Far in Different Languages
Discover 'Far' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Far
Afrikaans ver | ||
Albanian larg | ||
Amharic ሩቅ | ||
Arabic بعيدا | ||
Armenian հեռու | ||
Assamese দূৰ | ||
Aymara jaya | ||
Azerbaijani uzaq | ||
Bambara jan | ||
Basque urrun | ||
Belarusian далёка | ||
Bengali অনেক দূরে | ||
Bhojpuri ओहटा | ||
Bosnian daleko | ||
Bulgarian далеч | ||
Catalan lluny | ||
Cebuano layo | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 远 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 遠 | ||
Corsican luntanu | ||
Croatian daleko | ||
Czech daleko | ||
Danish langt | ||
Dhivehi ދުރު | ||
Dogri दूर | ||
Dutch ver | ||
English far | ||
Esperanto malproksime | ||
Estonian kaugel | ||
Ewe si gbᴐ didi | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) malayo | ||
Finnish kaukana | ||
French loin | ||
Frisian fier | ||
Galician lonxe | ||
Georgian შორს | ||
German weit | ||
Greek μακριά | ||
Guarani mombyry | ||
Gujarati દૂર | ||
Haitian Creole byen lwen | ||
Hausa nisa | ||
Hawaiian loa | ||
Hebrew רָחוֹק | ||
Hindi दूर | ||
Hmong deb | ||
Hungarian messze | ||
Icelandic langt | ||
Igbo tere aka | ||
Ilocano adayo | ||
Indonesian jauh | ||
Irish i bhfad | ||
Italian lontano | ||
Japanese はるかに | ||
Javanese adoh | ||
Kannada ದೂರದ | ||
Kazakh алыс | ||
Khmer ឆ្ងាយ | ||
Kinyarwanda kure | ||
Konkani खूब पयस | ||
Korean 멀리 | ||
Krio fa | ||
Kurdish dûr | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) دوور | ||
Kyrgyz алыс | ||
Lao ໄກ | ||
Latin tantum | ||
Latvian tālu | ||
Lingala mosika | ||
Lithuanian toli | ||
Luganda wala | ||
Luxembourgish wäit | ||
Macedonian далеку | ||
Maithili दूर | ||
Malagasy lavitra | ||
Malay jauh | ||
Malayalam ബഹുദൂരം | ||
Maltese bogħod | ||
Maori tawhiti | ||
Marathi आतापर्यंत | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯑꯔꯥꯞꯄ | ||
Mizo hla | ||
Mongolian хол | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ဝေး | ||
Nepali टाढा | ||
Norwegian langt | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kutali | ||
Odia (Oriya) ବହୁତ ଦୂର | ||
Oromo fagoo | ||
Pashto لرې | ||
Persian دور | ||
Polish daleko | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) longe | ||
Punjabi ਦੂਰ | ||
Quechua karu | ||
Romanian departe | ||
Russian далеко | ||
Samoan mamao | ||
Sanskrit दूरम् | ||
Scots Gaelic fada | ||
Sepedi kgole | ||
Serbian далеко | ||
Sesotho hole | ||
Shona kure | ||
Sindhi پري | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) දුර | ||
Slovak ďaleko | ||
Slovenian daleč | ||
Somali fog | ||
Spanish lejos | ||
Sundanese jauh | ||
Swahili mbali | ||
Swedish långt | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) malayo | ||
Tajik дур | ||
Tamil இதுவரை | ||
Tatar ерак | ||
Telugu దురముగా | ||
Thai ไกล | ||
Tigrinya ርሑቅ | ||
Tsonga kule | ||
Turkish irak | ||
Turkmen uzakda | ||
Twi (Akan) ware | ||
Ukrainian далеко | ||
Urdu دور | ||
Uyghur far | ||
Uzbek uzoq | ||
Vietnamese xa | ||
Welsh bell | ||
Xhosa kude | ||
Yiddish ווייט | ||
Yoruba jinna | ||
Zulu kude |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "ver" in Afrikaans can also mean "different" or "strange" |
| Albanian | The word 'larg' in Albanian is a cognate of the Latin 'longus', meaning long or extended in space, indicating its connection to the concepts of distance or length. |
| Amharic | In colloquial Amharic, |
| Arabic | The Arabic word "بعيدا" is related to the word "بعيد" meaning "distant" but can also mean "far from" or "estranged" in some contexts |
| Armenian | The Armenian word "հեռու" originates from the Proto-Indo-European root "*kel-", meaning "to turn" or "to twist, bend or curve" |
| Azerbaijani | "Uzaq" means "far" in Azerbaijani. It also refers to "a distant relative" in the Oghuz languages spoken in Turkey, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, and parts of Iran and Iraq. |
| Basque | "Urrun" can mean "long" or "distant" too, depending on the context. |
| Belarusian | The word "далёка" in Belarusian also means "distant" and "remote" |
| Bengali | অনেক দূরে এর আক্ষরিক অর্থ 'যা অনেক বেশি দূরে', এবং এটি 'অনেক অধিক' বা 'অত্যধিক' অর্থেও ব্যবহার করা হয়। |
| Bosnian | Daleko, in the Slavonic languages, derives from a root meaning "long," as in dalek (Polish), delji (Serbian), and dolek (Russian). |
| Bulgarian | The Slavic root behind the word |
| Catalan | "Lluny" (Catalan for "far") is the same or very similar in almost every Romance language, being also related to the English words "lunar" and "lunatic". |
| Cebuano | "Layo" also means "distant relative" or "stepchild" |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The word "远" can also mean "distant in time" or "deep." |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 遠 (Yuǎn) originally meant "high" or "elevated" and later extended to mean "distant". |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "luntanu" is also used metaphorically to describe something that is difficult to understand or achieve. |
| Croatian | The word 'daleko' in Croatian is also used to describe something that is difficult to achieve or understand. |
| Czech | The word "daleko" can also mean "in the distance" or "a long way away". |
| Danish | The word 'langt' (far) has Germanic roots, related to 'length' and 'long' in English. |
| Dutch | Dutch "ver" is closely related to Old English "feor", which also means "far" and is the origin of the English word "far". |
| Esperanto | The word "malproksime" also means "improperly" or "badly". |
| Estonian | The word 'kaugel' in Estonian is possibly derived from the Proto-Finnic root *kau̯k̯a, meaning 'distance' or 'length', which is also the likely origin of the Finnish word 'kaukana' ('far'). |
| Finnish | The word can also mean 'strange or foreign'. It is related to 'kaukopuhelin', meaning 'telephone' but literally translating to 'distanced talker'. |
| French | Le mot « loin » peut également désigner une partie du corps dans un contexte culinaire (le morceau entre les deux cuisses et les reins, le filet). |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "fier" has cognates in other Germanic languages, such as "far" in English, "fjerr" in Norwegian, and "fjärran" in Swedish. |
| Galician | In ancient Galician, "lonxe" also meant "foreign" or "different". |
| Georgian | The Georgian word ''შორს'' has the same Indo-European root as the Latin word ''foris'', meaning "out" or "outside". |
| German | The word "weit" is derived from the Proto-Germanic word "*waiþa-," meaning "wide" or "broad." |
| Greek | "Μακριά" also means "away from" or "remote" in Greek. |
| Gujarati | The word "દૂર" is also used to describe something that is difficult or impossible to achieve. |
| Haitian Creole | "Byen lwen" is similar to the French "bien loin" ("very far") and the Haitian Creole "byen woin" ("very far"). |
| Hausa | The word "nisa" in Hausa can mean "far away" or "distant" as well as "foreign" or "exotic." |
| Hawaiian | In old Hawaiian, "loa" could also mean "very" or a superlative form of "big" or "great." |
| Hebrew | The word רָחוֹק (raḥoq) can refer to both physical distance as well as metaphorical distance, such as being emotionally or intellectually remote |
| Hindi | दूर (far) is a cognate of the English word "door," as both derive from the Proto-Indo-European root "*dʰwer-" meaning "door" or "gate." |
| Hmong | The word "deb" also means "away" or "distant" in Hmong. |
| Hungarian | The Hungarian word "messze" originated from the Old Hungarian word "mezsgye" meaning "border". |
| Icelandic | The word "langt" can also mean "long" or "lengthy". |
| Igbo | Tere aka also means 'a long time ago' or 'a long time from now' and is used to refer to a period of time that is significantly distant from the present. |
| Indonesian | The word "jauh" is also used figuratively to mean "distant" or "remote" in terms of relationships or emotions. |
| Irish | The Irish word "i bhfad" can also mean "in the presence of" or "in the company of." |
| Italian | The word "lontano" has ancient roots and can also mean "distant in time" or "obscure" and "hidden." |
| Japanese | "はるかに", meaning "far", originates from the word "はるか" (distant place) and the suffix "に" (towards). |
| Javanese | The word "adoh" is derived from the Sanskrit word "āyata" which means "distant" or "long" and can also mean "to extend". |
| Kannada | The word "ದೂರದ" can also mean "distant in time" or "remote in space" |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "алыс" also means "wide", "spacious" or "distant in time". |
| Khmer | The word "ឆ្ងាយ" also means "different" or "separate" in Khmer, suggesting a broader concept of distance encompassing physical and abstract notions. |
| Korean | 멀리 can also mean "not close" or "distant" in Korean. |
| Kurdish | The Kurdish word |
| Kyrgyz | In Kyrgyz, the word "алыс" not only means "far" but also refers to a specific type of horse race. |
| Lao | In Northern Dialect Lao, ໄກ can also mean 'outside one's house or compound'. |
| Latin | 'Tantum' also means 'only' and is used in the genitive case after the neuter singular of superlatives, e.g. tantum optimi 'the best only'. |
| Latvian | The word "tālu" also means "distant" and "remote". |
| Lithuanian | "Toli" in Lithuanian is cognate with the Sanskrit "tīra" and Avestan "thyara" meaning "shore". |
| Luxembourgish | The Luxembourgish word "wäit" is derived from the Proto-Germanic word "*waiþaz", related to the English word "wide" and the German word "weit". |
| Macedonian | "Далеку" in Macedonian can also refer to being emotionally distant or removed from something. |
| Malagasy | "Lavitra" may derive from "lavo vitra" or "afo lakana"; "avo" is an adjective describing something distant and "lakana" can mean a border or endpoint. |
| Malay | The Malay word "jauh" is cognate with the Proto-Malayo-Polynesian word "*zahaw", which means "distant, far away." |
| Malayalam | The Malayalam word 'ബഹുദൂരം' (bahoodooram) is derived from the Sanskrit word 'bahudhura' (बहुधुरा), which means 'in many ways' or 'thoroughly'. |
| Maltese | The word "bogħod" is also used figuratively to mean "distant" or "disconnected." |
| Maori | Tawhiti also refers to the distant, spiritual world where the gods dwell. |
| Marathi | The word "आतापर्यंत" can also mean "until now" in Marathi. |
| Mongolian | The word "хол" can also refer to the back of something or the edge of a surface. |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The etymology of the Myanmar word "ဝေး" ("far") is uncertain, but it may be related to the Akha word "wɛ́ː", which also means "far" and is thought to be a loanword from an Austroasiatic language. |
| Nepali | टाढा is derived from the Sanskrit word 'tīra' meaning 'shore' or 'bank', and also has the alternate meaning of 'distant' or 'remote' in Nepali. |
| Norwegian | Originally meant a "stretch," and is also used in modern Norwegian to describe the "stretching" of something. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "kutali" in Nyanja (Chichewa) can also refer to the end or extremity of something, such as the edge of a field or the tip of a pencil. |
| Pashto | The word "لرې" ("far") in Pashto can also mean "long" or "extensive". |
| Persian | A possible root for this word could be the word "der" which means "door" and can be seen in many Indo-European languages. |
| Polish | The Polish word "daleko" is commonly translated as "far," but it can also mean "long-lasting" or "difficult and troublesome." |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Old Portuguese, the word "longe" meant "length". The current meaning "far" was inherited from Latin "longus". |
| Punjabi | The word "ਦੂਰ" can also mean "different" or "away". |
| Romanian | The word "departe" comes from the Latin word "departare," meaning "to separate" or "to go away from." |
| Russian | "Далеко" may also mean "long ago" or "for a long time" in Russian; and is related to the word "age" in English. |
| Samoan | In Samoan, "mamao" is the opposite of "lata" (to be near), and refers to great distance, either spatial or metaphorical. |
| Scots Gaelic | In Gaelic mythology, the Fada are a group of supernatural beings akin to fairies. |
| Serbian | The word "далеко" also means "distant", "remote" or "long". |
| Sesotho | The Sesotho word "hole" also means "outside" or "exterior". |
| Shona | In Shona, the word "kure" also means "to bury" or "to cover. |
| Sindhi | The word "پري" can also mean "Fairy" in Sindhi language. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | දුර (Dura) also refers to a Sinhala measurement unit of distance, equivalent to about 1.5 kilometres. |
| Slovak | The word "ďaleko" comes from the Proto-Slavic word *dalь, meaning "distance" or "space". |
| Slovenian | The word "daleč" can also mean "alien" or "different" in Slovenian. |
| Somali | The Somali word 'fog' can also refer to a type of grass or a person who is distant or aloof. |
| Spanish | The word "lejos" in Spanish comes from the Latin word "longĭus", meaning "long" or "distant". |
| Sundanese | "Jauh" also means "too much" in Sundanese. |
| Swahili | The Swahili word 'mbali' also implies distance in time or space. |
| Swedish | The word “långt” can also mean a distance in Swedish, as in “det är långt till butiken” (“it is a long way to the store”). |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Malayô" also means "long" or "tall" in Tagalog. |
| Tajik | The word "дур" is ultimately derived from the Proto-Iranian *dura-, and is cognate with the English "door". |
| Tamil | The word "இதுவரை" in Tamil can also mean "up to this point" or "so far". |
| Telugu | The word "దురముగా" can also be used to describe someone who is arrogant or haughty. |
| Thai | ไกล derives from the Proto-Austroasiatic word *kaːl, shared with Vietnamese "xa", Lao "kǎay", and Khmer "keal". |
| Turkish | The word "Irak" in Turkish also refers to a large area of land or an open field. |
| Ukrainian | "Далеко" can mean "long ago" or "in the distance" in Ukrainian. |
| Urdu | In Urdu, "دور" can also mean "period" or "cycle", derived from the Persian word "دور" meaning "revolution". |
| Uzbek | "Uzoq" has an alternate meaning of "lonely" or "isolated" in Uzbek |
| Vietnamese | "Xa" can also refer to distance or a place that is not close. |
| Welsh | The word "bell" in Welsh can also mean "mouth". |
| Xhosa | Xhosa 'kude' (far, distant, remote, not close) has a figurative sense of 'a long time ago'. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "ווייט" (veyt) derives from the Middle High German word "wīt," meaning "broad" or "wide." |
| Yoruba | "Jinna" in Yoruba can also refer to a long period of time. |
| Zulu | The Zulu word 'kude' also means 'to be away from or distant' or 'to be distant in time or space'. |
| English | "Far" derives from Middle English and means distant or remote, but also from Old English "ferian" meaning 'to travel', and from Latin "fera" meaning wild beast. |