Weight in Different Languages
Discover 'Weight' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Weight
Afrikaans gewig | ||
Albanian pesha | ||
Amharic ክብደት | ||
Arabic وزن | ||
Armenian քաշը | ||
Assamese ওজন | ||
Aymara pisu | ||
Azerbaijani çəki | ||
Bambara girinya | ||
Basque pisua | ||
Belarusian вага | ||
Bengali ওজন | ||
Bhojpuri वजन | ||
Bosnian težina | ||
Bulgarian тегло | ||
Catalan pes | ||
Cebuano gibug-aton | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 重量 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 重量 | ||
Corsican pesu | ||
Croatian težina | ||
Czech hmotnost | ||
Danish vægt | ||
Dhivehi ބަރުދަން | ||
Dogri भार | ||
Dutch gewicht | ||
English weight | ||
Esperanto pezo | ||
Estonian kaal | ||
Ewe kpekpeme | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) timbang | ||
Finnish paino | ||
French poids | ||
Frisian gewicht | ||
Galician peso | ||
Georgian წონა | ||
German gewicht | ||
Greek βάρος | ||
Guarani pohýi | ||
Gujarati વજન | ||
Haitian Creole pwa | ||
Hausa nauyi | ||
Hawaiian kaupaona | ||
Hebrew מִשׁקָל | ||
Hindi वजन | ||
Hmong qhov hnyav | ||
Hungarian súly | ||
Icelandic þyngd | ||
Igbo ibu ibu | ||
Ilocano kinadagsen | ||
Indonesian bobot | ||
Irish meáchan | ||
Italian peso | ||
Japanese 重量 | ||
Javanese bobote | ||
Kannada ತೂಕ | ||
Kazakh салмағы | ||
Khmer ទំងន់ | ||
Kinyarwanda uburemere | ||
Konkani वजन | ||
Korean 무게 | ||
Krio we | ||
Kurdish pîvan | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) کێش | ||
Kyrgyz салмагы | ||
Lao ນ້ ຳ ໜັກ | ||
Latin pondus | ||
Latvian svars | ||
Lingala kilo | ||
Lithuanian svoris | ||
Luganda obuzito | ||
Luxembourgish gewiicht | ||
Macedonian тежина | ||
Maithili वजन | ||
Malagasy lanja | ||
Malay berat badan | ||
Malayalam ഭാരം | ||
Maltese piż | ||
Maori taumaha | ||
Marathi वजन | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯑꯔꯨꯝꯕ | ||
Mizo buk | ||
Mongolian жин | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အလေးချိန် | ||
Nepali तौल | ||
Norwegian vekt | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kulemera | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଓଜନ | ||
Oromo ulfaatina | ||
Pashto وزن | ||
Persian وزن | ||
Polish waga | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) peso | ||
Punjabi ਭਾਰ | ||
Quechua llasay | ||
Romanian greutate | ||
Russian вес | ||
Samoan mamafa | ||
Sanskrit भारः | ||
Scots Gaelic cuideam | ||
Sepedi boima | ||
Serbian тежина | ||
Sesotho boima | ||
Shona uremu | ||
Sindhi وزن | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) බර | ||
Slovak váha | ||
Slovenian utež | ||
Somali miisaanka | ||
Spanish peso | ||
Sundanese beurat | ||
Swahili uzito | ||
Swedish vikt | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) bigat | ||
Tajik вазн | ||
Tamil எடை | ||
Tatar авырлык | ||
Telugu బరువు | ||
Thai น้ำหนัก | ||
Tigrinya ክብደት | ||
Tsonga ntikelo | ||
Turkish ağırlık | ||
Turkmen agramy | ||
Twi (Akan) muduro | ||
Ukrainian вага | ||
Urdu وزن | ||
Uyghur ئېغىرلىقى | ||
Uzbek vazn | ||
Vietnamese cân nặng | ||
Welsh pwysau | ||
Xhosa ubunzima | ||
Yiddish וואָג | ||
Yoruba iwuwo | ||
Zulu isisindo |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "gewig" is derived from the Dutch word "gewicht" and also means "importance" or "significance". |
| Albanian | The Albanian word "pesha" derives from the Proto-Indo-European root "*peh₂-/*peh₃-", meaning "to weigh" or "to be heavy". |
| Amharic | "ክብደት" is also used in the figurative sense, like "the heaviness of the heart" or "the burden of sin." |
| Arabic | The word وزن (pron. wazn) in Arabic derives from the root word و ز ن (letters waw, zayn, and noon), which means "to be balanced, equal, or proportional" |
| Azerbaijani | "Çəki" can also mean "power, strength" in Azerbaijani. |
| Basque | The word "pisua" in Basque can also refer to "value, worth" or "importance." |
| Belarusian | The word "вага" in Belarusian is cognate to the Latin "vagus", meaning "wandering", and in the context of measurement, it refers to the balance or equilibrium of a scale. |
| Bengali | ওজন also means 'importance' or 'significance' |
| Bosnian | In the 16th century, the word "težina" also meant "punishment" in Bosnian. |
| Bulgarian | The word "тегло" also means "importance, significance" in Bulgarian. |
| Catalan | In Catalan, the word "pes" also means "foot" and originates from the Latin word "pes, pedis". |
| Cebuano | "Gibug-aton" (weight) may also pertain to the heaviness or importance of a matter or concept. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "重量"也指沉重或重要的事物。 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The character 重量, meaning "weight," is formed by combining 重, meaning "heavy," and 量, meaning "measure". |
| Corsican | The Corsican word 'pesu' also means 'thought' or 'opinion'. |
| Croatian | "Težina" also means "difficulty" in Croatian, which derives from the Proto-Indo-European word "*teg-," meaning "to press, tighten." |
| Czech | Czech "hmotnost" can also mean "gravitational force" or "substance". |
| Danish | The word "vægt" derives from the Proto-Germanic word "*wagto" and its cognates include "weight" and "weigh" in English, "gewicht" in German, and "vækt" in Norwegian and Swedish. |
| Dutch | The Dutch word |
| Esperanto | The word "pezo" is also used in Spanish and Portuguese to mean "currency" |
| Estonian | In addition to weight, the word "kaal" (weight) also refers to scales or the process of weighing in Estonian. |
| Finnish | "Paino" as a unit of measurement derives from the old Russian "pad"́ (падь), which was a unit of weight equal to roughly 16 kilograms. |
| French | In 16th century French, "poids" could also mean the chest where weights were kept.} |
| Frisian | In Frisian, "gewicht" can also refer to a person's importance or influence. |
| Galician | The word 'peso' in Galician also refers to a type of fish, a large weight used to balance a scale, and a unit of currency in Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and other countries. |
| German | The word "Gewicht" can also refer to the importance or influence of something. |
| Greek | The Greek word "βάρος" (weight) also carries metaphorical meanings such as "responsibility," "burden," and "importance."} |
| Gujarati | In addition to weight, 'વજન' can also refer to authority, importance, or significance. |
| Haitian Creole | The word pwa in Haitian Creole comes from the French word poids which also means weight. |
| Hausa | The word 'nauyi' also means 'load' or 'burden' in Hausa. |
| Hawaiian | The word 'kaupaona' is derived from 'kau', meaning 'to carry', and 'paona', meaning 'burden'. |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "מִשׁקָל" also means "balance", "measure", or "amount". |
| Hindi | "वजन" also means 'importance' or 'significance'. |
| Hungarian | "Súly" also means "gravity" and comes from the Proto-Slavic word "tęgъ", meaning "heavy". |
| Icelandic | The Icelandic word "þyngd" shares its root with "þengja" meaning "to tighten" and "þungur" meaning "heavy". |
| Igbo | "Ibu ibu" also means "load" when it has a high tone. |
| Indonesian | The Indonesian word 'bobot' can also refer to a person's character, significance, or influence. |
| Irish | The Irish word "meáchan" is derived from the Old Irish word "meicc", meaning "son" or "seed". |
| Italian | "Peso" also means "Mexican peso", which takes its name from the Spanish word _peso_ (weight), which in turn comes from the Latin word _pensum_ (payment). |
| Japanese | "重量" can also refer to the force exerted on an object by gravity or acceleration, or the relative importance or influence of something. |
| Javanese | In Javanese, "bobote" also means "to be carried" or "to lift something heavy" |
| Kannada | The word "ತೂಕ" (weight) also refers to a unit of measurement (equivalent to 5 grams) used in Karnataka, India. |
| Kazakh | The word "салмағы" can also refer to the importance or significance of something. |
| Khmer | "ទំងន់" also refers to "burden", "responsibility", or "the burden of proof". |
| Korean | Korean 무게 derives from Middle Mongolian möge 'weight', from Proto-Mongolic *möge- 'heavy'. |
| Kurdish | The word "pîvan" in Kurdish derives from the Middle Persian word "pîman" meaning "measure" or "standard". It also has the alternate meaning of "balance" or "equilibrium". |
| Kyrgyz | The words "салмагы" ("weight") and "салмак" ("to count") in Kyrgyz both derive from the Old Turkic word "sal- " ("to measure"). |
| Latin | "Pondus" comes from the Proto-Indo-European root "*pend-" meaning "to weigh or hang". |
| Latvian | The Latvian word "svars" is a cognate of the Germanic word "schwer" (heavy), which is also related to the English word "severe". |
| Lithuanian | The word "svoris" in Lithuanian is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *swer- meaning "heavy" or "to weigh". |
| Luxembourgish | "Gewiicht" is likely derived from the Proto-Germanic word "wihti", meaning "importance" or "value". |
| Macedonian | The word "Тежина" can also mean "the heaviness of a situation or responsibility" in Macedonian. |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "lanja" shares linguistic roots with the words for "heavy" in Proto-Austronesian and Proto-Malayo-Polynesian languages. |
| Malay | "Berat badan" also means "heavy heart" in Malay. |
| Malayalam | The word "ഭാരം" ("weight") in Malayalam also refers to a "burden" or "responsibility". |
| Maltese | The word "piż" in Maltese comes from the Arabic word "وَزَن" (wazn), meaning "weight" or "measure", and is also related to the Italian "peso" and Spanish "peso" (both of which mean "weight"). |
| Maori | In addition to its literal meaning of "burden," "taumaha" can also refer to "pressure," "grief," or "anguish." |
| Marathi | The Marathi word "वजन" ("weight") is derived from the Sanskrit "वाजन" ("strength" or "heaviness") and also has the connotation of "reputation" or "influence". |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word "жин" shares its root with the word "жинх" (to weigh). |
| Nepali | The word "तौल" is also used to refer to the act of comparing or measuring something. |
| Norwegian | The word "vekt" in Norwegian is derived from the Old Norse word "vikti", which referred to a unit of measure for weight. |
| Pashto | The word "وزن" (weight) is derived from Arabic and has a secondary meaning of "measure" or "value" in Pashto. |
| Persian | The word "وزن" also means "measure" or "proportion" in Persian. |
| Polish | "Waga" also means "scales" - a device used to weigh things. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, the term "peso" also signifies the weight of monetary currency, with "peso" being the unit of currency in many Spanish-speaking countries. |
| Punjabi | The word "ਭਾਰ" can also refer to the burden of responsibility or the importance of something. |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "greutate" also means "difficulty" or "importance". |
| Russian | In Old Russian, "вес" meant "joy," "merrymaking," and "fun." |
| Samoan | Mamafa is also used to describe a situation or task that is arduous or burdensome. |
| Scots Gaelic | "Cuideam" is a cognate of Middle Irish "cuinde" meaning "measure, dimension, quantity" and likely descends from Proto-Celtic "*kʷindos" (measure, weighing). |
| Serbian | Alternate meanings of "тежина" include heaviness, difficulty, and importance. |
| Sesotho | In Sesotho, boima is associated with the concept of strength and masculinity, as well as having a sense of authority. |
| Shona | The Shona word 'uremu' can also refer to the sensation of being weighed down or burdened. |
| Sindhi | As a unit of measurement, "وزن" is equivalent to 20 pounds. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "බර" also means "importance" or "significance" in Sinhala. |
| Slovak | The word "váha" in Slovak can also refer to a scale or balance used for measuring weight. |
| Slovenian | "Utež", meaning weight, is derived from old German "uht" (dawn) referring to night-time weighing for better accuracy. |
| Somali | The word "miisaanka" can also mean "balance" or "scale" in Somali. |
| Spanish | "Peso" is derived from the Latin "pensum," meaning "payment," and refers to the weight of coins, as their value was determined by their weight in precious metals. |
| Sundanese | The word "beurat" in Sundanese can also mean "heavy" or "serious". |
| Swahili | Swahili 'uzito' derives from 'kuzita' ('to be heavy'). |
| Swedish | In Swedish, "vikt" can also mean "importance" or "value" of something. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Bigat" also means heaviness in the heart or mind. |
| Tajik | The word “вазн” (“weight”) in Tajik, is related to the Persian word “وزن” which is derived from the Arabic word “وزن” meaning “weight” or “portion”. |
| Tamil | எடை ('weight') also refers to the measure of a person's fate, or their 'lot in life', as in the phrase அதிர்ஷ்ட எடை ('luck's weight'). |
| Telugu | In addition to its primary meaning of "weight," "బరువు" can also refer to "importance" or "seriousness." |
| Thai | Literally “heavy water,” Thai น้ำหนัก (ná-màak) is a compound noun composed of น้ำ (ná-màak) "water" + the classifier หนัก (nák) "heavy. |
| Turkish | The word "ağırlık" can also refer to the act of weighting or the state of being weighted. |
| Ukrainian | Ukrainian word "вага" (weight) also means "scales" or "balance". |
| Urdu | "وزن" can also mean "ponder" or "consider" in Urdu. |
| Uzbek | In Uzbek, "vazn" also means "importance" or "significance" in a more abstract sense. |
| Vietnamese | "Cân nặng" literally means "scales" which are used for the measurement of weight |
| Welsh | The Welsh word "pwysau" originally referred to the pressure of fluids in addition to its current meaning of "weight". |
| Xhosa | "Isibunzima's' primary meaning is weight; however, it can also describe hardship or a burden." |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "וואָג" (vqg) is cognate with the German word "Wage" (balance) and the English word "weigh". |
| Yoruba | "Iwúwo" refers to either "heavier" or "the one bearing" in the Yoruba context. |
| Zulu | 'Isisindo' is derived from the verb 'sinda', meaning to press down or weigh. |
| English | The word "weight" also refers to the importance or significance of something. |