Of in Different Languages
Discover 'Of' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Of
Afrikaans van | ||
Albanian e | ||
Amharic የ | ||
Arabic من | ||
Armenian ի | ||
Assamese ৰ | ||
Aymara ta | ||
Azerbaijani of | ||
Bambara ka | ||
Basque de | ||
Belarusian з | ||
Bengali এর | ||
Bhojpuri का | ||
Bosnian od | ||
Bulgarian на | ||
Catalan de | ||
Cebuano sa | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 的 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 的 | ||
Corsican di | ||
Croatian od | ||
Czech z | ||
Danish af | ||
Dhivehi ގެ... | ||
Dogri आहला | ||
Dutch van | ||
English of | ||
Esperanto de | ||
Estonian kohta | ||
Ewe ƒe | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) ng | ||
Finnish / | ||
French de | ||
Frisian fan | ||
Galician de | ||
Georgian საქართველოს | ||
German von | ||
Greek του | ||
Guarani gua | ||
Gujarati ની | ||
Haitian Creole nan | ||
Hausa na | ||
Hawaiian o ka | ||
Hebrew שֶׁל | ||
Hindi का | ||
Hmong ntawm | ||
Hungarian nak,-nek | ||
Icelandic af | ||
Igbo nke | ||
Ilocano iti | ||
Indonesian dari | ||
Irish de | ||
Italian di | ||
Japanese の | ||
Javanese saka | ||
Kannada ನ | ||
Kazakh туралы | ||
Khmer នៃ | ||
Kinyarwanda bya | ||
Konkani चें | ||
Korean 의 | ||
Krio ɔf | ||
Kurdish ji | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) لە | ||
Kyrgyz боюнча | ||
Lao ຂອງ | ||
Latin autem | ||
Latvian gada | ||
Lingala ya | ||
Lithuanian apie | ||
Luganda -a | ||
Luxembourgish vun | ||
Macedonian на | ||
Maithili क | ||
Malagasy ny | ||
Malay daripada | ||
Malayalam ന്റെ | ||
Maltese ta ' | ||
Maori tuhinga o mua | ||
Marathi च्या | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯑꯣꯐ | ||
Mizo tan | ||
Mongolian -ийн | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ၏ | ||
Nepali को | ||
Norwegian av | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) ya | ||
Odia (Oriya) ର | ||
Oromo kan | ||
Pashto د | ||
Persian از | ||
Polish z | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) do | ||
Punjabi ਦੇ | ||
Quechua de | ||
Romanian de | ||
Russian из | ||
Samoan o | ||
Sanskrit इत्यस्य | ||
Scots Gaelic de | ||
Sepedi ya | ||
Serbian од | ||
Sesotho ea | ||
Shona of | ||
Sindhi جو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) වල | ||
Slovak z | ||
Slovenian od | ||
Somali ee | ||
Spanish de | ||
Sundanese tina | ||
Swahili ya | ||
Swedish av | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) ng | ||
Tajik аз | ||
Tamil of | ||
Tatar of | ||
Telugu యొక్క | ||
Thai ของ | ||
Tigrinya ካብ | ||
Tsonga ya | ||
Turkish nın-nin | ||
Turkmen of | ||
Twi (Akan) firi | ||
Ukrainian з | ||
Urdu کے | ||
Uyghur of | ||
Uzbek ning | ||
Vietnamese của | ||
Welsh o | ||
Xhosa ye | ||
Yiddish פון | ||
Yoruba ti | ||
Zulu ye |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word 'van' can also mean 'from', 'by', or 'with'. |
| Albanian | In Albanian, “e” can also mean “in” or “from” depending on the context. |
| Amharic | The word "የ" in Amharic also denotes origin (like Latin "ex"), possession, material, price, and instrument or means. |
| Arabic | In Semitic linguistics, the word "من" relates etymologically to the notion of separation. |
| Armenian | When preceding a noun or pronoun in the dative case, ի can mean "to, for". |
| Azerbaijani | In Azerbaijani, "of" ("nin") can also mean "belonging to" or "related to". |
| Basque | The Basque word "de" can also refer to the third person singular possessive, as in "etxekoa", 'his/her/its home'. |
| Belarusian | The preposition "з" in Belarusian can also mean "from". |
| Bengali | In some contexts, the word "এর" can also denote possession, like "এর বই" (his/her book). |
| Bosnian | The Slavic genitive case particle "од" has also been preserved in some Bosnian expressions, meaning "without" (e.g., "од дашка" means "without a breath"). |
| Bulgarian | "На" in Bulgarian can also mean "on" or "at" depending on the context, and when preceding a name with the letter "й" as in "на Йордан" it translates to "on Jordan's day". |
| Catalan | In Catalan "de" may also mean "from" or "out of". |
| Cebuano | "Sa" also means "the" in the sense of a place, state, or time. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 的 in Mandarin can also mean "certain" or "in a manner," serving as a determiner or adverb respectively. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The character "的" can also indicate a subject's attribute, possession, or the result of an action. |
| Corsican | In the preposition 'di' the 'i' can be pronounced as the first person possessive pronoun, in which case it can be translated to 'my'. For example, 'di Petru' means both 'of Peter' and 'Peter's'. |
| Croatian | In Old Church Slavonic and Croatian literature, the preposition “od” corresponds to Latin “ab, de” (odabrati = “abire, deligere”). |
| Czech | The |
| Danish | The word 'af' in Danish can also mean 'by' or 'from' in most contexts, except when it's used in possessive form. |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "van" can also be used as a preposition meaning "from" or "by". |
| Esperanto | The preposition “de” can also carry several different meanings within a given sentence. |
| Estonian | Kohta can have other meanings such as "soon" or "place" |
| Finnish | The word '/' ('of') has several other meanings, including 'or', 'out of', 'from', and 'until'. |
| French | In French, "de" also has other meanings, such as "from", "by", "to", and "about". |
| Frisian | The word "fan" in Frisian can also mean "fin" or "flag". |
| Galician | In Galician, "de" often conveys a sense of belonging or origin, similar to the English preposition "from". |
| German | In German, "von" can also imply noble lineage or descent from a noble family. |
| Greek | The word 'του' in Greek could originally refer to motion toward a place. |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "ની" can also be used informally to mean "that" or "those". |
| Haitian Creole | Nan ('of') derives from the French 'dans' ('in') or the Spanish 'en' ('in'). |
| Hausa | The Hausa word "na" can also mean "for," "by," or "with." |
| Hawaiian | 'O ka' can also be a contraction of 'o ke', which means 'of the' |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "שֶׁל" can also mean "from" or "belonging to". |
| Hindi | Hindi "का" is derived from Prakrit "ओ" (o) which meant "belonging to". |
| Hmong | The word "ntawm" can also be used to mean "at" or "in" in Hmong. |
| Hungarian | The genitive suffix **-nak, -nek** developed from the postposition **né**, which in earlier language meant **inside**. In older texts it is frequently written together with the nouns, as it is now with personal nouns. |
| Icelandic | "Af" also means "after, off, down, from, out, of" in Icelandic. |
| Igbo | "Nke" is also used in Igbo to refer to something belonging to a person or group, similar to the English word "possession". |
| Indonesian | The word "dari" can also mean "from" or "since" depending on the context. |
| Irish | In Irish, 'de' can also mean 'from' or 'concerning'. |
| Italian | The particle 'di' can be the equivalent of 'from' or 'by' in some contexts. |
| Japanese | The particle の (no) can also indicate possession, meaning, or material. |
| Javanese | The word "saka" in Javanese also means "year" and is derived from the Sanskrit word "saka" meaning "era". |
| Kannada | The Kannada word ನ (na) can also mean 'to' or 'for'. |
| Kazakh | Also means “concerning something and its features” or “in the direction of”. |
| Khmer | The word "នៃ" in Khmer can also refer to "because of" or "in terms of". |
| Korean | The Korean word 의 can also mean "by" or "for" in English. |
| Kurdish | In addition, the word "ji" is used in Kurdish to mean "from" or "than". |
| Kyrgyz | The word "боюнча" in Kyrgyz is derived from the Old Turkic word "boγun" meaning "neck" or "yoke". |
| Lao | The word "ຂອງ" in Lao is derived from the Pali "ku°ha" and has a secondary meaning of "to be able". |
| Latin | The Latin word "autem" also means "but" or "however" and is often used to introduce a contrast or adversative clause. |
| Latvian | The word "gada" in Latvian can also mean "about" or "concerning". |
| Lithuanian | Lithuanian "apie" comes from Indo-European root *upo, meaning "over," "near," "around," or "upon," also found in Ancient Greek "ὑπέ" and Latin "sub". |
| Macedonian | The word "на" in Macedonian can also mean "on" or "at". |
| Malagasy | The word "ny" in Malagasy can also mean "the" or "this". |
| Malay | Daripada can also mean 'than' or 'from' in Malay, and is cognate with the preposition 'dari' in Indonesian and 'daripada' in Javanese. |
| Malayalam | The Malayalam word 'ന്റെ' also means 'belonging to' or 'pertaining to'. |
| Maltese | In Maltese, "ta " can also mean "daughter of" or "mother of" when preceding a woman's name. |
| Maori | The word "Tuhinga o mua" in Maori can also refer to ancient writings, history, or ancestry. |
| Marathi | 'च्या' is originally a short form of 'चे' ('the') and 'या' ('this'), meaning 'of this' and used to indicate possession. |
| Mongolian | The word "-ийн" in Mongolian can also be used to express belonging, possession, or origin, similar to the genitive case in other Indo-European languages. |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The Burmese language has a complex system of classifiers that are used to indicate the type of noun being referred to. The classifier ၏ is used for animate nouns. |
| Nepali | The word "को" can also be used to indicate the accusative case, marking the direct object of a verb. |
| Norwegian | In Norwegian, “av” can also mean “from” or “by”. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | "Ya" can also mean 'mother' in Nyanja. |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "د" can also mean "by", "from", or "with", depending on the context |
| Persian | The Persian word "از" ("of") can mean "from" or indicate possession, with slight variations in usage depending on the context. |
| Polish | The Polish word 'z' meaning 'of' comes from the Proto-Slavic root *izъ, which also meant 'of' or 'out'. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, "do" can also mean "from" or "concerning". |
| Punjabi | The word "ਦੇ" can also be used to indicate possession, origin, or source. |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "de" can also mean "from", "by", or "about". |
| Russian | The word "из" in Russian can also mean "from", "out of", or "away from". |
| Samoan | The word "o" can also be used to indicate possession, such as "o le fale" (of the house). |
| Scots Gaelic | The word "de" can also mean "from" or "out of" in Scots Gaelic |
| Serbian | In Old Serbian the word "од" could mean "from" as well as "of". |
| Sesotho | Ea can also indicate source or origin and is used to describe the origin or source of something. |
| Shona | In Shona, the word 'of' can also be used to indicate possession, as in 'the book of him'. |
| Sindhi | "جو" can also mean "in" or "at". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "වල" can also mean "in" or "inside". |
| Slovak | The Slovak word "z" can also mean "from" or "in". |
| Slovenian | The word "od" in Slovenian can also mean "from" or "since" |
| Somali | 'Ee' can also mean 'to' or 'and' in Somali. |
| Spanish | De is also used in Spanish to indicate possession, location, or origin. |
| Sundanese | The word "tina" also means "because of" or "due to" in Sundanese. |
| Swahili | The word "ya" also means "his" or "hers" in possessive constructions. |
| Swedish | Av can also mean "from" or "out of". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | 'Ng' is also known as the word to shorten 'nang' |
| Tajik | The word "аз" (of) also means "from" in Tajik. |
| Tamil | In Tamil, the word "of" has additional meanings such as "because" and "due to". |
| Telugu | Telugu word 'యొక్క' ('of') is used for both genitive and possessive meanings and is a contraction of 'యొక్కట' ('yokatam'), a word which meant 'part' in Proto-Dravidian. |
| Thai | The Thai word "ของ" ("of") can also mean "thing" or "object" and derives from the Mon language. |
| Turkish | Etymology: The word "nın-nin" originates from the Old Turkic suffix "-nıŋ" signifying possession or belonging. |
| Ukrainian | In Ukrainian, the word “з” (“of”) can also convey the meaning of possession, origin, or a starting point. |
| Urdu | The Urdu word "کے" can also refer to the concept of possession or belonging to something. |
| Uzbek | The word "ning" in Uzbek can also mean "belonging to" or "related to". |
| Vietnamese | The word "của" can also mean "belonging to" or "belonging to someone or something" |
| Welsh | The Welsh word "o" can also mean "to" or "on," and can be used to indicate possession or belonging. |
| Xhosa | In Xhosa, the word "ye" can also signify possession, belonging, or identity. |
| Yiddish | As a Yiddish conjunction, 'פון' can also be translated as 'from' when indicating a point of origin. |
| Yoruba | The Yoruba word 'ti', meaning 'of', can also be used to denote possession, ownership, or belonging. |
| Zulu | "Ye" also means "at" in the context of location or time. |
| English | The word "of" can also indicate source, origin, or content. |