Afrikaans gereeld | ||
Albanian i rregullt | ||
Amharic መደበኛ | ||
Arabic منتظم | ||
Armenian կանոնավոր | ||
Assamese নিয়মিত | ||
Aymara chiqachaña | ||
Azerbaijani müntəzəm | ||
Bambara kumabɛ | ||
Basque erregularra | ||
Belarusian рэгулярны | ||
Bengali নিয়মিত | ||
Bhojpuri नियमित | ||
Bosnian redovno | ||
Bulgarian редовен | ||
Catalan regular | ||
Cebuano regular | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 定期 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 定期 | ||
Corsican rigulari | ||
Croatian redovito | ||
Czech pravidelný | ||
Danish fast | ||
Dhivehi ޢާންމު | ||
Dogri पाबंद | ||
Dutch regelmatig | ||
English regular | ||
Esperanto regula | ||
Estonian tavaline | ||
Ewe edzidzi | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) regular | ||
Finnish säännöllinen | ||
French ordinaire | ||
Frisian regelmjittich | ||
Galician regular | ||
Georgian რეგულარული | ||
German regulär | ||
Greek τακτικός | ||
Guarani mbohekojoja | ||
Gujarati નિયમિત | ||
Haitian Creole regilye | ||
Hausa na yau da kullun | ||
Hawaiian maʻa mau | ||
Hebrew רגיל | ||
Hindi नियमित | ||
Hmong tsis tu ncua | ||
Hungarian szabályos | ||
Icelandic reglulega | ||
Igbo mgbe | ||
Ilocano regular | ||
Indonesian reguler | ||
Irish rialta | ||
Italian regolare | ||
Japanese レギュラー | ||
Javanese biasa | ||
Kannada ನಿಯಮಿತ | ||
Kazakh тұрақты | ||
Khmer ទៀងទាត | ||
Kinyarwanda bisanzwe | ||
Konkani नियमीत | ||
Korean 정규병 | ||
Krio ɔltɛm | ||
Kurdish rêzbirêz | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) ئاسایی | ||
Kyrgyz үзгүлтүксүз | ||
Lao ປົກກະຕິ | ||
Latin iusto | ||
Latvian regulāri | ||
Lingala ya mbala na mbala | ||
Lithuanian reguliarus | ||
Luganda buli kaseera | ||
Luxembourgish regelméisseg | ||
Macedonian редовно | ||
Maithili नियमित | ||
Malagasy tapaka | ||
Malay biasa | ||
Malayalam പതിവ് | ||
Maltese regolari | ||
Maori auau | ||
Marathi नियमित | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯆꯥꯡ ꯅꯥꯏꯕ | ||
Mizo inang rual | ||
Mongolian тогтмол | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ပုံမှန်အစည်းအဝေး | ||
Nepali नियमित | ||
Norwegian regelmessig | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) wokhazikika | ||
Odia (Oriya) ନିୟମିତ | | ||
Oromo idilee | ||
Pashto منظم | ||
Persian منظم | ||
Polish regularny | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) regular | ||
Punjabi ਰੋਜਾਨਾ | ||
Quechua kaqlla | ||
Romanian regulat | ||
Russian регулярный | ||
Samoan masani | ||
Sanskrit नियमित | ||
Scots Gaelic cunbhalach | ||
Sepedi mehleng | ||
Serbian редовно | ||
Sesotho kamehla | ||
Shona nguva dzose | ||
Sindhi باقاعده | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) නිතිපතා | ||
Slovak pravidelné | ||
Slovenian redno | ||
Somali joogto ah | ||
Spanish regular | ||
Sundanese biasa | ||
Swahili mara kwa mara | ||
Swedish regelbunden | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) regular | ||
Tajik мунтазам | ||
Tamil வழக்கமான | ||
Tatar регуляр | ||
Telugu రెగ్యులర్ | ||
Thai ปกติ | ||
Tigrinya ልሙድ | ||
Tsonga nkarhi na nkarhi | ||
Turkish düzenli | ||
Turkmen yzygiderli | ||
Twi (Akan) daa daa | ||
Ukrainian регулярні | ||
Urdu باقاعدہ | ||
Uyghur دائىملىق | ||
Uzbek muntazam | ||
Vietnamese đều đặn | ||
Welsh rheolaidd | ||
Xhosa rhoqo | ||
Yiddish רעגולער | ||
Yoruba deede | ||
Zulu njalo |
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "gereeld" originates from the Dutch "geregeld", meaning "arranged" or "organized." |
| Albanian | The word "i rregullt" in Albanian is also used to describe something or someone that is common, ordinary, or usual. |
| Amharic | The word 'መደበኛ' ('regular') in Amharic derives from the root 'መድብ' ('law' or 'order') and originally referred to things that adhered to an established norm or pattern. |
| Arabic | The Arabic word "منتظم" can also refer to someone who is organized or methodical. |
| Azerbaijani | In Azerbaijani, the word "müntəzəm" also has the alternate meanings of "consistent" and "orderly". |
| Basque | Basque erregularra (regular) is originally a borrowing from Spanish regular, a noun meaning 'monk,' from Old Spanish reegla 'rule of an order. |
| Bengali | নিয়মিত can also mean customary, conventional, common, habitual, ordinary, usual, and uniform. |
| Bosnian | The word "redovno" originally meant "in a row" in Old Slavic. |
| Bulgarian | The word "редовен" can also refer to someone who is reliable or punctual. |
| Catalan | In Catalan, "regular" can also refer to a monastic order or a type of traditional dance. |
| Cebuano | In Cebuano, "regular" can also mean "ordinary" or "commonplace". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 定期 can also refer to regular meetings, events, or intervals. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | "定期" can also mean "period" or "menstruation" in Traditional Chinese. |
| Corsican | The word "rigulari" in Corsican comes from the Latin "regularis", meaning "according to rule". |
| Croatian | "Redovito" comes from the Proto-Slavic word *redъ "order" and is related to the word "red" |
| Czech | The Czech word "pravidelný" can also mean "proper", "correct", or "orthodox". |
| Danish | The Danish word "fast" originally meant "firm" and is related to the German "fest" and the English "fasten". |
| Dutch | The word 'regelmatig' is derived from the Latin word 'regula', meaning 'rule' or 'law'. The word is cognate with the English word 'regular' and the French word 'régulier'. |
| Esperanto | The word "regula" is borrowed from Latin, where it means "a straight edge, ruler, a standard." |
| Estonian | In older usage, "tavaline" could also mean "usual" or "ordinary". |
| Finnish | In addition to "regular," "säännöllinen" can also mean "lawful" or "methodical." |
| French | The word "ordinaire" in French, meaning "regular," has a Latin origin, "ordinarius," and also means "ordinary" or "commonplace." |
| Frisian | In Frisian, "regelmjittich" can also refer to "orderly" or "correct". |
| German | The German word "regulär" can also mean "normal" or "usual". |
| Greek | The word "τακτικός" also means "ordinary" or "habitual" in Greek. |
| Gujarati | નિયમિત is cognate with the English word 'nomos', meaning law, custom, or practice, and the Greek word 'nomizein', meaning to allot or distribute. |
| Haitian Creole | In Haitian Creole, "regilye" can also mean "customary" or "proper." |
| Hausa | The word "na yau da kullun" can also mean "on a daily basis" |
| Hawaiian | Maʻa mau, a compound word formed from the roots maʻa, meaning food or a meal, and mau, meaning continuous or permanent, is used in Hawaiian to describe an unchanging, routine activity. |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "רגיל" (regular) comes from the root "רגל" (foot), and originally meant "on foot" or "pedestrian". |
| Hindi | The word 'नियमित' (niyamit) in Hindi, meaning 'regular', can also refer to a 'rule', 'law', or something that is 'customary'. |
| Hmong | 'Tsis tu ncua' can also mean 'common' or 'ordinary' in Hmong. |
| Hungarian | The word “szabályos” (“regular”) also means “symmetrical” in Hungarian. |
| Icelandic | In Icelandic, "reglulega" can also mean "normally" or "usually". |
| Igbo | Mgbe can also refer to a person's age or a specific period of time. |
| Indonesian | In Indonesian, the word "reguler" also has a second, more informal meaning, "ordinary" or "normal". |
| Irish | "Rialta" can also mean "ordinary" or "simple" in Irish. |
| Italian | The Italian word "regolare" derives from the Latin "regula", meaning "straightedge" or "rule". It can also mean "uniform" or "orderly". |
| Japanese | The word "レギュラー" (regular) also means "leaded gasoline" in Japanese. |
| Javanese | "Biasa" in Javanese also means "normal" or "ordinary". |
| Kannada | "ನಿಯಮಿತ" originates from the Sanskrit word "nīyata" meaning "fixed" or "established." |
| Kazakh | The word "тұрақты" can also mean "consistent", "stable", or "lasting". |
| Korean | 정규병 means 'regular', but in the military it can refer specifically to conscripts serving a full term. |
| Kurdish | The Kurdish word "rêzbirêz" also has the alternate meaning of "orderly" or "in order." |
| Lao | The term ປົກກະຕິ can refer to both standard norms and the act of doing something routinely |
| Latin | An alternate meaning of "iusto" is "pious," which is also the root of the word "Justice." |
| Latvian | The word “regulāri” can also refer to the menstrual cycle in Latvian. |
| Lithuanian | The word "reguliarus" originates from the Latin word "regularis", meaning "according to rule"} |
| Macedonian | In Cyrillic, the word "редовно" can also mean "orderly" or "systematically". |
| Malagasy | "Tapaka" also means "to press". Regular items used to be pressed to give them a better presentation. |
| Malay | The word "biasa" originates from the Sanskrit word "vyavahāra" which also means "custom" or "practice". |
| Malayalam | The word "പതിവ്" can also mean "custom" or "habit". |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "regolari" can also mean "periodic" or "customary". |
| Maori | In Maori, 'auau' can also refer to the act of cleansing or purifying something. |
| Marathi | "नियमित" is a regular Marathi word that also refers to an adjective describing an object that is "not fixed"} |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word "тогтмол" (regular) is ultimately derived from the Proto-Mongolic word "*toγuγu-mal" meaning "permanent". |
| Nepali | "नियमित" is derived from the Sanskrit word "niyama," which originally meant "restraint" or "discipline." |
| Norwegian | The word "regelmessig" in Norwegian comes from the Latin word "regula", meaning "rule". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word 'wokhazikika' can also mean 'routine' or 'habitual'. |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "منظم" is etymologically related to "نظم," meaning "order," and also has the alternate meaning of "organized." |
| Persian | The word "منظم" comes from the Arabic word for "order" and can also mean "organized" or "arranged". |
| Polish | The term "regularny" in Polish can also refer to an event or activity that is performed at a consistent rhythm or in a predictable pattern. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | "Regular" is often used in Portuguese for "cool" or "awesome". |
| Punjabi | The word 'ਰੋਜਾਨਾ' (daily) is derived from the Persian word 'روز' (day), and also means 'daily' or 'newspaper'. |
| Romanian | In Romanian, the word "regulat" can mean "regular" in terms of frequency or behavior, but also "well-planned" or "ordered". |
| Russian | "Регулярный" (regular) came to Russian from the French word "régulier" meaning "uniform". |
| Samoan | While 'masani' directly translates to 'regular,' its etymology denotes a state of 'in order' or 'prepared.' |
| Scots Gaelic | Cunbhalach derives from Old Irish "congbálach," possibly meaning "having equal parts" or "balanced". |
| Serbian | "Редовно" can also mean "in due time" or "on a regular basis". |
| Sesotho | The word "kamehla" can also mean "well-known" or "usual" in Sesotho. |
| Shona | The word 'nguva dzose' in Shona can also refer to something that is complete or perfect. |
| Sindhi | The word "باقاعده" is derived from the Arabic word "قاعده" meaning "base" or "rule". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | In the 19th century, නිතිපතා was also used in the sense of “custom” or “usage”. |
| Slovak | The Slovak word "pravidelné" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *pravidlo, meaning "ruler" or "measuring stick." |
| Slovenian | The word 'redno' in Slovenian also means 'orderly' or 'punctual'. |
| Somali | The word "joogto ah" can also refer to something that is normal or usual. |
| Spanish | "Regular" is related to "regla" (rule) and "regir" (to rule). |
| Sundanese | The word ''biasa'' may derive from the Sanskrit word ''vyasa'' meaning 'distinctive, different'. |
| Swahili | "Mara kwa mara" can also mean "repeatedly" in Swahili. |
| Swedish | Cognate with 'rule' but originally meant 'what is right', and hence 'orderly' |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The Tagalog word "regular" can also refer to a soldier or police officer. |
| Tajik | The word "мунтазам" also means "continuous" and "orderly" in the Tajik language. |
| Tamil | In Tamil, "வழக்கமான" also refers to something that is "common" or "usual". |
| Thai | The Thai word "ปกติ" (p̀gk-dtì) is a Sanskrit loan from the word "Prakṛti" which refers to the primordial substance that creates material existence and from which the physical universe evolves. |
| Turkish | Türkçede 'düzenli' sözcüğü sadece 'regular' anlamına değil, aynı zamanda 'well-organized, tidy, disciplined' anlamlarına da gelir. |
| Ukrainian | The word "регулярні" in Ukrainian can also refer to something that is done in accordance with a rule or regulation. |
| Urdu | The word "باقاعدہ" can also mean "according to rule" or "in accordance with the law". |
| Uzbek | "Muntazam" is a derivative of the Arabic word "nazam" (order, discipline), and also means "harmonious". |
| Vietnamese | The word "đều đặn" in Vietnamese literally means "equal distance between two points". |
| Welsh | The word "rheolaidd" can also mean "methodical" or "orderly" in Welsh. |
| Xhosa | In Xhosa, "rhoqo" also means "straight" or "proper" as in following the correct or expected way of doing something. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "רעגולער" also means "periodically" or "on schedule". |
| Yoruba | "Deede" can mean "ordinary, straight or smooth" in Yoruba. |
| Zulu | The word "njalo" can also mean "all the time" or "always" in Zulu. |
| English | The word "regular" comes from the Latin word "regula", meaning "rule" or "standard", and can also refer to something that occurs according to a pattern or schedule. |