Cloud in Different Languages
Discover 'Cloud' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Cloud
Afrikaans wolk | ||
Albanian re | ||
Amharic ደመና | ||
Arabic غيم | ||
Armenian ամպ | ||
Assamese ডাৱৰ | ||
Aymara qinaya | ||
Azerbaijani bulud | ||
Bambara kabanɔgɔ | ||
Basque hodei | ||
Belarusian воблака | ||
Bengali মেঘ | ||
Bhojpuri बादल | ||
Bosnian oblak | ||
Bulgarian облак | ||
Catalan núvol | ||
Cebuano panganod | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 云 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 雲 | ||
Corsican nuvulu | ||
Croatian oblak | ||
Czech mrak | ||
Danish sky | ||
Dhivehi ވިލާ | ||
Dogri बद्दल | ||
Dutch wolk | ||
English cloud | ||
Esperanto nubo | ||
Estonian pilv | ||
Ewe lilikpo | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) ulap | ||
Finnish pilvi | ||
French nuage | ||
Frisian wolk | ||
Galician nube | ||
Georgian ღრუბელი | ||
German wolke | ||
Greek σύννεφο | ||
Guarani arai | ||
Gujarati વાદળ | ||
Haitian Creole nwaj | ||
Hausa girgije | ||
Hawaiian ʻōpua | ||
Hebrew ענן | ||
Hindi बादल | ||
Hmong huab | ||
Hungarian felhő | ||
Icelandic ský | ||
Igbo igwe ojii | ||
Ilocano ulep | ||
Indonesian awan | ||
Irish scamall | ||
Italian nube | ||
Japanese 雲 | ||
Javanese awan | ||
Kannada ಮೋಡ | ||
Kazakh бұлт | ||
Khmer ពពក | ||
Kinyarwanda igicu | ||
Konkani ढग | ||
Korean 구름 | ||
Krio klawd | ||
Kurdish ewr | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) هەور | ||
Kyrgyz булут | ||
Lao ຟັງ | ||
Latin nubes | ||
Latvian mākonis | ||
Lingala mapata | ||
Lithuanian debesis | ||
Luganda ekire | ||
Luxembourgish wollek | ||
Macedonian облак | ||
Maithili मेघ | ||
Malagasy rahona | ||
Malay awan | ||
Malayalam മേഘം | ||
Maltese sħab | ||
Maori kapua | ||
Marathi ढग | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯂꯩꯆꯤꯜ | ||
Mizo chhum | ||
Mongolian үүл | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) တိမ်တိုက် | ||
Nepali बादल | ||
Norwegian sky | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) mtambo | ||
Odia (Oriya) ମେଘ | ||
Oromo duumessa | ||
Pashto وريځ | ||
Persian ابر | ||
Polish chmura | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) nuvem | ||
Punjabi ਬੱਦਲ | ||
Quechua puyu | ||
Romanian nor | ||
Russian облако | ||
Samoan ao | ||
Sanskrit मेघ | ||
Scots Gaelic sgòth | ||
Sepedi leru | ||
Serbian облак | ||
Sesotho leru | ||
Shona gore | ||
Sindhi ڪڪر | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) වලාකුළු | ||
Slovak oblak | ||
Slovenian oblak | ||
Somali daruur | ||
Spanish nube | ||
Sundanese awan | ||
Swahili wingu | ||
Swedish moln | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) ulap | ||
Tajik абр | ||
Tamil மேகம் | ||
Tatar болыт | ||
Telugu మేఘం | ||
Thai เมฆ | ||
Tigrinya ደበና | ||
Tsonga papa | ||
Turkish bulut | ||
Turkmen bulut | ||
Twi (Akan) nsumuna | ||
Ukrainian хмара | ||
Urdu بادل | ||
Uyghur بۇلۇت | ||
Uzbek bulut | ||
Vietnamese đám mây | ||
Welsh cwmwl | ||
Xhosa ilifu | ||
Yiddish וואָלקן | ||
Yoruba awọsanma | ||
Zulu ifu |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | In the 13th century, "wolk" also meant "wool". |
| Albanian | The word "re" in Albanian is also used to refer to the |
| Amharic | The word ደመና originally referred to a type of cloth, specifically a large piece of cotton or linen used as a wrap. |
| Arabic | The Arabic word for cloud, غيم, may also refer to darkness and mist. |
| Armenian | "Ամպ" also means "crowd, throng" in Armenian. |
| Azerbaijani | The term "bulud" is derived from the Old Turkic word "bulut", which referred to both clouds and fog. |
| Basque | The Basque word "hodei" also means "shadow" and is related to the Proto-Basque word "odoi" meaning "dark". |
| Belarusian | The word "воблака" can also refer to a large body of liquid, such as a lake or sea. |
| Bengali | The origin of "মেঘ" is "মিহ", an Indo-European word for mist and rain. |
| Bosnian | In addition to its primary meaning of "cloud," the word "oblak" can also refer to the upper part of a building, such as an attic. |
| Bulgarian | The word "облак" (cloud) shares its root with "облакаться" (to dress oneself), hinting at the enveloping nature of clouds. |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "núvol" ultimately derives from the Latin word "nebula", meaning "mist" or "fog". |
| Cebuano | The word 'panganod' possibly comes from the Old Malay or Indonesian term 'mengawanud', which also implies a floating form. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The character 云 (cloud) is also used to represent 'speech' or 'talk' in Chinese slang. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 雲 can also be used in compound words like "雲彩" (rainbow) and "雲梯" (ladder). |
| Corsican | In Corsican, the word "nuvulu" can also refer to a "fog" or a "mist". |
| Croatian | In some Croatian dialects, the word "oblak" can also refer to a "rainstorm" or "cloudiness". |
| Czech | The word "mrak" also means "darkness" or "shadow" in Czech. |
| Danish | "Sky" also means "shade" and is derived from the Old Norse word "skuggi". |
| Dutch | In German, "wolk" means "wool" as well as "cloud", and is cognate with the English word "wool". |
| Esperanto | The word "nubo" is derived from the Latin "nubes", meaning "cloud". |
| Estonian | The Estonian word "pilv" is derived from the Proto-Finnic word "*pilwe" meaning "cloud" or "dust". |
| Finnish | Pilvi, meaning "cloud" in Finnish, is related to Persian "palva" and Sanskrit "parvata" (mountain). |
| French | In Old French, "nuage" originally meant "rain" or "snowfall". |
| Frisian | In Saterland Frisian, 'wolk' can also refer to a 'lump' or a 'roll', such as a roll of dough. |
| Galician | In Galician, "nube" can also mean "wedding" or "foggy, wet weather". |
| Georgian | In the Georgian language, the word "ღრუბელი" (cloud) comes from the Proto-Kartvelian word "*ɣr̥ub-e-li" meaning "darkness, mist, or fog." |
| German | The German word "Wolke" is cognate with the English "walk," and originally meant a "wool-like ball." |
| Greek | The word 'σύννεφο' is derived from the Greek roots 'συν' (together) and 'νέφος' (mist), indicating a collection of visible water droplets or ice crystals in the atmosphere. |
| Gujarati | "વાદળ" can also mean 'a group of people' or 'a crowd' in Gujarati. |
| Haitian Creole | The word "nwaj" in Haitian Creole may have originated from the West African Igbo language, where "ñu" means "cloud". |
| Hausa | The word "girgije" can also mean "to be covered or obscured" in Hausa. |
| Hawaiian | ʻŌpua can also refer to a spring or well, or a small hill or knoll. |
| Hebrew | ענן, besides its literal meaning as a cloud, also means "a multitude" or "a group" in Hebrew. |
| Hindi | The word "बादल" (cloud) in Hindi also refers to a multitude or crowd. |
| Hmong | Although "huab" means "cloud" in Hmong today, it originally meant "rain". |
| Hungarian | "Felhő" also refers to the cloudy, opaque quality of other phenomena such as hair or soup. |
| Icelandic | The word "ský" is cognate with the English word "sky" and can also mean "shade" or "shelter" in Icelandic. |
| Igbo | Igwe ojii, the Igbo word for "cloud" also connotes heavenly bodies such as the stars and moon. |
| Indonesian | The word 'awan' in Indonesian shares its root with the Sanskrit word 'abhra', also meaning 'cloud'. The word 'awan' has taken on a metaphorical meaning of 'shadow' or 'doubt'. Additionally, in certain contexts, it can also refer to a 'veil' or 'covering'. |
| Irish | The Irish word "scamall" may derive from the Proto-Indo-European root "skeg"- ("to leap, jump"), referring to the ever-changing nature of clouds. |
| Italian | In Italian, "nube" is derived from the Latin word "nubes" and can also refer to a large mass of smoke, dust, or insects. |
| Japanese | The word 雲 (kumo) also means "crowd" or "group" in Japanese. |
| Javanese | The word "awan" in Javanese originally refers to something that covers or obscures vision. |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "бұлт" also means "fog" or "mist." |
| Khmer | ពពក (cloud) is derived from the Proto-Austronesian word *paŋapaŋ, meaning 'fluffy' or 'cotton-like', and is cognate with Malay 'awan' and Fijian 'abua'. |
| Korean | The word "구름" can also refer to a group of people or things, or a state of confusion or uncertainty. |
| Kurdish | The word "ewr" in Kurdish also refers to fog or mist and ultimately derives from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éws-os meaning "dawn, early morning". |
| Kyrgyz | The word "булут" is thought to derive from the Proto-Turkic word "*buluŋ", meaning "mist", and also relates to the word "булак" ("spring") and the verb "булоо" ("to become"). |
| Lao | The word "ຟັງ" also means "to hear" in Lao, similar to the English word "eavesdrop" (to listen secretly). |
| Latin | "Nubes" in Latin also refers to a shower of rain or snow. |
| Latvian | Etymology: probably derives from PIE *meh₂k- or *meh₃k-, "dark cloud". |
| Lithuanian | "Debesis" is a Lithuanian word that comes from the Proto-Indo-European root "dheubh-", meaning "to rise, to swell, to grow". In ancient Lithuania, the word "debesis" was also used to refer to a deity associated with the sky and weather. |
| Luxembourgish | The word "Wollek" is derived from the Middle High German word "wolke", which means "wool" or "cotton". |
| Macedonian | The word "облак" is cognate with the Russian and Polish words "облако" and "obłok", respectively, which all derive from the Proto-Slavic root *oblakъ, meaning "cloud" or "fog." |
| Malagasy | "Rahona" may derive from the Proto-Austronesian root *laŋit, meaning "sky, heaven". |
| Malay | Although it usually means 'cloud,' 'awan' also refers to people of mixed Chinese and Malay heritage in Southeast Asia. |
| Malayalam | The word "മേഘം" also means "rain" and "water" in Malayalam. |
| Maltese | In Maltese, the word "sħab" can also refer to fog, vapor, or mist |
| Maori | "Kapua" can also refer to breath or steam. |
| Marathi | The word "ढग" (cloud) in Marathi is also used to refer to a large collection of insects or birds in flight. |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word "үүл" (cloud) also refers to a type of fabric or felt used in traditional Mongolian clothing. |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The root word of "တိမ်တိုက်" comes from the Austroasiatic languages, meaning "sky". It is cognate with the Mon word "dəŋ" and the Vietnamese word "đám mây", both meaning "cloud". |
| Nepali | The word "बादल" can also mean "shadow" or "darkness" in Nepali. |
| Norwegian | In Norwegian, "himmel" means "cloud" but also "sky". The word "sky" is derived from the Old Norse word "ský", meaning "cloud" or "heaven". The word "sky" is also used in other Germanic languages, such as German, Dutch, and Swedish. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | Mtambo (cloud) is also used as a metaphor for troubles or difficulties in Chichewa. |
| Pashto | Pashto وريظ (warz) is also used to mean rain or fog. |
| Persian | In Persian, 'ابر' (abr) derives from the Old Persian word 'apra', meaning 'water' or 'rain', suggesting its etymological connection to the concept of precipitation. |
| Polish | In Sanskrit 'chmur' meant 'thunder', whereas its Polish equivalent 'chmura' means a 'thunderhead' or 'storm-cloud'. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, "nuvem" means "cloud" in both Portugal and Brazil, deriving from the Latin word "nubes". |
| Punjabi | The word "ਬੱਦਲ" in Punjabi can also refer to a flock of birds in flight. |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "nor" is derived from the Indo-European root *h₂enh₂-, meaning "to cover" or "to protect". |
| Russian | Etymology: from Proto-Slavic *oblako, from PIE root *h₂elbʰ- ("white"). |
| Samoan | "Ao" also means "darkness," "night," or "shade" |
| Scots Gaelic | "Sgòth" can also mean 'shelter' and is cognate to 'scutum' (shield) in Latin. |
| Serbian | The word 'облак' in Serbian is similar to its meaning in Russian and is also used for 'internet cloud'. |
| Sesotho | The word "leru" also refers to a shade or parasol, hinting at the cloud's function as a protector from the sun's rays. |
| Shona | In Shona, "gore" also refers to a thick growth of vegetation or a place with dense foliage. |
| Sindhi | The word 'ڪڪر' also means 'darkness' or 'gloom' in Sindhi. |
| Slovak | In Slovak, "oblak" can also refer to a type of pancake. |
| Slovenian | The word 'oblak' also refers to an island or a continent in Serbo-Croatian and Macedonian. |
| Somali | The Somali word "daruur" also refers to a type of mythical creature associated with storms and thunder. |
| Spanish | The etymology of "nube" ("cloud" in Spanish) may be linked to the Latin "nubes", meaning "to cover" or "to veil." |
| Sundanese | 'Awan' in Sundanese is cognate to 'awang' in Javanese and 'langit' in Malay, all meaning 'sky'. |
| Swahili | In Swahili, "wingu" not only refers to a cloud but also to a state of confusion or uncertainty. |
| Swedish | The word "moln" is thought to derive from the Old Norse word "molna", meaning "fine rain". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The Filipino word for cloud, "ulap", is also used metaphorically to mean "trouble" or "difficulty". |
| Tajik | The word "абр" is derived from the Persian word "ابر" and is also used in Uzbek, Kazakh, and Turkish to mean "cloud". |
| Tamil | The word மேகம் (cloud) is cognate with the ancient Proto-Dravidian word (𑀫𑀯𑀔𑀣, *meka) and other Dravidian languages such as Malayalam |
| Telugu | The word "మేఘం" derives from the Sanskrit word "megha" and also refers to gathering of a large number of objects or people. |
| Thai | เมฆ originally referred to "dust" and "dirt", possibly related to the Old Khmer word "เมฆ" meaning "earth" or "soil". |
| Turkish | The word "bulut" in Turkish is derived from the Mongolian word "bolut", meaning "fog" or "mist". |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word "хмара" has Slavic roots, and can also refer to a large quantity or multitude. |
| Urdu | The word "بادل" can also mean "exchange" or "alternation" in Urdu. |
| Uzbek | The word "bulut" in Uzbek also means "fluffy" or "soft" in Turkish and "thick" or "dense" in Tatar. |
| Vietnamese | The Vietnamese word "đám mây" can also refer to a group of people or things, or a meeting or gathering. |
| Welsh | The Welsh word 'cwmwl' is cognate with the Cornish word 'kemwol' and the Breton word 'koumoul', all stemming from the same Proto-Celtic word. |
| Xhosa | Xhosa: "ilifu" also refers to the spiritual state or quality that guides and protects one's life path. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "וואָלקן" (wolken) is derived from the Old High German word "wolkan" meaning "to roll" and is cognate with the Modern English word "walk". |
| Yoruba | The Yoruba word "awọsanma" for "cloud" might also mean "what is spread in the sky." |
| Zulu | In Zulu, "ifu" can also refer to a "group" or "flock" of people or animals |
| English | The word 'cloud' originally referred to a large rock or stone, and is related to the German word 'klippe'. |