Universe in Different Languages
Discover 'Universe' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Universe
Afrikaans heelal | ||
Albanian universi | ||
Amharic አጽናፈ ሰማይ | ||
Arabic كون | ||
Armenian տիեզերք | ||
Assamese বিশ্বব্ৰহ্মাণ্ড | ||
Aymara universo ukax mä jach’a uñacht’äwiwa | ||
Azerbaijani kainat | ||
Bambara diɲɛ bɛɛ kɔnɔ | ||
Basque unibertsoa | ||
Belarusian сусвет | ||
Bengali বিশ্বব্রহ্মাণ্ড | ||
Bhojpuri ब्रह्मांड के बा | ||
Bosnian svemir | ||
Bulgarian вселена | ||
Catalan univers | ||
Cebuano uniberso | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 宇宙 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 宇宙 | ||
Corsican universu | ||
Croatian svemir | ||
Czech vesmír | ||
Danish univers | ||
Dhivehi ކައުނެވެ | ||
Dogri ब्रह्मांड दा | ||
Dutch universum | ||
English universe | ||
Esperanto universo | ||
Estonian universum | ||
Ewe xexeame katã | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) sansinukob | ||
Finnish maailmankaikkeus | ||
French univers | ||
Frisian hielal | ||
Galician universo | ||
Georgian სამყარო | ||
German universum | ||
Greek σύμπαν | ||
Guarani universo rehegua | ||
Gujarati બ્રહ્માંડ | ||
Haitian Creole linivè | ||
Hausa duniya | ||
Hawaiian ke ao holoʻokoʻa | ||
Hebrew עוֹלָם | ||
Hindi ब्रम्हांड | ||
Hmong ntug | ||
Hungarian világegyetem | ||
Icelandic alheimsins | ||
Igbo eluigwe na ala | ||
Ilocano uniberso | ||
Indonesian alam semesta | ||
Irish cruinne | ||
Italian universo | ||
Japanese 宇宙 | ||
Javanese jagad raya | ||
Kannada ಬ್ರಹ್ಮಾಂಡ | ||
Kazakh ғалам | ||
Khmer សកលលោក | ||
Kinyarwanda isanzure | ||
Konkani ब्रह्मांड हें नांव | ||
Korean 우주 | ||
Krio yunivas we de na di wɔl | ||
Kurdish ezman | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) گەردوون | ||
Kyrgyz аалам | ||
Lao ຈັກກະວານ | ||
Latin universum | ||
Latvian visums | ||
Lingala molɔ́ngɔ́ mobimba | ||
Lithuanian visata | ||
Luganda obutonde bwonna | ||
Luxembourgish universum | ||
Macedonian универзум | ||
Maithili ब्रह्माण्ड | ||
Malagasy izao rehetra izao | ||
Malay alam semesta | ||
Malayalam പ്രപഞ്ചം | ||
Maltese univers | ||
Maori ao | ||
Marathi विश्व | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯌꯨꯅꯤꯚꯔꯁ ꯑꯁꯤꯅꯤ꯫ | ||
Mizo universe a ni | ||
Mongolian орчлон ертөнц | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) စကြဝာ | ||
Nepali ब्रह्माण्ड | ||
Norwegian univers | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) chilengedwe chonse | ||
Odia (Oriya) ବ୍ରହ୍ମାଣ୍ଡ | ||
Oromo yuunivarsiitii | ||
Pashto کائنات | ||
Persian کائنات | ||
Polish wszechświat | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) universo | ||
Punjabi ਬ੍ਰਹਿਮੰਡ | ||
Quechua universo nisqa | ||
Romanian univers | ||
Russian вселенная | ||
Samoan atulaulau | ||
Sanskrit विश्वम् | ||
Scots Gaelic leth-chruinne | ||
Sepedi legohle | ||
Serbian универзум | ||
Sesotho bokahohle | ||
Shona zvakasikwa | ||
Sindhi ڪائنات | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) විශ්වය | ||
Slovak vesmír | ||
Slovenian vesolje | ||
Somali caalamka | ||
Spanish universo | ||
Sundanese jagat raya | ||
Swahili ulimwengu | ||
Swedish universum | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) sansinukob | ||
Tajik коинот | ||
Tamil பிரபஞ்சம் | ||
Tatar галәм | ||
Telugu విశ్వం | ||
Thai จักรวาล | ||
Tigrinya ኣድማስ ምዃኑ’ዩ። | ||
Tsonga vuako hinkwabyo | ||
Turkish evren | ||
Turkmen älem | ||
Twi (Akan) amansan no mu | ||
Ukrainian всесвіт | ||
Urdu کائنات | ||
Uyghur كائىنات | ||
Uzbek koinot | ||
Vietnamese vũ trụ | ||
Welsh bydysawd | ||
Xhosa iphela | ||
Yiddish אַלוועלט | ||
Yoruba agbaye | ||
Zulu indawo yonke |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "heelal" derives from the Dutch word "heelal", which in turn derives from the Latin word "totum", meaning "everything". Thus, the Afrikaans word "heelal" retains the original meaning of "everything", encompassing all of space and time. |
| Albanian | In Albanian, "universi" shares its etymology with "univers" in Latin, which meant "the whole world" or "everything". |
| Amharic | In Ge'ez, the word "አጽናፈ ሰማይ" refers to "the heavens" or "sky overhead". |
| Arabic | The Arabic word "كون" also means "being" or "existence" and is derived from the root word "كان" meaning "to be." |
| Armenian | The Armenian word տիեզերք comes from the Greek word κόσμος, which means "order" or "world". This meaning is still present in the Armenian word, as it refers to the "orderly arrangement of the universe". In addition, տիեզերք can also refer to the "physical universe" or the "realm of the cosmos". |
| Azerbaijani | The word "kainat" in Azerbaijani is derived from Arabic, and can also refer to the "order" or "system" of the world. |
| Basque | This term is coined from Latin terms 'unus' and 'versus' meaning 'one' and 'turning' respectively, hence 'a single verse' or 'a single turning'. |
| Belarusian | "Сусвет" originally meant only "light" or "world of light" in Old Belarusian, and its meaning gradually expanded in the 15th century. |
| Bengali | The word "বিশ্বব্রহ্মাণ্ড" is derived from Sanskrit and literally means "all-expansive" or "cosmic egg". |
| Bosnian | The word "svemir" comes from the Proto-Slavic word *světъ, meaning "light" or "world". |
| Bulgarian | Вселена comes from the Slavic word for "all" and "world" and is sometimes used to refer to a person's personal space. |
| Catalan | In Catalan, "univers" also means "university". |
| Cebuano | The Cebuano word "uniberso" is derived from the Spanish word "universo", which in turn comes from the Latin word "universum", meaning "the whole world" or "everything". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | In Chinese, the word "宇宙" ("universe") originally meant "everything under the sky" and later came to mean the entire cosmos. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | “宇宙” means both “universe” and, in its original meaning, referring to the four directions: 東(east), 西(west), 南(south), and 北(north). |
| Corsican | In Corsican, "universu" is similar to the word for "universe" in other Romance languages, coming from the Latin "universum" meaning "all, the whole." |
| Croatian | The word 'svemir' can also refer to 'outer space' or the 'cosmos' |
| Czech | The word "vesmír" (universe) is also used in the sense of "all things", or "the whole of something" |
| Danish | In Danish, the word "univers" can also mean "world" or "cosmos". |
| Dutch | 'Universum' in Dutch can also mean 'university', which is a loanword from the French word 'université', which itself originates from the Latin word 'universitas'. |
| Esperanto | "Universo" derives from the Latin word "universus" which means "turned into one" or "everything together". |
| Estonian | "Universum" in Estonian comes from the Latin word "universitas", meaning "a whole", "totality", or "set of all things." |
| Finnish | "Maailmankaikkeus" is a compound of "maailma" (world) and "kaikkeus" (allness), so it literally means "all-world", or "all that is". |
| French | The French word "univers" originally meant "all that exists" and was used to refer to both the physical world and the realm of ideas. |
| Frisian | "Hielal" may have originated from proto-Germanic, but it also appears in Old English and Old Norse, where it refers to a "hidden" world or the underworld. |
| Galician | The Galician word "universo" derives from the Latin "universus", meaning "the whole" or "all things." |
| Georgian | The word "სამყარო" is derived from the Proto-Kartvelian word "*samqaro", meaning "wall", and has the alternate meaning of "world". |
| German | In Latin, "Universum" means the sum or totality, and may also refer to the entire world as a single place. |
| Greek | The word "σύμπαν" in Greek stems from "συν" (together) and "πας" (all), forming "συμπας" and then "σύμπαν", referring to the totality of all that exists. |
| Gujarati | The word "બ્રહ્માંડ" comes from the Sanskrit words "ब्रह्म्" (Brahm) meaning "all" and "आण्ड" (Aand) meaning "the egg of existence" or "cosmic egg". The term "cosmic egg" refers to the Hindu mythology in which the universe is believed to have originated from a "golden egg" of Prajapati, the creator deity. |
| Haitian Creole | "Linivè", or "l'univers" in French, comes from "linivèsel", the Haitian Creole word for "universal". |
| Hausa | "Duniya" also means "world", "earth" and "life" in Hausa. |
| Hawaiian | In Hawaiian, the term "ke ao holoʻokoʻa" not only encompasses the physical universe, but also represents the totality of existence, including the spiritual and ancestral realms. |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "עוֹלָם" (olam) can also mean "hidden" or "eternal". |
| Hmong | The word "ntug" derives from the Proto-Hmong-Mien word "*ntuk" meaning "world". |
| Hungarian | The word "világegyetem" is a compound word consisting of "világ" (world) and "egyetem" (unit), conveying the sense of a single, all-encompassing unit that contains everything that exists. |
| Icelandic | It literally means "all the worlds", from "heimr" ("world") and "all". |
| Igbo | The Igbo word "eluigwe na ala" translates to "the sky and the earth" and is derived from the words "eluigwe" (sky) and "ala" (earth). |
| Indonesian | The term 'alam semesta' is literally translated as 'the spread-out world' and implies the totality of existence. |
| Irish | The Irish word "cruinne" can also refer to a circle, globe, or sphere. |
| Italian | The Italian word "universo" is derived from the Latin word "universus", meaning "all things turned into one" or "the whole world". |
| Japanese | "宇宙" also means "outer space" in Japanese. |
| Javanese | "Jagad raya" in Javanese also means "everything" |
| Kannada | ಬ್ರಹ್ಮಾಂಡ' refers to the cosmic egg or the womb of the creator god Brahma in Hindu cosmology. |
| Kazakh | "Ғалам," meaning universe, originally meant "a large room." Similarly, its Arabic and Persian cognates refer to both "room" and world. |
| Khmer | សកលលោក, the Khmer word for 'universe,' comes from Sanskrit and literally means 'all-world' or 'all-things.' |
| Korean | "우주" originally meant a house or room, which later came to mean the universe as the place where everything exists. |
| Kurdish | As a noun, 'ezman' can mean either 'time' or 'universe' depending on context. |
| Kyrgyz | The word "аалам" in Kyrgyz language is also used to refer to the world or the environment. |
| Lao | The word จักกะวัน is also used by Laotian astronomers with the meaning of "horizon", as a synonym for the technical Lao phrase ขอบฟ้า. |
| Latin | In Latin, the word "universum" encompasses not only the physical cosmos but also all things existing as a singular, unified entity. |
| Latvian | The word "Visums" can also mean "all things" or "the whole world" in Latvian. |
| Lithuanian | "Visata" is derived from the verb "vysti," meaning "to unfold" or "to open up," suggesting the idea of the universe as an expanding or unfolding entity. |
| Luxembourgish | In Luxembourgish, the word "Universum" can also mean "all-encompassing whole", referring to a universal concept or idea. |
| Macedonian | The word "универзум" in Macedonian comes from the Latin word "universus", meaning "the whole world". |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "izao rehetra izao" also conveys the concept of "everything that exists," embodying the totality of all things. |
| Malay | In Malay, "Alam semesta" translates to "universe," but its constituent words "alam" (world) and "semesta" (all) can also refer to a collection or system of objects that form a whole. |
| Malayalam | In Malayalam, the word "പ്രപഞ്ചം" is a combination of "പ്ര" (pra), meaning "forward" or "before," and "പഞ്च" (pancha), meaning "five," referring to the five elements (earth, water, fire, air, and ether) believed to make up the universe in ancient Indian philosophy. |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "univers" derives from the Latin "universus" and originally meant "entire" or "complete". |
| Maori | "Ao" in Maori can also mean "space, time, light, life, or the visible world." |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word "орчлон ертөнц" literally translates to "surrounding world" or "the whole world". |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The word "စကြဝါ" can also mean "horizon" or "the edge of the world" in Myanmar (Burmese). |
| Nepali | The word 'ब्रह्माण्ड' (universe) in Nepali derives from the Sanskrit word 'ब्रह्माण्ड' (universe) and is composed of the words 'ब्रह्मा' (Brahma, the creator god in Hinduism) and 'अण्ड' (egg), thus conveying the concept of the universe as an 'egg' created by Brahma. |
| Norwegian | The Norwegian word "univers" originated from the Latin word "universus," meaning "turned into one" or "everything together." |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "chilengedwe chonse" literally means "everything that has been created" in Nyanja. |
| Pashto | The word "کائنات" in Pashto can also refer to "nature" or "environment". |
| Persian | In Persian, "کائنات" can also refer to all that exists or is possible, encompassing both the physical and metaphysical realms. |
| Polish | The word "wszechświat" is derived from the Old Slavonic "vьsь" ("all") and "svět" ("light", "world"), meaning "all light" or "all the world". It can also mean "the whole world" |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | "Universo": Originated from the Latin, "universum," which means "a totality". |
| Romanian | In Romanian, "univers" also means "university" or "whole world" in some contexts. |
| Russian | The word "вселенная" originally referred to the totality of all things, including humans and their environment. |
| Samoan | The word 'atulaulau' may also refer to the 'whole earth' |
| Scots Gaelic | "Leth-chruinne" can also mean "half of the world" or "the world in general." |
| Serbian | The word "универзум" is derived from the Latin word "universum", which means "all things" or "the whole world". |
| Sesotho | Boholo means big, and bophelo means life. |
| Shona | "Zvakasikwa" is a Shona word that shares the same etymological root with "kusika", meaning "to create", and "sika", meaning "something created". It can also mean "nature" or "the world". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "Vishvaya" (විශ්වය) is ultimately derived from the Sanskrit word "Visva" (विश्व), which means "all", "entire", or "whole". |
| Slovak | The Slovak word "vesmír" also means "cosmos" or "space". |
| Slovenian | The word "vesolje" comes from the Proto-Slavic word "vьsъ", meaning "all", and the Proto-Slavic suffix "-je", meaning "place". |
| Somali | "Caalamka" stems from the Arabic word "`ālam", which also means "world" or "realm". |
| Spanish | The word "universo" can also mean "everything" or "the whole world" in Spanish. |
| Sundanese | The word "jagat raya" in Sundanese literally means "world of light". |
| Swahili | The word "ulimwengu" has the alternate meanings of "all matters" and "the inhabited world". |
| Swedish | The Swedish word "universum" originally meant "the entirety of all things that are" and was used to describe the material and spiritual world. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "sansinukob" in Tagalog is derived from the root word "sinukob", which means "enclosure" or "container". |
| Tajik | The word “коинōт” is of Greek origin and means “common”. |
| Telugu | The word "విశ్వం" (visvam) is derived from the Sanskrit word "Vish", meaning "all" or "everything". |
| Thai | "จักรวาล" (universe) derives from "จักร" (wheel) and "วาล" (a cycle); it means a "continuously rotating wheel" or "cycle of existence." |
| Turkish | The word "Evren" also means "complete" or "whole" in Turkish, indicating the totality of existence. |
| Ukrainian | The word "Всесвіт" is derived from the Slavic root "свет" (svět), meaning "light" or "world", and the prefix "все" (vse), meaning "all". |
| Urdu | "کائنات" means 'universe' but may also refer to various levels of existence. In Persian mythology, it is the name of a mythical land. |
| Uzbek | In Uzbek, "koinot" also means "community" or "village". |
| Vietnamese | "Vũ trụ" refers to a single thread of cosmic energy and also to the cosmos in general. |
| Welsh | The word "bydysawd" may also refer to the "world", the "cosmos", or the "natural order". |
| Xhosa | "Ipela" also encompasses meanings like space, outer space, the sky, the ether, the cosmos and the void in Xhosa. |
| Yiddish | In Yiddish, “אַלוועלט” is sometimes used in a wider sense, such as the entirety of creation. |
| Yoruba | 'Àgbáyé', meaning 'universe', has an additional connotation signifying 'the gathering of all that was born' |
| Zulu | The Zulu word 'indawo yonke' means 'place of everything' and is sometimes translated as 'cosmos' in English. |
| English | The term 'universe' can refer to the entirety of space and time or to a specific, smaller, world or realm. |