Below in Different Languages
Discover 'Below' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Below
Afrikaans hieronder | ||
Albanian më poshtë | ||
Amharic ከታች | ||
Arabic أدناه | ||
Armenian ստորև | ||
Assamese তলত | ||
Aymara manqha | ||
Azerbaijani aşağıda | ||
Bambara jukɔrɔ | ||
Basque behean | ||
Belarusian ніжэй | ||
Bengali নিচে | ||
Bhojpuri निच्चे | ||
Bosnian ispod | ||
Bulgarian по-долу | ||
Catalan baix | ||
Cebuano sa ubos | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 下面 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 下面 | ||
Corsican sottu | ||
Croatian ispod | ||
Czech níže | ||
Danish under | ||
Dhivehi ތިރީގައި | ||
Dogri हेठ | ||
Dutch hieronder | ||
English below | ||
Esperanto sube | ||
Estonian allpool | ||
Ewe été | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) sa ibaba | ||
Finnish alla | ||
French au dessous de | ||
Frisian ûnder | ||
Galician abaixo | ||
Georgian ქვევით | ||
German unten | ||
Greek παρακάτω | ||
Guarani guýpe | ||
Gujarati નીચે | ||
Haitian Creole anba a | ||
Hausa a ƙasa | ||
Hawaiian malalo iho | ||
Hebrew לְהַלָן | ||
Hindi नीचे | ||
Hmong hauv qab | ||
Hungarian lent | ||
Icelandic hér að neðan | ||
Igbo n'okpuru | ||
Ilocano baba | ||
Indonesian di bawah | ||
Irish thíos | ||
Italian sotto | ||
Japanese 未満 | ||
Javanese ngisor iki | ||
Kannada ಕೆಳಗೆ | ||
Kazakh төменде | ||
Khmer ខាងក្រោម | ||
Kinyarwanda hepfo | ||
Konkani सकयल | ||
Korean 이하 | ||
Krio dɔŋ | ||
Kurdish jêrîn | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) خوارەوە | ||
Kyrgyz төмөндө | ||
Lao ດ້ານລຸ່ມ | ||
Latin inferius | ||
Latvian zemāk | ||
Lingala na nse | ||
Lithuanian žemiau | ||
Luganda wansi wa | ||
Luxembourgish drënner | ||
Macedonian подолу | ||
Maithili नीचां | ||
Malagasy ambany | ||
Malay di bawah | ||
Malayalam താഴെ | ||
Maltese hawn taħt | ||
Maori i raro | ||
Marathi खाली | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯃꯈꯥ | ||
Mizo hnuai | ||
Mongolian доор | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အောက်တွင်ဖော်ပြထားသည် | ||
Nepali तल | ||
Norwegian under | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) pansipa | ||
Odia (Oriya) ନିମ୍ନରେ | | ||
Oromo gadi | ||
Pashto لاندې | ||
Persian در زیر | ||
Polish poniżej | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) abaixo | ||
Punjabi ਹੇਠਾਂ | ||
Quechua uray | ||
Romanian de mai jos | ||
Russian ниже | ||
Samoan lalo | ||
Sanskrit अधः | ||
Scots Gaelic gu h-ìosal | ||
Sepedi ka fase | ||
Serbian доле | ||
Sesotho ka tlase | ||
Shona pazasi | ||
Sindhi هيٺيان | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) පහත | ||
Slovak nižšie | ||
Slovenian spodaj | ||
Somali hoose | ||
Spanish abajo | ||
Sundanese di handap | ||
Swahili chini | ||
Swedish nedan | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) sa ibaba | ||
Tajik дар зер | ||
Tamil கீழே | ||
Tatar аста | ||
Telugu క్రింద | ||
Thai ด้านล่าง | ||
Tigrinya ትሕቲ | ||
Tsonga ehansi | ||
Turkish altında | ||
Turkmen aşakda | ||
Twi (Akan) aseɛ | ||
Ukrainian нижче | ||
Urdu نیچے | ||
Uyghur تۆۋەندە | ||
Uzbek quyida | ||
Vietnamese phía dưới | ||
Welsh isod | ||
Xhosa ngezantsi | ||
Yiddish אונטן | ||
Yoruba ni isalẹ | ||
Zulu ngezansi |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | Its etymology is a combination of the Dutch words "hier" and "onder," meaning "here" and "under," respectively. |
| Albanian | Poshtë, in Albanian, is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *upo-, meaning 'under' or 'beneath'. |
| Amharic | In Amharic, "ከታች" can also mean "inferior" or "subordinate". |
| Arabic | The word "أدناه" also refers to what is mentioned above in official documents. |
| Armenian | The Armenian word "ստորև" is also used in the sense of "underneath" or "at the bottom" of something. |
| Azerbaijani | "Aşağıda" is also a synonym of "to insult" |
| Basque | The word "behean" has a possible relation with the verb "behera" (getting down), and is related to the word "behe" (the lower part). |
| Belarusian | The word "ніжэй" can also mean "underneath" or "less than" |
| Bengali | In Bengali, 'নিচে' can also mean 'inferior' or 'demeaning' |
| Bosnian | The word "ispod" is also used in Bosnian to mean "underneath" or "beneath something else." |
| Bulgarian | "По-долу" (below) originates from the Proto-Slavic *podъ, meaning "floor," and is related to the modern word "пол" (floor). |
| Catalan | Baix in Catalan can also mean 'short' or 'low' (in height), and is cognate with the Spanish word 'bajo'. |
| Cebuano | The prefix "sa" in Cebuano, like in Tagalog, is also often used to form prepositional phrases and can mean "in" or "on" |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 下面 also means 'the following' or 'the next' in Chinese (Traditional). |
| Corsican | Sottu also means 'underneath', 'at the bottom', or 'on the ground' in Corsican. |
| Croatian | The word "ispod" is derived from the Proto-Slavic preposition *podъ, meaning "under" or "beneath". |
| Czech | Although níže primarily means 'below' in Czech, it can also mean 'lower' or be used in a comparative sense to indicate that something is situated at a lower level. |
| Danish | In Danish, the word "under" also means "to wonder". |
| Dutch | In the early 19th century, "hieronder" also meant "a little while ago" |
| Esperanto | In Esperanto, "sube" is also used to mean "down" or "beneath" in relation to a higher or elevated object. |
| Estonian | "Allpool" in Estonian has additional meanings of 'down' and 'under' in addition to 'below'. |
| Finnish | "Alla" is a word used in the context of navigation, and refers to the direction opposite to "upstream". |
| French | The French expression "au-dessous de" can also mean "beneath," "less than," or "inferior to." |
| Frisian | "Under" derives from Old Frisian "under", which may also mean "between" or "among". |
| Galician | In Galician, "abaixo" originates from Latin "deorsum" and can also mean "downward", "lower", or "later". |
| Georgian | "ქვევით" is also used metaphorically to indicate |
| German | The German word "unten" is cognate with the English word "under" and both derive from the Proto-Germanic word "*und". |
| Greek | The term "παρακάτω" can refer to a physical position, but also to a chronological sequence, a logical consequence, or a lower value. |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "નીચે" has various connotations including "below," "down," "inferior," "submissive," and even "hell." |
| Haitian Creole | The Haitian Creole word "anba a" is derived from the West African Yoruba language, where it means "under" or "beneath." |
| Hausa | The Hausa word "a ƙasa" also means "earth" or "land" and is related to the word "ƙasa" which means "homeland" or "ancestral land." |
| Hawaiian | The word "malalo iho" in Hawaiian can also mean "downward" or "underground". |
| Hebrew | The word לְהַלָן is a combination of the preposition 'ל' ('to') and the word 'הָלְאָה' ('beyond'), indicating movement towards a point in the text that is considered 'below'. |
| Hindi | नीचे also means 'downstairs', as in घर के नीचे means 'downstairs in the house'. |
| Hmong | Hauv qab literally means 'inside the floor' but can also be used figuratively to mean 'underneath' or 'beneath'. |
| Hungarian | The word "lent" in Hungarian also refers to a type of stringed instrument played by plucking. |
| Icelandic | The Icelandic phrase "hér að neðan" can also mean "in the basement" or "downstairs". |
| Igbo | "Nkpọ̀rọ̀ (n'òkpurọ̀)" refers not only to what is underneath, like the belly or foot (n'okpuru ákwá = under the bed) in Igbo; it also refers, by extension, to hidden things that remain unknown in the physical, like a secret, an underlying cause (n'ókpurò òkòrò) and, especially when the prefix n' is dropped "ókpùrò", as in "ókpùrò ámá," which means mystery |
| Indonesian | The word "di bawah" can also be used figuratively to mean "inferior" or "subordinate". |
| Irish | The Irish word "thíos" (below) comes from the Proto-Indo-European root "dhegh" (earth). |
| Italian | The word "sotto" in Italian can also mean "underneath" or "beneath." |
| Japanese | "満" (man) in "未満" (miman) means "full" or "complete". Thus "未満" literally means "not yet full". |
| Javanese | Ngisor iki in Javanese can also mean lower (in position), and is the opposite of ngisor luwih (upper). |
| Kannada | The word "ಕೆಳಗೆ" can also mean "beneath" or "underneath" in Kannada, indicating a position lower than something else. |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "төменде" can mean not only "below" in terms of location, but also in terms of status or rank. |
| Khmer | The word "ខាងក្រោម" is also used to refer to the downstream side of a river or stream. |
| Korean | The word '이하' ('below') is also used in Korean to mean 'the following'. |
| Kurdish | The Kurdish word "jêrîn" also means "low" or "shallow" in other dialects. |
| Kyrgyz | The word "төмөндө" in Kyrgyz also means "the bottom" or "the lower part" of something. |
| Latin | The word "inferius" can also refer to "the lower world" or "hell" in Latin. |
| Latvian | The word "zemāk" is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root "*dʰǵʰomh₂-," meaning "earth" or "ground." |
| Lithuanian | "Žemiau" can mean both "lower" and "below" and is related to the word "žemė" (earth, land)" |
| Luxembourgish | The word "drënner" is derived from the German word "drunter", which means "beneath" or "underneath". |
| Macedonian | The word "подолу" can also mean "in the hem" in Macedonian. |
| Malagasy | The word "ambany" can also mean "in the presence of" or "before" depending on the context. |
| Malay | The word "di bawah" can also mean "in the presence of" or "under the authority of" someone. |
| Malayalam | The word "താഴെ" can also refer to the bottom or lower part of something, or to a lower level or position. |
| Maltese | It shares the same Proto-Semitic root as Hebrew "taḥat" and Arabic "taḥta" to designate "that which is situated at the bottom" |
| Maori | I raro can also mean "downstairs" or "in the basement". |
| Marathi | The Marathi word "खाली" can also mean "to the bottom of" or "on the other side of". |
| Mongolian | The word "доор" can also refer to the back or rear part of something. |
| Nepali | तल (tal) also refers to the sole or bottom, the palm or sole, a level or story (of a building), or a bottom or foundation. |
| Norwegian | The word "under" in Norwegian can also mean "among" or "during". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "pansipa" can also be used figuratively to mean "subordinate" or "inferior" |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "لاندې" (below) is also used to refer to the "underworld" or "hell". |
| Persian | The word "در زیر" can also mean "in the shade" or "under the protection of" in Persian. |
| Polish | The word "poniżej" is also closely related to the preposition "ponad" („above”), and a number of other words referring to positions in space. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word abaixo also means "downstairs" in Brazilian Portuguese, while in European Portuguese it refers to a lower administrative division. |
| Romanian | De mai jos (below) derives from the Latin phrase 'de magis deorsum' meaning 'down from the more above' and is an antonym of 'de sus' (above), which has an identical semantic origin in the phrase 'de magis sursum' ('up from the more below'). |
| Russian | The word "ниже" can also mean "lower" or "more inferior". |
| Samoan | Lalo also means 'low tide' in Samoan |
| Scots Gaelic | "Gu h-ìosal" can also mean the bottom of something or the sole of the foot. |
| Serbian | The word "доле" in Serbian can also mean "fortune" or "fate". |
| Sesotho | "Ka Tlase" can also refer to the lower part of something, like "ka tlase ea thaba" (at the foot of the mountain). |
| Shona | In Shona, "pazasi" can also mean "bottom" or "base" of something |
| Sindhi | "هيٺيان" comes from Sanskrit "adhah" and refers to both a location and the direction in which something is placed. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | "පහත" also refers to the downward or southerly direction. |
| Slovak | The word "nižšie" (below) is also used to mean "lower" or "inferior" in Slovak. |
| Slovenian | The Slovenian word "spodaj" can also refer to the underside of something or a particular part of a plant. |
| Somali | The word "hoose" can also mean "to fall" in Somali. |
| Spanish | Abajo originates from Latin "ad basiu", meaning "at the base" or "at the bottom". |
| Sundanese | Can also be used as preposition of time, 'later' or 'afterwards' |
| Swahili | The word "chini" is also used figuratively to mean "subordinate" or "inferior". |
| Swedish | Nedan is thought to stem from the word 'nid' (nest), indicating a lower position. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | In some contexts, "sa ibaba" can also mean "in the lower part" or "at the bottom". |
| Tajik | In Zoroastrian, the word "dar" means home. |
| Tamil | The word "கீழே" can also mean "underneath" or "at the bottom of". |
| Telugu | The word "క్రింద" can also refer to the southern direction in Telugu. |
| Thai | ด้านล่าง ('below') can also refer to the underside of a surface or the lower end of a range. |
| Turkish | The word 'altında' was historically written as 'altı nı ta', meaning 'six and its father' for six and its tens. |
| Ukrainian | "Нижче" can also mean "lower" or "subordinate". |
| Urdu | نیچے is also used to mean “inside”, “in”, or “within” something. |
| Uzbek | "Quyida" is also a name of a district in Tashkent Region of Uzbekistan. |
| Vietnamese | "Phía dưới" also means "underwear" or "underpants" in Vietnamese slang. |
| Welsh | The word 'isod' also means 'downwards' or 'towards the bottom' in Welsh. |
| Xhosa | The word "ngezantsi" can also refer to the lower part of a building or a valley. |
| Yiddish | אונטן (untn), Yiddish for “below”, also means 'at the bottom of' or 'in the end'. |
| Yoruba | "Ìsálẹ̀" means "down" or "beneath" and can also be used to refer to the lower portions of a body or object. |
| Zulu | In Zulu, 'ngezansi' also means 'towards the sea' or 'in the lowlands'. |
| English | The word "below" can also mean "inferior" or "lesser" in quality or status. |