meaning of 'to be eager or enthusiastic' as well as its primary meaning of 'speedy or prompt'. |
| English | The word 'quick' can also mean 'living' or 'alive', derived from the Old English 'cwic'. |