Bridge in Different Languages
Discover 'Bridge' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Bridge
Afrikaans brug | ||
Albanian urë | ||
Amharic ድልድይ | ||
Arabic جسر | ||
Armenian կամուրջ | ||
Assamese সেঁতু | ||
Aymara chaka | ||
Azerbaijani körpü | ||
Bambara pɔn | ||
Basque zubia | ||
Belarusian мост | ||
Bengali ব্রিজ | ||
Bhojpuri पुल | ||
Bosnian most | ||
Bulgarian мост | ||
Catalan pont | ||
Cebuano tulay | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 桥 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 橋 | ||
Corsican ponte | ||
Croatian most | ||
Czech most | ||
Danish bro | ||
Dhivehi ފާލަން | ||
Dogri पुल | ||
Dutch brug | ||
English bridge | ||
Esperanto ponto | ||
Estonian sild | ||
Ewe agbasasã | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) tulay | ||
Finnish silta | ||
French pont | ||
Frisian brêge | ||
Galician ponte | ||
Georgian ხიდი | ||
German brücke | ||
Greek γέφυρα | ||
Guarani jehasaha | ||
Gujarati પુલ | ||
Haitian Creole pon | ||
Hausa gada | ||
Hawaiian alahaka | ||
Hebrew לְגַשֵׁר | ||
Hindi पुल | ||
Hmong choj | ||
Hungarian híd | ||
Icelandic brú | ||
Igbo akwa | ||
Ilocano rangtay | ||
Indonesian jembatan | ||
Irish droichead | ||
Italian ponte | ||
Japanese ブリッジ | ||
Javanese kreteg | ||
Kannada ಸೇತುವೆ | ||
Kazakh көпір | ||
Khmer ស្ពាន | ||
Kinyarwanda ikiraro | ||
Konkani पूल | ||
Korean 다리 | ||
Krio brij | ||
Kurdish pir | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) پرد | ||
Kyrgyz көпүрө | ||
Lao ຂົວ | ||
Latin pontem | ||
Latvian tilts | ||
Lingala pont | ||
Lithuanian tiltas | ||
Luganda olutindo | ||
Luxembourgish bréck | ||
Macedonian мост | ||
Maithili पुल | ||
Malagasy tetezana | ||
Malay jambatan | ||
Malayalam പാലം | ||
Maltese pont | ||
Maori piriti | ||
Marathi पूल | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯊꯣꯡ | ||
Mizo lei | ||
Mongolian гүүр | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) တံတား | ||
Nepali पुल | ||
Norwegian bro | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) mlatho | ||
Odia (Oriya) ସେତୁ | ||
Oromo riqicha | ||
Pashto پل | ||
Persian پل | ||
Polish most | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) ponte | ||
Punjabi ਬ੍ਰਿਜ | ||
Quechua chaka | ||
Romanian pod | ||
Russian мост | ||
Samoan alalaupapa | ||
Sanskrit सेतु | ||
Scots Gaelic drochaid | ||
Sepedi leporogo | ||
Serbian мост | ||
Sesotho borokho | ||
Shona zambuko | ||
Sindhi پل | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) පාලම | ||
Slovak most | ||
Slovenian most | ||
Somali buundada | ||
Spanish puente | ||
Sundanese sasak | ||
Swahili daraja | ||
Swedish bro | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) tulay | ||
Tajik пул | ||
Tamil பாலம் | ||
Tatar күпер | ||
Telugu వంతెన | ||
Thai สะพาน | ||
Tigrinya ድልድል | ||
Tsonga buloho | ||
Turkish köprü | ||
Turkmen köpri | ||
Twi (Akan) twene | ||
Ukrainian міст | ||
Urdu پل | ||
Uyghur كۆۋرۈك | ||
Uzbek ko'prik | ||
Vietnamese cầu | ||
Welsh bont | ||
Xhosa ibhulorho | ||
Yiddish בריק | ||
Yoruba afara | ||
Zulu ibhuloho |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "brug" in Afrikaans can also refer to a footbridge or a gangway on a ship. |
| Albanian | The word "urë" in Albanian may also refer to a type of measure used in construction. |
| Amharic | The word ድልድይ (bridge) can also mean "crossing" or "junction". |
| Arabic | The Arabic word "جسر" (jisr) can also refer to a bridgehead, a causeway, or a dam. |
| Armenian | In Armenian, the word "կամուրջ" ("bridge") likely derives from an Iranian language or Sanskrit, and also means "narrow mountain pass". |
| Azerbaijani | "Körpü" also means "body" or "corpse" in Azerbaijani, similar to its Persian origin "karp" meaning "body". |
| Basque | In Basque the word "zubia" does not only mean "bridge" but also "tooth". |
| Belarusian | The Belarusian word "мост" comes from Old East Slavic and has the same root as words like "мостить" which means "to lay down a path". |
| Bengali | The term "ব্রিজ" is sometimes used figuratively to refer to a connection or a passage linking two things. |
| Bosnian | Most can also refer to part of the body, and a measure for wine. |
| Bulgarian | "мост" can also mean "the gap between two generations" or "an opening in the ice"} |
| Catalan | In Catalan, the word "pont" can also mean "ferry port" or "landing stage." |
| Cebuano | The word "tulay" can also refer to a causeway or a passageway. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "桥" in Chinese, besides its common meaning of a structure, can also refer to a musical instrument, an auspicious event, or a term in Chinese chess. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The Chinese character "橋" (bridge) is also used to represent "connection" and "passage". |
| Corsican | "Ponte" also means "to lay" or "to place" in Corsican. |
| Croatian | The word "most" has Slavic roots, and also means a platform, a scaffold or a weir in various Slavic languages. |
| Czech | Most is a common Czech word for bridge, but it can also mean trap, snare, or ambush. |
| Danish | Danish "bro" is a loanword from Swedish, and originally meant "the ground". |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "brug" (bridge) derives from the Indo-European root "bhereg-" meaning "to go across" and is related to the English word "ferry". |
| Esperanto | The word "ponto" in Esperanto is likely derived from the Latin word "pons" which also means "bridge". |
| Estonian | The word "sild" originates from the Proto-Finnic word "silta" meaning "bridge" or "gangway on a boat." |
| Finnish | The term "silta" in Finnish may have originated from the word "silta-akseli," meaning a beam or plank serving as a bridge. |
| French | The word “pont” in French can also refer to a ferryboat that transports people and vehicles across a body of water. |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "brêge" is etymologically related to the English "bridge" and can also mean "pier" or "jetty". |
| Galician | Galician "ponte" can also mean "ferry terminal" or "wharf". |
| Georgian | ხიდი can also mean 'the path over the river' or 'a way to overcome obstacles'. |
| German | The word "Brücke" in German can also refer to a group of artists, the "Die Brücke" who were active in the early 20th century. |
| Greek | The word γέφυρα, 'bridge' in Greek, may also refer to a musical instrument or a type of shoe. |
| Gujarati | "Pūl" has an alternative meaning of "a small pond or lake". |
| Haitian Creole | In Haitian Creole, 'pon' also means 'upon' or 'over' and derives from the French word 'sur'. |
| Hausa | In some dialects, gada can refer to both an elevated passage over water and a traditional house frame |
| Hawaiian | In Hawaiian, "alahaka" can also refer to a path, road, or trail. |
| Hebrew | "לְגַשֵׁר" is linked to the noun "גֶּשֶׁר" (bridge), which, in turn, comes from the root "גָּשַׁר" (approach). It also shares this root with the verb "גָּשַׁשׁ" (probe) and the noun "גִּישָׁה" (approach). |
| Hindi | In addition to its literal meaning as "bridge", "पुल" is also used in a figurative sense to describe a connection or pathway between two things. |
| Hmong | The Hmong word "choj" derives from the Proto-Hmong-Mien word "*kʰɔn", meaning "bridge" or "crossing." |
| Hungarian | The word 'híd' also has meanings related to music and dance |
| Icelandic | The word "brú" can also refer to a plank of wood, a bridge of boats, or a part of a boat. |
| Igbo | The Igbo word "akwa" can also refer to a "threshold" or "gateway". |
| Indonesian | Jembatan is Indonesian for "bridge", and also an alternate spelling of Jembitan, meaning "span, distance between two supports of a bridge." |
| Irish | Droichead derives from two Old Irish words: droch meaning 'bad' and áth meaning 'ford', and originally meant 'bad crossing'. |
| Italian | The word "ponte" is derived from the Latin word "pons", and has many alternate meanings in Italian, including: "pontoon" and "gangplank". |
| Japanese | ブリッジ (bridge) can also be short for ブリッジミックス (bridge mix), a Japanese ice cream flavour combining both ice cream and sherbet. |
| Javanese | In Javanese, "kreteg" also refers to a particular traditional wooden footbridge structure common in villages. |
| Kannada | ಸೇತುವೆ in Kannada was derived from the Sanskrit word `setu` meaning "that which leads to or over". |
| Kazakh | The word "көпір" also refers to the part of the body between the nose and mouth that people touch in greeting. |
| Khmer | The Khmer word "ស្ពាន" (bridge) is derived from the Sanskrit word "setu" (bridge) and also means "crossing place". |
| Korean | The word "다리" in Korean can also mean "leg". |
| Kurdish | The Kurdish word "pir" for "bridge" also refers to a mountain pass, a high point in a ridge, and a ford. |
| Kyrgyz | Its origin is linked to the Persian word "пул" ("bridge"), which itself comes from the Arabic word "جسر" ("bridge") |
| Lao | The word 'ຂົວ' ('bridge') in Lao can also mean 'connection' or 'passage'. |
| Latin | 'Pontem' derives from an Indo-European root meaning "to make pass" and can also refer to a way of escape. |
| Latvian | The word "tilts" in Latvian also refers to "tilting" or "swaying" (intransitive verb), or "tilting" (transitive verb). |
| Lithuanian | "Tiltas" is derived from the Proto-Baltic root "*tiltas, |
| Luxembourgish | The word "Bréck" is related to the Latin word "pons", meaning "bridge". |
| Macedonian | In addition to its primary meaning, "мост" can also refer to a dental bridge or an anatomical bridge (e.g., the bridge of the nose). |
| Malagasy | Tetezana, meaning "bridge" in Malagasy, shares a root with the word "tezana," meaning "to join together." |
| Malay | The word "jambatan" is derived from the Sanskrit word "jambu" meaning "rose apple". |
| Malayalam | The word "പാലം" (bridge) derives from the Sanskrit term "पल (pal)", meaning "to protect or to guard". |
| Maltese | Similar to Italian, "pont" can also refer to boat decks in Maltese. |
| Maori | Piriti is also a word for 'to bind' or 'to fasten', reflecting the bridge's role as a connector. |
| Marathi | "पूल" (pūl) is also used in Marathi to refer to a small bridge used to cross a seasonal river or stream. |
| Mongolian | Mongolian "гүүр" derives from Turkish "köprü", a cognate of Persian "pool" and Ancient Greek "pérā" in "peráō" ("I cross over"), via Silk Road trade. |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The word "တံတား" (bridge) in Myanmar (Burmese) also means "a way to cross a river or a stream." |
| Nepali | "पुल" (bridge) in Nepali also means "a group of four cards of the same rank" in card games. |
| Norwegian | In Norwegian, "bro" also means "brother". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word 'mlatho' is also used to refer to the 'spine' in Nyanja. |
| Pashto | The word "پل" in Pashto also means "wing". |
| Persian | The word "پل" in Persian can also mean "a way or means of connection or passage". |
| Polish | The word 'most' has multiple meanings in Polish, including 'power', 'strength' or 'authority'. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | Ponte is a variant of "ponte" in Spain, meaning "stake", and "pond" in France. |
| Punjabi | In Punjabi, the word "ਬ੍ਰਿਜ" also refers to a type of classical dance form originating from North India. |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "pod" comes from the Proto-Indo-European root "*ped-," which also gave rise to cognates such as the English word "path" and the Russian word "pute" (road). |
| Russian | The Russian word "мост" also means "the deck of a string instrument" or "an arch over a river". |
| Samoan | Another alternate meaning of alalaupapa is "the path or the bridge between life and death, a spiritual bridge". |
| Scots Gaelic | The Gaelic word "drochaid" may also mean "ladder" or "way". |
| Serbian | The word "мост" can also refer to a dam, a dike, or a viaduct. |
| Sesotho | The word "borokho" can also mean "causeway" or "pass" in Sesotho. |
| Shona | The word "zambuko" can also refer to a musical instrument made from a hollow gourd with a hole in the side. |
| Sindhi | پل (pull) literally means 'hair' and is used for a bridge or a hairband. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "පාලම" (bridge) in Sinhala is derived from the Pali word "pālam" and the Sanskrit word "pālam" meaning "to cross over". |
| Slovak | In most Slavic languages, the word "most" originally meant "a path for crossing obstacles" but gained more specific meanings later on. |
| Slovenian | In Slovenian, the word "most" can also mean "a lot" or "very". |
| Somali | The word "buundada" is derived from the Proto-Cushitic root *bVr, which also means "to cross". |
| Spanish | Puente, meaning 'bridge' in Spanish, derives from the Latin word 'pontem', which in addition to indicating a structure for crossing a river or other body of water, also meant 'plank'. |
| Sundanese | The word 'sasak' also means a bamboo frame used to carry loads or as a temporary bed in the Sundanese language. |
| Swahili | 'Daraja' also means 'class' or 'rank' in Swahili, derived from the Arabic word 'daraja' meaning 'step' or 'degree'. |
| Swedish | The Swedish word “bro” can also refer to trousers or a pair of siblings. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The Tagalog word “tulay” is cognate with “taraw” in Ilocano and “tuwad” in Bicol, all of them ultimately originating from the Old Malay word “taraw.” |
| Tajik | The word “пул” in Tajik also means a pond or a body of water. |
| Tamil | Tamil word "பாலம்" not only means "bridge" but also "sacrifice" and "milk". |
| Telugu | The word 'వంతెన' is also used to refer to a platform or stage. |
| Thai | The word "สะพาน" (bridge) in Thai can also refer to a wooden board or plank that is used as a crossing or walkway. |
| Turkish | Köprü also refers to a type of folk dance in Turkey with a leader and followers. |
| Ukrainian | The same word can refer to a city or town, an exchange market, or even a type of ancient Ukrainian warship. |
| Urdu | The word "پل" in Urdu, meaning "bridge," is derived from the Sanskrit word "setu, |
| Uzbek | The word "ko'prik" is derived from the Persian word "kopruk" and also means "crossing" in Uzbek. |
| Vietnamese | Cầu (bridge) in Vietnamese also means "request" or "ask". |
| Welsh | The word "bont" can also refer to a plank or board in Welsh. |
| Xhosa | "Ibhulorho" also means "to cross over" or "to go beyond" in Xhosa. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word בריק is borrowed from the German Brücke meaning “bridge” and from the Slavic bridgj which means “bank or shore”. |
| Yoruba | "Afara" in its alternative meaning refers to a ladder. |
| Zulu | The Zulu word "ibhuloho" is borrowed from Portuguese "ponte", also meaning bridge, and ultimately from Latin "pons pontis". |
| English | The word "bridge" is derived from the Old English word "brycg," meaning "planked way," and is related to the Dutch word "brug" and the German word "Brücke." |