Afrikaans totaal | ||
Albanian total | ||
Amharic ጠቅላላ | ||
Arabic مجموع | ||
Armenian ընդհանուր | ||
Assamese মুঠ | ||
Aymara taqpacha | ||
Azerbaijani ümumi | ||
Bambara kasabi | ||
Basque guztira | ||
Belarusian усяго | ||
Bengali মোট | ||
Bhojpuri कुल | ||
Bosnian ukupno | ||
Bulgarian обща сума | ||
Catalan total | ||
Cebuano kinatibuk-an | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 总 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 總 | ||
Corsican tutale | ||
Croatian ukupno | ||
Czech celkový | ||
Danish total | ||
Dhivehi ޖުމްލަ | ||
Dogri कुल | ||
Dutch totaal | ||
English total | ||
Esperanto entute | ||
Estonian kokku | ||
Ewe ƒuƒoƒo | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) kabuuan | ||
Finnish kaikki yhteensä | ||
French total | ||
Frisian totaal | ||
Galician total | ||
Georgian სულ | ||
German gesamt | ||
Greek σύνολο | ||
Guarani opaite | ||
Gujarati કુલ | ||
Haitian Creole total | ||
Hausa duka | ||
Hawaiian huina | ||
Hebrew סך הכל | ||
Hindi संपूर्ण | ||
Hmong tag nrho | ||
Hungarian teljes | ||
Icelandic samtals | ||
Igbo ngụkọta | ||
Ilocano dagup | ||
Indonesian total | ||
Irish iomlán | ||
Italian totale | ||
Japanese 合計 | ||
Javanese gunggunge | ||
Kannada ಒಟ್ಟು | ||
Kazakh барлығы | ||
Khmer សរុប | ||
Kinyarwanda yose hamwe | ||
Konkani एकूण | ||
Korean 합계 | ||
Krio ɔl | ||
Kurdish hemî | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) کۆ | ||
Kyrgyz жалпы | ||
Lao ລວມທັງ ໝົດ | ||
Latin summa | ||
Latvian kopā | ||
Lingala mobimba | ||
Lithuanian viso | ||
Luganda okugatta | ||
Luxembourgish total | ||
Macedonian вкупно | ||
Maithili पूरा | ||
Malagasy sokajy | ||
Malay jumlah | ||
Malayalam ആകെ | ||
Maltese totali | ||
Maori tapeke | ||
Marathi एकूण | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯑꯄꯨꯟꯕ | ||
Mizo belhkhawm | ||
Mongolian нийт | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) စုစုပေါင်း | ||
Nepali कुल | ||
Norwegian total | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) okwana | ||
Odia (Oriya) ସମୁଦାୟ | ||
Oromo ida'ama | ||
Pashto ټوله | ||
Persian جمع | ||
Polish całkowity | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) total | ||
Punjabi ਕੁੱਲ | ||
Quechua llapan | ||
Romanian total | ||
Russian общее | ||
Samoan aofaʻi | ||
Sanskrit कुल | ||
Scots Gaelic iomlan | ||
Sepedi palomoka | ||
Serbian укупно | ||
Sesotho kakaretso | ||
Shona zvachose | ||
Sindhi ڪل | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) මුළු | ||
Slovak celkom | ||
Slovenian skupaj | ||
Somali wadar | ||
Spanish total | ||
Sundanese total | ||
Swahili jumla | ||
Swedish total | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) kabuuan | ||
Tajik ҳамагӣ | ||
Tamil மொத்தம் | ||
Tatar барлыгы | ||
Telugu మొత్తం | ||
Thai รวม | ||
Tigrinya ድምር | ||
Tsonga hinkwaswo | ||
Turkish toplam | ||
Turkmen jemi | ||
Twi (Akan) ne nyinaa | ||
Ukrainian усього | ||
Urdu کل | ||
Uyghur ئومۇمىي | ||
Uzbek jami | ||
Vietnamese toàn bộ | ||
Welsh cyfanswm | ||
Xhosa zizonke | ||
Yiddish גאַנץ | ||
Yoruba lapapọ | ||
Zulu okuphelele |
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "totaal" in Afrikaans could either be the Dutch loanword "totaal" meaning "total" or the Afrikaans "tot aal" meaning "to all". |
| Albanian | "Total" in Albanian can also mean "completely" or "very much", originating from the French "total". |
| Amharic | The Amharic word "ጠቅላላ" (total) originates from the verb "ተቀላ" (to gather) and has a broader meaning of "everything included". |
| Arabic | "مجموع" comes from the triconsonantal root "جمع" and can also mean "group". |
| Azerbaijani | The word 'ümumi' is derived from the Arabic word 'umum', meaning 'common' or 'public'. |
| Basque | The word 'guztira' is used to emphasize the completeness or totality of something, akin to the English 'all in all' or 'in toto'. |
| Belarusian | Усяго (total) derives from "уси" (all) or "весь" (all) and is the cognate to "vsjo" in Russian and "все" (vse) Ukrainian. |
| Bengali | মোট in Bengali can also mean the sum, amount, or quantity of something |
| Bosnian | Ukupno, meaning "total," is derived from the Proto-Slavic "Vkvpьnъ" meaning "complete," which is also the origin of the words "ukupiti" (to gather) and "kupovina" (purchase) in Bosnian. |
| Bulgarian | The word "обща сума" in Bulgarian is derived from the Proto-Slavic word "suma", meaning "sum" or "amount". It also has the alternate meaning of "total assets" or "net worth". |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "total" comes from the Latin "totus" meaning "whole" or "complete". |
| Cebuano | "Kinatibuk-an" is derived from the root word "tibuk" which means "whole" or "complete." |
| Chinese (Simplified) | In Simplified Chinese, "总" can also mean "head" or "chief", suggesting a higher status or authority. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The character 總 can also mean "collect", "gather", or "manage". |
| Corsican | The word "tutale" is commonly used in Corsican to mean "very" or "quite" rather than the standard definition "total." |
| Croatian | The word "ukupno" in Croatian can also mean "collective" or "aggregate". |
| Czech | In the past, "celkový" meant "belonging to a whole" but it now means "total" or "overall" in the sense of "the whole of something" or "all in all". |
| Danish | The Danish word "Total" can also mean "a lottery with a large prize pool". |
| Dutch | The word "totaal" can also mean "absolutely" or "completely" in Dutch. |
| Esperanto | The word "entute" can also mean "in full" or "completely". |
| Estonian | The Estonian word "kokku" can also mean "together" or "in total". |
| Finnish | The word "kaikki yhteensä" is also used in the sense of "all in all" or "on the whole". |
| French | The French word "total" comes from the Latin word "totalis" which means "whole" or "entire". In French, the word "total" can also mean "complete" or "absolute". |
| Frisian | In Frisian, "totaal" can also mean "completely" or "thoroughly", as in "Ik bin totaal kapot" (I am completely exhausted). |
| Georgian | სულ (sul) can also mean 'soul'. |
| German | The word "gesamt" in German has been traced back to the Proto-Germanic word "gasamjan", meaning "to gather" or "to assemble". |
| Greek | "Σύνολο" comes from "σύν", meaning "with" or "together", and "όλος" meaning "whole" or "entire." |
| Gujarati | The word "કુલ" ("total") is of Sanskrit origin and is composed of the prefix "कु" meaning "all" and the suffix "ल" meaning "that which is". |
| Haitian Creole | Haitian Creole "total" originates from English "total" and also means "completely", "very", or "all". |
| Hausa | Derived from Arabic, "duka" also means a shop or store; "duka na kaba" means a clothing store. |
| Hawaiian | The word "huina" in Hawaiian can also mean "to gather" or "to assemble". |
| Hebrew | סך הכל can be understood as an abbreviation of "סך הכלל" meaning "the total of the rule", referring to the fact that it's more than just the sum of the parts. |
| Hindi | The word 'संपूर्ण' in Hindi has ancient Sanskrit roots and also relates to the concept of something being 'perfect' or 'complete'. |
| Hmong | The Hmong word "tag nrho" can also mean "everything" or "all". |
| Hungarian | "Teljes" is one of the old Hungarian words that means a whole or a set of something. |
| Icelandic | Derived from the Old Norse word "samtals", which means "conversation" or "communication". |
| Igbo | The Igbo word "ngụkọta" derives from the verb stem "gụ" (count) and the suffix "-kọta" (all), suggesting "counting all". |
| Indonesian | Kata “total” dalam Bahasa Indonesia juga memiliki arti “hancur” atau “rusak parah” yang berasal dari Bahasa Belanda “totaal”. |
| Irish | Irish `Iomlán` shares a root with `im` "about, concerning", and the suffix `-lan` ("pertaining to") as `cothromlan` ("suitable"). |
| Italian | The Italian word "totale" is derived from the Latin word "totalis", meaning "entire" or "complete". |
| Japanese | '合計' ('total') is a compound of '合' ('to combine') and '計' ('to calculate'). '計' can also mean 'plan', 'design', or 'plot', so '合計' can also be interpreted as 'sum of plans' or 'grand scheme'. |
| Javanese | In Javanese, "gunggunge" shares the same origin with "gung" (a big heap, mound), and can also mean "to gather" (people, animals, or things) |
| Kannada | "ಒಟ್ಟು" also refers to a group when used as a noun. |
| Kazakh | Барлығы is derived from the Old Turkic word "barlıq" meaning "everything" or "all". |
| Khmer | The word "សរុប" in Khmer also means "in brief" or "in summary". |
| Korean | The word "합계" ("total") in Korean also has the meaning of "addition" or "summation". |
| Kurdish | The word "hemî" in Kurdish, meaning "total," originates from the Proto-Indo-European root "*sm̥-," indicating "one," with cognates in various Indo-European languages. |
| Kyrgyz | Жалпы is also an older word for "army" and is used in expressions like "жакшы жалпы" meaning "good ruler" or "good army". |
| Latin | The Latin word "summa" also means "the highest point or degree". |
| Latvian | Latvian "kopā" originates from Lithuanian "kartu" and means "together". |
| Lithuanian | The word "viso" also means "whole" or "entire" in Lithuanian. |
| Luxembourgish | "Total" can also mean "very" or "completely" in Luxembourgish. |
| Macedonian | The word "вкупно" also means "together" and "in all". |
| Malagasy | The word "sokajy" in Malagasy is derived from the Arabic word "sukkār", which means "sugar" and is used as a term of endearment. |
| Malay | "Jumlah" can also refer to a congregation of people gathered for religious purposes. |
| Malayalam | "ആകെ" can also mean "altogether" in Malayalam. |
| Maltese | The word 'totali' in Maltese comes from the Italian word 'totale', which itself comes from the Latin word 'totus', meaning 'whole' or 'complete'. |
| Maori | The word "tapeke" can also mean "completely" or "utterly" in Māori. |
| Marathi | एकूण is derived from two Sanskrit words: एक ('one') and उण ('less'). |
| Mongolian | The word 'нийт' also means 'all' and 'everybody' in Mongolian. |
| Nepali | The word "कुल" can also mean lineage, family, caste, race, or group. |
| Norwegian | I Norge kan "total" også bety "å ødelegge". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "okwana" in Nyanja has origins in the word "kwanira," which means "sufficient" or "enough." |
| Pashto | The word ټوله also means "all" in Pashto. |
| Persian | The word جمع can also refer to "Friday" or "the act of collecting". |
| Polish | In Polish, "całkowity" derives from "cał", which means "whole", thus emphasizing its "complete" nature. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "total" in Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) also means "absolute", "complete", or "entire". |
| Punjabi | The word "ਕੁੱਲ" can also mean "entire", "complete", or "all" in Punjabi. |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "total" traces its roots to the Latin "totus", meaning "whole" or "complete," but it has also been influenced by the French "total," which can include the idea of a sum or a collective whole. |
| Russian | "Общее" is a Russian word meaning "total" that can also refer to "the common" and "the general". |
| Samoan | The word "aofaʻi" can also refer to a Samoan chant or a Samoan tapa (bark cloth) pattern. |
| Scots Gaelic | Iomlan comes from the Old Irish "imlán," meaning "full" or "complete." |
| Serbian | The word укупно may also refer to "the entirety" or "as a whole". |
| Sesotho | "Kakaretso" is also used figuratively to denote "completely" or "entirely". |
| Shona | The word "zvachose" can also refer to the concept of "the whole thing" or "the complete picture" in Shona. |
| Sindhi | Sindhi word “ڪل” can also mean |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The Sinhala word "මුළු" (total) also means "complete" or "entire". |
| Slovak | The word "Celkom" in Slovak is derived from the Proto-Slavic "*cělъ", meaning "whole", and is also cognate to the English "helm", meaning "a protective covering or headpiece". |
| Slovenian | The word "skupaj" is also used in Slovenian to mean "together" or "in total". |
| Somali | The word "wadar" in Somali can also mean "all" and "everything". |
| Spanish | La palabra "total" proviene del latín "totus", que significa "todo" o "completo" |
| Sundanese | In Sundanese, the word "total" can also mean "finish" or "complete". |
| Swahili | The Swahili word 'jumla' can also refer to a group of people or things, or to the totality of something. |
| Swedish | Derived from French, the word 'total' ('total') in Swedish has an alternate meaning of a 'gambling pool' or 'total sum'. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "kabuuan" in Tagalog can also refer to a "whole" or "entirety" of something, rather than just a numerical total. |
| Tajik | The Tajik word "ҳамагӣ" is derived from the Persian word "همگی" and originally meant "all", "together" or "completely". |
| Tamil | மொத்தம் originates from Tamil root 'Muttha' meaning 'to collect; gather'. It originally meant 'the end or a limit'. |
| Telugu | 'మొత్తం' is derived from the Sanskrit word 'मत्ता', which means 'intoxicated' or 'arrogant'. |
| Thai | Thai word 'รวม' can also mean collect, gather, or sum. |
| Turkish | The word "Toplam" in Turkish, meaning "total", is derived from the verb "toplamak" (to collect, to gather). |
| Ukrainian | Ukrainian word "усього" comes from the Proto-Slavic noun *vьsь, which also meant "all". |
| Urdu | In Urdu, "کل" is etymologically linked to the concept of "completion" and also has the meaning of "yesterday". |
| Uzbek | "Jami" is also used as a name for a collection of poems, such as a "divan". |
| Vietnamese | "Toàn bộ" is a Sino-Vietnamese word derived from the Chinese characters "全部" (quán bù), which means "the entire amount". |
| Welsh | "Cyfanswm" is a compound word, formed from the words "cyfan", meaning "all" or "whole", and "swm", meaning "sum". It can also be used in a more general sense to mean "total" or "overall"} |
| Xhosa | Zizonke' is derived from the verb 'zonka', meaning 'to complete', 'to finish' or 'to be enough'. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "גאַנץ" also translates to the English concept of the "whole" from the perspective of a holistic and complete entity and not solely quantity of parts. |
| Yoruba | The word "lapapọ" in Yoruba also means "completely" or "entirely". |
| Zulu | The Zulu word "okuphelele" is synonymous with "ukukwanele," meaning satisfaction, sufficiency, and adequacy, conveying a sense of fulfillment and completeness. |
| English | The word "total" is derived from the Latin word "totus," meaning "whole" or "entire." |