Afrikaans geweldig | ||
Albanian e jashtëzakonshme | ||
Amharic እጅግ በጣም ትልቅ | ||
Arabic هائل | ||
Armenian ահռելի | ||
Assamese প্ৰচণ্ড | ||
Aymara jach'a | ||
Azerbaijani böyük | ||
Bambara dákabana | ||
Basque izugarria | ||
Belarusian велізарнае | ||
Bengali অসাধারণ | ||
Bhojpuri अद्भुत | ||
Bosnian strašan | ||
Bulgarian огромен | ||
Catalan tremend | ||
Cebuano dako kaayo | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 巨大 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 巨大 | ||
Corsican tremendu | ||
Croatian strašan | ||
Czech obrovský | ||
Danish enorm | ||
Dhivehi ބައިވަރު | ||
Dogri डरौना | ||
Dutch enorm | ||
English tremendous | ||
Esperanto terura | ||
Estonian tohutu | ||
Ewe si lolo ŋutɔ | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) napakalaking | ||
Finnish valtava | ||
French énorme | ||
Frisian enoarm | ||
Galician tremendo | ||
Georgian უზარმაზარი | ||
German enorm | ||
Greek καταπληκτικός | ||
Guarani andu tuicha | ||
Gujarati જબરદસ્ત | ||
Haitian Creole fòmidab | ||
Hausa mai girma | ||
Hawaiian pīhoihoi | ||
Hebrew עָצוּם | ||
Hindi भयानक | ||
Hmong zoo kawg li | ||
Hungarian óriási | ||
Icelandic gífurlegur | ||
Igbo ukwuu | ||
Ilocano nakaro | ||
Indonesian dahsyat | ||
Irish iontach | ||
Italian tremendo | ||
Japanese ものすごい | ||
Javanese sanget | ||
Kannada ಪ್ರಚಂಡ | ||
Kazakh орасан зор | ||
Khmer យ៉ាងខ្លាំង | ||
Kinyarwanda bitangaje | ||
Konkani प्रचंड | ||
Korean 거대한 | ||
Krio wɔndaful | ||
Kurdish pir mezin | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) مەزن | ||
Kyrgyz зор | ||
Lao ຢ່າງຫຼວງຫຼາຍ | ||
Latin tremendous | ||
Latvian milzīgs | ||
Lingala makasi | ||
Lithuanian milžiniškas | ||
Luganda kingi nyo | ||
Luxembourgish enorm | ||
Macedonian огромна | ||
Maithili अद्भुत | ||
Malagasy lehibe | ||
Malay luar biasa | ||
Malayalam വമ്പിച്ച | ||
Maltese tremenda | ||
Maori tino rawe | ||
Marathi प्रचंड | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯃꯁꯤꯡ ꯌꯥꯝꯕ | ||
Mizo nasa tak | ||
Mongolian асар их | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ကြီးမားတဲ့ | ||
Nepali अथाह | ||
Norwegian enormt | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) zazikulu | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଜବରଦସ୍ତ | ||
Oromo hedduu | ||
Pashto دروند | ||
Persian عظیم | ||
Polish ogromny | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) tremendo | ||
Punjabi ਬਹੁਤ ਜ਼ਿਆਦਾ | ||
Quechua hatun hatun | ||
Romanian extraordinar | ||
Russian потрясающий | ||
Samoan maoae | ||
Sanskrit प्रचंड | ||
Scots Gaelic uamhasach | ||
Sepedi kgolo kudu | ||
Serbian страшан | ||
Sesotho e hlollang | ||
Shona zvikuru | ||
Sindhi زبردست | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) අති විශාලයි | ||
Slovak ohromný | ||
Slovenian izjemno | ||
Somali aad u weyn | ||
Spanish tremendo | ||
Sundanese rongkah | ||
Swahili kubwa sana | ||
Swedish enorm | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) napakalaking | ||
Tajik азим | ||
Tamil மிகப்பெரியது | ||
Tatar гаять зур | ||
Telugu విపరీతమైనది | ||
Thai มหาศาล | ||
Tigrinya ኣዝዩ ዘደንቕ | ||
Tsonga leswikulu | ||
Turkish muazzam | ||
Turkmen ullakan | ||
Twi (Akan) nwanwasoɔ | ||
Ukrainian приголомшливий | ||
Urdu زبردست | ||
Uyghur غايەت زور | ||
Uzbek ulkan | ||
Vietnamese to lớn | ||
Welsh aruthrol | ||
Xhosa engummangaliso | ||
Yiddish געוואלדיק | ||
Yoruba pupo | ||
Zulu okukhulu kakhulu |
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "geweldig" comes from the Dutch word "geweldig", meaning "mighty" or "awful". |
| Amharic | The word "tremendous" comes from the Latin word "tremendus," which means "trembling" or "fearful." |
| Arabic | "هائل" in Arabic also means "huge" or "vast". |
| Armenian | The word "ահռելի" in Armenian derives from the root "ahrr", meaning "fear", indicating its connotation of "awe-inspiring". |
| Azerbaijani | "Böyük" can also mean "big" or "large" in Azerbaijani. |
| Basque | "Izugarria" in Basque comes from the verb "izhutu" (shrink or collapse) and the suffix "-garri" (causing), thus meaning "causing collapse." |
| Belarusian | The word "велізарнае" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word "*velikъ", meaning "great". |
| Bengali | In Sanskrit, "असाधारण" (asādhāraṇa) is an adjective meaning "extraordinary, unusual, or uncommon." |
| Bosnian | "Strašan" also means "terrible" and "awful" in Bosnian. |
| Bulgarian | The Bulgarian word "огромен" is a borrowing from Russian, where it means "huge" or "enormous". |
| Catalan | 'tremend' in Catalan is derived from the Latin word 'tremendus', meaning 'trembling' or 'fearsome'. In modern Catalan, it has additional meanings such as 'wonderful' or 'great'. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "巨大" is composed of "巨" (a person of great size) and "大" (large). |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The word "巨大" also means "monstrous," "abnormal," "gigantic," or "unnecessarily large." |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "tremendu" also means "terrible" or "fearsome". |
| Croatian | "Strašan" in Croatian shares its root with "strah" (fear), and originally meant "fearsome" or "terrible". |
| Czech | In Old Czech, the term obrovský meant a giant or a supernatural being. |
| Danish | The Danish word "enorm" is derived from the Latin word "enormis", meaning "huge" or "monstrous". |
| Dutch | In Dutch, "enorm" also means "monstrous" or "abnormal." |
| Esperanto | The word "terura" also means "terrible" or "dreadful". |
| Estonian | In Proto-Finnic, "tohutu" meant "unfamiliar", while the Proto-Sami cognate meant "wilderness". |
| Finnish | The Finnish word "valtava" not only means "tremendous" but also "huge" and "mighty". |
| French | The word "énorme" comes from the Latin word "enormis," which means "out of the norm" or "monstrous." |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "enoarm" comes from the Old Frisian word "ôg", meaning "great", and "earm", meaning "arm". It was used to describe something so large or powerful that it could only be held or wielded by a giant. |
| Galician | En Galician, “tremendo” means “tremendous” but it also means fearsome, terrifying, or awful. |
| German | The German word "enorm" derives from the Latin word "enormis," which means "exceptional" or "deviating from the norm." |
| Greek | "καταπληκτικός" comes from the Greek roots "κατα-" (down) and "πληκτικός" (striking), and can also mean "astounding" or "amazing". |
| Gujarati | "જબરદસ્ત" is derived from the Arabic word "jabr", meaning "compulsion", and "dast", meaning "hand", and originally meant "compulsory" or "forceful". |
| Haitian Creole | The Haitian Creole word 'fòmidab' derives from the archaic French word 'formidable' and also means 'formidable', 'awesome' and 'impressive' |
| Hausa | "Mai girma" in Hausa is a compound word derived from "mai", meaning "owner or possessor," and "girma," which can mean "magnitude, importance, size, or stature." |
| Hawaiian | The word “pīhoihoi” also means “to spin” or “to whirl” and is derived from the sound made when whipping someone with a club or flail. |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "עָצוּם" (atsùm) originally meant "closed" or "shut", and only later came to mean "tremendous". Its singular use is also uncommon, with the plural form "עֲצוּמִים" (atsumim) used more frequently. |
| Hindi | In Hindi, the word "भयानक" ("bhayaanak") conveys a sense of vastness, terror, and awe, similar to the connotation of "tremendous" in English. |
| Hmong | The term "zoo kawg li" is also used to describe a person who is very large or bulky. |
| Hungarian | "óriás" is cognate to the word "giant" and comes from the Hungarian word "őr", meaning guard. |
| Icelandic | The first part comes from "gif" (meaning a present) and refers to the great value of having such power. |
| Igbo | The word "ukwuu" can also refer to a measure of volume, approximately equivalent to a gallon. |
| Indonesian | "Dahsyat" originally meant "great" or "magnificent" in Sanskrit and is related to the English word "dazzle." |
| Irish | The word "iontach" in Irish shares the same root as the word "enthusiasm" in English, both ultimately derived from the Greek "enthousiasmos" meaning "divine inspiration." |
| Italian | In Italian, tremendo is considered to be the superlative of buono (good), but its meaning is often negative when used to describe events or situations. |
| Japanese | The word "ものすごい" (monosugoi) is derived from the verb "ものす (monosu)", which means "to be amazed" or "to be surprised". |
| Javanese | "Sanget" also means "so" or "very" in everyday Javanese, although "maten" is more common for the latter. |
| Kannada | The word "ಪ್ರಚಂಡ" (pracanda) comes from the Sanskrit root "prachanda", meaning "violent" or "furious". |
| Kazakh | The word "орасан зор" can also mean "huge" or "gigantic". |
| Khmer | Also means: very much, extremely, greatly. |
| Korean | The word "거대한" is ultimately derived from the Old Korean word "거히다", meaning "to swell" or "to be big". |
| Kurdish | "Pir mezin" means "great" or "huge" in Kurdish. It is composed of the words "pir" (great) and "mezin" (big). |
| Kyrgyz | The word "зор" can also refer to a large amount or a huge quantity. |
| Latin | In Latin, "tremendus" means "causing trembling or fear," and is related to "tremor" (trembling) and "horror" (terror). |
| Latvian | "Milzīgs" derives from either the Slavic word "milž" meaning "giant" or the Germanic "milz" meaning "spleen". |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word "milžiniškas" comes from the word "milžinas," meaning "giant." |
| Luxembourgish | The word 'enorm' in Luxembourgish is derived from 'enormen' in German, which came into Dutch as 'enorm', later entering the Luxembourgish dialect. |
| Macedonian | The Macedonian word "огромна" is derived from the Old Church Slavonic word "ogromъ", which means "huge" or "vast" in size. |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "lehibe" comes from the Proto-Austronesian word "libes," meaning "big" or "giant." |
| Malay | "Luar biasa" is literally "outside of the normal" in Malay. |
| Malayalam | The word "വമ്പിച്ച" ("tremendous") is etymologically related to "വമ്പന്" ("great"), and can also mean "great" or "large" in certain contexts. |
| Maltese | The Maltese word 'tremenda' is derived from the Latin 'tremendum', meaning 'terrible' or 'formidable'. |
| Maori | The Maori word "tino rawe" refers to something raw, natural, or untouched, not only in the physical sense but also in the metaphysical sense. |
| Marathi | The Sanskrit origin of "प्रचंड" suggests "spreading over a large area," "very large or powerful," or "overpowering," adding nuance beyond "tremendous." |
| Mongolian | In Mongolian, the word 'асар их' can also refer to something that is 'very heavy' or 'difficult to move'. |
| Nepali | The word "अथाह" comes from the Sanskrit word "अथ", meaning "now". It originally meant "without a beginning or end". |
| Norwegian | "Enorm" derives from Latin "enormis" which meant both monstrous or extraordinary in size and later came to generally mean something as "deviating from the normal. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word 'zazikulu' can also be used to describe something that is very big or very difficult. |
| Pashto | The word "دروند" is also used to describe a person who is very generous and kind, especially to the poor and needy. |
| Persian | The word "عظیم" is derived from the Arabic root "عظم" meaning "bone" or "strength". |
| Polish | The word 'ogromny' is derived from the Proto-Slavic word 'ogъromъ', which meant 'huge' or 'great'. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | "Tremendo" in Portuguese also means "earthquake" or "shaking", and in Brazil, it can also mean "awesome" or "very good." |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "extraordinar" has its origins in the Latin word "extraordinarius", which means "beyond the ordinary". |
| Russian | The Russian word "потрясающий" can also mean "shocking" or "stunning". |
| Samoan | "Maoae" is also used when people or objects are of enormous numbers. |
| Scots Gaelic | "Uamhasach" derives from "uamh," meaning "cave," possibly due to the sense of awe inspired by large caves. |
| Serbian | The word "страшан" comes from the Proto-Slavic word "*strašьnъ", which meant "terrible" or "fearful". |
| Sesotho | The Sesotho word "e hlollang" can also mean "to be very tall" or "to be very large". |
| Shona | "Zvikuru" is derived from the Shona word "kukura", meaning "to grow", and is related to the words "kuru" (big) and "kuruka" (to become big). |
| Sindhi | The word "زبردست" in Sindhi also means "expert" or "skillful". |
| Slovak | The word "ohromný" in Slovak also means "huge" or "majestic". |
| Slovenian | In Serbo-Croatian and Montenegrin, **izjemno** means ‘extremely.’ |
| Somali | The word "aad u weyn" can also refer to something that is "very large" or "great". |
| Spanish | The Spanish word "tremendo" is cognate with the English word "trembling" and can also mean "terrible" or "extraordinary". |
| Sundanese | "Rongkah" can also refer to a piece of wood or metal that is used to hold something in place, such as a wedge. |
| Swahili | "Kubwa sana", meaning "tremendous" in Swahili, comes from the root word "kubwa" meaning "big" or "great", and the intensifier "sana" meaning "very" or "much". |
| Swedish | Enorm originally referred to the Scandinavian goddess of life and vegetation |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Napakalaking" is composed of "napakala-", which is the superlative particle, and "laki", which means "to be big". |
| Tajik | The word "азим" in Tajik, meaning "tremendous," is derived from the Arabic word "عظيم," which also means "great" or "magnificent." |
| Tamil | மிகப்பெரியது (mikapriyatuth) is not related to the adjective `பெரியது` (periyathu). It is actually a corrupt loanword from the Arabic `Mukabbirath` (the One who makes or brings about greatness), the title of an Islamic religious official. |
| Thai | "มหาศาล" (Maha-san) comes from the Sanskrit words "maha" (great) and "sasana" (commandment), and can also mean "temple" or "sacred place". |
| Turkish | The word "muazzam" originated from the Arabic word "azzama," meaning "to make important". In Turkish, it is also used to describe something very beautiful or impressive. |
| Ukrainian | "Приголомшливий" in Ukrainian is also used to describe something unexpected or overwhelming. |
| Urdu | The word "زبردست" in Urdu, meaning "tremendous," shares its ultimate origin with the Persian word "زبردست" meaning "masterful". |
| Uzbek | The word "ulkan" is derived from the Proto-Turkic word "*ulγan", meaning "big" or "great". |
| Vietnamese | "To lớn" is an adjective in Vietnamese that means "grow up" or "become bigger". It is also used as a noun to refer to the process of growing up or becoming bigger. |
| Welsh | The word "aruthrol" is a reduplicated form of the word "ruthrol", both meaning "great". |
| Xhosa | The word 'engummangaliso' in Xhosa is derived from the word 'umangaliso', which means 'miracle' or 'wonder', and is often used to express a sense of awe or amazement. |
| Yiddish | The word "געוואלדיק" (gevaldik) in Yiddish has a range of meanings, including "overwhelming," "awesome," and "terrible," depending on context. |
| Yoruba | Pupo is also the name of a type of Yoruba drum which is used to communicate from a distance. |
| Zulu | "Okukhulu kakhulu" (tremendous) literally means "very big" or "very much" in Zulu. |
| English | The Old French 'tremendus' and Latin 'tremendus' originate from 'tremere,' meaning 'to tremble or shake.' |