Thousand in Different Languages
Discover 'Thousand' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Thousand
Afrikaans duisend | ||
Albanian mijë | ||
Amharic ሺህ | ||
Arabic ألف | ||
Armenian հազ | ||
Assamese এশ | ||
Aymara waranqa | ||
Azerbaijani min | ||
Bambara ba kelen | ||
Basque mila | ||
Belarusian тысячы | ||
Bengali হাজার | ||
Bhojpuri हजार | ||
Bosnian hiljade | ||
Bulgarian хиляди | ||
Catalan milers | ||
Cebuano libo | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 千 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 千 | ||
Corsican millaie | ||
Croatian tisuću | ||
Czech tisíc | ||
Danish tusind | ||
Dhivehi އެއްހާސް | ||
Dogri ज्हार | ||
Dutch duizend | ||
English thousand | ||
Esperanto mil | ||
Estonian tuhat | ||
Ewe akpe | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) libo | ||
Finnish tuhat | ||
French mille | ||
Frisian tûzen | ||
Galician mil | ||
Georgian ათასი | ||
German tausend | ||
Greek χίλια | ||
Guarani su | ||
Gujarati હજાર | ||
Haitian Creole mil | ||
Hausa dubu | ||
Hawaiian tausani | ||
Hebrew אלף | ||
Hindi हज़ार | ||
Hmong txhiab | ||
Hungarian ezer | ||
Icelandic þúsund | ||
Igbo puku | ||
Ilocano sangaribo | ||
Indonesian ribu | ||
Irish míle | ||
Italian mille | ||
Japanese 千 | ||
Javanese sewu | ||
Kannada ಸಾವಿರ | ||
Kazakh мың | ||
Khmer ពាន់ | ||
Kinyarwanda igihumbi | ||
Konkani हजार | ||
Korean 천 | ||
Krio tawzin | ||
Kurdish hezar | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) هەزار | ||
Kyrgyz миң | ||
Lao ພັນ | ||
Latin milia | ||
Latvian tūkstotis | ||
Lingala nkoto | ||
Lithuanian tūkstantis | ||
Luganda lukumi | ||
Luxembourgish dausend | ||
Macedonian илјади | ||
Maithili हजार | ||
Malagasy arivo | ||
Malay ribu | ||
Malayalam ആയിരം | ||
Maltese elf | ||
Maori mano | ||
Marathi हजार | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯂꯤꯁꯤꯡ | ||
Mizo sangkhat | ||
Mongolian мянга | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ထောင်ပေါင်းများစွာ | ||
Nepali हजार | ||
Norwegian tusen | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) zikwi | ||
Odia (Oriya) ହଜାରେ | ||
Oromo kuma | ||
Pashto زره | ||
Persian هزار | ||
Polish tysiąc | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) mil | ||
Punjabi ਹਜ਼ਾਰ | ||
Quechua waranqa | ||
Romanian mie | ||
Russian тысяча | ||
Samoan afe | ||
Sanskrit सहस्रं | ||
Scots Gaelic mìle | ||
Sepedi sekete | ||
Serbian хиљаду | ||
Sesotho sekete | ||
Shona chiuru | ||
Sindhi هزار | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) දහසක් | ||
Slovak tisíc | ||
Slovenian tisoč | ||
Somali kun | ||
Spanish mil | ||
Sundanese sarébu | ||
Swahili elfu | ||
Swedish tusen | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) thousand | ||
Tajik ҳазор | ||
Tamil ஆயிரம் | ||
Tatar мең | ||
Telugu వెయ్యి | ||
Thai พัน | ||
Tigrinya ሽሕ | ||
Tsonga gidi | ||
Turkish bin | ||
Turkmen müň | ||
Twi (Akan) apem | ||
Ukrainian тисяч | ||
Urdu ہزار | ||
Uyghur مىڭ | ||
Uzbek ming | ||
Vietnamese nghìn | ||
Welsh mil | ||
Xhosa iwaka | ||
Yiddish טויזנט | ||
Yoruba ẹgbẹrun | ||
Zulu inkulungwane |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "duisend" can also refer to a large number, or a considerable amount. |
| Albanian | "Mijë" is derived from the Latin "milia", meaning "soldier", and is cognate with the English "militia" and "millennium." |
| Amharic | The word "ሺህ" is also used to refer to a large number indefinitely in Amharic. |
| Arabic | The word "ألف" (alif) in Arabic also refers to the first letter of the Arabic alphabet, which has a numerical value of 1,000. |
| Armenian | The word հազ is sometimes used to refer to an 'approximate' number rather than an exact number. |
| Azerbaijani | Min is also used in some Azerbaijani dialects to mean "many" or "much". |
| Basque | The Basque word “mila” (thousand) also means “great”, “abundant”, or “copious”. |
| Belarusian | The word "тысячы" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *tysęťa, which also means "group of a thousand" or "regiment". |
| Bengali | The word "হাজার" is derived from the Arabic word "ألف" (alif), meaning "thousand". |
| Bosnian | Hiljada derives from the Latin word "mille" and originally meant "a lot of". |
| Bulgarian | Bulg. "хиляди" is a cognate of Russian "тысячи", Serbo-Croatian "tisuće", and Czech "tisíce", which are derived from Proto-Slavic "*tysęšte", meaning "thousand." |
| Catalan | In Catalan, "milers" also refers to a type of firework, while "mil" (thousand) is used to denote large numbers or distances, such as "vuit mils" (eight thousand) or "a mils de quilòmetres" (thousands of kilometers). |
| Cebuano | "Libo" in Cebuano may also refer to a large number or an unspecified quantity, especially one indicating a great or excessive number. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 千 originates from the ancient Chinese character '干', meaning 'shield' or 'branch'. Subsequently, it was used to represent 'many' or 'large' before designating the numerical value 'thousand'. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | "千" was not originally a number, it meant to stack or accumulate |
| Corsican | The word "millaie" in Corsican can also mean "a lot" or "a great number". |
| Croatian | In Croatian, "tisuću" comes from the Proto-Slavic "tysęšta", meaning "fattening of cattle", and is used as a unit of one thousand livestock (heads). |
| Czech | The word "tisíc" is a compound of "ti" (three) and "sto" (one hundred). |
| Danish | Tusind derives from the Proto-Germanic word "þusundi", meaning "great hundred". |
| Dutch | The word "duizend" is cognate with the German word "tausend", the Old English word "þūsend", and the Old Norse word "þúsund". |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word "mil" ultimately derives from the French word "mille," and can also be used to mean "a great number" or "a multitude." |
| Estonian | "Tuhat" also means "very much" or "a lot" in Estonian. |
| Finnish | "Tuhat" derives from the Proto-Finnic word "tuhat", which means "many" or "much." |
| French | The word "mille" in French derives from the Latin "milia", meaning "thousands", and retains this meaning in military contexts. |
| Frisian | The word 'tûzen' comes from Old Frisian, and is cognate with Old Saxon 'thusundi' and Old English 'þūsend' |
| Galician | The word "mil" can also mean "millet" in Galician. |
| Georgian | The word "ათასი" originates from the Proto-Kartvelian root *atek'i, meaning "hundred" but shifted to a higher order of magnitude in Georgian. |
| German | In German folktales, 'tausend' is often used as an indeterminate number, akin to the English 'a thousand and one'. |
| Greek | The Greek word "χίλια" not only means "thousand," but also "the millennium". |
| Gujarati | The word 'હજાર' ('thousand') in Gujarati is derived from the Sanskrit word 'सहस्र' ('sahasra'), meaning 'thousand' or 'abundance'. |
| Haitian Creole | The word "mil" is ultimately derived from the Latin "mille", and also refers to a Haitian monetary unit equivalent to 1⁄100 gourde. |
| Hausa | Dubu also means 'a long time' or 'a long time ago' in Hausa. |
| Hawaiian | The word "tausani" also means "ten thousand" in Hawaiian. |
| Hebrew | The root 'אלף' also signifies leadership and learning, found in the words for 'chief' and 'teacher'. |
| Hindi | "हज़ार" is also used to refer to a large number of something, even if it is not exactly a thousand. |
| Hmong | The word "txhiab" can be used to mean both "thousand" and "large number" in Hmong, with the specific meaning depending on the context in which it is used. |
| Hungarian | The word 'ezer' also means 'a helper or helper army' in Hungarian. |
| Icelandic | Þúsund derives from the PIE root *teus-, meaning "to swell" or "to be large"; this is also the root of the Greek words "polys" and "mega". |
| Igbo | In the Igbo language, 'puku' is not just a number but also denotes a gathering of people, a multitude, or even a large number of things. |
| Indonesian | The word "ribu" can also refer to a group of people or things. |
| Irish | The word "míle" in Irish can also refer to a group of people or an army unit. |
| Italian | Mille derives from the Latin word "milia" (thousands) via the Proto-Romance word "*milja." |
| Japanese | The character "千" also means "to spread out" or "to stretch out". |
| Javanese | "Sewu" in Javanese can also mean "evil spirits" or "mysterious beings". |
| Kannada | Although ಸಾವಿರ (sāvira) is now used almost exclusively to mean "thousand" in colloquial Kannada, it can also mean "army" in archaic usage. |
| Kazakh | The word "мың" also means "abundance" or "a great quantity" in Kazakh. |
| Khmer | "ពាន់" (thousand) is also a measure of paper (a "ream") of approximately 500 sheets, likely because 500 sheets was historically 1/2 of a "thousand" sheets of paper. |
| Korean | The Korean word "천" can also mean "sky" or "Heaven". |
| Kurdish | The word "hezar" in Kurdish has Persian and Arabic origins, signifying both "thousand" and "secret". |
| Kyrgyz | In Kyrgyz, the word "миң" not only means "thousand" but also refers to a specific administrative unit or region. |
| Lao | The word "ພັນ" can also refer to a specific type of Lao currency during the pre-modern era. |
| Latin | The Latin word 'milia' can also refer to 'a Roman mile' or 'a large number' |
| Latvian | The word "tūkstotis" is derived from Proto-Indo-European root *deḱm-tom "ten times hundred". |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word "tūkstantis" (thousand) derives from the Proto-Indo-European root "*teḱs" (to weave) and shares a common origin with the English "text" and "tissue". |
| Luxembourgish | In Luxembourgish, the word 'dausend' can also refer to the number '12' when used in the context of time. |
| Macedonian | The word "илјади" in Macedonian comes from the Proto-Slavic word *ty̨sǫšta, which also means "thousand" in other Slavic languages. |
| Malagasy | "Arivo" comes from the Arabic loanword "aluf" meaning "chieftain, captain, or leader." |
| Malay | In Sanskrit, the word "ripu" translates to "enemy", and the Malay word "ribu" may have originated from this, referring to the thousands of enemies faced in ancient warfare. |
| Malayalam | The word "ആയിരം" comes from the Proto-Dravidian word *aruṅkat, which also means "six" in some Dravidian languages. |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "elf" derives from the Arabic "alf", meaning "thousand", but also signifies a multitude or large quantity, especially in ancient poetry. |
| Maori | The term "mano" also refers to groups of 100 or 10, depending on the context |
| Marathi | हजार (hazaar) is an Arabic loanword in Marathi, meaning "thousand" and also "very much" or "in abundance." |
| Mongolian | Mongolian "мянга" could also refer to "great," "huge," or "uncountable." |
| Nepali | "हजार" (thousand) comes from Persian "hazār" (multitude). |
| Norwegian | In Old Norse, "tu" meant "god" hence "thousand" is "the number of the god/gods". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | "Zikwi" in Nyanja is derived from "kiukwi," which means "a lot." |
| Pashto | The word هزار (Hazâr) comes from Middle Persian "hazāra(k)", ultimately stemming from Avestan |
| Persian | The Persian word هزار (hazaar) is derived from the Middle Iranian (Pahlavi) word "hazār" and is related to "chilioi" in Greek, "kilya" in Old Indic and "mill" in Old English, all meaning thousand. |
| Polish | The word 'tysiąc' comes from the Proto-Slavic word '*tysęšti', which originally meant 'great multitude' or 'a large number'. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "mil" originates from the Latin word "mille", meaning "a great number" or "a multitude", and also from the Indo-European root *meh₁- (*men-). |
| Punjabi | ਹਜ਼ਾਰ can also mean a multitude of different things, such as a large group of people or animals, or a vast amount of money. |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "mie" for "thousand" derives from the Slavic word "tysąсa", which is a cognate of the Russian word "тысяча". |
| Russian | The word "тысяча" originally meant "a group of 1000" and was used to count various objects, including people, animals, and goods. |
| Samoan | The word 'afe' can also refer to a large group or collection of people. |
| Scots Gaelic | Mìle can also mean "mile" in Scottish Gaelic, preserving its Proto-Celtic meaning. |
| Serbian | Хиљаду comes from the Proto-Slavic word "tysiąc", which also meant "ten hundred". |
| Sesotho | In Sesotho, "sekete" means "thousand," but it also refers to a type of traditional dance. |
| Shona | The word 'chiuru' can also refer to a large group or a crowd. |
| Sindhi | "هزار" comes from the Sanskrit word "सहस्र" (sahasra) and also means "many" |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The Sinhala word "දහසක්" has multiple meanings and etymological connections, including "group of ten", "aggregate of many groups", and "gathering of a thousand". |
| Slovak | The word "tisíc" comes from the Proto-Slavic word "tysęcь" which also meant "ten hundreds". |
| Slovenian | The word "tisoč" also refers to several historical units of volume used for measuring hay and grain. |
| Somali | The word 'kun' in Somali can also refer to a group of 100, a large sum of money, or a large number in general. |
| Spanish | The word "mil" derives from the Latin "milia", which originally meant "multitude" |
| Sundanese | In Sundanese, the word "sarébu" can also refer to something that is "very many" or "innumerable", even if it is not necessarily a thousand. |
| Swahili | Elfu is derived from the Proto-Bantu term *kikulu, meaning "much," and originally referred to a group of 100 people. |
| Swedish | In Old Swedish, "tusen" meant "ten hundreds," but has come to mean "one thousand" in Modern Swedish. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | In Tagalog, "libo" also means "group of a hundred" or "crowd". |
| Tajik | The word "ҳазор" can also refer to a "thousand-headed mythical creature" or a "multitude of people or things" |
| Tamil | The word |
| Telugu | The word "వెయ్యి" (veyyi) may come from the Dravidian root word "vey" meaning "to count" or "to gather". |
| Thai | The word "พัน" (phan) also has a secondary meaning referring to a type of traditional Thai silk fabric. |
| Turkish | Bin, meaning 'thousand' in Turkish, also carries the meanings of 'many' and 'numerous'. |
| Ukrainian | In Ukrainian, "тисяч" is the plural form of the word "тисяча", which means "thousand". |
| Urdu | The Urdu word "ہزار" can also be used to mean "very much" or "a lot" |
| Uzbek | The Uzbek word "ming" can also refer to an administrative unit or a unit of distance. |
| Vietnamese | "Nghìn" and "ngàn" are both Vietnamese words for "thousand," but "nghìn" has an alternate definition as "thousand million (10^12)" which is rarely used. |
| Welsh | Mil can also mean "animal" or "beast" in a figurative or metaphorical sense, reflecting its Proto-Celtic origin *mi-lo "animal," related to Old Irish mil "beast" |
| Xhosa | "Iwaka" in Xhosa shares its root with the Zulu and Nguni word "amawakawaka" meaning "to be many and numerous". |
| Yiddish | "טויזנט" (toyzent) is derived from the Slavic word "tysiąc" (thousand) and also means "a lot" or "an abundance" in Yiddish. |
| Yoruba | The origin of the word ẹgbẹrun may be related to the idea of a "heap" or "stack". |
| Zulu | Inkukhu is Zulu for bird, so 'inkukhu lungwane' is a 'big bird', ie. an ostrich. |
| English | Originating from an Old English word, "thusend", and related to the words "ten" and "hundred," meaning roughly ten-hundred |