Era in Different Languages
Discover 'Era' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Era
Afrikaans was | ||
Albanian ishte | ||
Amharic ነበር | ||
Arabic كان | ||
Armenian էր | ||
Assamese যুগ | ||
Aymara era | ||
Azerbaijani idi | ||
Bambara era | ||
Basque zen | ||
Belarusian быў | ||
Bengali ছিল | ||
Bhojpuri युग के बा | ||
Bosnian bio | ||
Bulgarian беше | ||
Catalan era | ||
Cebuano mao | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 原为 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 原為 | ||
Corsican era | ||
Croatian bio | ||
Czech byl | ||
Danish var | ||
Dhivehi ޒަމާނެވެ | ||
Dogri युग | ||
Dutch was | ||
English era | ||
Esperanto estis | ||
Estonian oli | ||
Ewe ɣeyiɣia me | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) kapanahunan | ||
Finnish oli | ||
French était | ||
Frisian wie | ||
Galician foi | ||
Georgian იყო | ||
German war | ||
Greek ήταν | ||
Guarani era | ||
Gujarati હતી | ||
Haitian Creole te | ||
Hausa ya | ||
Hawaiian ua | ||
Hebrew היה | ||
Hindi था | ||
Hmong yog | ||
Hungarian volt | ||
Icelandic var | ||
Igbo bụ | ||
Ilocano panawen | ||
Indonesian dulu | ||
Irish bhí | ||
Italian era | ||
Japanese だった | ||
Javanese ana | ||
Kannada ಆಗಿತ್ತು | ||
Kazakh болды | ||
Khmer គឺ | ||
Kinyarwanda ibihe | ||
Konkani युग | ||
Korean 였다 | ||
Krio era | ||
Kurdish bû | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) سەردەم | ||
Kyrgyz болгон | ||
Lao ແມ່ນ | ||
Latin erat | ||
Latvian bija | ||
Lingala eleko ya ntango | ||
Lithuanian buvo | ||
Luganda omulembe | ||
Luxembourgish war | ||
Macedonian беше | ||
Maithili युग | ||
Malagasy dia | ||
Malay adalah | ||
Malayalam ആയിരുന്നു | ||
Maltese kien | ||
Maori i | ||
Marathi होते | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯏꯔꯥ꯫ | ||
Mizo era | ||
Mongolian байсан | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ဟုတ်တယ် | ||
Nepali थियो | ||
Norwegian var | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) anali | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଯୁଗ | ||
Oromo bara | ||
Pashto وه | ||
Persian بود | ||
Polish było | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) estava | ||
Punjabi ਸੀ | ||
Quechua era | ||
Romanian a fost | ||
Russian был | ||
Samoan sa | ||
Sanskrit युगम् | ||
Scots Gaelic bha | ||
Sepedi nako | ||
Serbian био | ||
Sesotho ne | ||
Shona yaive | ||
Sindhi هيو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) විය | ||
Slovak bol | ||
Slovenian je bil | ||
Somali ahaa | ||
Spanish era | ||
Sundanese éta | ||
Swahili ilikuwa | ||
Swedish var | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) ay | ||
Tajik буд | ||
Tamil இருந்தது | ||
Tatar чоры | ||
Telugu ఉంది | ||
Thai คือ | ||
Tigrinya ዘመን | ||
Tsonga nguva ya kona | ||
Turkish oldu | ||
Turkmen döwri | ||
Twi (Akan) bere a wɔde yɛ adwuma | ||
Ukrainian було | ||
Urdu تھا | ||
Uyghur دەۋر | ||
Uzbek edi | ||
Vietnamese đã | ||
Welsh oedd | ||
Xhosa wayenjalo | ||
Yiddish איז געווען | ||
Yoruba wà | ||
Zulu kwaba |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word 'was' in Afrikaans can also be used to refer to the weather. |
| Albanian | The word "ishte" is derived from the Proto-Albanian *isti̯a (cognate with Latin "istius" and Greek "ἐστιά") and has a secondary meaning of "hearth" or "fireplace". |
| Amharic | The word "ነበር" in Amharic also means "existed" when used in a different grammatical context. |
| Arabic | The word كان (kāna) is also used in Arabic to denote existence, being, or happening. |
| Armenian | The word "էր" is derived from the Persian word "era" and can also mean "autumn" in Armenian. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "idi" in Azerbaijani also has the meaning of "time period" or "period of time" |
| Basque | The word 'zen' also means 'song' and 'sound', but comes from a similar stem to 'den' ('day'). |
| Belarusian | The Belarusian word "быў" also means "was" in English. |
| Bengali | In Sanskrit, 'ছিল' derives from the Sanskrit root 'chhid', meaning 'to cut' or 'to divide'. |
| Bosnian | Bio comes from Greek for "life," as seen in biology and biography. |
| Bulgarian | The word "беше" in Bulgarian additionally means "was" and "became". |
| Catalan | In Catalan, "era" can also refer to a period of time, a geological era, or a chronological era. |
| Cebuano | The Cebuano word "mao" can also mean "because" or "so". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "原为" means "was originally; was formerly" in Chinese. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 原為 (yuánwéi) was used to indicate the original form or purpose of something, and later came to be used as a noun meaning "era". |
| Corsican | In Corsican, "era" can also mean "floor" or "level". |
| Croatian | In the Istro-Romanian language, 'bio' also means 'good'. |
| Czech | The word "byl" also has the meaning of "existed" and can be used in the context of existence or presence. |
| Danish | The word 'var' can also refer to a type of fish, a kind of weather, or a period of time. |
| Dutch | Was can also refer to a piece of clothing or a certain style of clothing. |
| Esperanto | The word "estis" also means "era" in Esperanto, like the English "his" and "hers", but is gender-neutral. |
| Estonian | The word "oli" also means "was" in Estonian, which is its original meaning. |
| Finnish | "Oli" is a word for "was" as well as "there was" and can be used as a general "something happened" in Finnish. It relates to "olla" meaning "to be" |
| French | "Était" is derived from the Latin "stat" ("stand") and can also mean "was", "were", or "existed". |
| Frisian | The word "wie" can also refer to a period of time, such as a "century" or a "generation". |
| Galician | The word 'foi' in Galician, meaning 'era', is derived from the Latin word 'fuit', meaning 'it was'. |
| Georgian | The Georgian word 'იყო' ('era') can also refer to a person's existence or state of being. |
| German | In German, the word "Krieg" also means "war". |
| Greek | The Ancient Greek word `ἦν` originates from an Indo-European root also found in Sanskrit and Latin, which signified 'to go', 'to be' and 'to blow'. |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "હતી" ("hatī") also means "existed" or "lived". |
| Haitian Creole | In Haitian Creole, the word "te" can also refer to an individual's time period or lifespan. |
| Hausa | In Hausa, the word "ya" can also refer to "a period of time" or "a chapter in a book". |
| Hawaiian | In ancient Hawaii, “ua” was also an honorific bestowed upon royalty or individuals with high status. |
| Hebrew | The word "היה" also has the meaning of "to become" and "to exist". |
| Hindi | The Hindi word 'था' (era) is derived from the Sanskrit word 'स्था' (to stand), implying a fixed or stable period of time. |
| Hmong | The word "yog" can also mean "age" or "generation" in Hmong. |
| Hungarian | The Hungarian word "volt" can also mean "was" or "became" in English. |
| Icelandic | The word var is also used in Icelandic to refer to a group of animals such as swans or seals. |
| Igbo | "Bụ" can also refer to the Igbo creation god and the four elements which he created |
| Indonesian | In Malay "dulu" refers also to the "ancient times". |
| Irish | The Irish word 'bhí' is derived from the Proto-Celtic *bē, meaning 'was' or 'existed'. |
| Italian | In Italian, “era” can also refer to a unit of geological time, equivalent to an English “eon”. |
| Japanese | The word "だった" (datta) can also mean "was" or "had been" in English. |
| Javanese | Javanese word "ana" also means "there is" and acts as an existential verb like "yèn" in Old Javanese. |
| Kannada | The word "ಆಗಿತ್ತು" can also refer to a period of time or an event. |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "болды" can also refer to the "time of day" or "season of the year". |
| Khmer | The word "គឺ" can also be used to mean "to be" or "to exist". |
| Korean | The word can also be used as the past tense of the copula '이다', which means 'is'. |
| Kurdish | The term “bû” is also used in the sense of “epoch,” “era,” “period,” “time,” and “history”. |
| Kyrgyz | The Kyrgyz term “болгон” has another meaning in its etymology, “to be, to pass, to live,” and its plural, “болгонлор,” refers to periods of being in history or in a person’s life. |
| Lao | The word "ແມ່ນ" can also mean "to be" or "is" in Lao. |
| Latin | The word "erat" in Latin also means "was" or "were," and can be used as the third person singular or plural imperfect indicative form of "esse" (to be), or as the third person masculine or feminine singular imperfect indicative form of "sum" (to be). |
| Latvian | The word "bija" also means "existed", "became", and "was" in Latvian. |
| Lithuanian | In Proto-Baltic, "buvo" meant "to be" or "to exist" and it could also refer to the past tense of "to be" |
| Luxembourgish | In Luxembourgish, "war" also means "true" in the sense of "genuine" or "real". |
| Macedonian | The word "беше" is derived from the Old Church Slavonic word "быти", meaning "to be". |
| Malagasy | "Dia" can also mean "sun" or "time of day" in the context of astronomy and timekeeping. |
| Malay | Apart from meaning "era", "adalah" can also be used to mean "to be", "it is" or "is it" in Malay. |
| Malayalam | “ആയിരുന്നു” in Malayalam has another meaning: it signifies a person's presence in a place. |
| Maltese | In Maltese, the word "kien" can also mean "existing" or "present". |
| Maori | The word "i" in Maori can also refer to a narrative or tradition. |
| Marathi | The Marathi word 'होते' ('era') is also used to indicate a period of time, season, or age. |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word "Байсан" (era) is also used to refer to a specific period of time, such as the "Jurassic Era" or the "Ming Dynasty Era". |
| Nepali | The word "थियो" can also mean "time" or "period" in Nepali. |
| Norwegian | The word "var" in Norwegian can also refer to a spring or a kind of fish. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "anali" in Nyanja (Chichewa) can also refer to a specific time period or epoch. |
| Pashto | وه ('era') is an Arabic loanword that also means 'event'. |
| Persian | The word "بود" also translates to "existed" in contexts where time is not discussed. |
| Polish | The word "było" in Polish can also mean "it was" or "there was". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The verb 'estava' (was, were) derives from the Latin word 'stare' (to stand, to be), which also gave rise to the Italian word 'stare' and the Spanish word 'estar' (to be). |
| Punjabi | Although "era" is its usual meaning, "se" can also mean "was" or "were" in Punjabi. |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "a fost" derives from Latin "fuit", meaning "it was", but can also be translated as the imperfect form of the verb "a fi" (to be). |
| Russian | The Russian word “был” can also mean “became” or “had become”. |
| Samoan | The word "sa" in Samoan also means "direction" or "path". |
| Scots Gaelic | The Scots Gaelic word "bha" is used not just as "was", but also "became". |
| Serbian | The Serbian word "био" also means "been" in Bulgarian and "former" in Russian. |
| Sesotho | The Sesotho word "ne" can also mean "time" or "season". |
| Shona | The word "yaive" also refers to a specific period in the Shona calendar that lasts for seven days and is associated with the waxing of the moon. |
| Sindhi | The word "هيو" in Sindhi can also refer to "time" or "period". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "විය" also means "age" or "time" in Sinhala. |
| Slovak | The Slavic word “bol” refers to a more extended time period than the modern Slovak word “éra”, and often pertains to the geological or ancient historical past. |
| Slovenian | Slovene language has three distinct words with different meanings but spelled "je bil": the first person singular of the verb "biti" or "to be" with no gender connotation, the verb "biti" or "to be" in the passive form, and as a past tense for other verbs. |
| Somali | It can also indicate a period of time with an unspecified end. |
| Spanish | The word "era" in Spanish can also refer to a type of pottery or a Roman bronze coin. |
| Sundanese | "Éta" also means "really" when used for emphasis. |
| Swahili | The Swahili word "ilikuwa" is derived from the Arabic word "kaana" and can also mean "it was" or "it became." |
| Swedish | The Swedish word "var" can also refer to a "pus", "venom" or "liquid pus". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | 'Ay' in Tagalog can also mean 'year' or 'age'. |
| Tajik | Tajik word for "era" is a homophone with the name of an ancient Buddha, and is also the basis for the name of the modern Tajik calendar. |
| Tamil | The word 'இருந்தது' ('era') in Tamil is derived from the verb 'இரு' ('to be') and can also mean 'existence' or 'being'. |
| Telugu | "ఉంది" is also used to refer to a period of time, such as a decade or a century. |
| Thai | In the context of the Thai word "คือ" ("era"), the "ก" (kor kai) is a high tone and is pronounced "ka-ro". It can also mean "as" as in the sentence "เธอคือคนที่ฉันรัก" ("She is the person I love"). |
| Turkish | Olmak (to be) > oldum (I am) > oldı (it is) > oldu (it happened). |
| Ukrainian | 'Було' is a word that means 'past' or 'age', but can also mean 'it was' or 'there was'. |
| Urdu | In Hindi, 'Thaa' can refer to the 'being' of a person, as in 'Woh Thaa' meaning 'He was'. |
| Uzbek | The word "edi" is also used to refer to a "period of time" or a "phase" in Uzbek. |
| Vietnamese | The word "đã" in Vietnamese can also mean "already" or "past tense". |
| Welsh | The word "oedd" can also mean "was" or "used to be" in Welsh, indicating a state or condition that existed in the past. |
| Xhosa | The word "wayenjalo" can also mean "like that" or "that way". |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "איז געווען" has alternate meanings of "existed" and "happened". |
| Yoruba | Wà also means 'to stay', 'to be', and 'to exist' in Yoruba. |
| Zulu | The Zulu word "kwaba" also refers to a stretch of land and a homestead. |
| English | The word 'era' derives from Latin and originally meant a particular period or fixed calendar date; it has since extended to mean a distinct or noteworthy period of time. |