Middle in Different Languages
Discover 'Middle' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Middle
Afrikaans middel | ||
Albanian e mesme | ||
Amharic መካከለኛ | ||
Arabic وسط | ||
Armenian միջին | ||
Assamese মাজ | ||
Aymara chika | ||
Azerbaijani orta | ||
Bambara cɛmancɛ | ||
Basque erdikoa | ||
Belarusian сярэдні | ||
Bengali মধ্যম | ||
Bhojpuri मध्य | ||
Bosnian srednji | ||
Bulgarian средна | ||
Catalan mig | ||
Cebuano tunga-tunga | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 中间 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 中間 | ||
Corsican mezu | ||
Croatian srednji | ||
Czech střední | ||
Danish midt | ||
Dhivehi މެދު | ||
Dogri बश्कार | ||
Dutch midden- | ||
English middle | ||
Esperanto meza | ||
Estonian keskel | ||
Ewe titina | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) gitna | ||
Finnish keskellä | ||
French milieu | ||
Frisian midden | ||
Galician medio | ||
Georgian შუა | ||
German mitte | ||
Greek μέση | ||
Guarani mbyte | ||
Gujarati મધ્ય | ||
Haitian Creole mitan | ||
Hausa tsakiya | ||
Hawaiian waena | ||
Hebrew אֶמצַע | ||
Hindi मध्य | ||
Hmong nruab nrab | ||
Hungarian középső | ||
Icelandic miðja | ||
Igbo etiti | ||
Ilocano tengnga | ||
Indonesian tengah | ||
Irish lár | ||
Italian mezzo | ||
Japanese 中間 | ||
Javanese tengah | ||
Kannada ಮಧ್ಯದಲ್ಲಿ | ||
Kazakh ортаңғы | ||
Khmer កណ្តាល | ||
Kinyarwanda hagati | ||
Konkani मदलें | ||
Korean 가운데 | ||
Krio midul | ||
Kurdish navîn | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) ناوەڕاست | ||
Kyrgyz ортоңку | ||
Lao ກາງ | ||
Latin medium | ||
Latvian vidū | ||
Lingala katikati | ||
Lithuanian viduryje | ||
Luganda mumassekkati | ||
Luxembourgish mëtt | ||
Macedonian среден | ||
Maithili मध्य | ||
Malagasy moyen- | ||
Malay tengah | ||
Malayalam മധ്യത്തിൽ | ||
Maltese nofs | ||
Maori waenga | ||
Marathi मध्यम | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯃꯌꯥꯏ | ||
Mizo lai | ||
Mongolian дунд | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အလယ်တန်း | ||
Nepali मध्य | ||
Norwegian midten | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) pakati | ||
Odia (Oriya) ମ middle ି | ||
Oromo gidduu | ||
Pashto وچ | ||
Persian وسط | ||
Polish środkowy | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) meio | ||
Punjabi ਮੱਧ | ||
Quechua chawpi | ||
Romanian mijloc | ||
Russian средний | ||
Samoan ogatotonu | ||
Sanskrit मध्यं | ||
Scots Gaelic meadhan | ||
Sepedi bogareng | ||
Serbian средњи | ||
Sesotho bohareng | ||
Shona pakati | ||
Sindhi وچ | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) මැද | ||
Slovak stredný | ||
Slovenian srednji | ||
Somali dhexe | ||
Spanish medio | ||
Sundanese tengahna | ||
Swahili katikati | ||
Swedish mitten | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) gitna | ||
Tajik миёна | ||
Tamil நடுத்தர | ||
Tatar урта | ||
Telugu మధ్య | ||
Thai กลาง | ||
Tigrinya ማእኸል | ||
Tsonga xikarhi | ||
Turkish orta | ||
Turkmen ortasy | ||
Twi (Akan) mfimfini | ||
Ukrainian середній | ||
Urdu وسط | ||
Uyghur ئوتتۇرى | ||
Uzbek o'rta | ||
Vietnamese ở giữa | ||
Welsh canol | ||
Xhosa phakathi | ||
Yiddish מיטן | ||
Yoruba agbedemeji | ||
Zulu maphakathi |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word 'middel' in Afrikaans is derived from the Dutch word 'midden', which originally meant 'in the midst' or 'among'. In English, 'middel' is cognate with 'midst' and 'middle'. |
| Albanian | The Albanian word "e mesme" is also used to refer to a person of intermediate age or status. |
| Arabic | In Arabic, "وسط" (middle) is also used as a measure of density, with a heavy density being "كثيف الوسط" and a light density being "خفيف الوسط". |
| Armenian | In addition to its primary meaning of "middle," "միջին" can also mean "average" or "mean." |
| Azerbaijani | Orta can also mean "average" or "ordinary" in Azeri. |
| Basque | Erdikoa (middle in Basque) comes from the word "erdia" (half), and can also mean "halfway" or "in the middle." |
| Belarusian | The word "сярэдні" comes from the Old Belarusian word "среда", which means "heart", or "core". |
| Bengali | The Bengali word "মধ্যম" can also mean "medium", "fair", or "moderate". |
| Bosnian | The word 'srednji' is etymologically related to the Proto-Indo-European root *medhyo-, which also gave rise to the English word 'mid'. |
| Bulgarian | The word 'средна' has a variety of meanings in Bulgarian, ranging from 'average' to 'central' and 'neutral'. |
| Catalan | Mig in Catalan derives from the Latin "medius" meaning "middle", but it can also refer to a "waist" or "middle point". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 中间 can also mean "mediator" or "middleman", derived from its original meaning of "being in the center". |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 中間 also refers to the intermediate stage or state of something. |
| Corsican | The word "mezu" in Corsican originates from the Latin word "medius", which also means "middle". It can have additional meanings, such as "halfway" or "in between." |
| Croatian | In addition to its primary meaning of 'middle', 'srednji' can also mean 'average' or 'moderate' in Croatian. |
| Czech | The word "střední" can also mean "secondary" or "intermediate". |
| Danish | The word "midt" is etymologically related to the English word "mid" and the German word "mitte". |
| Dutch | The archaic suffix 'midden-' can also mean 'centre' or 'half'. |
| Esperanto | The word 'meza' also means 'average' or 'moderate' in Esperanto. |
| Estonian | The word "keskel" derives from the Proto-Finnic word "keski", which referred to a midpoint or a central point. |
| Finnish | "Keskellä" can also mean "among" or "amidst". |
| French | In French, »milieu« can also mean the social or environmental context in which someone lives. |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "midden" also means "garbage heap" and is related to the English word "midden" with the same meaning. |
| Galician | In Galician, "medio" can also mean "half" or "waist." |
| Georgian | The word "შუა" derives from the Proto-Kartvelian root *šu- ('to be between'). |
| German | The word 'Mitte' is also used in German geography to indicate the central part of a city or town. |
| Greek | Originally, the word 'μέση' (middle) signified the waist or belly and referred to the middle part of the body. |
| Gujarati | In Hindi, 'madhya' can also refer to the waist or trunk of the human body. |
| Haitian Creole | The word 'mitan' in Haitian Creole also means 'home' or 'family' |
| Hausa | "Tsakiya" originally meant "noon", from the root "tsaka" meaning "to be high" or "to be at the zenith", and was later extended to mean "middle" in a broader sense. |
| Hawaiian | Waena may also mean "center, hub, or middle of the body" in Hawaiian. |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "אֶמצַע" has alternate meanings, such as "midst" or "inner part" |
| Hindi | The word "मध्य" can also refer to "a point on the equator of a celestial sphere" or a "part, section, or chapter of a book." |
| Hmong | Nruab nrab is also the central section of the house where people sleep. |
| Hungarian | The word "középső" can also refer to the middle child in a family, or to an intermediate or average value. |
| Icelandic | In addition to its literal meaning of "middle", "miðja" is also used in Icelandic to refer to the part of the back below the neck, and in the phrase "miðja úti" meaning "right in the middle of something" |
| Igbo | The Igbo word 'etiti' can mean the point between the two ends of a line and, metaphorically, a person who serves as an intermediary. |
| Indonesian | "Tengah" also refers to the time of sunrise or dusk, reflecting the time when the sun reaches the middle point in the sky. |
| Irish | The Irish word 'lár' also denotes the centre of an assembly or group, as opposed to a physical middle point. |
| Italian | "Mezzo" can also mean "half" or "medium" in Italian. |
| Japanese | Although the literal translation of 「中間」 is "middle", it can also refer to an "interim", "moderate", or even a "middleman". |
| Javanese | "Tengah" also means "to be in the middle of something", and is often used to describe a person who is mediating a dispute. |
| Kannada | The word "ಮಧ್ಯದಲ್ಲಿ" can also refer to "waist" or the "middle of a river" in Kannada. |
| Kazakh | The word "ортаңғы" also means "average" or "medium" in Kazakh. |
| Khmer | The Khmer word "កណ្តាល" originally meant "to split" or "to divide." |
| Korean | "가운데" originates from "가두(between/intercalation):우(in)데" (the place intercalated in), and also means the spine (literally, the bone in the middle [of one's body])." |
| Kurdish | The word "navîn" in Kurdish can also refer to the act of changing or renewing something. |
| Kyrgyz | The word "ортоңку" derives from Proto-Turkic and ultimately derives from Proto-Uralic *ortə "middle". It is still found in many Turkic languages and Uralic languages, such as Mongolian and Finnish. |
| Lao | ກາງ can also be the word of origin for a family name and used to indicate an average point in a scale. |
| Latin | In Latin, "medium" also denotes an arbitrator or intermediary, linking its literal meaning of "middle" to its figurative sense of connection. |
| Latvian | The word "vidū" can also refer to the waist, midpoint, or center of something. |
| Lithuanian | Related words: viduris (intestines, stomach), vidinis, vidurybė. |
| Luxembourgish | The Luxembourgish word "Mëtt" is also used to refer to a type of cured pork sausage or ham. |
| Macedonian | The word "среден" in Macedonian can also mean "intermediate" or "average". |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "moyen" can also derive from Old French, where it means "moderate" or "sufficient". |
| Malay | The word tengah can also refer to the waist, which is the central part of the body. |
| Malayalam | The word "മധ്യത്തിൽ" also means "in the center" or "in the middle of" in Malayalam. |
| Maltese | 'Nofs' comes from the Arabic 'nufs' or half, which originally meant 'essence' (of a person) |
| Maori | Waenga also denotes the space between people, physical objects, or abstract concepts such as time or knowledge. |
| Marathi | The word "मध्यम" in Marathi can also mean "neutral" or "moderate". |
| Mongolian | The word "дунд" also means "center" or "middle ground" in Mongolian. |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | အလယ်တန်း also refers to a stage in the Burmese education system typically corresponding to grades 5 to 9, which is roughly equivalent to middle school in the United States. |
| Nepali | The word "मध्य" also has meanings including "midst", "centre", and "central part". |
| Norwegian | The word "midten" can also mean "the center" or "the middle of something". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "pakati" in Nyanja also means "between" and "among". |
| Pashto | The word "وچ" in Pashto also means "within" or "in the middle of" something. |
| Persian | The Persian word "وسط" can also refer to the waist or abdomen, a central point or area, a medium or moderate amount, or an intermediary. |
| Polish | The Polish word "środkowy" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *sъredъ, which also meant "heart" and "core". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | Meio is also an adverb meaning halfway or an adjective meaning middling. |
| Punjabi | In Punjabi, the word "ਮੱਧ" can also mean a group or assembly. |
| Romanian | In Romanian, the word "mijloc" also means "way" or "means". |
| Russian | The word "средний" also means "average" or "mediocre". |
| Samoan | The word 'ogatotonu' can also refer to a medium-sized piece of something, such as a piece of fruit or a piece of meat. |
| Scots Gaelic | The word meadhan also shares its root with various other terms denoting centrality, such as meadhachainn "mediator" and meadhonair "interceder" and meadhonach, the Gaelic name for the town now known as Denny. |
| Serbian | The word "средњи" can also mean "average" or "intermediate". |
| Sesotho | The word "bohareng" in Sesotho is also used to refer to the center of something, such as a circle or a group of people. |
| Shona | Pakati may also refer to an axis around which something rotates. |
| Sindhi | Sindhi word "وچ" (middle) derives from Sanskrit "madhya" (middle, midst) |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "මැද" has ancient Indo-Aryan roots, and is found in all three modern Indo-Aryan languages of Sri Lanka, Sinhala, Tamil, and Malayalam. While in Sinhala it has the same meaning as in Sanskrit, "madhya", meaning "middle," in Tamil, "maṯiyal," it denotes "heart" and "mind," and in Malayalam, "maṯyam," it signifies "a fish." |
| Slovak | The word "stredný" is also used to describe something that is located in the middle of a group or series, or that is of average quality. |
| Slovenian | "Srednji" is also used to describe the middle class or the middle ages. |
| Somali | Its literal meaning is 'half' or 'the one that divides,' reflecting its function as a dividing point. |
| Spanish | The Spanish word "medio" can also mean half or environment. |
| Sundanese | In certain Sundanese dialects, "tengahna" can also mean "center" or "midpoint." |
| Swahili | In Swahili, the word "katikati" can also mean "in between" or "amongst". |
| Swedish | The first part of "mitten" is related to "mud" and the latter part to an old word for "glove". Hence, a mitten literally means a "mud glove". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Gitna" shares the same root as the word "tigilan", meaning a place where one stops or remains. |
| Tajik | The word "миёна" (middle) can also mean "waist" or "between" in Tajik. |
| Tamil | நடுத்தர is also a Tamil word used to describe people or things that represent the average or mainstream. |
| Telugu | The word "మధ్య" can also mean "among" or "between". |
| Thai | The word "กลาง" can also mean "neutral" or "impartial". |
| Turkish | "Orta" can come from Arabic (وسطة; wasta) for "middle"} |
| Ukrainian | The word “середній” can also mean average, normal or usual in Ukrainian. |
| Urdu | The word وسط (middle) in Urdu can also mean the center of something, or the waist of a person. |
| Uzbek | The word "o'rta" can also refer to the equator, the waist, or a median value. |
| Vietnamese | 'Ở giữa' also refers to a location or group that is neither on the edge nor at the center. |
| Welsh | Old Welsh 'canawl' means 'pipe' or 'groove', a sense which survives in the compound 'canolffos' ('gutter') |
| Xhosa | The word "phakathi" in Xhosa can also be used to refer to the "inside" of something. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "מיטן" can also refer to a meeting or an assembly. |
| Yoruba | "Agbedemeji" in Yoruba also refers to the "waist" or "navel". |
| Zulu | Maphakathi also refers to a mediator in conflict resolutions or a go-between in a relationship |
| English | The word 'middle' comes from the Old English word 'middel', which could also mean 'waist' or 'centre' |