Afrikaans innerlike | ||
Albanian e brendshme | ||
Amharic ውስጣዊ | ||
Arabic داخلي | ||
Armenian ներքին | ||
Assamese ভিতৰৰ | ||
Aymara manqhanxa | ||
Azerbaijani daxili | ||
Bambara kɔnɔna na | ||
Basque barrukoa | ||
Belarusian унутраны | ||
Bengali অভ্যন্তরীণ | ||
Bhojpuri भीतर के बा | ||
Bosnian unutrašnji | ||
Bulgarian атрешна | ||
Catalan interior | ||
Cebuano sulud | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 内 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 內 | ||
Corsican internu | ||
Croatian unutarnji | ||
Czech vnitřní | ||
Danish indre | ||
Dhivehi އެތެރޭގައެވެ | ||
Dogri अंदरूनी | ||
Dutch innerlijk | ||
English inner | ||
Esperanto interna | ||
Estonian sisemine | ||
Ewe ememetɔ | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) panloob | ||
Finnish sisäinen | ||
French interne | ||
Frisian inerlik | ||
Galician interior | ||
Georgian შინაგანი | ||
German innere | ||
Greek εσωτερικός | ||
Guarani hyepypegua | ||
Gujarati આંતરિક | ||
Haitian Creole enteryè | ||
Hausa na ciki | ||
Hawaiian loko | ||
Hebrew פְּנִימִי | ||
Hindi भीतरी | ||
Hmong sab hauv | ||
Hungarian belső | ||
Icelandic innri | ||
Igbo n'ime | ||
Ilocano makin-uneg | ||
Indonesian batin | ||
Irish istigh | ||
Italian interno | ||
Japanese 内側 | ||
Javanese batin | ||
Kannada ಆಂತರಿಕ | ||
Kazakh ішкі | ||
Khmer ខាងក្នុង | ||
Kinyarwanda imbere | ||
Konkani भितरलें | ||
Korean 안의 | ||
Krio insay | ||
Kurdish navî | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) ناوەوە | ||
Kyrgyz ички | ||
Lao ພາຍໃນ | ||
Latin interiorem | ||
Latvian iekšējais | ||
Lingala ya kati | ||
Lithuanian vidinis | ||
Luganda munda | ||
Luxembourgish bannenzeg | ||
Macedonian внатрешен | ||
Maithili भीतर के | ||
Malagasy anaty | ||
Malay dalaman | ||
Malayalam ആന്തരികം | ||
Maltese ġewwa | ||
Maori roto | ||
Marathi आतील | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯅꯨꯡꯒꯤ ꯑꯣꯏꯕꯥ꯫ | ||
Mizo chhungril lam | ||
Mongolian дотоод | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အတွင်းပိုင်း | ||
Nepali भित्री | ||
Norwegian indre | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) mkati | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଭିତର | ||
Oromo keessaa | ||
Pashto داخلي | ||
Persian درونی | ||
Polish wewnętrzny | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) interior | ||
Punjabi ਅੰਦਰੂਨੀ | ||
Quechua ukhu | ||
Romanian interior | ||
Russian внутренний | ||
Samoan totonu | ||
Sanskrit अन्तः | ||
Scots Gaelic a-staigh | ||
Sepedi ka gare | ||
Serbian унутрашњи | ||
Sesotho ka hare | ||
Shona mukati | ||
Sindhi اندريون | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) අභ්යන්තර | ||
Slovak vnútorné | ||
Slovenian notranje | ||
Somali gudaha ah | ||
Spanish interior | ||
Sundanese batin | ||
Swahili ndani | ||
Swedish inre | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) panloob | ||
Tajik ботинӣ | ||
Tamil உள் | ||
Tatar эчке | ||
Telugu లోపలి | ||
Thai ด้านใน | ||
Tigrinya ውሽጣዊ | ||
Tsonga swa le ndzeni | ||
Turkish iç | ||
Turkmen içki | ||
Twi (Akan) emu | ||
Ukrainian внутрішній | ||
Urdu اندرونی | ||
Uyghur ئىچكى | ||
Uzbek ichki | ||
Vietnamese bên trong | ||
Welsh mewnol | ||
Xhosa ngaphakathi | ||
Yiddish ינער | ||
Yoruba akojọpọ | ||
Zulu kwangaphakathi |
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | In Afrikaans, |
| Albanian | The word "e brendshme" comes from Proto-Albanian "*mbre" and originally meant "heart." |
| Amharic | The word ውስጣዊ "inner" can also mean "internal" or "intrinsic" in Amharic. |
| Arabic | The Arabic word 'داخلي' can also refer to 'domestic' or 'interior'. |
| Armenian | The word "ներքին" can also refer to the "inside" of something or to someone's "inner self". |
| Azerbaijani | The word "daxili" is also used to refer to domestic or internal matters, distinguishing it from "xarici" (external or international). |
| Basque | "Barrukoa" can also mean "stomach" or "conscience" in Basque. |
| Belarusian | "Унутраны" is a cognate of "внутренний" in Russian and "wewnętrzny" in Polish, both meaning "internal". |
| Bengali | "অভ্যন্তরীণ" can also mean "private"} |
| Bosnian | The word “unutrašnji” is a Slavic root that also appears in the Croatian and Serbian languages. |
| Bulgarian | Bulgarian "атрешна" derives from Old Bulgarian "вътрешьнъ" ("internal, inner") and is related to the word "вътрѣ" ("inside"). |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "interior" has an alternate meaning of "interior of a country or region". |
| Cebuano | "Sulud" can also mean "to enter" or "contents". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The Chinese character "内" can also mean "inside", "interior", or "within". |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 內 (內) refers to the heart-mind (心), meaning inner emotions and thinking. |
| Corsican | The word "internu" in Corsican also means "interior" or "internal". |
| Croatian | 'Unutarnji' is also an archaic word for 'intestines'. |
| Czech | "Vnitřní" can also mean "constipation" or "an entrail" in some contexts. |
| Danish | The word "indre" in Danish also refers to the part of a country or region that is far from the coast or border. |
| Dutch | The word "innerlijk" in Dutch can also mean "inner self" or "conscience". |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word "interna" comes from the Latin word "internus", meaning "inner" or "within". |
| Estonian | The word "sisemine" in Estonian is derived from the Proto-Finnic word "*sise" meaning "stomach" or "womb". |
| Finnish | The word "sisäinen" can also refer to "relating to the sixth sense or intuition" and "relating to the mind or feelings, rather than the body." |
| French | The French word "interne" can also refer to a "medical resident" or "hospital physician during residency." |
| Frisian | The word "inerlik" also means "inside" in Frisian. |
| Galician | In architecture, the term "interior" in Galician refers to the inside of a building or space and encompasses all its elements, such as walls, ceilings, floors, and furnishings. |
| Georgian | The Georgian word "შინაგანი" can also refer to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia. |
| German | The German word "innere" can also refer to the "internal organs" or "guts". |
| Greek | The word 'εσωτερικός' can also mean 'internal', 'intrinsic', or 'inherent'. |
| Gujarati | "આંતરિક" can refer to "inner" or "internal", but can also refer to something that is "inner" in the sense of being intimate or personal, as in "personal space" or "private thoughts". |
| Haitian Creole | In Haitian Creole, "enteryè" also means "intimate, personal" or "essence." |
| Hawaiian | Loko also means 'brain' in Hawaiian, suggesting a connection between our inner selves and our thoughts. |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "פְּנִימִי" (inner) is also used to refer to "internal" and "personal" matters. |
| Hindi | The word "भीतरी" (inner) is derived from the Sanskrit word "भी" (to fear), suggesting a sense of protection and safety within. |
| Hmong | "Sab hauv" can also refer to a person's thoughts, feelings, or intentions. |
| Hungarian | Besides meaning "inner", the word "belső" can also mean "internal" in the sense of "internal combustion engine" or the medical "internal organs." |
| Icelandic | Although "innri" translates to "inner" in English, it can also mean "very" or "excessively" in the context of a person's character. |
| Igbo | The word "n'ime" also means "among" or "within" in Igbo. |
| Indonesian | According to some etymologists, "batin" came from the Arabic word "bāthin" (باطن), which means "hidden" or "internal part of something. |
| Irish | The word "istigh" is cognate with the Scottish Gaelic word "isteach", which means "into" or "inside". |
| Italian | "Interno" in Italian can also refer to a medical resident or a boarding school student. |
| Japanese | The character "内" can also be used to mean "intestines, stomach, guts, inside organs" or "interior, inside," while the character "側" primarily means "side" or "direction". |
| Javanese | Batin, an Indonesian word that means "inner", also refers to spiritual or mystical knowledge in Javanese tradition. |
| Kannada | The word "ಆಂತರಿಕ" (inner) in Kannada also refers to the intimate or personal aspects of something. |
| Kazakh | The word "ішкі" can also mean "domestic" or "internal" in Kazakh. |
| Khmer | The term "ខាងក្នុង" can also refer to the interior of a building or the contents of a container. |
| Korean | "안의(anui)" in Korean literally means inside, but in Buddhist terms, it can also mean the mind. |
| Kurdish | The word "navî" in Kurdish is cognate with the word "nabh" in Arabic, meaning "heart" or "innermost being". |
| Kyrgyz | The word "ички" also refers to the "inner part" of a yurt, the traditional dwelling of Kyrgyz nomads. |
| Lao | The word "ພາຍໃນ" can also refer to the inside of a building or a container. |
| Latin | The word 'interiorem' in Latin can also refer to 'inland', 'the country', or something 'hidden' or 'secret'. |
| Latvian | The word "iekšējais" can also be used to describe something that is internal or subjective. |
| Lithuanian | "Vidinis" in Lithuanian can also mean "internal" or "intrinsic." |
| Luxembourgish | The word "bannenzeg" is derived from the Germanic word "binnan", meaning "within". |
| Macedonian | The word "внатрешен" can also be used to describe something that is inherent or essential. |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "anaty" also means "center" or "middle". |
| Malay | Dalaman also refers to the innermost part of a fruit or vegetable. |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "ġewwa" can also mean "within", "inside", or "into". |
| Maori | The Maori word "roto" not only means "inner" but also "inside" or "within". |
| Marathi | "आतील" is a Marathi word and its equivalent word is "inner". It can also be used as an adverb like in the sentence "मी घरी आतील आलो" ( " I have just returned home"). |
| Mongolian | The word 'дотоод' (inner) is a derivative of the verb 'дотох' (to enter), suggesting an action or process of getting inside. |
| Nepali | The word भित्री (inner) is sometimes used in Nepali to refer to secret or hidden compartments within a house. |
| Norwegian | The word "indre" comes from the Old Norse word "inni", meaning "within". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | "Mkati" in Nyanja can also mean "inside" or "within". |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "داخلي" can also mean "internal" or "domestic." |
| Persian | The Persian word "درونی" (inner) is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *der-, meaning "firm", "strong", or "solid". |
| Polish | The word "wewnętrzny" derives from the Proto-Slavic word *vъntrę, meaning "inside" or "interior." |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, "interior" can also refer to the countryside as opposed to the city. |
| Punjabi | "ਅੰਦਰੂਨੀ" (inner) comes from the Sanskrit "antar" meaning "within". Originally it referred to the internal organs, then to a room within a house and later to the inner world of the mind or soul. |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "interior" also means "domestic" or "inside a building." |
| Russian | The word 'внутренний' is derived from the Proto-Slavic word '*vьnьtrьnii', which originally meant 'inside' or 'within'. |
| Samoan | The word "totonu" can also refer to the innermost part of something, such as the core of a fruit or the center of a circle. |
| Scots Gaelic | The etymological root of "a-staigh" is Old Irish "i-sétaige," meaning "in a house" or "innermost". |
| Serbian | The word 'унутрашњи' is a cognate of the Russian word 'внутренний', which comes from the Proto-Slavic root *vъntorъ, meaning 'inside' or 'interior'. |
| Sesotho | The word 'ka hare' also refers to a private or secret place or a safe haven. |
| Shona | Mukati (inner) also refers to the internal part of something like a tree or plant |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "اندريون" can also refer to the interior of a building or a room. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | "අභ්යන්තර" can refer to both the physical interior and the abstract internal side of something. |
| Slovak | "Vnútorné" in Slovak can also refer to the spiritual, emotional, or psychological aspects of something. |
| Slovenian | The word "notranje" comes from the Proto-Slavic word *vъnътrъ, which also means "inner" or "inside". |
| Somali | The term gudaha ah can refer to both an internal or hidden thing and also the heart or mind of a person. |
| Spanish | The Spanish word "interior" originates from the Latin word "inter" meaning "between" or "within" and is often used to describe something that is located within or inside something else. |
| Sundanese | The word "batin" in Sundanese also refers to the internal organs, the mind, or the heart. |
| Swahili | The word "ndani" in Swahili also means "inside" or "within", and is related to the word "nda" meaning "inside" or "interior".} |
| Swedish | The word for 'inre' in Swedish also means 'internal', 'personal', or 'hidden'. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The Tagalog word "panloob" can also mean "interior" or "home". |
| Tajik | The word ботинӣ can also mean "boots" in Tajik. |
| Tamil | The Tamil word "உள்" (inner) also refers to the inside of a fruit, a person's heart, or the depths of the ocean indicating its diverse connotations. |
| Telugu | The word "లోపలి" has alternate meanings such as "internal" and "hidden". It can also refer to "the inside" of something or "the interior" of a space. |
| Thai | Thai word "ด้านใน" also means "the inside" and "the interior". |
| Turkish | Some linguists speculate that the Turkish word "iç" ultimately derives from the Proto-Turkic word for "heart" |
| Ukrainian | The word "внутрішній" comes from the Old Church Slavonic word "вънтрьнiи", which means "inner" or "internal". |
| Urdu | 'اندرونی' can be traced back to ancient Sanskrit word 'अन्तर' (antar), meaning 'inside' or 'within'. |
| Uzbek | The word "ichki" can also refer to the inside of something or the inner part of a group. |
| Vietnamese | The word "bên trong" can also mean "inside" or "interior". |
| Welsh | "Mewnol" can also mean "secret" or "intimate". |
| Xhosa | Ngaphakathi is also used to indicate a sense of belonging or closeness in a group or community. |
| Yiddish | The word 'ינער' (inner) can also refer to a 'young person' or 'bridegroom' in Yiddish. |
| Yoruba | The Yoruba word 'akojọpọ' also means 'secret' or 'confidential'. |
| Zulu | "Kwangaphakathi" is the Zulu word for "inner", meaning something that is positioned or situated on the inside and not on the outside. |
| English | The word 'inner' derives from the Old English word 'innere,' meaning 'internal' or 'innermost' and is related to the Old English word 'innan,' meaning 'within'. |