Half a million children still face malnutrition in Niger.
Source: tatoeba (1732)
Half
//hɑːf//
Synonyms for "half" (99 found)
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Closest matches (20)
Verb(3 words)
Noun(1 words)
Adjective(1 words)
Prefix(1 words)
Strong matches (30)
distributionaldistributivedividenddoleendequalequal shareequidistanceeven stephenfatefifty percentfifty-fiftyfractionalhalf-and-halfhalfwayhalfway househalvehalverhalvershelping
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Preposition(1 words)
Adverb(1 words)
Adjective(1 words)
Prefix(1 words)
Related words (49)
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5 entriesAntonyms
2 entriesSynonyms
3 entriesRelated terms
1 entriescoordinate
1 entriesderived
428 entriesShowing 16 of 428 words.
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1 entriesetymologically related_to
2 entrieshas context
7 entriesis a
1 entriespart of
4 entriesrelated to
39 entriesShowing 16 of 39 words.
similar
6 entriesTranslations
359 translations across 135 languages.
Abkhaz
2 entries- абжа adj (consisting of a half)
- абжа noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Adyghe
1 entries- ныкъо noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Afar
1 entries- abxa noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Albanian
2 entries- gjysmë adj (consisting of a half)
- gjysmë noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- ἥμισυς adj (consisting of a half)
- ἥμισυ noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Arabic
4 entries- نص noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
- نص noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
- نُصْف noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
- نُصْف noun (math: fraction)
Armenian
3 entries- կես adj (consisting of a half)
- կես noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
- կես noun (math: fraction)
Aromanian
1 entries- giumitati noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Assamese
1 entries- আধা adj (consisting of a half)
Asturian
1 entries- mitá noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Azerbaijani
3 entries- yarım adj (consisting of a half)
- yarı adv (in two equal parts or to an equal degree)
- yarım noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Bashkir
4 entries- ярты adj (consisting of a half)
- ярты adj (consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half)
- ярым adj (consisting of a half)
- ярым adj (consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half)
Belarusian
2 entries- палаві́на noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
- пало́ва noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Bengali
1 entries- আধা noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Bikol Central
1 entries- kabanga adj (consisting of a half)
Breton
1 entries- hanter noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Bulgarian
4 entries- половин adj (consisting of a half)
- полу adj (having one parent in common)
- наполовина adv (in two equal parts or to an equal degree)
- полови́на noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Burmese
2 entries- အခြမ်း noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
- အခွဲ noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Catalan
3 entries- mig adj (consisting of a half)
- mig adj (consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half)
- meitat noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Central Kurdish
4 entries- نیو adj (consisting of a half)
- نیو adj (consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half)
- نیوەونیو adj (consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half)
- نیوە noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Chamicuro
1 entries- pachishki noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Chechen
2 entries- ах adj (consisting of a half)
- ах noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᎠᏰᏟ noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Chinese
2 entries- 一半 noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
- 半 noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Chinese Cantonese
3 entries- 半 adj (consisting of a half)
- 一半 noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
- 半 noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 半 adj (consisting of a half)
- 一半 noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
- 半 noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Czech
4 entries- půl adj (consisting of a half)
- polovina noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
- polovina noun (math: fraction)
- půl noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Dalmatian
1 entries- mesu noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Danish
2 entries- halv adj (consisting of a half)
- halvdel noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Dutch
4 entries- half adj (consisting of a half)
- half adj (consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half)
- half adj (having one parent in common)
- half adj (related through one common ancestor)
Esperanto
2 entries- duona adj (consisting of a half)
- duono noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Estonian
4 entries- pool adj (consisting of a half)
- pool adj (having one parent in common)
- pool adj (related through one common ancestor)
- pool adv (in two equal parts or to an equal degree)
Ewe
4 entries- afɑ̃ adj (consisting of a half)
- afɑ̃ noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
- afɑ̃ noun (math: fraction)
- afɑ̃ noun (part; side; behalf)
Farefare
1 entries- pʋsʋka noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Faroese
1 entries- helvt noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Finnish
4 entries- puoleksi adj (consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half)
- puoli adj (consisting of a half)
- puoli adj (consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half)
- puoli adj (having one parent in common)
French
3 entries- demi adj (consisting of a half)
- demi noun (math: fraction)
- moitié noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Friulian
3 entries- mieç adj (consisting of a half)
- mieç noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
- mitât noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Galician
1 entries- metade noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Georgian
4 entries- ნახევარ adj (having one parent in common)
- ნახევარი adj (consisting of a half)
- სანახევროდ adv (in two equal parts or to an equal degree)
- მეორედი noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
German
4 entries- halb adj (consisting of a half)
- halb adj (consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half)
- halb adv (in two equal parts or to an equal degree)
- Hälfte noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌷𐌰𐌻𐌱𐍃 adj (consisting of a half)
Greek
4 entries- ήμισυς adj (consisting of a half)
- μισός adj (consisting of a half)
- μισό noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
- μισό noun (half a standard measure)
Gujarati
3 entries- અડધું adj (consisting of a half)
- અર્ધું adj (consisting of a half)
- અરધું noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- mwatye noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Hebrew
2 entries- חֵצִי noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
- מַחֲצִית noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Hindi
4 entries- अर्द्ध adj (consisting of a half)
- अर्ध adj (consisting of a half)
- आधा adj (consisting of a half)
- आधा noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Hungarian
3 entries- fél adv (in two equal parts or to an equal degree)
- félig adv (in two equal parts or to an equal degree)
- fél noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Icelandic
2 entries- hálf adj (related through one common ancestor)
- helmingur noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Ido
1 entries- duima noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Ilocano
1 entries- guddua noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Indonesian
3 entries- setengah adj (consisting of a half)
- separuh noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
- setengah noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Ingush
1 entries- ах noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Irish
2 entries- leath adj (consisting of a half)
- leath noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Isnag
1 entries- xadduwa noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Italian
3 entries- mezzo adv (in two equal parts or to an equal degree)
- metà noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
- metà noun (math: fraction)
Japanese
4 entries- ハーフ adj (consisting of a half)
- 半 adj (consisting of a half)
- 半分 noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
- 半分 noun (math: fraction)
Kabardian
1 entries- ныкъуэ noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Kapampangan
1 entries- kapitna adj (consisting of a half)
Kazakh
2 entries- жарты noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
- жарым noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Khmer
4 entries- កន្លះ adj (consisting of a half)
- ចំហៀង adj (consisting of a half)
- កន្លះ noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
- ចំហៀង noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Komi-Zyrian
1 entries- джын noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Korean
3 entries- 반 adj (consisting of a half)
- 반 noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
- 반 noun (math: fraction)
Kyrgyz
2 entries- жарты noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
- жарым noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Lao
3 entries- ເຄິ່ງ adj (consisting of a half)
- ທ່ອງ noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
- ເກີ່ງ noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Latgalian
1 entries- puse adj (consisting of a half)
Latin
4 entries- dīmidium adj (consisting of a half)
- sēmis adj (consisting of a half)
- dīmidium noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
- semis noun (half a standard measure)
Latvian
2 entries- puse adj (consisting of a half)
- puse adj (consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half)
Lithuanian
2 entries- pusė adj (consisting of a half)
- pusė noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Macedonian
1 entries- половина noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Malay
1 entries- separuh noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Maltese
1 entries- nofs noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Manchu
1 entries- ᡥᠣᠨᡨᠣᡥᠣ adj (consisting of a half)
Marathi
1 entries- अर्धा noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Mongolian
4 entries- хагас adj (consisting of a half)
- тал noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
- хагас noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
- ᠬᠠᠭᠠᠰ noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Moore
1 entries- pʋsʋka noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Māori
2 entries- haurua adj (consisting of a half)
- haurua noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Ngazidja Comorian
1 entries- upanɗe class 11/10a noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Northern Kurdish
3 entries- nîv adj (consisting of a half)
- nîv adv (in two equal parts or to an equal degree)
- niv noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Northern Thai
1 entries- ᨣᩕᩮᩥ᩠᩵ᨦ adj (consisting of a half)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- halv adj (consisting of a half)
- halv adv (in two equal parts or to an equal degree)
- banehalvdel noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
- del noun (part; side; behalf)
Norwegian Nynorsk
3 entries- halv adj (consisting of a half)
- halv adv (in two equal parts or to an equal degree)
- halvdel noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Occitan
2 entries- mièg adj (consisting of a half)
- mitat noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Odia
1 entries- ଅଧା adj (consisting of a half)
Ossetian
1 entries- ӕрдӕг noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Papiamentu
1 entries- mei noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Persian
4 entries- نیم adj (consisting of a half)
- نصف noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
- نیم noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
- نیمه noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Pipil
1 entries- tajku noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Halft noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Polish
4 entries- połowiczny adj (consisting of a half)
- przyrodni adj (having one parent in common)
- pół adj (consisting of a half)
- połowa noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Portuguese
4 entries- meio adj (consisting of a half)
- metade adj (consisting of a half)
- parte adj (consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half)
- metade noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Quechua
1 entries- ch'iqta adj (consisting of a half)
Romanian
4 entries- emi adj (consisting of a half)
- jumate adj (consisting of a half)
- jumătate adj (consisting of a half)
- semi adj (consisting of a half)
Russian
4 entries- пол adj (consisting of a half)
- полу adj (consisting of a half)
- наполови́ну adv (in two equal parts or to an equal degree)
- почти́ adv (in two equal parts or to an equal degree)
Saho
1 entries- abrha noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Sanskrit
2 entries- अर्ध adj (consisting of a half)
- अर्ध noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Sardinian
4 entries- meidade noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
- meitate noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
- metadi noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
- midade noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- leth noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Serbo-Croatian
3 entries- polovina adj (consisting of a half)
- polovina noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
- половина noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Shan
1 entries- ၶိုင်ႈ noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Sinhalese
2 entries- බාගය adj (consisting of a half)
- භාගය adj (consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half)
Slovak
2 entries- polovica noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
- polovina noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Slovene
2 entries- pol adj (consisting of a half)
- polovica noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Southern Altai
2 entries- јарым adj (consisting of a half)
- јарым noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Spanish
4 entries- medio adj (consisting of a half)
- cuasi adv (partially; imperfectly)
- fraccionariamente adv (partially; imperfectly)
- mediamente adv (in two equal parts or to an equal degree)
Sranan Tongo
2 entries- afu adj (consisting of a half)
- afu noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Swahili
2 entries- nusu noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
- nusu noun (math: fraction)
Swedish
4 entries- halv adj (consisting of a half)
- halv adj (consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half)
- halv adj (having one parent in common)
- halv adj (related through one common ancestor)
Tagalog
4 entries- kalahati adj (consisting of a half)
- kalahati adj (consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half)
- kalahati noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
- kalahati noun (math: fraction)
Tajik
3 entries- ним noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
- нима noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
- нисф noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Talysh
2 entries- nim noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
- nimə noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Tamil
4 entries- அரை adj (consisting of a half)
- அரை adj (consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half)
- பாதி adj (consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half)
- அரை noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Tarifit
1 entries- azyen noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Tat
1 entries- nimə noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Tatar
1 entries- ярты noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Tausug
1 entries- tunga noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Telugu
1 entries- సగము noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Thai
4 entries- กึ่ง adj (consisting of a half)
- กึ่ง adj (consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half)
- ครึ่ง adj (consisting of a half)
- ครึ่ง adj (consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half)
Tibetan
1 entries- ཕྱེད་ཀ noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Tocharian B
1 entries- ywārtsa noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Tok Pisin
1 entries- hap noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Tongan
1 entries- vaeua noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Turkish
4 entries- buçuk adj (consisting of a half)
- yarı adj (consisting of a half)
- yarı adv (in two equal parts or to an equal degree)
- yarı noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Turkmen
1 entries- ýarym noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Tày
4 entries- bưởng noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
- chang noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
- puốn noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
- pán noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Udmurt
1 entries- ӝыны noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Ukrainian
1 entries- полови́на noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Urdu
1 entries- آدھا noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Uzbek
1 entries- yarim noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Venetan
1 entries- mezo noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Vietnamese
2 entries- phân nửa adj (consisting of a half)
- nửa noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
West-Frisian
1 entries- heal adj (consisting of a half)
Yiddish
2 entries- האַלב adj (consisting of a half)
- העלפֿט noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Yoruba
1 entries- idaji noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Zazaki
1 entries- nȋme noun (one of two roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided)
Sample sentences
47 total sentences available.
Half an eye is very useful actually, because an animal can see half of another animal, which wants to eat it, and can get out of the way, and it will eat the animal, which has only one-half eye or only 49% of an eye, because this to it will not be enough, and the animal, which was eaten up, will have no children, because it is dead.
Source: tatoeba (1843)
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
Source: tatoeba (2265)
Your camera is only half the size of mine.
Source: tatoeba (17399)
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