Several in Different Languages
Discover 'Several' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Several
Afrikaans verskeie | ||
Albanian disa | ||
Amharic በርካታ | ||
Arabic العديد من | ||
Armenian մի քանիսը | ||
Assamese কেইবাটাও | ||
Aymara juk'ampinaka | ||
Azerbaijani bir neçə | ||
Bambara damadɔ | ||
Basque hainbat | ||
Belarusian некалькі | ||
Bengali বেশ কয়েকটি | ||
Bhojpuri कई गो | ||
Bosnian nekoliko | ||
Bulgarian няколко | ||
Catalan diverses | ||
Cebuano daghang | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 一些 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 一些 | ||
Corsican parechji | ||
Croatian nekoliko | ||
Czech několik | ||
Danish flere | ||
Dhivehi ބައިވަރު | ||
Dogri केईं | ||
Dutch meerdere | ||
English several | ||
Esperanto pluraj | ||
Estonian mitu | ||
Ewe geɖe | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) ilang | ||
Finnish useita | ||
French nombreuses | ||
Frisian ferskate | ||
Galician varios | ||
Georgian რამდენიმე | ||
German mehrere | ||
Greek αρκετά | ||
Guarani hetaichagua | ||
Gujarati ઘણા | ||
Haitian Creole plizyè | ||
Hausa da yawa | ||
Hawaiian kekahi | ||
Hebrew כַּמָה | ||
Hindi कई | ||
Hmong ob peb | ||
Hungarian számos | ||
Icelandic nokkrir | ||
Igbo ọtụtụ | ||
Ilocano agduduma | ||
Indonesian beberapa | ||
Irish roinnt | ||
Italian parecchi | ||
Japanese いくつか | ||
Javanese pirang-pirang | ||
Kannada ಹಲವಾರು | ||
Kazakh бірнеше | ||
Khmer ជាច្រើន | ||
Kinyarwanda byinshi | ||
Konkani साबार | ||
Korean 몇몇의 | ||
Krio bɔku | ||
Kurdish piran | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) چەندین | ||
Kyrgyz бир нече | ||
Lao ຫຼາຍ | ||
Latin aliquot | ||
Latvian vairāki | ||
Lingala ebele | ||
Lithuanian keli | ||
Luganda -ngi | ||
Luxembourgish verschidden | ||
Macedonian неколку | ||
Maithili कएकटा | ||
Malagasy maro | ||
Malay beberapa | ||
Malayalam നിരവധി | ||
Maltese diversi | ||
Maori maha | ||
Marathi अनेक | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯀꯌꯥꯃꯔꯨꯝ | ||
Mizo thenkhat | ||
Mongolian хэд хэдэн | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အများအပြား | ||
Nepali धेरै | ||
Norwegian flere | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) zingapo | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଅନେକ | ||
Oromo baay'ee | ||
Pashto څو | ||
Persian چند | ||
Polish kilka | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) de várias | ||
Punjabi ਕਈ | ||
Quechua achka | ||
Romanian mai multe | ||
Russian несколько | ||
Samoan tele | ||
Sanskrit इतरेतर | ||
Scots Gaelic grunnan | ||
Sepedi mmalwa | ||
Serbian неколико | ||
Sesotho maloa | ||
Shona akati wandei | ||
Sindhi ڪيترائي | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) කිහිපයක් | ||
Slovak niekoľko | ||
Slovenian več | ||
Somali dhowr ah | ||
Spanish varios | ||
Sundanese sababaraha | ||
Swahili kadhaa | ||
Swedish flera | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) maraming | ||
Tajik якчанд | ||
Tamil பல | ||
Tatar берничә | ||
Telugu అనేక | ||
Thai หลาย | ||
Tigrinya ቡዙሓት | ||
Tsonga swo tala | ||
Turkish birkaç | ||
Turkmen birnäçe | ||
Twi (Akan) pii | ||
Ukrainian кілька | ||
Urdu کئی | ||
Uyghur بىر قانچە | ||
Uzbek bir nechta | ||
Vietnamese một số | ||
Welsh sawl un | ||
Xhosa ezininzi | ||
Yiddish עטלעכע | ||
Yoruba pupọ | ||
Zulu eziningana |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | “Verskeie” is derived from the Dutch word “verscheiden,” meaning "diverse" or "varied." |
| Albanian | The word "disa" in Albanian comes from the Proto-Albanian *dejsa, which is itself related to the Latin "centum" (hundred), ultimately deriving from the Proto-Indo-European *deḱm (ten). |
| Amharic | The word በርካታ can also mean "many" or "a lot" in Amharic. |
| Arabic | العديد من، تعني "ما تبقى"، وتُستعمل لجمع ما كان اثنين فأكثر. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "bir neçə" in Azerbaijani is derived from the Persian phrase "yek chand" meaning "a few" or "some". |
| Basque | The Basque word hainbat derives from the Proto-Basque *ane-bat, meaning 'as many as one'. |
| Bengali | বেশ কয়েকটি is derived from Sanskrit "विशेष" and "कति", meaning "special" and "quantity" respectively. |
| Bosnian | The word "nekoliko" is most likely derived from either the Proto-Slavic word *několĭko* or the Old Church Slavonic word нѣколко (několĭko). |
| Bulgarian | This word originally derives from Greek meaning "some" or "certain". |
| Catalan | "Diversos" in Catalan has its origins in the Latin word "diversus" meaning "different" or "varied". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | “一些”在现代汉语中指少量，但在古代汉语中还有“片刻、一会儿”的意思。 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The term '一些' can also refer to a small amount or quantity. |
| Corsican | The word "parechji" comes from the Latin "plures" and can also mean "some" or "a few." |
| Croatian | The Croatian word 'nekoliko' is cognate with the Russian word 'neskol'ko', the Polish word 'kilka', and the Czech word 'několik', all of which mean 'several'. |
| Czech | Několik could derive from the Old Czech word нѣколико (několiko) "some" and the negation particle ne-, thus meaning "not some" (i.e. "several"). |
| Danish | "flere" is derived from the Old Norse word "fleiri", which also means "more". |
| Dutch | The word "meerdere" derives from the Middle Dutch word "mere" meaning "more" and is cognate with the English word "more". |
| Esperanto | "Pluraj" is a cognate of "several": it derives from French "plusieurs," from Old French "pluisors," from Late Latin "pluriores" |
| Estonian | The word "mitu" can also refer to "many" or "a multitude", depending on the context. |
| Finnish | The word "useita" comes from the Proto-Finnic word "ušeida", meaning "many, much". |
| French | The French word "nombreuses" has the same etymology as the Spanish word "numerosas" ("numerous"). |
| Frisian | The word "ferskate" derives from the Middle Dutch word "verscheden" and the Old Frisian word "ferskiedlik". |
| Galician | In Galician, "varios" is plural for "various" but can also refer to one item that is "multicolored" |
| German | "Mehrere" derives from the Old High German "meriro," meaning "more," and is related to the Latin "maior," also meaning "more." |
| Greek | "Αρκετά" also means "enough" in Greek but that meaning does not apply in this context. |
| Gujarati | The word 'ઘણા' ('ghana') in Gujarati originates from Sanskrit and has alternate meanings like 'thick', 'dense', or 'solid'. It can also be used in a metaphorical sense to mean 'numerous' or 'a large quantity'. |
| Haitian Creole | The word "plizyè" in Haitian Creole likely derives from the French "plusieurs" or the Latin "plures," both meaning "more than one." |
| Hausa | The word "da yawa" also means "many" or "a lot". |
| Hawaiian | The Hawaiian word "kekahi" can also be used as an indefinite pronoun meaning "some" or "a certain one." |
| Hebrew | "כמה" derives from the root "קום" (to rise, stand up) and also means "how many" and "how much". |
| Hindi | The word "कई" can also mean "many" or "numerous" and is derived from the Sanskrit word "कति" (kati), meaning "how many". |
| Hmong | The word "ob peb" in Hmong can also mean "all" or "every". |
| Hungarian | The word "számos" has two etymologies, one meaning "having several" and another meaning "having a mark, signature" |
| Icelandic | The word "nokkrir" also means "some" or "a few" in Icelandic. |
| Igbo | Ọtụtụ can also mean 'multitude' or 'crowd' in Igbo, depending on the context. |
| Indonesian | The word "beberapa" can also be used to refer to "some" or "a few". |
| Irish | The Irish word "roinnt" is derived from the Old Irish "roinn", meaning "part", and can also refer to a "number" or "quantity". |
| Italian | The word "parecchi" can also mean "a lot" or "many" in Italian. |
| Japanese | いくつか can mean 'some' in a positive sense, unlike 'いくつか' which has a negative connotation. |
| Javanese | The word "pirang-pirang" is derived from the Sanskrit word "pra-iraṇa" meaning "a variety" or "a group". |
| Kannada | "ಹಲವಾರು" is derived from the Sanskrit root "हल" (hal), meaning "part, portion, or group". |
| Kazakh | The word "бірнеше" also means "a handful" in Kazakh, reflecting its usage in counting small objects. |
| Khmer | ជាច្រើន (cha chroun) is also used to refer to a large number or amount of something. |
| Korean | "몇 (some) + 몇 (some)의 (of)", meaning "several". |
| Kurdish | The word "piran" in Kurdish derives from the Proto-Indo-European root *per- meaning "to pass through" or "beyond". |
| Lao | In a Buddhist context, it also means “many” in reference to incarnations or rebirths and is used in the phrase ຫຼາຍຊາດ (lany shad) (“many existences”). |
| Latin | Aliquot is often confused with aliquotus (“nourished”), from the verb alo, alis, alere (“to nourish”). |
| Latvian | Latvian "vairāki" is a loanword from the Old Prussian "weirickey", which means "two" or "a pair". It is a cognate of the Latin "vir" (man) and the Sanskrit "vira" (hero). |
| Lithuanian | The word |
| Luxembourgish | In older forms of Luxembourgish, 'verschidden' also had the meaning of 'various', which is still preserved in some fixed phrases. |
| Macedonian | The word "неколку" can also mean "some" or "a few". |
| Malagasy | Malagasy "maro" is likely derived from the Portuguese "muito" through the Bantu language Swahili, also meaning "several". |
| Malay | The word "beberapa" can also mean "some" or "a number of" in Indonesian and Malay. |
| Malayalam | The word 'നിരവധി' can also mean 'many' or 'numerous' in Malayalam, depending on the context. |
| Maltese | Diversi is related to the root 'divers', found in the French word 'diverse' and the Latin word 'diversus', meaning 'different' or 'turning away'. |
| Maori | In Maori, the word "maha" can also refer to a large number or quantity of something. |
| Marathi | The Marathi word "अनेक" derives from the Sanskrit word "अनेक" meaning "manifold, numerous, several" and also relates to the Latin word "unus" meaning "one". |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word "хэд хэдэн" can also mean "a few" or "some" in English. |
| Nepali | Nepali word 'धेरै' can also mean 'much' in English. |
| Norwegian | "Flera" is the Swedish spelling of "flere" and can also mean "more" in English. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | "Zingapo" is thought to derive from the Proto-Bantu word *linga* which also meant "several." |
| Pashto | While its more common meaning is "several," "څو" can also mean "until," "before," or "even if." |
| Persian | "چند" is a Persian word with dual meanings, where it can both mean "several" and "how much or how many." |
| Polish | In Polish, "kilka" can also refer to a type of fish or a small amount (of something uncountable). |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | "De várias" is sometimes used as an expression to mean "many" or "a lot of" in Brazil, as in "De várias pessoas" (Many people). |
| Punjabi | ਕਈ could also refer to multiple objects or entities. |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "mai multe" not only means "several", but also "more" or "most", depending on the context and intonation. |
| Russian | The Russian word "несколько" can also be translated as "some" or "a few" depending on the context. |
| Samoan | Tele is a noun in Samoan that refers to a few or several people or things, but can also mean 'to cut' in the context of cutting wood. |
| Scots Gaelic | The word "grunnan" can also mean "a bunch of flowers" or "a flock of birds" in Scots Gaelic. |
| Serbian | The word "неколико" can also mean "a few" or "not many". |
| Sesotho | The word "maloa" also serves as the root of the word "malome", meaning "uncle" |
| Shona | The word "akati" can also mean "a few" or "some" in Shona. |
| Sindhi | ڪيترائي is also used as a noun to mean a group of people. |
| Slovak | The word "niekoľko" comes from the Proto-Slavic word "několьko", meaning "a few". |
| Slovenian | The word 'več' is probably derived from the Proto-Slavic word 'vьśь', which also meant 'several', 'many' or 'all'. |
| Somali | In Somali, the word 'dhowr ah' can mean either 'several' or 'more than two'. |
| Spanish | The Spanish word "varios" can also refer to "different" or "diverse" and comes from the Latin word "varius" which means "changing" or "diverse". |
| Sundanese | "Sababaraha" is derived from the Old Javanese word "sabarah" meaning "many" or "some". |
| Swedish | The word "flera" can also mean "more than one" or "a few". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | Maraming is a reduplicated form of the Tagalog word dami, which means "quantity" or "amount." |
| Tajik | The word “якчанд” is also used to mean “a little,” “a few,” or “some”. |
| Tamil | The Tamil word "பல" can also mean "many" or "various" and is cognate with the Sanskrit word "bahu". |
| Telugu | The word "అనేక" in Telugu is derived from the Sanskrit word "अनेक" meaning "many" or "numerous". |
| Thai | The word "หลาย" can also mean "many" or "various" |
| Turkish | "Birkaç" is a Turkish word that also means "a few". |
| Ukrainian | The word "кілька" also refers to a type of small fish, similar to sprats or sardines. |
| Urdu | The word "کئی" in Urdu derives from the Persian word "چند" (chand), which also means "several" and is often used in the plural form to mean "many". |
| Uzbek | The word "bir nechta" can also mean "a couple" or "some" in colloquial Uzbek. |
| Vietnamese | "Một số" in Vietnamese means "some", or, in the context of counting, it can mean "several or more", and is a more formal way to express "some". |
| Welsh | Possibly cognate with Cornish 'sawe', Cornish 'sow', Breton 'seu' and Latin 'semel', all meaning 'one' |
| Xhosa | Ezinesi is an irregular form, with the 'z' replacing an expected 'n'. |
| Yiddish | The word "עטלעכע" can also be used to mean "a few" or "some". |
| Yoruba | Pupọ is often used to express abundance or excessiveness |
| Zulu | The word 'eziningana' is derived from the Zulu word 'iningi' which means 'many'. |
| English | The word "several" is derived from the Middle English word "seueral" meaning "apart" or "distinct." |