Volume in Different Languages
Discover 'Volume' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Volume
Afrikaans volume | ||
Albanian vëllimi | ||
Amharic ጥራዝ | ||
Arabic الصوت | ||
Armenian ծավալը | ||
Assamese পৰিমাণ | ||
Aymara wulumina | ||
Azerbaijani həcm | ||
Bambara mankan | ||
Basque bolumena | ||
Belarusian аб'ём | ||
Bengali ভলিউম | ||
Bhojpuri मात्रा | ||
Bosnian volumen | ||
Bulgarian сила на звука | ||
Catalan volum | ||
Cebuano kadaghan | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 卷 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 卷 | ||
Corsican vulume | ||
Croatian volumen | ||
Czech hlasitost | ||
Danish bind | ||
Dhivehi އަޑު | ||
Dogri मिकदार | ||
Dutch volume | ||
English volume | ||
Esperanto volumo | ||
Estonian helitugevus | ||
Ewe ɣlidodo | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) dami | ||
Finnish äänenvoimakkuus | ||
French le volume | ||
Frisian folume | ||
Galician volume | ||
Georgian მოცულობა | ||
German volumen | ||
Greek ενταση ηχου | ||
Guarani tuichakue | ||
Gujarati વોલ્યુમ | ||
Haitian Creole volim | ||
Hausa girma | ||
Hawaiian leo | ||
Hebrew כרך | ||
Hindi आयतन | ||
Hmong ntim | ||
Hungarian hangerő | ||
Icelandic bindi | ||
Igbo olu | ||
Ilocano kapigsa | ||
Indonesian volume | ||
Irish toirt | ||
Italian volume | ||
Japanese ボリューム | ||
Javanese volume | ||
Kannada ಪರಿಮಾಣ | ||
Kazakh көлем | ||
Khmer កម្រិតសំឡេង | ||
Kinyarwanda ingano | ||
Konkani वॉल्युम | ||
Korean 음량 | ||
Krio ɔmɔs | ||
Kurdish bend | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) قەبارە | ||
Kyrgyz көлөмү | ||
Lao ປະລິມານ | ||
Latin magnitudo | ||
Latvian skaļums | ||
Lingala volime | ||
Lithuanian apimtis | ||
Luganda eddoboozi | ||
Luxembourgish volumen | ||
Macedonian волумен | ||
Maithili मात्रा | ||
Malagasy boky | ||
Malay isi padu | ||
Malayalam വ്യാപ്തം | ||
Maltese volum | ||
Maori rōrahi | ||
Marathi आवाज | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯆꯥꯎꯕꯒꯤꯡꯆꯥꯉ | ||
Mizo ri rin lam tehna | ||
Mongolian хэмжээ | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အသံအတိုးအကျယ် | ||
Nepali भोल्यूम | ||
Norwegian volum | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) voliyumu | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଭଲ୍ୟୁମ୍ | ||
Oromo hamma qabachuu danda'uu | ||
Pashto حجم | ||
Persian جلد | ||
Polish tom | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) volume | ||
Punjabi ਵਾਲੀਅਮ | ||
Quechua urayina sayay | ||
Romanian volum | ||
Russian объем | ||
Samoan tele | ||
Sanskrit मात्रा | ||
Scots Gaelic toirt | ||
Sepedi bolumu | ||
Serbian запремину | ||
Sesotho bophahamo ba modumo | ||
Shona vhoriyamu | ||
Sindhi حجم | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) පරිමාව | ||
Slovak objem | ||
Slovenian glasnost | ||
Somali mugga | ||
Spanish volumen | ||
Sundanese polumeu | ||
Swahili ujazo | ||
Swedish volym | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) dami | ||
Tajik ҳаҷм | ||
Tamil தொகுதி | ||
Tatar күләм | ||
Telugu వాల్యూమ్ | ||
Thai ปริมาณ | ||
Tigrinya ትሕዝቶ | ||
Tsonga vholumu | ||
Turkish ses | ||
Turkmen göwrümi | ||
Twi (Akan) ne dodoɔ | ||
Ukrainian гучність | ||
Urdu حجم | ||
Uyghur ھەجىمى | ||
Uzbek hajmi | ||
Vietnamese âm lượng | ||
Welsh cyfrol | ||
Xhosa umthamo | ||
Yiddish באַנד | ||
Yoruba iwọn didun | ||
Zulu ivolumu |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | In Afrikaans, the word "volume" also means "amount", "quantity", or "number". |
| Albanian | Vëllimi also means "volume" in the sense of a tome or book. |
| Amharic | The word "ጥራዝ" (volume) derives from the Ge'ez word "ጽርዝር" (volume) and has the secondary meaning of "bulk". |
| Arabic | The Arabic word "الصوت" (al-sawt) can also mean "a voice" or "a sound". |
| Azerbaijani | The word "həcm" is the result of the consonant alternation between Azerbaijani "k" and Persian "h". The Persian version, "hajm", was borrowed through Arabic "hajm", which has the same connotation. |
| Basque | The Basque word "bolumena" is also used to refer to the volume of a solid object or the size of a space. |
| Belarusian | The word comes from the Greek word |
| Bengali | The word "ভলিউম" can also mean "loudness" or "bulk" in Bengali. |
| Bosnian | The word "volumen" in Bosnian can also be used to refer to the act or process of winding or rolling something up, as in the case of a scroll. |
| Bulgarian | The word "сила на звука" can also mean "sound power" or "loudness". |
| Catalan | The word "volum" in Catalan also means "bulk", "mass", or "amount". |
| Cebuano | "Kadaghan" originated from the Proto-Austronesian word "dahag", meaning "thirst for", "yearn for". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The character "卷" (juǎn) can also mean "to roll up" or "a scroll". |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 卷 can also mean to roll up, to wrap up, or to involve oneself in something. |
| Corsican | In Corsican, "vulume" is the plural of "volume" and can also refer to a person's physical build. |
| Croatian | "Volumen" literally means "will" and is a term from the law field denoting a last will. |
| Czech | The Czech word "hlasitost" also means "loudness". |
| Danish | The Danish word "bind" comes from the Old Norse word "binda", which could also mean "to tie up" or "to seize". |
| Dutch | In Dutch, "volume" refers to a book or publication and is related to the word "boekdeel" (book-part). |
| Esperanto | Esperanto's "volumo" also carries its mathematical meaning "content of a geometric body" |
| Estonian | Helitugevus comes from the Estonian words "heli," meaning "sound," and "tugevus," meaning "strength." |
| Finnish | Äänenvoimakkuus originates from the words ääni ("sound") and voimakkuus ("intensity") |
| French | The French word "le volume" can also refer to a book's size or thickness |
| Frisian | In Frisian, "folume" is a variant spelling of "folumme" with the same meaning, and is also a word of its own meaning "mass". |
| Galician | In Galician, "volume" also means "book" or "tome", and comes from the Latin "volumen", meaning "scroll" or "roll". |
| German | The German word "Volumen" can also refer to the size of a book, or the amount of space it takes up on a bookshelf. |
| Greek | The Greek word "Ενταση ΗΧΟΥ" can also refer to the intensity or loudness of a sound. |
| Gujarati | The word 'વોલ્યુમ' ('volume') in Gujarati also refers to 'a large number or amount' or 'a bound book' or 'a specific portion of a larger work or publication'. |
| Haitian Creole | "Volim" also means "I love you" in Haitian Creole, stemming from the French verb "aimer". |
| Hausa | In addition to its primary meaning of volume, "girma" can also refer to the size or quantity of something. |
| Hawaiian | The word "leo" can also mean "the head of a canoe". |
| Hebrew | "כרך" is also used to mean a "city" or a "metropolitan area" in Hebrew. |
| Hindi | 'आयतन' is derived from 'आयत' meaning 'rectangle' and 'ण' meaning 'amount', thus indicating the amount of space enclosed by a rectangle. |
| Hmong | "Ntim" also means "to sing" and is likely derived from the sound of singing. |
| Hungarian | The Hungarian word "hangerő" can also refer to the "power of a speaker or amplifier". |
| Icelandic | In Icelandic, "bindi" also refers to a small, decorative dot worn on the forehead, typically by women, for religious or cultural reasons. |
| Igbo | The Igbo word "olu" can also refer to a person's wealth, status, or influence. |
| Indonesian | Volume, meaning "a large quantity," comes from the Latin word "volvere," meaning "to roll" or "to turn." |
| Irish | The word "toirt" can also mean "benefit" or "wealth" in Irish. |
| Italian | The Italian word "volume" has the same origin as the English word "volume" and also means "book". |
| Japanese | "ボリューム" can also mean "tone" or "knob". |
| Javanese | In Javanese, 'volume' can also refer to a traditional Javanese dance or a book. |
| Kannada | The Kannada word "ಪರಿಮಾಣ" also means "quantity" or "amount". |
| Kazakh | "Көлем" also means "span, range, scope" in Kazakh. |
| Korean | The hanja used in '음량' initially had the meaning of 'sound' or 'voice', and now refers to the intensity of sound. |
| Kurdish | The word "bend" in Kurdish can also mean "portion" or "share". |
| Kyrgyz | Kyrgyz көлөмү ('volume') could also mean 'capacity', 'size', 'dimension', or 'scope'. |
| Latin | Latin "magnitudo" referred to the greatness of mind or character, before it came to mean physical size or volume. |
| Latvian | The word "skaļums" is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kel-, meaning "to call" or "to shout" |
| Lithuanian | The word 'apimtis' is derived from the verb 'apimti', meaning 'to encompass', and is also occasionally used to refer to 'scope' or 'range'. |
| Malagasy | "Boky" is derived from the Proto-Malayo-Polynesian word "*buqan" meaning "book, writing, scripture". |
| Malay | The word "isi padu" is a Malay expression composed of "isi" ("content") and "padu" ("solid, condensed"), and it also refers to measurements in the context of physics or cooking. |
| Malayalam | The word 'വ്യാപ്തം' derives from the Sanskrit words 'व्याप्' (expand) and 'त' (suffix), meaning something that is expanded or extended. |
| Maltese | The word volum can also refer to "quantity" or "number of elements" in Maltese. |
| Maori | "Rōrahi" can be also be used to refer to the "contents of the stomach" and "a receptacle". |
| Marathi | The Marathi word “आवाज” also means “sound”. |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word хэмжээ means not only 'volume', but also 'size', 'measure', and 'amount'. |
| Nepali | The word "भोल्यूम" can also refer to a book's size or dimensions. |
| Norwegian | The word “volum” also means “number” of issues of a publication in Norwegian. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | ''Voliyumu'' is used in Nyanja to refer to the size or amount of something and sometimes implies a measure of weight as well. |
| Pashto | In addition to "volume", "حجم" also means "size" or "quantity" in Pashto. |
| Persian | The word "جلد" in Persian can also refer to "skin" or "binding." |
| Polish | "Tom" comes from the Greek "τόμος," meaning "volume" as a book, or a "section," like in anatomy. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, "volume" can also refer to a book's physical size or thickness. |
| Punjabi | The word "ਵਾਲੀਅਮ" can also refer to the loudness or strength of a sound, as in the expression "turn up the volume on the radio". |
| Romanian | In Romanian, "volum" can also refer to the process or result of rolling or wrapping something. |
| Russian | The word "объем" comes from the Proto-Slavic "obъjьmъ" , which originally meant "embrace, hug." |
| Samoan | Tele can also mean 'sound' or 'voice' in Samoan, and is related to the Polynesian word 'telei', meaning 'to speak' or 'to call out'. |
| Scots Gaelic | "Toirt" is cognate with the Irish word "toirth" and the Welsh word "tẁrf" meaning "hillock". |
| Serbian | The word "запремину" can also refer to a person's chest or torso. |
| Sesotho | In addition to its literal meaning of "volume," "bophahamo ba modumo" also figuratively refers to the intensity or extent of something. |
| Shona | Etymology: From the root -vhor-, meaning ‘to be full’, ‘to contain’, ‘to be complete’. |
| Sindhi | Sindhi "حجم" can also mean "weight" or "importance." |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "පරිමාව" can also mean "quantity", "amount", or "size" in Sinhala. |
| Slovak | The word "objem" also means "embrace" in Slovak. |
| Slovenian | The Slovenian word "glasnost" also means "loudness" and is related to the word "glas", which means "voice". |
| Somali | The word mugga also means "a large amount" or "a crowd" in Somali. |
| Spanish | "Volumen" also means scroll or roll in Spanish |
| Sundanese | "Polumeu" is also a term for a traditional bamboo rice container in Sundanese. |
| Swahili | "Ufazo" can also mean "abundance" or "plenty". |
| Swedish | "Volym" is cognate with English "volume", but in Swedish it can also refer to "quantity of goods" or "weight of a ship." |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "dami" can also mean "plenty" or "lots". |
| Tajik | The word "ҳаҷм" can also mean "size" or "amount" in Tajik. |
| Tamil | In Tamil, the word "தொகுதி" can also refer to a group, or a bundle, or an anthology of literary works. |
| Telugu | The word "వాల్యూమ్" is derived from the Latin word "volumen", meaning "a roll" or "a book". |
| Thai | In classical usage, "ปริมาณ" also means "amount" and "quantity". |
| Turkish | The word 'ses' also refers to speech, sound or song. |
| Ukrainian | The word гучність ultimately stems from the Old Ukrainian word гукъ, which meant "sound" or "voice". |
| Urdu | The word "حجم" comes from the Arabic word "حجم", which means "to gather" or "to collect" |
| Uzbek | "Hajmi" also means "capacity" in Uzbek. |
| Vietnamese | "Âm lượng" also refers to the volume of a physical entity, such as a liquid or solid. |
| Welsh | The word 'cyfrol' also means 'number' in Welsh, as in 'cyfrnod' (digit). |
| Xhosa | "Umthamo" can also mean "measurement," "size" or "quantity." |
| Yiddish | The word "באַנד" in Yiddish is cognate with the German "Band", both of which mean "bookbinding" and derive ultimately from the Latin "banda", meaning "band" or "strap." |
| Yoruba | Iwọn didun, a Yoruba phrase, also refers to a 'sweet sound' or 'a pleasant melody' in the context of music. |
| Zulu | Ivolumu in Zulu holds an alternate meaning: "the extent or amount of something." |
| English | The word "volume" derives from the Latin word "volumen," meaning "a roll" or "a scroll," referring to the ancient practice of writing on long, rolled-up pieces of parchment. |