Quickly in Different Languages
Discover 'Quickly' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Quickly
Afrikaans vinnig | ||
Albanian shpejt | ||
Amharic በፍጥነት | ||
Arabic بسرعة | ||
Armenian արագ | ||
Assamese দ্ৰুততাৰে | ||
Aymara jank'aki | ||
Azerbaijani tez | ||
Bambara joona | ||
Basque azkar | ||
Belarusian хутка | ||
Bengali দ্রুত | ||
Bhojpuri झट से | ||
Bosnian brzo | ||
Bulgarian бързо | ||
Catalan ràpidament | ||
Cebuano dali | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 很快 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 很快 | ||
Corsican prestu | ||
Croatian brzo | ||
Czech rychle | ||
Danish hurtigt | ||
Dhivehi އަވަހަށް | ||
Dogri फौरन | ||
Dutch snel | ||
English quickly | ||
Esperanto rapide | ||
Estonian kiiresti | ||
Ewe kaba | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) mabilis | ||
Finnish nopeasti | ||
French rapidement | ||
Frisian gau | ||
Galician axiña | ||
Georgian სწრაფად | ||
German schnell | ||
Greek γρήγορα | ||
Guarani pya'e | ||
Gujarati તરત | ||
Haitian Creole byen vit | ||
Hausa da sauri | ||
Hawaiian wikiwiki | ||
Hebrew בִּמְהִירוּת | ||
Hindi जल्दी से | ||
Hmong nrawm | ||
Hungarian gyorsan | ||
Icelandic fljótt | ||
Igbo ngwa ngwa | ||
Ilocano napartak | ||
Indonesian segera | ||
Irish go tapa | ||
Italian velocemente | ||
Japanese 早く | ||
Javanese cepet | ||
Kannada ತ್ವರಿತವಾಗಿ | ||
Kazakh тез | ||
Khmer យ៉ាងឆាប់រហ័ស | ||
Kinyarwanda vuba | ||
Konkani जलद | ||
Korean 빨리 | ||
Krio fas fas | ||
Kurdish zû | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) بەخێرایی | ||
Kyrgyz тез | ||
Lao ຢ່າງໄວວາ | ||
Latin cito | ||
Latvian ātri | ||
Lingala nokinoki | ||
Lithuanian greitai | ||
Luganda mangu | ||
Luxembourgish séier | ||
Macedonian брзо | ||
Maithili तेजी सँ | ||
Malagasy haingana | ||
Malay dengan pantas | ||
Malayalam വേഗത്തിൽ | ||
Maltese malajr | ||
Maori tere | ||
Marathi पटकन | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯌꯥꯝꯅ ꯊꯨꯅ | ||
Mizo rang takin | ||
Mongolian түргэн | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) လျင်မြန်စွာ | ||
Nepali छिटो | ||
Norwegian raskt | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) mofulumira | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଶୀଘ୍ର | ||
Oromo atattamaan | ||
Pashto ژر | ||
Persian به سرعت | ||
Polish szybko | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) rapidamente | ||
Punjabi ਤੇਜ਼ੀ ਨਾਲ | ||
Quechua utqaylla | ||
Romanian repede | ||
Russian быстро | ||
Samoan vave | ||
Sanskrit शीघ्रेण | ||
Scots Gaelic gu sgiobalta | ||
Sepedi ka potlako | ||
Serbian брзо | ||
Sesotho ka potlako | ||
Shona nekukurumidza | ||
Sindhi جلدي | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) ඉක්මනින් | ||
Slovak rýchlo | ||
Slovenian hitro | ||
Somali si deg deg ah | ||
Spanish con rapidez | ||
Sundanese gancang | ||
Swahili haraka | ||
Swedish snabbt | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) mabilis | ||
Tajik зуд | ||
Tamil விரைவாக | ||
Tatar тиз | ||
Telugu త్వరగా | ||
Thai อย่างรวดเร็ว | ||
Tigrinya ብህጹጽ | ||
Tsonga xihatla | ||
Turkish hızlı bir şekilde | ||
Turkmen çalt | ||
Twi (Akan) ntɛm so | ||
Ukrainian швидко | ||
Urdu جلدی سے | ||
Uyghur تېز | ||
Uzbek tez | ||
Vietnamese mau | ||
Welsh yn gyflym | ||
Xhosa ngokukhawuleza | ||
Yiddish געשווינד | ||
Yoruba ni kiakia | ||
Zulu ngokushesha |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word vinnig is derived from the Dutch word vinnig, which means "fierce" or "quick-tempered". |
| Albanian | "Shpejt" also means "sprightly" in Albanian |
| Amharic | "በፍጥነት" can mean "swiftly" or "promptly" in Amharic. |
| Arabic | The Arabic word "بسرعة" can also refer to the swiftness or the hastiness of an action. |
| Armenian | "Արագ" originated from Middle Persian "dr'd/", meaning "to run" in modern Persian. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "tez" also refers to a species of antelope native to Central Asia |
| Basque | "Azkar" also means "vigilant" in Old Basque. |
| Belarusian | In some regions of Belarus the word |
| Bengali | The word "দ্রুত" is derived from the Sanskrit word "द्रुत" meaning "swift" or "rapid". |
| Bosnian | Bosnian 'brzo' comes from a Proto-Slavic root, meaning 'to hurry' and 'to be quick'. |
| Bulgarian | Бързо can also mean 'sharp' or 'keen', as in 'бързо око' ('keen eye'). |
| Catalan | The word "ràpidament" in Catalan comes from the Latin word "rapidus", meaning "swift" or "quick". |
| Cebuano | The word "dali" has an alternate meaning of "immediately" in Cebuano. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The second character '快' can also mean 'happy' and 'joy'. Originally '很快' was used to describe that something happened so fast that people didn't have time to be happy about it, and thus it acquired the meaning of 'quickly'. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 很快 is sometimes used to mean "very" or "very likely" in addition to its primary meaning of "quickly". |
| Corsican | "Prestu" in Corsican derives ultimately from the Latin "praesto" meaning "at once, ready," |
| Croatian | The word "brzo" in Croatian can also refer to a slope or a ford, and is of Proto-Slavic origin, deriving from the word "byrzo" meaning "rapidly" or "steeply." |
| Czech | The word "rychle" can also be used to mean "fast" or "rapid". |
| Danish | Hurtigt also means 'sharp' in Danish, akin to the English usage of 'quick-witted'. |
| Dutch | The word "snel" in Dutch, cognate with "schnell" in German, originally meant "smooth" or "even". |
| Esperanto | "Rapide" is derived from Latin "rapidus," meaning both "quick" and "seizing; catching; grasping." |
| Estonian | The word "kiiresti" in Estonian is derived from the word "kiire" meaning "fast" or "urgent" and can also be used to express the idea of haste or urgency. |
| Finnish | The word "nopeasti" is derived from the verb "nopeata", which means "to make quick or move quickly". |
| French | The word "rapidement" in French also refers to the speed of a river's current. |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "gau" also means "loud" or "shrill". |
| Galician | "Axiña" in Galician shares the etymology of "acina" in Portuguese, meaning "olive", possibly due to ancient agricultural practices involving olives. |
| Georgian | სწრაფად (quickly) ultimately derives from the Proto-Kartvelian root *skʷʰra-, also meaning "to hasten". |
| German | Schnell also means "pregnant" in the context of animals, especially horses, in German. |
| Greek | "Γρήγορα" is derived from the Greek word "γρηγορώ", which means "to be awake" or "to be alert". |
| Gujarati | "તરત" is derived from the Sanskrit word "तर्ज" meaning "to float" or "to be carried away". It also means "in a short time" or "without delay". |
| Haitian Creole | The Haitian Creole phrase "byen vit" is derived from the French "bien vite" and can also mean "immediately" or "eagerly". |
| Hausa | While most Hausa speakers believe da sauri is a single term, the word da means "come" and sauri means "run." |
| Hawaiian | In Hawaiian, "wikiwiki" also means "the water rises," likely referring to the quick rise of water in a wave. |
| Hebrew | בִּמְהִירוּת is derived from the root מ־הֵר meaning hasten, be swift, be quick. |
| Hindi | The Hindi word "जल्दी से" also means "in a hurry" or "without delay". |
| Hmong | While 'nrawm' in the Hmong Daw dialect means 'quickly' or 'fast,' in the Hmong Njua dialect it can also mean 'strong' or 'hard.' |
| Hungarian | The Hungarian word “gyorsan” comes from the verb “gyorsul” which means to accelerate; in Turkish, the similar-sounding word “görüşme” means “meeting”. |
| Icelandic | In Icelandic, "fljótt" can also refer to the speed of a horse or the intensity of a smell. |
| Igbo | "Ngwa ngwa" in Igbo also refers to the spirit of quickness or agility. |
| Indonesian | The word "segera" is thought to have originated from the Sanskrit word "sigira" meaning "quick" or "promptly." |
| Irish | The Irish "go tapa" likely meant "with speed" and comes from "tapaim" (I find). |
| Italian | "Velocemente" derives from the Latin "velox", meaning both "fast" and "changeable". |
| Japanese | The word "早く" has two primary meanings: "soon" and "quickly." |
| Javanese | The word 'cepet' can also refer to a type of small bird in Javanese, known as the 'cepet bird' ('Orthotomus ruficeps'). |
| Kannada | The word 'ತ್ವರಿತವಾಗಿ' is derived from the Sanskrit word 'त्वरित', which also means 'quickly' or 'swiftly'. |
| Kazakh | The word "тез" also means "narrow" or "short" in Kazakh. |
| Korean | "빨리" has the alternate meaning of "bright, fresh." |
| Kurdish | "Zû" can also refer to "the sound of a fast movement". |
| Kyrgyz | The word "тез" can also mean "soon" or "in a hurry". |
| Latin | "Cito" is the Latin abbreviation for "cito legere," which means "to read quickly". |
| Latvian | The word "ātri" is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root "*h₂reǵ-," meaning "to run" or "to move quickly." |
| Lithuanian | In addition to "quickly," "greitai" means "well" or "well off". |
| Luxembourgish | The Luxembourgish word "séier" also means "always" or "surely" in German, from which it is derived. |
| Macedonian | The Macedonian word "брзо" is cognate with "быстрый" in Russian, "brz" in Polish, "brez" in Slovenian, "brezo" in Albanian, "бърз" in Bulgarian, "brz" in Croatian, "брз" in Serbian, "brzy" in Slovak and "rychlý" in Czech. |
| Malagasy | "Haingana" in Malagasy also means "sharp" or "agile". |
| Maltese | Malajr is related to the Arabic word 'malajun', meaning 'in haste' or 'at speed'. |
| Maori | Tere is also one of many Maori words for |
| Marathi | "पटकन" can also mean "in a trice" and is derived from "पटकना," meaning "to throw" or "to beat." |
| Mongolian | "Түргэн" can also mean "early" in Mongolian. |
| Nepali | The word "छिटो" is derived from the Sanskrit word "क्षिप्र", meaning "swift" or "rapid". |
| Norwegian | The word "raskt" may also refer to a state of intoxication |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "mofulumira" is also used to describe something that is "done in a hurry or without care". |
| Pashto | The word "ژر" can also mean "fast" or "rapid" in Pashto, and is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *gʰer-. |
| Persian | The word "به سرعت" can also mean "at full speed" or "with great speed". |
| Polish | "Szybko" in Polish also means "fast", "swift", "at a high speed" or "nimbly". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "rapidamente" originated in the Latin "rapide" meaning "quickly" or "violently". |
| Punjabi | The word "ਤੇਜ਼ੀ ਨਾਲ" (quickly) is derived from the Sanskrit word "तृष्णा" (thirst), signifying a strong desire or urgency to do something. |
| Romanian | 'Repede' is cognate with 'rapid' in English, and both words derive from the Latin word 'rapere', meaning 'to seize' or 'to carry away'. |
| Russian | "Быстро" also means "agility" when speaking of animals. |
| Samoan | The word "vave" can also be used to describe a state of nervousness or excitement. |
| Scots Gaelic | 'Gu sgiobalta' is also used in some dialects to mean 'immediately'. |
| Serbian | Though the word "брзо" mostly means "quickly," it can also mean "soon" (in the sense of temporal proximity). |
| Sesotho | The word 'ka potlako' originally meant 'the quality or condition of being quick or fast' and could be used to describe inanimate objects and animals, not just humans. |
| Shona | The word 'nekukurumidza' also translates to 'to hasten', 'to accelerate', or 'to speed up' in Shona. |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "جلدي" can also mean "boldly" or "daringly". |
| Slovak | The word "rýchlo" also means "speed" in Slovak. |
| Slovenian | The word 'hitro' is also used to describe someone who is quick-witted or clever. |
| Somali | The word "si deg deg ah" literally translates to "do quickly" with "deg deg" being the reduplicated form of the verb "do" meaning to get or do something. |
| Spanish | The adverbial phrase "con rapidez" is composed of three words: "con" (with), "rapidez" (speed), and "mente" (mind). The word "mente" has been omitted in the phrase, but it is implied. |
| Sundanese | "Gancang" also means "quickly" in Sundanese. |
| Swahili | The word "haraka" also means "movement" or "progress" in Swahili, emphasizing the dynamic nature of quick actions. |
| Swedish | The word 'snabbt' is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root '*s(w)ebh-', meaning to run swiftly. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Mabilis" can also mean "speedy," "rapid," and "swift." |
| Tajik | The word "зуд" is derived from Persian and can also mean "scabies". |
| Tamil | The word 'விரைவாக' can also mean 'swiftly' or 'speedily' in English. |
| Telugu | "త్వరగా" is also used to mean "hastily" or "in a hurry". |
| Thai | อย่างรวดเร็ว can also mean 'as' in the sense of 'as a verb,' e.g. "เดินอย่างนินจา" (walk like a ninja). |
| Turkish | "Hızlı bir şekilde" is a Turkish idiom meaning "quickly" and can also mean "in a hurry". |
| Ukrainian | Швидко can also mean "nimbly" or "in a hurry". |
| Urdu | The word "جلدی سے" is derived from the Arabic word "جلد" meaning "skin" or "surface," suggesting a sense of urgency or haste. |
| Uzbek | The word "tez" also means "fresh" or "sharp" in Uzbek. |
| Vietnamese | The word "mau" in Vietnamese can also mean "color" or "pattern." |
| Welsh | The word "yn gyflym" is formed from the root "cyflym" and the preposition "yn", meaning "in a" or "in the manner of". |
| Xhosa | The term ngokukhawuleza is also used to refer to a swift bird of prey. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word געשווינד traces its roots back to the medieval German word "geswint". |
| Yoruba | The word "ni kiakia" can also mean "with speed" or "in a hurry." |
| Zulu | The word "ngokushesha" has been said to derive from the word "ukugijima," which means "to run." |
| English | As an idiom, "quick" can also mean to be alive or in working order. |