Afrikaans sektor | ||
Albanian sektor | ||
Amharic ዘርፍ | ||
Arabic قطاع | ||
Armenian հատված | ||
Assamese খণ্ড | ||
Aymara sector ukanxa | ||
Azerbaijani sektor | ||
Bambara seko ni dɔnko siratigɛ la | ||
Basque sektorea | ||
Belarusian сектар | ||
Bengali সেক্টর | ||
Bhojpuri सेक्टर के ह | ||
Bosnian sektor | ||
Bulgarian сектор | ||
Catalan sector | ||
Cebuano sektor | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 部门 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 部門 | ||
Corsican settore | ||
Croatian sektor | ||
Czech sektor | ||
Danish sektor | ||
Dhivehi ދާއިރާއިންނެވެ | ||
Dogri सेक्टर दा | ||
Dutch sector | ||
English sector | ||
Esperanto sektoro | ||
Estonian sektor | ||
Ewe ƒe akpa aɖe | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) sektor | ||
Finnish alalla | ||
French secteur | ||
Frisian sektor | ||
Galician sector | ||
Georgian სექტორი | ||
German sektor | ||
Greek τομέας | ||
Guarani sector rehegua | ||
Gujarati ક્ષેત્ર | ||
Haitian Creole sektè | ||
Hausa yanki | ||
Hawaiian ʻāpana | ||
Hebrew מִגזָר | ||
Hindi क्षेत्र | ||
Hmong sector | ||
Hungarian ágazat | ||
Icelandic geira | ||
Igbo mpaghara | ||
Ilocano sektor ti | ||
Indonesian sektor | ||
Irish earnáil | ||
Italian settore | ||
Japanese セクタ | ||
Javanese sektor | ||
Kannada ವಲಯ | ||
Kazakh сектор | ||
Khmer វិស័យ | ||
Kinyarwanda umurenge | ||
Konkani क्षेत्रांत | ||
Korean 부문 | ||
Krio sɛktɔ | ||
Kurdish beş | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) کەرتەکە | ||
Kyrgyz сектор | ||
Lao ຂະ ແໜງ ການ | ||
Latin pars | ||
Latvian nozarē | ||
Lingala secteur | ||
Lithuanian sektoriuje | ||
Luganda sector | ||
Luxembourgish secteur | ||
Macedonian сектор | ||
Maithili क्षेत्र के | ||
Malagasy sehatra | ||
Malay sektor | ||
Malayalam മേഖല | ||
Maltese settur | ||
Maori rāngai | ||
Marathi क्षेत्र | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯁꯦꯛꯇꯔꯗꯥ ꯑꯦꯝ.ꯑꯦꯁ.ꯑꯦꯝ.ꯏ | ||
Mizo sector a ni | ||
Mongolian салбар | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ကဏ္။ | ||
Nepali क्षेत्र | ||
Norwegian sektor | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) gawo | ||
Odia (Oriya) କ୍ଷେତ୍ର | ||
Oromo damee | ||
Pashto سکتور | ||
Persian بخش | ||
Polish sektor | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) setor | ||
Punjabi ਸੈਕਟਰ | ||
Quechua sector nisqapi | ||
Romanian sector | ||
Russian сектор | ||
Samoan vaega | ||
Sanskrit क्षेत्रम् | ||
Scots Gaelic roinn | ||
Sepedi lefapha la | ||
Serbian сектор | ||
Sesotho lefapha | ||
Shona chikamu | ||
Sindhi سيڪٽر | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) අංශය | ||
Slovak sektor | ||
Slovenian sektorju | ||
Somali waaxda | ||
Spanish sector | ||
Sundanese séktor | ||
Swahili sekta | ||
Swedish sektor | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) sektor | ||
Tajik бахш | ||
Tamil துறை | ||
Tatar секторы | ||
Telugu రంగం | ||
Thai ภาค | ||
Tigrinya ሴክተር | ||
Tsonga sekithara | ||
Turkish sektör | ||
Turkmen sektory | ||
Twi (Akan) sector no mu | ||
Ukrainian сектор | ||
Urdu شعبہ | ||
Uyghur ساھە | ||
Uzbek sektor | ||
Vietnamese khu vực | ||
Welsh sector | ||
Xhosa icandelo | ||
Yiddish סעקטאָר | ||
Yoruba eka | ||
Zulu umkhakha |
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "sektor" also has the archaic meaning of "saw" in Afrikaans. |
| Albanian | In addition to its primary meaning of "sector," "sektor" can also mean "section," "district," or "department" in Albanian. |
| Amharic | The word "ዘርፍ" (sector) in Amharic originally meant "direction" or "side". |
| Arabic | In Arabic, "قطاع" can also refer to a group of people with similar interests or professions, or to a part of an organization that has a specific function. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "sektor" in Azerbaijani can also refer to a "district" or "part of a city". |
| Basque | "Sektorea" derives from the Latin word for "to follow" (sequi) via French, with an added "a" suffix |
| Belarusian | The Belarusian word "сектар" ("sector") comes from the Latin word "sector" and can also refer to a part of a circle. |
| Bengali | The word 'sector' comes from the Latin word 'sector', meaning 'a cut' or 'a division'. |
| Bosnian | In Bosnian, the word "sektor" can also refer to a division or a branch of an organization |
| Bulgarian | The word "сектор" is derived from the Latin word "sector", which means "a cutting". |
| Catalan | The word "sector" comes from the Latin word "sector", which means "to cut". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 部门 (bù mén) can also mean "department" or "unit" in Chinese. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 在中文中,「部門」一詞的本義是「部門、科室」,但也可指「行業、領域」或「社會組織中的分支機構」. |
| Corsican | The word "settore" can also mean "industry" or "field" in Corsican. |
| Croatian | In Croatian, the word sektor can also mean 'segment' or 'field of activity'. |
| Czech | The Czech "sektor" is related to "sect" in English and can mean a group of followers of a particular opinion. |
| Danish | The Danish word "sektor" can also mean "segment" or "branch". |
| Dutch | In Dutch, the word "sector" can also mean "slice of bread" or "segment of a circle". |
| Esperanto | The word "sektoro" can also refer to a "department" or a "section" of an organization or institution. |
| Estonian | The word "sektor" in Estonian has also been used to refer to a "part" or "sphere of activity". |
| Finnish | The word "alalla" can also refer to a field of activity, expertise, or interest. It is related to the word "ala," which means "low" or "bottom." |
| French | En français, "secteur" peut aussi désigner un angle de tir ou une ligne de front, rappelant son étymologie latine "sector", qui signifie "couper". |
| Frisian | In modern West-Frisian, "sektor" mainly means "area", but it used to mean "area" and "slice". |
| Georgian | სექტორი can refer to a portion of the economy, or a part of a circle. |
| German | The German word "Sektor" comes from Latin "sector" meaning "cutter" and originally referred to a mathematical instrument, but from the late 18th century onwards came to mean a division of the economy, a section of the population, or part of an organisation |
| Greek | The Greek word "τομέας" originally meant "a part cut off", from "τέμνω" ("to cut"), and was later used to describe administrative divisions or areas of specialization. |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "ક્ષેત્ર" (sector) is derived from the Sanskrit word "क्षेत्र" (field, area), and also holds alternate meanings of "field of activity" or "sphere of influence". |
| Haitian Creole | The word "sektè" in Haitian Creole comes from the French word "secteur" and also means "neighborhood" or "district." |
| Hausa | The word "yanki" can also refer to a part of a town or village. |
| Hawaiian | In Hawaiian, ʻāpana also means 'to share', 'to distribute', or 'a portion'. |
| Hebrew | The word "מִגזָר" (migzar) comes from the root "גזר" (gazar), meaning "to cut". It can also mean "section", "segment", or "area". |
| Hindi | "क्षेत्र" also means a field, land, or area. |
| Hmong | "Sector" (σεκτωρ) derives from two words in the Ancient Greek language: the word "temnein" (τεμνειν) or "cut" and the indefinite article "to" (το), and literally means "the cut". In modern Greek, the word sector has several meanings, depending on the context: a region of space, a section or department of an organization, or a branch of the military. |
| Hungarian | Ágazat is derived from the verb 'ágzani', meaning 'to divide into branches'. |
| Icelandic | The word "geira" in Icelandic also means "a strip of land" or "a part of a field enclosed by a fence". |
| Igbo | The term "mpaghara" in Igbo also holds religious meanings, referring to a section of an assembly hall dedicated to spirit communication. |
| Indonesian | In Indonesian, "sektor" also means a region or district. |
| Irish | The word "earnáil" comes from the French word "secteur", which means "sector" or "area". |
| Italian | "Settore" in Italian can also mean "sect" in English, derived from the Latin "sector" meaning "cutter". |
| Japanese | セクタ is also a Buddhist term meaning a part of the universe inhabited by a certain class of deities that are believed to protect the world. |
| Javanese | Other uses of the word "sektor" include "direction", "division", and "segment". |
| Kannada | The word "ವಲಯ" in Kannada can also refer to a particular portion or a group of people. |
| Kazakh | The word сектор comes from the Latin word sector, meaning "a cutting" or "a part of a circle." |
| Khmer | The word “វិស័យ” can also refer to the direction or orientation of something. |
| Korean | The word '부문' (sector) in Korean also has the alternate meaning of 'category' or 'field'. |
| Kurdish | The word "beş" also means "five" and is probably of Indo-European origin, from Proto-Indo-European "penkʷe". |
| Kyrgyz | The Kyrgyz word "сектор" comes from the Russian language, where it means "sector, section, or area". It can also refer to a specific division or department within an organization. |
| Latin | The word "pars" is related to "pars" meaning "portion", "part", and "share" in English. |
| Latvian | In Latvian, “nozare” can also refer to a line in a text or a branch of knowledge or industry. |
| Lithuanian | The word "sektoriuje" is derived from the Latin word "sector", meaning "to cut". In Lithuanian, it is also used to refer to a part of a circle or sphere. |
| Luxembourgish | In Luxembourgish, "Secteur" can also refer to a "district" or an "area" within a city or town. |
| Macedonian | The word "сектор" also has mathematical and anatomical meanings in Macedonian as well, with anatomical meanings specifically referencing various organs on a cross-section of the body. |
| Malagasy | The word "SEHATRA" is derived from the French word "secteur" meaning "district" or "area". |
| Malay | The word 'sektor' also means 'group' or 'category' in Malay. |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "settur" is ultimately of Latin origin and is related to the verb "secare", meaning to cut or divide. |
| Maori | Rā ngai is a phrase that literally means 'ray or beam of the sun' but is also used in a figurative sense to refer to a part or a section of something. |
| Marathi | 'क्षेत्र' comes from Sanskrit, and it means "an expanse of land" in Marathi. |
| Mongolian | The word for 'sector' (салбар) in Mongolian is derived from 'sal' ('to divide'), which also refers to division into administrative districts. |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | "ကဏ္။" derives from Sanskrit word "khaṇḍa" (खण्ड) which means "segment". |
| Nepali | In Sanskrit, 'क्षेत्र' also means 'field' or 'area', and in astronomy, it refers to a region of the sky. |
| Norwegian | The Norwegian word 'sektor' can also refer to a type of citrus fruit and a musical interval. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "gawo" in Nyanja can also refer to a department or division within an organization |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "سکتور" (sector) also has the alternate meaning of "area" or "zone". |
| Persian | بخش comes from a verb meaning to divide or distribute, referring to a division of a larger area or group. |
| Polish | The Polish word "sektor" additionally means a piece of fabric cut out with scissors |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "setor" in Portuguese can mean "sector" as in divisions in a company, or "zone" as in divisions in a city. |
| Punjabi | The Punjabi word "ਸੈਕਟਰ" can also refer to a share or portion in a cooperative society. |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "sector" comes from the Latin word "sector", which means "to cut". In Romanian, the word "sector" also has the meaning of "district" or "area". |
| Russian | In Russian, the word "сектор" can also mean a subsection or a section of a population or society. |
| Samoan | The Samoan word 'vaega' can also mean 'division', 'portion', or 'group'. |
| Scots Gaelic | The word "roinn" comes from the Gaelic word for "part" or "share", and can refer to a geographical region, a division within a company or organization, or a field of study. |
| Serbian | The word "сектор" is derived from the Latin word "sector", meaning "a cut or division". |
| Sesotho | The word 'lefapha' (sector) is derived from 'fapha' meaning 'to spread' or 'to cover a wide area' |
| Shona | The term 'chikamu' in Shona can also refer to a territorial boundary or a demarcated area. |
| Sindhi | The word "سيڪٽر" (sector) in Sindhi also means "an administrative division of a district or province in Pakistan". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "අංශය" in Sinhala can also refer to a "division" or "part" of something, and is derived from the Sanskrit word "अंश" meaning "part". |
| Slovak | In Slovak, sektor can also mean 'district' or 'field'. |
| Slovenian | The word 'sektorju' in Slovenian comes from the Greek word 'sektor', meaning 'cutting' or 'portion'. Additionally, it can refer to a specific field of activity or industry. |
| Somali | The word 'waaxda' is a loanword originating from Arabic 'waziir' (minister, administrator), and is related to other Somali words such as 'wazaafade' (to assist) and 'waziid' (increase) |
| Spanish | El término "sector" proviene del latín "sector", que significa "cortador" o "porción". |
| Sundanese | In Sundanese, "sektor" (or "sèktor") can also refer to a part or area of something, such as a section of a building or a region of a city. |
| Swahili | It is also used to mean a portion (of food) |
| Swedish | The Swedish word "sektor" can also refer to a church pew, reflecting the historical partitioning of churches into different sections. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | It is also used to refer to a sector of a circle or a piece of wood cut perpendicularly to its length |
| Tajik | The word “бахш” (sector) originates from the Persian word “بخش” (baḵš) and is used to denote territorial, administrative, or economic subdivisions in various contexts. |
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| Telugu | రంగం derives from Sanskrit 'rang' (space, stage, circle), also referring to the celestial sphere |
| Thai | The Thai word "ภาค" can also refer to a geographical region or a part of a book. |
| Turkish | In Turkish, the word "sektör" also means "circle" or "region". |
| Ukrainian | In Ukrainian, "сектор" means "sector" but also "area" and "part". |
| Urdu | The word "شعبہ" (sector) in Urdu can also refer to a branch or department of a larger organization. |
| Uzbek | Sektor in Uzbek also means 'field of activity' or 'part of an institution', but not 'circle' (which is 'doira') |
| Vietnamese | "Khu vực" can also refer to the division of administrative boundaries in Vietnam and to a region of space. |
| Welsh | In Welsh, the word "sector" (sector) is also used to refer to a "district" or "area". |
| Xhosa | The word 'icandelo' can also mean 'piece', 'division', or 'department'. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "סעקטאָר" ("sector") also means a "branch of an organization". |
| Yoruba | The word "eka" can also mean "part" or "section" of something. |
| Zulu | The word 'umkhakha' originates from the noun 'ikhakha', meaning 'an enclosure' or 'a ward of a homestead'. |
| English | From Latin 'sector,' meaning 'cutter,' via Middle French 'secteur.' |