Forth in Different Languages
Discover 'Forth' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Forth
Afrikaans vorentoe | ||
Albanian me radhë | ||
Amharic ወደ ፊት | ||
Arabic إيابا | ||
Armenian չորրորդ | ||
Assamese আগলৈ | ||
Aymara ukatsti | ||
Azerbaijani irəli | ||
Bambara ka taa ɲɛfɛ | ||
Basque aurrera | ||
Belarusian наперад | ||
Bengali সামনে | ||
Bhojpuri आगे के बात बा | ||
Bosnian naprijed | ||
Bulgarian напред | ||
Catalan endavant | ||
Cebuano sa unahan | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 向前 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 向前 | ||
Corsican avanti | ||
Croatian dalje | ||
Czech dále | ||
Danish frem | ||
Dhivehi ކުރިއަށް | ||
Dogri आगे | ||
Dutch vooruit | ||
English forth | ||
Esperanto antaŭen | ||
Estonian edasi | ||
Ewe do ŋgɔ | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) pasulong | ||
Finnish eteenpäin | ||
French en avant | ||
Frisian foarút | ||
Galician adiante | ||
Georgian მეოთხე | ||
German her | ||
Greek εμπρός | ||
Guarani tenonde gotyo | ||
Gujarati આગળ | ||
Haitian Creole soti | ||
Hausa fita | ||
Hawaiian hele aku | ||
Hebrew הָלְאָה | ||
Hindi आगे | ||
Hmong tawm | ||
Hungarian tovább | ||
Icelandic fram | ||
Igbo pụta | ||
Ilocano agpasango | ||
Indonesian sebagainya | ||
Irish amach | ||
Italian via | ||
Japanese 前方へ | ||
Javanese maju | ||
Kannada ಮುಂದಕ್ಕೆ | ||
Kazakh төртінші | ||
Khmer ចេញ | ||
Kinyarwanda hanze | ||
Konkani फुडें | ||
Korean 앞으로 | ||
Krio fɔ go bifo | ||
Kurdish pêşîn | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) بۆ پێشەوە | ||
Kyrgyz алдыга | ||
Lao ອອກ | ||
Latin fructum | ||
Latvian tālāk | ||
Lingala liboso | ||
Lithuanian pirmyn | ||
Luganda okugenda mu maaso | ||
Luxembourgish vir | ||
Macedonian четврт | ||
Maithili आगू | ||
Malagasy mivoaka | ||
Malay sebagainya | ||
Malayalam പുറത്തേക്ക് | ||
Maltese raba ' | ||
Maori i mua | ||
Marathi पुढे | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯃꯈꯥ ꯆꯠꯊꯔꯤ꯫ | ||
Mizo forth a ni | ||
Mongolian урагш | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ထွက် | ||
Nepali अगाडि | ||
Norwegian fremover | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kunja | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଆଗକୁ | ||
Oromo fuulduratti | ||
Pashto مخکی | ||
Persian چهارم | ||
Polish naprzód | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) adiante | ||
Punjabi ਅੱਗੇ | ||
Quechua ñawpaqman | ||
Romanian mai departe | ||
Russian вперед | ||
Samoan i luma | ||
Sanskrit अग्रे | ||
Scots Gaelic a-mach | ||
Sepedi go ya pele | ||
Serbian напред | ||
Sesotho tsoa | ||
Shona mberi | ||
Sindhi اڳتي | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) ඉදිරියට | ||
Slovak ďalej | ||
Slovenian naprej | ||
Somali soo baxay | ||
Spanish adelante | ||
Sundanese mudik | ||
Swahili nje | ||
Swedish vidare | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) pasulong | ||
Tajik пеш | ||
Tamil முன்னால் | ||
Tatar алга | ||
Telugu ముందుకు | ||
Thai ออกมา | ||
Tigrinya ንቕድሚት ይኸይድ | ||
Tsonga ku ya emahlweni | ||
Turkish ileri | ||
Turkmen öňe | ||
Twi (Akan) anim | ||
Ukrainian вперед | ||
Urdu آگے | ||
Uyghur out | ||
Uzbek oldinga | ||
Vietnamese ra ngoài | ||
Welsh allan | ||
Xhosa phambili | ||
Yiddish אַרויס | ||
Yoruba siwaju | ||
Zulu phambili |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "vorentoe" can also refer to a foreword, like in a book or academic publication. |
| Albanian | In Albanian, the etymology of "me radhë" ("forth") remains unclear, but it is possibly related to the words "rradh" ("row") or "radhitë" ("sequence"). |
| Amharic | In Amharic ወደ ፊት can also mean "to the east" or "forward". |
| Arabic | 'إيابا' (forth) can also mean 'returning' or 'coming back'. |
| Armenian | The Armenian word "չորրորդ" (forth) is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root "*kʷetwórtós". It is related to the English word "fourth" and the Latin word "quartus". |
| Azerbaijani | The word "irəli" in Azerbaijani also means "progress" or "improvement". |
| Basque | "Aurrera" is related to "aur" (step) and "urre" (distant future), and also means "future," "front," and "forward."} |
| Belarusian | This word, which originally had the meaning of a directional prefix, has been reanalyzed synchronically and used as an independent adverb with a range of grammatical functions. |
| Bengali | The word "সামনে" can also mean "at the front" or "in front of" in Bengali. |
| Bosnian | The word 'naprijed' can also mean 'forward' or 'ahead'. |
| Bulgarian | The word "напред" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *napredъ, which also means "forward" or "in front of." |
| Catalan | Catalan "endavant" is also an interjection meaning "let's go" or "charge ahead" and originates from the verb "anar" meaning "to go" and "endavant" meaning "forward". |
| Cebuano | The Cebuano word "sa unahan" can also mean "in front" or "ahead". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "向前" can also mean "to move forward" or "to progress". |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 向前 in Chinese Traditional also has the alternate meanings: to the future, onwards, and to go ahead. |
| Corsican | The word "avanti" in Corsican is also used in a figurative sense, meaning "to make progress" or "to move forward." |
| Croatian | "Dalje" in Croatian also means "further". |
| Czech | The Czech word "dále" can also mean "next" or "farther". |
| Danish | The word "frem" can also mean "forward" or "ahead" in Danish. |
| Dutch | In Dutch, "vooruit" can also mean "progress" or "advancement". |
| Esperanto | The word "antaŭen" in Esperanto can also mean "forward" or "ahead". |
| Estonian | "Edasi" also means "forward, ahead, or onward" in English. |
| Finnish | The word 'eteenpäin' ('forth') has its roots in the Proto-Finnic word 'etteen', which means 'towards the front' or 'in front'. |
| French | En avant used to mean "against" as in "en avant contre l'Angleterre" which later came to mean "forth against England". |
| Frisian | "Foarút" can also be an adverb, meaning "ahead" or "forward". |
| Galician | In Portuguese this term can also refer to a kind of fern with the same appearance as Galician "adiante". |
| Georgian | მეოთხე (forth) is also an archaic term for "four" in Georgian. |
| German | In German, "her" can also mean "here" or "over here". |
| Greek | The word 'εμπρός' also means 'forward', 'onward' and 'in front' |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word 'આગળ' not only means 'forward' but also has the meaning of something that comes before something else in time, space, or order. |
| Haitian Creole | The word "soti" in Haitian Creole also means "since" or "from". |
| Hausa | Fita is also related to the word "fitowa" which means coming out, or the emergence of something. |
| Hawaiian | In Hawaiian, the word 'hele aku' also means 'to go away' or 'to depart'. |
| Hebrew | הָלְאָה is cognate with the Akkadian word “halálu”, meaning “forward” or “away”. |
| Hindi | "आगे" can also mean "in front" or "in the future". |
| Hmong | The word "tawm" can also mean "up" or "high" in Hmong. |
| Hungarian | In Hungarian, 'tovább' also means 'further, more, in addition, next, on' and is related to 'tovan' ('to move forward'). |
| Icelandic | Fram also means "from" in Old English, a meaning which survives in the phrase "from time to time." |
| Igbo | The Igbo word "pụta" also means "to come out of hiding" or "to emerge from obscurity." |
| Indonesian | The Indonesian word "sebagainya" can also be used to mean "the like" or "and so on". |
| Irish | Amacha is also used as a place name, for example Amacha Mountains in Co. Down. |
| Italian | 'Via' also means 'street' or 'road' in Italian, ultimately deriving from the Latin word 'via' meaning 'way'. |
| Japanese | "前方へ" may have originated from the word "さき" meaning "front", with the suffix "がた" added to express the idea of direction. |
| Javanese | The Javanese word 'maju' also means 'to progress' or 'to move forward', indicating its metaphorical connection to spatial movement. |
| Kannada | The word ಮುಂದಕ್ಕೆ (forth) in Kannada is derived from the Sanskrit word "मूर्ति" meaning "form" and refers to the "forward direction" in space or figuratively in time. |
| Kazakh | In mathematics, "төртінші" (forth) refers to the "fourth" in an ordered sequence. |
| Khmer | The Khmer word ចេញ ("forth") can also refer to departure, output, or emergence. |
| Korean | The word "앞으로" can also be used to mean "in the future" or "from now on". |
| Kurdish | The word "pêşîn" can also mean "before" or "in advance" in Kurdish. |
| Kyrgyz | The word 'алдыга' ('forth') in Kyrgyz is probably a derivation from the root 'ал-' meaning 'to take'. |
| Lao | The Lao word ອອກ (forth) comes from the Mon word ออก meaning 'to go out' |
| Latin | The word 'fructum' in Latin can also mean 'fruit', 'enjoyment', or 'reward'. |
| Latvian | Latvian "tālāk" is cognate with Old Norse "þegar" meaning "immediately, forthwith". |
| Lithuanian | The word "pirmyn" is derived from the Proto-Baltic root *per- which also means "first". |
| Luxembourgish | The word "vir" in Luxembourgish comes from the Proto-Germanic word "*wer", meaning "man" or "husband." |
| Macedonian | In Macedonian, "четврт" also means "a quarter" in the sense of a measurement of area or time. |
| Malagasy | The word "mivoaka" can also mean "to go out" or "to leave" in Malagasy. |
| Malay | "Sebagainya" is also used in Malay to indicate other similar things or actions. |
| Malayalam | പുറത്തേക്ക് "outside" in Malayalam is derived from the Proto-Dravidian word *puta, meaning "out". It also commonly means "away" or "out of the way", or can be used to direct someone to go outside. |
| Maltese | "Raba'" also means "towards" in Arabic, from which the word is directly borrowed. |
| Maori | The Maori word "i mua" can also mean "forward" or "in front," and is related to the Hawaiian word "i mua," which means "ahead" or "in the lead." |
| Marathi | "पुढे" (forth) originates from the Proto-Indo-European root "*preh₂-", meaning "in front" or "ahead." |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word "урагш" ("forth") is derived from the Middle Mongolian word "uraq" ("forward"), which in turn was derived from the Proto-Mongolic word *ura-* ("in front"). |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The word "ထွက်" can also mean "to be born," "to go out," or "to come out." |
| Nepali | "अगाडि" also means the first place in a race or competition. |
| Norwegian | The Old Norse origin of "frem" "frammi" likely gives its modern English counterpart "from". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "kunja" can also mean "to go out" or "to depart". |
| Pashto | Although "مخکی" primarily means "forth", it can also refer to "beyond" or "moreover" in Pashto. |
| Persian | The word "چهارم" ("forth") in Persian is derived from the Old Persian word "*čathwar-", which also means "four". |
| Polish | The word "naprzód" can also mean "forward" or "onward" in Polish. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "adiante" in Portuguese derives from the Latin word "ad ante", meaning "to the front". |
| Punjabi | The Punjabi word "ਅੱਗੇ" can also mean "forward" or "in front of". |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "mai departe" can also mean "further away", "moreover", or "in addition". |
| Russian | "Вперед" (forth) is also used as a military command in Russian meaning "Charge!" |
| Samoan | "I luma" can also mean "first time" (as in "he did it for the first time"). |
| Scots Gaelic | "a-mach" can mean "forth," "out," "abroad," or "away." |
| Serbian | The word "напред" can also mean "forward," "onward," or "ahead." |
| Sesotho | The word "tsoa" also has a meaning of "to come out" and "to go forth". |
| Shona | Mberi may also mean 'front', 'up front' or 'ahead'. |
| Sindhi | The word "اڳتي" in Sindhi also means "forward" or "in the future". |
| Slovak | The word "ďalej" also means "further" or "onwards" in Slovak. |
| Slovenian | The prefix 'na' can also mean 'onto' or 'up', which is why 'naprej' can also mean 'forward' or 'upwards'. |
| Somali | In the phrase 'soo baxay', 'soo' means 'forward' and 'baxay' means 'went' or 'came out', conveying a sense of motion towards the speaker or the observer. |
| Spanish | In Spanish, 'adelante' also means 'goodbye' and is used to show support for a person or cause. |
| Sundanese | Sundanese "mudik" means both "forth" and "homeward," depending on the context. |
| Swahili | The Swahili word "nje" can also mean "outside" or "abroad". |
| Swedish | Vidare can also refer to 'in addition', 'moreover', or 'besides'. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | Derived from the Proto-Austronesian word *pasuŋ "up" that also appears in other Philippine languages. |
| Tajik | The Tajik word "пеш" ("forth") is also used to mean "forward" and "ahead". |
| Tamil | The word "முன்னால்" can also mean "in front of" or "before". |
| Telugu | The Telugu word "ముందుకు" also means "forward" or "in front" and is related to the Sanskrit word "pura" (before) and the Latin word "primum" (first). |
| Thai | The Thai word "ออกมา" can also mean "to exit," "to appear," or "to be born." |
| Turkish | "İleri" kelimesi Türkçede "geç," "ileri," "ilerici" anlamlarına gelir. |
| Ukrainian | The word "вперед" can also mean "forward" in the sense of "moving ahead" or "progressing." |
| Urdu | "آگے" can also mean "ahead" or "in front of". |
| Uzbek | The Uzbek word "oldinga" also means "forward" or "ahead". |
| Vietnamese | The word ra ngoài also means “to come out” |
| Welsh | The word "allan" in Welsh also means "out" and can refer to a person's disposition or appearance. |
| Xhosa | In Zulu, it can refer to a 'forward leap' ('phambili phambili') |
| Yiddish | In the Bible, the word "אַרויס" can mean "from" or "after". |
| Yoruba | Siwaju can also mean 'further' or 'to the east'. |
| Zulu | According to the IsiZulu.net dictionary, "phambili" is also a Zulu word for "forward". |
| English | The word forth can also refer to a position or point in front or onward. |