# big
## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: bĭg, IPA: /bɪɡ/
* Audio (UK):(file)
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪɡ

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Northern Middle English big, bigge (“powerful, strong”), possibly from a dialect of Old Norse. Ultimately perhaps a derivative of Proto-Germanic *bugja- (“swollen up, thick”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew-, *bu- (“to swell”), in which case big would be related to bogey, bugbear, and bug.
Compare dialectal Norwegian bugge (“great man”), Low German Bögge, Boggelmann.

#### Adjective

big (comparative bigger, superlative biggest)
* Of great size, large.
    Synonyms: ample, huge, large, sizeable, stour, jumbo, massive; see also Thesaurus:large
    Antonyms: little, small, tiny, minuscule, miniature, minute
    Elephants are big animals, and they eat a lot.
** 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter III, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC:The big houses, and there are a good many of them, lie for the most part in what may be called by courtesy the valleys. You catch a glimpse of them sometimes at a little distance from the [railway] line, […], with their court of farm and church and clustered village, in dignified seclusion.
** 2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, page 68:Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.
** (informal) Fat.
    Synonyms: chubby, plus-size, rotund; see also Thesaurus:overweight
    Gosh, she is big!
* (sometimes figurative) Large with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce.
    Synonyms: full, great, heavy; see also Thesaurus:pregnant
    She was big with child.
** 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 1:The Dawn is over-caſt, the Morning low’rs, And heavily in Clouds brings on the Day, The great, th’ important Day; big with the Fate Of Cato and of Rome.
* (informal) Well-endowed; with a desired body part notably large.
** Specifically, big-breasted.
    Synonyms: busty, macromastic, stacked; see also Thesaurus:busty
** Having a large penis.
    I'm the shortest man on the team but in the gym shower everyone can see that I'm also the biggest.
** Having large muscles, especially visible ones such as the chest and arm muscles.
    I've been lifting weights for a full year now, but I'm finally getting big.
* (informal) Adult; (of a child) older.
    Synonyms: adult, fully grown, grown up; see also Thesaurus:full-grown
    Antonyms: little, young
** 1931, Robert L. May, Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer, Montgomery Ward (publisher), draft:
    By midnight, however, the last light had fled / For even big people have then gone to bed[.]
** 1998 April 12, Tom Armstrong, Marvin (comic):Uh oh ... that looks like one of those things the big people don't want us to touch, Marvin!
    Kids should get help from big people if they want to use the kitchen.
    We were just playing, and then some big kids came and chased us away.
    She did it all on her own like a big girl.
** (informal, slang, rare, of someone's age) Old, mature. Used to imply that someone is too old for something, or acting immaturely.
*** 2020, Candice Carty-Williams, Notting Hill Carnival:I don't think so, if you're shouting at people across the playground at your big age.
* (informal) Mature, conscientious, principled; generous. [with of ‘someone’]
    That's very big of you; thank you!
    I tried to be the bigger person and just let it go, but I couldn't help myself.
** 2011, Joe Pieri, The Big Men, →ISBN:So the bloke says, 'Fine, that's real big of you, much appreciated,' and off he goes with Big John back to Ferrari's.
* (informal) Important or significant.
    Synonyms: essential, paramount, weighty; see also Thesaurus:important
    What's so big about that? I do it all the time.
** 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter II, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC:"I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal. I never did that. I always made up my mind I'd be a big man some day, and—I'm glad I didn't steal."
** 2007 September 4, John Berg, “Time on the Greens Beats Time at the Gate”, in The New York Times‎:The great game of golf offered an antidote to the inevitable dead space — blocks of difficult-to-use hours, pre- and postflight — that are one of business travel’s biggest drags.
** 2011 October 29, Neil Johnston, “Norwich 3-3 Blackburn”, in BBC Sport:It proved a big miss as Hoilett produced a sublime finish into the top corner of the net from 20 yards after evading a couple of challenges in first-half stoppage time.
** 2023 January 25, Cem Davis tells Nick Brodrick, “A warm 'Waterloo family' welcome”, in RAIL, number 975, page 38:"It's not about having a catchy strap line, it's about 'why do I come to work every day?' Am I just here to go 'your train is over there'? Or am I here to really influence that person's journey and therefore the perception of the organisation we're working for? There is a bigger picture to this - and that ultimately is what will keep people using our service."
* Popular.
    Synonyms: all the rage, in demand, well liked
    That style is very big right now in Europe, especially among teenagers.
** 1984, “Big in Japan”, in Forever Young, performed by Alphaville:Big in Japan, alright, pay then I'll sleep by your side / Things are easy when you're big in Japan
* (of a city) Populous.
* (informal) Used as an intensifier, especially of negative-valence nouns
    You are a big liar.  Why are you in such a big hurry?
** 1918, Michael Williams, The Book of the High Romance: A Spiritual Autobiography, page 41:The little suggestions of look and tone; the easy fibs and bigger lies; the tricks of persuasion, the onleading wiles — all these I could not master.
** 2007 August 8, Tom Armstrong, Marvin (comic):Why is it whenever I'm in a big hurry he's always in a big slow?
* (of an industry or other field, or institution(s) therein; often capitalized; sometimes humorous) Operating on a large scale, especially if therefore having undue or sinister influence.
    big money
    Big Tech, Big Steel ― large or influential tech or steel companies
    Big Science ― science performed by large teams, and of large scope, with government or corporate funding
    There were concerns about the ethics of big pharma.
    Why are you so enthusiastic about putting cantaloupe in your smoothie? Did Big Melon buy you off? [humorous]
** 2019 April 25, Samanth Subramanian, “Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands”, in The Guardian‎:After the Airblade’s launch, a battle began to boil, pitting the dryer industry against the world’s most powerful hand-drying lobby: Big Towel.
** 2020 July 28, “Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google Prepare for Their ‘Big Tobacco Moment’”, in New York Times‎:“The C.E.O.s don’t want to be testifying. Even having this collective hearing creates a sense of quasi-guilt just because of who else has gotten called in like this — Big Pharma, Big Tobacco, Big Banks,” said Paul Gallant, a tech policy analyst at the investment firm Cowen. “That’s not a crowd they want to be associated with.”
* (informal) Enthusiastic (about). [with on ‘someone/something’]
    Synonyms: fanatical, mad, worked up; see also Thesaurus:enthusiastic
** 2019 July 2, Louise Taylor, “Alex Morgan heads USA past England into Women’s World Cup final”, in The Guardian‎:Neville is big on standing by his principles and he deserves plaudits for acknowledging he got his starting system wrong, reverting to 4-2-3-1 and introducing Kirby in the No 10 role.
    I'm not big on the idea, but if you want to go ahead with it, I won't stop you.

##### Derived terms

* archipelago big-eyed treefrog
* as big as life
* bastard big-footed mouse
* be big on
* beep
* be the bigger man
* big agile
* big air
* big and bad
* big and tall
* big and ugly enough
* Big Apple
* big as a barn
* big as a house
* big as bull-beef
* big ask
* bigass
* big ass
* big-ass
* big as the Beatles
* bigature
* big baby
* big back
* big bad
* big band
* Big Bang
* big bang
* big bang testing
* big bat
* big bath
* Big Bear City
* Big Bear Lake
* Big Bear Valley
* big beast
* big beat
* Big Ben
* Big Bertha
* big bikkies
* big blind
* big block
* big blue blanket
* big bluestem
* Big Board
* big boned
* big-boned
* big-boob
* big boob
* big-box
* big box
* big boy, big boys
* big-boy pants
* big boy pants
* big brain
* big-brained
* big break
* big-breasted
* big brother
* Big Brother
* big brown bat
* big bucks
* big business
* big C
* big casino
* big cassino
* big cat
* big-character poster
* big cheese
* big chop
* Big Creek
* Big Crunch
* big crunch
* big crypto
* Big D
* big D
* big daddy
* big dance
* big data
* big day
* big deal
* big deuce
* big Dick
* big-dick energy
* big dick energy
* big Dick from Boston
* big dipper
* Big Dipper
* big divorce energy
* big dog
* big dog of the tanyard
* big drum
* big dyke energy
* Big E
* big-eared
* Big Easy
* big eater
* big eight
* big enchilada
* big end
* big-endian
* big end of town
* big enough and ugly enough
* big eye
* bigeye
* big-eyed tree frog
* big fat, big-fat, big phat
* big fat zero
* big figure
* bigfin
* big final
* big finger
* big fish
* big fish in a little pond
* big fish in a small pond
* big-fish-little-pond effect
* big five
* big fly
* Bigfoot
* big-footed mouse
* Big Four
* big friend
* Big Game
* big game
* bigger fish in the sea
* bigger fish to fry
* bigger picture
* bigger than Ben Hur
* bigger than life
* bigger-than-life
* bigger than shit
* biggie, no biggie
* biggify
* big girl
* big girl pants
* big-girl pants
* big girl's blouse
* biggish
* biggity
* big government
* big gun
* big guy
* biggy
* big hair
* big hairy armadillo
* big hairy deal
* big hand
* big H, Big H
* bighead
* big head, big-head
* big-headed
* big-headedness
* big-headed rice rat
* big-headed turtle
* big heart
* big-hearted
* big-heartedly
* big-heartedness
* big history
* big hitter
* big honkin'
* bighorn
* Big Horn County
* bighouse
* big house
* big idea
* big if
* big if true
* bigify
* big iron
* Big Island
* big jobs
* big kahuna
* big kid
* big labor
* big labour
* Big Lake
* Big Lakes County
* BigLaw
* bigleaf
* big-leaf maple
* big-league
* big lick
* big lie
* big light
* big-lipped alligator moment
* big lug
* Big Mac
* big mad
* big mama
* big man
* big man on campus
* big man ting
* Big Mike
* big mind
* big mitt man
* big mo
* big momma
* big money
* big-money
* big mood
* big mouth
* bigmouth
* big-mouthed
* bigmouthed
* Big Muddy
* big name, big-name
* bigness
* bignose
* big-note
* big-noter
* big O
* big oil
* big ol'
* big old, big ole
* big ones
* big one, the big one
* big O notation
* bigorexia
* big pharma
* big picture
* big pocket
* big pregnant
* Big Q
* Big Quill
* Big Rapids
* big real mode
* big red button
* big red switch
* big rig
* big ring
* Big Rip
* Big River
* big room
* big room house
* bigroot
* big sagebrush
* bigscale
* big school
* big science
* big screen
* big shagbank
* Big Shanty
* big shop
* big shot
* big-shot
* bigshot
* big shoulder
* big-shouldered
* big show
* big sister
* big-sisterly
* Big Six
* big six, the big six
* big-sky thinking
* big sleep
* big slick
* Big Smoke
* big society
* bigsome
* big spender
* big spoon
* big spring
* Big Spring (toponym)
* big stick
* Big Stone County
* Big Sur
* big switch
* bigtail
* big talk
* big tamale
* big tech
* big-tent
* big tent
* big tentism
* big-tentism
* big things come in small packages
* Big Three
* big three
* big ticket
* big-ticket
* big-ticket item
* Big Timber
* big time, big-time, bigtime
* big-timer
* big tobacco
* big toe
* bigtooth
* big top, big-top
* big tree
* big two
* Big Uglies
* big ugly dish
* big up
* big wheel
* big white chief
* big white telephone
* big whoop
* big wig, big-wig, bigwig
* big-wigged
* big woop
* big word
* big wow
* big year
* big yikes
* bite the big one
* catch big air
* deepwater big-eyed worm eel
* embiggen
* go big or go home
* grandbig
* great big
* greater big-footed mouse
* green big-eyed tree frog
* have eyes bigger than one's belly
* have eyes bigger than one's stomach
* heart as big as Phar Lap
* hit it big
* hit the big time
* in a big way
* in the big 25
* last big thing
* last of the big spenders
* little pitchers have big ears
* make a big thing out of
* make it big
* Mr. Big, Mr Big, Mister Big
* next big thing
* no big deal
* no big whoop
* no big woop
* one big happy family
* open one's big mouth
* overbig
* Petter's big-footed mouse
* play big
* speak softly and carry a big stick
* suck a big one
* talk a big game
* talk big
* talk softly and carry a big stick
* talk to God on the big white telephone
* talk to Ralph on the big white telephone
* ten for the big guy
* the bigs
* there's always a bigger fish
* think big
* too big for one's boots, too big for one's britches
* too big for one's breeches
* too big to fail
* unbig
* walk softly and carry a big stick
* what's the big idea
* win big

##### Translations

Abkhaz: аду (adu)
Adyghe: шхо (šxʷo)
Afrikaans: groot (af)
Ahom: 𑜐𑜧 (ñaw)
Akkadian: 𒃲 (rabûm)
Albanian: madh (sq)
Alviri-Vidari: (Vidari) بزرگ (bozorg)
Amharic: ታላቁ (talaḳu)
Arabic: كَبِير (ar) (kabīr)
Chadian Arabic: كبير (kabīr)
Egyptian Arabic: كبير (kibīr)
Hijazi Arabic: كبير m (kabīr)
Juba Arabic: kebiir
Moroccan Arabic: كبير (kbīr)
South Levantine Arabic: كبير (kbīr)
Aragonese: gran
Armenian: մեծ (hy) (mec)
Aromanian: mari
Assamese: ডাঙৰ (daṅor), বৰ (bor) (uncommon for this meaning)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܓܘܼܪܵܐ m (gura), ܪܲܒܵܐ m (rābba), ܟܲܒܝܼܪܵܐ m (kābīra)
Asturian: grande (ast)
Avar: кӏудияб (kʼudijab)
Azerbaijani: böyük (az)
Bakhtiari: گت (gat)
Balinese: gedé
Bashkir: ҙур (źur)
Basque: handi (eu)
Belarusian: вялі́кі (be) (vjalíki)
Bengali: বড় (bn) (boṛ)
Berber:
Tashelhit: imɣur
Bhojpuri: बड़हन (baṛᵊhan)
Breton: bras (br)
Brunei Malay: basar
Buginese: wessa
Bulgarian: голя́м (bg) (goljám)
Burmese: ကြီး (my) (kri:), ကြီးမား (my) (kri:ma:)
Buryat: томо (tomo), ехэ (jexe)
Carpathian Rusyn: великый (velykŷj)
Catalan: gran (ca), gros (ca)
Catawba: tro
Cebuano: dako
Central Dusun: agayo
Central Sierra Miwok: ˀýṭ·y·kyta-
Chamicuro: s̈hojta
Chechen: доккха (doqqa)
Cherokee: ᎡᏆ (equa)
Chickasaw: ishto', ishto'
Chinese:
Cantonese: 大 (yue) (daai$^6$)
Dungan: да (da), 大
Eastern Min: 大 (duai)
Hakka: 大 (thai)
Hokkien: 大 (zh-min-nan) (tōa)
Mandarin: 大 (zh) (dà)
Choctaw: chito
Chuvash: пысӑк (pys̬ăk)
Cornish: (unified) brâs
Corsican: grande
Czech: velký (cs)
Danish: stor (da)
Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
Dolgan: улакан (ulakan)
Dutch: groot (nl), omvangrijk (nl)
Dyirbal: bulgan
Eastern Khanty: әнәԓ (ənəł)
Egyptian: (ꜥꜣ), (wr)
Enets:
Forest Enets: ага (aga)
Tundra Enets: ага (aga)
Erzya: покш (pokš), ине (ine)
Eshtehardi: پیل (pil)
Esperanto: granda (eo)
Estonian: suur (et)
Evenki: хэгды (həgdi)
Ewe: gã
Farefare: kãtɛ
Faroese: stórur (fo)
Fijian: levu (fj)
Finnish: iso (fi), suuri (fi)
French: grand (fr), gros (fr)
Friulian: grant, grand
Gagauz: büük
Galician: grande (gl)
Georgian: დიდი (ka) (didi)
German: groß (de)
Gothic: 𐌼𐌹𐌺𐌹𐌻𐍃 (mikils)
Greek: μεγάλος (el) (megálos)
Ancient: μέγας (mégas)
Greenlandic: angisooq
Guaraní: tuvicha, tuicha (gn), guasu (gn)
Gujarati: મોટું (moṭũ)
Hadza: pakapaa
Haitian Creole: gran, gwo
Hausa: bàbba
Hawaiian: nui
Hebrew: גָּדוֹל (he) (gadól)
Hiligaynon: daku
Hindi: बड़ा (hi) (baṛā)
Hittite: 𒊩𒇷𒅖 (sallis)
Hungarian: nagy (hu)
Ibanag: dakal
Icelandic: stór (is)
Ido: granda (io)
Igbo: ukwu (ig)
Inari Sami: styeres
Indonesian: besar (id), agung (id), raya (id)
Ingrian: suur
Ingush: доккха (doqqa), йоккха (joqqa)
Interlingua: grande, grosse
Inuktitut: angiyok
Irish: mór
Old Irish: mór
Isan: please add this translation if you can
Isnag: dakkal
Istriot: grando
Italian: grande (it), grosso (it)
Ivatan: rakoh
Japanese: 大きい (ja) (おおきい, ōkii)
Jarawa: huʈʰu
Javanese: gedhé (jv)
Kaingang: mág
Kalmyk: ик (ik)
Kamassian: урго (urgo)
Koibal: урга (urga)
Kannada: ಗುರು (kn) (guru)
Kapampangan: maragul, madagul
Karachay-Balkar: уллу (ullu)
Karakhanid: بدك (bedük), بذك (bēδük), اُلُغْ (uluɣ)
Karelian: šuuri
Kashubian: wiôldżi
Kazakh: зор (zor), үлкен (kk) (ülken)
Ket: қя
Khakas: улуғ (uluğ)
Khiamniungan Naga: hàkǜtī, shōng, shōng
Khmer: ធំ (km) (thom)
Kildin Sami: шӯрр (šūrr)
Komi-Zyrian: ыджыд (ydžyd)
Korean: 크다 (ko) (keuda), 큰 (ko) (keun) (determiner)
Koryak: нымэйыӈӄин (nəmejəŋqin), нымэйӈыӄин (nəmejŋəqin)
Kumyk: уллу (ullu)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: گەورە (ckb) (gewre), زل (ckb) (zil)
Northern Kurdish: mezin (ku), girs (ku), gir (ku), zexm (ku)
Kyrgyz: чоң (ky) (coŋ)
Laboya: madaka
Ladino: grande
Lakota: tȟáŋka
Lao: ໂຕ (tō), ໃຫຍ່ (nyai)
Latgalian: lels
Latin: magnus (la), grandis
Latvian: liels (lv)
Lithuanian: didelis (lt)
Lombard: grand (lmo)
Lü: ᦺᦊᧈ (ẏay¹)
Luxembourgish: grouss (lb)
Macedonian: голем (golem)
Malay: besar (ms), raya (ms), gedang
Malayalam: വലിയ (ml) (valiya)
Maltese: kbir
Manchu: ᠠᠮᠪᠠ (amba)
Mandailing Batak: godang (btm)
Manx: mooar
Maori: nui (mi), nunui pl
Maranao: dakola'
Marathi: विशाल n (viśāl)
Mari:
Eastern Mari: кугу (kugu)
Marshallese: ļap
Mator: орго (orgo)
Mauritian Creole: gran
Minangkabau: gadang (min), basa (min), godang (min), bosa (min)
Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
Mòcheno: groas
Moksha: ошо (ošo)
Mongolian: том (mn) (tom), их (mn) (ix)
Moore: kãsenga
Mulam: lo⁴ (Dongmen, Siba)
Nahuatl: huey (nah)
Nanai: даи (dai)
Navajo: tsoh
Neapolitan: gruosso
Nenets:
Forest Nenets: ӈаԓка (ŋałka)
Tundra Nenets: ӈарка (ŋarka)
Nepali: ठूलो (ṭhūlo)
Nganasan: аніˮә (aniʔə)
Ngazidja Comorian: -huu
Nivkh: пилдь (pild̦)
Norman: grand, grànd
Northern Altai: улуг (ulug)
Northern Luri: گت (gat)
Northern Mansi: яныг (ânyg)
Northern Sami: stuoris
Norwegian:
Bokmål: stor (no)
Nynorsk: stor (nn)
Nubi: kebir
Occitan: grand (oc), gròs (oc)
Odia: ବଡ (baḍa)
Ojibwe: gichi-, chi-, michaa
Okinawan: まぎさん (magisan)
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: великъ (velikŭ)
Old East Slavic: великъ (velikŭ)
Old English: miċel
Old Portuguese: grande
Oromo: guddaa (om)
Ossetian: стыр (styr)
Ottoman Turkish: بیوك (beyük), اولو (ulu), بویوك (büyük), قوجه (koca), ایری (iri), بزرك (büzürg)
Papiamentu: grandi
Pashto: غټ (ps) (ǧaṭ), ستر (ps) (stër)
Persian:
Classical Persian: بُزُرْگ (buzurg), کَلَان (kalān), مِهْ (mih)
Dari: کَلَان (kalān), بُزُرْگ (buzurg), کَتَه (kata) (dialectal), کٹه/کټه (kaṭa) (Hazaragi)
Iranian Persian: بزرگ (fa) (bozorg), گنده (fa) (gonde), کلان (fa) (kalân), گت (fa) (got, gat) (dialectal)
Piedmontese: gròss
Pijin: bigfala
Plains Cree: ᑭᐢᒋ (kisci-), ᒥᓯ (misi-)
Plautdietsch: groot (nds)
Polish: duży (pl), wielki (pl)
Portuguese: grande (pt)
Pumpokol: xääse
Punjabi: بَڑا / ਬੜਾ (baṛā), وَڈّا / ਵੱਡਾ (vaḍḍā)
Quechua: hatun (qu), jatun
Rapa Nui: nui
Ratahan: lowen
Romagnol: grând
Romani: baro
Romanian: mare (ro)
Romansch: grond (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran, Vallader), grànd (Sutsilvan), grand (Puter)
Russian: большо́й (ru) (bolʹšój), вели́кий (ru) (velíkij), кру́пный (ru) (krúpnyj)
Samogitian: dėdėlis
Sanskrit: बृहत् (sa) (bṛhat), मह (sa) (maha), महत् (sa) (mahat)
Santali: ᱰᱳᱵᱳ (ḍobo)
Scottish Gaelic: mòr
Selkup:
Northern Selkup: вәрӄы (wərqy)
Southern Selkup: варӷ (warģ) (Narym), уарх (uarx) (Upper Ob)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: вѐлик
Roman: vèlik (sh)
Shan: please add this translation if you can
Shor: улуғ (uluğ)  
Sicilian: granni (scn)
Sindhi: وَڏو
Sinhalese: ලොකු (si) (loku), විශාල (si) (wiśāla)
Slovak: veľký (sk)
Slovene: velik (sl)
Somali: weyn (so)
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: wjeliki
Upper Sorbian: wulki (hsb)
Southern Altai: јаан (ǰaan), улу (ulu)
Southern Luri: گت (gat)
Spanish: grande (es)
Sranan Tongo: bigi
Sundanese: ageung (su)
Svan: ძღჷდ (ʒɣəd)
Swahili: kubwa (sw)
Swedish: stor (sv)
Sylheti: ꠛꠠꠧ (boṛo), ꠛꠣꠘ꠆ꠒꠣ (banḍa)
Tagalog: malaki
Tai Dam: ꪻꪐ꪿
Tajik: бузург (tg) (buzurg)
Talysh: (Asalemi) یال (yâl)
Tamil: பரு (ta) (paru), பெரிய (ta) (periya)
Tarantino: granne
Tat: kələ
Tatar: зур (zur), олы (olı)
Tausug: dakula
Telugu: పెద్ద (te) (pedda)
Ternate: lamo
Thai: ใหญ่ (th) (yài)
Tibetan: ཆེན་པོ (chen po)
Tidore: lamo
Tocharian B: orotstse
Tupinambá: gûasu, usu, urusu (t-), eburusu (t-)
Turkish: büyük (tr), ulu (tr)
Turkmen: uly
Tuvan: улуг (ulug)
Tày: cải
Udmurt: бадӟым (baddźym)
Ugaritic: 𐎗𐎁 (rb)
Ukrainian: вели́кий (uk) (velýkyj)
Urdu: بڑا (baṛā)
Uyghur: چوڭ (ug) (chong)
Uzbek: katta (uz)
Venetan: grando (vec), grant
Veps: sur'
Vietnamese: lớn (vi), to (vi), bự (vi) (informally)
Volapük: gretik (vo)
Võro: suur
Votic: suuri
Walloon: grand (wa)
Waray-Waray: dako
Welsh: mawr (cy)
West Frisian: grut (fy)
West Makian: lamo
Western Bukidnon Manobo: dekela'
White Hmong: loj
Xhosa: khulu
Yakut: улахан (ulaqan), бөдөҥ (bödöñ)
Yámana: manakata
Yiddish: גרויס (groys)
Zazaki: gırd (diq), pil c
Zealandic: groôt
Zhuang: hung
Zulu: khulu
Zuni: łana :
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#### Adverb

big (comparative bigger, superlative biggest)
* In a loud manner.
* In a boasting manner.
    He's always talking big, but he never delivers.
* In a large amount or to a large extent.
    Synonyms: greatly, hugely, largely, massively; bigly (usually humorous and nonstandard)
    He won big betting on the croquet championship.
    Don't miss our November sale — it's your last chance to save big before Christmas!
** (informal) (modifying a preposition)
    I've always been big into sport, but I'm especially big into football.
* On a large scale, expansively.
    You've got to think big to succeed at Amalgamated Plumbing.
** 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 3, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 25:'You've got to put it over big,' he was saying in a loud nasal voice.
* (colloquial) Hard; with great force.
    He hit him big and the guy just crumpled.

#### Noun

big (plural bigs)
* Someone or something that is large in stature
** 2019, Derrick Rose, Sam Smith, I'll Show You:You could throw out everything else, but I had the speed to split double-teams. Like, go at double-teams numerous times in a possession, on consecutive possessions where I'm testing your endurance, your bigs.
* An important or powerful person; a celebrity; a big name.
    Synonym: big shot
* (in the plural) The big leagues, big time.
    Synonym: big leagues
** 2004 June 23, Michelle Boorstein, “Ballclub’s Pullout Caps Va. Town’s Run of Woes; Struggling Martinsville No Longer Celebrates Its Boys of Summer”, in Washington Post:In the Appalachian League, where Cal Ripken once played in Bluefield, W.Va., a ballplayer's chances of making it to the bigs are less than one in six.
* (university slang) An initiated member of a sorority or fraternity who acts as a mentor to a new member (the little).
** 2018, Kelly Ann Gonzales, Through an Opaque Window:He was there the night of Cristoph's party. All the littles were assigned to their bigs. Ian and Christoph had rushed the same fraternity. When they became upperclassmen, they both ended up on the board.
** 2019 April 1, Audrey Steinkamp, “Sororities pair new members with "bigs"”, in Yale Daily News‎:She added that the relationship between bigs and littles is "what each pair makes of it," and that a lot of the pairs often get dinner together and become close friends.
** 2022 September 27, Shreya Varrier, “Gamma Rho Lambda provides LGBTQIA+ community in greek life”, in Iowa State Daily‎:Some traditions of the chapter include lineages with bigs and littles, receiving of paddles from a big, and a national stroll, Wolsch-Gallia said.
* (BDSM, ABDL) The participant in ageplay who acts out the older role.
    Antonym: little

### Etymology 2

From Middle English biggen, byggen, from Old Norse byggja, byggva (“to build, dwell in, inhabit”), a secondary form of Old Norse búa (“to dwell”), related to Old English būan (“to dwell”). Cognate with Danish bygge, Swedish bygga.

#### Verb

big (third-person singular simple present bigs, present participle bigging, simple past and past participle bigged)
* (transitive, archaic, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To inhabit; occupy.
* (reflexive, archaic, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To locate oneself.
* (transitive, archaic, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To build; erect; fashion.
* (intransitive, archaic, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To dwell; have a dwelling.

##### Derived terms

* unbigged

### Etymology 3

From Middle English byge, from Old Norse bygg (“barley, probably Hordeum vulgare, common barley”), from Proto-Germanic *bewwuz (“crop, barley”). Cognate with Old English bēow (“barley”).

#### Alternative forms

* bigg
* bygg, bygge (obsolete)

#### Noun

big (uncountable)
* One or more kinds of barley, especially six-rowed barley.

### References

* ↑ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “98-102”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 98-102

### Anagrams

* IGB, gib, GBI, GiB, GIB, Gib.

## Dutch
### Etymology

From Middle Dutch bagge, vigge, from Old Dutch *bigga, from Proto-West Germanic *biggō. Originally a word exclusive to the Northern Dutch dialects.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɪx/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: big
* Rhymes: -ɪx

### Noun

big m or f (plural biggen, diminutive biggetje n)
* piglet, little pig
    Synonym: keu

#### Derived terms

* biggenkruid

## Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bʲɪɟ/

### Adjective

big
* inflection of beag:
** vocative/genitive masculine singular
** (archaic) dative feminine singular

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 43
* ↑ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 30

## Italian
### Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, a clipping of English big shot.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbiɡ/
* Rhymes: -iɡ
* Hyphenation: bìg

### Noun

big m (invariable)
* star (entertainment)
* big shot, big noise

## Jamaican Creole
### Etymology

Derived from English big.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɪɡ/

### Adjective

big (comparative biga, superlative bigis)
* big
** 2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, Revilieshan 19:5:[…] weda unu likl ar big, priez im! […] whether you're small or big, praise him!
* great; to a great extent
** 2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, 2 Piita 1:17:Wi did de de wen Faada Gad imself ana Jiizas big taim, wen im ier di vais fram di riil big Wan — di wan we big an powaful. Di vais se, “Dis a fi mi pikni we mi lov an im mek mi wel api.”Jesus heard the voice of God, the Greatest Glory, when he received honor and glory from God the Father. The voice said, “This is my Son, whom I love, and I am very pleased with him.”

## Romagnol
### Etymology

English big.

### Pronunciation

   * (Central Romagnol): IPA: [ˈbiːɡ]

### Noun

big m (invariable)
* important person
** Agnëli l'è un big dl'indóstria e dla finânza.G. Agnelli is an important person of industry and finance.

## Scots
### Etymology

From Old Norse byggja (“inhabit, build”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɪɡ/

### Verb

big (third-person singular simple present bigs, present participle biggin, simple past biggit, past participle biggit)
* to build

## Torres Strait Creole
### Etymology

From English big, cognate with (the first part of) Bislama bikfala, bigfala, Pijin bigfala, Tok Pisin bikpela.

### Adjective

big
* big

#### Derived terms

* big boil
* big maut
* big ren
* big taun
* big wata
* big win

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /biːɡ/

### Noun

big
* Soft mutation of pig.

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

## Western Apache
### Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *-wə̓t̕.
Cognates: Navajo -bid, Plains Apache -bid.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [pɪ̀k]

### Noun

big (inalienable)
* belly, stomach, abdomen
    shibig ― my belly
    bibig ― her/his/their belly

#### Usage notes

* The form -big occurs in the White Mountain varieties; -bid occurs in San Carlos and Dilzhe’eh (Tonto).

## Yola
### Etymology

From Middle English bigge.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɪɡ/

### Adjective

big
* great, big
** 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 36:A big dole.A great deal.
** 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 36:A big oanès.The big ones.
** 1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 98:Trippeathès an brand-eyrons war ee-brougkt to a big breal.[Trippets and brandirons were brought to the large fire.]

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 36