Whole in Different Languages
Discover 'Whole' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Whole
Afrikaans hele | ||
Albanian e tërë | ||
Amharic ሙሉ | ||
Arabic كل | ||
Armenian ամբողջական | ||
Assamese গোটা | ||
Aymara ukch'a | ||
Azerbaijani bütöv | ||
Bambara mumɛ | ||
Basque osorik | ||
Belarusian цэлы | ||
Bengali পুরো | ||
Bhojpuri पूरा | ||
Bosnian cijela | ||
Bulgarian цяло | ||
Catalan sencera | ||
Cebuano tibuuk | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 整个 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 整個 | ||
Corsican sanu | ||
Croatian cijela | ||
Czech celý | ||
Danish hel | ||
Dhivehi އެއްކޮށް | ||
Dogri पूरा | ||
Dutch heel | ||
English whole | ||
Esperanto tuta | ||
Estonian tervikuna | ||
Ewe blibo | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) buo | ||
Finnish koko | ||
French entier | ||
Frisian hiel | ||
Galician enteiro | ||
Georgian მთლიანი | ||
German ganze | ||
Greek ολόκληρος | ||
Guarani paite | ||
Gujarati સંપૂર્ણ | ||
Haitian Creole antye | ||
Hausa duka | ||
Hawaiian holoʻokoʻa | ||
Hebrew כֹּל | ||
Hindi पूरा का पूरा | ||
Hmong tag nrho | ||
Hungarian egész | ||
Icelandic heill | ||
Igbo dum | ||
Ilocano buo | ||
Indonesian seluruh | ||
Irish iomlán | ||
Italian totale | ||
Japanese 全体 | ||
Javanese kabèh | ||
Kannada ಸಂಪೂರ್ಣ | ||
Kazakh бүтін | ||
Khmer ទាំងមូល | ||
Kinyarwanda yose | ||
Konkani पुराय | ||
Korean 전부의 | ||
Krio wan ol | ||
Kurdish giştî | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) هەموو | ||
Kyrgyz бүтүн | ||
Lao ທັງຫມົດ | ||
Latin totius | ||
Latvian vesels | ||
Lingala mobimba | ||
Lithuanian visas | ||
Luganda mu bulambirira | ||
Luxembourgish ganz | ||
Macedonian целина | ||
Maithili समग्र | ||
Malagasy manontolo | ||
Malay keseluruhan | ||
Malayalam മുഴുവനും | ||
Maltese sħiħ | ||
Maori katoa | ||
Marathi संपूर्ण | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯃꯄꯨꯡ | ||
Mizo pumpui | ||
Mongolian бүхэл бүтэн | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) တစ်ခုလုံး | ||
Nepali पूर्ण | ||
Norwegian hel | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kwathunthu | ||
Odia (Oriya) ପୁରା | ||
Oromo guutummaa | ||
Pashto ټول | ||
Persian کامل | ||
Polish cały | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) todo | ||
Punjabi ਪੂਰਾ | ||
Quechua llapan | ||
Romanian întreg | ||
Russian все | ||
Samoan atoa | ||
Sanskrit सम्पूर्णः | ||
Scots Gaelic slàn | ||
Sepedi ka moka | ||
Serbian целина | ||
Sesotho ka botlalo | ||
Shona zvakakwana | ||
Sindhi سمورو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) සමස්ත | ||
Slovak celý | ||
Slovenian celota | ||
Somali dhan | ||
Spanish todo | ||
Sundanese sakabeh | ||
Swahili nzima | ||
Swedish hela | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) buo | ||
Tajik тамоми | ||
Tamil முழு | ||
Tatar тулы | ||
Telugu మొత్తం | ||
Thai ทั้งหมด | ||
Tigrinya ሙሉእ | ||
Tsonga hinkwaswo | ||
Turkish bütün | ||
Turkmen tutuşlygyna | ||
Twi (Akan) mua | ||
Ukrainian ціле | ||
Urdu پوری | ||
Uyghur پۈتۈن | ||
Uzbek butun | ||
Vietnamese toàn bộ | ||
Welsh cyfan | ||
Xhosa iphelele | ||
Yiddish גאַנץ | ||
Yoruba gbogbo | ||
Zulu okuphelele |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | In earlier Afrikaans, "hele" was sometimes used to mean "healthy" instead of "whole". |
| Albanian | "E tërë" is also used figuratively to mean completely or totally. |
| Amharic | "ሙሉ" (whole) is derived from "መላ" (to fill), and can also refer to "completion" or "perfection". |
| Arabic | The word "كلّ" in Arabic also means "to eat" or "to consume". |
| Azerbaijani | The Azerbaijani word "bütöv" is also used to mean "solid" or "entire". |
| Basque | "Osorik" also means "the entire body" and is related to "oskol" which means "bone". |
| Belarusian | The word "цэлы" in Belarusian is derived from the Proto-Slavic root *cělъ, meaning "whole", and is related to the Sanskrit word "sarva" with the same meaning. |
| Bengali | The word "পুরো" (puro) in Bengali derives from the Sanskrit "purna", meaning "complete" or "perfect", and is cognate with "full" and "plenary" in English. |
| Bosnian | The word "cijela" in Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian, originates from the Proto-Slavic form *cě-la, which is related to the words meaning "body" and "limb". |
| Bulgarian | The word "цяло" comes from the Proto-Slavic word "*cьlo" meaning "whole, complete, or entire". |
| Catalan | "Sencera" originally meant "full of wax" in Medieval Latin, deriving from "sincerus," and "cera," wax. |
| Cebuano | The word “tibuuk” likely came from Javanese or a Malayo-Polynesian root related to words like “tumbuk” (to pound) or “pukpok” (to hit). It has acquired the meaning of “full” over time, likely due to the perception of fullness as a result of being pounded or packed together tightly. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The word 整个 (zěn gè) can also mean "entirely" or "completely". |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 整個 (zhěnggè) also means "the whole thing" or "all of something". |
| Corsican | "Sanu" also means "healthy" in Corsican. |
| Croatian | In Croatian, 'cijela' can refer to a whole quantity, a complete unit, or a healthy state of mind or body. |
| Czech | The word "Celý" also means "entire" or "complete" in Czech. |
| Danish | Hel also means 'luck' in Danish, and can be used in phrases like 'held og lykke' ('luck and fortune'). |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "heel" can also refer to the raised part of a shoe, the base of a sail, or a type of dance. |
| Estonian | The word "tervikuna" derives from Old Estonian word "täik" which meant both "complete" and "dense". |
| Finnish | "Koko" is also a slang term for a gathering or meeting of like-minded people. |
| French | "Entier" derives from Latin "integer," meaning "whole, entire, intact, untouched," from PIE root *h₁ent- ("whole, sound"). |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "hiel" is cognate with the Old English word "hal", which also means "whole". |
| Galician | The word "enteiro" in Galician can also mean "full" or "complete". |
| Georgian | The Georgian word "მთლიანი" can also mean "integral" or "whole number" in a mathematical context. |
| German | The German word "ganze" is likely cognate with the English "gander." |
| Greek | "Ολόκληρος" can also mean "completely" or "all". |
| Haitian Creole | The word "antye" in Haitian Creole originated from the French word "entier" and is also used to express the idea of "complete" or "fully formed". |
| Hausa | "Dùká" also refers to the whole number, sum of units or aggregate, entirety. |
| Hawaiian | The word "holoʻokoʻa" can also mean "entirely" or "completely". |
| Hebrew | "כל" in the Bible also means "completely" as in the phrase "with all your heart" (דברים יג, ד). |
| Hindi | The word "पूरा का पूरा" is also often used figuratively to mean the utmost or the best. |
| Hmong | "Tag nrho" also means "all" or "every" in Hmong. |
| Hungarian | In Hungarian, the word "egész" not only means "whole" but also can refer to the set of all real numbers, like "integerek," the integers. |
| Icelandic | In the plural form heilar it can also refer to an amulet worn against witchcraft or illness. |
| Igbo | The word "dum" in Igbo can also mean "complete" or "thorough". |
| Indonesian | "Seluruh" derives from Sanskrit "sa-luru", meaning "all-rolling" or "all-extending". |
| Irish | The word "iomlán" in Irish is derived from the Proto-Celtic word "*ɸel-m̥h₂-nóm", which also means "much" or "many". |
| Italian | Totality is derived from the Latin word "totalis", which means "whole" or "complete" and is related to the word "total". |
| Japanese | "全体" (pronounced "zentai") in Japanese originally meant "all the world under the heavens." |
| Javanese | The term 'kabèh' ('whole') in Javanese also carries a sense of totality, completeness, and wholeness in a spiritual or existential sense |
| Kannada | The word "ಸಂಪೂರ್ಣ" can also mean "complete" or "perfect". |
| Khmer | The word "ទាំងមូល" in Khmer originates from the Sanskrit word "samūla" which also means "whole" or "complete". |
| Korean | 전부의 is a Sino-Korean word composed of two characters meaning 'all' and 'part', respectively. |
| Kurdish | The word "giştî" in Kurdish also means "all" or "every". |
| Kyrgyz | The word "бүтүн" is derived from "бүтүү" meaning "to end", and can also mean "complete" or "full". |
| Latin | The word "totius" in Latin can also refer to the "totality" or "entire amount" of something. |
| Latvian | The word "vesels" comes from a proto-Baltic word meaning "healthy" or "fresh" and is related to the Sanskrit word "vas" which means "to shine" or "to dwell." |
| Lithuanian | "Visas" can also mean "everyone" in Lithuanian. |
| Luxembourgish | The Luxembourgish word "ganz" also has the alternate meaning of "completely". |
| Macedonian | The word "целина" can also refer to virgin land or unexplored territory. |
| Malagasy | The word "MANONTOLO" in Malagasy can also mean "complete" or "perfect." |
| Malay | The Malay word "keseluruhan" shares etymology with the Arabic word "kulliyyat" (universe) and the Sanskrit word "sarva" (all). |
| Malayalam | മുഴുവനും comes from the word 'മുഴു' which means 'knee' and 'whole' or 'full' or 'entire'. |
| Maltese | The word "sħiħ" can also mean "full" or "complete" in Maltese. |
| Maori | In the Māori language, the word "katoa" does not solely refer to the concept of "whole" but also extends to encompass the idea of "all" or "totality." |
| Marathi | The word "संपूर्ण" in Marathi derives from the Sanskrit word "सम्पूर्ण", meaning "complete" or "perfect". |
| Nepali | पूर्ण comes from the Sanskrit word ** पूर्ण **, which means "complete" or "perfect". |
| Norwegian | The word 'hel' also means 'good luck' or 'fortune' in Norwegian and is often used as a greeting or farewell. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word 'kwathunthu' in Nyanja can also refer to 'perfection' or 'completeness'. |
| Pashto | The Pashto word ټول (whole) also has the alternate meaning of "all" or "the entirety". |
| Persian | "کامل" in addition to meaning "complete", can also mean "perfect", as well "lack of deficiency." |
| Polish | Polish word "cały" has other meanings, like "all", "full" or "intact". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "todo" in Portuguese comes from the Latin "totus," meaning "all". It can also mean "every" or "complete." |
| Punjabi | The word "ਪੂਰਾ" also means "complete", "full", "perfect", or "accomplished" in Punjabi, connoting a state of entirety and flawlessness. |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "întreg" comes from the Latin "integrum", meaning "untouched, entire, whole". |
| Russian | The word "все" in Russian can also mean "all". |
| Samoan | "Atoa" in Samoan can also mean "in general" or "on the whole" |
| Scots Gaelic | The word "slàn" also has the connotation of "uninjured" or "healthy" in Scots Gaelic. |
| Serbian | In agriculture, the term „cêlina” also refers to a type of field that has been left uncultivated for an extended period of time. |
| Sesotho | "Ka botlalo" also refers to "completely", "thoroughly", "entirely", or "fully". |
| Shona | Zvakakwana means 'complete' or 'perfect', and is also a Shona word that refers to the state of being both physically and spiritually sound. |
| Sindhi | "سمورو" is derived from the Sanskrit word 'समूळ', which means 'complete' or 'intact'. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | "සමස්ත" is derived from the Sanskrit word "samastha" meaning "all" or "complete". |
| Slovak | The word "celý" can also mean "entire" or "all" in Slovak. |
| Slovenian | The word 'celota' in Slovenian also has the meanings 'entire' or 'intact'. |
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| Spanish | In Spanish, the word "todo" can also mean "all" or "everything". |
| Sundanese | The word "sakabeh" can also refer to a group of people |
| Swahili | The Swahili word "nzima" can also mean "healthy", "safe", or "complete." |
| Swedish | The word 'hela' can also mean 'entire' or 'complete' and has an archaic meaning of 'all' in Swedish. |
| Tajik | The word "тамоми" in Tajik can also mean "perfect" or "complete". |
| Telugu | "మొత్తం" also means: the total amount or sum; the complete or entire quantity; an aggregate or collection." |
| Thai | In the context of time, "ทั้งหมด" can also mean "since the beginning". |
| Turkish | The Turkish word "bütün" derives from the Persian "butun" meaning "complete" and is also related to the Arabic word "batin" meaning "internal". |
| Ukrainian | "Ціле" can also mean "object" or "aim" in Ukrainian. |
| Urdu | The word "پوری" also means "a flat, deep-fried bread" in Urdu. |
| Uzbek | Butun also refers to "something complete," "full," or "a large quantity". |
| Vietnamese | The etymology of "toàn bộ" is from Chinese "全部", meaning "entire" or "all". |
| Welsh | Cyfan is related to the English word 'even', which also has the sense of 'level' or 'flat' |
| Xhosa | The Xhosa word "iphelele" finds its etymological roots in the Bantu term "pela", meaning "to complete" or "to fulfill". Beyond its primary meaning of "whole" or "complete", "iphelele" also carries connotations of "perfection", "thoroughness", and "integrity" in Xhosa culture. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "גאַנץ" (gantz) is derived from the Middle High German "ganz" and also means "very" or "quite". |
| Yoruba | In some Yoruba dialects, the word 'gbogbo' can also refer to the 'universe' or the 'totality of existence'. |
| Zulu | The Zulu word 'okuphelele' also means 'finished' or 'complete'. |
| English | The word whole comes from the Old English word hal, which means 'sound' or 'healthy'. |