Value in Different Languages
Discover 'Value' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Value
Afrikaans waarde | ||
Albanian vlera | ||
Amharic እሴት | ||
Arabic القيمة | ||
Armenian արժեք | ||
Assamese মান | ||
Aymara walura | ||
Azerbaijani dəyər | ||
Bambara nafama | ||
Basque balioa | ||
Belarusian значэнне | ||
Bengali মান | ||
Bhojpuri कीमत | ||
Bosnian vrijednost | ||
Bulgarian стойност | ||
Catalan valor | ||
Cebuano bili | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 值 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 值 | ||
Corsican valore | ||
Croatian vrijednost | ||
Czech hodnota | ||
Danish værdi | ||
Dhivehi އަގު | ||
Dogri मुल्ल | ||
Dutch waarde | ||
English value | ||
Esperanto valoro | ||
Estonian väärtus | ||
Ewe asixᴐxᴐ | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) halaga | ||
Finnish arvo | ||
French valeur | ||
Frisian wearde | ||
Galician valor | ||
Georgian ღირებულება | ||
German wert | ||
Greek αξία | ||
Guarani hepykue | ||
Gujarati કિંમત | ||
Haitian Creole valè | ||
Hausa darajar | ||
Hawaiian waiwai | ||
Hebrew ערך | ||
Hindi मूल्य | ||
Hmong tus nqi | ||
Hungarian érték | ||
Icelandic gildi | ||
Igbo uru | ||
Ilocano pateg | ||
Indonesian nilai | ||
Irish luach | ||
Italian valore | ||
Japanese 値 | ||
Javanese regane | ||
Kannada ಮೌಲ್ಯ | ||
Kazakh мәні | ||
Khmer តម្លៃ | ||
Kinyarwanda agaciro | ||
Konkani मोल | ||
Korean 값 | ||
Krio valyu | ||
Kurdish giranî | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) بەها | ||
Kyrgyz мааниси | ||
Lao ມູນຄ່າ | ||
Latin valorem | ||
Latvian vērtība | ||
Lingala motuya | ||
Lithuanian vertė | ||
Luganda omuwendo | ||
Luxembourgish wäert | ||
Macedonian вредност | ||
Maithili मूल्य | ||
Malagasy zava-dehibe | ||
Malay nilai | ||
Malayalam മൂല്യം | ||
Maltese valur | ||
Maori uara | ||
Marathi मूल्य | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯃꯝꯜ | ||
Mizo hlutna | ||
Mongolian үнэ цэнэ | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) တန်ဖိုး | ||
Nepali मान | ||
Norwegian verdi | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kufunika | ||
Odia (Oriya) ମୂଲ୍ୟ | ||
Oromo gatii | ||
Pashto ارزښت | ||
Persian مقدار | ||
Polish wartość | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) valor | ||
Punjabi ਮੁੱਲ | ||
Quechua chanin | ||
Romanian valoare | ||
Russian значение | ||
Samoan taua | ||
Sanskrit मूल्यम् | ||
Scots Gaelic luach | ||
Sepedi boleng | ||
Serbian вредност | ||
Sesotho boleng | ||
Shona kukosha | ||
Sindhi قدر | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) අගය | ||
Slovak hodnotu | ||
Slovenian vrednost | ||
Somali qiimaha | ||
Spanish valor | ||
Sundanese nilai | ||
Swahili thamani | ||
Swedish värde | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) halaga | ||
Tajik арзиш | ||
Tamil மதிப்பு | ||
Tatar кыйммәт | ||
Telugu విలువ | ||
Thai มูลค่า | ||
Tigrinya ዋጋ | ||
Tsonga nkoka | ||
Turkish değer | ||
Turkmen bahasy | ||
Twi (Akan) boɔ | ||
Ukrainian значення | ||
Urdu قدر | ||
Uyghur قىممىتى | ||
Uzbek qiymat | ||
Vietnamese giá trị | ||
Welsh gwerth | ||
Xhosa ixabiso | ||
Yiddish ווערט | ||
Yoruba iye | ||
Zulu inani |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Albanian | The Albanian word "vlera" also means "worth" and originates from the Latin word "valere" meaning "to be strong, to be worth". |
| Arabic | In its original sense, القيمة denoted "amount of money" or "price." |
| Armenian | In Armenian, the word "արժեք" originally referred to worth, or price, but came to signify spiritual or aesthetic value as well, which is often contrasted with the related word "գին" (price or value in the purely monetary sense). |
| Azerbaijani | The word "dəyər" derives from the Persian word "deger", meaning "prize" or "payment". It also has a spiritual connotation, referring to the worth or quality of something. |
| Basque | In one of its oldest meanings, the word "balioa" referred to the quality of being fertile or productive, both in the physical and the intellectual sense. |
| Bengali | The word মান (maan) in Bengali can also refer to "pride" or "prestige." |
| Bosnian | The word 'vrijednost' can also refer to 'dignity' or 'esteem'. |
| Bulgarian | The Bulgarian "стойност" comes from the Proto-Slavic "stoiti", itself a contraction of PIE stem *steh_2 meaning "to set up and to value". |
| Catalan | In Catalan, "valor" derives from the Latin "valere" and shares a root with words like "valid" and "validity". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "值" is derived from "值事", meaning "being in charge of", and also has the meaning of "a unit of measure" and "a person holding a certain official position". |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 值 (zhí) is also an abbreviation for "special value" (特值 tèzhí). |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "valore" can also mean "courage" or "bravery". |
| Croatian | The Croatian word 'vrijednost' is derived from the Proto-Slavic 'vьrdъ', meaning 'worth', 'price', or 'value'. |
| Czech | The word "hodnota" derives from the Proto-Slavic word "*godъ", meaning "year" or "time", suggesting that its original meaning was "worth" or "importance" in the sense of its duration or significance over time. |
| Danish | "Værdi" is a borrowing from Middle Low German "werte," meaning "price" or "worth." |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "waarde" also means "dignity" and derives from the Old Frankish word "werthan," meaning "to cost" or "to be worth." |
| Esperanto | "Valoro" is a loanword from Latin "valor", which also means courage. |
| Estonian | The Estonian word "väärtus" can also mean "merit" or "virtue" in English. |
| Finnish | Arvo also refers to the afternoon and has cognates in the Finnic Estonian (väärtus), Karelian (arvo) and Veps (varv), as well as in Mordvinic and Mari languages |
| French | "Valeur" shares a common etymology with "valere" ("to be worth, to have strength, to have courage"), and its meaning has expanded from physical to moral and intellectual domains. |
| Frisian | Frisian "wearde" can carry connotations of respect or regard when describing people. |
| Galician | In Galician, the word "valor" can also refer to bravery, strength, and courage, which are all qualities associated with heroism. |
| German | The German word "Wert" also means "worth" or "dignity" and is related to the English word "worth". |
| Greek | "Αξία" originates from the Greek verb "ἄγω" (ágo), meaning "to lead" or "to bring". |
| Gujarati | The word “કિંમત” (kimat) in Gujarati is derived from the Sanskrit word “krī” (to buy), and is related to the word “ક્રેતૃ” (kretu), meaning “buyer”, both of which are derived from the same root as the Hindi word “कीमत” (keemat). |
| Haitian Creole | Valè is a homophone with a different meaning depending on the intonation used. |
| Hausa | It also refers to a person's rank, social standing or worth. |
| Hawaiian | The Hawaiian word "waiwai" can also refer to "wealth," "property," or "possessions". |
| Hebrew | In Hebrew, "ערך" may also refer to the numerical value assigned to a letter in the Hebrew alphabet. |
| Hindi | The Hindi word "मूल्य" (value) is derived from its underlying root "मूल" ( मूल "root"), implying something fundamental and essential. |
| Hmong | The word "tus nqi" can also refer to the worth or importance of something in Hmong culture. |
| Hungarian | The word "érték" also means "merit" or "worth" in Hungarian, highlighting its multifaceted nature. |
| Icelandic | In Icelandic, the word "gildi" not only refers to monetary value but also to a numerical ranking or a person's worthiness. |
| Igbo | In ancient Nri culture, |
| Indonesian | Nilai can also mean "grade" or "score" in an academic or competitive setting. |
| Irish | The word "luach" can also refer to a "payment" or "remuneration", and is cognate with the Welsh word "llwch" meaning "payment" or "hire". |
| Italian | "Valore" also means "courage" in Italian, deriving from the Latin verb "valere," meaning "to be strong." |
| Japanese | 値 can also mean "worth" and has the kanji reading "あたい". |
| Javanese | The word 'regane' is also used in the context of philosophy, where it refers to 'ultimate values'. |
| Kannada | "ಮೌಲ್ಯ" (value) originates from the root "ಮುಲ್" (price, cost), signifying its intrinsic worth and economic significance. |
| Kazakh | The word "мәні" can also mean "price" or "amount" in Kazakh. |
| Khmer | តម្លៃ may also refer to the "value" of a Buddhist concept or a measure of value in arithmetic or economics. |
| Korean | '값' originally referred to the monetary worth of an item, and only later acquired its more abstract meanings, such as 'principle' and 'worthwhile'. |
| Kurdish | The word "giranî" in Kurdish also means "weight" or "importance". |
| Kyrgyz | The word "мааниси" in Kyrgyz can also be used to denote significance or importance. |
| Latin | The Latin word "valorem" can also refer to "worth" or "good reputation." |
| Latvian | The Latvian word "vērtība" is derived from the verb "vērtēt," meaning "to evaluate," and can also refer to a "grade," "assessment," or "merit." |
| Lithuanian | Lithuanian word "vertė" means "value" as well as "translation" and "flip" as in flipping pages. |
| Luxembourgish | The word "Wäert" in Luxembourgish originated from the Old High German word "wert" meaning "price" but also has the connotation of "worth" or "merit". |
| Macedonian | The word "вредност" can also mean "harm" or "damage" in Macedonian. |
| Malay | **'Nilai'** has other meanings such as **'grade'** (academic), **'rating'**, and **'belief'**. |
| Malayalam | "മൂല്യം" is also the Malayalam word for "basis" or "foundation". |
| Maltese | The word "valur" in Maltese is derived from the Arabic word "qīmah" meaning "worth" or "price". |
| Maori | The concept of uara can also refer to the significance or standing of a person or thing within the social structure.} |
| Marathi | The word "मूल्य" is derived from the Sanskrit word "मूल" (root) and can also mean "worth" or "base" in Marathi. |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word |
| Nepali | This word in Nepali derives from Sanskrit and is related to honor, belief, measure, mind, purpose, pride, or thought. |
| Norwegian | The words "verdi" and "värde" both mean "value" in Norwegian and Swedish respectively. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "kufunika" has an alternate meaning of "to cover". |
| Pashto | "ارزښت" can refer to both monetary value and personal worth or dignity. |
| Persian | "مقدار" originates from the Arabic word "قدر" meaning "estimation" or "measure". In mathematics, "مقدار" can refer to a quantity or a coefficient. |
| Polish | "Wartość" can also mean "amount" or "worth". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, "valor" can also mean courage or bravery. |
| Punjabi | ਮੁੱਲ (value) derives from the Sanskrit मूल्य (mūlya), ultimately coming from the Proto-Indo-European root *mol- (worth) |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "valoare" has multiple meanings including "bravery" and "currency". |
| Russian | The Russian word "значение" can also mean "meaning" or "significance". |
| Samoan | Taua, meaning 'value', is also the word for the traditional Samoan war party. |
| Scots Gaelic | In Gaelic, "luach" also means "price" or "payment" |
| Serbian | The word "вредност" also means "harm" or "annoyance". |
| Sesotho | The word 'boleng' (value) is derived from the Proto-Bantu root word *bo-, which also means 'property' or 'goods' in other Bantu languages. |
| Sindhi | In addition to the noun meaning "value," "قدر" can also be used in Sindhi as a noun meaning "ability" or as a verb meaning "to value". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "අගය" also means "front" or "edge" in Sinhala. |
| Slovak | The Slovak word "hodnotu" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *godъ, meaning "year", and thus originally meant "annual yield" or "harvest". |
| Slovenian | The word 'vrednost' comes from the Old Slavic word 'vrědъ', which means 'worth' or 'esteem'. |
| Somali | The word "qiimaha" in Somali can also refer to the price or worth of something. |
| Spanish | In Spanish, "valor" can also mean courage or bravery, and is the root of the word "valorar" (to assess or evaluate). |
| Sundanese | The Sundanese word "nilai" originally meant "seed" and still has that meaning in other contexts. |
| Swahili | The word "thamani" also means "worth" or "cost" in Swahili. |
| Swedish | The Swedish word "värde" also means "dignity" or "worth", and is derived from the Old Norse word "verðr" meaning "price" or "worth". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "halaga" is also used to express the value or worth of a person or thing in terms of its significance, importance, or quality. |
| Tajik | The word "арзиш" comes from the Persian word "arzesh" which also means "value". |
| Tamil | The word "மதிப்பு" in Tamil can also refer to the price of a good or service. |
| Telugu | విలువ' is also used figuratively in Telugu, for instance to refer to worthiness of a person. |
| Thai | The word "มูลค่า" can also mean "capital" or "worth". |
| Turkish | The Turkish word "değer" originates from the Arabic word "değer" meaning "price, worth" and also bears the connotation of "esteem, regard" and "merchandise, goods". |
| Ukrainian | "Значення" in Ukrainian is derived from the Slavic root "znaty" meaning "to know" and can also refer to "significance" or "meaning". |
| Urdu | The word "قدر" (value) in Urdu also means "fate" or "destiny" in Arabic, and is often used in a religious context. |
| Uzbek | The Uzbek word "qiymat" is a cognate of the Persian word "ghimat" and the Arabic word "qيمة" (qīmah), all of which mean "value" or "price". |
| Vietnamese | "Giá trị" is likely a loanword adopted from the Chinese 值, but the word "giá" ("price") is of Old Mon-Khmer origin. |
| Welsh | The word "gwerth" also means "worth", "price" or "cost" in Welsh. |
| Xhosa | In Xhosa, "xhaiso" refers specifically to the value of a lobola (bride price), highlighting its cultural significance and traditional practices in Xhosa society. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "ווערט" ('vert') also means "price" or "cost" but is unrelated to the English word "worth." |
| Yoruba | The Yoruba word "iye" also means "mother" or "origin", highlighting the intrinsic value and significance of both concepts in Yoruba culture. |
| Zulu | The word "inani" in Zulu can also mean "the price or fee that a woman's family gives to a man's family when they get married." |
| English | The word derives from Old French, where it meant 'to be worth'. |