Set in Different Languages
Discover 'Set' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Set
Afrikaans stel | ||
Albanian vendosur | ||
Amharic አዘጋጅ | ||
Arabic جلس | ||
Armenian սահմանել | ||
Assamese স্থাপন কৰা | ||
Aymara utjnuqayaña | ||
Azerbaijani dəsti | ||
Bambara ka kɛ | ||
Basque multzoa | ||
Belarusian набор | ||
Bengali সেট | ||
Bhojpuri सेट | ||
Bosnian set | ||
Bulgarian комплект | ||
Catalan conjunt | ||
Cebuano gitakda | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 组 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 組 | ||
Corsican set | ||
Croatian postaviti | ||
Czech soubor | ||
Danish sæt | ||
Dhivehi ސެޓް | ||
Dogri सेट | ||
Dutch set | ||
English set | ||
Esperanto aro | ||
Estonian seatud | ||
Ewe ɖoe | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) itakda | ||
Finnish aseta | ||
French ensemble | ||
Frisian set | ||
Galician conxunto | ||
Georgian დადგენილი | ||
German einstellen | ||
Greek σειρά | ||
Guarani mohenda | ||
Gujarati સમૂહ | ||
Haitian Creole mete | ||
Hausa saita | ||
Hawaiian hoʻonoho | ||
Hebrew מַעֲרֶכֶת | ||
Hindi सेट | ||
Hmong teeb | ||
Hungarian készlet | ||
Icelandic setja | ||
Igbo set | ||
Ilocano iyasmang | ||
Indonesian set | ||
Irish leagtha | ||
Italian impostato | ||
Japanese セットする | ||
Javanese atur | ||
Kannada ಸೆಟ್ | ||
Kazakh орнатылды | ||
Khmer កំណត់ | ||
Kinyarwanda gushiraho | ||
Konkani मांडप | ||
Korean 세트 | ||
Krio sɛt | ||
Kurdish danîn | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) دانان | ||
Kyrgyz коюлган | ||
Lao ຕັ້ງ | ||
Latin statuto | ||
Latvian komplekts | ||
Lingala kotya | ||
Lithuanian rinkinys | ||
Luganda biggate | ||
Luxembourgish astellen | ||
Macedonian поставени | ||
Maithili नियत | ||
Malagasy napetraka | ||
Malay set | ||
Malayalam സജ്ജമാക്കുക | ||
Maltese sett | ||
Maori huinga | ||
Marathi सेट | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯆꯕꯨꯜ ꯑꯃ | ||
Mizo ruahman | ||
Mongolian тогтоосон | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အစုံ | ||
Nepali सेट | ||
Norwegian sett | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) khazikitsani | ||
Odia (Oriya) ସେଟ୍ କରନ୍ତୁ | | ||
Oromo sirreessuu | ||
Pashto سيټ | ||
Persian تنظیم | ||
Polish zestaw | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) conjunto | ||
Punjabi ਸੈੱਟ | ||
Quechua takyachiy | ||
Romanian a stabilit | ||
Russian набор | ||
Samoan seti | ||
Sanskrit दृढः | ||
Scots Gaelic seata | ||
Sepedi sehlopha | ||
Serbian комплет | ||
Sesotho sete | ||
Shona set | ||
Sindhi سيٽ | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) set | ||
Slovak nastaviť | ||
Slovenian nastavite | ||
Somali dhigay | ||
Spanish conjunto | ||
Sundanese diatur | ||
Swahili kuweka | ||
Swedish uppsättning | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) itakda | ||
Tajik гузошт | ||
Tamil அமை | ||
Tatar көйләү | ||
Telugu సెట్ | ||
Thai ชุด | ||
Tigrinya ፅምዲ | ||
Tsonga vekela | ||
Turkish ayarlamak | ||
Turkmen düzmek | ||
Twi (Akan) hyehyɛ | ||
Ukrainian встановити | ||
Urdu سیٹ کریں | ||
Uyghur set | ||
Uzbek o'rnatilgan | ||
Vietnamese bộ | ||
Welsh set | ||
Xhosa setha | ||
Yiddish שטעלן | ||
Yoruba ṣeto | ||
Zulu setha |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "stel" originates from the Dutch word "stel" meaning a set, group, or pair, but also refers to a proposition or plan. |
| Albanian | The word "vendosur", meaning "set", is derived from the Latin word "vendo", meaning "to sell". |
| Amharic | The Amharic word "አዘጋጅ" (set) originates from the Proto-Semitic root "*ṯ-ġ-ġ", which means "to lay down, establish, or fix". |
| Arabic | The word "جلس" in Arabic is related to the notion of "resting on the ground," and is cognate with the Hebrew word "ישב" (yashav) and the Aramaic word "יתב" (yethav), both meaning "to sit." |
| Azerbaijani | The word "dəsti" in Azerbaijani shares its etymology with the Persian word "dast" meaning "hand" or "set". |
| Basque | The word "multzoa" can also mean "crowd" or "group" in Basque. |
| Belarusian | The Belarusian word "набор" (set) comes from the Old East Slavic "набръ" (collection, harvest, or group) |
| Bengali | In Bengali, 'set' (সেট) is also a colloquial term for 'a clique of friends' or 'a group of people who hang out together'. |
| Bosnian | Bosnian 'set' also means 'to hit' and 'a fight' |
| Bulgarian | The word "комплект" in Bulgarian can also refer to a suit of clothes. |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "conjunt" also means "ensemble" or "group" in French. |
| Cebuano | "Gitakda" is derived from the Spanish word "citado" (summoned). |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The word "组" also refers to a band, a team, or a group of people with a common goal or purpose. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 組 also means 'component' or 'part' in Traditional Chinese. |
| Corsican | In Corsica, the word “set” can mean “to put” or “to place”. |
| Croatian | The word 'postaviti' also means 'to appoint' or 'to nominate' in Croatian. |
| Czech | The word "soubor" in Czech can also mean "file" or "collection". |
| Danish | The Danish word "sæt" originally meant "to put" or "to place," and is related to the English word "seat." |
| Dutch | "Zet" is also used in Dutch to refer to a "bet", as in a gamble or wager. |
| Esperanto | "Aro" can also refer to a plow, a plowshare, or a hearth. |
| Estonian | The root word of "seatud" has been linked to "saama" ("to get, to receive") |
| Finnish | The word "aseta" can also mean "to place" or "to arrange" and is related to the word "asema" (position). |
| French | In French, "ensemble" also means "together" or "combined." |
| Frisian | In Frisian, "set" can also mean "to put" or "to place." |
| Galician | The Galician word "conxunto" is a cognate of the Portuguese word "conjunto", both derived from the Latin word "coniunctus" meaning "joined together". |
| German | The word 'einstellen' can also mean 'to hire' or 'to adjust' |
| Greek | In English, "σειρά" can also mean "series", "row", "order", "turn", or "course". |
| Gujarati | The word “સમૂહ” (“set”) is also used to denote a collection in Gujarati. |
| Haitian Creole | Haitian 'mete', French 'mettre', English 'make' all originate from Vulgar Latin 'mittere'. |
| Hausa | Saita may also mean "to tie"} |
| Hawaiian | "Hoʻonoho" can also mean "appoint to an office" or "assign a duty." |
| Hebrew | מַעֲרֶכֶת can also refer to a system, an assembly, or an arrangement. |
| Hindi | The Hindi word 'set' (सेट) can also refer to a group of people or things, or to a particular period of time. |
| Hmong | The Hmong word "teeb" also means "to establish" or "to create." |
| Hungarian | The Hungarian word "készlet" can also refer to a stock or inventory of goods. |
| Icelandic | The word "setja" can also mean "to put" or "to place" in Icelandic. |
| Igbo | Igbo word "set" also means a group of things considered as a unit, similar to the English word "set". |
| Indonesian | Indonesian "set" is cognate with English "set", both derived from Proto-Indo-European "*sed-" meaning "to sit". |
| Irish | "Leagtha" also means "to make" or "to put," depending on its grammatical context. |
| Italian | The Italian word "impostato" also refers to a singing technique where the voice is placed in the mask, or nasal cavity, to produce a resonant and supported sound. |
| Japanese | セットする is a Japanese word derived from the English word |
| Javanese | "Atur" can also mean "to put in order" and is often used to refer to the arrangement of items in a display or presentation, such as a flower bouquet or a painting. |
| Kannada | The Kannada word "ಸೆಟ್" (pronounced set) can also refer to a mathematical set or a group of things that complement or belong together. |
| Kazakh | The word "орнатылды" in Kazakh can also mean "arranged", "lined up", or "put in order". |
| Khmer | In Khmer, the word "កំណត់" not only means "set" but also has the connotations of "to define" or "to establish". |
| Korean | "Set" in Korean may derive from |
| Kurdish | "Danîn" is a Kurdish verb meaning "to set" and is also used in mathematics to describe the process of finding a solution to an equation. |
| Kyrgyz | "Койулган" (set) is also used to describe a determined or stubborn person. |
| Lao | The word ຕັ້ງ also has the alternate meaning of the base of a structure. |
| Latin | The Latin word "statuto" also means "established" or "determined." |
| Latvian | The Latvian word "komplekts" has Slavic roots, and can also refer to a garment or a suit. |
| Lithuanian | The word "rinkinys" is related to the verb "rinkti" meaning "to collect, to gather, to assemble". |
| Macedonian | The Macedonian word "поставени" can also mean "placed", "put" or "arranged". |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "napetraka" is derived from the verb "apetraka", meaning "to lay out" or "to spread out." |
| Malay | The Malay word "set" can also mean "a group of things that are used together" or "a collection of things that are matched or go together." |
| Malayalam | The Malayalam word "സജ്ജമാക്കുക" literally means "to arrange" or "to put in order" and is derived from the Sanskrit word "सज्ज" (sajj), which means "ready" or "prepared". |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "sett" is derived from the Italian "sito," meaning "place," and can also refer to a small village or hamlet. |
| Maori | In Māori astronomy, Huinga is a time of the year when a certain group of stars rises in the east and is observed using a special instrument called a kō. |
| Marathi | The Marathi word 'सेट' can also mean 'a group of people or things that belong together' or 'a collection of items that are used for a specific purpose'. |
| Mongolian | "Тогтоосон" is also used to refer to a specific type of Mongolian cheese made from sheep, goat, or camel milk. |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The word "အစုံ" is derived from the Pali word "sacca" meaning "truth" or "reality". |
| Nepali | "सेट" का एक और अर्थ है 'समूह'। |
| Norwegian | In Norwegian, "sett" can be a type of seat or a small flat-bottomed boat, with slightly pointed ends and a high, pointed stem and stern. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "khazikitsani" has alternate meanings in Nyanja, including "to establish" and "to appoint." |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "سيټ" has alternate meanings derived from Arabic like "place" and Persian such as "position" or "method". |
| Persian | تنظیم (set) also means "arrangement" or "regulation" in Persian. |
| Polish | The word "zestaw" in Polish can also refer to a "course" (of dishes), a "suit" (of cards), or a "tool kit". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word 'conjunto' can also refer to a group of musicians playing regional Mexican music, especially in Mexico and Texas. |
| Punjabi | The word "ਸੈੱਟ" in Punjabi can also refer to a group of people or things that are associated with each other, or to a particular time or place. |
| Romanian | In Romanian "a stabili" may mean "to establish" in the sense of creating or founding (an institution etc) or to set (something) in the sense of placing it somewhere. |
| Russian | The word "набор" in Russian can also mean "recruit" or "levy". |
| Samoan | The word "seti" in Samoan is related to the concept of "placement" and can also refer to the base or foundation of something. |
| Scots Gaelic | The Scots Gaelic word 'seata' can also mean 'group', 'assembly' or 'company'. |
| Serbian | The word 'комплект' also means 'uniform' in Serbian. |
| Sesotho | 'Sete' can also mean 'place' or 'position' in an abstract sense, as in 'sete sa hae' ('in a good place'). |
| Shona | In Shona, "set" has alternate meanings including "a group of people" and "to put in place." |
| Sindhi | "سيٽ" can also mean "the back of something". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The Sinhala word "set" can also mean "sun" or "year". |
| Slovak | The word "nastaviť" also means "to aim" in Slovak. |
| Slovenian | The word "nastavite" is derived from the Old Slavic verb *nastati* ("to set up, to erect"), which is cognate with the English word "stand". |
| Somali | The word "dhigay" can also mean "to place" or "to put" something in Somali. |
| Spanish | The word "conjunto" in Spanish can also refer to a musical genre from northern Mexico and Southern Texas consisting of small bands playing accordions, bajo sextos, and drums. |
| Sundanese | The word "diatur" can also mean "to be placed" or "to be put in a certain position". |
| Swahili | Swahili 'kuweka' originates from the verb 'weka', meaning 'to place' or 'to put'. |
| Swedish | The word "uppsättning" can also refer to a stage play or performance, or to a series of related items. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "itakda" likely came from the Proto-Austronesian root word *taqdaŋ, also meaning "establish" or "determine". |
| Tajik | The word "гузошт" derives from the Persian word "گذاشتن" (guzashtan), meaning "to place" or "to put down". |
| Tamil | The Tamil word "அமை" also means "to establish" or "to fix". |
| Telugu | The Telugu word "సెట్" has multiple meanings, including "set of things", "group of people", and "a single instance or occurrence". |
| Thai | The Thai word "ชุด" (set) can also refer to a suit of clothes or a set of utensils. |
| Turkish | Ayarlamak derives from the Arabic word "aydara", meaning "to prepare" or "to make ready." |
| Ukrainian | The word "встановити" in Ukrainian has additional meanings such as "to determine" and "to install". |
| Urdu | The Urdu word "سیٹ کریں" can be a translation of "to appoint someone to a position." Like Urdu, "set" is a verb in English too. |
| Uzbek | The word "o'rnatilgan" can also mean "installed" or "equipped". |
| Vietnamese | The word "bộ" can also mean "group" or "system" in Vietnamese. |
| Welsh | The Welsh word 'set' may derive from the Middle English word 'sett', meaning a young salmon or trout. |
| Xhosa | "Setha" can be used to refer to the time of day as well as the act of setting something down. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "שטעלן" (pronounced "shteln") can mean "to stand" in addition to "to set". |
| Yoruba | The word "ṣeto" also means "prepare" or "make ready" in Yoruba. |
| Zulu | In Zulu, 'setha' also means 'to place' or 'to put'. |
| English | "Set" can also mean "to become rigid or fixed in place" or "a downward trend in price or value." |