Afrikaans wydverspreid | ||
Albanian e përhapur | ||
Amharic የተስፋፋ | ||
Arabic واسع الانتشار | ||
Armenian համատարած | ||
Assamese ব্যাপক | ||
Aymara wali jach’anchatawa | ||
Azerbaijani geniş yayılmışdır | ||
Bambara a jɛnsɛnnen don yɔrɔ bɛɛ | ||
Basque hedatua | ||
Belarusian шырока распаўсюджаны | ||
Bengali বিস্তৃত | ||
Bhojpuri व्यापक रूप से फइलल बा | ||
Bosnian rašireno | ||
Bulgarian широко разпространен | ||
Catalan estesa | ||
Cebuano kaylap | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 广泛 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 廣泛 | ||
Corsican diffusa | ||
Croatian rašireno | ||
Czech rozšířený | ||
Danish udbredt | ||
Dhivehi ފުޅާދާއިރާއެއްގައި | ||
Dogri व्यापक रूप से फैलाया | ||
Dutch wijd verspreid | ||
English widespread | ||
Esperanto disvastigita | ||
Estonian laialt levinud | ||
Ewe kaka ɖe teƒe geɖe | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) laganap | ||
Finnish laajalle levinnyt | ||
French répandu | ||
Frisian wiidferspraat | ||
Galician xeneralizado | ||
Georgian ფართოდ გავრცელებული | ||
German weit verbreitet | ||
Greek διαδεδομένη | ||
Guarani ojeipysóva | ||
Gujarati વ્યાપક | ||
Haitian Creole toupatou | ||
Hausa tartsatsi | ||
Hawaiian pālahalaha | ||
Hebrew נָפוֹץ | ||
Hindi बड़े पैमाने पर | ||
Hmong thoob plaws | ||
Hungarian széles körben elterjedt | ||
Icelandic útbreidd | ||
Igbo gbasasịa | ||
Ilocano nasaknap | ||
Indonesian tersebar luas | ||
Irish forleathan | ||
Italian molto diffuso | ||
Japanese 広く普及 | ||
Javanese nyebar | ||
Kannada ವ್ಯಾಪಕ | ||
Kazakh кең таралған | ||
Khmer រីករាលដាល | ||
Kinyarwanda ikwirakwira hose | ||
Konkani व्यापकपणान पातळ्ळां | ||
Korean 펼친 | ||
Krio we de ɔlsay | ||
Kurdish bela | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) بەربڵاوە | ||
Kyrgyz жайылган | ||
Lao ແຜ່ຂະຫຍາຍຢ່າງກວ້າງຂວາງ | ||
Latin latissime | ||
Latvian plaši izplatīts | ||
Lingala epalangani mingi | ||
Lithuanian paplitęs | ||
Luganda ebunye wonna | ||
Luxembourgish verbreet | ||
Macedonian широко распространето | ||
Maithili व्यापक रूप से | ||
Malagasy miely patrana | ||
Malay meluas | ||
Malayalam വ്യാപകമാണ് | ||
Maltese mifruxa | ||
Maori whanui | ||
Marathi व्यापक | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯄꯥꯛ ꯁꯟꯅꯥ ꯁꯟꯗꯣꯀꯄꯥ꯫ | ||
Mizo a darh zau hle | ||
Mongolian өргөн тархсан | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ကျယ်ပြန့် | ||
Nepali व्यापक | ||
Norwegian utbredt | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kufalikira | ||
Odia (Oriya) ବ୍ୟାପକ | ||
Oromo bal’inaan kan mul’atudha | ||
Pashto پراخه | ||
Persian بطور گسترده | ||
Polish rozpowszechniony | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) generalizado | ||
Punjabi ਵਿਆਪਕ | ||
Quechua tukuyniqpi mast’arisqa | ||
Romanian larg răspândită | ||
Russian широко распространен | ||
Samoan salalau | ||
Sanskrit व्यापकः | ||
Scots Gaelic farsaing | ||
Sepedi e phatlaletšego | ||
Serbian раширено | ||
Sesotho atile | ||
Shona zvakapararira | ||
Sindhi وڏي پيماني تي | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) පුළුල් | ||
Slovak rozšírený | ||
Slovenian razširjena | ||
Somali baahsan | ||
Spanish extendido | ||
Sundanese nyebar | ||
Swahili kuenea | ||
Swedish utbredd | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) laganap | ||
Tajik васеъ паҳншуда | ||
Tamil பரவலாக | ||
Tatar киң таралган | ||
Telugu విస్తృతంగా | ||
Thai แพร่หลาย | ||
Tigrinya ሰፊሕ ምዃኑ’ዩ። | ||
Tsonga ku hangalakile | ||
Turkish yaygın | ||
Turkmen giňden ýaýrandyr | ||
Twi (Akan) a ɛtrɛwee | ||
Ukrainian широко поширений | ||
Urdu بڑے پیمانے پر | ||
Uyghur كەڭ تارقالغان | ||
Uzbek keng tarqalgan | ||
Vietnamese phổ biến rộng rãi | ||
Welsh eang | ||
Xhosa isasazeke ngokubanzi | ||
Yiddish וויידספּרעד | ||
Yoruba ibigbogbo | ||
Zulu kwandile |
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word 'wydverspreid' is derived from the Dutch word 'wijdverspreid' and can also mean 'far-reaching' or 'comprehensive'. |
| Albanian | E përhpur translates as "widespread" from Albanian but can also mean "scattered". |
| Amharic | The word "የተስፋፋ" can also mean "to spread out" or "to be dispersed". |
| Azerbaijani | In Turkish, "yaygın" means "widespread", but it can also mean "common" or "ordinary". |
| Basque | The verb |
| Bengali | The word "বিস্তৃত" can also mean "expansive" or "extensive" in the context of area or space. |
| Bosnian | The word "rašireno" in Bosnian comes from the Proto-Slavic word "širъ", meaning "wide" or "broad". |
| Bulgarian | The word "широко разпространен" is a compound adjective, composed of the words "широк" (wide) and "разпространен" (disseminated), and thus literally means "widely disseminated" |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "estesa" is also used to mean "range" or "scope" in Spanish, and "extent" in English. |
| Cebuano | The word 'kaylap' can also refer to something that is widely known. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "广泛"也可指"广泛的领域"或"广泛的用途"。 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | **廣泛** originated from **廣** (wide) and **泛** (overflow). |
| Corsican | Diffusa is Latin for 'spreading out', its original meaning is 'scattered', 'dispersed', 'spread' (of plants) |
| Croatian | The word 'rašireno' in Croatian is of Slavic origin and is used to describe something that is widely distributed or prevalent |
| Czech | The word "rozšířený" can also mean "extended" or "enlarged". |
| Danish | The word "udbredt" is also used in Danish to describe a physical distribution, such as the spread of a disease or the distribution of a population. |
| Dutch | The word "wijd verspreid" can also mean "far-reaching" or "extensive". |
| Esperanto | Disvastigita, meaning 'widespread' in Esperanto, is also used to describe a painful condition characterized by burning, stinging, or itching in different parts of the body. |
| Estonian | The word "laialt levinud" also means "widely spread" and is derived from the words "laialt" (widely) and "levinud" (spread). |
| Finnish | Levinnyt is derived from the verb levittäytyä (to spread) and ultimately from the Proto-Uralic root *lewe- "to spread, scatter". |
| French | Répandu's alternate meaning is "of a liquid, spread out, diluted." |
| Frisian | The word 'wiidferspraat' comes from the Old Frisian word 'wiid' which means 'wide' and 'ferspraat' which means 'scattered'. |
| Galician | The word "xeneralizado" in Galician derives from Latin "generalis," but can also refer to something common or ordinary. |
| German | "Weit verbreitet" (widespread) goes back to Middle High German "wit varen", meaning "to travel widely". |
| Greek | The word διαδεδομένη also means "distributed" or "disseminated". |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "વ્યાપક" ("widespread") comes from the Sanskrit word "व्यापक" ("all-pervading"), which is derived from the prefix "वि" ("in all directions") and the root "आप्" ("to reach"). |
| Haitian Creole | The word "toupatou" in Haitian Creole originated from the French word "tout partout" meaning "everywhere" or "all over the place." |
| Hausa | Tartsatsi can also mean 'large', 'broad' or 'vast'. |
| Hawaiian | The Hawaiian word "pālahalaha" can also refer to a creeping vine, resembling the groundsel plant. |
| Hebrew | The word 'נָפוֹץ' ('scattered') is derived from the verb נפץ ('to scatter'). |
| Hindi | The Hindi word 'बड़े पैमाने पर' (baṛe paimāne par) literally means 'on a large scale' and can also refer to 'extensive' or 'far-reaching' matters. |
| Hmong | The Hmong word "thoob plaws" can also refer to the act of spreading out or opening up something. |
| Hungarian | The term "széles körben elterjedt" is an idiomatic expression derived from the words széles (wide) and kör (circle). |
| Icelandic | "Útbreidd" literally means "carried out", referring to the act of spreading something over a wide area. |
| Igbo | The word "gbasasịa" in Igbo can also mean "to spread out" or "to scatter." |
| Indonesian | The Indonesian word "tersebar luas" can also mean "known everywhere" or "published everywhere". |
| Irish | The word "forleathan" in Irish has alternate meanings such as "very broad" and "extensively spread". |
| Italian | The word 'molto diffuso', meaning 'widespread', originates from Latin verb 'diffundo', meaning spread out. |
| Japanese | The word 全答共 is sometimes pronounced 傮答共, with a slightly different meaning. |
| Javanese | The word "nyebar" has other meanings, such as "to move away" or "to disperse". |
| Kannada | The word "ವ್ಯಾಪಕ" is derived from the Sanskrit word "विपक" (vipak), meaning "consequences" or "effects". |
| Kazakh | It also means |
| Khmer | The term is derived from Sanskrit, where ''rīkrālayah'' means "to stretch out." |
| Korean | 펼친 was originally written as 폔친 and comes from the Middle Chinese word 披陳 (pi-tyin). |
| Kurdish | The Kurdish word "bela" is etymologically related to the Persian word "balā", meaning "disaster" or "calamity." |
| Latin | "Latissime", meaning widespread, derives from Latin latus and is related to terms like latitude and lateral. |
| Latvian | Plaši izplatīts literally means "widely spread out". |
| Lithuanian | Its stem, paplit-, shares the root with the verb plisti, |
| Macedonian | The word "широко распространето" in Macedonian can also mean "common" or "prevalent". |
| Malagasy | "Miely patrana" literally means "scattered like the fruit of the patrana tree". |
| Malay | The word "meluas" comes from the Malay word "luas", meaning "wide" or "extensive". |
| Malayalam | "വ്യാപകമാണ്" is a Malayalam word used to describe something common, prevalent or general. |
| Maltese | The word "mifruxa" is derived from the Arabic word "farakha", meaning "roomy" or "wide". |
| Maori | "Whā" in "whānui" means "extend" or "stretch out" and "nui" means "big" or "great." |
| Marathi | "व्यापक" also means "inclusive" or "comprehensive" in Marathi. |
| Nepali | The word "व्यापक" in Nepali is derived from Sanskrit and can also mean "comprehensive" or "extensive". |
| Norwegian | The Norwegian word "utbredt" can also mean "common", "abundant", or "extensive". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "kufalikira" also means "to spread out" or "to scatter" in Nyanja. |
| Pashto | The word "پراخه" in Pashto comes from the Proto-Indo-European root "per-", meaning "across" or "beyond". |
| Persian | بطور گسترده is not only used to mean widespread but also in the meanings of comprehensive, general or most. |
| Polish | "Rozpowszechniony" also means "commonly shared" or "frequently distributed". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | "Generalizado" can also mean "universalized" or "absolute". |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "larg răspândită" (widespread) is used in the context of geographic areas, diseases, and ideas, reflecting its broad semantic range. |
| Russian | Широко распространен, is derived from the root |
| Samoan | Salalau can also refer to the act of distributing something evenly. |
| Scots Gaelic | The Old Irish word farsuing ('extending') is the ancestor of the modern Gaelic word farsaing. |
| Serbian | The word "раширено" in Serbian can also mean "enlarged" or "dilated" in the context of a medical condition. |
| Sesotho | The noun "atile" also means "an assembly of people called by a chief or other person in authority" in Sesotho. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | "පුළුල්" can also mean to be broad-reaching, comprehensive, extensive, or all-inclusive. |
| Slovak | The word "rozšírený" also means "common" or "well-known" in Slovak. |
| Slovenian | The word 'razširjena' is derived from the Proto-Slavic root *šir-, meaning 'wide' or 'broad'. It is also related to the Russian word 'широкий' (shirokiy), meaning 'wide' or 'broad', and the Polish word 'szeroki' (szeroki), meaning 'wide' or 'broad'. |
| Somali | "Baahsan" also means "extensive" or "vast". |
| Spanish | The verb "extender" in Latin meant to stretch out, which is similar to its current meaning in Spanish of "to expand or spread out". |
| Sundanese | "Nyebar" can also mean "scattered" or "dispersed". |
| Swahili | The word "kuenea" in Swahili also means "to expand" or "to increase in size or number". |
| Swedish | The word "utbredd" is the past participle of the verb "utbreda", which means "to spread out" or "to disperse". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The Tagalog word "laganap" originally described a plague or epidemic, but it later shifted to its modern meaning of "widespread". |
| Tajik | The word "васеъ паҳншуда" is derived from the Persian word "گسترده" (gostardeh), which means "spread out" or "extended." |
| Tamil | "பரவலாக" can also mean to spread, be propagated or be distributed. |
| Thai | The term 'แพร่หลาย' (widespread) derives from the word 'แพร่' (spread), which can also refer to the dissemination of knowledge or information. |
| Turkish | The word "yaygın" is also used to describe something that is common or prevalent in a certain area or among a certain group of people. |
| Ukrainian | "Широкий" comes from the Proto-Slavic root *širъ, meaning "wide" or "broad". "Поширений" comes from the Proto-Slavic root *širъ, meaning "to spread" or "to scatter". |
| Uzbek | "Keng tarqalgan" is also the name of a variety of Bukharan grapes that is dark purple in color. |
| Vietnamese | "Phổ biến rộng rãi" is a Vietnamese term that means "spread widely" or "be prevalent". It is derived from the Chinese term "普及", which has the same meaning. |
| Welsh | The word "eang" in Welsh also means "a wide expanse" or "a plain". |
| Xhosa | The word "isasazeke ngokubanzi" contains the root word "isasa", meaning "spread" or "space", and can also mean "all" or "everywhere" when used in other contexts. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "וויידספּרעד" ('veyshprayt') derives from the German word "weit" ('wide') and the Middle High German word "spreiten" ('to spread'). |
| Yoruba | The original sense of the word is "to be scattered abroad". |
| Zulu | In Nguni languages, the word 'kwandile' also means 'to be spread out' or 'to be scattered'. |
| English | "Widespread" derives from "wide" and "spread" meaning "distributed over a wide area". |