gargantuan

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɡɑːˈɡæn.t͡ʃu.ən/
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From French Gargantua, a giant with a very large appetite in Rabelais's The Inestimable Life of Gargantua. Rabelais derived Gargantua from the Portuguese and Spanish garganta (“throat”).

44 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Danish: gigantisk — huge
• Danish: enorm — huge
• Dutch: immens — huge
• Estonian: hiiglaslik — huge
• Estonian: hiigelsuur — huge
• Finnish: valtava — huge
• Finnish: jättiläismäinen — huge
• Finnish: jättimäinen — huge
• Finnish: suunnaton — huge
• French: gargantuesque — huge
• German: gigantisch — huge
• Hungarian: rettentő nagy — huge
• Hungarian: óriási — huge
• Indonesian: besar — huge
• Indonesian: raksasa — huge
• Indonesian: luar biasa — huge
• Italian: gigantesco — huge
• Italian: gargantuesco — huge
• Japanese: 巨大な (kyodaina) — huge
• Japanese: 膨大な (bōdaina) — huge
• Japanese: 夥しい (obitadashī) — huge
• Kannada: ಬೃಹದಾಕಾರದ (bṛhadākārada) — huge
• Kannada: ದೈತ್ಯಾಕಾರದ (daityākārada) — huge
• Kannada: ವಿಪರೀತ (viparīta) — huge
• Kannada: ದೊಡ್ಡ (doḍḍa) — huge
• Kannada: ರಾಕ್ಷಸಾಕಾರದ (rākṣasākārada) — huge
• Macedonian: гига́нтски (gigántski) — huge
• Malayalam: വളരെ വലിയ (vaḷare valiya) — huge
• Polish: gigantyczny — huge
• Polish: gargantuiczny — huge
• Romanian: imens — huge
• Romanian: enorm — huge
• Romanian: uriaș — huge
• Romanian: colosal — huge
• Russian: гига́нтский (gigántskij) — huge
• Spanish: agigantado — huge
• Spanish: descomunal — huge
• Swedish: gigantisk — huge
• Swedish: enorm — huge
• French: gargantuesque — of the giant Gargantua or his appetite
• Italian: gargantuesco — of the giant Gargantua or his appetite
• Japanese: ガルガンチュワの (Garuganchuwa no) — of the giant Gargantua or his appetite
• Polish: gargantuiczny — of the giant Gargantua or his appetite
• Romanian: gargantuesc — of the giant Gargantua or his appetite