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From Middle English hevy, heviȝ, from Old English hefiġ, hefeġ, hæfiġ (“heavy; important, grave, severe, serious; oppressive, grievous; slow, dull”), from Proto-West Germanic *habīg (“heavy, hefty, weighty”), from Proto-Germanic *habīgaz (“heavy, hefty, weighty”), from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“to take, grasp, hold”). Equivalent to heave + -y. Related to have. Cognate with Scots hevy, havy, heavy (“heavy”), Saterland Frisian heeuwich, häwich (“violent, angry”), West Frisian hevich (“violent”), Dutch hevig (“violent, severe, intense, acute”), German Low German hevig (“violent, fierce, intense, angry”), German hebig (compare heftig (“fierce, severe, intense, violent, heavy”)), Icelandic höfugur (“heavy, weighty, important”), Latin capāx (“large, wide, roomy, spacious, capacious, capable, apt”). Compare typologically Russian объёмный (obʺjómnyj), ёмкий (jómkij) (akin to име́ть (imétʹ), взять (vzjatʹ)).

Etymology tree substratebor.? Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti Proto-Germanic *habjaną Proto-West Germanic *habbjan Old English hebban Middle English heven English heave English -y English heavy From heave + -y.

301 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abkhaz: ахьанҭа (axjanta) — having great weight
• Afrikaans: swaar — having great weight
• Akkadian: kabtum — having great weight
• Akkadian: kabittum — having great weight
• Akkadian: kabūtum — having great weight
• Akkadian: kabtātum — having great weight
• Aklanon: mabug-at — having great weight
• Albanian: rëndë — having great weight
• Gheg Albanian: ran — having great weight
• Guerrero Amuzgo: ja — having great weight
• Andi: гьокӏору (hokʼoru) — having great weight
• Arabic: ثَقِيل (ṯaqīl) — having great weight
• Arabic: تقيل (te'ʔīl) — having great weight
• Arabic: ثقيل (tagīl, ṯagīl) — having great weight
• Arabic: تْقيل (tqil) — having great weight
• Arabic: تقيل (tʔīl) — having great weight
• Arabic: تقيل (tʔīl) — having great weight
• Armenian: ծանր (canr) — having great weight
• Aromanian: greu — having great weight
• Assamese: গধুৰ (godhur) — having great weight
• Assamese: ভাৰী (bhari) — having great weight
• Asturian: pesáu — having great weight
• Avar: бакӏаб (bakʼab) — having great weight
• Azerbaijani: ağır — having great weight
• Bangi: -lito — having great weight
• Bashkir: ауыр (awır) — having great weight
• Basque: astun — having great weight
• Belarusian: ця́жкі́ (cjážkí) — having great weight
• Belarusian: цяжкі́́ (cjažkí́) — having great weight
• Belarusian: ва́жкі (vážki) — having great weight
• Bengali: ভারী (bhari) — having great weight
• Central Bikol: magabat — having great weight
• Breton: ponner — having great weight
• Bulgarian: те́жък (téžǎk) — having great weight
• Burmese: လေး (le:) — having great weight
• Burmese: လေးလံ (le:lam) — having great weight
• Buryat: хүндэ (xünde) — having great weight
• Carpathian Rusyn: тяжкый (tjažkŷj) — having great weight
• Catalan: feixuc — having great weight
• Catalan: pesant — having great weight
• Cebuano: bug-at — having great weight
• Chamicuro: pwawa — having great weight
• Chechen: деза (deza) — having great weight
• Chechen: еза (jeza) — having great weight
• Chepang: लीःसा — having great weight
• Cherokee: ᎦᎨᏓ (gageda) — having great weight
• Chinese Cantonese: 重 (cung3) — having great weight
• Chinese Mandarin: 重 (zhòng) — having great weight
• Chinese Mandarin: 沉重 (chénzhòng) — having great weight
• Chuvash: йывӑр (jyvăr) — having great weight
• Ngazidja Comorian: -dziro — having great weight
• Crimean Tatar: ağır — having great weight
• Crimean Tatar: avur — having great weight
• Czech: těžký — having great weight
• Dalmatian: pesaint — having great weight
• Danish: tung — having great weight
• Dutch: zwaar — having great weight
• Erzya: стака (staka) — having great weight
• Esperanto: peza — having great weight
• Estonian: raske — having great weight
• Even: ургэ (urgə) — having great weight
• Evenki: ургэ (urgə) — having great weight
• Faroese: tungur — having great weight
• Finnish: painava — having great weight
• Finnish: raskas — having great weight
• French: lourd — having great weight
• French: pesant — having great weight
• West-Frisian: swier — having great weight
• Friulian: grivi — having great weight
• Friulian: pesant — having great weight
• Gagauz: aar — having great weight
• Galician: pesado — having great weight
• Georgian: მძიმე (mʒime) — having great weight
• German: schwer — having great weight
• Greek: βαρύς (varýs) — having great weight
• Ancient Greek: βαρύς (barús) — having great weight
• Haitian Creole: lou — having great weight
• Hawaiian: kaumaha — having great weight
• Hebrew: כָּבֵד (kavéd) — having great weight
• Higaonon: mabug-at — having great weight
• Hiligaynon: mabug-at — having great weight
• Hindi: भारा (bhārā) — having great weight
• White Hmong: nyhav — having great weight
• Hungarian: nehéz — having great weight
• Icelandic: þungur — having great weight
• Ido: grava — having great weight
• Ilocano: nadagas — having great weight
• Ilocano: nadagsen — having great weight
• Indonesian: berat — having great weight
• Ingush: деза (deza) — having great weight
• Ingush: еза (jeza) — having great weight
• Irish: trom — having great weight
• Old Irish: trom — having great weight
• Italian: pesante — having great weight
• Japanese: 重い (omoi) — having great weight
• Javanese: abot — having great weight
• Old Javanese: bot — having great weight
• Kaitag: декӏ (deḳ) — having great weight
• Kapampangan: mabayat — having great weight
• Kashubian: cãżczi — having great weight
• Kazakh: ауыр (auyr) — having great weight
• Khmer: ធ្ងន់ (thngŭən) — having great weight
• Korean: 무겁다 (mugeopda) — having great weight
• Central Kurdish: قورس (qurs) — having great weight
• Northern Kurdish: giran — having great weight
• Kyrgyz: оор (oor) — having great weight
• Ladino: pezgado — having great weight
• Lao: ຫນັກ (nak) — having great weight
• Latin: gravis — having great weight
• Latvian: smags — having great weight
• Lingala: zito — having great weight
• Lithuanian: sunkus — having great weight
• Luxembourgish: schwéier — having great weight
• Macedonian: тежок (težok) — having great weight
• Malagasy: mavesatra — having great weight
• Malay: berat — having great weight
• Manchu: ᡠᠵᡝᠨ (ujen) — having great weight
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: meveɣat — having great weight
• Mansaka: bugat — having great weight
• Marathi: जड (j̈aḍ) — having great weight
• Mauritian Creole: lour — having great weight
• Central Melanau: baat — having great weight
• Middle English: hevy — having great weight
• Minangkabau: barek — having great weight
• Moksha: стака (staka) — having great weight
• Mongolian: хүнд (xünd) — having great weight
• Nanai: хуйгэ (hujge) — having great weight
• Navajo: nisdaaz — having great weight
• Navajo: ndaaz — having great weight
• Neapolitan: pesante — having great weight
• Norman: b'sant — having great weight
• Norwegian Bokmål: tung — having great weight
• Norwegian Bokmål: vektig — having great weight
• Norwegian Nynorsk: tung — having great weight
• Norwegian Nynorsk: vektig — having great weight
• Occitan: pesuc — having great weight
• Odia: ଭାରି (bhāri) — having great weight
• Old Church Slavonic: тѧжькъ (tęžĭkŭ) — having great weight
• Old English: hefiġ — having great weight
• Old English: pīs — having great weight
• Old English: swǣr — having great weight
• Old Norse: þungr — having great weight
• Oromo: ulfaataa — having great weight
• Ossetian: уӕззау (wæzzaw) — having great weight
• Papiamentu: pisá — having great weight
• Pashto: دروند (drund) — having great weight
• Persian: سنگین (sangin) — having great weight
• Piedmontese: gravos — having great weight
• Plautdietsch: schwoa — having great weight
• Polish: ciężki — having great weight
• Portuguese: pesado — having great weight
• Quechua: llasaq — having great weight
• Rapa Nui: pagaha'a — having great weight
• Réunion Creole French: lour — having great weight
• Rohingya: bór — having great weight
• Romani: pharo — having great weight
• Romanian: greu — having great weight
• Romansh: grev — having great weight
• Romansh: greiv — having great weight
• Romansh: greav — having great weight
• Romansh: pesant — having great weight
• Romansh: pesont — having great weight
• Romansh: pasànt — having great weight
• Romansh: pasant — having great weight
• Russian: тяжёлый (tjažólyj) — having great weight
• Russian: тя́жкий (tjážkij) — having great weight
• Sanskrit: गुरु (guru) — having great weight
• Santali: ᱚᱡᱚᱨ (ôjôr) — having great weight
• Scottish Gaelic: trom — having great weight
• Serbo-Croatian: те́жак — having great weight
• Serbo-Croatian: téžak — having great weight
• Shor: аар (aar) — having great weight
• Sicilian: pisanti — having great weight
• Sikkimese: ལྕི་པོ (lci po) — having great weight
• Slovak: ťažký — having great weight
• Slovene: težek — having great weight
• Somali: culus — having great weight
• Lower Sorbian: śěžki — having great weight
• Spanish: pesado — having great weight
• Spanish: onusto — having great weight
• Sundanese: abot — having great weight
• Swahili: zito — having great weight
• Swedish: tung — having great weight
• Tagalog: mabigat — having great weight
• Tajik: вазнин (vaznin) — having great weight
• Tajik: сангин (sangin) — having great weight
• Tajik: гарон (garon) — having great weight
• Tarantino: pesande — having great weight
• Tatar: авыр (awır) — having great weight
• Tausug: mabuggat — having great weight
• Telugu: బరువైన (baruvaina) — having great weight
• Tetum: todan — having great weight
• Thai: หนัก (nàk) — having great weight
• Tibetan: ལྗིད་པོ (ljid po) — having great weight
• Turkish: ağır — having great weight
• Ottoman Turkish: آغر (ağır) — having great weight
• Ottoman Turkish: وزین (vezin) — having great weight
• Turkmen: agyr — having great weight
• Tuvan: аар (aar) — having great weight
• Ukrainian: важки́й (važkýj) — having great weight
• Urdu: بھاری (bhārī) — having great weight
• Uyghur: ئېغىر (ëghir) — having great weight
• Uzbek: ogʻir — having great weight
• Uzbek: vazmin — having great weight
• Venetan: pexante — having great weight
• Vietnamese: nặng — having great weight
• Walloon: pezant — having great weight
• Walloon: ploncasse — having great weight
• Welsh: trwm — having great weight
• Yakut: ыарахан (ïaraqan) — having great weight
• Yucatec Maya: aal — having great weight
• Zazaki: gıran (diq) — having great weight
• Zealandic: zwaer — having great weight
• Zhuang: naek — having great weight
• Azerbaijani: ciddi — serious
• Bulgarian: серио́зен (seriózen) — serious
• Czech: těžký — serious
• Dutch: serieus — serious
• Finnish: vakava — serious
• Finnish: painava — serious
• French: lourd — serious
• French: grave — serious
• French: pesant — serious
• German: ernst — serious
• German: dunkel — serious
• German: finster — serious
• Greek: σοβαρός (sovarós) — serious
• Ido: grava — serious
• Indonesian: berat — serious
• Irish: tromchúiseach — serious
• Japanese: 重い (omoi) — serious
• Japanese: 重大な (jūdai na) — serious
• Japanese: 深刻な (shinkoku na) — serious
• Latin: gravis — serious
• Macedonian: тежок (težok) — serious
• Middle English: hevy — serious
• Norman: b'sant — serious
• Pashto: دروند (drund) — serious
• Portuguese: grave — serious
• Romanian: grav — serious
• Romanian: serios — serious
• Tagalog: mabigat — serious
• Finnish: kova — slang: good
• German: stark — slang: good
• Japanese: 素晴らしい (subarashii) — slang: good
• Japanese: すごい (sugoi) — slang: good
• Bulgarian: силен (silen) — of rate of flow: high
• Finnish: vuolas — of rate of flow: high
• Finnish: kova — of rate of flow: high
• German: schwer — of rate of flow: high
• German: mächtig — of rate of flow: high
• Indonesian: deras — of rate of flow: high
• Japanese: 大量の (tairyō no) — of rate of flow: high
• Japanese: 多量の (taryō no) — of rate of flow: high
• Japanese: 激しい (hageshii) — of rate of flow: high
• Macedonian: обилен (obilen) — of rate of flow: high
• Malay: lebut — of rate of flow: high
• Māori: makerewhatu — of rate of flow: high
• Māori: pūroro — of rate of flow: high
• Māori: patapataiāwhā — of rate of flow: high
• Māori: tātā — of rate of flow: high
• Portuguese: pesado — of rate of flow: high
• Japanese: 重装備 (jūsōbi) — slang: armed
• Finnish: kova — of music: loud, distorted
• Portuguese: pesado — of music: loud, distorted
• Bulgarian: тежък (težǎk) — of weather:hot and humid
• French: lourd — of weather:hot and humid
• German: drückend — of weather:hot and humid
• German: schwül — of weather:hot and humid
• Japanese: 蒸し暑い (mushiatsui) — of weather:hot and humid
• Japanese: むっとした (mutto shita) — of weather:hot and humid
• Macedonian: тешко (teško) — of weather:hot and humid
• Persian: سنگین — of weather:hot and humid
• Portuguese: mormacento — of weather:hot and humid
• Czech: těžký — of a person: doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people
• French: gros — of a person: doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people
• German: groß — of a person: doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people
• German: schwer — of a person: doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people
• Indonesian: berat — of a person: doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people
• Macedonian: тежок (težok) — of a person: doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people
• Portuguese: sério — of a person: doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people
• Māori: tātā — of great force
• Māori: makerewhatu — of great force
• Middle English: hevy — of great force
• Bulgarian: натоварен (natovaren) — laden to a great extent
• German: schwer — laden to a great extent
• Māori: takaroro — laden to a great extent
• Bulgarian: тежко (težko) — In a heavy manner
• Bulgarian: злодей (zlodej) — bad guy
• Finnish: kovis — bad guy
• Finnish: pahis — bad guy
• Italian: cattivo — bad guy
• Japanese: 悪漢 (akkan) — bad guy
• Portuguese: malvado — bad guy
• Czech: vyhazovač — slang: doorman
• Czech: gorila — slang: doorman
• Italian: buttafuori — slang: doorman
• Italian: guardiano — slang: doorman
• Italian: portinaio — slang: doorman
• Japanese: 用心棒 (yōjinbō) — slang: doorman
• Japanese: ボディガード (bodigādo) — slang: doorman