giant

Etymology
From, , from , (Modern 🇨🇬) from , , from , , from  Cognate to. Displaced native. Compare.

Noun

 * 1) A mythical human of very great size.
 * 2)  Specifically:
 * 3) Any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.
 * 4) A jotun.
 * 5) A very tall and large person.
 * 6) A tall species of a particular animal or plant.
 * 7)  A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature (e.g. red giant, blue giant).
 * 8)  An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.
 * 9) A very large organization.
 * 10) A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.
 * 11)  A maneuver involving a full rotation around an axis while fully extended.
 * 1) A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.
 * 2)  A maneuver involving a full rotation around an axis while fully extended.
 * 1)  A maneuver involving a full rotation around an axis while fully extended.
 * 1)  A maneuver involving a full rotation around an axis while fully extended.
 * 1)  A maneuver involving a full rotation around an axis while fully extended.

Synonyms
See also: Thesaurus:giant

Translations

 * Abkhaz: аиныжә, адау
 * Afrikaans: reus
 * Albanian: katallaj,
 * Arabic: عِمْلَاق
 * Hijazi Arabic: عِملاق
 * Armenian: ,
 * Old Armenian: հսկայ, սկայ
 * Azerbaijani:, , div
 * Belarusian: веліка́н, гіга́нт, во́лат
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee: ᏧᎵᎧᎷ, ᏧᎵᎦᎳ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 巨人
 * Mandarin:
 * Coptic: ⲁⲫⲱⲫ
 * Czech:
 * Danish: kæmpe
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: giganto
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: risi
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Old French: gaiant, jaiant
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ბუმბერაზი, გოლიათი, დევი
 * German:, , , Gigantin
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: γίγας
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi:, ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Irish:, arracht
 * Old Irish: aithech
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Kabuverdianu: jiganti
 * Kazakh: алып
 * Khmer: យក្ស,
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Lao: ຍັກ
 * Latin: gigas
 * Latvian:, milze, gigants
 * Lithuanian: milžinas
 * Luhya: okundu
 * Macedonian: џин, ги́гант
 * Malay: ,
 * Manx: foawr
 * Ngazidja Comorian: djindru
 * North Frisian: Riis
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Old English: ent, gīgant
 * Pashto:, دېو
 * Persian:
 * Pijin: jaean
 * Plautdietsch: Ries
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, , , , , во́лот
 * Scottish Gaelic: famhair
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ди̏в, го̏роста̄с, орѝја̄ш
 * Roman:, ,
 * Slovak: obor
 * Slovene: ,
 * Sotho: seqhobane
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: higante
 * Tajik: девпайкар, ғул
 * Taos: tʼòyłóna
 * Thai:, ไจแอนต์
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:, ве́лет, гіга́нт
 * Urdu: دیو
 * Uyghur: پالۋان, گىگانت
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese: người khổng lồ
 * Volapük: gianan,  higianan,  jigianan
 * Welsh:


 * Afrikaans: reus
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: გიგანტი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient Greek: γίγας
 * Italian:
 * Latvian: gigants
 * Macedonian: ти́тан
 * Marathi: जायंट
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak:
 * Sotho: seqhobane
 * Spanish:
 * Tagalog: higante
 * Turkish: gigant,


 * Afrikaans: reus
 * Albanian:
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: altulo
 * Faroese: risi
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:, cachimán
 * Georgian: აყლაყუდა, გიგანტი
 * German:, , , Hünin
 * Hebrew:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kabuverdianu: jiganti
 * Latvian:, milze, milzenis, milzene, gigants
 * Luhya: kukundu
 * Macedonian: џин, ко́лос
 * Maori: hītawe
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: див, горостас
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovene: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:, jättiläistähti
 * Georgian: გიგანტი
 * German:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Latvian:
 * Macedonian: џин
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:

Adjective

 * 1) Very large.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:large
 * See also Thesaurus:large

Translations

 * Armenian:, ,
 * Bengali:
 * Bikol Central:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:, gegantí
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:, reuzen-
 * Esperanto: giganta
 * Finnish:, jättiläis-
 * Georgian: უზარმაზარი, გიგანტური
 * German: ,
 * Hindi:
 * Ido:
 * Italian: ,
 * Kabuverdianu: jiganti
 * Latvian: milzīgs, gigantisks
 * Macedonian: џи́новски, ги́гантски, о́громен
 * Maori: hītawe, hītawetawe
 * Old English: entisċ
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Rapa Nui: nui nui
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovene:, , gromozanski,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, , (esp. used by children)
 * Tagalog: dambuhala, higante,
 * Turkish: ,
 * Volapük: