Afrikaans onderkant | ||
Albanian fund | ||
Amharic ታች | ||
Arabic الأسفل | ||
Armenian ներքևում | ||
Assamese তলি | ||
Aymara aynacha | ||
Azerbaijani alt | ||
Bambara jukɔrɔla | ||
Basque behealdea | ||
Belarusian дно | ||
Bengali নীচে | ||
Bhojpuri पेनी | ||
Bosnian dno | ||
Bulgarian отдолу | ||
Catalan inferior | ||
Cebuano ubos | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 底部 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 底部 | ||
Corsican fondu | ||
Croatian dno | ||
Czech dno | ||
Danish bund | ||
Dhivehi ތިރި | ||
Dogri तला | ||
Dutch bodem | ||
English bottom | ||
Esperanto fundo | ||
Estonian alt | ||
Ewe gᴐme | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) ibaba | ||
Finnish pohjassa | ||
French bas | ||
Frisian boaiem | ||
Galician inferior | ||
Georgian ქვედა | ||
German unterseite | ||
Greek κάτω μέρος | ||
Guarani hypykue | ||
Gujarati નીચે | ||
Haitian Creole anba | ||
Hausa kasa | ||
Hawaiian lalo | ||
Hebrew תַחתִית | ||
Hindi तल | ||
Hmong hauv qab | ||
Hungarian alsó | ||
Icelandic neðst | ||
Igbo okpuru | ||
Ilocano lansad | ||
Indonesian bawah | ||
Irish bun | ||
Italian parte inferiore | ||
Japanese 下 | ||
Javanese ngisor | ||
Kannada ಕೆಳಗೆ | ||
Kazakh төменгі | ||
Khmer បាត | ||
Kinyarwanda hepfo | ||
Konkani तळ | ||
Korean 바닥 | ||
Krio bɔtɔm | ||
Kurdish erd | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) خوارەوە | ||
Kyrgyz төмөнкү | ||
Lao ດ້ານລຸ່ມ | ||
Latin solum | ||
Latvian apakšā | ||
Lingala nse | ||
Lithuanian dugnas | ||
Luganda wansi | ||
Luxembourgish ënnen | ||
Macedonian дното | ||
Maithili नीचा | ||
Malagasy ambany | ||
Malay bawah | ||
Malayalam ചുവടെ | ||
Maltese qiegħ | ||
Maori raro | ||
Marathi तळ | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯃꯈꯥ | ||
Mizo mawng | ||
Mongolian доод | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အောက်ခြေ | ||
Nepali तल | ||
Norwegian bunn | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) pansi | ||
Odia (Oriya) ତଳ | ||
Oromo jala | ||
Pashto ښکته | ||
Persian پایین | ||
Polish dolny | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) inferior | ||
Punjabi ਤਲ | ||
Quechua uray | ||
Romanian fund | ||
Russian дно | ||
Samoan lalo | ||
Sanskrit अधः | ||
Scots Gaelic bun | ||
Sepedi tlase | ||
Serbian дно | ||
Sesotho tlase | ||
Shona pasi | ||
Sindhi هيٺيون | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) පහළ | ||
Slovak dole | ||
Slovenian spodaj | ||
Somali hoose | ||
Spanish fondo | ||
Sundanese handapeun | ||
Swahili chini | ||
Swedish botten | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) ilalim | ||
Tajik поёни | ||
Tamil கீழே | ||
Tatar аста | ||
Telugu దిగువ | ||
Thai ด้านล่าง | ||
Tigrinya ታሕተዋይ | ||
Tsonga tshaku | ||
Turkish alt | ||
Turkmen aşagy | ||
Twi (Akan) aseɛ | ||
Ukrainian знизу | ||
Urdu نیچے | ||
Uyghur ئاستى | ||
Uzbek pastki | ||
Vietnamese đáy | ||
Welsh gwaelod | ||
Xhosa emazantsi | ||
Yiddish דנאָ | ||
Yoruba isalẹ | ||
Zulu ngezansi |
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "onderkant" in Afrikaans can also refer to the lower side of an object or the base of a structure. |
| Albanian | The word 'fund' in Albanian, meaning 'bottom,' is derived from the Proto-Albanian term 'fudhë,' which also meant 'bed.' |
| Amharic | The word "ታች" can also mean "under" or "beneath" in Amharic. |
| Arabic | The word "الأسفل" can also refer to the "lowest part" or the "worst part" of something. |
| Azerbaijani | In Azerbaijani, "alt" also refers to any underlying layer or base. |
| Basque | The word "behealdea" also refers to the area of the hip or the pelvic region. |
| Belarusian | In Belarusian, “дно” can also mean “the end.” |
| Bengali | In Bengali, নীচে can also refer to the base of a tree, a river's bed, or a foundation. |
| Bosnian | "Dno" comes from the Proto-Slavic "*dьno", which also means "sky" or "weather". |
| Bulgarian | The word "отдолу" in Bulgarian shares the same etymology with the Russian word "отовсюду" (from everywhere) and is also used to express the idea of "from below" |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "inferior" can also mean "lower" or "subordinate". |
| Cebuano | In Tagalog the word "ubos" refers to the "end" of something, like a sentence, while in Cebuano it means "full". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The character "底" also means the "base" or "foundation" of something, as in the phrase "底层建筑" (base-level construction). |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 底部 (dǐbù) can also mean the foundation or base of something. |
| Corsican | In Corsican the word « fondu » can also mean « a group of persons, the crowd ». |
| Croatian | The Croatian word "dno" shares etymological roots with the Latin word "fundus" and the Greek word "benthos," and can also refer to the base or core of something. |
| Czech | The Czech word "dno" (bottom) is also used to refer to the lowest point in a situation, such as "the nadir of one's career" |
| Danish | The Danish word "bund" also means "base of the stomach", "bundle", "bottom layer" or "stack". |
| Dutch | The word "bodem" (meaning "bottom" in Dutch) is also used in the sense of "farmland" or "soil". |
| Esperanto | "Fundo" is also used to mean "background" or "foundation." |
| Estonian | The Estonian word "alt" is also used to refer to the opposite of a top or a surface. |
| Finnish | The Finnish word "pohjassa" also refers to the north, the underlying stratum or support of something, or a particular place or situation. |
| French | The word "bas" can also refer to stockings or socks in French. |
| Frisian | The Frisian word 'boaiem' also has the meaning of 'basin' or 'bowl'. |
| Galician | Galician "inferior" is related to "interior", and it also means "abdomen", "belly" or "lower part". |
| Georgian | ქვედა comes from the root ქვ- and means 'beneath, under' which is often used with another word to specify the location in question. |
| German | The German word "Unterseite" originally meant "lower face" (literally "underside") as opposed to the "Oberseite" (upperside) or "surface" of an object. |
| Greek | The Greek word “κάτω μέρος” primarily means “bottom,” but it can also mean “surface,” “base,” or “foundation,” reflecting its dual role as a physical location and a conceptual support. |
| Gujarati | The word "નીચે" may also refer to the base of a tree or the sole of a foot. |
| Haitian Creole | In Haitian Creole, "anba" is also used to refer to the lowest part or level of something. |
| Hausa | In Hausa, the word "kasa" also refers to the foundation or base of something. |
| Hawaiian | In Hawaiian, "lalo" can also refer to the foundation of a building or the foot of a mountain. |
| Hebrew | The word "תַחתִית" in Hebrew not only means "bottom" but also refers to the "lowest level" of something or a "degraded" state. |
| Hindi | The Hindi word 'तल' is derived from the Sanskrit word 'तलम', which means 'base' or 'foundation'. Additionally, it can refer to the sole of the foot or the surface layer of soil. |
| Hmong | The Hmong word "hauv qab" is a compound word, consisting of "hauv" meaning "inside" and "qab" meaning "belly". |
| Hungarian | The Hungarian word "alsó" also refers to an undergarment, a skirt worn under another skirt, or a chemise. |
| Icelandic | Neðst is derived from Proto-Norse *niðistaR and has the additional meaning of 'down, downward'. |
| Igbo | Okpuru in Igbo also means "the final portion or the end of a given quantity or space"} |
| Indonesian | The word 'bawah' in Indonesian can also mean 'subordinate' or 'lower' in a hierarchical context. |
| Irish | Bun (bottom) is also occasionally used in Irish to refer to a 'base' or 'foundation'. |
| Italian | The Italian word "parte inferiore" can also mean "lower part" or "underside". |
| Japanese | The character "下" (bottom) can also mean "underneath" or "below" in Japanese. |
| Javanese | "Ngisor" is derived from the Sanskrit word "nisara" meaning "lowest or base". |
| Kannada | The word "ಕೆಳಗೆ" can also mean "underneath" or "below" in Kannada. |
| Kazakh | The word "төменгі" is also one of the words to denote the south in Kazakh. |
| Khmer | The Khmer word "បាត" also means foot, and is related to the Sanskrit word "pada" meaning "foot", ultimately derived from the Proto-Austronesian word *pa:daq meaning "foot". |
| Korean | '바닥' means both floor, bottom and base in Korean. |
| Kurdish | The word "erd" in Kurdish is cognate with the Persian word "arz" meaning "value, worth" and "land". |
| Kyrgyz | The word "төмөнкү" can also refer to the lower part of something or the lower end of a scale. |
| Latin | Besides meaning 'bottom,' 'solum' signifies 'the earth' (as in 'sola' or 'solarium'), 'the ground,' or 'the basis (of anything)' |
| Latvian | The word "apakšā" (bottom) in Latvian is derived from the word "apakša" (down). |
| Lithuanian | "Dugnas" comes from the Proto-Indo-European root *dheǵʰ- meaning "to receive, to hold". |
| Luxembourgish | "ënnen" is related to the German word "unten", meaning "below" or "underneath", and ultimately derives from the Proto-Germanic word "undanaz". |
| Macedonian | "Дното" is a Slavic word that shares roots with the Serbo-Croatian word "dno" and the Russian word "дно" |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "ambany" can also refer to "a lower place" and is sometimes translated as "the foot". |
| Malay | The word "bawah" in Malay also means "down" or "below" and can be used in various contexts such as "di bawah meja" (under the table). |
| Malayalam | The word 'ചുവടെ' comes from the Proto-Dravidian word 'cūṭu' which also means 'root' or 'base'. |
| Maltese | The word "qiegħ" (bottom) also means "abyss" or "depths". |
| Maori | The word "raro" is also used to denote the lowest point or extremity of something, such as the base of a mountain or the end of a journey. |
| Marathi | The Marathi word "तळ" can also mean "the base of a tree" or "the base of a mountain." |
| Mongolian | It is cognate with the Turkish word “dört” (“four”) and thus is sometimes used in Mongolian place names referring to something being the fourth from some reference or as the fourth in some set. |
| Nepali | Nepali 'तल' originates from Sanskrit 'तल' meaning 'lowest level, floor' and is related to English 'low'. |
| Norwegian | In Norwegian, "bunn" can also refer to the end of a loaf of bread or the last piece of cake. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The Nyanja (Chichewa) word 'pansi' can also refer to a 'low place', 'lower part' or 'subordinate position'. |
| Pashto | In Pashto, "ښکته" also means "towards the lower part" or "to the bottom". |
| Persian | The word "پायین" can also mean "lower" or "below" |
| Polish | In Polish, 'Dolny' can also refer to anything that is associated with the underworld, such as evil spirits or demons. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "inferior" in Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) derives from the Latin "inferus", meaning "lower" or "below". |
| Punjabi | The word "ਤਲ" also means "layer" or "surface" in Punjabi, such as the surface of the earth or the layer of sediment on the bottom of a river. |
| Romanian | In Romanian, "fund" can also mean "background" or "base". |
| Russian | Дно can also mean "low point" or even "the worst part of something" as well as being a geological term for "the bottom of a body of water." |
| Samoan | The Samoan word "lalo" also means "below", "under" or "down".} |
| Scots Gaelic | The word "bun" in Scots Gaelic comes from an Old English root which also means "bottom," but it can also have a variety of other meanings depending on the context in which it is used. |
| Serbian | "Дно" means not only the bottom, but also low water level in the reservoir |
| Sesotho | While it is more frequently used to mean "bottom", "tlase" can also mean "back" or "behind" in Sesotho. |
| Shona | "Pasi" also means "the end" or "in vain" in Shona. |
| Sindhi | The word هيٺيون can also refer to the lower part of a garment or a low-lying area. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | "පහළ" also means 'low', 'shallow' and 'lower' in Sinhala. |
| Slovak | "Dole" can also refer to a valley, a lowland, a depression, or even a hollow place in the ground. |
| Slovenian | The etymology of "spodaj" is Slavic, while the alternate meaning of "floor" is a modern extension. |
| Somali | In northern Somali dialects, 'hoose' can also refer to a household or family compound. |
| Spanish | Fondo in Spanish, meaning “bottom,” comes from the Latin "fundus,” and also means "land" or "estate." |
| Sundanese | Handapeun is derived from the Proto-Austronesian word *pajak "leg, foot, base". |
| Swahili | In some Swahili dialects, "chini" also refers to the lower portion of a river or a valley. |
| Swedish | The Swedish word "botten" can also refer to the "deepest" part of a lake or sea. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "ilalim" also means "below" or "underneath" in Tagalog. |
| Tajik | The word "поёни" (poëni) in Tajik also means "the back of something" or "the lower part of something". |
| Tamil | The word "கீழே" can also mean "low" or "under" in Tamil. |
| Telugu | The word "దిగువ" also means "the lower part" or "the foot". |
| Thai | The Thai word "ด้านล่าง" originally meant "the direction towards which water flows". |
| Turkish | The Turkish word "alt" also means "underside" in the context of textile fabrics. |
| Ukrainian | The word "знизу" can also mean "from the ground up" or "from the bottom up". |
| Urdu | The word "نیچے" in Urdu also refers to the lower or inferior part of something and can be used in contexts beyond physical location. |
| Uzbek | The word "pastki" also means "foot" in Uzbek and is derived from the Persian word "pā" meaning "foot". |
| Vietnamese | "Đáy" also means "the end" or "the last". |
| Welsh | Welsh 'gwaelod' can also mean 'foundation', 'base', 'ground', or 'bedrock'. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "דנאָ" also means "a flaw" in Hebrew, and is related to the Akkadian word "dannu" meaning "strong". |
| Yoruba | Isalẹ, meaning "bottom" in Yoruba, also denotes the base of a hierarchical structure or the foundation of something. |
| Zulu | The Zulu word "ngezansi" is also used to refer to the lower part of a tree or plant, or to the bottom of a river or stream. |
| English | In maritime usage, a "bottom" is the outer skin or hull of a vessel beneath its waterline. |