Regulate in Different Languages
Discover 'Regulate' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Regulate
Afrikaans reguleer | ||
Albanian rregulloj | ||
Amharic ደንብ | ||
Arabic تنظيم | ||
Armenian կարգավորել | ||
Assamese নিয়ন্ত্ৰণ কৰা | ||
Aymara regulación luraña | ||
Azerbaijani tənzimləmək | ||
Bambara ka sariyaw sigi sen kan | ||
Basque arautu | ||
Belarusian рэгуляваць | ||
Bengali নিয়ন্ত্রণ করা | ||
Bhojpuri नियंत्रित करे के बा | ||
Bosnian regulirati | ||
Bulgarian регулират | ||
Catalan regular | ||
Cebuano regulate | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 调节 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 調節 | ||
Corsican regulà | ||
Croatian regulirati | ||
Czech regulovat | ||
Danish regulere | ||
Dhivehi ރެގިއުލޭޓް ކުރުން | ||
Dogri नियंत्रित करना | ||
Dutch reguleren | ||
English regulate | ||
Esperanto reguligi | ||
Estonian reguleerima | ||
Ewe wɔ ɖoɖo ɖe eŋu | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) umayos | ||
Finnish säännellä | ||
French réglementer | ||
Frisian regelje | ||
Galician regular | ||
Georgian არეგულირებს | ||
German regulieren | ||
Greek ρυθμίζω | ||
Guarani oregula haguã | ||
Gujarati નિયમન | ||
Haitian Creole regle | ||
Hausa tsara | ||
Hawaiian hoʻoponopono | ||
Hebrew לְהַסדִיר | ||
Hindi विनियमित | ||
Hmong tswj hwm | ||
Hungarian szabályoz | ||
Icelandic stjórna | ||
Igbo mezie | ||
Ilocano regulate ti i-regulate | ||
Indonesian mengatur | ||
Irish rialáil | ||
Italian regolare | ||
Japanese 調整する | ||
Javanese ngatur | ||
Kannada ನಿಯಂತ್ರಿಸಿ | ||
Kazakh реттеу | ||
Khmer គ្រប់គ្រង | ||
Kinyarwanda kugenga | ||
Konkani नियंत्रण दवरप | ||
Korean 규제하다 | ||
Krio rigul | ||
Kurdish rêzkirin | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) ڕێکبخەن | ||
Kyrgyz жөнгө салуу | ||
Lao ລະບຽບ | ||
Latin temperet | ||
Latvian regulēt | ||
Lingala ko réglementer | ||
Lithuanian reguliuoti | ||
Luganda okulungamya | ||
Luxembourgish regléieren | ||
Macedonian регулира | ||
Maithili नियंत्रित करब | ||
Malagasy fandrindràna | ||
Malay mengatur | ||
Malayalam നിയന്ത്രിക്കുക | ||
Maltese jirregolaw | ||
Maori whakarite | ||
Marathi नियमन | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯔꯤꯒꯨꯂꯦꯠ ꯇꯧꯕꯥ꯫ | ||
Mizo tih dan tur (regulate) a ni | ||
Mongolian зохицуулах | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ထိန်းညှိ | ||
Nepali नियमन गर्नुहोस् | ||
Norwegian regulere | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) yang'anira | ||
Odia (Oriya) ନିୟନ୍ତ୍ରଣ | ||
Oromo ni to’achuu | ||
Pashto تنظیم کول | ||
Persian تنظیم کردن | ||
Polish regulować | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) regular | ||
Punjabi ਨਿਯਮਤ ਕਰੋ | ||
Quechua kamachiy | ||
Romanian reglementa | ||
Russian регулировать | ||
Samoan faʻatonutonu | ||
Sanskrit नियमनम् | ||
Scots Gaelic riaghladh | ||
Sepedi laola | ||
Serbian регулисати | ||
Sesotho laola | ||
Shona gadzirisa | ||
Sindhi منظم ڪريو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) නියාමනය කරන්න | ||
Slovak regulovať | ||
Slovenian urejajo | ||
Somali sharciyee | ||
Spanish regular | ||
Sundanese ngatur | ||
Swahili dhibiti | ||
Swedish reglera | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) umayos | ||
Tajik ба танзим даровардан | ||
Tamil ஒழுங்குபடுத்து | ||
Tatar көйләү | ||
Telugu నియంత్రించండి | ||
Thai ควบคุม | ||
Tigrinya ምቁጽጻር ምግባር | ||
Tsonga ku lawula | ||
Turkish düzenlemek | ||
Turkmen kadalaşdyrmak | ||
Twi (Akan) hyɛ mmara | ||
Ukrainian регулювати | ||
Urdu ریگولیٹ | ||
Uyghur تەڭشەش | ||
Uzbek tartibga solish | ||
Vietnamese điều tiết | ||
Welsh rheoleiddio | ||
Xhosa lawula | ||
Yiddish רעגולירן | ||
Yoruba fiofinsi | ||
Zulu lawula |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | Afrikaans "reguleer" can also refer to a regulation or rule. |
| Albanian | "Rregulloj" derives from Latin "regula", but can also denote a rule for a particular game such as "chess". |
| Amharic | The word "ደንብ" can also refer to a "rule" or "law". |
| Arabic | The term 'تنظيم', which has its etymological root in the verb 'نظم', encompasses meanings including 'arrangement', 'coordination', 'organization', and 'regulation'. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "tənzimləmək" can also mean "to adjust" or "to set up". |
| Basque | Arautu, which also means "to do" or "to perform" in the sense of an action, may be related to the verbs "ar" (to take) and "utu" (to give). |
| Belarusian | Рэгуляваць is derived from the Latin word "regula" meaning "rule" and shares a common root with English "regulator". |
| Bengali | The word "regulate" is derived from the Latin word "rego", meaning "to rule or control." |
| Bosnian | Bosnian "regulirati" is derived from the Latin "regularis," meaning "conforming to a rule or pattern." |
| Bulgarian | The word "регулират" also means "to adjust" or "to control" in Bulgarian. |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "regular" means "normal or usual", but its etymology is the Latin "regularis", which means "according to rule or order". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 调节 also means to mix and blend together (ingredients, e.g., for a medicine) |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The term "調節" can also refer to "adjusting," "moderating," "tuning," or "coordinating."} |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "regulà" is rooted in Latin "regularis", meaning conforming to a rule or standard, but also denotes a religious order. |
| Croatian | "Regulirati" also means to settle down in life. |
| Czech | Czech "regulovat" comes from "reguła", a Latin term meaning "ruler" or "rule", which was also transmitted into Polish and Russian. |
| Danish | The word "regulere" can also mean "to fix" or "to repair" in Danish. |
| Dutch | "Reguleren" means "regulate" but also means "menstruate" |
| Esperanto | The word "reguligi" can also mean "to adjust" or "to control". |
| Estonian | "Reguleerima" is also used in Estonian to describe the use of fertilizer or medication in the correct proportions. |
| Finnish | "Säännellä" derives from the word "sääntö" meaning "rule". Thus, it originally meant "to abide by rules". |
| French | "Réglementation" originated from "règle", which stems from the Latin word "regula", meaning "ruler" or "guideline" |
| Frisian | The word "regelje" in Frisian can also mean "to rule" or "to govern". |
| German | The German word "regulieren" is derived from the Latin word "regula", meaning "rule." |
| Greek | "Ρυθμίζω" comes from the verb "ρύω" which means "drag" or "pull," thus the original meaning was "to put in order" or "to direct." |
| Gujarati | The word "નિયમન" can also mean "to control" or "to manage". |
| Haitian Creole | Haitian Creole's "regle" also means "to have one's period" in French, but it doesn't have this alternate meaning in Haitian Creole. |
| Hausa | The word "tsara" in Hausa can also mean "to adjust" or "to set right". |
| Hawaiian | The word "hoʻoponopono" also means "to put to rights" or "to make right," conveying a sense of restoration and reconciliation. |
| Hebrew | The word "לְהַסדִיר" can also mean "to arrange" or "to put in order". |
| Hindi | "विनियमित" can also refers to adjusting or directing something to achieve a specific purpose. |
| Hmong | In some dialects, "tswj hwm" can also mean "to take care of" or "to manage". |
| Hungarian | Szabályoz means both regulate and rule |
| Icelandic | The Icelandic word "stjórna" is derived from the Proto-Germanic word "*steurnan", which means "to govern, guide, or control". |
| Igbo | Mezie can also mean "to be in order" or "to be in harmony." |
| Indonesian | The Indonesian word "mengatur" can also mean "to control", "to arrange", or "to organize". |
| Italian | "Regolare" in Italian has the alternate meanings of "to adjust" (e.g., a clock), "to direct" (e.g., a choir), and "to pay" (e.g., a bill). |
| Japanese | "調整する" comes from the Chinese characters "調整" meaning "to put in order"} |
| Javanese | In Javanese, “ngatur” refers not only to the act of regulating, but also to arranging, aligning, and adjusting |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "реттеу" (regulate) is derived from the Russian word "регулировать" (regulate). |
| Korean | '규제하다'는 '줄(绳)'이라는 뜻을 가진 '규'와 '제어(制御)'라는 뜻을 가진 '제'가 합쳐져 만들어진 말입니다. |
| Kurdish | "Rêzkirin" in Kurdish is the process of measuring grain or other dry goods in order to determine their value. |
| Kyrgyz | The word "жөнгө салуу" is also used to describe the process of establishing and maintaining law and order, or of bringing something into alignment or conformity with a standard or rule. |
| Latin | "Temperet", besides meaning "to regulate", was used in Latin to refer to a specific musical instrument used to tune strings. |
| Latvian | Regulēt can also mean "to control" or "to manage" in Latvian. |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word "reguliuoti" can also refer to the adjustment of a mechanism or device. |
| Luxembourgish | In French, the word "régler" can mean both "to regulate" and "to pay an invoice". |
| Macedonian | The word "регулира" comes from the Latin word "regere", meaning "to rule" or "to direct". |
| Malagasy | The word "fandrindràna" can also refer to the act of setting or adjusting the clock. |
| Malay | In Javanese, mengatur can also mean "to arrange", "to set up", or "to prepare". |
| Malayalam | The word 'regulate' comes from the Latin word 'regere', which means 'to rule' or 'to govern'. |
| Maltese | The word "jirregolaw" is derived from the Italian word "regolare" and originally meant "to rule" or "to govern". |
| Maori | The Maori word "whakarite" also means "to put in place" or "to make ready." |
| Marathi | नियमन is rooted in the Indo-Aryan word 'niyama,' meaning 'discipline' or 'control,' and shares its etymology with other Sanskrit words like 'niyam,' 'niyamana,' and 'niyamit.' |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word "зохицуулах" (regulate) literally means "to put in order" or "to arrange" |
| Nepali | The Nepali word "नियमन गर्नुहोस्" (regulate) literally means "to make regular" or "to establish a rule." |
| Norwegian | The word "regulere" in Norwegian can also refer to the act of adjusting or straightening something, such as a crooked picture on a wall. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "yang'anira" has a second meaning of "to restrain". |
| Pashto | The word "تنظیم کول" can also mean "to adjust" or "to settle" in Pashto. |
| Persian | تنظیم کردن, originally "to string," from a root meaning "to order." |
| Polish | The word "regulować" can also mean "to adjust" or "to control". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, 'regular' can also mean 'normal' or 'usual'. |
| Punjabi | The word 'regulate' is derived from the Latin word 'regulate', which means 'to make regular or normal'. |
| Romanian | "Reglementa" is a Romanian word which has the same etymology and one of the same meanings as "regulation" in English. |
| Russian | In Russian, the word "регулировать" also means "to set up a watch", as in to establish a schedule for a guard. |
| Samoan | The word "faʻatonutonu" is made up of three words: "faʻa" (to cause), "tono" (to be in order), and "nu" (a particle that indicates the passive voice). The word "tono" also means "to adjust" or "to align", so the word "faʻatonutonu" could also be translated as "to cause to be aligned" or "to cause to be adjusted". |
| Scots Gaelic | The verb "riaghladh" has the additional meanings of "to rule" and "to govern" in Scots Gaelic. |
| Serbian | The word 'регулисати' can also mean 'to adjust' or 'to control'. |
| Sesotho | Laola can also mean to put in order or to arrange. |
| Shona | The word "gadzirisa" is a compound of the words "ga" meaning "at" and "dzirisa" meaning "to control". |
| Sindhi | The word "منظم ڪريو" can also mean to "adjust" or "set up" in Sindhi. |
| Slovak | The Slovak word "regulovať" also has the alternate meaning of "to adjust". |
| Slovenian | The word "urejajo" also means "arrange" or "tidy up" in Slovenian. |
| Somali | The Somali word "sharciyee" can also refer to a type of fish. |
| Spanish | The Spanish word "regular" also refers to that which is common, normal, or ordinary. |
| Sundanese | A different meaning of the word 'ngatur' in Sundanese is 'to tidy up' or 'to put things in order'. |
| Swahili | The word "dhibiti" also means "to forbid" or "prohibit". |
| Swedish | The word "reglera" is the feminine form of the adjective "reglerad," which means "regulated" or "under control." |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Umayos" derives from the Spanish "humo," meaning "smoke," suggesting the need for order to prevent chaos or "fogginess." |
| Tajik | "танзим додан" (regulate) comes from the Arabic "تنظیم دادن" (put in order). |
| Thai | In Lao, the word “ควบคุม” means “to regulate or control” and in Sanskrit it means “to hold back or restrain”. |
| Turkish | The word düzenlemek derives from the archaic Turkic word "düzgün", meaning "straight". Accordingly, it can also mean "align" or "order". |
| Ukrainian | The word "регулювати" in Ukrainian can also mean "to adjust" or "to control". |
| Urdu | ریگولیٹ originates from 'regula', which means 'ruler' or 'straightedge' in Latin, highlighting its function in establishing order or conformity. |
| Uzbek | The word "tartibga solish" has Persian, Arabic, and Sanskrit roots and can also mean "to put in order", "to organize", or "to arrange" in Uzbek. |
| Vietnamese | Điểu tiết derives from the Chinese character 观, meaning "to adjust" or "to control". In Vietnamese, it is also used in the figurative sense of "to moderate" or "to reconcile". |
| Welsh | The word "rheoleiddio" is thought to have originated from the Proto-Indo-European root "reg-," which also gave rise to the English word "regulate." |
| Xhosa | The word “lawula” is related to the Zulu word “lawula”, which means “make a noise” or “speak in a loud voice” (Doke & Vilakazi, 1972). |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "reguleren" originates from the French "régler" and the Latin "rego," meaning "to rule." |
| Yoruba | "Fiofinsi" in Yoruba is derived from the combination of the words "fi" (to put) and "ofinsi" (boundary), hence its meaning of "to establish or set boundaries and regulations." |
| Zulu | The Zulu word 'lawula' is also used to describe the act of 'ordering' or 'commanding'. |
| English | The word "regulate" comes from the Latin word "regula," which means "ruler." |