Village in Different Languages
Discover 'Village' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Village
Afrikaans dorpie | ||
Albanian fshat | ||
Amharic መንደር | ||
Arabic قرية | ||
Armenian գյուղ | ||
Assamese গাওঁ | ||
Aymara marka | ||
Azerbaijani kənd | ||
Bambara dugu | ||
Basque herria | ||
Belarusian вёска | ||
Bengali গ্রাম | ||
Bhojpuri गांव | ||
Bosnian selo | ||
Bulgarian село | ||
Catalan poble | ||
Cebuano baryo | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 村 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 村 | ||
Corsican paese | ||
Croatian selo | ||
Czech vesnice | ||
Danish landsby | ||
Dhivehi ރަށްފުށު | ||
Dogri ग्रां | ||
Dutch dorp | ||
English village | ||
Esperanto vilaĝo | ||
Estonian küla | ||
Ewe kɔƒe | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) nayon | ||
Finnish kylä | ||
French village | ||
Frisian doarp | ||
Galician aldea | ||
Georgian სოფ | ||
German dorf | ||
Greek χωριό | ||
Guarani táva | ||
Gujarati ગામ | ||
Haitian Creole vilaj | ||
Hausa kauye | ||
Hawaiian kauhale | ||
Hebrew כְּפָר | ||
Hindi गाँव | ||
Hmong lub zos | ||
Hungarian falu | ||
Icelandic þorp | ||
Igbo obodo | ||
Ilocano bario | ||
Indonesian desa | ||
Irish sráidbhaile | ||
Italian villaggio | ||
Japanese 村 | ||
Javanese desa | ||
Kannada ಗ್ರಾಮ | ||
Kazakh ауыл | ||
Khmer ភូមិ | ||
Kinyarwanda umudugudu | ||
Konkani गांव | ||
Korean 마을 | ||
Krio vilɛj | ||
Kurdish gûnd | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) گوند | ||
Kyrgyz айыл | ||
Lao ບ້ານ | ||
Latin pago | ||
Latvian ciemats | ||
Lingala mboka | ||
Lithuanian kaimas | ||
Luganda ekyaalo | ||
Luxembourgish duerf | ||
Macedonian село | ||
Maithili गाम | ||
Malagasy tanàna | ||
Malay kampung | ||
Malayalam ഗ്രാമം | ||
Maltese raħal | ||
Maori kainga | ||
Marathi गाव | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯈꯨꯡꯒꯪ | ||
Mizo thingtlang | ||
Mongolian тосгон | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ရွာ | ||
Nepali गाउँ | ||
Norwegian landsby | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) mudzi | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଗାଁ | ||
Oromo baadiyyaa | ||
Pashto کلي | ||
Persian روستا | ||
Polish wioska | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) vila | ||
Punjabi ਪਿੰਡ | ||
Quechua llaqta | ||
Romanian sat | ||
Russian деревня | ||
Samoan nuu | ||
Sanskrit ग्राम | ||
Scots Gaelic bhaile | ||
Sepedi motse | ||
Serbian село | ||
Sesotho motsana | ||
Shona musha | ||
Sindhi ڳوٺ | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) ගම | ||
Slovak dedina | ||
Slovenian vasi | ||
Somali tuulo | ||
Spanish pueblo | ||
Sundanese kampung | ||
Swahili kijiji | ||
Swedish by | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) nayon | ||
Tajik деҳа | ||
Tamil கிராமம் | ||
Tatar авыл | ||
Telugu గ్రామం | ||
Thai หมู่บ้าน | ||
Tigrinya ገጠር | ||
Tsonga tiko | ||
Turkish köy | ||
Turkmen obasy | ||
Twi (Akan) akura | ||
Ukrainian село | ||
Urdu گاؤں | ||
Uyghur يېزا | ||
Uzbek qishloq | ||
Vietnamese làng | ||
Welsh pentref | ||
Xhosa kwilali | ||
Yiddish דאָרף | ||
Yoruba abule | ||
Zulu emzaneni |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "dorpie" can also be used to refer to a rural area or a remote town. |
| Albanian | The word "fshat" is also sometimes colloquially used to refer to a neighborhood in a city or town in Albania. |
| Amharic | The word "መንደር" also refers to the traditional Ethiopian style of building roundhouses made of wood and thatch. |
| Arabic | The word |
| Armenian | The word "գյուղ" (village) in Armenian also refers to the people living in a particular village, or to a rural area in general. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "kənd" in Azerbaijani is cognate with the Persian word "kand" and the Kurdish word "gund", all of which mean "village". |
| Basque | "Herria" is a Basque word for "town" which ultimately comes from the PIE root "*kwer-" meaning "to turn" or "to bend" indicating an "enclosed space". |
| Belarusian | The word "вёска" (village) is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *vesь, which means "settlement". It is related to the Russian word "весь" (all) and the Polish word "wieś" (village). |
| Bengali | গ্রাম শব্দটি সংস্কৃত শব্দ 'গ্রাম্য' থেকে এসেছে, যার অর্থ 'গ্রামীণ' বা 'গ্রামের'। |
| Bosnian | The word "selo" is also used in Bosnian to refer to a rural settlement or a community of people living in a rural area. |
| Bulgarian | The word "село" is of Slavic origin and also shares a common origin with the Bulgarian word "земя" (land). |
| Catalan | "Poble" can also mean "people" in Catalan, similar to the French "peuple" or the Spanish "pueblo" |
| Cebuano | The Cebuano word "baryo" originates from the Spanish "barrio", which can also refer to a neighborhood or quarter of a city. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 村 is also a unit of area, usually equal to 100 acres. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 村 (village) also refers to a gathering, assembly, group, or place of gathering. |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "paese" ultimately derives from the Latin word "pagus", meaning "district" or "countryside". |
| Croatian | "Selo" comes from the Proto-Slavic word "*selo", meaning "settlement", and is related to the Old Church Slavonic word "*селъ", meaning "field" or "village." |
| Czech | The word "vesnice" is derived from the Old Czech word "ves", which means "settlement" or "community". |
| Danish | The word "landsby" is derived from the Old Norse word "landbý", meaning "rural dwelling." |
| Dutch | "Dorp" is the Dutch word for "village", but it also shares an etymology with the English word "thorp" meaning "a small settlement". |
| Estonian | "Küla" in Estonian may also refer to "a small community," "a homestead," or "a farmstead." |
| Finnish | "Kylä" is a cognate of the Estonian word "küla" and the Karelian word "kyl". |
| French | "Village" in French can also refer to a rural area or a small town. |
| Frisian | The word "doarp" is derived from the Old Frisian word "thorp", which means "village, homestead". |
| Galician | The Galician word "aldea" comes from the Latin "aldea" meaning "small house" or "settlement". It can also refer to a group of houses or a small town. |
| Georgian | "სოფ" (village) is derived from the Proto-Kartvelian root "*sop". It also has the alternate meaning of "plain, steppe". |
| German | Outside of Germany the word "Dorf" is also found in other Germanic languages as a component of personal names, like Thorfinnr Thorfinnsson from 14th century Iceland. |
| Greek | The word "χωριό" is derived from the ancient Greek word "χορός," meaning "dance" or "gathering place." |
| Gujarati | The word 'ગામ' (village) in Gujarati can also refer to a 'group of people living in a defined area', similar to a community. |
| Haitian Creole | The word "vilaj" in Haitian Creole is derived from the French word "village," which itself comes from the Latin word "villa," meaning "country house" or "estate." |
| Hausa | The word 'kauye' (village) in Hausa originates from the word 'kowe' meaning 'to gather' or 'to assemble'. |
| Hawaiian | Kauhale is also a land division in the ahupua'a system, and can refer to the ahupua'a itself or to a particular section of it. |
| Hebrew | The word **kfar** stems from the Akkadian **kuparu** - "walled settlement or farmstead". |
| Hindi | The word |
| Hmong | The Hmong word 'lub zos' is derived from the Proto-Hmong-Mien word '*p-loŋ₂', meaning 'settlement' or 'abode'. It has cognates in various Hmong-Mien languages, such as Proto-Karen '*plaŋ' and Proto-Mien '*ploŋ'. |
| Hungarian | The word "falu" comes from the Proto-Indo-European word *pṥl- (village), which also appears in other Indo-European languages, such as Latin pagus and Sanskrit pur. |
| Icelandic | Þorp also means "row of houses" as well as "a group of buildings at a homestead" in Medieval documents from Iceland. |
| Igbo | The word 'obodo' is also used to describe a 'public sphere' in Igbo society, referring to the space of public gathering and deliberation. |
| Indonesian | The term "desa" is also used to refer to a small administrative unit in rural areas, similar to a municipality or township. |
| Irish | The name 'sráidbhaile' derives from 'srath' (river valley), 'bhaile' (settlement), and may imply the site of an original townland by a river. |
| Italian | The Italian word "villaggio" possibly derives from the Gallo-Italic *willāre, meaning "settlement on the water" or "collection of scattered houses". |
| Japanese | In Japanese, the character "村" not only refers to a village but also to a group of people sharing a common interest or purpose. |
| Javanese | The word "desa" in Javanese can also refer to the "head of a village" or "village administration office." |
| Kannada | "ಗ್ರಾಮ" can also refer to the village head or to a body of people working in the same field." |
| Kazakh | The word |
| Khmer | Although "ភូមិ" originally meant "land", it is now widely used to refer to "village" in Khmer. |
| Korean | "마을" can also refer to a small town or a group of people who share a common interest. |
| Kurdish | The word 'gûnd' can also refer to a group of nomads or a cluster of tents used for temporary settlement. |
| Kyrgyz | The Kyrgyz word "айыл" also means "pasture" or "meadow" and originates from the Old Turkic word "айык" |
| Lao | The word "ບ້ານ" can also refer to a "house", "dwelling", or "family" in Lao. |
| Latin | "Pagus" also refers to a district, or a clan or tribe. |
| Latvian | The word "ciemats" comes from the Latvian word "ciemēt", meaning "to visit" or "to go to a village". |
| Lithuanian | The word "kaimas" comes from the Proto-Indo-European root *ḱey- "to settle" and is related to the words "home" and "hamlet" in other languages. |
| Luxembourgish | Duerf derives from the Old High German word "thorp" meaning "small settlement". In modern German, it evolved to "Dorf" and in English to "thorp". |
| Malagasy | The word "tanàna" in Malagasy is derived from the Arabic word "tanan", which means "to descend", and the Malagasy suffix "-ana", which denotes place, indicating a settled area. |
| Malay | The word |
| Malayalam | ഗ്രാമം (grāmam) originates from the Prakrit word 'gāma' (village), which itself developed from the Sanskrit word 'grāma' (village, dwelling). |
| Maltese | Maltese 'raħal' derives from Arabic 'raḥl' ('migration, caravan'), suggesting its historical nomadic origins. |
| Maori | The word "kainga" can also refer to a house, a group of people associated with a place (a community), or a territory. |
| Marathi | The Marathi word "गाव" (village) is derived from the Sanskrit word "grāma," which also means "village" or "settlement." |
| Mongolian | The suffix ''tos'' in ''tosgon'' is a plural suffix for Mongolian words used for place names. |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | 'ရွာ' is related to the Mon word ' |
| Nepali | Nepali word "गाउँ" also refers to an area inhabited by members of one particular caste. |
| Norwegian | “Landsby” is a cognate of “landscape” and originally referred to the rural landscape. |
| Pashto | The word "کلی" also means "farm" or "a group of houses" in Pashto. |
| Persian | The word روستا (village) is derived from the Middle Persian word *rōstāk* which also meant 'village' and can be further traced back to the Old Persian word *rāštaka*. |
| Polish | The word 'wioska' may also refer to a seasonal settlement, such as a resort or holiday village. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "Vila" can also refer to a small town or a rural settlement, and is derived from the Latin word "villa," meaning "country house" or "farmhouse." |
| Punjabi | The word 'ਪਿੰਡ' originally comes from Sanskrit 'pinda', meaning 'a ball' or 'a lump', as most initial settlements were circular to maximize space. |
| Romanian | The word "sat" in Romanian comes from the Latin "villa" meaning "rural estate" or "farmhouse" and has similar meanings in many other Romance languages. |
| Russian | The word "деревня" originates from the Proto-Slavic word *dьrьvьnьja, meaning "made of wood". |
| Samoan | The word "nuu" can also refer to a group of houses or a neighborhood. |
| Scots Gaelic | The term 'bhaile' can variously refer to a single homestead, hamlet, or farmstead. |
| Serbian | The etymology of "село" is uncertain, with proposed links to a Slavic root meaning "to settle" or an Indo-European root meaning "to live". |
| Sesotho | 'Metsana' means 'a small collection of dwellings' and is also the plural form of the word 'motse' (a large dwelling) |
| Shona | The Shona word "musha" can also refer to a compound or a settlement of huts. |
| Sindhi | The word "ڳوٺ" also means "clan" or "tribe" in Sindhi. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "ගම" (gama) in Sinhala also refers to agricultural land, suggesting its historical importance in agrarian societies. |
| Slovak | The word "dedina" is thought to have come from the word "děd", meaning "grandfather". Historically, the village was governed by the eldest member of the community, who was often the patriarch. |
| Slovenian | The word "vasi" is cognate with "vas" in Croatian, which derives from Latin "vicus", meaning "row of houses". |
| Somali | The term 'tuulo' is said to derive from Arabic 'talha' referring to the acacia tree, a common and vital landmark around many settlements.} |
| Spanish | The word "pueblo" in Spanish, in addition to meaning "village," also derives from the Latin "populus," meaning "people" or "population group." |
| Sundanese | "Kampung" in Sundanese also refers to a community of people who share a common identity, such as a religious or ethnic group. |
| Swahili | Kijiji is also derived from the Swahili word "kiji", which refers to a specific plot of land used for farming or homesteading. |
| Swedish | The word “by” is an ancient Indo-European term meaning “settlement”. Its cognates exist in English (“by”, meaning “nearby”), German (“bei”, meaning “at, near), and several Slavic languages. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The Tagalog word "nayon" is also used to refer to a neighborhood, district, or municipality. |
| Tajik | The word "деҳа" is a loanword from Persian ده, meaning a small settlement or a rural area. |
| Tamil | In ancient Tamil, 'கிராமம்' meant a group of houses or a settlement, rather than its current meaning of 'village'. |
| Thai | The word "หมู่บ้าน" (village) derives from "มูล" (root) and "บ้าน" (house), and can also refer to a cluster of buildings outside a walled city. |
| Turkish | The Proto-Turkic origin of the word "köy" also carries the meaning "grassy lowland suitable for cattle to graze". |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian noun |
| Urdu | The word "گاؤں" (village) can also refer to a "cow house" or the land immediately surrounding it. |
| Uzbek | The word "qishloq" also refers to a group of tents, a nomadic camp, or a rural neighborhood with closely spaced houses. |
| Vietnamese | In the central regions of Vietnam, "làng" can refer to a specific area within a village known as a "xóm". |
| Welsh | The Welsh word "pentref" can also refer to a group of people who live in a small community. |
| Xhosa | The word 'ikwila' in Xhosa also means 'to turn around' or 'to circle'. |
| Yiddish | "דאָרף" means not only "village", but also "generation" (Psalm 103:5), "duration of life" (Isaiah 38:12), and "age" (Job 32:7). |
| Yoruba | In Yoruba, "abule" can also refer to a group of houses or a residential area smaller than a town. |
| Zulu | The word 'emzaneni' refers to a village, particularly a small one, and is derived from the Zulu word 'umzi', meaning 'homestead' or 'settlement'. |
| English | The word 'village' comes from the Old French word 'ville', which itself comes from the Latin word 'villa', meaning 'country house'. |