Worth in Different Languages
Discover 'Worth' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Worth
Afrikaans werd | ||
Albanian me vlerë | ||
Amharic ዋጋ ያለው | ||
Arabic يستحق | ||
Armenian արժե | ||
Assamese মূল্য | ||
Aymara chani | ||
Azerbaijani dəyər | ||
Bambara nafa | ||
Basque merezi du | ||
Belarusian варта | ||
Bengali মূল্য | ||
Bhojpuri लायक | ||
Bosnian vrijedi | ||
Bulgarian заслужава си | ||
Catalan val la pena | ||
Cebuano kantidad | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 价值 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 價值 | ||
Corsican vale | ||
Croatian vrijedan | ||
Czech hodnota | ||
Danish værdi | ||
Dhivehi އަގުހުރި | ||
Dogri उकात | ||
Dutch waard | ||
English worth | ||
Esperanto valoras | ||
Estonian väärt | ||
Ewe xɔ asi | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) nagkakahalaga | ||
Finnish arvoinen | ||
French vaut | ||
Frisian wearde | ||
Galician paga a pena | ||
Georgian ღირს | ||
German wert | ||
Greek αξία | ||
Guarani ovaléva | ||
Gujarati વર્થ | ||
Haitian Creole vo | ||
Hausa daraja | ||
Hawaiian waiwai | ||
Hebrew שִׁוּוּי | ||
Hindi लायक | ||
Hmong tsim nyog | ||
Hungarian érdemes | ||
Icelandic virði | ||
Igbo kwesịrị | ||
Ilocano pateg | ||
Indonesian bernilai | ||
Irish fiú | ||
Italian di valore | ||
Japanese 価値 | ||
Javanese regane | ||
Kannada ಮೌಲ್ಯದ | ||
Kazakh құнды | ||
Khmer មានតម្លៃ | ||
Kinyarwanda agaciro | ||
Konkani वालोर | ||
Korean 가치 | ||
Krio valyu | ||
Kurdish giranbiha | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) شایستە | ||
Kyrgyz баалуу | ||
Lao ຄຸ້ມຄ່າ | ||
Latin dignitas | ||
Latvian vērts | ||
Lingala ntina | ||
Lithuanian verta | ||
Luganda omuwendo | ||
Luxembourgish wäert | ||
Macedonian вреден | ||
Maithili महत्व | ||
Malagasy manan-danja | ||
Malay bernilai | ||
Malayalam വിലമതിക്കുന്നു | ||
Maltese jiswa | ||
Maori utu | ||
Marathi किमतीची | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯃꯃꯜ ꯂꯩꯕ | ||
Mizo hlutna | ||
Mongolian үнэ цэнэтэй | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) တန်ဖိုးရှိ | ||
Nepali लायक | ||
Norwegian verdi | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) ofunika | ||
Odia (Oriya) ମୂଲ୍ୟ | ||
Oromo gatii | ||
Pashto ارزښت لري | ||
Persian ارزش | ||
Polish wartość | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) que vale a pena | ||
Punjabi ਮੁੱਲ | ||
Quechua chaniyuq | ||
Romanian in valoare de | ||
Russian стоимость | ||
Samoan aoga | ||
Sanskrit मूल्यम् | ||
Scots Gaelic luach | ||
Sepedi theko | ||
Serbian вреди | ||
Sesotho bohlokoa | ||
Shona kukosha | ||
Sindhi جي قابل | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) වටිනා | ||
Slovak stojí za to | ||
Slovenian vredno | ||
Somali mudan | ||
Spanish valor | ||
Sundanese hargana | ||
Swahili thamani | ||
Swedish värde | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) nagkakahalaga | ||
Tajik арзанда | ||
Tamil மதிப்பு | ||
Tatar кыйммәт | ||
Telugu విలువ | ||
Thai คุ้ม | ||
Tigrinya ዋጋ | ||
Tsonga ntikelo | ||
Turkish değer | ||
Turkmen gymmaty | ||
Twi (Akan) som bo | ||
Ukrainian вартий | ||
Urdu قابل | ||
Uyghur ئەرزىيدۇ | ||
Uzbek arziydi | ||
Vietnamese đáng giá | ||
Welsh werth | ||
Xhosa ixabiso | ||
Yiddish ווערט | ||
Yoruba tọ | ||
Zulu kuwufanele |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "werd" is also used to mean "value" or "esteem". |
| Albanian | In Albanian, 'me vlerë' can also mean 'of value', 'of worth', 'valuable', 'worthy', or 'esteemed'. |
| Amharic | The noun "ዋጋ" also means "price," and the verb "ዋጋ" means "to weigh" or "to value." |
| Arabic | The word "يستحق" (worth) in Arabic can also mean "to deserve" or "to be entitled to" something. |
| Armenian | "արժե" also means "it's worth" or "it's worth the effort". |
| Azerbaijani | In Azerbaijani, |
| Basque | The word "merezi du" in Basque can also mean "to be worth it" or "to deserve". |
| Belarusian | Варта also refers to the traditional system of night patrols in some Belarusian villages. |
| Bengali | The word "মূল্য" can also mean "root" or "origin". |
| Bulgarian | The verb 'заслужава' comes from the Old Church Slavonic word 'zasluga', meaning 'service' or 'merit', and retains this meaning in modern Bulgarian. |
| Catalan | The Catalan phrase "val la pena" has a double meaning related to the verb "valer" (to be worth) and the substantive "pena" (pain, discomfort, or trouble), suggesting that something is worthwhile despite any potential discomfort or effort involved. |
| Cebuano | The Cebuano word "kantidad" is also used to refer to one's social status or prestige. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The word "价值" can also mean "ethics" or "quality". |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The word 價值 (worth) in Chinese shares its etymology with the word 貴 (noble, expensive), indicating that something's worth was determined by its scarcity. |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "vale" also means "good" and it has the same etymology as the Italian "bene" and the Latin "bene". |
| Croatian | The word 'vrijedan' (worth) is also used to describe something that is 'good' or 'valuable'. |
| Czech | The word "hodnota" in Czech can also mean "value", "importance", or "quality." |
| Danish | "Værdi" is related to the Old High German "werdan," "to become," and the Old Norse "verða." |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "waard" can also refer to an innkeeper or the value of something. |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word "valoras" is related to the Latin word "valere", both of which mean "be strong" or "have value". |
| Estonian | The Estonian word "väärt" derives from the Proto-Finnic "*warta", meaning "value" or "merit". |
| Finnish | The word "arvoinen" in Finnish has several other meanings, including "esteemed" and "worthy." |
| French | A wordplay on vauter or sauter, to bounce, as in, « ça vaut pas cher » (lit. it doesn't bounce much), meaning « it's not worth much ». |
| Frisian | In Frisian, the word "wearde" has an alternate meaning of "respect" or "honor". |
| Galician | In Galician, "paga a pena" comes from the noun "pena" (suffering, pain), indicating something that's worth the potential negative consequences. |
| German | The German word "wert" derives from the Middle Low German "werth", meaning "price" or "value," and is related to the English word "worth." |
| Greek | The word "αξία" in Greek can also mean "value", "merit", or "esteem", and is derived from the word "ἄγειν" (agein), meaning "to lead" or "to bring". |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "વર્થ" (worth) is derived from the Sanskrit word "वृद्धि" (increase or growth), and also means "increase" or "growth" in Gujarati. |
| Haitian Creole | The Haitian Creole word "vo" can also mean "good" or "well." |
| Hausa | The word "daraja" also means "step" or "grade" in Hausa. |
| Hawaiian | The Hawaiian word 'waiwai' can also mean 'abundant' or 'plenty'. |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "שִׁוּוּי" (worth) also means "equality" or "sameness", indicating a conceptual link between worth and equivalence in Hebrew thought. |
| Hindi | The term 'लायक' (layak) originates from the Arabic 'la-yiqo', meaning 'not suitable', but in Hindi has taken on the opposite meaning of 'worthy'. |
| Hmong | The Hmong word "tsim nyog" can also mean "value" or "importance". |
| Hungarian | Érdemes may also refer to the Hungarian poet Sándor Weöres or to Érd, a city in Hungary. |
| Icelandic | The word "virði" also means "honor" or "esteem" in Icelandic, derived from the Old Norse word "virðingr". |
| Igbo | The Igbo word "kwesịrị" has a related meaning of "befitting" or "appropriate". |
| Indonesian | The word "bernilai" is derived from the Proto-Austronesian word "*balay", meaning "price" or "value." |
| Irish | The Irish word "fiú" can also mean "value," "merit," or "esteem." |
| Italian | The Italian phrase |
| Japanese | The kanji for 価値 (worth) is also used in the word 価値観 (values), indicating that what we deem valuable shapes our worldview. |
| Javanese | The word "regane" in Javanese also means "value" or "price". |
| Kannada | ಮೌಲ್ಯದ (maulyada) may also refer to "a value" or "an estimation" in the Kannada language. |
| Kazakh | Құнды in Kazakh, related to "құн" ("price") and in a broader sense to "honor" and "glory"", originates from the verb "ұстау" ("to hold") or "ұтысу" ("to get caught"). |
| Khmer | The word មានតម្លៃ can also be used to refer to the price of something or to its value in a figurative sense, such as the value of a friendship or the value of an experience. |
| Korean | 가치 is a borrowing of the Japanese word かち ( |
| Kurdish | The word "giranbiha" in Kurdish can also refer to the price or value of something, as well as its importance or significance. |
| Latin | In the Roman Republic, dignitas was a combination of influence, reputation, and respect granted to an individual based on their social status. |
| Latvian | "vērts" also means worthy, deserving, capable, and appropriate. |
| Lithuanian | The word "verta" in Lithuanian also has the archaic meaning of "value" or "price." |
| Macedonian | "Вреден" also means "harmful" and shares its etymology with Greek "βλάπτω". |
| Malagasy | Although most commonly translated as "worth", "manan-danja" literally translates to "weighty" or "heavy". |
| Malay | The root 'nilai' in 'bernilai' is derived from the Proto-Malayo-Polynesian root *ñila 'price' or 'value'. |
| Maltese | The word "jiswa" in Maltese originates from the Arabic word "juswa". |
| Maori | Utu in Maori can also refer to a reciprocal gift or payment, or to justice or retribution. |
| Marathi | The Marathi word "किमतीची" not only refers to "worth" but also to "valuable" and "precious." |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word |
| Nepali | The word 'लायक' ('worth' in Nepali) comes from the Arabic word 'लायक' ('fitting'), which is the feminine form of 'लायक' ('fit') which has the same root as 'लाइक' in English. |
| Norwegian | In Norwegian, "verdi" also means "security" or "stock" when used in a financial context. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "ofunika" (worth) in Nyanja can also mean "value," "importance," or "significance." |
| Pashto | ارزښت لري in Pashto is also used to express the idea of being valuable or having significance. |
| Persian | ارزش comes from the Arabic root word 'arz' which means to show, present, or esteem. |
| Polish | The Polish word "wartość" derives from the Proto-Slavic root *wьrtъ, meaning "value, price, worthiness", which is linked to the concept of "turning, revolving". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | "Que vale a pena" also means "worthwhile" in both Portugal and Brazil. |
| Punjabi | The word "ਮੁੱਲ" (worth) in Punjabi is derived from the Sanskrit word "मूल्य" (value, price), which in turn comes from the Proto-Indo-European root "*mewl-" (to measure). |
| Russian | The word "стоимость" (worth in English) is derived from the Old Slavic word "стояти", meaning "to stand". It also refers to the monetary price of a good |
| Samoan | The word "aoga" also has the alternate meaning of "to pay for" in Samoan. |
| Scots Gaelic | In addition to meaning "worth" in Scots Gaelic, "luach" also means "value" or "value of property". |
| Serbian | The word "вреди" can also mean "to harm" in Serbian. |
| Sesotho | The word 'bohlokoa' can also be used to mean 'to be able to' or 'to have the capacity to'. |
| Shona | The word 'kukosha' also means to 'make something happen or come about'. |
| Sindhi | The word "جي قابل" can also mean "proper" or "fitting" in Sindhi. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The Sinhala word 'වටිනා' is derived from the Sanskrit word 'vattinati,' which also means 'to wind around' or 'to encompass' |
| Slovak | The Slovak phrase "stojí za to" can also mean "it's worth (doing something)" or "it's worthwhile to" in English. |
| Slovenian | The Slovenian word 'vredno' derives from 'vred', meaning 'worthy' or 'valuable'. It can also refer to something being important, significant, or worthy of attention. |
| Somali | "Mudan" can also refer to the traditional Somali game of strategy and skill. |
| Spanish | "Valor" also means bravery or courage, like the English word "valor". |
| Sundanese | The Sundanese word "hargana" can also refer to the price or cost of something, or to the value or importance of something. |
| Swahili | The word 'thamani' (worth) in Swahili comes from the Arabic word 'thaman', meaning 'price' or 'value'. |
| Swedish | The word "värde" comes from the Proto-Germanic "*werþuz," meaning both "worth" and "price". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The root word of "nagkakahalaga" is "halaga," which can also mean "amount," "value," or "significance." |
| Tajik | In Persian, "arzish" means "honor" or "value". However, in Tajik, "arzanda" has also taken on the meaning of "material possessions". |
| Tamil | மதிப்பு (worth) comes from a root word meaning 'to think' |
| Telugu | Though primarily indicating worth, విలువ also refers to a type of musical composition or an instrument that makes such compositions. |
| Thai | The Thai word "คุ้ม" (pronounced "khum") not only means "worth" but also refers to a type of traditional Thai house or to a specific administrative division |
| Turkish | The Turkish word "değer" shares the same etymological root as the Persian word "dīgar" meaning "other," and can also mean "value," "importance," or "esteem." |
| Ukrainian | "Вартий" can also mean "worthy" or "deserving" in Ukrainian. |
| Urdu | The word "قابل" in Urdu can have alternate meanings such as "capable" or "acceptable". |
| Uzbek | "Arziydi" also means "value" and "validity" in Uzbek. |
| Vietnamese | The word "đáng giá" also means "valuable" or "deserving" in Vietnamese. |
| Welsh | In Welsh, "werth" can also mean "value" or "esteem". |
| Xhosa | "Ixabiso" can also mean "honor" or "status" in Xhosa. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "ווערט" can also mean "dignity" or "honor". |
| Yoruba | "Tọ" can also be used as a verb meaning "to hold something against one's will". |
| Zulu | "Kuwufanele" can also mean responsibility, obligation or duty in Zulu. |
| English | The word "worth" derives from the Proto-Germanic word *werþaz, meaning "price" or "value". |