Afrikaans rek | ||
Albanian shtrihet | ||
Amharic ዘርጋ | ||
Arabic تمتد | ||
Armenian ձգվել | ||
Assamese প্ৰসাৰিত কৰা | ||
Aymara jiyt'aña | ||
Azerbaijani uzanmaq | ||
Bambara ka sama | ||
Basque luzatu | ||
Belarusian расцягвацца | ||
Bengali প্রসারিত | ||
Bhojpuri फैलाव | ||
Bosnian rastezanje | ||
Bulgarian опъвам, разтягам | ||
Catalan estirar | ||
Cebuano pag-inat | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 伸展 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 伸展 | ||
Corsican stende | ||
Croatian protežu se | ||
Czech protáhnout se | ||
Danish strække | ||
Dhivehi ދެމުން | ||
Dogri खिच्चना | ||
Dutch uitrekken | ||
English stretch | ||
Esperanto streĉi | ||
Estonian venitada | ||
Ewe he eme | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) mag-inat | ||
Finnish venyttää | ||
French étendue | ||
Frisian stretch | ||
Galician estirar | ||
Georgian მონაკვეთი | ||
German strecken | ||
Greek τέντωμα | ||
Guarani pehẽngue | ||
Gujarati પટ | ||
Haitian Creole detire | ||
Hausa mikewa | ||
Hawaiian kīloi | ||
Hebrew לִמְתוֹחַ | ||
Hindi खिंचाव | ||
Hmong ncab | ||
Hungarian nyújtás | ||
Icelandic teygja | ||
Igbo gbatịa | ||
Ilocano bennaten | ||
Indonesian meregang | ||
Irish síneadh | ||
Italian allungare | ||
Japanese ストレッチ | ||
Javanese mulet | ||
Kannada ಹಿಗ್ಗಿಸಿ | ||
Kazakh созу | ||
Khmer លាតសន្ធឹង | ||
Kinyarwanda kurambura | ||
Konkani ओडप | ||
Korean 뻗기 | ||
Krio strɛch | ||
Kurdish dirêjkirin | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) کێشهێنانەوە | ||
Kyrgyz сунуу | ||
Lao ຍືດ | ||
Latin proten | ||
Latvian stiept | ||
Lingala komitandola | ||
Lithuanian ištempti | ||
Luganda okugolola | ||
Luxembourgish strecken | ||
Macedonian се водат | ||
Maithili खिंचाव | ||
Malagasy mihinjitra | ||
Malay regangan | ||
Malayalam വലിച്ചുനീട്ടുക | ||
Maltese iġġebbed | ||
Maori totoro | ||
Marathi ताणून लांब करणे | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯆꯤꯡꯊꯣꯛꯄ | ||
Mizo fan | ||
Mongolian сунах | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ဆန့် | ||
Nepali तन्नु | ||
Norwegian tøye ut | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kutambasula | ||
Odia (Oriya) ବିସ୍ତାର | ||
Oromo harkisuu | ||
Pashto پراخول | ||
Persian کش آمدن | ||
Polish rozciągać | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) esticam | ||
Punjabi ਖਿੱਚੋ | ||
Quechua mastariy | ||
Romanian întinde | ||
Russian протяжение | ||
Samoan faʻaloaloa | ||
Sanskrit विस्तार | ||
Scots Gaelic sìneadh | ||
Sepedi nganga | ||
Serbian протежу се | ||
Sesotho otlolla | ||
Shona tatamuka | ||
Sindhi وڌائڻ | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) දිගු කරන්න | ||
Slovak natiahnuť | ||
Slovenian raztegniti | ||
Somali kala bixin | ||
Spanish tramo | ||
Sundanese manteng | ||
Swahili kunyoosha | ||
Swedish sträcka | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) mag-inat | ||
Tajik дароз кардан | ||
Tamil நீட்சி | ||
Tatar суз | ||
Telugu సాగదీయండి | ||
Thai ยืด | ||
Tigrinya ዘርገሐ | ||
Tsonga tsanyula | ||
Turkish uzatmak | ||
Turkmen uzat | ||
Twi (Akan) twe mu | ||
Ukrainian розтягнути | ||
Urdu کھینچنا | ||
Uyghur سوز | ||
Uzbek cho'zish | ||
Vietnamese căng ra | ||
Welsh ymestyn | ||
Xhosa zolula | ||
Yiddish אויסשטרעקן | ||
Yoruba na isan | ||
Zulu elula |
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "rek" also means "straight" or "correct" in Afrikaans, derived from the Dutch word "recht." |
| Albanian | The Albanian noun shtrirje means either "a stretch" or "width" |
| Amharic | The word "ዘርጋ" can also refer to a line or a row, and is related to the word "ዘር", meaning "seed". |
| Arabic | The word "تمتد" (stretch) is a verb in Arabic that can also mean "to extend, to reach out, or to spread out." |
| Armenian | "Ձգվել" can also mean to reach out, lengthen, or extend. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "uzanmaq" in Azerbaijani can also mean "to reach out" or "to extend". |
| Basque | "Luzatu" also means "extend (a period of time)" or "prolong". |
| Bengali | প্রসারিত' has alternate meanings of 'extension' and 'expansion' |
| Bosnian | In Serbian, the word 'raztezanje' has the same meaning of 'stretch', but it also refers to a type of folk dance. |
| Bulgarian | The word "опъвам, разтягам" can also mean "to pull", "to stretch out", "to extend", "to distend", "to elongate", "to widen", "to enlarge", "to expand", "to fill", and "to fill out". |
| Catalan | In Catalan, "estirar" also means to draw out, to make taut, or to straighten something. |
| Cebuano | The Cebuano word "pag-inat" can also mean "to grow" or "to develop", signifying the act of extending or increasing in size, scope, or degree. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | It can also mean ‘to extend’, ‘to lengthen’, ‘to unfold’, or ‘to expand’. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | "伸展" can also mean to declare or reveal (as a plan or intention). |
| Corsican | Corsican's "stende" is used as a noun in Sardinian where it means "a piece of linen cloth". |
| Croatian | Protežu se can also mean "extend," "spread," "project," or "reach" |
| Czech | The word "protáhnout se" also means "to get through" or "to sneak through" in Czech. |
| Danish | "Strække" also means "to spread" or "to pull out." |
| Dutch | "Uitrekken" can also mean "to move" or "to evacuate". |
| Esperanto | "Streĉi" can also mean "make a long speech" or "put to the test". |
| Estonian | The word "venitada" can also mean "to give a helping hand" or "to do something with a lot of effort". |
| Finnish | "Venyttää" is a verb that can mean either "to stretch" or "to loan", depending on context. |
| French | "L'étendue" originally meant only the distance between two parallel lines on a map |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "stretch" can also refer to a stretch of land, a part of a river, or a period of time. |
| Galician | In Portuguese, where the word comes from, "estirar" can also mean "to extend a credit line". |
| German | The German word "strecken" can also refer to straightening something or to a section of a road, path, or rail line. |
| Greek | Τέντωμα can also mean tension, extension, pulling or spreading. |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "પટ" can also refer to a type of silk fabric or a strip of cloth. |
| Haitian Creole | The word "detire" can also be used to refer to stretching out one's arms or legs. |
| Hausa | The word "mikewa" can also refer to a period of time or a distance. |
| Hawaiian | In Hawaiian, the verb kīloi can also mean 'to beckon' or 'to beckon someone to come' |
| Hebrew | The verb 'לִמְתוֹחַ' can also mean 'to draw' or 'to stretch out', as in the case of a rubber band. |
| Hindi | In addition to its primary meaning of 'extension', the Hindi word "खिंचाव" can also refer to tension, suspense, or attraction. |
| Hmong | The term "ncab" in Hmong can also refer to extension, expansion, or enlargement. |
| Hungarian | Nyújtás can also mean offering or granting in Hungarian. |
| Icelandic | The Icelandic word "teygja" is cognate with other Germanic words meaning "to draw" or "to pull", and also has a meaning of "to compose poetry". |
| Igbo | The word 'gbatịa' can also mean 'to extend' or 'to elongate'. |
| Indonesian | Meregang can also refer to the act of stretching a musical instrument's strings. |
| Irish | The Irish word "síneadh" also refers to the act of extending, dilating, or enlarging something. |
| Italian | The word "allungare" comes from the Latin word "allongare," which means "to lengthen" or "to extend." |
| Japanese | ストレッチ is also used to describe the feeling of being exhausted or fed up. |
| Javanese | The word mulet has another meaning, which is 'to be forced to pay someone, usually as compensation for something.' |
| Kannada | The Kannada word "ಹಿಗ್ಗಿಸಿ" not only means "stretch" but also signifies "enlarge, inflate" and "expand". |
| Kazakh | The word созу can also refer to "length" or "span". |
| Khmer | The word "លាតសន្ធឹង" can also be used to describe the process of stretching out something, such as dough or cloth. |
| Korean | "뻗기" can also mean "to die", likely from the idea of lying down and not moving. |
| Kurdish | The word "dirêjkirin" comes from the Old Iranian verb "drēǰ-," meaning "to extend" or "to make longer." |
| Kyrgyz | The Kyrgyz word "сунуу" can also mean "to put something in a hole or cavity", such as a nail into a wall. |
| Lao | The same Lao word "ຍືດ" (stretch) also means "borrow money". |
| Latin | Protendo is the first conjugation of tendo, a verb that means to stretch out or extend. |
| Latvian | In the Vidzeme dialect, "stiept" also means "to take with force". |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian "ištempti" originally meant to pull a rope to a certain length; "tempi" (Latin) means a period of time; "tempe" (Ancient Greek): a narrow valley, gorge; Greek "temnein": to cut. |
| Luxembourgish | In Luxembourgish, "strecken" also means "to kill" and is derived from the Old High German "strecken," meaning "to lay down, to fell." |
| Macedonian | The verb "се водат" can also refer to the process of being in a relationship with someone or to be in a state of prolonged or difficult effort. |
| Malagasy | The word "mihinjitra" in Malagasy also means "to extend" or "to enlarge". |
| Malay | The word "regangan" in Malay can also mean "extension" or "a period of time". |
| Malayalam | Its alternate meaning is prolonging or extending. |
| Maltese | The verb "iġġebbed" is derived from the Arabic word "جبّ" (jabb), meaning "to pull" or "to attract". |
| Maori | In Maori, "totoro" also refers to a type of eel. |
| Marathi | In English, “stretch” means to make something longer or wider by pulling it, while it can also mean to lie down at full length, or to exaggerate or overstate the truth. |
| Mongolian | In Mongolian, the word "сунах" can also mean "to pull" or "to extend something". |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | ဆန့် also can be used to describe the condition of something that looks like something is tightly pulled |
| Nepali | The noun 'तन्नु' ('stretch') also means 'length' and originates from the Proto-Indo-European root "ten-" ('stretch'). |
| Norwegian | The Norwegian word "tøye ut" also means "to extend". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | Kutambasula in Nyanja can also refer to the extension or prolongation of something, such as a time period or an event. |
| Pashto | The word "پراخول" in Pashto also means "widely spread" or "dispersed". |
| Persian | کش آمدن also means "to endure" or "to last" in Persian. |
| Polish | In biology, the word "rozciągać" can refer to the process of cell elongation. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "esticam" in Portuguese also comes from the Germanic root *stik- "to thrust, stick", also found in "espeto" (skewer). |
| Punjabi | The Punjabi word "ਖਿੱਚੋ" can also be used to refer to the act of pulling or dragging something. |
| Romanian | Întinde can also mean "to spread" or "to apply", such as applying paint or lotion. |
| Russian | "Протяжение" also means "length", "duration", "extent", "course", "reach" and "range". |
| Samoan | "Faʻaloaloa" can also refer to an elongation of a word in a song. |
| Scots Gaelic | In the Isle of Arran dialect, "sìneadh" also refers to the elastic band in a catapult. |
| Serbian | The verb "protežu se" is derived from the Old Church Slavonic word "protegati", meaning "to stretch out, reach out, spread out". |
| Sesotho | The word "otlolla" can also mean "extend" or "protrude". |
| Shona | "Tatamuka" also means "to be wide" or "to be broad" in Shona. |
| Sindhi | Sindhi word "وڌائڻ" can also mean "expand, enlarge, extend, or grow" and is cognate with Sanskrit "वध्" (vadh) meaning "growth". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | In classical Sinhala, the word "දිගු කරන්න" also means "to delay" or "to make something longer" in time as well as in space. |
| Slovak | The word "natiahnuť" also means "to put on" in Slovak. |
| Slovenian | The word 'raztegniti' in Slovenian is derived from the verb 'tegniti' ('to pull'), and also means 'to elongate' or 'to extend'. |
| Somali | The word "kala bixin" also implies the act of extracting something valuable or useful from a situation. |
| Spanish | "Tramo" also means "section", as in "tramo de carretera" (section of road). |
| Sundanese | In Sundanese, the word "manteng" can also refer to "stretching out one's limbs" or "relaxing one's muscles". |
| Swahili | The word "kunyoosha" in Swahili can also mean "to extend" or "to lengthen". |
| Swedish | The word 'sträcka' originally meant a length or distance and is related to the word 'streck', which means a line or stroke. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Mag-inat" has alternate meanings in Tagalog, including "to warm up" and "to prepare for something." |
| Tajik | "дароз кардан" (stretch) in Tajik is derived from the Persian "daroz kardan" meaning "lengthen". In addition to its primary meaning, "дароз кардан" can be used figuratively in Tajik to describe something that is very large, excessive, or expansive in duration. |
| Tamil | In Tamil, 'நீட்சி' ('stretch') also refers to an extension or prolongation in time or space, or a figurative extension of meaning or purpose. |
| Telugu | "సాగదీయండి" means not only in the literal sense "to extend"" when used for time, but can also be synonymous with "delay". |
| Thai | The word "ยืด" can also mean "to delay" or "to postpone" in Thai. |
| Turkish | Uzatmak derives from the Proto-Turkic word üz (stretch, lengthen), from a Proto-Uralic verb meaning “to lengthen, grow”. |
| Ukrainian | The word "розтягнути" can also mean to extend or prolong something in time. |
| Uzbek | The word "cho'zish" in Uzbek also refers to the extension or expansion of something. |
| Vietnamese | The etymology of the word "căng ra" dates back to Old Vietnamese "căng" (to be tight) and "ra" (to move outward). |
| Welsh | Its Middle Welsh cognate is 'emestyn' and the word probably originates from the Proto-Celtic root *ĭm-. |
| Xhosa | "Zolula" also means "to be on the brink of losing consciousness" in Xhosa. |
| Yiddish | אויסשטרעקן can also refer to a form of torture or execution where a person is stretched on the rack. |
| Yoruba | "Na isan" can also refer to a type of hairstyle, where hair is pulled back tightly and woven into intricate designs. |
| Zulu | In Zulu, 'elula' can also refer to 'making a point' or 'asserting something'. |
| English | "Stretch" can mean either "to extend the length" or "a sustained period of effort or activity." |