Due in Different Languages
Discover 'Due' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Due
Afrikaans verskuldig | ||
Albanian për shkak | ||
Amharic ምክንያት | ||
Arabic بسبب | ||
Armenian պատշաճ | ||
Assamese দেয় | ||
Aymara ukatakjama | ||
Azerbaijani görə | ||
Bambara sarata | ||
Basque dela eta | ||
Belarusian з-за | ||
Bengali বাকি | ||
Bhojpuri बकाया | ||
Bosnian zbog | ||
Bulgarian в следствие | ||
Catalan deguda | ||
Cebuano tungod | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 到期 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 到期 | ||
Corsican duvuta | ||
Croatian zbog dospijeća | ||
Czech z důvodu | ||
Danish på grund | ||
Dhivehi ލިބެންޖެހޭ | ||
Dogri देने जोग | ||
Dutch ten gevolge | ||
English due | ||
Esperanto konvena | ||
Estonian tähtaeg | ||
Ewe si li | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) dahil | ||
Finnish erääntyy | ||
French dû | ||
Frisian due | ||
Galician vencido | ||
Georgian იმის გამო | ||
German fällig | ||
Greek λόγω | ||
Guarani oñemoha'arõva | ||
Gujarati કારણે | ||
Haitian Creole akòz | ||
Hausa saboda | ||
Hawaiian ma muli o | ||
Hebrew בשל | ||
Hindi देय | ||
Hmong vim | ||
Hungarian esedékes | ||
Icelandic vegna | ||
Igbo ruru | ||
Ilocano agsipud | ||
Indonesian jatuh tempo | ||
Irish dlite | ||
Italian dovuto | ||
Japanese 期限 | ||
Javanese amarga | ||
Kannada ಕಾರಣ | ||
Kazakh байланысты | ||
Khmer ដល់កំណត់ | ||
Kinyarwanda kubera | ||
Konkani देय | ||
Korean 정당한 | ||
Krio fɔ gɛt | ||
Kurdish dana | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) بەهۆی | ||
Kyrgyz байланыштуу | ||
Lao ເນື່ອງຈາກ | ||
Latin debitum | ||
Latvian dēļ | ||
Lingala delai | ||
Lithuanian terminas | ||
Luganda ebbanja | ||
Luxembourgish wéinst | ||
Macedonian доспеваат | ||
Maithili बाकी | ||
Malagasy noho | ||
Malay kerana | ||
Malayalam കാരണം | ||
Maltese dovut | ||
Maori tika | ||
Marathi देय | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯑꯋꯥꯠꯄ | ||
Mizo hun | ||
Mongolian дуусах ёстой | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ကြောင့် | ||
Nepali कारण | ||
Norwegian forfall | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) chifukwa | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଦେୟ | ||
Oromo ga'e | ||
Pashto له امله | ||
Persian ناشی از | ||
Polish z powodu | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) vencimento | ||
Punjabi ਕਾਰਨ | ||
Quechua huntachina | ||
Romanian datorat | ||
Russian в связи | ||
Samoan tatau | ||
Sanskrit देय | ||
Scots Gaelic ri phàigheadh | ||
Sepedi kolotwago | ||
Serbian због | ||
Sesotho loketseng | ||
Shona zvakakodzera | ||
Sindhi واجب الادا | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) නියමිතයි | ||
Slovak splatné | ||
Slovenian zapadlosti | ||
Somali sabab u tahay | ||
Spanish debido | ||
Sundanese alatan | ||
Swahili kutokana | ||
Swedish på grund av | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) dahil | ||
Tajik бояд | ||
Tamil காரணமாக | ||
Tatar тиеш | ||
Telugu కారణంగా | ||
Thai ครบกำหนด | ||
Tigrinya መወዳእታ | ||
Tsonga hikwalaho | ||
Turkish vadesi gelmiş | ||
Turkmen bermeli | ||
Twi (Akan) aso | ||
Ukrainian належним | ||
Urdu وجہ سے | ||
Uyghur تېگىشلىك | ||
Uzbek tufayli | ||
Vietnamese đến hạn | ||
Welsh yn ddyledus | ||
Xhosa ngenxa | ||
Yiddish פעליק | ||
Yoruba nitori | ||
Zulu okufanele |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "verskuldig" derives from the Dutch word "verschuldigd", which also means "owing" or "incurred". |
| Albanian | The Albanian word "për shkak" can also mean "on account of" or "for the reason of". |
| Amharic | The Amharic word "ምክንያት" also means "cause" or "reason". |
| Arabic | The word "بسبب" can also mean "because of" or "on account of". |
| Azerbaijani | Görə, meaning "due," can also mean "by virtue of," "as a result of" or "because". |
| Basque | The word "dela eta" in Basque is derived from the Latin word "debet" and originally meant "debt" or "obligation". This meaning is still preserved in some regional dialects of Basque, but in standard Basque, "dela eta" now primarily means "due". |
| Belarusian | The Belarusian word "з-за" ("due") also refers to a geographical location or direction, especially a place behind something. |
| Bengali | The word "বাকি" in Bengali has additional meanings besides "due", such as "remaining" and "surplus." |
| Bosnian | "Zbog" (due) comes from the Slavic word "za boga" (for God), alluding to a medieval law that forced debtors to work for their creditors if they failed to repay their debts on time. |
| Bulgarian | The word "в следствие" in Bulgarian can also mean "as a result of" or "because of" |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "deguda" comes from the Latin word "debitum", meaning "that which is owed", and has the same meaning in English. |
| Cebuano | The word "tungod" also has the meaning of "because of" or "on account of". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The original meaning of "到期" is "to arrive at the appointed time". |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The word "到期" can also mean "to arrive" or "to come to an end". |
| Corsican | Corsican "duvuta" originates from the Latin "debita" or Italian "dovuta". It can also imply a moral obligation rather than a legal debt. |
| Croatian | In Slavic languages the word "zbog" means "because" or "on account of," and the word "dospijeća" means "maturity" or "deadline." |
| Czech | "Z důvodu" originated from a combination of the words "z" (from) and "důvodu" (reason) in Old Czech and later gained its current meaning of expressing the cause of an action. |
| Danish | På grund, which shares its origins with the English words "grand" and "ground," has the alternate meanings of "bottom" and "shallow area in the ocean." |
| Dutch | "Ten gevolge" can also mean "consequently" or "as a result of." |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word "konvena" is derived from the Latin word "convenire," meaning "to come together" or "to agree." |
| Estonian | The Estonian noun "tähtaeg" has the same Indo-European origin as the English noun "term". |
| Finnish | The Finnish word "erääntyy" comes from the Proto-Finnic word *ärän- and means "to mature, to ripen". |
| French | The French word "dû" can also mean "owed" in the context of a debt. |
| Frisian | Frisian also uses due for something that is "owed" or "unpaid". |
| Galician | The Galician word "vencido" means "due" but it also has the meaning of "defeated" or "overcome". |
| German | The word "fällig" in German can also mean "maturing" or "becoming payable". |
| Greek | The word "λόγω" can also mean "by reason of" or "on account of" in Greek. |
| Gujarati | The word "કારણે" can also mean "because" or "for" in Gujarati. |
| Haitian Creole | Haitian Creole "akòz" derives from the French word "à cause" meaning "for the reason of." |
| Hausa | Saboda is thought to derive from a combination of the words 'saa' meaning 'to do' and 'bo da' meaning 'for' or 'because'. |
| Hawaiian | Mu means “because” and li or lilo means “to turn” or “to move over.” So “ma muli o” can mean "because of," "on account of," or "consequently." |
| Hebrew | בשל is a cognate of the Arabic بسط meaning "to stretch, spread out" |
| Hindi | देय' ('due') is derived from the Sanskrit root 'dā' ('to give') and can also mean 'to be paid' or 'that which is to be given or paid'. |
| Hmong | In Hmong, "vim" is also a term of address for an older, respected person. |
| Hungarian | "Esédesked" means "due" in Hungarian and is derived from the Latin word "ex" ("out") and the Hungarian word "dús" ("thick"). |
| Icelandic | The word 'vegna' comes from the Old Norse word 'vegn', meaning 'balance'. |
| Igbo | Igbo 'ruru' means both 'due' and 'very', and this double meaning has been exploited in word play and proverbs. |
| Indonesian | The word "jatuh tempo" literally means "to fall in time" in Indonesian, implying the arrival of a specified time for payment or fulfillment. |
| Irish | "Dlite" in Irish also means "debt" and "right". |
| Italian | Etymology: from the Latin "debere", to owe. |
| Japanese | "期限" originates in the Buddhist concept of an "end point" (or goal) that can be reached through self-cultivation. |
| Javanese | Amarga can also refer to a type of Javanese song or a certain style of Javanese music. |
| Kannada | The word "ಕಾರಣ" ("kAraNa") in Kannada can also refer to "cause" or "reason". |
| Kazakh | The word "байланысты" can mean "due", "connected", or "related" in Kazakh. |
| Khmer | The word ដល់កំណត់ can also be used to refer to a deadline. |
| Korean | 정당한 comes from the Chinese word 正當, meaning "proper justification". |
| Kurdish | The word "dana" can also refer to a "gift" in the context of a wedding dowry. |
| Kyrgyz | The Kyrgyz word "байланыштуу" is derived from the verb "байлануу" (to be connected or related), and can also mean "relationship" or "connection." |
| Latin | In Latin, the word "debitum" can also refer to a debt or an obligation. |
| Latvian | Latvian "dēļ" is a cognate of Old Church Slavonic "дѣлъ", which originally meant "part, portion, share". |
| Lithuanian | Loanword from German "Termin" that means "time of payment," "term, period" (originally from Latin)} |
| Luxembourgish | The word "wéinst" can also mean "recently" or "just now". |
| Macedonian | In Macedonian, the term “доспеваат” also holds historical significance due to the influence of Old Macedonian, in which the word “спевам” referred to a maturity date in ancient legal documents. |
| Malagasy | Noho means 'due' when it comes after a noun, and 'in the process of' when it comes after a verb or a preposition in Malagasy. |
| Malay | In ancient times, the word 'kerana' could have meant 'because'. |
| Malayalam | The Malayalam word "കാരണം" also means "reason", "cause", or "factor". |
| Maltese | The word 'dovut' is derived from the Italian 'dovuto', which means 'due', and also 'owing' or 'obliged'. |
| Maori | The word 'tika' can also refer to 'justice', 'rightness', or 'correctness'. |
| Marathi | The word "देय" in Marathi can also mean "obligation" or "responsibility." |
| Mongolian | "Due" comes from the Latin word "dēbitum," meaning "that which is owed." |
| Nepali | The word "कारण" can also mean "reason" or "cause" |
| Norwegian | Norwegian 'forfall' ('due') may have originally meant the forfeit of security for failing to appear in court. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "chifukwa" can also mean "reason" or "cause" in Nyanja. |
| Pashto | The word "له امله" in Pashto can also mean "hope" or "desire". |
| Persian | The word "ناشی از" can also mean "originating from" or "caused by". |
| Polish | The Polish word "z powodu" also has the meaning of "because of" and comes from the Slavic root "vod-" meaning "to lead, to guide". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | "Vencimento" can also mean "achievement" or "success" in Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil). |
| Punjabi | Derived from Persian via Urdu "kārān","kāran", also means "reason" which is another sense of word "ਕਾਰਨ" in Panjabi. |
| Romanian | The word "datorie" in Romanian is derived from Latin "debitor" (borrower) and it may also refer to a person's obligation or duty. |
| Russian | The Russian phrase "в связи" can also mean "in connection with" or "owing to". |
| Samoan | "Tatau" can also refer to a Samoan marking or symbol that is similar to a tattoo in other cultures. |
| Serbian | While its initial meaning was 'to hit', 'због' has come to encompass the nuances of 'on account of, because of, for the sake of' and 'on the grounds of'. |
| Sesotho | The word "loketseng" in Sesotho can also refer to a "fixed time" or a "period of time". |
| Shona | "Zvakakodzera" also refers to "deserve" in the context of being worthy of reward or punishment. |
| Sindhi | The loan word واجب الادا is originally from Arabic, where it refers to an 'obligation' or a 'moral duty' rather than an amount owed. |
| Slovak | The Slovak word "splatné" also means "payable". |
| Slovenian | In the Slovenian language, the word "zapadlosti" can also refer to a geographical direction (west). |
| Somali | The word "sabab u tahay" in Somali can also mean "reason" or "cause". |
| Spanish | "Debido" comes from the Latin "debita," which also means "appropriate to repay or furnish." |
| Sundanese | The Sundanese word "alatan" can also refer to a debt, or an amount of money that is outstanding and unpaid. |
| Swahili | In Swahili, "kutokana" can also mean "to originate from" or "to be derived from." |
| Swedish | På grund av's 'grund' is a cognate of 'ground' in English, and is related to 'ground' in the sense of a reason or basis. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "dahil" can also mean "because" or "since" in Tagalog. |
| Tajik | The word "бояд" in Tajik has no alternate meanings and its etymology is unknown |
| Tamil | The Tamil word "காரணமாக" (kāraṇamāka) ultimately derives from the Sanskrit word "कारण" (kāraṇa), meaning "cause, reason, or motive." |
| Telugu | The word "కారణంగా" can also mean "on account of" or "because of" in English. |
| Thai | The word "ครบกำหนด" can also refer to the expiration date of a product or service. |
| Turkish | The Turkish word "vadesi gelmiş" literally translates to "its due date has arrived" and is used to refer to a payment or obligation that has become due. |
| Ukrainian | The word "належним" also means "fitting", "proper", or "appropriate". |
| Uzbek | The word "tufayli" in Uzbek can also refer to something that is obtained without effort or merit. |
| Vietnamese | The word "đến hạn" can also mean "expiry date" or "deadline". |
| Welsh | The Welsh word "yn ddyledus" can also mean "in debt" or "obligated" in addition to its meaning of "due". |
| Xhosa | The word 'ngenxa' can also mean 'because of' or 'on account of'. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word פעליק originates from the Middle High German word vellic, which also means 'due'. |
| Yoruba | The word "nitori" can also mean "because" or "on behalf of." |
| Zulu | The Zulu word 'okufanele' can also mean 'necessary' or 'obligatory'. |
| English | The word 'due' can also refer to a legal obligation, such as the payment of a debt, or the performance of a duty. |