Front in Different Languages
Discover 'Front' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Front
Afrikaans voor | ||
Albanian përpara | ||
Amharic ፊትለፊት | ||
Arabic أمامي | ||
Armenian ճակատային | ||
Assamese সন্মুখৰ | ||
Aymara para | ||
Azerbaijani ön | ||
Bambara ɲɛfɛla | ||
Basque aurrean | ||
Belarusian спераду | ||
Bengali সামনের | ||
Bhojpuri सामने | ||
Bosnian sprijeda | ||
Bulgarian отпред | ||
Catalan frontal | ||
Cebuano atubangan | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 面前 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 面前 | ||
Corsican fronte | ||
Croatian ispred | ||
Czech přední | ||
Danish foran | ||
Dhivehi ކުރިމަތި | ||
Dogri अगला | ||
Dutch voorkant | ||
English front | ||
Esperanto fronto | ||
Estonian ees | ||
Ewe ŋgɔ | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) harap | ||
Finnish edessä | ||
French de face | ||
Frisian front | ||
Galician diante | ||
Georgian წინა | ||
German vorderseite | ||
Greek εμπρός | ||
Guarani henondeguáva | ||
Gujarati આગળ | ||
Haitian Creole devan | ||
Hausa gaba | ||
Hawaiian alo | ||
Hebrew חֲזִית | ||
Hindi सामने | ||
Hmong sab xub ntiag | ||
Hungarian elülső | ||
Icelandic framan | ||
Igbo n'ihu | ||
Ilocano sango | ||
Indonesian depan | ||
Irish tosaigh | ||
Italian davanti | ||
Japanese 前面 | ||
Javanese ngarep | ||
Kannada ಮುಂಭಾಗ | ||
Kazakh алдыңғы | ||
Khmer មុខ | ||
Kinyarwanda imbere | ||
Konkani फुडें | ||
Korean 앞 | ||
Krio bifo | ||
Kurdish pêşde | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) پێشەوە | ||
Kyrgyz алдыңкы | ||
Lao ດ້ານ ໜ້າ | ||
Latin ante | ||
Latvian priekšā | ||
Lingala liboso | ||
Lithuanian priekyje | ||
Luganda mu maaso | ||
Luxembourgish viischt | ||
Macedonian напред | ||
Maithili सामने | ||
Malagasy anoloana | ||
Malay depan | ||
Malayalam മുൻവശത്ത് | ||
Maltese quddiem | ||
Maori tuhinga o mua | ||
Marathi समोर | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯃꯃꯥꯡ | ||
Mizo hma | ||
Mongolian урд | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ရှေ့ | ||
Nepali अगाडि | ||
Norwegian front | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kutsogolo | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଆଗ | ||
Oromo adda | ||
Pashto مخ | ||
Persian جلو | ||
Polish z przodu | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) frente | ||
Punjabi ਸਾਹਮਣੇ | ||
Quechua ñawpaq | ||
Romanian față | ||
Russian фронт | ||
Samoan i luma | ||
Sanskrit पुरतः | ||
Scots Gaelic aghaidh | ||
Sepedi ka pele | ||
Serbian предњи | ||
Sesotho ka pele | ||
Shona kumberi | ||
Sindhi اڳيان | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) ඉදිරිපස | ||
Slovak spredu | ||
Slovenian spredaj | ||
Somali hore | ||
Spanish frente | ||
Sundanese payuneun | ||
Swahili mbele | ||
Swedish främre | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) sa harap | ||
Tajik пеш | ||
Tamil முன் | ||
Tatar фронт | ||
Telugu ముందు | ||
Thai ด้านหน้า | ||
Tigrinya ቅድሚት | ||
Tsonga mahlweni | ||
Turkish ön | ||
Turkmen öň | ||
Twi (Akan) anim | ||
Ukrainian спереду | ||
Urdu سامنے | ||
Uyghur ئالدى | ||
Uzbek old | ||
Vietnamese trước mặt | ||
Welsh blaen | ||
Xhosa ngaphambili | ||
Yiddish פראָנט | ||
Yoruba iwaju | ||
Zulu ngaphambili |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | "Voor" is a Dutch word that means "in front of" or "before;" in Afrikaans, it means "front" (noun). |
| Albanian | In Albanian, "përpara" can also mean "before" in a temporal sense or "in front of" when used in a prepositional phrase. |
| Amharic | The word "ፊትለፊት" also means "opposite" or "facing each other" in Amharic. |
| Arabic | In some dialects of Arabic, "أمام" can also mean "in front of" or "before". |
| Armenian | The word also refers to a type of Armenian folk dance that is performed in a circle and accompanied by singing. |
| Azerbaijani | The Azerbaijani word "ön" also refers to the "first in order" in a group or queue. |
| Basque | The word "aurrean" literally means "in front of" or "facing" and is composed of the root "aurre" (front) and the suffix "-an" (in). |
| Belarusian | This word can also mean "early". |
| Bengali | The word "সামনের" comes from the Sanskrit word "pramukha" which means "first" or "foremost". |
| Bosnian | The word "sprijeda" derives from the Proto-Slavic "*peredъ", meaning "before". It can also refer to a direction or a specific location. |
| Bulgarian | "Отпред" is also a Bulgarian preposition meaning "in front of" or "before". |
| Catalan | In Catalan, "frontal" can also refer to a religious painting or carving that is placed on the front of an altar. |
| Cebuano | The Cebuano word "atubangan" also means "before" or "in front of" in the sense of time or order. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "面前" not only means "front", but also means "face" or "presence" in Chinese. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The original meaning of “面前” is to stand in front of the monarch, and the monarch sits and faces south. Therefore, “面前” refers to the direction in which the monarch faces, which is facing south. |
| Corsican | In Corsican, "fronte" can also refer to a forehead or a page. |
| Croatian | The word 'ispred', meaning 'in front', is also used in the phrase 'ispod ispred', which means 'in front and behind'. |
| Czech | The word "přední" also means "main" or "principal" in Czech. |
| Danish | The word "fore" is also used in Danish as "foran" to mean "in front of" or "before". |
| Dutch | "Voor" means "for" and "kant" means "edge". |
| Esperanto | "Fronto" is related to Latin "frons" meaning forehead. "Frunti" would have meant "face" but is unused. |
| Estonian | The word "ees" also means "face" in Estonian and is related to the Finnish word "etuosi", which means "forepart". |
| Finnish | "Edes" also means "before", and has the related adverb "edesmenneenä" which means "deceased". |
| French | In architecture, "de face" refers to the principal façade of a building, facing the street or main entrance. |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "froun" can also refer to a woman who is bold and shameless, or to the boldness or impudence that she displays. |
| Galician | In the Galician language, “diante” comes from the Latin de ante that means “from before”. |
| Georgian | წინა derives from Proto-Kartvelian *kwina, meaning both "before" and "first". |
| German | The word "Vorderseite" is derived from the Old High German "fordar" meaning "forward" and "sita" meaning "side". |
| Greek | The Greek word "εμπρός" can also refer to the direction "forward" or the state of being "ahead of" in a race or competition. |
| Gujarati | આગળ (āgaḷ) can also mean 'forward' or 'in advance' in Gujarati. |
| Haitian Creole | The Haitian Creole word "devan" can also mean "forward," "before," or "in the presence of." |
| Hausa | The Hausa word 'gaba' also means 'future', suggesting a conceptual link between the spatial and temporal dimensions in Hausa cognition. |
| Hawaiian | The Hawaiian word "alo" can also mean "face", "presence", or "countenance". |
| Hebrew | In Biblical Hebrew, the word “חֲזִית” (“front”) also meant “explanation.” |
| Hindi | "सामने" is also used to refer to "face" or "presence" in Hindi. |
| Hmong | The word "sab xub ntiag" literally means "front of the body" in Hmong. |
| Hungarian | Derived from the Proto-Uralic word *ele, meaning "in front". In Finnish, "elü" means "life". |
| Icelandic | The word "framan" also means "direction" or "progress" in Icelandic. |
| Igbo | N'ihu can also refer to the forehead, face or facade. |
| Indonesian | Depan is also used in Indonesian to denote "in the future", as in "di depan nanti" meaning "later on" or "in the future". |
| Irish | The word 'tosaigh' (front) is derived from the Irish word 'tosach' (beginning). |
| Italian | "Davanti" derives from Latin "de ab ante", meaning "in front of", and can denote physical position or proximity. |
| Japanese | Originally only used to describe the front of a building or ship. |
| Javanese | The Javanese word "ngarep" can also refer to the future, hope, or anticipation. |
| Kannada | The word "ಮುಂಭಾಗ" originates from the Proto-Dravidian word "*munda-", meaning "face" or "forehead". |
| Kazakh | "Алдыңғы" также может означать "лицевая сторона", "прежний". |
| Khmer | The Khmer word "មុខ" not only means "front" but also refers to "appearance" or "face." |
| Korean | "앞" can also mean "before" or "in advance" in Korean. |
| Kurdish | In Kurmanji Kurdish, "pêşde" can also refer to the face, forehead, or brow. |
| Kyrgyz | The word "алдыңкы" can also mean "advanced" or "progressive" in Kyrgyz. |
| Latin | In Latin, "ante" can also mean "before" in terms of time or place, or "in the presence of". |
| Latvian | The word "priekšā" also translates to "in front of" or "before". |
| Lithuanian | Priekyje in Lithuanian is also used figuratively to mean "at the forefront" or "in the lead". |
| Luxembourgish | The word "viischt" is derived from the Old High German word "wīsa", meaning "face" or "forehead". |
| Macedonian | The word "напред" can also be used to mean "forward" or "progress". |
| Malagasy | In the Malagasy language, "anoloana" is derived from the more general term "oloana" which means "face, surface". |
| Malay | Depan in Malay may derive from the Sanskrit word 'devan' meaning 'divine' or 'front', or from the Hokkien word 'toa piah' meaning 'big flat'. |
| Maltese | In Maltese 'quddiem' can also mean "opposite" and "before", i.e. earlier on. |
| Maori | The word "Tuhinga o mua" can also refer to the first page of a book or the first part of a story. |
| Marathi | The word 'समोर' also means 'opposite' or 'in front of' in Marathi. |
| Mongolian | Historically, "урд" was also used to refer to the "sun" or "east". |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The word “ရှေ့” also means "ahead" in the sense of time or order. |
| Nepali | अगाडि also means "forward" |
| Norwegian | The Norwegian word "front" can also mean "audacity" or "cheek" |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word 'kutsogolo' is also used to describe the future, as in the phrase 'kutsogolo kuli bwino', meaning 'the future is bright'. |
| Pashto | In Pashto, "مخ" means "front" but also "mind" or "thought". |
| Persian | The Persian word "جلو" (front) originally meant "the other side" or "the opposite direction", but later acquired its current meaning. |
| Polish | The word "z przodu" in Polish has a root in the Proto-Indo-European language, meaning "from the front". It can also be interpreted to indicate position (e.g. "in the front") or time (e.g. "at the beginning"). |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, "frente" also means "forehead" and can refer to the front part of a building or a line of people |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "față" can also mean "face", "surface", or "aspect". |
| Russian | The Russian word "фронт" can also refer to a weather front or a war front. |
| Samoan | The Samoan word “i luma” literally translates to “in front” and can also refer to the first-born member of a family. |
| Scots Gaelic | The word "aghaidh" can also mean "presence" or "sight" in Scots Gaelic. |
| Serbian | The word "предњи" also means "main", "chief", or "first" in Serbian. |
| Sesotho | The word "ka pele" is a locative phrase formed by the prefix "ka" and the infinitive "pele", meaning "to go forward" or "to lead". |
| Shona | "Kumberi" can also mean "forehead", and "kumhanya" which also means "forehead" is its equivalent in Manyika. |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "اڳيان" is also used to refer to the face or presence of someone or something. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "ඉදිරිපස" in Sinhala is derived from the Proto-Dravidian root *el-, meaning "to rise" or "to come forward". |
| Slovak | The word "spredu" also means "from the front" or "from the beginning" in Slovak. |
| Slovenian | The word "spredaj" derives from the Old Slavic word "peredъ", which also means "across" or "in front of". |
| Somali | "Hore" in Somali can also refer to the forehead. |
| Spanish | In 1375, "frente" meant "face" and then "forehead" in the 15th century before finally becoming the current usage of "front". |
| Sundanese | Payuneun (front) can also mean 'ahead' or 'uphill' in Sundanese. |
| Swahili | The word “mbele” also means “pregnancy”, and is cognate with “mbere” (pregnancy) in Kikuyu |
| Swedish | The word "främre" in Swedish shares an origin with the English words "foremost" and "front" and can also mean "forward" in space and time. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "sa harap" also means "in the presence of" or "before" in Tagalog. |
| Tajik | The word "пеш" can also mean "pawn" in chess, a person on foot, or the "first" part of something. |
| Tamil | Tamil 'முன்' ('front') is cognate with several Indo-European languages, such as English 'front', which comes Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-. |
| Telugu | In Telugu, "ముందు" (front) can also refer to the first part, or an earlier time. |
| Thai | The word "ด้านหน้า" can also refer to the "face" of a person or thing. |
| Turkish | In the 13th century, the word "ön" referred to "the first" and "the beginning". |
| Ukrainian | Ukrainian word “спереду” (“front”) is similar to Serbo-Croatian and Slovenian "sprijeda," "spredaj" and Bulgarian "отпред" which are cognate to "перед” (“before”) in Russian. |
| Urdu | The word "سامنے" in Urdu can also refer to "before" or "in the presence of". |
| Uzbek | In Uzbek, the word "old" can also refer to the eastern direction. |
| Vietnamese | The word "trước mặt" comes from the Old Vietnamese "truok mat," meaning "in front of one's eyes." |
| Welsh | Blaen can also be used to refer to the head of an individual, a river or valley. |
| Xhosa | In the context of a dance, 'ngaphambili' can also mean 'the lead dancer'. |
| Yiddish | פראָנט (front) has alternate meanings of 'cheeky' and 'impudent' in Yiddish. |
| Yoruba | The word 'iwaju' can also refer to 'progress' or 'the future' in Yoruba. |
| Zulu | The Zulu word "ngaphambili" holds multiple meanings, from "in front" to "the first or foremost." |
| English | The word "front" derives from the Old French word "front," meaning "forehead" or "brow." |