Square in Different Languages
Discover 'Square' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Square
Afrikaans vierkantig | ||
Albanian katror | ||
Amharic ካሬ | ||
Arabic ميدان | ||
Armenian քառակուսի | ||
Assamese বৰ্গ | ||
Aymara kuwararu | ||
Azerbaijani kvadrat | ||
Bambara kɛrɛnaani | ||
Basque karratu | ||
Belarusian квадрат | ||
Bengali বর্গক্ষেত্র | ||
Bhojpuri चौकोर | ||
Bosnian trg | ||
Bulgarian квадрат | ||
Catalan quadrat | ||
Cebuano square | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 广场 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 廣場 | ||
Corsican quatratu | ||
Croatian kvadrat | ||
Czech náměstí | ||
Danish firkant | ||
Dhivehi ގޮޅި | ||
Dogri वर्ग | ||
Dutch vierkant | ||
English square | ||
Esperanto kvadrato | ||
Estonian ruut | ||
Ewe dzogoe ene | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) parisukat | ||
Finnish neliö- | ||
French carré | ||
Frisian fjouwerkant | ||
Galician cadrado | ||
Georgian მოედანი | ||
German quadrat | ||
Greek τετράγωνο | ||
Guarani hakambyrundýva | ||
Gujarati ચોરસ | ||
Haitian Creole kare | ||
Hausa murabba'i | ||
Hawaiian huinahā | ||
Hebrew כיכר | ||
Hindi वर्ग | ||
Hmong xwmfab | ||
Hungarian négyzet | ||
Icelandic ferningur | ||
Igbo square | ||
Ilocano kuadrado | ||
Indonesian kotak | ||
Irish cearnach | ||
Italian piazza | ||
Japanese 平方 | ||
Javanese alun-alun | ||
Kannada ಚದರ | ||
Kazakh шаршы | ||
Khmer ការ៉េ | ||
Kinyarwanda kare | ||
Konkani चवकोन | ||
Korean 광장 | ||
Krio skwaya | ||
Kurdish meydan | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) چوارگۆشە | ||
Kyrgyz чарчы | ||
Lao ຮຽບຮ້ອຍ | ||
Latin quadratum | ||
Latvian kvadrāts | ||
Lingala carré | ||
Lithuanian aikštė | ||
Luganda kyebiriga | ||
Luxembourgish quadratesch | ||
Macedonian плоштад | ||
Maithili वर्ग | ||
Malagasy square | ||
Malay segi empat sama | ||
Malayalam സമചതുരം samachathuram | ||
Maltese pjazza | ||
Maori tapawha | ||
Marathi चौरस | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯁꯀ꯭ꯋꯔ | ||
Mizo square | ||
Mongolian дөрвөлжин | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) စတုရန်း | ||
Nepali वर्ग | ||
Norwegian torget | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) lalikulu | ||
Odia (Oriya) ବର୍ଗ | ||
Oromo addababayii | ||
Pashto مربع | ||
Persian مربع | ||
Polish plac | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) quadrado | ||
Punjabi ਵਰਗ | ||
Quechua tawa kuchu | ||
Romanian pătrat | ||
Russian площадь | ||
Samoan sikuea | ||
Sanskrit चतुरश्रः | ||
Scots Gaelic ceàrnagach | ||
Sepedi khutlonne | ||
Serbian квадрат | ||
Sesotho lisekoere | ||
Shona mativi mana akaenzana | ||
Sindhi چورس | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) හතරැස් | ||
Slovak námestie | ||
Slovenian kvadrat | ||
Somali laba jibbaaran | ||
Spanish cuadrado | ||
Sundanese alun-alun | ||
Swahili mraba | ||
Swedish fyrkant | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) parisukat | ||
Tajik мураббаъ | ||
Tamil சதுரம் | ||
Tatar квадрат | ||
Telugu చదరపు | ||
Thai สี่เหลี่ยมจัตุรัส | ||
Tigrinya ርባዕ | ||
Tsonga xikwere | ||
Turkish meydan | ||
Turkmen inedördül | ||
Twi (Akan) ahinianan | ||
Ukrainian майдан | ||
Urdu مربع | ||
Uyghur كۋادرات | ||
Uzbek kvadrat | ||
Vietnamese quảng trường | ||
Welsh sgwâr | ||
Xhosa isikwere | ||
Yiddish קוואַדראַט | ||
Yoruba onigun mẹrin | ||
Zulu isikwele |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "vierkantig" in Afrikaans, meaning "square", has an alternate meaning of "stubborn" or "unyielding". |
| Albanian | Katror also means 'triangle' in Albanian, coming from the Greek word 'tetragonon' meaning 'four corners'. |
| Amharic | ካሬ comes from the French word "carré", meaning "a square". |
| Arabic | "ميدان" (square) also refers to a battlefield, a place for practicing equestrian sports and a public space (plaza). |
| Azerbaijani | The word "kvadrat" derives from the French "quadrat" and the Latin "quadrātum", meaning "having four equal sides". |
| Basque | In architecture, “karratu” also means “the part of a wall that is above the door or window” |
| Belarusian | "Квадрат" may also mean "quadruple" in the context of mathematical sequences or the "power of" in the context of exponentiation. |
| Bengali | In Sanskrit, the word "বর্গক্ষেত্র" can also mean a mathematical operation, specifically the squaring of a number. |
| Bosnian | Trg comes from the Old Slavic word '*tьrgъ*', and also means 'market square'. |
| Bulgarian | The original meaning of the word "квадрат" was a cube shape (e.g. "квадрат на къща"). |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "quadrat" derives from the vulgar Latin "quadrātus" meaning both "square" and "stone". |
| Cebuano | In Cebuano, "square" can also refer to a "public plaza". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | In Mandarin Chinese, 广场 (guǎngchǎng) also refers to public gathering spaces and town squares. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | In Chinese, "廣場" (square) also refers to a space in front of a building or gate, like a courtyard in English. |
| Corsican | The word "quatratu" in Corsican originated from the Latin word "quadrus" (square). |
| Croatian | The Croatian word "kvadrat" is derived from the Latin word "quadratus" meaning "four-sided" and shares this Latin origin with various languages such as English, French and Italian. |
| Czech | The word "náměstí" is derived from the Slavic word "město," meaning "town" or "city," and originally referred to a marketplace or public gathering place. |
| Danish | Danish "firkant" originates from Latin "quadrans", referring to 1/4 of a whole, or 90 degrees. |
| Dutch | The word "vierkant" also means "honest" or "fair" in Dutch, due to its association with the idea of symmetry and balance. |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word 'kvadrato' also means 'quadratic equation' in mathematics. |
| Estonian | The word "ruut" derives from the Middle Low German "rūte" "square", "diamond" or "pane". |
| Finnish | The word "neliö-" also means "four" in Finnish, reflecting the fact that a square has four sides. |
| French | The word "carré" in French also refers to a chocolate bar or a type of paving stone. |
| Frisian | The Frisian word 'fjouwerkant' does not literally mean 'four edges' as could be assumed, but was coined after 'fjowerkant', the equivalent in the closely related Dutch language ('vierkant' in modern Dutch). |
| Galician | Derived from Latin word 'quadrus' meaning 'four-cornered', 'cadrado' also means 'perfect', 'good-looking' in Galician. |
| Georgian | The word 'მოედანი' ('square') likely originates from the Persian word 'maydan' ('market'), which itself is derived from the Indo-European root '*mei-' ('to change') |
| German | In early 17th-century German printing, a "quadrat" was not square but instead the standard unit of space between letters (a "mutton") used for justification. |
| Greek | τετράγωνο can describe a four-cornered shape, but it also refers to something that is stable, secure, or balanced. |
| Gujarati | ચોરસ may also refer to the 'sum of two numbers' in Gujarati. |
| Haitian Creole | In Haitian Creole, kare can also mean a type of dance, or a square-shaped cooking pan. |
| Hausa | Murabba'i, which is 'square' in Hausa, is the Hausa cognate of the word Murab'a 'four' in Arabic. |
| Hawaiian | In Hawaiian, "huinahā" not only means "square," but can also stand for "flat, level," or "regular." |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "כיכר" (kikar) also means "loaf" or "talent" and comes from the root "ככר" (kr), meaning "to roll" or "to shape". |
| Hindi | वर्ग (square) derives from a Sanskrit root meaning 'to enclose,' hence is a square or a class of people enclosed within a particular area or category.} |
| Hmong | The word can also refer to a person who is stubborn or inflexible. |
| Hungarian | The word "négyzet" also refers to a kind of traditional Hungarian folk dance. |
| Icelandic | In Icelandic, the word "ferningur" also means "a square of land". |
| Igbo | Square is also used to describe something that is complete or perfect, such as a square meal. |
| Indonesian | In Indonesian, "kotak" also means "box" and derives from the Sanskrit word "koti," meaning "fort". In Malay, "kotak" can mean "city" or "fortress". |
| Irish | The word "cearnach" in Irish derives from the Proto-Celtic root *kʷetwar-no-s, meaning "four." |
| Italian | The word "piazza" comes from the Latin word "platea," which means "broad street" or "public place."} |
| Japanese | "平方" is also used as a unit of measurement for area, equivalent to about 3.3 square feet. |
| Javanese | "Alun-alun" is also used to refer to a grassy area in front of a palace or a public building. |
| Kannada | The Kannada word "ಚದರ" can also refer to a type of sari, a unit of measurement, or a four-sided shape with equal sides and angles. |
| Kazakh | The word "шаршы" can also mean "equality" or "order" in Kazakh. |
| Khmer | The term "ការ៉េ" in Khmer may also denote a "diamond shape" |
| Korean | Besides meaning 'square', 광장 can also mean 'public space' or 'town square'. |
| Kurdish | In Turkish, 'meydan' also means 'battleground', reflecting its historical use as a public space for jousting and military parades. |
| Kyrgyz | The word "чарчы" ("square") in Kyrgyz also means "straight" or "correct". |
| Latin | The Latin word "quadratum" also refers to a type of brick used in ancient Roman construction. |
| Latvian | Latvian “kvadrāts” is a loanword from German “Quadrat”, which is derived from Latin “quadratus”, meaning “having four equal sides”. |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word "aikštė" (square) is also used to refer to a town market square or a place of execution, likely originating from the word "aikštus", meaning "sharp" or "pointed".} |
| Luxembourgish | The word "quadratesch" comes from the Latin word "quadratus", meaning "four-sided". |
| Macedonian | The Macedonian word "плоштад" (square) comes from the Turkish word "Meydan" meaning "public space" or "open area". |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "kara-efatry" literally means "four angles", a more precise description of a square than the English word "square". |
| Malay | The word also refers to equality and can be used to describe a fair and impartial individual. |
| Malayalam | The word "സമചതുരം Samachathuram" also means "perfect" or "complete" in Malayalam. |
| Maltese | The word "Pjazza" also means "a meeting place, an open space". |
| Maori | The word "tapawha" in Maori can also refer to a plaza or courtyard. |
| Marathi | Marathi word "चौरस" can also mean "fair", "just" or "balanced". |
| Nepali | वर्ग (/varga/), from the Sanskrit word for 'group' or 'category' |
| Norwegian | The word "torg" has been used in Norwegian since the Old Norse period, and it was originally related to the verb "torg", which means "to trade" or "to exchange goods." |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "lalikulu" in Nyanja (Chichewa) can also refer to a "rectangle" or a "field". |
| Pashto | It can also mean a box or a room in some dialects. |
| Persian | The word "مربع" comes from the Arabic word "مربّع", which originally meant "made four-cornered" or "quadrangular". |
| Polish | Derived from Old Czech "plah" (meadow), originally meaning a wide, open space. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | "Quadrado" derives from the Latin "quatrātum" (four-sided) and also refers to a "group of four" (e.g., "quadrado dos mosqueteiros"). |
| Punjabi | The word "ਵਰਗ" also means "equal" or "similar" in Punjabi. |
| Romanian | "Pătrat" derives from Romanian "patru", meaning four; a related term is "patrulater", a quadrilateral. |
| Russian | In addition to its main meaning of "square", "площадь" can also refer to a "plaza" or "town square" in Russian. |
| Samoan | The word 'sikuea' in Samoan has no known etymological links to the English word 'square', but it does share a similar meaning. |
| Scots Gaelic | Though ceàrnagach literally means "four-cornered" it is commonly used to describe a square. |
| Serbian | The word "квадрат" can also refer to a type of dance or a unit of area used in construction. |
| Sesotho | The word "lisekoere" in Sesotho can also mean "a flat piece of land" or "a rectangular area". |
| Shona | "Mativi mana akaenzana" also means "to have a fight" in Shona, as a square is a shape with four equal sides that can be used to fight with. |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word 'چورس' ('square') is derived from the Sanskrit word 'चतुरस्र' ('four-sided'). |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The Sinhala word “හතරැස්” is also used to refer to a “compass” or “direction”. Similarly, the English word “square” can also mean a large ruler, a small park in a town, or a unit of area. |
| Slovak | The word "námestie" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word "naměstí", meaning "place where a market was held". |
| Slovenian | "Kvadrat" also means "power" in mathematics, e.g. "kvadrat števila 5" ("the square of the number 5") is 25, so "kvadraten" can also mean "powerful" or "strong". |
| Somali | The term "laba jibbaaran" in Somali has etymological links to the concept of "double" or "twofold." |
| Spanish | In Cuban slang, "cuadrado" can also refer to a straight or heterosexual person. |
| Sundanese | Alun-alun is also a name for a rice field that has just been harvested, and it is where children usually play kite. |
| Swahili | The Swahili word "mraba" also means "an open space in a village where people gather for social or recreational activities." |
| Swedish | The Swedish word "fyrkant" derives from the Old Swedish "fyrirkantr", which originally referred to a "quadrangle" or "rectangle". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The term 'parisukat' in Tagalog can also refer to a quadrangle, rectangle, or any quadrilateral shape. |
| Tajik | The word "мураббаъ" in Tajik ultimately derives from the Arabic word "مربع" meaning "square", "cube", or "anything having four equal sides and four right angles." |
| Tamil | சதுரம் can also mean 'a person who acts straightforwardly and is upright' in Tamil. |
| Telugu | The Telugu word "చదరపు" (square) derives from the word "చతు", meaning "four". It also relates to "చాట", a measurement of area. |
| Thai | The word "สี่เหลี่ยมจัตุรัส" can also refer to a courtyard or a plaza. |
| Turkish | Meydan can also refer to a battleground or a place for public gatherings, festivities, or trade. |
| Ukrainian | The word "Майдан" also refers to the 2013-14 protests in Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities, known as the "Euromaidan". |
| Urdu | "مربع" means both a geometric shape and a chess square, as in "a queen can only move diagonally within its مربع." |
| Uzbek | In Uzbek, "kvadrat" also refers to power when raised in mathematics, as in "kvadrat tenglama" (quadratic equation). |
| Vietnamese | The word "Quảng trường" can also refer to a public gathering space, such as a plaza or a park. |
| Welsh | The Welsh word "sgwâr" is thought to be related to the Latin "quadrāre" (to square) and may have entered the Welsh language via the Roman invasion of Britain. |
| Xhosa | The word "Isikwere" can also refer to a rectangular or oblong space, or to a flat or even surface. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "קוואַדראַט" derives from the Latin word "quadratus," and also means "flat" or "broad." |
| Yoruba | The word "onigun mẹrin" in Yoruba can also refer to a person who is very stubborn or difficult to persuade. |
| Zulu | In Zulu, "isikwele" also denotes a type of traditional beaded necklace |
| English | From a geometry term referring to an equal four-sided figure, "square" has expanded to mean "uncool or conventional". |