Afrikaans saam | ||
Albanian së bashku | ||
Amharic አብሮ | ||
Arabic على طول | ||
Armenian երկայնքով | ||
Assamese একেলগে | ||
Aymara akat jayaru | ||
Azerbaijani boyunca | ||
Bambara a nɔ fɛ | ||
Basque batera | ||
Belarusian разам | ||
Bengali বরাবর | ||
Bhojpuri के साथे | ||
Bosnian zajedno | ||
Bulgarian заедно | ||
Catalan al llarg | ||
Cebuano kauban | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 沿 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 沿 | ||
Corsican longu | ||
Croatian uz | ||
Czech podél | ||
Danish med sig | ||
Dhivehi އެކުގައި | ||
Dogri इक्कला | ||
Dutch langs | ||
English along | ||
Esperanto kune | ||
Estonian mööda | ||
Ewe le eŋu | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) kasama | ||
Finnish pitkin | ||
French le long de | ||
Frisian bylâns | ||
Galician xunto | ||
Georgian გასწვრივ | ||
German entlang | ||
Greek κατά μήκος | ||
Guarani ipukukuévo | ||
Gujarati સાથે | ||
Haitian Creole ansanm | ||
Hausa tare | ||
Hawaiian pū | ||
Hebrew לְאוֹרֶך | ||
Hindi साथ में | ||
Hmong ze | ||
Hungarian mentén | ||
Icelandic ásamt | ||
Igbo tinyere | ||
Ilocano kadua ti | ||
Indonesian sepanjang | ||
Irish feadh | ||
Italian lungo | ||
Japanese に沿って | ||
Javanese bebarengan | ||
Kannada ಉದ್ದಕ್ಕೂ | ||
Kazakh бойымен | ||
Khmer នៅតាមបណ្តោយ | ||
Kinyarwanda hamwe | ||
Konkani हाचेसयत | ||
Korean ...을 따라서 | ||
Krio wit | ||
Kurdish tenişt | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) لەگەڵ | ||
Kyrgyz бирге | ||
Lao ຕາມ | ||
Latin una | ||
Latvian gar | ||
Lingala elongo | ||
Lithuanian kartu | ||
Luganda kumabali | ||
Luxembourgish laanscht | ||
Macedonian заедно | ||
Maithili संग मे | ||
Malagasy miaraka | ||
Malay sepanjang | ||
Malayalam ഒപ്പം | ||
Maltese flimkien | ||
Maori haere | ||
Marathi सोबत | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯂꯣꯏꯅꯅ | ||
Mizo zuiin | ||
Mongolian хамт | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) တလျှောက် | ||
Nepali साथ | ||
Norwegian langs | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) motsatira | ||
Odia (Oriya) ସାଙ୍ଗରେ | ||
Oromo irra | ||
Pashto سره | ||
Persian در امتداد | ||
Polish wzdłuż | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) ao longo | ||
Punjabi ਨਾਲ | ||
Quechua kuska | ||
Romanian de-a lungul | ||
Russian вдоль | ||
Samoan faʻatasi | ||
Sanskrit सह | ||
Scots Gaelic feadh | ||
Sepedi go bapela | ||
Serbian заједно | ||
Sesotho hammoho | ||
Shona pamwe chete | ||
Sindhi سان گڏ | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) දිගේ | ||
Slovak pozdĺž | ||
Slovenian skupaj | ||
Somali weheliyaan | ||
Spanish a lo largo | ||
Sundanese sapanjang | ||
Swahili pamoja | ||
Swedish längs | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) kasabay | ||
Tajik дар баробари | ||
Tamil உடன் | ||
Tatar белән | ||
Telugu వెంట | ||
Thai พร้อม | ||
Tigrinya ማዕረ ኣንፈት | ||
Tsonga swin'we | ||
Turkish boyunca | ||
Turkmen bilen bilelikde | ||
Twi (Akan) wɔ ho | ||
Ukrainian разом | ||
Urdu ساتھ | ||
Uyghur بىللە | ||
Uzbek birga | ||
Vietnamese dọc theo | ||
Welsh ar hyd | ||
Xhosa kunye | ||
Yiddish צוזאמען | ||
Yoruba pẹlú | ||
Zulu kanye |
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "saam" can also mean "together" or "at the same time", and is derived from the Dutch word "zaam". |
| Albanian | "Së bashku" is also used as an intensifier, meaning "very" or "greatly." |
| Amharic | The word "አብሮ" can also mean "together" or "in the company of". |
| Arabic | The phrase "على طول" is a colloquial expression that originated from Egyptian Arabic and can also mean "immediately" |
| Armenian | "Երկայնքով" is also used to indicate the duration of a period or the distance measured along a particular direction. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "boyunca" in Azerbaijani also means "throughout" or "during" a specified period of time. |
| Basque | The Basque word "batera" also means "the other side" or "the other bank (of a river)". |
| Belarusian | "Разам" is a Belarusian noun and adverb that can also mean "volume" or "size", and may derive from the Lithuanian word for "a lot", "daugybe". |
| Bengali | বরাবর' may also mean 'straight' or 'adjacent to' |
| Bosnian | The verb 'zajedno' in Bosnian can also mean 'to come together' and is derived from the word 'jedan' meaning 'one'. |
| Bulgarian | The word "заедно" can also refer to "at one place" or "in one piece." |
| Catalan | In Catalan, "al llarg" can also mean "throughout" or "during". |
| Cebuano | Kauban can also mean "together" or "side by side". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "沿" also refers to an edge, bank, riverside, seaside, or boundary. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | "沿" is derived from an ancient pictograph showing a river, so it originally meant "by water", and still has that meaning in some words. |
| Corsican | "Longu" derives from the Latin word "longus", meaning "long" or "tall", and is also used to refer to the length of a garment or the duration of a period of time." |
| Croatian | The word 'uz' can also mean 'with' or 'by'. |
| Czech | The word "podél" is cognate with the Polish word "podle", both derived from the Proto-Slavic word *podolь, meaning "foot, base, bottom". |
| Danish | "Med sig" can also mean "by the way" and "including". |
| Dutch | "Langs" can also refer to a bar or inn. |
| Esperanto | The word 'kune' also means 'together' in Esperanto, and is a derivative of the word 'kuni' ('up to'). |
| Estonian | The word "mööda" has been linked to the Finnish word "myötä" and the Hungarian word "mellett", meaning "beside" or "with". |
| Finnish | In addition to 'along', 'pitkin' can also mean 'along the course of', 'along the edge of', or 'throughout the extent of'. |
| French | The French phrase "le long de" can also mean "parallel to" or "following the outline of". |
| Frisian | In Frisian, 'bylâns' can also mean 'parallel' or 'opposite', depending on context. |
| Galician | Galician "xunto" is thought to come from Latin "iunctu" (united, joined) with the same meaning as in Portuguese "junto". |
| German | Entlang comes from the Middle High German word 'en(e)' meaning 'in', 'on' or 'along' and the Old High German 'lanc' which means 'long'. In modern German it has become the word 'lang'. It can also mean 'in the direction (of something)'. It is also used in the word 'entgegen', meaning 'towards'. |
| Greek | "Κατά μήκος," Greek for "along," comes from the root "μήκος," meaning "length" and "κατά," meaning "down, according to, during". |
| Gujarati | The word સાથે can also mean to accompany or join and is often used in reference to people or things moving together. |
| Haitian Creole | The Haitian Creole word "ansanm" is derived from the French word "ensemble," meaning "together". |
| Hausa | "Tare" means "along and wide" in Hausa, similar to "tare" |
| Hawaiian | The Hawaiian word "pū" can also mean "to blow" or "a shell." |
| Hebrew | "לאורך" (along) derives from "אור" (light), and describes the path illuminated in front of one. |
| Hindi | साथ में is derived from the Sanskrit word 'सह' meaning 'together' or 'with' and can also have the alternate meaning of 'company' or 'assistance'. |
| Hmong | The term ze also means to accompany someone somewhere. |
| Hungarian | The word "mentén" is also used to refer to a Hungarian type of fur-trimmed coat or fur-trimmed sheepskin that is worn as a cloak. |
| Icelandic | The word "ásamt" is derived from the Old Norse word "ásamt, |
| Igbo | Tinyere also means 'a line or row' and 'the path of a moving object'. |
| Indonesian | The word "sepanjang" is also used in Indonesian to refer to the "length" of something. |
| Irish | Feadh derives from the Old Irish word fo dí, meaning "along a direction." |
| Italian | The Italian word "lungo" also means "long"} |
| Japanese | The word '沿って' is also used in the sense of 'to follow' or 'to stick to'. |
| Javanese | The word 'bebarengan' is derived from the words 'bebare' meaning 'together' and 'ngan' meaning 'with'. |
| Kannada | The alternate meaning of 'ಉದ್ದಕ್ಕೂ' is 'throughout' or 'along the length of something'. |
| Kazakh | The word "бойымен" ("along") in Kazakh is derived from the noun "бой" ("height") and the suffix "-мен" ("along or on"). It can also mean "parallel to" or "beside" in certain contexts. |
| Khmer | The word "នៅតាមបណ្តោយ" can also be used to describe the arrangement of objects in a row or line, or to indicate the direction in which something is moving. |
| Korean | The word '...을 따라서' can also mean 'according to' or 'in accordance with'. |
| Kurdish | The word "tenişt" in Kurdish originated from the Old Persian "tanista" which also means "along". |
| Kyrgyz | "Бирге" can mean not only "along" but also "together" and "with". |
| Lao | The word "ຕາມ" ("along") in Lao can also mean "to follow" or "to be in accordance with". |
| Latin | The Latin word "una" can also mean "with" or "together." |
| Latvian | The word gar can also mean "side" or "at the side of" in Latvian. |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word "kartu" means "together" in addition to meaning "along". |
| Luxembourgish | The word "laanscht" is derived from the Old High German word "langasto", meaning "long". It also has the alternate meaning of "length" or "distance". |
| Macedonian | The word "заедно" in Macedonian can also mean "together" |
| Malagasy | In Malagasy, "miaraka" can also mean "together" or "with". |
| Malay | The word "sepanjang" can also mean "all along" or "throughout" in English. |
| Malayalam | The word "ഒപ്പം" has additional meanings including "together with," "with," and "near." |
| Maltese | The word "flimkien" is derived from the Arabic word "al-makān", meaning "the place". It can also mean "together" or "in company". |
| Maori | Haere was traditionally used for travelling, while waka was typically associated with sea journeys. |
| Marathi | The word "सोबत" can also mean "in the company of" or "together with". |
| Mongolian | Mongolian "хамт" also means "together" and is cognate with the same-meaning Turkish "hamt" and "hamta" in Tungusic languages |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The word ုစျဆူ (ta.le hkauk) comes from the Pali word ဆဳတြမိ (anukkam) which means "sequentially." |
| Nepali | The word "साथ" in Nepali can also mean "with" or "in the company of" in addition to "along". |
| Norwegian | In Norwegian, the word "langs" also means "down" or "along a riverbank". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "motsatira" is derived from the root word "tsata," meaning "to follow" or "to come after." |
| Pashto | "سره" is also the Pashto word for "edge" or "border". |
| Persian | The word "در امتداد" can also mean "parallel" and "alongside" in some contexts. |
| Polish | "Wzdłuż" is also used in the context of spatial dimension, and can mean "across" in English. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | "Ao longo" means "alongst" but it also means "along the". It is used to indicate a path or direction of movement. |
| Punjabi | ਨਾਲ also means "with" or "together with". |
| Romanian | De-a lungul has other meanings such as "in rows", "in parallel", "alongside", and "throughout." |
| Russian | The preposition "вдоль" in Russian is cognate with the preposition "along" in English, and it can also mean "following the length of" or "parallel to". |
| Samoan | The word "faʻatasi" can also mean "together" or "at the same time" in Samoan. |
| Scots Gaelic | "Feadh" can also mean "length" or "duration" in Scots Gaelic |
| Serbian | The word "заједно" in Serbian can also mean "together" or "in tandem". |
| Sesotho | The word "hammoho" is derived from "moho," meaning "to follow" or "to accompany."} |
| Shona | The expression "pamwe chete" in Shona can mean "along together" or "together with". |
| Sindhi | "سان گڏ" is derived from the Persian word "همراه" meaning "companion" or "accompaniment" in English. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | දිගේ is also used to refer to the length of an object, or the distance between two points. |
| Slovak | The word "pozdĺž" can also be used to mean "at length" or "in detail". |
| Slovenian | The noun 'skupaj' can also be used to mean 'together'. |
| Somali | "Weheliyaan" also means "a group of soldiers". |
| Spanish | “A lo largo” (“along”) also means “throughout”. |
| Sundanese | The word "sapanjang" can also mean "throughout" or "continuously". |
| Swahili | Pamoja is also commonly used in Swahili to describe a sense of unity or togetherness. |
| Swedish | "Längs" also means "spine" or "backbone" in Swedish. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | Though “kasabay” literally means “simultaneously,” it is also used in Tagalog to refer to someone from the same town or city. |
| Tajik | This Tajik word can also mean "side by side" or "equal". |
| Tamil | The word 'உடன்' can also mean 'immediately' or 'at the same time'. |
| Telugu | In Telugu, 'వెంట' can also mean 'immediately after' or 'in succession'. |
| Thai | "พร้อม" also means "ready" or "complete" in Thai. |
| Turkish | "Boyunca" also means "during" in Turkish. |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word "разом" also means "together" or "at once". |
| Urdu | In Urdu, "ساتھ" also means "with" and can refer to the company of individuals. |
| Uzbek | "Birga" also means "one after another" and is used in expressions like "birga-birga" (one after another) and "birga-birga borish" (to go one after another). |
| Vietnamese | "Dọc theo" can also mean "in accordance with" (e.g. "dọc theo quy định") or "in line with" (e.g. "dọc theo đường"). |
| Welsh | 'Ar hyd' literally means 'for the purpose of', which implies movement towards a destination |
| Xhosa | The word 'kunye' can also mean 'now' or 'at the present time' in Xhosa. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "צוזאמען" originally meant "to bind" or "to connect" and is related to the German word "zusammen". |
| Yoruba | "Pẹlú" derives from the verb 'pẹ' ('to accompany'), denoting companionship and movement together. |
| Zulu | Kanye also means 'in or to a specified direction' in Zulu. |
| English | In addition to its literal meaning of "alongside" or "in line with," "along" can also be used figuratively to mean "in accordance with" or "in the process of." |