Direct in Different Languages
Discover 'Direct' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Direct
Afrikaans direk | ||
Albanian i drejtpërdrejtë | ||
Amharic ቀጥተኛ | ||
Arabic مباشرة | ||
Armenian ուղիղ | ||
Assamese পোনপটীয়া | ||
Aymara chiqaki | ||
Azerbaijani birbaşa | ||
Bambara ka ɲɛminɛ | ||
Basque zuzena | ||
Belarusian прамой | ||
Bengali সরাসরি | ||
Bhojpuri सीधा | ||
Bosnian direktno | ||
Bulgarian директен | ||
Catalan directe | ||
Cebuano direkta | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 直接 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 直接 | ||
Corsican direttu | ||
Croatian direktno | ||
Czech přímo | ||
Danish direkte | ||
Dhivehi ޑައިރެކްޓް | ||
Dogri सिद्धा | ||
Dutch direct | ||
English direct | ||
Esperanto rekta | ||
Estonian otsene | ||
Ewe tẽe | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) direkta | ||
Finnish suoraan | ||
French direct | ||
Frisian direkt | ||
Galician directo | ||
Georgian პირდაპირი | ||
German direkte | ||
Greek απευθείας | ||
Guarani hesete | ||
Gujarati સીધા | ||
Haitian Creole dirèk | ||
Hausa kai tsaye | ||
Hawaiian kuhikuhi | ||
Hebrew ישיר | ||
Hindi प्रत्यक्ष | ||
Hmong ncaj qha | ||
Hungarian közvetlen | ||
Icelandic beinlínis | ||
Igbo iduzi | ||
Ilocano tarus | ||
Indonesian langsung | ||
Irish dhíreach | ||
Italian diretto | ||
Japanese 直接 | ||
Javanese langsung | ||
Kannada ನೇರ | ||
Kazakh тікелей | ||
Khmer ដោយផ្ទាល់ | ||
Kinyarwanda mu buryo butaziguye | ||
Konkani थेट | ||
Korean 곧장 | ||
Krio dayrɛkt | ||
Kurdish seranser | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) ڕاستەوخۆ | ||
Kyrgyz түз | ||
Lao ໂດຍກົງ | ||
Latin recta | ||
Latvian tieša | ||
Lingala mbala moko | ||
Lithuanian tiesioginis | ||
Luganda okulagirira | ||
Luxembourgish direkt | ||
Macedonian директен | ||
Maithili सीधा | ||
Malagasy mivantana | ||
Malay langsung | ||
Malayalam നേരിട്ട് | ||
Maltese dirett | ||
Maori whakatika | ||
Marathi थेट | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯍꯛꯊꯦꯡꯅꯅ | ||
Mizo tlang | ||
Mongolian шууд | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) တိုက်ရိုက် | ||
Nepali प्रत्यक्ष | ||
Norwegian direkte | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kulunjika | ||
Odia (Oriya) ସିଧାସଳଖ | | ||
Oromo kallattiidhaan | ||
Pashto مستقیم | ||
Persian مستقیم | ||
Polish bezpośredni | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) direto | ||
Punjabi ਸਿੱਧਾ | ||
Quechua mana pantasqa | ||
Romanian direct | ||
Russian непосредственный | ||
Samoan tuusao | ||
Sanskrit साक्षात् | ||
Scots Gaelic dìreach | ||
Sepedi lebiša | ||
Serbian директан | ||
Sesotho otloloha | ||
Shona kunanga | ||
Sindhi سڌو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) සෘජු | ||
Slovak priamy | ||
Slovenian neposredno | ||
Somali toos ah | ||
Spanish directo | ||
Sundanese langsung | ||
Swahili moja kwa moja | ||
Swedish direkt | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) magdirekta | ||
Tajik мустақим | ||
Tamil நேரடி | ||
Tatar туры | ||
Telugu ప్రత్యక్ష | ||
Thai โดยตรง | ||
Tigrinya ቕጥታ | ||
Tsonga kongoma | ||
Turkish direkt | ||
Turkmen göni | ||
Twi (Akan) tee | ||
Ukrainian прямий | ||
Urdu براہ راست | ||
Uyghur بىۋاسىتە | ||
Uzbek to'g'ridan-to'g'ri | ||
Vietnamese thẳng thắn | ||
Welsh uniongyrchol | ||
Xhosa ngqo | ||
Yiddish דירעקט | ||
Yoruba taara | ||
Zulu ngqo |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | "Direk" in Afrikaans is borrowed from English "direct" and also has the alternate meaning of "straight". |
| Albanian | The word "i drejtpërdrejtë" can also mean "straight" or "rightful". |
| Amharic | The word "ቀጥተኛ" can also mean "straight", "honest", or "open". |
| Arabic | مباشرة also means 'in person' or 'in the present', and is sometimes translated as 'at once'. |
| Armenian | The word "ուղիղ" can also mean "straight" or "correct" in Armenian. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "birbaşa" is also used in Azerbaijani to describe a person who is straightforward or frank. |
| Basque | The Basque word "zuzena" also means "correct" or "right". |
| Belarusian | The word "прамой" also means "righteous" or "correct" in Belarusian. |
| Bengali | The word 'সরাসরি' came from Sanskrit word 'सरल' meaning 'straight'. |
| Bosnian | Direktno can also mean 'directly', 'straight away', or 'without hesitation' in Bosnian. |
| Bulgarian | The word "директен" is cognate with the Latin word "directus" and has the same meaning in both languages. |
| Catalan | The word 'directe' in Catalan derives from the Latin 'dirigere' (to direct, to lead), but also has the alternate meaning of 'live transmission', as opposed to recorded content. |
| Cebuano | The Cebuano word "direkta" is cognate with the Spanish word "directa", both of which come from the Latin word "directus" meaning "straight". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The Chinese word "直接" can also mean "explicitly" or "without intermediary." |
| Chinese (Traditional) | In Chinese, "直接" can also mean "frank" or "blunt". |
| Corsican | The Corsican word ”direttu”, meaning ”straight” or ”direct”, derives from Latin ”directus” and shares the same root with ”right”. |
| Croatian | The word "direktno" in Croatian originally meant "straight" or "in a straight line" before acquiring its current meaning of "direct". |
| Czech | The word 'přímo' in Czech also means 'straight' or 'right' when used as an adverb. |
| Danish | Direkte can also mean 'extremely' or 'terrible' in Danish. |
| Dutch | In nautical terminology, "direct" can also mean "immediately; without delay". |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word "rekta" is derived from the Latin word "rectus," which means "straight" or "correct." |
| Estonian | "Otsene" is related to "otsima" (to seek) and the English "straight." |
| Finnish | The word "suoraan" can also mean "without delay" or "straight ahead." |
| French | In French, "direct" can also mean "straightforward" or "honest." |
| Frisian | "Direkt" is a Frisian word that also means "direct". It is derived from the Old Frisian word "direkte", which itself is derived from the Latin word "directus". In addition to its literal meaning, "direkt" can also be used figuratively to mean "straightforward" or "without hesitation". |
| Galician | The word "directo" in Galician (meaning "straight" or "directly") can also mean "right wing" in the political sense. |
| German | In French, Spanish and Italian, the word 'Direkte' means 'straight' |
| Greek | The Greek word “απευθείας” means “direct,” but also implies a more immediate or unmediated connection. |
| Gujarati | સીધા (Sidha) may also refer to a type of Indian classical music (sitar) played with a bow. |
| Haitian Creole | "Dirèk" in Haitian Creole originally referred to a straight or upright pole used as a support |
| Hausa | The word kai tsaye is also used to mean "to be at right angles". |
| Hawaiian | 'Kuhikuhi' also means 'to guide, lead, point in a direction, show the way, indicate, demonstrate' and 'a guide, pointer, compass, director, sign' in Hawaiian. |
| Hebrew | ישיר, from the root ישר (straight), can also refer to a singer or a song that they perform |
| Hindi | In Sanskrit, प्रत्यक्ष (pratyakṣa) literally means 'perceived by the senses' or 'immediate experience'. |
| Hmong | The Hmong word "ncaj qha" originally meant "straight" and also signifies "correct" or "upright." |
| Hungarian | The Hungarian word "közvetlen" also means immediate, firsthand, or personal. |
| Icelandic | "Beinlínis" is the Icelandic word for "direct", but it can also mean "leggy" or "straight-forward". |
| Igbo | Idụzị is an Igbo word with a double meaning: a directive and a medicinal plant used for treating ailments like malaria and diabetes. |
| Indonesian | "Langsung" can also mean "immediately" or "in real time" in Indonesian. |
| Irish | The Irish word "dhíreach" is also used to mean "immediate" or "in front of." |
| Italian | Besides its main meaning of "direct", "diretto" can also mean "straight" when used in the context of a path or trajectory. |
| Japanese | "直" means "straight," "directly" in both Chinese characters and Kun reading. |
| Javanese | Langsung's alternate meaning in Javanese, which is 'immediately', comes from a Proto-Austronesian word that means 'straight', 'correct', or 'true'. |
| Kannada | ನೇರ can mean either "direct" or "straight". It can also be used as an adverb meaning "directly" or "straightly". |
| Kazakh | "Тікелей" can also mean "straight" or "unambiguously" in Kazakh. |
| Korean | The term "곧장" means "straight ahead" or "without hesitation" and originally referred to the straightest of three main roads in medieval Korea, leading from Seoul to Kaesong. |
| Kurdish | Seranser (direct) also means “to make someone straight” or “to set someone straight” in Kurdish. |
| Kyrgyz | Түз is sometimes used in the meaning of the word 'truth'. |
| Lao | ໂດຍກົງ" shares the same etymology with "through" and "go" in English, suggesting a meaning of "passing through". |
| Latin | "Recta" can also mean "straight, not crooked," and is the root of "rectify" in English. |
| Latvian | Etymology: from Proto-Baltic *tēsa from Proto-Indo-European *tésos, meaning "stretched out, taut", from root *ten-. |
| Lithuanian | An alternate meaning of the Lithuanian word "tiesioginis" is "lineal", as opposed to "collateral" in genealogy. |
| Luxembourgish | Direkt is derived from the French word 'direct', meaning 'straight' or 'without alteration'. |
| Macedonian | The word "директен" is also used to describe something that is straightforward or unambiguous. |
| Malagasy | In Malagasy, the word "mivantana" can also refer to a window, suggesting that a direct path is like a clear view. |
| Malay | "Langsung" in Malay means "direct" or "straight", and is related to the word "langka" which means "rare" or "scarce" |
| Malayalam | The word "നേരിട്ട്" also means "face to face" or "immediately". |
| Maltese | In addition to "direct", "dirett" can also mean "straight" or "upright". |
| Maori | In Maori, 'whakatika' also means 'to set something right' or 'to fix'. |
| Marathi | The Marathi word "थेट" comes from Sanskrit via Prakrit, and is related to the English word "direct". The word can also refer to a straight line, or going directly to somewhere. |
| Mongolian | "Шууд" is derived from the Turkish word "doğrudan" and means "immediately, directly". |
| Nepali | The word "प्रत्यक्ष" in Nepali can also mean "immediately" or "in front of one's eyes". |
| Norwegian | The Norwegian word "direkte" can also be used in phrases to connote immediacy, such as "direkte opptak" ("live recording") or "direkte sending" ("live broadcast"). |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "kulunjika" also means "to be pointed" or "to be in a straight line". |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "مستقیم" can also mean "straight" or "upright". |
| Persian | The Persian word “مستقیم” means “direct” in English, but it can also mean “honest” or “upright”. |
| Polish | It also means "immediate" and "without mediation". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | Direto in Portuguese also means straight, honest, immediate, strict, or severe. |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "direct" comes from Latin "dirigere" which also means to "direct" and "to address". |
| Russian | The word "непосредственный" can also mean "immediate" or "close". |
| Samoan | In Samoan, tuusao can also refer to "straightforward" or "honest." |
| Scots Gaelic | An alternate meaning of the Scots Gaelic word "dìreach" is "straight" or "upright". |
| Serbian | The word "директан" can also refer to a person who directs or guides others. |
| Sesotho | The word "otloloha" also means "in a straight line". |
| Shona | The Shona word 'kunanga' also has the meanings 'at once', 'straightway' and 'right off' among others. |
| Sindhi | "سڌو" can also be used to mean "simple" or "easy" in Sindhi. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "සෘජු" (direct) also has the alternate meaning of "straight". |
| Slovak | In Old Church Slavonic, priamy meant "right" and "straight", as well as "honest" and "truthful". |
| Slovenian | The verb "neposredovati" also means "to intervene" and comes from the word "posredovati", which means "mediate, intervene". |
| Somali | The word "toos ah" can also refer to "the front" or "in front of" in Somali. |
| Spanish | Spanish "directo" can be derived from "di-, "meaning "apart", and "regere" meaning "to guide". |
| Sundanese | Langsung is derived from the word 'langkung', which means 'to bypass'. |
| Swahili | Moja kwa moja also means "one by one" or "step by step". |
| Swedish | The word "direkt" is derived from the German word "direkt" and the Latin word "dirigere" (to direct, to steer). |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word “magdirekta” can also mean to “command” or “order” in Tagalog. |
| Tajik | The word мустақим derives from the Arabic word ṣirāṭ al-mustaqīm, which means "the straight path" in the Quran. |
| Tamil | The Tamil word "நேரடி" not only means "direct" but also conveys a sense of "straightforwardness" and "lack of hesitation". |
| Telugu | Can also mean 'manifested, present to the senses' |
| Thai | “โดยตรง” can also mean “in person” or “in actual fact.” |
| Turkish | The word "direkt" in Turkish can also mean "explicit" or "unambiguous". |
| Ukrainian | "Прямий" can also mean "straight" or "rectilinear." |
| Urdu | براہ راست (Barah Rast) means 'without mediation' and is derived from the Persian words 'bi' (without) and 'raast' (straight). |
| Uzbek | The word "to'g'ridan-to'g'ri" can also mean "to correct" or "to set right" in Uzbek. |
| Vietnamese | "Thẳng thắn" also means "upright," implying honesty and integrity. |
| Welsh | “Uniongyrchol” also means “right” in a mathematical sense. |
| Xhosa | The word "ngqo" is cognate with the word "khombe" in other Nguni languages, and both may derive from a Proto-Bantu word *kòŋgɔ meaning "straight" or "correct". |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "דירעקט" (direct) is derived from the Latin "directus" and can also mean "immediately" or "without delay". |
| Yoruba | "Taara" also means "be at ease, comfortable, secure" or "be steady, stable" in Yoruba. |
| Zulu | "Ngqo" also means "quickly" or "immediately" in Zulu, and is used to emphasize the idea of moving in a straight line towards a destination. |
| English | "Direct" means not only "straight" or "headlong" but also "expressly addressed or sent". |