Size in Different Languages
Discover 'Size' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Size
Afrikaans grootte | ||
Albanian madhësia | ||
Amharic መጠን | ||
Arabic بحجم | ||
Armenian չափը | ||
Assamese আকাৰ | ||
Aymara ukch'a | ||
Azerbaijani ölçüsü | ||
Bambara kundama | ||
Basque tamaina | ||
Belarusian памер | ||
Bengali আকার | ||
Bhojpuri आकार | ||
Bosnian veličina | ||
Bulgarian размер | ||
Catalan mida | ||
Cebuano kadak-an | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 尺寸 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 尺寸 | ||
Corsican taglia | ||
Croatian veličina | ||
Czech velikost | ||
Danish størrelse | ||
Dhivehi ސައިޒް | ||
Dogri साइज | ||
Dutch grootte | ||
English size | ||
Esperanto grandeco | ||
Estonian suurus | ||
Ewe lolome | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) laki | ||
Finnish koko | ||
French taille | ||
Frisian grutte | ||
Galician tamaño | ||
Georgian ზომა | ||
German größe | ||
Greek μέγεθος | ||
Guarani tuichakue | ||
Gujarati કદ | ||
Haitian Creole gwosè | ||
Hausa girma | ||
Hawaiian nui | ||
Hebrew גודל | ||
Hindi आकार | ||
Hmong qhov loj me | ||
Hungarian méret | ||
Icelandic stærð | ||
Igbo nha | ||
Ilocano kadakkel | ||
Indonesian ukuran | ||
Irish méid | ||
Italian taglia | ||
Japanese サイズ | ||
Javanese ukuran | ||
Kannada ಗಾತ್ರ | ||
Kazakh өлшемі | ||
Khmer ទំហំ | ||
Kinyarwanda ingano | ||
Konkani आकार | ||
Korean 크기 | ||
Krio sayz | ||
Kurdish mezinayî | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) قەبارە | ||
Kyrgyz көлөмү | ||
Lao ຂະ ໜາດ | ||
Latin magnitudine | ||
Latvian izmērs | ||
Lingala bonene | ||
Lithuanian dydžio | ||
Luganda obunene | ||
Luxembourgish gréisst | ||
Macedonian големина | ||
Maithili माप | ||
Malagasy size | ||
Malay ukuran | ||
Malayalam വലുപ്പം | ||
Maltese daqs | ||
Maori rahinga | ||
Marathi आकार | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯆꯥꯎꯕꯒꯤ ꯆꯥꯡ | ||
Mizo lenzawng tehna | ||
Mongolian хэмжээ | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အရွယ်အစား | ||
Nepali आकार | ||
Norwegian størrelse | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kukula | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଆକାର | ||
Oromo hamma ga'u | ||
Pashto کچه | ||
Persian اندازه | ||
Polish rozmiar | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) tamanho | ||
Punjabi ਅਕਾਰ | ||
Quechua sayay | ||
Romanian mărimea | ||
Russian размер | ||
Samoan lapoʻa | ||
Sanskrit आकृति | ||
Scots Gaelic meud | ||
Sepedi bogolo | ||
Serbian величина | ||
Sesotho boholo | ||
Shona saizi | ||
Sindhi ماپ | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) ප්රමාණය | ||
Slovak veľkosť | ||
Slovenian velikost | ||
Somali cabir | ||
Spanish talla | ||
Sundanese ukuran | ||
Swahili saizi | ||
Swedish storlek | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) laki | ||
Tajik андоза | ||
Tamil அளவு | ||
Tatar зурлыгы | ||
Telugu పరిమాణం | ||
Thai ขนาด | ||
Tigrinya ግዝፊ | ||
Tsonga sayizi | ||
Turkish boyut | ||
Turkmen ululygy | ||
Twi (Akan) kɛseɛ | ||
Ukrainian розмір | ||
Urdu سائز | ||
Uyghur size | ||
Uzbek hajmi | ||
Vietnamese kích thước | ||
Welsh maint | ||
Xhosa ubungakanani | ||
Yiddish גרייס | ||
Yoruba iwọn | ||
Zulu usayizi |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "grootte" is derived from the Dutch word "groot" meaning "large", but it can also refer to the "magnitude" or "extent" of something. |
| Albanian | Madhësia also means 'grandeur' or 'majesty' from the Greek 'megistos'. It is related to 'madhi', meaning 'big' and 'madhështor', meaning 'majestic'. |
| Amharic | The word "መጠን" also means "measure" or "amount". |
| Arabic | The Arabic word "بحجم" (size) is derived from the verb "حجم" (to measure), signifying the act of quantifying dimensions. |
| Armenian | Չափը can also be used to mean "measure", "degree" and "proportion". |
| Azerbaijani | The word "ölçüsü" in Azerbaijani can also mean "measure" or "amount". |
| Basque | "Tamaina" can also refer to the intensity or degree of a quality or sensation. |
| Belarusian | The word "памер" can also refer to the dimension of an object or the extent of something. |
| Bengali | The word "আকার" also means "form" or "shape" and derives from Sanskrit word "आकार" (ākāra). |
| Bosnian | The word 'veličina' (size) is also used to refer to 'greatness' or 'importance'. |
| Bulgarian | In Bulgarian, "размер" can also refer to meter or rhythm in poetry and music. |
| Catalan | In Catalan, "mida" can also refer to the waist and to a kind of fabric measure or ribbon. |
| Cebuano | The term "kadak-an" is derived from the Proto-Austronesian word "qadak", meaning "tall, long, or big." |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "尺寸" is also used as a unit of measurement in traditional Chinese architecture, where it refers to the dimensions of a building or structure. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 尺寸 (尺寸) also means "precise dimensions" or "standard" in Chinese, highlighting its importance in measurement and precision. |
| Corsican | Corsican "taglia" comes from Italian "taglio" (cut), also meaning "size", and is unrelated to the French word "taille" (waist). |
| Croatian | In physics, 'veličina' refers to a physical quantity, while in linguistics, it can mean 'capital letter'. |
| Czech | The Czech word "velikost" can also refer to the "extent" or "degree" of something. |
| Danish | The word "størrelse" comes from the Old Norse "styrð", meaning "strength" or "stature." |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "grootte" originally meant "growth" in Old Dutch, and is related to the English word "great". |
| Estonian | "Suurus" in Estonian derives from the Proto-Uralic "*sure-" (edge) and shares a root with "suure" (big), but also means "scope," "extent," or "volume". |
| Finnish | In Finnish, "koko" also means "the whole" or "the entire". |
| French | The word "Taille" in French can also refer to a tax levied on individuals based on their estate or property ownership. |
| Frisian | The word 'grutte' in Frisian is cognate with the English word 'great', and can also mean 'tall' or 'large'. |
| Galician | Tamaño, in Galician, can also mean "quantity" or "amount". |
| Georgian | A word of uncertain etymology, but possibly from the same root as "to measure". |
| German | The word "Größe" also relates to the concept of "greatness" in German, which can refer to magnitude, importance, or stature. |
| Greek | "Μέγεθος" comes from the word "Μέγας" (big) and means "greatness". |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "કદ" also refers to the "measure" or "dimension" of something. |
| Haitian Creole | The word "gwosè" is derived from the French word "grosseur," meaning "largeness" or "coarseness". |
| Hausa | Hausa 'girma' also means 'pride' as in 'Pride of place', which may be the same etymological root as the word for height or size |
| Hawaiian | The Hawaiian word "nui" can mean "large" or "many." |
| Hebrew | "גודל" is also used to describe the quality or magnitude of something, such as a person's character or the importance of an event. |
| Hindi | The word "आकार" derives from the Sanskrit word "आकृति" meaning "form or shape" and is used to denote physical dimensions or extent of something. |
| Hmong | Qhov loj me can also mean 'height' or 'length'. |
| Hungarian | "Méret" a "mérek" (measure) igéből ered, ami a "mértékkel" (with measure) kifejezéssel is összefügg. |
| Icelandic | The word "stærð" can also mean "degree" or "extent". |
| Igbo | The word "nha" in Igbo can also mean "appearance", "form", or "condition." |
| Indonesian | The word 'ukuran' also has the alternate meaning of 'measure' or 'standard' |
| Irish | The Irish word "méid" can also mean "finger" or "toe", suggesting an etymological connection to a unit of measurement based on body parts. |
| Italian | In 16th-century French, "taille" meant "a notch, a cut" which could refer to the notches cut into a stick to mark length. |
| Japanese | The Japanese word "サイズ" (saizu) originates from the English word "size," and can also refer to the dimensions or measurements of an object. |
| Javanese | The Javanese word 'ukuran' can refer to the physical dimensions of something, its relative importance or value, or its ethical or moral standards. |
| Kannada | The word "ಗಾತ್ರ" (gātra) in Kannada can also refer to a person's body, limbs, or figure. |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "өлшемі" not only means "size", but also "measurement" or "quantity". |
| Khmer | The word "ទំហំ" in Khmer is derived from the Sanskrit word "प्रमाण" (pramāṇa), which means "measure". |
| Korean | '크기' also means 'age'. For example, someone who is 8 years old has an 8-year '크기'. |
| Kurdish | The word "mezinayî" has multiple etymologies. It can be traced back to the Proto-Indo-European root *meg-, meaning "great," or the Old Iranian word "mazdā," meaning "great one." |
| Kyrgyz | The word "көлөмү" can also refer to "volume" or "amount" in Kyrgyz. |
| Latin | "Magnitudo" also has meanings such as "importance" and "excellence". |
| Latvian | "Izmērs" is a Latvian word that shares a root with the word "measure" in English, as well as having a secondary meaning of "measurement". |
| Lithuanian | The word "dydžio" is also used to refer to a person's height or weight in Lithuanian. |
| Luxembourgish | Gréisst in Luxembourgish can also refer to the measurement of a person or animal's physical stature.} |
| Macedonian | The Macedonian word "големина" is related to the Bulgarian "голям" and the Serbian "голем", which all derive from the Proto-Slavic "*golomь", meaning "naked" or "large". |
| Malagasy | In Malagasy, the word "size" can also refer to the "amount" or "quantity" of something. |
| Malay | The word "ukuran" also means "measurement" or "portion" and is derived from the Proto-Malayic word "*ukur" meaning "measure." |
| Maltese | The word "daqs" can also mean "proportion" or "amount" in Maltese. |
| Maori | The word "rahinga" also means "a measure; a measurement" in Maori. |
| Marathi | "आकार" also means form or outline or something that has been formed |
| Mongolian | The Mongolic word "хэмжээ" also bears the connotation of "dimension". |
| Nepali | The word "आकार" (size) also has the alternate meaning of "shape" in Nepali. |
| Norwegian | Størrelse derives from the Old Norse word 'stór' meaning 'big' and '-else' meaning 'quality'. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "kukula" is a noun meaning size and is cognate to Tumbuka "kukura" and Swahili "kukua", meaning to grow. |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "کچه" also refers to "measure" and "extent". |
| Persian | اندازه comes from the root "انداختن" ("to measure"), and can also mean "proportion" or "amount". |
| Polish | The Polish word "rozmiar" originates from "rozdzielić," meaning "to separate" or "to divide." |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, "Tamanho" can also be used to refer to the importance, significance, or magnitude of something. |
| Punjabi | The word "ਅਕਾਰ" also means "form" or "shape" in Punjabi and Sanskrit. |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "mărimea" can also mean "greatness" or "importance". |
| Russian | The word "размер" also means "measurement" in Russian. |
| Samoan | The word "lapoʻa" in Samoan also has the alternate meaning of "abundance". |
| Scots Gaelic | The word "meud" in Scots Gaelic can also refer to "shape" or "form". |
| Serbian | "Величина" can also mean "value" or "magnitude" in Russian. |
| Sesotho | In Sesotho, the word "boholo" can also refer to the concept of magnitude or quantity. |
| Shona | The Shona word "saizi" also means "measure" or "scale", emphasizing its use in quantifying various aspects. |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "ماپ" (size) may also refer to the weight of precious metals. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word “ප්රමාණය” can also mean measurement, amount, quantity, scale, proportion, or dimension. |
| Slovak | The word "veľkosť" comes from the Proto-Slavic word "*veljъ", meaning "great" or "large". |
| Slovenian | The word "velikost" also has the secondary meaning of "nobility" in Slovenian. |
| Somali | The Somali word "cabir" can also mean "capacity" or "volume". |
| Spanish | It is etymologically related to the Latin word talea, which refers to a stick used for measuring distance. |
| Sundanese | In Sundanese, "ukuran" can also refer to measurement standards, proportions, or even the physical dimensions of a person or animal. |
| Swahili | The word "saizi" can also mean "quantity" or "amount" in Swahili. |
| Swedish | In Swedish, "stor" means "large", and "lek" can mean "play" or "game" |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The Tagalog word "laki" also refers to the "age" of a person or object. |
| Tajik | The Tajik word "андоза" ("size") is borrowed from the Russian word "доза" ("dose"), which in turn comes from the Greek word "δόσις" ("giving"). |
| Tamil | The word 'அளவு' ('size') in Tamil also means 'extent', 'measure', 'degree', 'proportion', and 'amount'. |
| Thai | The Thai word "ขนาด" also means "proportion" or "degree", as in "ขนาดความสำเร็จ" (degree of success). |
| Turkish | In mathematics, "boyut" is also used as an abbreviation for "boyutsuz" (dimensionless). |
| Ukrainian | In Ukrainian, the word “розмір” can also refer to a musical time signature, the size of an army, or the dimensions of an object. |
| Urdu | "سائز" is derived from the Persian word "سای", meaning "shadow" or "reflection", as size is often determined by the area of the shadow cast by an object. |
| Uzbek | The word "hajmi" can also mean "volume" or "quantity" in Uzbek. |
| Vietnamese | "Kích thước" derives from Chinese "尺度" via Sino-Vietnamese, which itself originated from a word for an ancient measuring unit that was the length of a foot. |
| Welsh | Maint is also related to the English word "minute", both originating from the Latin "minutus" meaning "small". |
| Xhosa | + Ubungakanani also means 'big' and 'large'. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "גרייס" is derived from the German word "Größe" which means "largeness", and is related to the English word "great". |
| Yoruba | "Iwọn" in Yoruba can also refer to the size (small or big) of a group of people or things. |
| Zulu | "Usuyizi" also means "a quantity" or "an amount" in Zulu. |
| English | The word size derives from the Old English term 'sise,' used in reference to a tax on medieval merchandise and later applied to measurements in general. |