Distance in Different Languages
Discover 'Distance' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Distance
Afrikaans afstand | ||
Albanian largësia | ||
Amharic ርቀት | ||
Arabic مسافة | ||
Armenian հեռավորությունը | ||
Assamese দূৰত্ব | ||
Aymara jaya | ||
Azerbaijani məsafə | ||
Bambara janya | ||
Basque distantzia | ||
Belarusian адлегласць | ||
Bengali দূরত্ব | ||
Bhojpuri दूरी | ||
Bosnian razdaljina | ||
Bulgarian разстояние | ||
Catalan distància | ||
Cebuano distansya | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 距离 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 距離 | ||
Corsican distanza | ||
Croatian udaljenost | ||
Czech vzdálenost | ||
Danish afstand | ||
Dhivehi ދުރުމިން | ||
Dogri बक्फा | ||
Dutch afstand | ||
English distance | ||
Esperanto distanco | ||
Estonian kaugus | ||
Ewe didiƒe | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) distansya | ||
Finnish etäisyys | ||
French distance | ||
Frisian ôfstân | ||
Galician distancia | ||
Georgian მანძილი | ||
German entfernung | ||
Greek απόσταση | ||
Guarani pukukue | ||
Gujarati અંતર | ||
Haitian Creole distans | ||
Hausa nesa | ||
Hawaiian mamao | ||
Hebrew מֶרְחָק | ||
Hindi दूरी | ||
Hmong deb | ||
Hungarian távolság | ||
Icelandic fjarlægð | ||
Igbo ebe dị anya | ||
Ilocano distansia | ||
Indonesian jarak | ||
Irish achar | ||
Italian distanza | ||
Japanese 距離 | ||
Javanese kadohan | ||
Kannada ದೂರ | ||
Kazakh қашықтық | ||
Khmer ចម្ងាយ | ||
Kinyarwanda intera | ||
Konkani अंतर | ||
Korean 거리 | ||
Krio fa | ||
Kurdish dûrî | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) دووری | ||
Kyrgyz аралык | ||
Lao ໄລຍະທາງ | ||
Latin spatium | ||
Latvian attālums | ||
Lingala ntaka | ||
Lithuanian atstumas | ||
Luganda olugendo | ||
Luxembourgish distanz | ||
Macedonian растојание | ||
Maithili दूरी | ||
Malagasy elanelana | ||
Malay jarak | ||
Malayalam ദൂരം | ||
Maltese distanza | ||
Maori tawhiti | ||
Marathi अंतर | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯑꯔꯥꯞꯄ | ||
Mizo hlatzawng | ||
Mongolian зай | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အကွာအဝေး | ||
Nepali दूरी | ||
Norwegian avstand | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) mtunda | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଦୂରତା | ||
Oromo fageenya | ||
Pashto واټن | ||
Persian مسافت | ||
Polish dystans | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) distância | ||
Punjabi ਦੂਰੀ | ||
Quechua karu kaynin | ||
Romanian distanţă | ||
Russian расстояние | ||
Samoan mamao | ||
Sanskrit दूरी | ||
Scots Gaelic astar | ||
Sepedi monabo | ||
Serbian удаљеност | ||
Sesotho hole | ||
Shona chinhambwe | ||
Sindhi مفاصلو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) දුර | ||
Slovak vzdialenosť | ||
Slovenian razdalja | ||
Somali masaafada | ||
Spanish distancia | ||
Sundanese jarak | ||
Swahili umbali | ||
Swedish distans | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) distansya | ||
Tajik масофа | ||
Tamil தூரம் | ||
Tatar ара | ||
Telugu దూరం | ||
Thai ระยะทาง | ||
Tigrinya ርሕቐት | ||
Tsonga mpfhuka | ||
Turkish mesafe | ||
Turkmen aralyk | ||
Twi (Akan) ntwemu tenten | ||
Ukrainian відстань | ||
Urdu فاصلے | ||
Uyghur ئارىلىق | ||
Uzbek masofa | ||
Vietnamese khoảng cách | ||
Welsh pellter | ||
Xhosa umgama | ||
Yiddish ווייטקייט | ||
Yoruba ijinna | ||
Zulu ibanga |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | In Dutch, "afstand" can also mean "renunciation" or "abandonment". |
| Albanian | The word "largësia" comes from the Proto-Albanian word *larg-, meaning "separation". It is also associated with the Latin word "largior", meaning "to bestow or give". |
| Arabic | In Classical Arabic, the word "مسافة" could refer to the "area" surrounding something (not necessarily a physical distance) |
| Azerbaijani | The word "məsafə" originates from the Arabic word "masafa", meaning "space" or "interval between two points". |
| Basque | The word 'distantzia' in Basque shares its root with the Latin 'dis', meaning 'apart'. |
| Bengali | The word দূরত্ব ('distance') in Bengali can also refer to the space or time between two events. |
| Bosnian | The word "razdaljina" in Bosnian can also refer to the distance between two points in time. |
| Bulgarian | The word "разстояние" in Bulgarian has etymological links to the Slavic root "стан" ("to stand"), implying a sense of "interval" or "separation." |
| Catalan | The word "distància" in Catalan comes from the Latin word "distantia", which also means "difference" or "separation". |
| Cebuano | "Distansya" can also mean "relationship" or "connection" in Cebuano, hinting at the emotional or psychological distance between individuals. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The word "距离" (jùlí) can also mean "interval", "gap", or "separation". |
| Chinese (Traditional) | In addition to "distance," the term 距離 (jùlí) can also refer to the "difference" between things or places.} |
| Corsican | In Corsican, "distanza" can also mean "absence of a person or thing". |
| Croatian | Udaljenost has the alternate meaning of 'remoteness' in Croatian. |
| Czech | 'Vzdálenost' derives from 'vzdálit se' ('move away'), etymologically related to 'dálit' ('step'), hence it originally meant 'a step away', 'a space between steps'. |
| Danish | In Danish, "afstand" can also mean a "standoff" or "separation," especially in a disagreement or conflict. |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "afstand" has an etymological link to "afstand doen van", which means "to renounce or give up something". |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word "distanco" is derived from the Latin word "distantia"} |
| Estonian | "Kaugus" derives from the Proto-Finnic *kauko-, meaning "faraway" and cognate with Finnish "kauko" and "kaug" in Võro and Seto." } |
| Finnish | The word 'etäisyys' comes from the Proto-Uralic word '*e̮t̮e̮', which meant 'far' or 'away'. |
| French | The French word |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "ôfstân" is derived from the Proto-West-Germanic word "*afstand" which could mean both "distance" and "separation" and the Proto-Germanic verb "*standjan" meaning "to stand". |
| Galician | The Galician word "distancia" also means "disagreement" or "difference". |
| German | In German, "Entfernung" also means seclusion or separation. |
| Greek | The etymology of the word "απόσταση" is uncertain, but it may derive from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂eps- "to reach" or *h₂peh₂- "to guard, protect". |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "અંતર" (distance) also means "difference" or "distinction". |
| Haitian Creole | In Haitian Creole, 'distans' also means 'restraint' or 'reservation'. |
| Hausa | Nesa is derived from the Arabic word 'nasa' which originally meant 'travelled distance', also denoting a 'journey'. In Hausa, it has evolved to exclusively refer to 'distance'. |
| Hawaiian | 'Mamao' can also mean 'distant' as in 'distant relative' or 'distant land'. |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "מֶרְחָק" (merḥaq) also means "interval" or "space". |
| Hindi | दूरी comes from the Sanskrit word 'दृ' (drish), meaning 'to see', and originally meant 'separation of vision' |
| Hmong | "Deb" is derived from the Proto-Hmong-Mien word *dʑaːp, and is cognate with the Proto-Tai word *dap |
| Hungarian | The word "távolság" is also used to mean "remoteness" or "interval" in Hungarian. |
| Icelandic | The Icelandic word "fjarlægð" shares a root with "fjall" ("mountain"), reflecting the challenges of travel through mountainous landscapes. |
| Igbo | The Igbo word "ebe dị anya" can also refer to a remote location or a long time period. |
| Indonesian | The word "jarak" in Indonesian is thought to derive from the Sanskrit word "durah", which means "distant". |
| Irish | The Irish word "achar" can also refer to a unit of measurement approximately equal to 22 English feet. |
| Italian | In Italian, the word 'distanza' also means 'remoteness', 'separation', or 'difference', and derives from the Latin 'distantia', meaning 'interval', 'difference', or 'divergence'. |
| Japanese | 距離 can also refer to a relationship between two things, expressing intimacy or estrangement. |
| Javanese | Kadohan also means "separation" from the Old Javanese word "dohan". |
| Kannada | The word 'ದೂರ' in Kannada can also mean 'far away' or 'distant' |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "қашықтық" also refers to the interval between two events. |
| Khmer | The term ចម្ងាយ also refers to the time taken to travel a certain distance. |
| Korean | The word "거리" originally meant "a place between people" and can still be used to refer to social distance. |
| Kurdish | The word "dûrî" in Kurdish can also refer to a "separation" or "period of time". |
| Kyrgyz | The Kyrgyz word "аралык" also means "space", "interval", or "gap". |
| Lao | The word ໄລຍະທາງ (distance) is derived from Sanskrit "raya" (way) and "tana" (stretch), meaning "the stretch of the way." |
| Latin | The original meaning of "spatium" was a racetrack or the distance covered in one stride of a horse. |
| Latvian | The Latvian word "attālums" comes from an older Baltic root, which also gave rise to "tol" in Russian, "tälla" in Finnish, "tal" in Estonian, "toli" in Lithuanian, "далёко" in Russian and "далёко" in Bulgarian, all of which mean "distance". |
| Lithuanian | The word "atstumas" is cognate with the Latvian word "attālums" and the Sanskrit word "atisama," both meaning "distance." |
| Luxembourgish | The Luxembourgish language has several words for “distance”, depending on what type of separation is being described. |
| Macedonian | The word "растојание" can also refer to a "span", "interval", or "difference", and is derived from the verb "растојати", meaning "to separate" or "to keep apart". |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "elanelana" also means "separateness" or "lack of intimacy." |
| Malay | The word "jarak" in Malay also means "distance between the axles of a vehicle" or the "length of a horse's legs measured from the chest to the bottom of the hoof". |
| Malayalam | The word "ദൂരം" (dūram) may originally have meant "a long time" or "a long time ago" rather than "a long way". |
| Maltese | The word "distanza" in Maltese derives from the Latin "distantia", meaning "separation" or "difference". |
| Maori | Tawhiti also means 'the spirit of a departed chief' or 'a supernatural being'. |
| Marathi | The word 'अंतर' is derived from the Sanskrit word 'अंतरम्', which means 'within' or 'interval'. |
| Mongolian | The word "зай" can also mean "to go", "to travel", or "to send" in Mongolian. |
| Nepali | The Nepali word "दूरी" also means "far" or "remote". |
| Norwegian | The word "avstand" in Norwegian can also refer to the amount of interest one has in something. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | "Mtunda", or "distance" in Nyanja, also means "space" or "time duration." |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "واټن" can also refer to a "stretch of land or territory" or "the area between two places". |
| Persian | مسافت also can mean "measureable space" or "measureable time" |
| Polish | The Polish word "dystans" comes from the Latin word "distantia", which means "separation". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "distância" in Portuguese derives from the Latin "distantia", meaning "separation" or "interval". |
| Punjabi | The word "ਦੂਰੀ" ("distance") can also refer to a "gap" or a "separation". |
| Romanian | "Distanţă" is also used in Romanian to refer to the estrangement between two people. |
| Russian | The noun «расстояние» originates from the verb «разойтись» meaning «to move apart». |
| Samoan | The Samoan word "mamao" can also refer to a feeling of separation or loneliness. |
| Scots Gaelic | The Gaelic word "astar" can also mean "measure" or "space". |
| Serbian | "Удаљеност" can also refer to "remoteness" or "alienation" in a metaphorical sense. |
| Sesotho | In Sesotho, "hole" also means a gap, an opening in a surface, a pit, a burrow, a hollow, a cavity, or a perforation. |
| Shona | The word "chinhambwe" can also refer to a person who is very tall or who travels long distances. |
| Sindhi | The word "مفاصلو" can also refer to the joints of the body. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The Sinhala word 'දුර' ('distance') is etymologically related to the Sanskrit word 'दूर' ('far'). |
| Slovak | "Vzdialenosť" originates from "vzdiaľ", meaning "away". Its Slavic root means "to divide" or "separate". |
| Slovenian | The word "razdalja" (distance) derives from the Proto-Slavic word *razdalьje, meaning "to separate or move away." |
| Somali | The word "masaafada" in Somali can also refer to the distance between two things in time or space. |
| Spanish | The Spanish word "distancia" comes from the Latin word "distantia," which means "separation" or "difference." |
| Sundanese | The word "jarak" in Sundanese also means "space" or "room". |
| Swahili | In some cases, "umbali" can imply temporal and metaphorical distance, or distance between two ideas. |
| Swedish | Swedish "distans" also means 'remoteness' and is cognate with English "distant" (same root). |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The Tagalog word "distansya" (distance) originally meant "interval between places," as it shared the root "distan" with the Latin "distare" (to stand apart). |
| Tajik | The word "масофа" in Tajik ultimately comes from the Arabic word "مسافة", meaning "distance or space". |
| Tamil | The Tamil word "தூரம்" (distance) comes from the Proto-Dravidian root *tū-ri which means "separation" or "disconnection". |
| Telugu | The noun "దూరం" can also mean "separation" in Telugu. |
| Thai | The term ระยะทาง can also refer to the range or extent of something. |
| Turkish | "Mesafe" sözcüğünün eski Türkçede "uzaklık, ayrılık" anlamlarına geldiği tahmin ediliyor. |
| Ukrainian | Відстань (distance) can also mean 'alienation', 'estrangement', or 'separation' in Ukrainian. |
| Urdu | The word 'فاصلے' is thought to originate from the Sanskrit word 'विषम' ('vishama'), meaning 'uneven' or 'irregular'. |
| Uzbek | The word "masofa" in Uzbek is derived from the Persian word "masafat", which means "distance" or "space". |
| Vietnamese | Khoảng cách is a Vietnamese word that can also mean "gap" or "interval". |
| Welsh | The word "pellter" is thought to be rooted in the Celtic word "pell," meaning "far" or "distant". |
| Xhosa | The word "umgama" also refers to an unknown destination, suggesting the uncertainty and mystery associated with long distances. |
| Yiddish | 'ווייטקייט' is the Yiddish word for 'distance', but it can also refer to a person's stature or importance. |
| Yoruba | In some Yoruba dialects, "ijinna" also refers to a measurement of spatial difference. |
| Zulu | The Zulu word "ibanga" can also refer to a place that is far away. |
| English | The word "distance" derives from the Latin word "distantia," meaning "separation, difference," and is related to the verb "distare," meaning "to stand apart." |