Mail in Different Languages
Discover 'Mail' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Afrikaans pos | ||
Albanian postës | ||
Amharic ደብዳቤ | ||
Arabic بريد | ||
Armenian փոստ | ||
Assamese মেইল | ||
Aymara correo tuqi | ||
Azerbaijani poçt | ||
Bambara bataki cilenw | ||
Basque posta | ||
Belarusian пошта | ||
Bengali মেইল | ||
Bhojpuri मेल से भेजल जाला | ||
Bosnian pošta | ||
Bulgarian поща | ||
Catalan correu electrònic | ||
Cebuano mail | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 邮件 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 郵件 | ||
Corsican mail | ||
Croatian pošta | ||
Czech pošta | ||
Danish post | ||
Dhivehi މެއިލް | ||
Dogri मेल | ||
Dutch mail | ||
English mail | ||
Esperanto poŝto | ||
Estonian mail | ||
Ewe posu dzi | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) mail | ||
Finnish posti | ||
French courrier | ||
Frisian post | ||
Galician correo | ||
Georgian ფოსტა | ||
German mail | ||
Greek ταχυδρομείο | ||
Guarani correo rehegua | ||
Gujarati મેઇલ | ||
Haitian Creole lapòs | ||
Hausa wasiku | ||
Hawaiian leka uila | ||
Hebrew דוֹאַר | ||
Hindi मेल | ||
Hmong xa ntawv | ||
Hungarian posta | ||
Icelandic póstur | ||
Igbo ozi | ||
Ilocano koreo | ||
Indonesian surat | ||
Irish phost | ||
Italian posta | ||
Japanese 郵便物 | ||
Javanese surat | ||
Kannada ಮೇಲ್ | ||
Kazakh пошта | ||
Khmer អ៊ីមែល | ||
Kinyarwanda amabaruwa | ||
Konkani मेल | ||
Korean 우편 | ||
Krio mail we dɛn kin sɛn | ||
Kurdish poste | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) پۆست | ||
Kyrgyz почта | ||
Lao mail | ||
Latin mail | ||
Latvian pasts | ||
Lingala mail na posita | ||
Lithuanian paštas | ||
Luganda mail | ||
Luxembourgish mail | ||
Macedonian пошта | ||
Maithili मेल | ||
Malagasy namany sary | ||
Malay mel | ||
Malayalam മെയിൽ | ||
Maltese posta | ||
Maori mēra | ||
Marathi मेल | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯃꯦꯜ ꯇꯧꯕꯥ꯫ | ||
Mizo mail hmanga thawn a ni | ||
Mongolian шуудан | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) စာပို့ | ||
Nepali मेल | ||
Norwegian post | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) makalata | ||
Odia (Oriya) ମେଲ୍ | ||
Oromo poostaadhaan ergaa | ||
Pashto لیک | ||
Persian پست الکترونیکی | ||
Polish poczta | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) enviar | ||
Punjabi ਮੇਲ | ||
Quechua correo | ||
Romanian poștă | ||
Russian почта | ||
Samoan meli | ||
Sanskrit मेल | ||
Scots Gaelic post | ||
Sepedi poso ya | ||
Serbian пошта | ||
Sesotho mangolo | ||
Shona tsamba | ||
Sindhi ميل | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) තැපෑල | ||
Slovak poštou | ||
Slovenian pošti | ||
Somali boostada | ||
Spanish correo | ||
Sundanese surat | ||
Swahili barua | ||
Swedish post | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) mail | ||
Tajik почта | ||
Tamil அஞ்சல் | ||
Tatar почта | ||
Telugu మెయిల్ | ||
Thai จดหมาย | ||
Tigrinya ፖስታ ምልኣኽ | ||
Tsonga poso | ||
Turkish posta | ||
Turkmen poçta | ||
Twi (Akan) mail a wɔde mena | ||
Ukrainian поштою | ||
Urdu میل | ||
Uyghur خەت | ||
Uzbek pochta | ||
Vietnamese thư | ||
Welsh post | ||
Xhosa imeyile | ||
Yiddish פּאָסט | ||
Yoruba meeli | ||
Zulu imeyili |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | Afrikaans "pos" comes from French "poste" via Dutch "post". It can also mean "post office", "postal service" or "postman". |
| Albanian | The word "postës" in Albanian derives from the Latin word "posita" (placed), referring to the placement of letters in a mailbox. |
| Amharic | In Amharic, "ደብዳቤ" can also mean "letter" or "message". |
| Arabic | The word "بريد" (mail) in Arabic comes from the Persian word "پيک" (courier), which itself derives from the Old Persian word "پی" (foot). |
| Armenian | Derived from Greek "ταχυδρομος" (tachydromos), meaning "fast messenger" or "courier". |
| Azerbaijani | In Azeri, the word "poçt" has its roots in French and means "post" or "mail", also referring to the institution that delivers letters and parcels. |
| Basque | "Posta" comes from the Latin "posita" (thing placed or put down) and originally meant "messenger" or "thing sent", and also "place where letters or other things are put to be collected and sent on", hence its current meaning of "post office". |
| Belarusian | "Пошта" also refers to a postal organization or the location or building in which mail is handled. |
| Bengali | In Bengali, 'মেইল' can also refer to a type of clay used for pottery and construction. |
| Bosnian | The word 'pošta' is derived from the Old Slavic word 'poti' meaning path or road, which signifies the original function of the post as a communication system. |
| Bulgarian | The word "поща" can also mean "mercy" or "forgiveness" in Bulgarian. |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "correu electrònic" derives from the Latin "currere" (to run) and "electronicus" (electronic), reflecting the swiftness and electronic nature of the technology. |
| Cebuano | "Mail" also refers to woven metal, such as that used in armor. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 邮件 in Chinese, despite its English equivalent, is also slang for a user's email address. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The character "郵" originally represented a long bamboo stick used for divination, and was later extended to mean "sending messages". |
| Corsican | In Corsican, "mail" can also refer to a "chain link" or "mesh". |
| Croatian | The Croatian word "pošta" (mail) comes from the Latin word "posta" (post) referring to a relay of horses or messengers. |
| Czech | The word "pošta" originates from the Latin word "posita", meaning "placed". |
| Danish | "Post" in Danish also refers to a specific position in a race or competition, where "post" in English relates to a position or employment in a company or organization. |
| Dutch | In Dutch, "mail" can also refer to a mesh suit worn by medieval knights or a type of chain armor. |
| Esperanto | Esperanto "poŝto" comes from the French "poste", which originally meant "a place where horses are kept". Thus "poŝto" can also mean "post office". |
| Estonian | In Estonian, "mail" can also refer to the armor worn by soldiers in medieval times. |
| Finnish | Posti also means 'place' in old Finnic languages; compare to the Estonian 'post' which means 'place' |
| French | "Courrier" is also used to refer to horse-drawn mail delivery carts, especially in historical contexts. |
| Frisian | The word "post" in Frisian can also refer to a "pillar" or "stake". |
| Galician | The Galician word "correo" can also refer to a messenger, a postal service, or a newspaper delivery. |
| Georgian | The word ფოსტა comes from the Latin word 'posta,' meaning 'station' or 'post.' |
| German | In German, "Mail" can also refer to a mesh fabric used to make shirts and dresses. |
| Greek | The term ταχυδρομείο comes from two Greek words: 'ταχύς' (meaning fast) and 'δρομος' (meaning course, running), thus it refers to the fast delivering of messages. |
| Gujarati | The word "મેઇલ" can also refer to a type of armor worn in ancient times. |
| Haitian Creole | The term "lapòs" in Haitian Creole originally referred to a type of fabric used to make bags, and it later came to refer to mail due to the use of such bags to transport correspondence. |
| Hausa | The etymology of "wasiku" in Hausa is unknown but is possibly related to the Arabic word "wasika" (document). |
| Hawaiian | The word 'leka uila' derives from two Hawaiian words: leka (messenger, ambassador) and uila (star). It was also used to refer to the constellations, the navigators' 'heavenly messengers' that guided them across the sea to distant lands. |
| Hebrew | Despite its spelling, דוֹאַר, meaning “mail”, is a cognate of the verb דָּבַר (dabar), meaning to speak or communicate. |
| Hindi | "मेल" also means "union" or "friendship" in archaic Hindi. |
| Hmong | The word "xa ntawv" can also refer to other types of correspondence, such as letters or parcels. |
| Hungarian | The word "posta" in Hungarian comes from the Italian word "posta" meaning "place". It originally referred to a place where horses were kept for relaying dispatches and people. |
| Icelandic | The Icelandic word "póstur" can also mean "column" or "post" in architecture. |
| Igbo | "Ozi" can also refer to a piece of paper that is written on |
| Indonesian | "Surat" also means "letter" in Indonesian, coming from the Arabic word "sūrah" meaning "chapter" or "scroll". |
| Irish | "Phost" in Irish likely derives from the Greek word "phostes" meaning "messenger". |
| Italian | The word 'posta' derives from the Latin 'posita', meaning 'placed', and originally referred to a place where horses were stationed for relaying messages. |
| Japanese | "郵便物" refers to all physical mail and letters, including postcards, but excludes digital communication such as e-mail. |
| Javanese | "Surat" in Javanese can also mean a letter, document, or writing. |
| Kannada | The word 'ಮೇಲ್' ('mail') in Kannada can also refer to the act of throwing or delivering something. |
| Kazakh | "Пошта" originally meant "horse-drawn carriage" in Kazakh. |
| Khmer | Also refers to electronic mail like English, and is pronounced "i-maayl". |
| Korean | '우편' can mean 'postal service', 'mail', or the 'place of delivery for letters' in Korean. |
| Kurdish | The word "poste" is derived from the Italian word "posta", meaning "post" or "station". |
| Kyrgyz | 'Почта' is also used to refer to the Central Post Office in Kyrgyzstan |
| Lao | The Lao term "mail" (ម៉ែល) can also refer to an older sibling or the eldest child in a family. |
| Latin | In Latin, "mail" can also mean "a wound" or "a bag or sack," possibly deriving from the Proto-Indo-European root "*mei-," meaning "to cut" or "to reap." |
| Latvian | In English, the word "pasts" has different meanings depending on the context, such as the past tense of the verb "pass" or a type of food made from dried fruit. |
| Lithuanian | The term 'Paštas' in Lithuanian is cognate with the Sanskrit word 'पत्र' (patra), meaning 'leaf', and historically referred to birch bark letters. |
| Luxembourgish | The Luxembourgish word "Mail" is derived from the French word "maille", which originally referred to a chain link or mesh. |
| Macedonian | The word "пошта" is derived from the Latin word "posita", meaning "place" or "station", and originally referred to a place where horses were stationed for the purpose of carrying messages. |
| Malagasy | The term "namany Sary" has also been used historically to refer to a letter of introduction for a traveler. |
| Malay | The Malay word "mel" also means "to engrave". |
| Malayalam | മെയിൽ (mail) in Malayalam can also refer to armor or chain mail. |
| Maltese | The word 'posta' derives from the Italian 'posta' meaning 'post', or 'relay station', due to Malta's former rule under the Knights of Saint John. |
| Maori | **Alternate meanings of the word "mēra" in Māori include "a small basket" and "a small quantity of food". |
| Marathi | In Marathi, the word "मेल" (mail) can also refer to a gathering or meeting for social or religious purposes. |
| Mongolian | In addition, "шуудан" also has a different meaning, such as a "sleeve". |
| Nepali | The Nepali word 'मेल' originally referred to a gathering of witches, and is still occasionally used to describe a meeting of elderly women |
| Norwegian | The Norwegian word "post" derives from the Old Norse word "postr", meaning "something that carries" and also refers to horses and postal workers. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | In Nyanja, "makalata" can also mean "envelope" or "correspondence". |
| Pashto | The word "لیک" in Pashto can also refer to a type of bread or a particular type of stone. |
| Persian | The Persian word "پست الکترونیکی" has dual meaning in the context of computer networks and the postal service. |
| Polish | In medieval Poland, « poczta » meant a tax in kind, and was paid as a horse, rider, and fodder for two weeks. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | "Enviar" comes from the Latin word "inviare" which means "to send something to a place". It can also refer to a person who carries a message or a package. |
| Punjabi | "ਮੇਲ" (mail) in Punjabi can also refer to a gathering or assembly of people. |
| Romanian | "Poștă" is also the former name for a Romanian monetary unit (1 Poștă = 1 leu), and for a military unit (1 Poștă = 150 men). |
| Russian | "Почта" (mail) derives from "почи́ть" (pochít') - "to rest", as messengers used to take breaks at post stations set up along roads. |
| Samoan | In Samoan, "meli" also refers to a type of traditional dance or to a sweet-scented oil used in ceremonies. |
| Scots Gaelic | The word "post" in Scots Gaelic can also refer to a horse or a racehorse. |
| Serbian | The word "Пошта" (mail) can also refer to a postal code, a post office, or a postal service. |
| Sesotho | The word mangolo in Sesotho stems from the Zulu language, its root word imelo meaning both ‘name’ and ‘mail’, due to the notion of a name carrying a written message |
| Shona | The Shona word 'tsamba' can also refer to an arm band made out of leather, or the leather of a rhino. |
| Sindhi | Sindhi word "ميل" (mail) is derived from the Arabic word and may also refer to "a mile", "a slope" or "inclination". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | தபால் (tapal) refers to 'post' in Tamil and comes from the Portuguese word 'correio' meaning 'mail' |
| Slovak | The word "poštou" can also mean "by post" in Slovak. |
| Slovenian | The word 'pošti' can also refer to a postage stamp or a postal worker. |
| Somali | The word "boostada" also refers to a bundle or package tied with a rope. |
| Spanish | In Spanish, "correo" can also mean "messenger" or "post office" and derives from the Latin "currere" (to run). |
| Sundanese | The Sundanese word "surat" can also mean "letter" or "writing". |
| Swahili | The word "barua" in Swahili can also refer to a letter or a message written on paper. |
| Swedish | In Swedish, "post" can also refer to a postal service employee or a post office. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | In Tagalog, 'mail' can also refer to a 'net bag' or 'mesh fabric'. |
| Tajik | The word "почта" can also mean "post office" or "postal service" in Tajik. |
| Tamil | The Tamil word "அஞ்சல்" (mail) originally meant "post marked with a five-pointed star" or "post marked with the symbol of a hand". |
| Telugu | మెయిల్ (mail) also means 'a small cloth bag', 'a sack', and 'the male child of a female buffalo'. |
| Thai | The Thai word "จดหมาย" comes from the Sanskrit word "patram", meaning "letter" or "document". |
| Turkish | The Turkish word "posta" originally meant "resting place for horses or riders on a journey" and was derived from the Persian word "pāyad" meaning "station". |
| Ukrainian | In Russian, the word "почта" (pochta) used to mean "horse station", as the old postal system was based on horses. |
| Urdu | The Urdu word "میل" is derived from Sanskrit "maila", which means "dirt, stain, impurity, soiled". |
| Uzbek | The word "pochta" in Uzbek derives from the Persian word "paigaam", meaning "message". It can also refer to the postal service or the post office. |
| Vietnamese | The word "thư" in Vietnamese can also mean "letter" or "correspondence". |
| Welsh | The Welsh word "post" derives from the Latin "posita" via Norman "poste", and it can also refer to a gatepost or fencepost. |
| Xhosa | The Xhosa word “imeyile” (mail) is borrowed from English. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "פּאָסט" (post) shares its root with the Latin "posita", meaning, "that which is placed." |
| Yoruba | Also, the word 'meeli' can be used in the context of a traditional hairstyle or a small piece of wood that is used to strike fire. |
| Zulu | The word 'imeyili' in Zulu also refers to 'letters' and 'messages' |
| English | The word "mail" originates from the Latin word "malleus," meaning "hammer," and it has been used to refer to both armor and correspondence. |