Pm in Different Languages
Discover 'PM' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
PM
Afrikaans pm | ||
Albanian pm | ||
Amharic ጠቅላይ ሚኒስትር | ||
Arabic مساء | ||
Armenian վարչապետ | ||
Assamese পি এম | ||
Aymara pm | ||
Azerbaijani baş nazir | ||
Bambara pm ye | ||
Basque arratsaldeko | ||
Belarusian пм | ||
Bengali প্রধানমন্ত্রী | ||
Bhojpuri पीएम के बा | ||
Bosnian pm | ||
Bulgarian pm | ||
Catalan pm | ||
Cebuano pm | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 下午 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 下午 | ||
Corsican pm | ||
Croatian pm | ||
Czech odpoledne | ||
Danish om eftermiddagen | ||
Dhivehi ޕީއެމް | ||
Dogri पीएम | ||
Dutch p.m | ||
English pm | ||
Esperanto pm | ||
Estonian pm | ||
Ewe pm | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) pm | ||
Finnish pm | ||
French pm | ||
Frisian pm | ||
Galician pm | ||
Georgian პრემიერ მინისტრი | ||
German pm | ||
Greek μετα μεσημβριας | ||
Guarani pm | ||
Gujarati પી.એમ. | ||
Haitian Creole pm | ||
Hausa pm | ||
Hawaiian pm | ||
Hebrew אחר הצהריים | ||
Hindi pm | ||
Hmong pm | ||
Hungarian délután | ||
Icelandic forsætisráðherra | ||
Igbo pm | ||
Ilocano pm | ||
Indonesian sore | ||
Irish pm | ||
Italian pm | ||
Japanese 午後 | ||
Javanese pm | ||
Kannada ಪಿ.ಎಂ. | ||
Kazakh премьер-министр | ||
Khmer នាយករដ្ឋមន្ត្រី | ||
Kinyarwanda pm | ||
Konkani पीएम | ||
Korean 오후 | ||
Krio pm na di pm | ||
Kurdish pm | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) pm | ||
Kyrgyz pm | ||
Lao ນ | ||
Latin pm est | ||
Latvian pm | ||
Lingala pm | ||
Lithuanian pm | ||
Luganda pm | ||
Luxembourgish pm | ||
Macedonian премиерот | ||
Maithili पीएम | ||
Malagasy pm | ||
Malay pm | ||
Malayalam പ്രധാനമന്ത്രി | ||
Maltese pm | ||
Maori pm | ||
Marathi पंतप्रधान | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯄꯤ.ꯑꯦꯝ | ||
Mizo pm a ni | ||
Mongolian ерөнхий сайд | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) pm တွင် | ||
Nepali बेलुकी | ||
Norwegian pm | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) pm | ||
Odia (Oriya) ପ୍ରଧାନମନ୍ତ୍ରୀ | ||
Oromo mm | ||
Pashto ماښام | ||
Persian pm | ||
Polish po południu | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) pm | ||
Punjabi ਪ੍ਰਧਾਨ ਮੰਤਰੀ | ||
Quechua pm | ||
Romanian p.m | ||
Russian вечера | ||
Samoan palemia | ||
Sanskrit pm | ||
Scots Gaelic pm | ||
Sepedi pm | ||
Serbian после подне | ||
Sesotho pm | ||
Shona pm | ||
Sindhi وزيراعظم | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) පී.එම් | ||
Slovak popoludnie | ||
Slovenian pm | ||
Somali pm | ||
Spanish pm | ||
Sundanese pm | ||
Swahili pm | ||
Swedish pm | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) pm | ||
Tajik сарвазир | ||
Tamil மாலை | ||
Tatar премьер | ||
Telugu pm | ||
Thai น | ||
Tigrinya ቀዳማይ ሚኒስተር | ||
Tsonga pm | ||
Turkish ös | ||
Turkmen premýer-ministr | ||
Twi (Akan) pm na ɛyɛ | ||
Ukrainian пм | ||
Urdu پی ایم | ||
Uyghur pm | ||
Uzbek bosh vazir | ||
Vietnamese buổi chiều | ||
Welsh pm | ||
Xhosa pm | ||
Yiddish pm | ||
Yoruba pm | ||
Zulu pm |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | In Afrikaans, "PM" can also refer to a military police officer. |
| Albanian | In Albanian, "PM" can also stand for "Partia e Majte" (Left Party), a political party founded in 1991. |
| Amharic | Literally translates to 'head of the ministers', referring to the leadership of the government's cabinet. |
| Arabic | "مَسَاء" (PM) literally means "evening" but is also used for the period from noon to sunset. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "Baş nazir" can also refer to a "Minister of State". |
| Basque | No alternate meanings exist for the Basque word "ARRATSALDEKO" (PM). |
| Belarusian | There seems to be no other meaning or special etymology for ПМ.} |
| Bengali | "প্রধানমন্ত্রী" শব্দটি সংস্কৃত শব্দ "প্রধান" এবং "মন্ত্রী" থেকে এসেছে, যার অর্থ যথাক্রমে "প্রধান" এবং "মন্ত্রী"। |
| Bosnian | Bosnian PM is the abbreviation for the Prime Minister, but it also stands for the Muslim Brotherhood. |
| Bulgarian | The abbreviation PM means post meridiem, which is Latin for afternoon or after midday. |
| Catalan | Catalan PM (short for Presidenta/President de la Generalitat de Catalunya) has other meanings: primer ministre (prime minister), postmeridian (afternoon), etc. |
| Cebuano | The Cebuano word "PM" can also refer to "post mortem" or "post meridiem". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "下午" derives from "午後 (wǔhòu)", meaning afternoon, which further derives from "午 (wǔ)", which originally indicated the time of "午食 (wǔshí)", lunch or noonday meal. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 下午, literally 'afternoon', is also a Chinese slang for 'to court someone'. |
| Corsican | PM is derived from the Italian word "pomeriggio", meaning "afternoon". |
| Croatian | U engleskom jeziku, PM može značiti "poslije podne" ili "premijer". |
| Czech | The "OD" part in "ODPOLEDNE" is likely derived from a Slavic word meaning "after", and "POLEDNE" means "noon". |
| Danish | The Danish abbreviation "ef." for "eftermiddag" (PM) is a reduced form of "eftermiddags" (PM) and was historically used in the military to avoid confusion with the German "PM" (Prozessionsmusik). |
| Dutch | In Dutch, "PM" is the abbreviation for "post meridiem" which means "afternoon or evening". |
| Esperanto | In esperanto, "PM" has the same meaning of "PM" in Latin, and is also the abbreviation of the term "post meridian" |
| Estonian | „PM” on inglise keeles lühend sõnast „post meridiem”, mis tähendab „pärast lõunat”. |
| Finnish | It can also be an abbreviation of "puhelinmerkintä" (telephone note). |
| French | "PM" (post meridiem) désigne en français l'après-midi et non le Premier ministre. |
| Frisian | PM can also mean "post meridiem" in Latin. |
| Galician | En galego "PM" equivale á frase inglesa "post meridiem" (despois do mediodía). |
| German | The abbreviation "PM" in German has a second meaning as an acronym for "Personalmeldung" (personal message). |
| Greek | The Greek word "ΜΕΤΑ ΜΕΣΗΜΒΡΙΑΣ" (PM) literally means "after midday" or "afternoon" in English. |
| Gujarati | "પી.એમ." has its origins in the Latin phrase "post meridian," which literally translates to "after noon". |
| Haitian Creole | The word "PM" in Haitian Creole can also mean "prime minister". |
| Hausa | In Hausa, "PM" (pronounced "fay-em") can also refer to a type of traditional Hausa attire worn by women. |
| Hawaiian | PM (p.m./post meridiem) is also used in Hawaiian as a slang term for "police officer." |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "אחר הצהריים" (afternoon) literally means "after the heat of the day". |
| Hindi | In Hindi, "PM" can also refer to "police" or "postmaster". |
| Hmong | In Hmong, "PM" also means "evening" or "nighttime". |
| Hungarian | The word "délután" also means "afternoon" and comes from the Old Hungarian words "del" (sun) and "út" (road), referring to the time when the sun starts to set. |
| Icelandic | Forsætisráðherra, the Icelandic word for 'PM', is a compound of 'forseti', meaning 'president', and 'ráðherra', meaning 'minister' or 'councillor'. |
| Igbo | The Igbo word "PM" can also refer to "afternoon" when used alone. |
| Indonesian | The Indonesian word "SORE" can also mean "evening" or "afternoon", but in this context it means "PM or Prime Minister" |
| Irish | Irish "PM" can refer to either "Post Meridiem" (afternoon or evening) or "Prime Minister". |
| Italian | PM was originally the abbreviation of the Latin term "post meridiem" (after midday). |
| Japanese | In Japanese, "午後" (PM) literally means "after the monkey". |
| Javanese | In Javanese, "PM" also means "night" or "afternoon". |
| Kannada | In Kannada, the abbreviation 'PM' also stands for 'Pradhana Mantri', meaning 'Prime Minister'. |
| Kazakh | "Премьер-министр" is derived from the French "premier ministre", meaning "first minister". It is also used to refer to the head of government in some other countries. |
| Korean | 오후 also means "a long time ago." |
| Kurdish | PM, short for "post meridiem," means "afternoon" in Latin. |
| Lao | The Lao word "ນ" is also a prefix used before personal names to denote respect, especially for a person of higher status. |
| Latin | In Latin, "PM EST" can also refer to "post meridiem est," meaning "it is afternoon." |
| Latvian | PM vai PM var būt arī abreviatūra no latīņu valodas "post meridiem", kas nozīmē "pēc pusdienlaika". |
| Lithuanian | In Lithuanian, "PM" also means "post meridiem" (literally "after noon"), which is a Latin term used to denote the afternoon. |
| Luxembourgish | The abbreviation "PM" can also stand for "Premier ministre" (prime minister) in Luxembourgish. |
| Macedonian | The word "Премиерот" is derived from the Latin word "primus" meaning "first" and the suffix "-ier" meaning "one who does". |
| Malagasy | In Malagasy, "PM" can also mean "ministerial decree" or "administrative decision." |
| Malay | The abbreviation "PM" can also refer to "post meridiem", meaning "afternoon" in Latin. |
| Maltese | In Maltese, "PM" can also refer to "Prim Ministru" (Prime Minister). |
| Maori | In Maori, “PM” or “pō muri” means "evening". |
| Marathi | The word "पंतप्रधान" in Marathi, meaning "Prime Minister," is derived from the Sanskrit words "pradhāna" (chief) and "mantri" (minister). |
| Mongolian | Ерөнхий сайд (PM) derives from two Mongolian words: Ерөнхий (general) and Сайд (minister), and can also refer to "chairman" or "principal" in other contexts. |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The abbreviation "PM တွင်" in Myanmar (Burmese) can also mean "in the evening" or "at night". |
| Nepali | This word can be broken into two parts, the first part "बेल" means "to ask" and the second part "उकी" means "sound". |
| Norwegian | "PM" is also an abbreviation for "personmale" which means "male person" in Norwegian. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | PM is a military abbreviation for 'private message' in Chichewa. |
| Pashto | Historically, "ماښام" had the general meaning of "afternoon" or "the time between noon and sunset". |
| Persian | In Persian, "PM" is derived from the French "président du conseil" (council president), a title used for the head of government during the French Third Republic (1871-1940). |
| Polish | The word 'popołudniu' ('PM' in English) literally means "after afternoon" in Polish. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | Em Portugal, "PM" é também abreviatura de "primeiro-ministro". |
| Romanian | Derived from the Latin phrase "post meridiem," "P.M." and "PM" indicate "afternoon" in English and Romanian, respectively. |
| Russian | ВЕЧЕРА is related to the word ВЕЧЕР, meaning 'evening' in English. |
| Samoan | Palemia, which means both "after noon" (PM) and "dark skin", can also be used figuratively to refer to someone who seems to be hiding something or someone who acts like a criminal. |
| Scots Gaelic | PM is used for "post meridian" or "afternoon" in Scots Gaelic, or as an abbreviation of the Scots Gaelic "prime minister." |
| Serbian | The Serbian word "ПОСЛЕ ПОДНЕ" (PM) literally translates to "after noon". |
| Sesotho | PM in Sesotho is short for "prime minister" but also is the abbreviation for "afternoon". |
| Shona | PM can also mean 'in the afternoon' in Shona. |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "وزيراعظم" (PM) is derived from the Persian "وزير" (minister) and "عظيم" (great), indicating the high rank of the Prime Minister in the government. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | "පී.එම්" stands for "Post Meridiem" which is Latin, indicating time from noon to night. |
| Slovak | POPOLUDNIE: from 'PO-' meaning 'after,' 'POL-' meaning 'field,' and '-UDNIE' meaning 'afternoon,' so 'after the field' (which in Medieval times was where work ended; work stopped around 3 PM). |
| Slovenian | "PM" je okrajšava za "popoldne" ali "predsednik vlade." |
| Somali | In Somali, "PM" can also refer to "evening" or "afternoon." |
| Spanish | PM in Spanish can also stand for 'peso mexicano' (Mexican peso). |
| Sundanese | "PM" can also mean "father" in Sundanese. |
| Swahili | PM in Swahili can also mean 'afternoon' (post meridiem) or 'Prime Minister'. |
| Swedish | In Swedish, "PM" can also stand for "promemoria," a type of business document. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "PM" is also a short form of the Tagalog word "Pamamahala" which means "Governance". |
| Tajik | The word "Сарвазир" in Tajik is derived from the Persian word "سر وزیر" (sar vazir), meaning "chief minister" or "prime minister." |
| Tamil | "மாலை" also refers to an offering of flowers worn as a garland or presented to a deity. |
| Telugu | In Telugu, the letters "PM" can also mean "post-meridiem" (afternoon). |
| Thai | "น" (PM) is also an abbreviation for นาด (nad), meaning "sound". |
| Turkish | The abbreviation ÖS, standing for Öğleden Sonra, "afternoon" in Turkish, is a colloquial term used in various contexts, including the measurement of time or the reference to a particular period of the day. |
| Urdu | In English, 'PM' can mean 'Public/Private Message', 'Post Meridian', 'Prime Minister', or 'Police Magistrate'. |
| Uzbek | "Bosh vazir" is used as a synonym for "the head of the government", but in fact, it means "the head of the viziers". |
| Vietnamese | The word "buổi chiều" in Vietnamese can also refer to the afternoon or the evening, depending on the context. |
| Welsh | In Welsh, "PM" can also refer to a "project manager" or "post meridian." |
| Xhosa | PM can also mean 'at night' when used in conjunction with time, e.g. '4pm' (4 emini) = 'four in the evening'. |
| Yiddish | In Yiddish, "PM" can also refer to "post meridiem" (the afternoon), or a "personal message" to a specific recipient. |
| Yoruba | In Yoruba, "PM" also means "afternoon." |
| Zulu | In Zulu, the abbreviation 'PM' can also refer to the position of 'secretary of state'. |
| English | In addition to the title Prime Minister, "PM" can also mean "post meridiem" (afternoon and evening) in the 12-hour clock system. |