Afrikaans monster | ||
Albanian mostër | ||
Amharic ናሙና | ||
Arabic عينة | ||
Armenian նմուշ | ||
Assamese নমুনা | ||
Aymara uñacht'a | ||
Azerbaijani nümunə | ||
Bambara esantiyɔn | ||
Basque lagina | ||
Belarusian ўзор | ||
Bengali নমুনা | ||
Bhojpuri नमूना | ||
Bosnian uzorak | ||
Bulgarian проба | ||
Catalan mostra | ||
Cebuano sampol | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 样品 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 樣品 | ||
Corsican campionu | ||
Croatian uzorak | ||
Czech vzorek | ||
Danish prøve | ||
Dhivehi ސާމްޕަލް | ||
Dogri नमूना | ||
Dutch monster | ||
English sample | ||
Esperanto specimeno | ||
Estonian proov | ||
Ewe kpɔɖeŋunu | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) sample | ||
Finnish näyte | ||
French échantillon | ||
Frisian foarbyld | ||
Galician mostra | ||
Georgian ნიმუში | ||
German stichprobe | ||
Greek δείγμα | ||
Guarani hechauka | ||
Gujarati નમૂના | ||
Haitian Creole echantiyon | ||
Hausa samfurin | ||
Hawaiian hāpana | ||
Hebrew לִטעוֹם | ||
Hindi नमूना | ||
Hmong coj mus kuaj | ||
Hungarian minta | ||
Icelandic sýnishorn | ||
Igbo nlele | ||
Ilocano pagwadan | ||
Indonesian sampel | ||
Irish sampla | ||
Italian campione | ||
Japanese サンプル | ||
Javanese conto | ||
Kannada ಮಾದರಿ | ||
Kazakh үлгі | ||
Khmer គំរូ | ||
Kinyarwanda icyitegererezo | ||
Konkani नमूनो | ||
Korean 견본 | ||
Krio ɛgzampul | ||
Kurdish mînak | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) نموونە | ||
Kyrgyz үлгү | ||
Lao ຕົວຢ່າງ | ||
Latin sample | ||
Latvian paraugs | ||
Lingala ndakisa | ||
Lithuanian pavyzdys | ||
Luganda okulegako | ||
Luxembourgish prouf | ||
Macedonian пример | ||
Maithili नमूना | ||
Malagasy santionany | ||
Malay contoh | ||
Malayalam സാമ്പിൾ | ||
Maltese kampjun | ||
Maori tauira | ||
Marathi नमुना | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯁꯦꯝꯄꯜ ꯂꯧꯕꯥ꯫ | ||
Mizo enchhinna | ||
Mongolian дээж | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) နမူနာ | ||
Nepali नमूना | ||
Norwegian prøve | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) chitsanzo | ||
Odia (Oriya) ନମୁନା | ||
Oromo samuuda | ||
Pashto نمونه | ||
Persian نمونه | ||
Polish próba | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) amostra | ||
Punjabi ਨਮੂਨਾ | ||
Quechua qatina | ||
Romanian probă | ||
Russian образец | ||
Samoan faʻataʻitaʻiga | ||
Sanskrit प्रतिदर्श | ||
Scots Gaelic sampall | ||
Sepedi sampole | ||
Serbian узорак | ||
Sesotho sampole | ||
Shona sampu | ||
Sindhi نمونو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) නියැදිය | ||
Slovak vzorka | ||
Slovenian vzorec | ||
Somali muunad | ||
Spanish muestra | ||
Sundanese conto | ||
Swahili sampuli | ||
Swedish prov | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) sample | ||
Tajik намуна | ||
Tamil மாதிரி | ||
Tatar үрнәк | ||
Telugu నమూనా | ||
Thai ตัวอย่าง | ||
Tigrinya መርኣዪ | ||
Tsonga sampulu | ||
Turkish örneklem | ||
Turkmen nusga | ||
Twi (Akan) nhwɛsoɔ | ||
Ukrainian зразок | ||
Urdu نمونہ | ||
Uyghur sample | ||
Uzbek namuna | ||
Vietnamese mẫu vật | ||
Welsh sampl | ||
Xhosa isampulu | ||
Yiddish מוסטער | ||
Yoruba apẹẹrẹ | ||
Zulu isampula |
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | In Afrikaans, "monster" can also mean "example". |
| Albanian | In Albanian, "mostër" derives from the Latin "monstrare" (to show), implying a physical representation. |
| Amharic | The word “ናሙና” also means ‘form’ or ‘method’. |
| Arabic | The word "عينة" literally means "eye" and is used in many different contexts, including the mathematical sense of "sample" and the biological sense of "specimen". |
| Azerbaijani | "Nümunə" ayrıca Azerice'de "örnek, model" anlamlarına gelir ve aynı anlama gelen Arapça "نموذج" (namuḏaj) sözcüğünden alıntıdır. |
| Basque | In Basque, "lagina" not only means "sample," but also "specimen," "model," or "example." |
| Belarusian | The word «ўзор» has another meaning - an ornament. |
| Bengali | নমুনা (sample) can also mean "example" or "pattern" in Bengali. |
| Bosnian | "Uzorak" also means "pattern" in Bosnian. |
| Bulgarian | The word "проба" in Bulgarian shares the same origin with the Russian word "проба" and the English word "probe" and its original meaning in all three languages was "test" or "attempt". |
| Catalan | Mostra in Catalan also means "exhibit" or "display" due to its Latin origin (monstrare, meaning "to show"). |
| Cebuano | Sampol in Cebuano can also mean "small amounts". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | In ancient Chinese, “样品” (pinyin: yàngpǐn) meant a |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 樣品 (yàngpǐn) derives from the word "樣子" (yàngzi), meaning "appearance" or "model." |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "campione" can also refer to a person or thing that serves as an example or model. |
| Croatian | The word 'uzorak' in Croatian not only means 'sample' but also 'pattern', 'model' and 'example'. |
| Czech | The root of the word is " vzor", that means "pattern/model |
| Danish | The word "prøve" in Danish can also mean test, rehearsal, sample or effort. |
| Dutch | In Dutch, the word "monster" can refer to a sample or a pattern, as in the phrase "een monster nemen" (to take a sample). |
| Esperanto | "Specimeno" is a neologism based on the Latin word "specimen" (specimen, sample). |
| Estonian | The word "proov" in Estonian can also mean "test" or "trial". |
| Finnish | The word "näyte" also means "sign" or "proof", which is related to its original meaning of "a small piece of cloth that is cut off to show the quality of the whole." |
| French | The French word "échantillon" can also mean "model" or "example". |
| Frisian | Frisian "foarbyld" also means "example" or "model". |
| Galician | In Portuguese, "mostra" also means "face" or "exhibition". |
| Georgian | The Georgian word "ნიმუში" is possibly derived from Persian "نمونه", which also means "sample". |
| German | The term “Stichprobe” literally means “stab sample”, because the method originated in medical diagnostics, where samples of tissue were examined under a microscope. |
| Greek | The term δείγμα (deigma), besides meaning “sample”, also means an instance and serves as the root for δειγματισμός (deigmatism), which represents an act of pointing to a specific place or person or of demonstrating something. |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "નમૂના" (sample) comes from the Sanskrit word "नमः" (humble salutation), and is also used in the sense of a "model" or "example". |
| Haitian Creole | In Haitian Creole, "echantiyon" also refers to a person or thing used for comparison. |
| Hausa | In Hausa, "samfurin" is derived from the Arabic word "sunfrah" meaning "model" or "example". |
| Hawaiian | The Hawaiian word "hāpana" derives from the Proto-Polynesian root "*fana" meaning "to taste" or "to try." |
| Hebrew | "לִטעוֹם" derives from the Hebrew word "טעם", meaning "taste". |
| Hindi | "नमूना" in Hindi also refers to a model or draft of something larger. |
| Hmong | The word "coj mus kuaj" literally means "to try" or "to taste" in Hmong. |
| Hungarian | Hungarian "minta" means "sample" but is derived from the Turkish word "mintan," or "coat." |
| Icelandic | In Old Norse, the word 'sýnishorn' referred to a type of animal horn that was used to hold a sample of a substance, hence its modern meaning as 'sample'. |
| Igbo | In some Igbo dialects, the word "nlele" can also mean "small" or "fragment." |
| Indonesian | In Indonesian, "sampel" can also refer to a group of dancers, singers, or comedians who perform together. |
| Irish | The word "sampla" in Irish can also mean "pattern" or "copy". |
| Italian | In Latin, 'campeo' meant to take a prize, from 'campus,' meaning field of battle. |
| Japanese | The word "サンプル" (sample) in Japanese can also refer to a small portion of food or drink offered for tasting. |
| Javanese | In Javanese, "conto" can also refer to a model or prototype. |
| Kannada | The Kannada word "ಮಾದರಿ" (sample) also means "example" or "model". |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "үлгі" (sample) is cognate with the Turkish "örgü" (pattern) and the Mongolian "үлгэр" (example), all derived from the Proto-Altaic root *örge- "to weave, to make." |
| Khmer | The word "គំរូ" can also be used to refer to a model or an example. |
| Korean | The word "견본" in Korean is derived from the Chinese characters "見本" which mean "to see" and "model". |
| Kurdish | The word "mînak" is derived from the Persian word "mīzān" (balance, scale), and it also means "example" or "model" in Kurdish. |
| Kyrgyz | The word "үлгү" is borrowed from the Mongolian word "ülge", which means "pattern" or "model." |
| Latin | The Latin word 'sample' can also refer to a musical composition used to give an idea of a larger work. |
| Latvian | 'Paraugs' can also mean a pattern used as an example to make other things by, a specimen, or a prototype. |
| Lithuanian | The word "pavyzdys" is related to the word "vaizdas", which means "picture" or "image". This suggests that the original meaning of "pavyzdys" may have been "something that is representative of something else". |
| Luxembourgish | The word "Prouf" is derived from the Old High German word "prova", meaning "test" or "trial." |
| Macedonian | In Old Church Slavonic, "пример" could also mean law, rule or regulation. |
| Malagasy | The word "santionany" in Malagasy derives from the French word "échantillon," meaning "sample." |
| Malay | The word "contoh" can also mean "example" or "model" in Indonesian. |
| Maltese | The word "kampjun" also means "pattern" or "model" in Maltese. |
| Maori | The word "tauira" in Māori can also refer to a "specimen" or "copy". |
| Marathi | The Marathi word "नमुना" originates from the Gujarati word "نمونو" (numūnu), meaning a "sample", which in turn derives from the Arabic word "نموذج" (numūdhaj), meaning a "model" or "prototype". |
| Mongolian | The word “dээж” also refers to the first milk a mother gives after birth and to the foam at the top of fermenting milk. |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The word "နမူနာ" is derived from the Sanskrit word "नमूना" (namūnā), which means "specimen" or "pattern". |
| Nepali | The word "नमूना" is derived from the Sanskrit word "नमुना" meaning "a model or pattern". |
| Norwegian | The Norwegian word "prøve" originates from the Old Norse word "prófa", meaning "experiment" or "trial". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "chitsanzo" also means "illustration" or "example" in Nyanja. |
| Pashto | The word "نمونه" could also mean "model" or "specimen". |
| Persian | The word "نمونه" also means "example", "pattern", "specimen", "copy", or "model" in Persian. |
| Polish | The word "próba" comes from the Latin word "probare", meaning "to test" or "to examine". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | "Amostra" in Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) is ultimately derived from the Latin "monstrare," meaning "to display" or "to show." |
| Romanian | The word "probă" in Romanian comes from the Latin word "proba," meaning "test, proof, or experiment." |
| Russian | "Образец" also means "a role model" or "an ideal". |
| Samoan | Faʻataʻitaʻiga is also used literally, as in a model, a pattern, or a design. |
| Scots Gaelic | The word "sampall" in Scots Gaelic can also refer to a person who gives a sample or a taster. |
| Serbian | The word "узорак" also has the meaning of "pattern". |
| Sesotho | Sesotho word "sampole" also means "witness" in the context of a court trial. |
| Shona | In Shona, "sampu" can also refer to a small amount of something, or a prototype. |
| Sindhi | In Sindhi, "نمونو" can refer to a small amount, a pattern, or a model. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word නියැදිය is derived from Sanskrit and literally means "a small part or amount". |
| Slovak | The Slovak word "vzorka" may originate from the Proto-Slavic word *vъzorъ, meaning "model" or "pattern". |
| Slovenian | "Vzorec" can be used to describe both a pattern or model, or the sampling of something. |
| Somali | Muunad is also used to mean 'specimen' or 'example' in Somali, similar to its usage in English. |
| Spanish | "Muestra" can also mean "proof" or "display" in Spanish. |
| Sundanese | The word "conto" in Sundanese primarily serves as a sample, but it can also mean "try" or "test" in some contexts. |
| Swahili | Sampuli is also a term for a traditional Swahili dish of cooked cassava, meat, and spices. |
| Swedish | The word 'prov' is derived from the Old Norse word 'proof', which means 'test' or 'trial'. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The Tagalog word "sampol" (sample) originally meant "example" or "model". |
| Tajik | The word "намуна" can have additional meanings such as "pattern" or "model". |
| Telugu | The word 'నమూనా' also means a 'model, specimen, or pattern' |
| Thai | The term ตัวอย่าง (samplo) is derived from the Portuguese word "amostra", meaning "sample" or "specimen". |
| Turkish | "Örneklem" sözcüğü, Türkçeye Farsçadan geçmiştir ve "örnek" sözcüğünden türetilmiştir. |
| Ukrainian | The word "зразок" has Slavic roots and originally meant "a piece of a whole" or "a part of something larger." |
| Urdu | "نمونہ" is the Persian word for "pattern", but in Urdu it can also be used to refer to an example of something, or a representative group or item. |
| Uzbek | This word may have originated from the Arabic word "namūd" meaning "example". |
| Vietnamese | Mẫu vật can also mean "specimen" and "example" in Vietnamese. |
| Welsh | In Welsh, "sampl" can also refer to a patch or a piece, as in "sampl o dir" (a piece of land). |
| Xhosa | The word "isampulu" also means "a model, a specimen, or an example" in Xhosa. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "מוסטער" is derived from the German word "muster" and the Old French word "mostre," both meaning "pattern" or "example." |
| Yoruba | The word 'apẹẹrẹ' in Yoruba can also mean 'example' or 'model'. |
| Zulu | In Zulu, "isampula" also refers to a piece of land allocated to a person or family for farming purposes. |
| English | The word "sample" derives from the Old French "sampel" meaning "example" or "model". |