Vast in Different Languages
Discover 'Vast' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Vast
Afrikaans groot | ||
Albanian i gjerë | ||
Amharic ሰፊ | ||
Arabic واسع | ||
Armenian հսկայական | ||
Assamese বিশাল | ||
Aymara jach'a | ||
Azerbaijani geniş | ||
Bambara ka bon | ||
Basque zabala | ||
Belarusian велізарны | ||
Bengali বিশাল | ||
Bhojpuri व्यापक | ||
Bosnian ogroman | ||
Bulgarian необятна | ||
Catalan vast | ||
Cebuano halapad | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 广大 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 廣大 | ||
Corsican vastu | ||
Croatian golem | ||
Czech obrovský | ||
Danish stort | ||
Dhivehi ފުޅާ | ||
Dogri बशाल | ||
Dutch enorm | ||
English vast | ||
Esperanto vasta | ||
Estonian tohutu | ||
Ewe si keke | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) malawak | ||
Finnish valtava | ||
French vaste | ||
Frisian enoarm | ||
Galician amplo | ||
Georgian ვრცელი | ||
German riesig | ||
Greek απέραντος | ||
Guarani tuichaitereíva | ||
Gujarati વિશાળ | ||
Haitian Creole vas | ||
Hausa babba | ||
Hawaiian ākea | ||
Hebrew עָצוּם | ||
Hindi व्यापक | ||
Hmong loj heev | ||
Hungarian hatalmas | ||
Icelandic mikill | ||
Igbo buru ibu | ||
Ilocano nalawa | ||
Indonesian luas | ||
Irish ollmhór | ||
Italian vasto | ||
Japanese 広大 | ||
Javanese jembar | ||
Kannada ವಿಶಾಲ | ||
Kazakh кең | ||
Khmer ធំធេង | ||
Kinyarwanda nini | ||
Konkani विपूल | ||
Korean 거대한 | ||
Krio big | ||
Kurdish dûr | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) زەبەلاح | ||
Kyrgyz кең | ||
Lao ກວ້າງຂວາງ | ||
Latin tantam | ||
Latvian milzīgs | ||
Lingala mingi | ||
Lithuanian didžiulis | ||
Luganda -nene | ||
Luxembourgish enorm | ||
Macedonian огромна | ||
Maithili विशाल | ||
Malagasy be | ||
Malay luas | ||
Malayalam വിശാലമായ | ||
Maltese vast | ||
Maori whanui | ||
Marathi अफाट | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯄꯥꯛ ꯆꯥꯎꯕ | ||
Mizo zau | ||
Mongolian өргөн уудам | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ကျယ်ပြန့် | ||
Nepali विशाल | ||
Norwegian stort | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) chachikulu | ||
Odia (Oriya) ବିସ୍ତୃତ | ||
Oromo bal'aa | ||
Pashto پراخه | ||
Persian وسیع | ||
Polish ogromny | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) grande | ||
Punjabi ਵਿਸ਼ਾਲ | ||
Quechua hatun | ||
Romanian vast | ||
Russian обширный | ||
Samoan lautele | ||
Sanskrit विस्तृतः | ||
Scots Gaelic farsaing | ||
Sepedi kgolo | ||
Serbian огроман | ||
Sesotho e kholo | ||
Shona yakakura | ||
Sindhi وسيع | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) අති විශාලයි | ||
Slovak obrovský | ||
Slovenian ogromno | ||
Somali ballaaran | ||
Spanish vasto | ||
Sundanese luas | ||
Swahili kubwa | ||
Swedish omfattande | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) malawak | ||
Tajik васеъ | ||
Tamil பரந்த | ||
Tatar бик зур | ||
Telugu విస్తారమైన | ||
Thai กว้างใหญ่ | ||
Tigrinya ሰፊሕ | ||
Tsonga xikulu | ||
Turkish muazzam | ||
Turkmen giň | ||
Twi (Akan) kɛseɛ | ||
Ukrainian величезний | ||
Urdu وسیع | ||
Uyghur كەڭ | ||
Uzbek ulkan | ||
Vietnamese rộng lớn | ||
Welsh helaeth | ||
Xhosa enkulu | ||
Yiddish וואַסט | ||
Yoruba tiwa | ||
Zulu enkulu kakhulu |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The etymology of "groot" is from Old Saxon "grōt" meaning large. |
| Albanian | The word "i gjerë" in Albanian is derived from the Latin word "gero", meaning "to carry". It can also refer to a person who is tall or stout, or to a period of time that is long. |
| Amharic | ሰፊ is also used to describe something that is extensive or comprehensive |
| Arabic | The word "واسع" originates from the root w-s-'-ʿ, with meanings related to width, space, and abundance. |
| Armenian | "Հսկայական" is related to the Akkadian word "sigāru" (meaning "great; giant; colossal"), which in turn is related to the Sumerian word "sigar" (meaning "mountain"). |
| Azerbaijani | The word "geniş" is derived from a Proto-Turkic root *keŋ- "wide" and has cognates in a range of Turkic languages including Ottoman Turkish, Tatar, and Uzbek. |
| Basque | The word "zabala" ("vast" in Basque) also refers to an open air meadow dedicated to cattle grazing, especially in mountainous areas |
| Belarusian | The word “велізарны” may also be used to indicate immeasurable, boundless, or vast amounts of an abstract quality such as intelligence or love. |
| Bengali | The word "বিশাল" ("vast") derives from the Sanskrit word "विशाल" (viśāla), meaning "spacious" or "extensive". |
| Bosnian | The word "ogroman" is an adjective that also has the meaning of "very big" or "huge" in Bosnian, and is derived from the Old Slavic word "*ogromŭ" with the same meaning. |
| Bulgarian | The word "необятна" is derived from the Proto-Slavic root *obъjati, meaning "to embrace" or "to comprehend". |
| Catalan | The term "vast" in Catalan, meaning "wide," has the same Latin root as the English "waste," and "wasteful". |
| Cebuano | Cebuano word "halapad" originates from the Sanskrit word "phalada" which means "bearing fruit or abundant". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | In Buddhism, "广大" also signifies "universally pervading" and "all-embracing wisdom or truth." |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The word "廣大" also means "broad-minded" or "magnanimous" in Chinese. |
| Corsican | In Corsican, "vastu" can also refer to "an empty space" or "a place without life." |
| Croatian | The Croatian word 'golem' is derived from the Proto-Slavic word 'golomi', meaning 'naked'. |
| Czech | "Obrovský" in Czech comes from "obr," meaning "giant," and originally meant "giant-like." |
| Danish | The word "stort" can also refer to something impressive or outstanding, as in the phrase "en stort mand" (a great man). |
| Dutch | In Dutch "enorm" not only means "vast", but also "very", "excessive", or "outrageous". |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word "vasta" is derived from the Latin word "vastus", meaning "wide" or "empty", and also has the meaning of "huge". |
| Estonian | The word "tohutu" is derived from the verb "tohuda" meaning to bustle or to do things in a clumsy or heavy-handed manner. |
| Finnish | In the 1500s, the word 'valtava' meant 'to flow', which is likely related to the idea of the vastness and movement in a body of water. |
| French | The French word "vaste" comes from the Latin word "vastus", which means "empty" or "desolate". |
| Frisian | The word "enoarm" originates from the Old Frisian "enorm" (enormous) and "arm" (poor), meaning "excessively poor". |
| Georgian | The Georgian word ვრცელი is etymologically related to the Laz word w̌er "broad". It is distantly connected to the Proto-Kartvelian word ŵərc'ali "to be wide". |
| German | The word "riesig" is derived from the Middle High German word "rise", meaning "a giant". |
| Greek | The word "απέραντος" (vast) comes from the Greek word "πέρα" (beyond), meaning it is something that extends beyond any limits. |
| Gujarati | The word "विशाल" comes from the Sanskrit word "वि" meaning "apart" and "" meaning "to spread" indicating something that is spread far and wide. |
| Haitian Creole | Vas is derived from the French word "vaste", meaning "vast", but it can also refer to an open field or clearing in Haitian Creole. |
| Hausa | "Babba" is also one of the traditional Hausa names for the large, flat, round calabash bowl used for serving food. |
| Hawaiian | In Hawaiian, “ākea” can refer to the expanse of the ocean or sky, as well as to an open space or a time of great change. |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word עָצוּם, meaning "vast," also refers to something hidden or concealed. |
| Hindi | The word "व्यापक" originates from the Sanskrit root "वि" (vi) meaning "all" or "everywhere" and "अप" (ap) meaning "attain" or "reach". |
| Hmong | Loj heev can also mean "generous" or "great". |
| Hungarian | "Hatalmas" is a derivative of "hat" (six), meaning that something is so big it covers six spans. |
| Icelandic | The Old Norse word "mikill" also meant "great, powerful". |
| Igbo | While `buru ibu` means 'vast' in Igbo, it also refers to a type of yam. |
| Indonesian | "Luas" can also translate to "broad" or "extensive" |
| Irish | The word "ollmhór" is actually composed of two separate words: "oll" (great) and "mór" (large). |
| Italian | In Italian, "vasto" also refers to a type of flatbread similar to a focaccia. |
| Japanese | The Japanese word "広大" consists of two kanji, "広" meaning wide and "大" meaning large, and can also mean expansive or broad. |
| Javanese | The word |
| Kannada | "ವಿಶಾಲ" is derived from the Sanskrit word "विशाल" meaning "great, large" and is also used to describe a place that is "open and expansive, not enclosed or blocked" |
| Kazakh | "Кең" can be also be used to refer to something that is plentiful or generous. |
| Khmer | The Khmer word ធំធេង originated from the Sanskrit word "sthula". |
| Korean | "거대한" comes from Middle Korean "کوجئ" (koja), originally meaning "wide" or "empty." |
| Kurdish | The word "dûr" also means "lengthy or enduring" in Kurdish literature and poetry. |
| Kyrgyz | The word "кең" in Kyrgyz does not have any other distinct meanings besides "vast". |
| Latin | The word "tantam" is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root "*tens-", which also means "to stretch" or "to extend". It is related to the English word "tense". |
| Latvian | The word "milzīgs" is derived from the Proto-Baltic root "melz-," meaning "to grind" or "to crush." |
| Lithuanian | "Didžiulis" may come from the Proto-Baltic word "*dēd-as", meaning "big", or from the Proto-Indo-European word "*ǵʰédʰo", meaning "to grow" or "to swell". |
| Luxembourgish | In Luxembourgish, the word "enorm" originates from the French word "énorme" and also means "huge" or "very big". |
| Macedonian | The word "огромна" is related to the word "громи" meaning "thunder". |
| Malagasy | Although the word "be" means "vast" in Malagasy, it can also be used figuratively to describe something as being extensive or far-reaching. |
| Malay | In Indonesian, "luas" also means "area" or "space". |
| Malayalam | The word "വിശാലമായ" can also mean "broad", "extensive", or "comprehensive" in Malayalam. |
| Maltese | The Maltese word 'vast' is derived from the Italian word 'vasto', meaning 'empty' or 'void'. |
| Maori | Whanui is not just physical size, but also a spiritual concept, indicating a deep connection to the land and its people. |
| Marathi | The alternate meaning of "अफाट" in Marathi is "a huge amount", as in something that is not confined to space. |
| Nepali | " विशाल" may also refer to a Hindu God. |
| Norwegian | The Norwegian word "stort" is cognate with the English word "short" and originally meant "short" or "abrupt". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "chachikulu" can also refer to a "huge amount".} |
| Pashto | The word "پراخه" is derived from the Persian word "پراکندن" meaning "to scatter" or "to spread out". Besides meaning "vast", it can also refer to "dispersion" or "extent". |
| Persian | The Persian word "وسیع" can also mean "spacious" in terms of size or capacity, or it can refer to the vastness of time and space. |
| Polish | The word "ogromny" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *ogromъ, meaning "huge" or "great." |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "grande" comes from the Latin "grandis", meaning "great" or "large". |
| Romanian | In Romanian, "vast" also means "era" or "ancient times", deriving from the Latin "vastus", meaning "empty" or "desolate." |
| Russian | The original meaning of "обширный" was "wide", related to the word "широкий", and only later it acquired the meaning of "large in size". |
| Samoan | The word "lautele" in Samoan can also mean "wide" or "spacious". |
| Scots Gaelic | Scots Gaelic "farsaing" comes from 0ld Irish "fersa" meaning "ground" or "earth" and thus relates to the sense of "distance over the ground". |
| Serbian | The word "огроман" comes from the Proto-Slavic root *gorъ, meaning "mountain" or "height". |
| Sesotho | The word "e kholo" has a similar root to the word "ho hola", meaning "to become lost in the wilderness or a crowd", suggesting the idea of something that is vast and overwhelming. |
| Shona | Yakakura can also mean 'wide' or 'open' in Shona. |
| Sindhi | "وسيع" also means "extensive". |
| Slovak | The Slavic root of |
| Slovenian | The word "ogromno" in Slovenian is derived from the Proto-Slavic word "ogormъ", meaning "fence" or "enclosure". |
| Somali | Despite its primary sense of 'vast', 'ballaaran' can also refer to a large expanse of time or a great number of things. |
| Spanish | The word "vasto" originally referred to a wasteland or desert, and is related to the Latin word "vastus" meaning "empty" or "desolate." |
| Sundanese | "Luas" is also used to describe something that is wide, spacious, or roomy. |
| Swahili | The word 'kubwa' was borrowed from Nubi or Shilluk after 1000 CE, and also means 'tall' in Swahili. |
| Swedish | "Omfattande" comes from Middle Low German "ummevaten", meaning "to embrace." |
| Tajik | The word "васеъ" can also refer to a large body of water or a wide area of land, especially one that is empty or barren. |
| Tamil | "பரந்த" has cognates in many Dravidian languages with meanings of "spread out," "extend," or "expanse." |
| Thai | The term "กว้างใหญ่" (vast) derives from the Sanskrit "vispraya" denoting "expansion". |
| Ukrainian | The word "величезний" in Ukrainian is cognate with the word "великий" ("great") and shares its Slavic root with the word "величина" ("magnitude"). |
| Urdu | The word "وسیع" can also mean "spacious" or "extensive". |
| Uzbek | The word "ulkan" is also said to have an alternate meaning "big-footed" |
| Vietnamese | The word "rộng lớn" can also mean "wide-ranging" or "expansive". |
| Welsh | The word "helaeth" in Welsh is cognate with the word "health" in English, both stemming from the Proto-Indo-European root *ḱel- meaning "to hold, protect". |
| Xhosa | The word "enkulu" also means "large" or "great" in Xhosa. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "וואַסט" (vast) derives from the German "vast," which in turn derives from the Latin "vastus," meaning "empty" or "void. |
| Yoruba | The Yoruba word "tiwa" can also refer to a person or animal's body, or to a person's possessions. |
| Zulu | The word "enkulu kakhulu" in Zulu is thought to have originated from the phrase "inkaba kakhulu," meaning a "big calabash." |
| English | The word "vast" derives from the Latin "vastus" meaning "empty" or "desolate," and is related to the word "waste." |