Late in Different Languages
Discover 'Late' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Late
Afrikaans laat | ||
Albanian vonë | ||
Amharic ረፍዷል | ||
Arabic متأخر | ||
Armenian ուշացած | ||
Assamese পলম | ||
Aymara jayp'u | ||
Azerbaijani gec | ||
Bambara lɛrɛ kɔfɛ | ||
Basque berandu | ||
Belarusian позна | ||
Bengali দেরী | ||
Bhojpuri देरी | ||
Bosnian kasno | ||
Bulgarian късен | ||
Catalan tard | ||
Cebuano ulahi na | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 晚的 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 晚了 | ||
Corsican tardu | ||
Croatian kasno | ||
Czech pozdě | ||
Danish sent | ||
Dhivehi ލަހުން | ||
Dogri चिरें | ||
Dutch laat | ||
English late | ||
Esperanto malfrue | ||
Estonian hilja | ||
Ewe tsi megbe | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) huli na | ||
Finnish myöhään | ||
French en retard | ||
Frisian let | ||
Galician tarde | ||
Georgian გვიან | ||
German spät | ||
Greek αργά | ||
Guarani ka'aru | ||
Gujarati અંતમાં | ||
Haitian Creole anreta | ||
Hausa anjima | ||
Hawaiian lohi | ||
Hebrew מאוחר | ||
Hindi देर से | ||
Hmong tuaj lig | ||
Hungarian késő | ||
Icelandic seint | ||
Igbo mbubreyo | ||
Ilocano naladaw | ||
Indonesian terlambat | ||
Irish déanach | ||
Italian tardi | ||
Japanese 遅い | ||
Javanese telat | ||
Kannada ತಡವಾಗಿ | ||
Kazakh кеш | ||
Khmer យឺត | ||
Kinyarwanda bitinze | ||
Konkani उसरां | ||
Korean 늦은 | ||
Krio let | ||
Kurdish dereng | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) درەنگ | ||
Kyrgyz кеч | ||
Lao ເດິກ | ||
Latin sero | ||
Latvian vēlu | ||
Lingala retard | ||
Lithuanian vėlai | ||
Luganda kikeerezi | ||
Luxembourgish spéit | ||
Macedonian доцна | ||
Maithili देरी | ||
Malagasy tara | ||
Malay lewat | ||
Malayalam വൈകി | ||
Maltese tard | ||
Maori mutunga | ||
Marathi उशीरा | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯊꯦꯡꯕ | ||
Mizo tlai | ||
Mongolian сүүлээр | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) နောက်ကျ | ||
Nepali ढिलो | ||
Norwegian sent | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) mochedwa | ||
Odia (Oriya) ବିଳମ୍ବ | ||
Oromo barfachuu | ||
Pashto ناوخته | ||
Persian دیر | ||
Polish późno | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) tarde | ||
Punjabi ਦੇਰ ਨਾਲ | ||
Quechua unayay | ||
Romanian târziu | ||
Russian поздно | ||
Samoan tuai | ||
Sanskrit विलम्बेन | ||
Scots Gaelic fadalach | ||
Sepedi morago | ||
Serbian касно | ||
Sesotho morao | ||
Shona kunonoka | ||
Sindhi دير سان | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) නැසීගිය | ||
Slovak neskoro | ||
Slovenian pozen | ||
Somali daahay | ||
Spanish tarde | ||
Sundanese telat | ||
Swahili marehemu | ||
Swedish sent | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) huli na | ||
Tajik дер | ||
Tamil தாமதமாக | ||
Tatar соң | ||
Telugu ఆలస్యం | ||
Thai สาย | ||
Tigrinya ረፋድ | ||
Tsonga hlwela | ||
Turkish geç | ||
Turkmen giç | ||
Twi (Akan) aka akyi | ||
Ukrainian пізно | ||
Urdu دیر | ||
Uyghur كېچىكىپ قالدى | ||
Uzbek kech | ||
Vietnamese muộn | ||
Welsh hwyr | ||
Xhosa mva | ||
Yiddish שפּעט | ||
Yoruba pẹ | ||
Zulu sekwephuzile |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word 'laat' can also mean 'slow' or 'lazy' |
| Albanian | The word 'vonë' may have evolved from the Proto-Albanian word 'von' meaning 'to stay behind'. |
| Amharic | "ረፍዷል" is derived from the Proto-Ethiosemitic word *rəfəʾ- 'to leave behind, to remain' and also means 'remainder, rest'. |
| Arabic | The word "متأخر" can also mean "lazy" or "hesitant" in Arabic. |
| Armenian | ուշացած (ush-at-satz) can be used not only to refer to the late hour, but also to refer to a person who is behind schedule, such as a tardy student. |
| Azerbaijani | The Azerbaijani word "gec" can also refer to "night" or "evening". |
| Basque | The word "berandu" is cognate with the Catalan word "berant" and the Aragonese word "bieran", all meaning "late". |
| Belarusian | The word "позна" also has the meaning of "after" (as in time), like in the phrase "позна завчера" (after the day before yesterday). |
| Bengali | "দেরী" in Bengali also means "delay" or "tardiness". |
| Bosnian | The word "kasno" likely derives from either Old Slavic "kasьno" or a contraction of the Proto-Indo-European "kosnos" (night), suggesting the connection of "late" to "night". |
| Bulgarian | In Bulgarian, "късен" also refers to "the latest model of a car" and "the back end of a horse." |
| Catalan | "Tard" in Catalan can also mean "afternoon" or "afternoon nap." |
| Cebuano | The term "ulahi na" can also indicate an advanced state, such as "mature" or "ripe." |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 晚的 is the first of two characters in a compound that can mean 'a child who was born late'. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | "晚了" can also mean "it's over" or "it's too late". |
| Corsican | The etymology of "tardu" remains unclear, but the word may be related to the Latin "tardus" or the Italian "tardi," both meaning "slow." |
| Croatian | In Dalmatian, the word "kasno" can also mean "tonight". |
| Czech | The word "pozdě" also refers to the time of day between 10 pm and midnight in Czech, similar to the use of "night" in English. |
| Danish | The Danish word "sent" is related to the Old Norse word "sein", meaning "slow". |
| Dutch | "Laat" can also mean "low" as in "laag". |
| Esperanto | The word "malfrue" can also mean "lastly" or "finally". |
| Estonian | The origin of "hilja" is "hää"("good," "nicely") from the older meaning "time that fits best" |
| Finnish | "Myöhään" can also mean "in the deep" or "in the depths" in a metaphorical or spiritual sense. |
| French | The word "en retard" can also mean "behind" or "slow" in French. |
| Frisian | In Frisian, "let" also means "hindered" or "prevented". |
| Galician | In Galician, "tarde" also means "evening" and is related to the Latin "tardus" meaning "slow" or "heavy." |
| Georgian | The word "გვიან" also means "tomorrow" in some parts of Georgia. |
| German | Spät is derived from the Old High German word "spâto" or "spâti," meaning "successful" or "prosperous." |
| Greek | "Αργά" does not only mean "late", it can also mean "slowly". |
| Gujarati | The word "અંતમાં" can also mean "finally" or "in conclusion." |
| Haitian Creole | The Haitian Creole word for 'late', 'anreta', derives from the French word 'en retard' with the same meaning. |
| Hausa | "Anjima" shares its root with the word "aji" meaning "to reach" or "arrive". |
| Hawaiian | The word "lohi" can also refer to old age or a gray head of hair. |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "מאוחר" (late) comes from the root "אחר" (after), implying a chronological order. |
| Hindi | The Hindi word "देर से" can also mean "slowly" or "in the evening." |
| Hmong | The Hmong word "tuaj lig" also means "night" or "evening". |
| Hungarian | The word "késő" comes from a Proto-Uralic root meaning "to delay, linger, or be slow". |
| Icelandic | The word 'seint' is derived from Proto-Norse *sinat- 'evening', but is now only found in the phrase 'það er seint á ferðina', meaning 'it's getting late for the journey' |
| Igbo | The Igbo word "mbubreyo" derives from the words "mbu" (very) and "ubre" (late), emphasizing extreme tardiness. |
| Indonesian | The word "terlambat" derives from the Proto-Austronesian root "*lambat" meaning "slow" or "delayed". |
| Irish | It derives from Middle Irish dénach "last, hindmost" and also means "finally" or "in the end". |
| Italian | The Italian word "tardi" originates from the Latin "tardus," also meaning "slow" and "heavy." |
| Japanese | "遅い" comes from the verb "延ぶ" (to prolong), meaning something that takes a long time to happen. |
| Javanese | Telat in Javanese can also mean 'to not have' or 'to lack' something. |
| Kannada | In some contexts, "ತಡವಾಗಿ" can also mean "belated" or "too late". |
| Kazakh | The word "кеш" can also refer to a gift of jewelry, typically given as a dowry. |
| Khmer | The word យឺត is also used to mean 'delay', 'slow', and 'gradually'. |
| Korean | "늦은" originally meant "the end point" or "the time when something is finished," and it came to mean "late" because it implies that the end point has passed. |
| Kurdish | The Kurdish word "dereng" derives from the Persian word "derang", which also means "late". |
| Kyrgyz | The word "кеч" (late) in Kyrgyz is derived from the Proto-Turkic word *keç-*, which also means "night" or "evening". |
| Lao | The Lao word "ເດິກ" can also mean "slowly" or "gently". |
| Latin | The word 'sero' in Latin also means 'at evening' and is related to the word 'serum', meaning 'evening or later time'. |
| Latvian | The word "vēlu," meaning "lateness," may also refer to the season of autumn. |
| Lithuanian | Lithuanian "vėlai" is also used to refer to a "late-stage" of something |
| Luxembourgish | Spéit can also mean 'later' or 'the day after' when used in certain contexts or phrases. |
| Macedonian | "доцна" ultimately originates from Proto-Indo-European "*dewk-no" (yesterday) but developed its current meaning in Proto-Slavic. |
| Malagasy | Malagasy "tara" derives from Old Malay "telal" meaning "last" or "later". |
| Malay | The word "lewat" can also mean "exceed" or "overtake". |
| Malayalam | "വൈകി" is cognate with words such as "വികല" and "വിപര്യയ" meaning "distorted". The verb forms of these words in Malayalam all mean "to get delayed". |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "tard" may also refer to an individual with intellectual disability or a mentally challenged person. |
| Maori | The Maori word "mutunga" also means "conclusion" or "end". |
| Marathi | The Marathi word "उशीरा" has a cognate in Gujarati: "ઉશીર"," pronounced "ushiru". |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word "сүүлээр" can also mean "at the end". |
| Nepali | The word ढिलो can also mean 'slow' or 'lazy'. |
| Norwegian | In Norwegian, "sent" can also refer to "the late evening or night," as in "om kvelden sent." |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The Nyanja (Chichewa) word "mochedwa" also means "last-born" in the phrase "mwana wacichewa mochedwa" which would translate literally as "the last child" or "the youngest child." |
| Pashto | The word 'ناوخته' ('late') in Pashto is also used to describe something that is 'new' or 'inexperienced'. |
| Persian | The word "دیر" in Persian can also refer to "a monastery" or "a place of worship for Zoroastrians". |
| Polish | The word 'późno' in Polish can also mean 'afterwards' or 'later on'. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "tarde" can also mean "afternoon" in Portuguese. |
| Romanian | "Târziu" derives from Latin "tarde" (in the evening), influenced by Slavic "tard" (slow, late). |
| Russian | "Поздно" is derived from the Proto-Slavic "*pozdъ" which may be related to "*pozъdi" meaning "behind". |
| Samoan | The word "tuai" can also mean "old" or "senior" in Samoan. |
| Scots Gaelic | The word "fadalach" in Scots Gaelic derives from the Proto-Celtic root word "*wadlos," which also meant "late" or "leftover." |
| Serbian | "Касно" can also mean "dark" or "black" in Serbian. |
| Sesotho | The word "morao" can also mean "yesterday" or "the day before yesterday" in Sesotho. |
| Shona | The Shona word "kunonoka" is derived from the Proto-Bantu root "-nonok-a," meaning "to be slow, late, or lazy." |
| Sindhi | The word "دير سان" in Sindhi can also mean "evening" or "sunset". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "නැසීගිය" ultimately derives from the Sanskrit word "नष्ट" (naṣṭa), meaning "destroyed" or "perished". |
| Slovak | "Neskoro" in Slovak shares its root with the word for "poverty" in some Slavic languages, suggesting a connection between tardiness and economic hardship. |
| Slovenian | The word "pozen" in Slovenian, which means "late," comes from the Slavic root "pozdъ," meaning "after" or "behind." |
| Somali | The word |
| Spanish | The Spanish word "tarde" also means "afternoon" and is derived from the Latin word "tarda" meaning "slow" or "delayed" |
| Sundanese | "Telat" in Sundanese may also mean 'slow' or 'behind' in other contexts. |
| Swahili | "Marehemu" also means "deceased" in Swahili. |
| Swedish | Sent is an ancient Germanic word also present in some Scandinavian languages, it's a cognate of 'send' and originally meant 'send off' (someone), so 'late' can be seen as the end point of someone or something being sent. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "huli na" in Tagalog also means "the end" or "the final part". |
| Tajik | The word "дер" can also mean "yesterday" or "behind" in Tajik. |
| Tamil | The word “தாமதமாக” has roots in a Sanskrit word that means slow. |
| Thai | สาย is also the name for a type of thin rope or string, which reflects the sense of 'extending'. It can also refer to lineage, lineage, or line, like a clothesline. |
| Turkish | Geç can also mean "difficult" or (in Ottoman Turkish) "to pass". |
| Ukrainian | The word "пізно" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *pozdъ, meaning "after" or "behind," and is related to the word "пізній" ("late") in modern Ukrainian. |
| Urdu | The Urdu word "دیر" also has the alternate meaning of "monastery" and is derived from the Persian word "دیر" with the same meaning. |
| Uzbek | The word "kech" also means "evening" in Uzbek. |
| Vietnamese | The word "muộn" in Vietnamese can also mean "slow" or "hesitant". |
| Welsh | The word "hwyr" also means "west" in Welsh, as the sun sets in the west. |
| Xhosa | The word Mva can be used in a variety of ways, both in its original context as well as in the sense of 'overstaying one's welcome'. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish term "שפּעט" also bears alternate meanings like "delayed" or "overripe". |
| Yoruba | The word "pẹ" in Yoruba can also mean "behind" or "last" in a sequence, denoting position or order. |
| Zulu | The word "sekwephuzile" in Zulu is derived from the root "kwephuza," meaning "to be late or delayed." |
| English | The word 'late' originally referred to something delayed, hesitant, or sluggish, rather than simply occurring after the expected time. |