Against in Different Languages
Discover 'Against' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Against
Afrikaans teen | ||
Albanian kundër | ||
Amharic ላይ | ||
Arabic ضد | ||
Armenian դեմ | ||
Assamese বিৰুদ্ধে | ||
Aymara kuntra | ||
Azerbaijani qarşı | ||
Bambara kama | ||
Basque aurka | ||
Belarusian супраць | ||
Bengali বিরুদ্ধে | ||
Bhojpuri के खिलाफ | ||
Bosnian protiv | ||
Bulgarian срещу | ||
Catalan en contra | ||
Cebuano kontra | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 反对 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 反對 | ||
Corsican contru | ||
Croatian protiv | ||
Czech proti | ||
Danish mod | ||
Dhivehi ދެކޮޅު | ||
Dogri खलाफ | ||
Dutch tegen | ||
English against | ||
Esperanto kontraŭ | ||
Estonian vastu | ||
Ewe tsi tsitre ɖe eŋu | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) laban sa | ||
Finnish vastaan | ||
French contre | ||
Frisian tsjin | ||
Galician en contra | ||
Georgian წინააღმდეგ | ||
German gegen | ||
Greek κατά | ||
Guarani hovaigua | ||
Gujarati સામે | ||
Haitian Creole kont | ||
Hausa da | ||
Hawaiian kūʻē | ||
Hebrew מול | ||
Hindi विरुद्ध | ||
Hmong tawm tsam | ||
Hungarian ellen | ||
Icelandic á móti | ||
Igbo imegide | ||
Ilocano maisuppiat | ||
Indonesian melawan | ||
Irish i gcoinne | ||
Italian contro | ||
Japanese に対して | ||
Javanese nglawan | ||
Kannada ವಿರುದ್ಧ | ||
Kazakh қарсы | ||
Khmer ប្រឆាំងនឹង | ||
Kinyarwanda kurwanya | ||
Konkani आड | ||
Korean 에 맞서 | ||
Krio agens | ||
Kurdish dijî | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) لەدژی | ||
Kyrgyz каршы | ||
Lao ຕໍ່ | ||
Latin adversus | ||
Latvian pret | ||
Lingala kontre | ||
Lithuanian prieš | ||
Luganda kulilanya | ||
Luxembourgish géint | ||
Macedonian против | ||
Maithili क' विरुद्ध | ||
Malagasy amin'i | ||
Malay terhadap | ||
Malayalam എതിരായി | ||
Maltese kontra | ||
Maori ki | ||
Marathi विरुद्ध | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯃꯥꯏꯌꯣꯛꯇ | ||
Mizo kalh | ||
Mongolian эсрэг | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ဆန့်ကျင် | ||
Nepali बिरूद्ध | ||
Norwegian imot | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kutsutsana | ||
Odia (Oriya) ବିପକ୍ଷରେ | ||
Oromo faallaa | ||
Pashto خلاف | ||
Persian در برابر | ||
Polish przeciwko | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) contra | ||
Punjabi ਦੇ ਵਿਰੁੱਧ | ||
Quechua contra | ||
Romanian împotriva | ||
Russian против | ||
Samoan tetee | ||
Sanskrit विरुद्धम् | ||
Scots Gaelic na aghaidh | ||
Sepedi kgahlanong | ||
Serbian против | ||
Sesotho kgahlanong le | ||
Shona kupesana | ||
Sindhi جي خلاف | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) එරෙහිව | ||
Slovak proti | ||
Slovenian proti | ||
Somali ka soo horjeedda | ||
Spanish en contra | ||
Sundanese ngalawan | ||
Swahili dhidi ya | ||
Swedish mot | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) laban | ||
Tajik зидди | ||
Tamil எதிராக | ||
Tatar каршы | ||
Telugu వ్యతిరేకంగా | ||
Thai ต่อต้าน | ||
Tigrinya ተቃራኒ | ||
Tsonga kanetana | ||
Turkish karşısında | ||
Turkmen garşy | ||
Twi (Akan) tia | ||
Ukrainian проти | ||
Urdu خلاف | ||
Uyghur قارشى | ||
Uzbek qarshi | ||
Vietnamese chống lại | ||
Welsh yn erbyn | ||
Xhosa ngokuchasene | ||
Yiddish קעגן | ||
Yoruba lodi si | ||
Zulu ngokumelene |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "teen" derived from the Dutch word "tegen" meaning "against" or "toward". |
| Albanian | Albanian "kundër" also means "near" or "opposite" in Old Albanian, which derives from the Proto-Indo-European root "*kontrə". |
| Amharic | The word “ላይ” is also used in expressions indicating “more” or “higher” as well as “in” or “in the presence of”. |
| Arabic | The root word "ضد" can also mean "opposite" or "contrasting element" in Arabic |
| Armenian | "Դեմ" can also refer to the body or face or a position opposite to another. |
| Azerbaijani | "Qarşı" also means "neighbor" in Azerbaijani, as it derives from the Proto-Turkic word "qorçı" meaning "to enclose" or "to neighbor." |
| Basque | Etymology: Possibly related to the Proto-Vasconic root *ork- meaning 'in front of' or 'opposing'. |
| Belarusian | In the 17th century, the word 'супраць' was sometimes used in the meaning of 'opposite', and in the 20th century it was also sometimes used instead of 'усупраць'. |
| Bengali | বিরুদ্ধে শব্দের মূল হল সংস্কৃত शब्द 'विरुद्ध', जिसका अर्थ है 'विपरीत' या'ख़िलाफ़' |
| Bosnian | Protiv is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *proti, meaning "opposite" or "facing". |
| Bulgarian | "Срещу/срешь" also means "opposite" in Bulgarian, e.g. "срещу училището" ("opposite the school") |
| Catalan | The expression "en contra" also means "in exchange for" in Catalan. |
| Cebuano | The Spanish word "contra" derives from the Latin "contra" meaning "against". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The word "反对" can also mean "to resist" or "to fight against" in Chinese. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 反對 can also mean 'to oppose' or 'to object to'. |
| Corsican | The word "contru" can also mean "near" or "opposite". |
| Croatian | "Protiv" can also mean "opposite" or "facing" in Croatian (e.g., "protiv struje" = "against the current"). |
| Czech | The Czech word "proti" also means "in front of" or "opposite to" and is related to the English word "pro". |
| Danish | The Danish word 'mod', meaning "against," also carries the meanings "toward," and "with," with a special connotation of "encounter" and "opposition." |
| Dutch | The word 'tegen' in Dutch, meaning 'against', is derived from the Old Dutch word 'tegjan', meaning 'to go against'. |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word 'kontraŭ' is derived from the Latin 'contra', and also means 'in exchange for'. |
| Estonian | The Estonian word "vastu" can also refer to a person or thing that hinders or opposes another person or thing. |
| Finnish | "Vastaan" also means "to answer" or "to resist" in Finnish. |
| French | The word "contre" evolved from the Latin "contra" meaning "together" or "opposite to." |
| Frisian | The word "tsjin" in Frisian also means "in the direction of" and "in exchange for" |
| Galician | In Galician, "en contra" can also mean "on the contrary" or "in exchange for". |
| German | The Middle High German word "gegene" originally meant "to go towards," from the Old High German word "gigan" (to go) and the preposition "ga-." |
| Greek | The prefix "κατά" can also indicate a position downwards or a place in time, and may derive from the PIE root *gʷʰer-, meaning to turn, bend, or roll. |
| Gujarati | The word "સામે" can also mean "in front of" or "opposite" in Gujarati. |
| Haitian Creole | In Haitian Creole, the word "kont" can also mean "opposite" or "facing". |
| Hausa | "Da" derives from Proto-Chadic *ɗaa "to place beside", and also serves as an ablative case marker in Hausa. |
| Hawaiian | The word "kūʻē" in Hawaiian can also mean "to oppose" or "to resist". |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "מול" "mul" also means "in front of", and has the same origin as the English word "mule", as a mule is an animal born between a horse "סוס" sus and a donkey "חמור" chamor – animals which, typically, stand "face to face" when mating. |
| Hindi | The word 'विरुद्ध' comes from the Sanskrit word 'virud', which can also mean 'hostile' or 'opposite'. |
| Hmong | "Tawm tsam" also means "to do battle with" or "to play a game" in Hmong. |
| Hungarian | The word "ellen" can also mean "in spite of" or "in contrast to". |
| Icelandic | In Icelandic, “á móti” not only means “against” but can also mean “to meet someone or something” or “to face something”. |
| Igbo | The Igbo word "imegide" also means "obstacle" or "hindrance". |
| Indonesian | "Melawan" also means "to respond", especially to someone in authority. |
| Irish | The term "i gcoinne" derives from the Old Irish phrase "i comfocus" meaning "in front of" and implies opposition. |
| Italian | "Contro" is also used figuratively to indicate opposition or disagreement. |
| Japanese | The word "に対して" can also mean "toward," "for," or "in relation to". |
| Javanese | The word "nglawan" can also mean "challenge" or "resist" in Javanese. |
| Kannada | "ವಿರುದ್ಧ" has many meanings such as opposite, contrasting, counter, anti." |
| Kazakh | The word "қарсы" also means "opposite" and "in front of". |
| Korean | "에 맞서" (against) can also mean "to oppose" or "to resist." |
| Kurdish | The Kurdish word "dijî" can also refer to the opposite of something, such as its reverse, counterpart, or enemy. |
| Kyrgyz | "Каршы" also means "opposite" and "in front of" in Kyrgyz. |
| Lao | The word "ຕໍ່" has a number of other meanings in Lao, including "to add" and "to compare." |
| Latin | The Latin word "adversus" not only means "against," but also implies "in the face of" or "in opposition to something." |
| Latvian | The word "pret" in Latvian can also mean "in front of" or "before". |
| Lithuanian | The word "prieš" also means "before" in the sense of time or order, and is cognate with the Latin word "prae". |
| Luxembourgish | The word "géint" can also refer to a direction, such as "opposite" or "facing away from". |
| Macedonian | "Против" also means "in front of" or "in the face of". |
| Malagasy | AMIN'I is said to be derived from the Arabic word 'Al-amina' which means the trusted one. |
| Malay | The Malay word "terhadap" has the same origin as the word "hadap" which means "to face" or "to meet". |
| Malayalam | The word "എതിരായി" also means "to oppose" or "to resist". |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "kontra" is derived from the Italian word "contro" and the Latin word "contra. |
| Maori | The Maori word 'ki' also means 'to', 'at', or 'on' and can be used to indicate direction or location. |
| Marathi | विरुद्ध also shares its origin with its English and French cognates, deriving ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root |
| Mongolian | The word эсрэг can also mean "opposite" and "contrasting" in Mongolian. |
| Nepali | The Nepali word "बिरूद्ध" (against) is derived from the Sanskrit word "विरुद्ध" (opposite) and has the alternate meaning of "objection" or "opposition". |
| Norwegian | "Imot" can mean "towards" when followed by a toponym or directional term in Norwegian |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "kutsutsana" is also used to mean "to oppose" or "to prohibit" in Nyanja (Chichewa). |
| Pashto | In Pashto, "خلاف" not only means "against" but can also carry the connotation of a "dispute" or "disagreement". |
| Persian | The word "در برابر" can also mean "opposite" or "facing" in Persian, indicating a position or direction facing something else. |
| Polish | In Polish, the word "przeciwko" originally meant "in front of" and only later gained its current meaning of "against." |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, "contra" can also mean "towards" or "approximately." |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "împotriva" also means "in favor of" in certain archaic or regional contexts. |
| Russian | "Против шерсти" literally means 'against the wool' but figuratively refers to something unpleasant, difficult or annoying. |
| Samoan | Tetee can also mean 'to go somewhere and return' or 'to get something and bring it back' |
| Scots Gaelic | Na aghaidh can also refer to the face of a person or an object, or a particular direction |
| Serbian | The word 'против' in Serbian can also mean 'in exchange for' or 'instead of' |
| Sesotho | The etymology of "kgahlanong le" is unclear, but it may originate from an older verb meaning "to divide." |
| Shona | Shona ku is a prefix that indicates direction or position, and pesana means 'to be opposite' or 'to face'. |
| Sindhi | It is derived from the Sanskrit word 'jee'. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "එරෙහිව" (against) can also mean "in opposition to" or "contrary to" |
| Slovak | "Proti" is a loanword from German "vor" (before); it also appears in Czech "proti" (opposite). |
| Slovenian | The word "proti" can also mean "towards" or "in favor of" in different contexts. |
| Somali | The Somali word "ka soo horjeedda" directly translates to "coming from opposing direction", indicating its original meaning of "facing". |
| Spanish | "En contra" also means "in exchange" in legal and business settings. |
| Sundanese | The Sundanese word "ngalawan" can also mean "to face" or "to confront". |
| Swahili | The word "dhidi ya" in Swahili can also mean "in opposition to" or "in defiance of." |
| Swedish | In Swedish, "mot" also means "to" or "towards" depending on the context. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Laban" has its roots in the Sanskrit word "lubdha," meaning "desire" or "want," and was originally used to signify "competition" or "contention." |
| Tajik | The word "зидди" can also mean "opposite" or "contrary" in Tajik. |
| Tamil | The term எதிராக can also imply 'opposite' or 'facing', with the latter sense seen in constructions like 'the north-facing room'. |
| Thai | The word "ต่อต้าน" can also mean "to oppose" or "to resist". |
| Turkish | The etymology of the Turkish word "karşısında" hints at its primary meaning of "in the face of someone". |
| Ukrainian | The word "проти" also means "opposite to" and "in front of" in Ukrainian. |
| Urdu | The word "خلاف" (khilāf) means "against", but it can also mean "disagreement" or "dispute". |
| Uzbek | The word "qarshi" can also refer to a "counterpart" or a "match" in Uzbek. |
| Vietnamese | The word "chống lại" can also mean "to support" or "to resist" in Vietnamese. |
| Welsh | The phrase "yn erbyn" can also mean "towards" or "facing" in Welsh, depending on the context. |
| Xhosa | Historically, 'ngokuchasene' was also used to mean 'near' or 'in the vicinity of', a meaning which is preserved in a number of its derivatives and is cognate with some Zulu meanings of the word 'chase'. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "קעגן" ("against") also means "opposite" or "toward" in a physical sense. |
| Yoruba | The word "lodi si" in Yoruba can also mean "not so" or "unlike". |
| Zulu | A Zulu term for the state of being against someone or something but it also means 'to deny' or 'to refuse' as well as 'to be averse' or 'to dislike' |
| English | The word 'against' derives from the Old English word 'ongegn', meaning 'opposite' or 'facing'. |