Afrikaans gereeld | ||
Albanian rregullisht | ||
Amharic በመደበኛነት | ||
Arabic بشكل منتظم | ||
Armenian կանոնավոր | ||
Assamese নিয়মিতভাৱে | ||
Aymara turpaki | ||
Azerbaijani mütəmadi olaraq | ||
Bambara kuman bɛ | ||
Basque aldizka | ||
Belarusian рэгулярна | ||
Bengali নিয়মিত | ||
Bhojpuri नियमत तैर पर | ||
Bosnian redovno | ||
Bulgarian редовно | ||
Catalan regularment | ||
Cebuano kanunay | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 经常 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 經常 | ||
Corsican regularmente | ||
Croatian redovito | ||
Czech pravidelně | ||
Danish regelmæssigt | ||
Dhivehi ޤަވައިދުން | ||
Dogri बा-कायदा | ||
Dutch regelmatig | ||
English regularly | ||
Esperanto regule | ||
Estonian regulaarselt | ||
Ewe edziedzi | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) regular | ||
Finnish säännöllisesti | ||
French régulièrement | ||
Frisian geregeld | ||
Galician regularmente | ||
Georgian რეგულარულად | ||
German regelmäßig | ||
Greek τακτικά | ||
Guarani katuínte | ||
Gujarati નિયમિતપણે | ||
Haitian Creole regilyèman | ||
Hausa a kai a kai | ||
Hawaiian mau | ||
Hebrew באופן קבוע | ||
Hindi नियमित तौर पर | ||
Hmong tsis tu ncua | ||
Hungarian rendszeresen | ||
Icelandic reglulega | ||
Igbo mgbe niile | ||
Ilocano kinanayon | ||
Indonesian secara teratur | ||
Irish go rialta | ||
Italian regolarmente | ||
Japanese 定期的に | ||
Javanese ajeg | ||
Kannada ನಿಯಮಿತವಾಗಿ | ||
Kazakh үнемі | ||
Khmer ជាទៀងទាត់ | ||
Kinyarwanda buri gihe | ||
Konkani नेमान | ||
Korean 정기적으로 | ||
Krio ɔltɛm | ||
Kurdish rêzbirêz | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) ئاساییانە | ||
Kyrgyz үзгүлтүксүз | ||
Lao ເປັນປະ ຈຳ | ||
Latin regularly | ||
Latvian regulāri | ||
Lingala mbala na mbala | ||
Lithuanian reguliariai | ||
Luganda buli kaseera | ||
Luxembourgish regelméisseg | ||
Macedonian редовно | ||
Maithili नियमित तौर पर | ||
Malagasy tapaka | ||
Malay secara berkala | ||
Malayalam പതിവായി | ||
Maltese regolarment | ||
Maori auau | ||
Marathi नियमितपणे | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯃꯇꯝ ꯅꯥꯏꯅ | ||
Mizo hun bi takah | ||
Mongolian тогтмол | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ပုံမှန် | ||
Nepali नियमित रूपमा | ||
Norwegian jevnlig | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) pafupipafupi | ||
Odia (Oriya) ନିୟମିତ ଭାବେ | ||
Oromo dhaabbataadhaan | ||
Pashto په منظم ډول | ||
Persian به طور منظم | ||
Polish regularnie | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) regularmente | ||
Punjabi ਨਿਯਮਤ ਤੌਰ ਤੇ | ||
Quechua yaqa sapa kuti | ||
Romanian in mod regulat | ||
Russian регулярно | ||
Samoan masani | ||
Sanskrit नियमतः | ||
Scots Gaelic gu cunbhalach | ||
Sepedi ka mehla | ||
Serbian редовно | ||
Sesotho khafetsa | ||
Shona nguva dzose | ||
Sindhi روزاني سان | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) නිතිපතා | ||
Slovak pravidelne | ||
Slovenian redno | ||
Somali joogto ah | ||
Spanish regularmente | ||
Sundanese rutin | ||
Swahili mara kwa mara | ||
Swedish regelbundet | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) regular | ||
Tajik мунтазам | ||
Tamil தவறாமல் | ||
Tatar даими | ||
Telugu క్రమం తప్పకుండా | ||
Thai เป็นประจำ | ||
Tigrinya ብስሩዕ | ||
Tsonga nkarhi na nkarhi | ||
Turkish düzenli olarak | ||
Turkmen yzygiderli | ||
Twi (Akan) daa | ||
Ukrainian регулярно | ||
Urdu باقاعدگی سے | ||
Uyghur قەرەللىك | ||
Uzbek muntazam ravishda | ||
Vietnamese thường xuyên | ||
Welsh yn rheolaidd | ||
Xhosa rhoqo | ||
Yiddish קעסיידער | ||
Yoruba nigbagbogbo | ||
Zulu njalo |
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "gereeld" in Afrikaans comes from the Dutch word "geregeld," which means "arranged" or "ordered." |
| Albanian | The word "rregullisht" is derived from the Latin word "regula", meaning "rule" or "principle." |
| Amharic | The word "በመደበኛነት" is derived from the root "ደበብ" (d-b-b), which means "to align" or "to put in order". |
| Arabic | The root of "بشكل منتظم" is "نظم" which primarily means "stringing pearls" or "composing poetry". |
| Azerbaijani | The word 'mütəmadi olaraq' comes from the Arabic word 'mutad' meaning 'habitual' or 'continuous' |
| Basque | "Aldizka" is also used to mean "every day" or "daily" in Basque. |
| Belarusian | "Рэгулярна" is derived from Latin "regularis" meaning "conforming to rule" and cognate with similar words in other Slavic languages. |
| Bengali | The word "নিয়মিত" is derived from the Sanskrit word "नियमित" (niyamita), meaning "regulated", "controlled", or "ordered". |
| Bosnian | The word "redovno" in Bosnian originates from the Slavic word "red", meaning "order" or "succession". |
| Bulgarian | The word "редовно" in Bulgarian can also mean "in order" or "consistently". |
| Catalan | The term "regularment" ultimately descends from the Latin "regularis", used to describe a monk living within a religious order's rules. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The '经' in '经常' originally meant 'sutra', hence 'often' or 'regularly' when repeated. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 經常 is sometimes interpreted as meaning "most often," but this is not the most common meaning. |
| Corsican | "Regularmente" can also mean "periodically" or "constantly." |
| Croatian | "Redovito" comes from Proto-Slavic, with cognates in Czech (řádně), Polish (rządnie), Russian (рядом), Macedonian (редовно) and Serbo-Croatian (rедовно) |
| Czech | The Czech word "pravidelně" comes from the Proto-Slavic word *pravidlьno, which means "correct" or "appropriate". |
| Danish | The Danish word "regelmæssigt" is derived from the German word "regelmäßig", which means "according to a rule" or "in a regular manner". |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "regelmatig" comes from the Latin "regula" ("rule"), and means "according to rule" or "in a regular manner." |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word "regule" has no etymology or alternate meanings. |
| Estonian | It originates from the Latin word "regularis", which means "according to rule". |
| Finnish | The word "säännöllisesti" literally means "according to the rule" in Finnish. |
| French | The French word "régulièrement" can also mean "periodically" or "at fixed intervals". |
| Frisian | Geregeld may also refer to "usually" or "continuously" in Frisian. |
| Galician | A palavra 'regularmente' também pode significar 'com frequência' ou 'normalmente' em galego. |
| Georgian | The word "რეგულარულად" comes from the Latin word "regularis", meaning "according to rule". It can also be translated as "periodically" or "systematically". |
| German | Regelmäßig is derived from the Middle High German word "regele", meaning "a rule". It can also mean "in accordance with a rule" or "as prescribed". |
| Greek | The word τακτικά also means "in battle formation" in Greek, derived from the verb "τάσσω", meaning "to arrange" or "to put in order." |
| Haitian Creole | The Haitian Creole word "regilyèman" ultimately derives from the French word "régulièrement" meaning "regularly" or "ordinarily". |
| Hausa | The word "a kai a kai" in Hausa is often translated as "regularly," but it can also mean "occasionally" or "from time to time." |
| Hawaiian | The word mau can also mean 'to turn', 'forever', 'always', 'eternally' or 'perpetually'. |
| Hebrew | באופן קבוע is a combination of the Hebrew words באופן (in a way) and קבוע (fixed, regular). |
| Hindi | The term can also be used to refer to something that happens on a periodic or consistent basis, such as a daily workout routine or a weekly staff meeting. |
| Hmong | The Hmong word "tsis tu ncua" has multiple meanings, including "to be careful" and "to avoid making mistakes." |
| Hungarian | Rendszeresen, "regularly" in Hungarian, derives from "rendszer" ("system"), with the suffix "-esen" indicating recurrence or repetition. |
| Icelandic | The modern Icelandic word "reglulega" is the adverbial form of the neuter singular of the adjective "reglulegur," the genitive singular of which is "reglulegs" and which appears in written sources in Old Icelandic as "regluligr." However, despite that fact that one of the most common ways of deriving an adverb from an adjective in Modern Icelandic is via the addition of the suffix "-lega," this was not always the case in Old Icelandic, in which the expected adjectival adverb would have been "regluliga-" (with emphasis on the final short "a"). The spelling "reglulega" first appeared in Old Norse manuscripts in the mid-15th century. |
| Igbo | The word "mgbe niile" can also mean "always" or "usually". |
| Indonesian | Secara teratur is the Indonesian word for "regularly", but teratur also means "order" or "arrangement". The word is derived from the Malay word teratur, which in turn comes from the Sanskrit word tatra, meaning "order" or "arrangement". |
| Irish | In Irish, "go rialta" means "regularly"; it also means "ordinarily" or "customarily" depending on the context. |
| Italian | In Italian, "regolarmente" can also mean "legally" or "properly". |
| Japanese | The word "定期的に" (teikiteki ni) is derived from the Chinese words "定期" (teiki), meaning "fixed period," and "的" (teki), indicating direction or purpose. |
| Javanese | "Ajeg" in Javanese is also used to refer to something that is firm or stable. |
| Kannada | ನಿಯಮಿತವಾಗಿ (niyamitavaagi) means "regularly" in Kannada and comes from the Sanskrit word नियमित (niyamita), which means "fixed" or "regular". |
| Kazakh | In Turkic languages, the word "үнемі" can also refer to "continuous" or "permanent." |
| Korean | 정기적으로 is also written as 定期적으로 (jeong-gi-jeog-eog-e-ro), meaning "according to a certain period". In other contexts, it can mean "regularly" (정기적으로) or "periodically" (주기적으로). |
| Kurdish | The word "rêzbirêz" in Kurdish is derived from the words "rêz" (row) and "birêz" (series), and can also mean "in order" or "consecutively". Therefore, "rêzbirêz" carries the sense of both "regularly" and "in a row". |
| Kyrgyz | Узгур - "to break or rip", meaning that something happens without interruption. |
| Lao | The Lao word "ເປັນປະ ຈຳ" is derived from the Pali word "ปฏิปทา (patipatā)", which means "to go forward, to advance, to practice". It can also mean "constantly, continually, repeatedly". |
| Latin | Regularly can also mean 'in due order or in accordance with a rule, prescribed practice or custom.' |
| Latvian | In linguistics, "regulāri" refers to linguistic phenomena that are governed by rules |
| Lithuanian | In old Lithuanian, "reguliariai" can also mean "in rows" or "in lines". |
| Luxembourgish | The word "regelméisseg" is derived from the German word "regelmäßig", which means "regular" or "punctual". |
| Macedonian | The word "редовно" can also mean "in order" or "sequentially". |
| Malagasy | In Malagasy, "tapaka" is often used to imply "to walk" and "to step upon" |
| Malay | The Malay word "secara berkala" can also mean "periodically" or "from time to time". |
| Malayalam | The word "പതിവായി" in Malayalam means "regularly" and is derived from the Sanskrit word "प्रतिभा (pratibhā)", meaning "talent" or "intelligence". |
| Maltese | "Regolarment" in Maltese can also mean "usually", "ordinarily", "commonly" or "normally". |
| Maori | The word "auau" in Māori can also mean to wash or bathe oneself or another. |
| Marathi | नियमितपणे is derived from the Sanskrit word नियमित (niyamita), meaning "regulated, established"} |
| Mongolian | The word торгмол is derived from the word тогтол which means 'regular' |
| Nepali | The word "नियमित रूपमा" is derived from the Sanskrit word "नियमितः", which means "ordered" or "fixed." |
| Norwegian | The Norwegian word "jevnlig" can also mean "evenly", and it originates from the Old Norse word "jafn", meaning "even". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The root 'pafupipa' refers to actions done frequently. |
| Persian | The Persian word "به طور منظم" can also mean "in a disciplined manner" or "in an orderly way". |
| Polish | The word "regularnie" can also mean "on a regular basis" or "systematically". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "regularmente" can also mean "ordinarily" or "usually". |
| Romanian | "Mod regulat" (regularly) is derived from Latin "modus" (manner) and "regulāre" (to regulate). |
| Russian | "Регулярно" originally meant "in order" or "in rows", from the Latin word "regula" which means "ruler". |
| Samoan | Masani can also mean 'usually' or 'almost always' in Samoan. |
| Scots Gaelic | The Gaelic word "gu cunbhalach" can also mean "customarily" or "habitually." |
| Serbian | The word "редовно" in Serbian can also mean "usually" or "normally". |
| Sesotho | The word "khafetsa" is often used in Sesotho to describe the concept of "doing something habitually". |
| Shona | The term "nguva dzose" can also refer to a specific time, such as "each day" or "every week". |
| Sindhi | "رُوزاني سان" in Sindhi also means a routine, daily work, daily bread, and daily pay. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word 'නිතිපතා' means 'every day' when added at the end of a period of time. |
| Slovak | Pravidelne derives from "pravidlo" meaning "rule, regulation", and literally translates to "according to rule". |
| Slovenian | Redno means 'regularly' in Slovenian, and comes from the root word red, meaning 'order'. |
| Somali | "Joogto ah" is also the imperative form of "joogo" meaning "to sit or stay". It therefore suggests continuity of action. |
| Spanish | The word "regularmente" can also mean "ordinarily" or "usually" in Spanish. |
| Sundanese | In Sundanese, the word "rutin" can mean "regularly," "usual," or "common." |
| Swahili | "Mara kwa mara" is derived from the verb "kurudiarudia" meaning "to repeat". |
| Swedish | The Swedish word "regelbundet" derives from "regel" (rule) |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Regular" in Tagalog can also mean "usual" or "ordinary". |
| Tajik | 'Мунтазам' originally derived from the Arabic word 'muntazam' (منتظم) and also shares the same meaning in Modern Standard Arabic. |
| Tamil | "தவறாமல்" is the adverbial form of "தவறு" (mistake) and literally means "without mistake" or "correctly." |
| Thai | เป็นประจำ can also mean "as usual," "in the ordinary course of events," or "in accordance with custom or practice." |
| Turkish | The word 'düzenli olarak' comes from the Arabic word 'da'im' meaning 'always'. |
| Ukrainian | The word "regular" in English comes from the Old French word "regulier", which means "according to rule" or "orderly." |
| Urdu | باقاعدگی سے is the Urdu word for "regularly". It is derived from the Arabic word "qā'idah", which means "rule" or "principle". |
| Uzbek | In Turkish, "muntazam" means "well-ordered," while "ravishda" is a Persian word meaning "in an orderly manner." |
| Vietnamese | The word "thường xuyên" can also mean "often" or "frequently". |
| Xhosa | Rhoqo also means 'straight' in Xhosa, which is reflected in its use to describe the path of the sun during the day. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "קעסיידער" is derived from the Old French word "caissier" meaning "cashier". |
| Yoruba | The Yoruba word "nigbagbogbo" also bears the meanings "frequently" and "continuously". |
| Zulu | The word "njalo" is also used to refer to a person who is always reliable and dependable. |
| English | The word 'regularly' comes from the Latin word 'regularis,' which means 'according to rule,' which can mean an action that conforms to what is considered proper. |