Leg in Different Languages
Discover 'Leg' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Leg
Afrikaans been | ||
Albanian këmbë | ||
Amharic እግር | ||
Arabic رجل | ||
Armenian ոտքը | ||
Assamese ভৰি | ||
Aymara chara | ||
Azerbaijani ayaq | ||
Bambara sen | ||
Basque hanka | ||
Belarusian нага | ||
Bengali পা | ||
Bhojpuri पांव | ||
Bosnian noga | ||
Bulgarian крак | ||
Catalan cama | ||
Cebuano paa | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 腿 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 腿 | ||
Corsican ghjamba | ||
Croatian noga | ||
Czech noha | ||
Danish ben | ||
Dhivehi ފައި | ||
Dogri लत्त | ||
Dutch been | ||
English leg | ||
Esperanto kruro | ||
Estonian jalg | ||
Ewe ata | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) binti | ||
Finnish jalka | ||
French jambe | ||
Frisian skonk | ||
Galician perna | ||
Georgian ფეხი | ||
German bein | ||
Greek πόδι | ||
Guarani tetyma | ||
Gujarati પગ | ||
Haitian Creole janm | ||
Hausa kafa | ||
Hawaiian wāwae | ||
Hebrew רגל | ||
Hindi टांग | ||
Hmong ceg | ||
Hungarian láb | ||
Icelandic fótur | ||
Igbo ụkwụ | ||
Ilocano gurong | ||
Indonesian kaki | ||
Irish cos | ||
Italian gamba | ||
Japanese 脚 | ||
Javanese sikile | ||
Kannada ಕಾಲು | ||
Kazakh аяғы | ||
Khmer ជើង | ||
Kinyarwanda ukuguru | ||
Konkani पांय | ||
Korean 다리 | ||
Krio fut | ||
Kurdish çîp | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) قاچ | ||
Kyrgyz бут | ||
Lao ຂາ | ||
Latin crus | ||
Latvian kāja | ||
Lingala lokolo | ||
Lithuanian koja | ||
Luganda okugulu | ||
Luxembourgish been | ||
Macedonian нога | ||
Maithili पएर | ||
Malagasy leg | ||
Malay kaki | ||
Malayalam കാല് | ||
Maltese riġel | ||
Maori waewae | ||
Marathi पाय | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯈꯣꯡ | ||
Mizo ke | ||
Mongolian хөл | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ခြေထောက် | ||
Nepali खुट्टा | ||
Norwegian bein | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) mwendo | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଗୋଡ | ||
Oromo luka | ||
Pashto پښه | ||
Persian پا | ||
Polish noga | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) perna | ||
Punjabi ਲੱਤ | ||
Quechua chanka | ||
Romanian picior | ||
Russian нога | ||
Samoan vae | ||
Sanskrit टङ्का | ||
Scots Gaelic chas | ||
Sepedi leoto | ||
Serbian нога | ||
Sesotho leoto | ||
Shona gumbo | ||
Sindhi ٽنگ | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) කකුල | ||
Slovak noha | ||
Slovenian noga | ||
Somali lugta | ||
Spanish pierna | ||
Sundanese suku | ||
Swahili mguu | ||
Swedish ben | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) paa | ||
Tajik пой | ||
Tamil கால் | ||
Tatar аягы | ||
Telugu కాలు | ||
Thai ขา | ||
Tigrinya እግሪ | ||
Tsonga nenge | ||
Turkish bacak | ||
Turkmen aýak | ||
Twi (Akan) nan | ||
Ukrainian нога | ||
Urdu ٹانگ | ||
Uyghur leg | ||
Uzbek oyoq | ||
Vietnamese chân | ||
Welsh coes | ||
Xhosa umlenze | ||
Yiddish פוס | ||
Yoruba ẹsẹ | ||
Zulu umlenze |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | "Been" can also refer to a person's entire limb, from the hip to the toes. |
| Albanian | "Këmbë" also refers to different parts of a bed or the main trunk of a tree branch, as well as the "limb" in the sense of a part of an organization. |
| Amharic | The Amharic word 'እግር' (egër) also figuratively means 'part'. |
| Arabic | The word "رجل" in Arabic can also refer to a "man, gentleman, or a foot". |
| Armenian | Ոտքը also means |
| Azerbaijani | The Azerbaijani word "ayaq" initially meant only "foot", but during the centuries, its meaning has expanded to include the whole leg. |
| Basque | The Basque word "hanka" can also refer to a "piece" or "part" of something. |
| Belarusian | "Нага" is a word with several meanings in Belarusian: leg, pants, socks, and also a kind of braid in hair. |
| Bengali | Bengali "পা" (leg) may also mean foot, a step, or a measure of length, like the "foot" in English. |
| Bosnian | The word "noga" is the same word in Polish and means "leg", but in Italian it means "nut". |
| Bulgarian | In Bulgarian, 'крак' (krak) is also used colloquially as slang for 'foot' and, less commonly, as a term of endearment for a child. |
| Catalan | In archaic Catalan, "cama" also meant "leg armor", which is where the word "camarlench" ("chamberlain") derives from |
| Cebuano | The Cebuano term "paa" is also used to refer to the base of a tree trunk or the pedestal of a statue. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "腿" (leg) is also used to refer to one of the four main arteries in the human body. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 腿 (leg) is also used to refer to the hind legs of animals with four legs. |
| Corsican | The etymology of "ghjamba" is unknown, but it may be related to the Italian word "gamba" or the Spanish word "jamón". |
| Croatian | The Croatian word 'noga' can also refer to a foot, a limb, or a support. |
| Czech | The word "noha" can also mean "foot" or "lower limb" in Czech. |
| Danish | Danish "ben" can also mean "bone," "table leg," "piano leg," or "insect leg." |
| Dutch | "Been" in Dutch can also mean "bone" or "leg of meat". |
| Esperanto | The word "kruro" also means "shank" or "lower leg" in Esperanto. |
| Estonian | The modern meaning of "jalg" as "leg" is etymologically likely secondary to the sense "footpath, lane" (cf. Finnish jalka). |
| Finnish | The word "jalka" is also used to refer to the foot of a table or other furniture. |
| French | The French word "jambe" evolved from the Latin "gamba", which originally meant both "leg" and "knee". |
| Frisian | Frisian word for "leg" "skonk" comes from the word "skenka" (to walk on shins), which is probably onomatopoeic |
| Galician | The word "perna" can also refer to a type of shellfish or a tool for working with wood. |
| Georgian | The word "ფეხი" ("leg") in Georgian also means a "part" or the "foot". |
| German | The word "Bein" also means "bone" in German. |
| Greek | The word πόδι can figuratively refer to the leg of a table, chair, or other piece of furniture. |
| Gujarati | The word "પગ" can also refer to a meter or a foot (measurement unit). |
| Haitian Creole | In Haitian Creole, the word "janm" also means "limb" and "branch". |
| Hausa | The Hausa word 'ƙafa' (leg) also refers to a type of traditional drum made of a hollowed-out log covered with animal skin |
| Hawaiian | The Hawaiian word “wāwae” also means “footstep” or “pathway”. |
| Hebrew | The word "רגל" (regel) can also refer to the base or foot of a mountain, a pedestal, or a staircase step in Hebrew. |
| Hindi | The word "टांग" (tāṅg) in Hindi also means "to hang" or "to suspend". |
| Hmong | In the Hmong language, "ceg" refers to an object on the human body used for standing and walking, as well as the supports used to hold up a table or structure. |
| Hungarian | The word "láb" also means "foot" and can refer to the base of a tree or the pedestal of a statue. |
| Icelandic | The Old Norse word "fótr" not only meant "leg" but also "foot" and "lower leg". |
| Igbo | In some contexts, the Igbo word "ụkwụ" can refer to a pillar, pole, or stick. |
| Indonesian | "Kaki' is also a slang term for 'girlfriend' or 'boyfriend'. |
| Irish | The word "cos" can also mean "step" or "foot" in Irish. |
| Italian | The Italian word "gamba" can also refer to the stalk or stem of a mushroom or celery. |
| Japanese | The Japanese word "脚" (ashi) also means "base" or "support" in the context of furniture or other objects. |
| Javanese | "Sikil" in Javanese can also mean "to fold one's leg." |
| Kannada | ಕಾಲು (kālu) also means "pillar". Kālu is borrowed from Sanskrit "Skanda" which means "to jump". |
| Kazakh | Ayağı, meaning 'leg' in Kazakh, comes from the Proto-Turkic word "*ayaq", which also means 'foot'. |
| Khmer | The word "ជើង" also means feet or the base of something, and it can be used in the sense of a limb by which one walks. |
| Korean | In Korean, the word "다리" also refers to bridges |
| Kurdish | The Kurdish word "çîp" can also refer to the stem of a plant or the trunk of a tree. |
| Kyrgyz | In Kyrgyz, the word "бут" is not only used to mean "leg" but also to refer to the "shank" and the "lower leg". |
| Lao | In Lao, the word "ຂາ" can also refer to the base or foot of something, such as a pillar or a mountain. |
| Latin | In Latin, "crus" can also refer to the shin, as well as a plant stem or the leg of an animal. |
| Latvian | The word "kāja" is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kek-, meaning "to go" or "to travel". In Latvian, the word can also refer to the leg of a table or chair. |
| Lithuanian | The word "koja" originally meant "house", and the meaning "leg" is a result of metonymy. |
| Luxembourgish | In Luxembourgish, "Been" also means "bone" or "stone". |
| Macedonian | The word "нога" can also refer to the support structure of a table or chair. |
| Malagasy | In Maldivian, the word "leg" can also mean "a limb of a quadruped" or "a foot." |
| Malay | Kaki can also refer to a 'pawn' in chess, a person's 'follower' or 'supporter', or a 'member' of a group. |
| Malayalam | "കാല്" also means time, era or stage in Malayalam |
| Maltese | Rigel derives from Proto-Semitic "rigl" and has cognates in other Semitic languages such as Hebrew and Syriac, all meaning "foot, leg". |
| Maori | "Waewae" can also refer to the bottom portion of a canoe. |
| Marathi | In Marathi, "पाय" also refers to the base or foot of a tree or mountain. |
| Mongolian | "Хөл" in Mongolian can also mean a measurement of length, equivalent to about 2 meters. |
| Nepali | The Hindi word 'khutta' (leg) is derived from the Hindi word 'khandan' (to divide), as the leg is used for dividing the body into two halves. |
| Norwegian | In Norwegian, 'bein' not only refers to a leg, but also to a bone. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word 'mwendo' can also refer to the journey itself, rather than just the body part. |
| Pashto | In Pashto, the word "پښه" can also refer to a section or division, and its plural form is commonly used to describe the members of a tribe or group. |
| Persian | In Persian, the word "پا" (leg) can also mean "base" or "foundation". |
| Polish | In Polish 'noga' is used not only to refer to a human leg but also a table leg or an animal paw. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | "Perna" can also refer to a tool used in the textile industry or a kind of sea creature, such as a barnacle. |
| Punjabi | The Punjabi word "ਲੱਤ" can also refer to a person's gait or manner of walking. |
| Romanian | The Romanian noun 'picior' can refer to the 'leg' of an animal or a type of traditional Romanian dance. |
| Russian | The word "нога" also means "foot" in Russian. |
| Samoan | The Samoan word "vae" also means "foot", "paw", or "legless". |
| Scots Gaelic | In the Gaelic name for the Isle of Man, 'Mannin', chas means 'foot' rather than 'leg'. |
| Serbian | The word "нога" in Serbian can also refer to the leg of a table or chair. |
| Sesotho | In Sesotho, the word "leoto" can also mean "a branch of a tree" or "a tributary of a river." |
| Shona | In Shona, the word "gumbo" can also refer to a traditional dance or to a type of tree. |
| Sindhi | The word "ٽنگ" also means "side" or "edge" in Sindhi. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "කකුල" in Sinhala also means "thigh". |
| Slovak | "Noha" is also used to refer to the foot, or the lower part of the leg. |
| Slovenian | The Slovenian word "noga" has an interesting etymological connection to the Sanskrit word for "foot," "nagas." |
| Somali | In the Somali language, the term "lugta" may also refer to a person's gait or manner of walking. |
| Spanish | The word "pierna" also means "leg" in Italian, Portuguese, Catalan, and Occitan. |
| Sundanese | The Sundanese word "suku" can also refer to a tribe or ethnic group. |
| Swahili | "Mguu" can also mean "foot" or "lower limb" in Swahili. |
| Swedish | "Ben" also means "bone" in Swedish, deriving from Old Norse "bein" with the same meaning. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | In Tagalog, "paa" can also refer to an animal's foot or a tree's root. |
| Tajik | "пой" is also used to refer to the foot, knee, or ankle. |
| Tamil | The word "கால்" ("leg" in English) also means a quarter (of a quantity). |
| Telugu | In some contexts, "కాలు" can also refer to the length of time something takes to complete. |
| Thai | The Thai word "ขา" can also refer to a branch of a tree, a leg of a table, a person's status or standing, or the base or support of something. |
| Turkish | The word comes from Persian and literally means “to stick” and is related to other words for "pole" or "branch". |
| Ukrainian | In ancient Greek the word “nokhos” (“branch”/“stalk”) may have meant |
| Urdu | The word "ٹانگ" can also refer to a branch or limb of a tree or plant. |
| Uzbek | In Uzbek, "oyoq" can refer to a leg, a foot, a limb, or a support |
| Vietnamese | The Vietnamese word "Chân" not only means "leg", but also has other meanings such as "base" and "root". |
| Welsh | The word "coes" also has the alternate meaning of "a stalk or stem". |
| Xhosa | It is the origin of the word 'umlenze' which means 'leg' in Xhosa. It' |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "פוס" (pus) can also refer to a type of demon, or an evil spirit. |
| Yoruba | "Ẹsẹ" can also mean "a person of strength and agility." |
| Zulu | The Zulu word for 'leg', 'umlenze', also refers to a specific musical instrument and a type of dance. |
| English | The word "leg" can also mean a support or base, such as the leg of a table. |