Flow in Different Languages
Discover 'Flow' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Flow
Afrikaans vloei | ||
Albanian rrjedhin | ||
Amharic ፍሰት | ||
Arabic تدفق | ||
Armenian հոսք | ||
Assamese বৈ অহা | ||
Aymara uñsuña | ||
Azerbaijani axın | ||
Bambara sooro | ||
Basque fluxua | ||
Belarusian паток | ||
Bengali প্রবাহ | ||
Bhojpuri बहाव | ||
Bosnian protok | ||
Bulgarian поток | ||
Catalan flux | ||
Cebuano modagayday | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 流 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 流 | ||
Corsican flussu | ||
Croatian teći | ||
Czech tok | ||
Danish flyde | ||
Dhivehi އޮހުން | ||
Dogri तंदीड़ी | ||
Dutch stromen | ||
English flow | ||
Esperanto fluo | ||
Estonian voolama | ||
Ewe si | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) daloy | ||
Finnish virtaus | ||
French couler | ||
Frisian streame | ||
Galician fluxo | ||
Georgian დინება | ||
German fließen | ||
Greek ροή | ||
Guarani mbosyry | ||
Gujarati પ્રવાહ | ||
Haitian Creole koule | ||
Hausa kwarara | ||
Hawaiian kahe | ||
Hebrew זְרִימָה | ||
Hindi बहे | ||
Hmong ntws | ||
Hungarian folyam | ||
Icelandic flæði | ||
Igbo igba | ||
Ilocano agayus | ||
Indonesian mengalir | ||
Irish sreabhadh | ||
Italian flusso | ||
Japanese フロー | ||
Javanese mili | ||
Kannada ಹರಿವು | ||
Kazakh ағын | ||
Khmer លំហូរ | ||
Kinyarwanda gutemba | ||
Konkani प्रवाह | ||
Korean 흐름 | ||
Krio flo | ||
Kurdish herrikîn | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) گوزەر | ||
Kyrgyz агым | ||
Lao ໄຫຼ | ||
Latin influunt | ||
Latvian plūsma | ||
Lingala koleka | ||
Lithuanian tekėti | ||
Luganda okukulukuta | ||
Luxembourgish fléissen | ||
Macedonian проток | ||
Maithili बहाव | ||
Malagasy mikoriana | ||
Malay aliran | ||
Malayalam ഒഴുക്ക് | ||
Maltese fluss | ||
Maori rere | ||
Marathi प्रवाह | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯆꯦꯟꯊꯕ | ||
Mizo luang | ||
Mongolian урсгал | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) စီးဆင်းမှု | ||
Nepali प्रवाह | ||
Norwegian strømme | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kuyenda | ||
Odia (Oriya) ପ୍ରବାହ | ||
Oromo yaa'uu | ||
Pashto جریان | ||
Persian جریان | ||
Polish pływ | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) fluxo | ||
Punjabi ਵਹਾਅ | ||
Quechua purisqan | ||
Romanian curgere | ||
Russian течь | ||
Samoan tafe | ||
Sanskrit प्रवाहः | ||
Scots Gaelic sruthadh | ||
Sepedi elela | ||
Serbian проток | ||
Sesotho phalla | ||
Shona kuyerera | ||
Sindhi وهڪرو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) ගලනවා | ||
Slovak tok | ||
Slovenian pretok | ||
Somali qulqulaya | ||
Spanish fluir | ||
Sundanese ngalir | ||
Swahili mtiririko | ||
Swedish flöde | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) dumaloy | ||
Tajik ҷараён | ||
Tamil ஓட்டம் | ||
Tatar агым | ||
Telugu ప్రవాహం | ||
Thai ไหล | ||
Tigrinya ዋሕዚ | ||
Tsonga khuluka | ||
Turkish akış | ||
Turkmen akymy | ||
Twi (Akan) tene | ||
Ukrainian потік | ||
Urdu بہاؤ | ||
Uyghur flow | ||
Uzbek oqim | ||
Vietnamese lưu lượng | ||
Welsh llif | ||
Xhosa ukuhamba | ||
Yiddish לויפן | ||
Yoruba ṣàn | ||
Zulu ukugeleza |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "vloei" also means "filter paper" or "rolling paper" |
| Albanian | The Albanian word "rrjedhin" shares the same Indo-European root as "river" and "riddle", referencing the idea of a concealed or mysterious movement. |
| Amharic | "ፍሰት" in Amharic is said to derive from the Semitic root *ps* meaning "to divide" or "to separate," suggesting its original meaning of "division" or "separation of parts." |
| Arabic | تدفق in Arabic can also refer to the process of flowing or pouring, as well as the amount of something that is flowing. |
| Armenian | "Հոսք" can also refer to a current, stream or tide. |
| Azerbaijani | "Axın" has the alternate meaning of channel |
| Basque | Fluxua in Basque can also mean flow of time, or the course of events. |
| Belarusian | The Belarusian word "паток" can also refer to a stream or current of liquid. |
| Bengali | The word "প্রবাহ" (probah) originates from the Sanskrit word "प्रवाह" (pravah), and can also mean "current", "stream", or "movement". |
| Bosnian | "Protok" in Bosnian also can mean "leak" or "hole". |
| Bulgarian | The word "поток" also means "stream" or "current" in Bulgarian. |
| Catalan | In Catalan, "flux" refers to the flow of water, a menstrual period, or diarrhea. |
| Cebuano | In addition to its primary meaning of "flow," "modagayday" can also refer to "current," "stream," or "river." |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The character 流 (liú) can also mean "to exile" or "to drift". |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 流 can also mean to exile, circulate, or miscarry, and is used in the phrase 水到渠成 "water flows into an irrigation ditch naturally" to refer to something happening effortlessly. |
| Corsican | "Flussu" in Corsican has the same etymology as "flusso" in Italian, and it can also refer to a stream of water or a flow of people or things. |
| Croatian | "Teći" in Croatian also means "to run" (away), like "uteći" (to run away). |
| Czech | In astronomy, "tok" refers to the "flux" or flow of particles or energy in a particular direction, such as in a stream of subatomic particles. |
| Danish | The Danish word "flyde" can also mean "to float or drift". |
| Dutch | "Stromen" can also refer to the ridges between two furrows. |
| Esperanto | The word “fluo” in Esperanto comes from the Latin word “fluus” (flowing) and also refers to fluorescence. |
| Estonian | Voolama also means "to be on the run" or "to flee" in Estonian slang. |
| Finnish | "Virtaus" is also a historical term referring to the right of preemption |
| French | "Couler" is also used in French to describe the sinking of a ship and the shedding of tears. |
| Frisian | In Medieval Frisian, 'streame' also meant 'to fight' as in 'the king will streame against the Danes'. |
| Galician | The Galician word "fluxo" can also refer to a type of traditional Galician bagpipes. |
| Georgian | The word "დინება" (flow) comes from the verb "დინა" (to flow) and can also refer to the process of circulation or spreading. |
| German | The verb 'fließen' also relates to the words 'fluid' and 'fluence' due to its shared origin from the Latin word 'fluere', meaning 'to flow'. |
| Greek | In ancient Greek, "ροή" also meant "stream of thought" or "discourse." |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "પ્રવાહ" (flow) is linguistically related to the Sanskrit verb "प्रवहति" (move forward) that can be decomposed onto the following morphemes: "pra-" (forward) and "vah" (to move). |
| Haitian Creole | The word 'koule' also means 'ball' or 'bowl' in Haitian Creole, reflecting its association with round or flowing shapes. |
| Hausa | "Kwarara" also means "to move (in waves)" or "to be unsteady" in Hausa. |
| Hawaiian | In Hawaiian, "kahe" can also mean "a place of running water" or "to leak." |
| Hebrew | "זְרִימָה" is derived from "זְרַם" ("stream") and is related to "זר" ("strange"), which suggests movement or change. |
| Hindi | The Hindi word "बहे" is a homonym that also refers to the verb "to blow" |
| Hmong | In addition to its literal meaning, "ntws" can also figuratively refer to the flow of time, money, or emotions. |
| Hungarian | "Folyam" means "stream" in Hungarian, but it also has other meanings, such as "process" or "course". |
| Icelandic | The word "flæði" can also refer to the rate of flow or the amount of something flowing in a given time period. |
| Igbo | The Igbo word "igba" also signifies "a measure of quantity" (especially of liquids), "time", or "a particular period of time in the course of a day", depending on the context. |
| Indonesian | "Mengalir" is related to "alir" (stream), "ulir" (thread), "gelora" (waves). |
| Irish | The Gaelic word "sreabhadh" is also the name of the plant known as "meadow sweet". |
| Italian | The Italian word "flusso" also refers to discharge or flux in medicine and physics. |
| Japanese | フロー can also refer to an assembly process or the way a computer processes data. |
| Javanese | The word "mili" in Javanese can also refer to a "stream" or "small river." |
| Kannada | "ಹರಿವು" means "flow" in Kannada, but it also refers to a "river", "current", or "stream." |
| Kazakh | Ағын is a derivative of the verb ағу, meaning “to flow,” “to run,” or “to be poured,” and it can also refer to a liquid substance itself. |
| Khmer | លំហូរ (flow) also means 'a period of time' and can be used to refer to the changing of epochs or eras. |
| Korean | "흐름" could also mean "trend" or "direction" depending on the context. |
| Kurdish | The word "herrikîn" is also used in Kurdish to describe "a flowing river" or "a rushing stream" |
| Kyrgyz | The word "агым" can also refer to the flow of information, time, or money. |
| Lao | The word ໄຫຼ can also mean "melt", "leak", or "slide" in Lao. |
| Latin | Despite its origin meaning "flow," "influunt" also denotes "entering a place" or "pouring." |
| Latvian | Plūsma is cognate with the Sanskrit word "pluṣṇa" meaning "plenty" or "abundance". |
| Lithuanian | "Tekėti" also means "to marry" in Lithuanian |
| Luxembourgish | The verb "fléissen" derives from the Indo-European root *sreu-, meaning "to flow, to run." |
| Macedonian | In some regions of Macedonia, the word "проток" is also used to refer to a "channel" or "duct". |
| Malagasy | The word "mikoriana" also means "to flow" or "to run" in Malagasy. |
| Malay | The Malay word "aliran" comes from the Sanskrit word "srati" and also means "sect" or "stream of thought". |
| Malayalam | In Malayalam, "ഒഴുക്ക്" not only refers to "flow" but also denotes "a way of doing things" or "custom" |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "fluss" is derived from the Latin "fluxus" and also means "pus" in medical contexts. |
| Maori | Rere also means to fall, and as a noun it can refer to a waterfall or rapids. |
| Marathi | "प्रवाह" also means "series" or "succession" in Marathi. |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word "урсгал" can also have the metaphorical meaning of "progress" or "course of development". |
| Nepali | The word प्रवाह also means "abundance" or "profusion" in Nepali. |
| Norwegian | "Strømme" also means "to stream", a sense of the word which has become archaic in English, but persists in other Germanic languages like German "strömen". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | In addition to its primary meaning of 'flow', 'kuyenda' also means 'to go' or 'to travel' in Nyanja. |
| Pashto | In Pashto, the word "جریان" can also refer to a "stream of thought" or "course of events". |
| Persian | "جریان" can also mean "a group of people", "a trend", "electricity", or "a stream of consciousness" in Persian. |
| Polish | The word "pływ" in Polish also means "tide". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "fluxo" in Portuguese can also mean "flux" or "discharge". |
| Punjabi | "ਵਹਾਅ" (flow) also has other meanings such as "movement" and "rhythm". |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "curgere" originates from the Latin verb "currere", meaning "to run" or "to flow", and shares its etymology with the English word "current". |
| Russian | "Течь" (flow) comes from Proto-Slavic "*tekti" (to run, to flow), related to "*tek" (to run). Compare Latin "fugere" (to flee) and Sanskrit "srajati" (to flow). |
| Samoan | Tafe can also refer to the act of flowing, or a continuous stream. |
| Scots Gaelic | The word 'sruthadh' in Scots Gaelic also refers to a stream or current of water. |
| Serbian | The word "проток" can also refer to a "strait" or a "channel". |
| Sesotho | The word "phalla" can also mean "to leak" or "to run" in Sesotho. |
| Shona | "Kuyera" also means "to swim," or "to cause something to flow". |
| Sindhi | "وهڪرو" can also mean "a stream", "a current", or "a flow of water". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "ගලනවා" also means "to melt", "to leak", or "to drip" in Sinhala. |
| Slovak | The word "tok" used to only refer to the flow of a liquid, but later usage generalized the meaning to any kind of flow. |
| Slovenian | The word "pretok" in Slovenian is derived from the Proto-Slavic word "*prĕtokъ", which means "water current" or "stream". |
| Somali | Somali word "qulqulaya" also means "to be in a state of confusion or disarray." |
| Spanish | The Spanish word "fluir" derives from the Latin "fluere," meaning "to flow," and also can mean "to be fluent" or "to emanate." |
| Sundanese | "Ngalir" can also mean "to speak fluently" or "to be fluent in a language". |
| Swahili | The word 'mtiririko' has meanings of 'flow' as well as 'circulation' and 'course'. |
| Swedish | Swedish word "flöde", meaning flow, also refers to the "flood" as a river or body of water overflowing and submerging surrounding areas. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The Tagalog word "dumaloy" also means "to run" or "to spread". |
| Tajik | The Tajik word "ҷараён" (flow) originates from the Persian word "جریان" and is also used as a term in physics and mathematics. |
| Tamil | The word 'ஓட்டம்' (flow) in Tamil can also refer to the act of running or the running of a vehicle. |
| Telugu | 'ప్రవాహం' also means 'current' in an electric circuit or 'stream' in a computer program. |
| Thai | The word "ไหล" can also mean "sloped" or "incline". Its original form comes from the Pali word "velā" which means "time". |
| Turkish | The word "akış" in Turkish also means "broadcasting" or "streaming". |
| Ukrainian | The word "потік" can also refer to a "stream" or "current" in Ukrainian. |
| Urdu | The word 'بہاؤ' is derived from the Persian word 'بہ' or the Arabic word 'باء,' meaning 'with' or 'by.' |
| Uzbek | In some contexts, "oqim" can also refer to a current, stream, or flood. |
| Vietnamese | "Lưu lượng" is a Sino-Vietnamese word, originally meaning "the number of people" or "the volume of water". |
| Welsh | Llif derives from the Proto-Celtic word *leykw-, meaning 'melt' or 'flow', and is cognate with the English word 'liquid'. |
| Xhosa | 'Ukuhamba' also means 'to travel' and derives from the verb 'hamba', which means 'to go'. |
| Yiddish | "לויפן" comes from the German "laufen" or the Yiddish word "לויף" meaning "run". |
| Yoruba | Ṣàn also means "to fall down" and this is its primary meaning |
| Zulu | In Zulu, "ukugeleza" also means "to spread" or "to disperse." |
| English | "Flow" derives from the Old English term "flowan," meaning "to glide or move smoothly. |