Pour in Different Languages
Discover 'Pour' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Pour
Afrikaans vir | ||
Albanian për | ||
Amharic ለ | ||
Arabic إلى عن على | ||
Armenian համար | ||
Assamese বাবে | ||
Aymara taki | ||
Azerbaijani üçün | ||
Bambara kosɔn | ||
Basque for | ||
Belarusian для | ||
Bengali জন্য | ||
Bhojpuri खातिर | ||
Bosnian for | ||
Bulgarian за | ||
Catalan per | ||
Cebuano kay | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 对于 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 對於 | ||
Corsican per | ||
Croatian za | ||
Czech pro | ||
Danish til | ||
Dhivehi އަށް | ||
Dogri लेई | ||
Dutch voor | ||
English pour | ||
Esperanto por | ||
Estonian eest | ||
Ewe elabena | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) para sa | ||
Finnish varten | ||
French pour | ||
Frisian foar | ||
Galician para | ||
Georgian ამისთვის | ||
German zum | ||
Greek για | ||
Guarani g̃uarã | ||
Gujarati માટે | ||
Haitian Creole pou | ||
Hausa domin | ||
Hawaiian no ka mea | ||
Hebrew ל | ||
Hindi के लिये | ||
Hmong rau | ||
Hungarian mert | ||
Icelandic fyrir | ||
Igbo maka | ||
Ilocano para | ||
Indonesian untuk | ||
Irish le haghaidh | ||
Italian per | ||
Japanese にとって | ||
Javanese kanggo | ||
Kannada ಗಾಗಿ | ||
Kazakh үшін | ||
Khmer សម្រាប់ | ||
Kinyarwanda kuri | ||
Konkani खातीर | ||
Korean ...에 대한 | ||
Krio fɔ | ||
Kurdish bo | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) بۆ | ||
Kyrgyz үчүн | ||
Lao ສຳ ລັບ | ||
Latin quia | ||
Latvian priekš | ||
Lingala na | ||
Lithuanian dėl | ||
Luganda a | ||
Luxembourgish fir | ||
Macedonian за | ||
Maithili क लेल | ||
Malagasy ho an'ny | ||
Malay untuk | ||
Malayalam വേണ്ടി | ||
Maltese għal | ||
Maori hoki | ||
Marathi च्या साठी | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯃꯔꯃꯗꯤ ꯑꯦꯟ.ꯗꯤ.ꯑꯦ | ||
Mizo tan | ||
Mongolian нь | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အဘို့ | ||
Nepali को लागी | ||
Norwegian til | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) chifukwa | ||
Odia (Oriya) ପାଇଁ | ||
Oromo f | ||
Pashto لپاره | ||
Persian برای | ||
Polish dla | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) para | ||
Punjabi ਲਈ | ||
Quechua para | ||
Romanian pentru | ||
Russian за | ||
Samoan aua | ||
Sanskrit कृते | ||
Scots Gaelic airson | ||
Sepedi ya | ||
Serbian за | ||
Sesotho bakeng sa | ||
Shona nokuti | ||
Sindhi لاءِ | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) සදහා | ||
Slovak pre | ||
Slovenian za | ||
Somali loogu talagalay | ||
Spanish para | ||
Sundanese pikeun | ||
Swahili kwa | ||
Swedish för | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) para sa | ||
Tajik барои | ||
Tamil க்கு | ||
Tatar өчен | ||
Telugu కోసం | ||
Thai สำหรับ | ||
Tigrinya ን | ||
Tsonga swa | ||
Turkish için | ||
Turkmen üçin | ||
Twi (Akan) ma | ||
Ukrainian для | ||
Urdu کے لئے | ||
Uyghur for | ||
Uzbek uchun | ||
Vietnamese cho | ||
Welsh canys | ||
Xhosa ye | ||
Yiddish פֿאַר | ||
Yoruba fun | ||
Zulu ngoba |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | In Afrikaans, "vir" also means "for", indicating the purpose or recipient of an action. |
| Albanian | Për derives from Proto-Indo-European root *per- ('forward, across, beyond, through') hence also Latin per 'through'. |
| Amharic | The word 'ለ' in Amharic can also mean 'for' or 'to' when used in certain contexts. |
| Arabic | An alternate spelling is “إلى على عن”, which literally means “on the head.” |
| Armenian | The word "համար" (hamar) can also mean "for the sake of" or "in order to". |
| Azerbaijani | "Üçün" is one of the most polysemous verbs in Azerbaijani language – it has no less than 9 different meanings related to pouring, filling, moving a liquid and/or a granular substance. |
| Basque | In Basque, "for" (pronounced "pour") also means "towards" or "in the direction of". |
| Belarusian | "для" also means "for" in Belarusian. |
| Bengali | জন্য" also means cause or purpose, such as "জন্য দুঃখ পাই" (I feel sorry for). |
| Bosnian | In Bosnian, 'za' can also mean 'for a limited period of time', derived from the Proto-Slavic preposition 'za' meaning 'along'. |
| Bulgarian | Bulgarian word "за" is also a preposition with multiple meanings, including "for", "about" and "in defense of". |
| Catalan | In Catalan, "per" also means "by". |
| Cebuano | "Kay" can also refer to a type of sweet sticky rice dessert in the Visayan islands. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | In Chinese, "对于" can also mean "about", "toward", or "in relation to." |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 對於 (dùi yú) can also mean towards, facing, regarding, about, or in comparison with. |
| Corsican | The word "per" in Corsican can also mean "through" or "by means of". |
| Croatian | In Croatian, "za" also means "for" or "behind" and comes from Proto-Slavic "za" with the same meanings. |
| Czech | In Czech, "pro" can also mean "about", "for", "towards", or "in favor of". |
| Danish | In Danish, "til" can also mean "in order to" or "towards". |
| Dutch | "Voor" can also mean, among other things, "in front of" or "ahead of. |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word "por" can also mean "for the benefit of" or "in order to." |
| Estonian | Eest can also mean 'first' in archaic speech and in a poetic sense. |
| Finnish | The word "varten" is also used to mean "for", and is related to the word "varata" ("to prepare"). |
| French | The French word "pour" can also mean "for" or "in order to." |
| Frisian | Foar in Frisian also means "the front" and "in front of". |
| Galician | The Galician word "para" derives from the Greek word "parà", which in addition to meaning "pour", can also mean "beside", "near", or "against". |
| German | The German word "zum" is derived from the Middle High German word "zuo" which also means "to" or "towards". |
| Greek | In colloquial Greek, "Για" can also mean "in order to" or "for the sake of". |
| Gujarati | The word "માટે" can also mean "for" or "in order to". |
| Haitian Creole | In Haitian Creole, "pou" can also mean "in order to" or "for the purpose of". |
| Hausa | In Hausa, "domin" also means to discharge a liquid or gas, and to shed (e.g., tears). |
| Hawaiian | The phrase "no ka mea" can also mean "because of" or "for the benefit of" in Hawaiian. |
| Hebrew | The word ל (pour) can also mean "to" |
| Hindi | The word "के लिये" comes from the Sanskrit word "कृते" meaning "for the sake of" or "on behalf of". |
| Hmong | It also refers to casting a fishing net into the water. |
| Hungarian | In Hungarian, "mert" ("why") originated from "mert" ("pour") via the meaning "because (of)", similar to "since"'s history in English. |
| Icelandic | The word "fyrir" can mean both "pour" and "for" in Icelandic, and it is often used in the context of making a toast or a speech. |
| Igbo | Maka can also mean 'to give' and is a prefix in some Igbo names |
| Indonesian | The Indonesian word "untuk" also means "to" or "for". |
| Irish | While 'le haghaidh' can mean 'pour' (as in pouring a liquid), it can also mean 'for' or 'towards' (as in 'working for a goal'). |
| Italian | In Italian, "per" can mean either "through" or "for," depending on the context. |
| Japanese | The character 「取」 in 「にとって」 originally meant "seize," and the "for" meaning developed via the idea of "taking for oneself." |
| Javanese | The Javanese word "kanggo" can also mean "with" or "to". |
| Kannada | It also means an idiom of 'doing something on someone's behalf or to benefit them'. |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "үшін" can also refer to "for the purpose of" or "in exchange for". |
| Khmer | The word "សម្រាប់" (pour) in Khmer can also mean "because" or "for the purpose of."} |
| Korean | The word "...에 대한" can also mean "with respect to" or "about". |
| Kurdish | The word “bo” can also mean “to carry” or “to hold” in some Kurdish dialects. |
| Kyrgyz | The Kyrgyz word "үчүн" has origins from the Mongolian word "үхэн" which also means to pour, spill or scatter. |
| Latin | The Latin word "quia" also means "because". |
| Latvian | The Latvian word "priekš" is also a preposition meaning "for" or "before". |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word "dėl" also means "because" or "for". |
| Luxembourgish | "Fir'' (to pour) in the Luxembourgish language stems from the Old High German 'firran' meaning to go or to travel. |
| Macedonian | The word "за" in Macedonian can also mean "for," "because," or "to." |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "HO AN'NY" can also mean "to give" or "to bestow". |
| Malay | The word "untuk" in Malay can also mean "for", "in order to", or "in exchange for". |
| Malayalam | The word "വേണ്ടി" in Malayalam is cognate with the word "vandi" in Sanskrit meaning "to obtain" or "to procure". |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "għal" can also mean "to", "for", or "on behalf of". |
| Maori | Hoki can also refer to a type of fish, a game similar to hockey, and a type of Māori dance. |
| Marathi | The word "च्या साठी" can also mean "for the sake of" or "in order to". |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word "нь" not only means "to pour", but also denotes "to be born" and "to be created". |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The word "အဘို့" ("pour") in Myanmar (Burmese) also means "on behalf of" or "for the sake of". |
| Nepali | The word "को लागी" can also mean "for whom" in Nepali. |
| Norwegian | In certain dialects, "til" can also mean "to" or "towards". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "chifukwa" may also refer to a reason or explanation. |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "لپاره" ("lapare") also means "to scatter" or "to sprinkle". |
| Persian | The Persian word "برای" is also used to mean "for the purpose of" or "on behalf of". |
| Polish | In Polish, "dla" can also mean "for the purpose of" or "for the benefit of". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "para" in Portuguese can also mean "for". |
| Punjabi | The word "ਲਈ" in Punjabi can also mean "for" or "in order to". |
| Romanian | "Pentru" can also mean "in exchange for" or "instead of" in addition to "to pour". |
| Russian | The word "за" in Russian can also mean "against", "for", "about", or "in". |
| Samoan | In Samoan, "aua" can also mean "to drip" or "to leak". |
| Scots Gaelic | The word 'airson' in Scots Gaelic can also mean 'for', 'on account of', or 'to the purpose of'. |
| Serbian | The Serbian word "за" can also mean "behind" or "for". |
| Sesotho | The word 'bakeng sa' can also refer to the act of giving something to someone. |
| Shona | The Shona word 'nokuti' can also mean 'to speak' or 'to talk'. |
| Sindhi | In Sindhi, the word "لاءِ" may also refer to a person who provides hospitality and shelter to travelers. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "සදහා" can also mean "to place" or "to deposit" in Sinhala. |
| Slovak | The Slovak word "pre" also means "for" or "in favour of", as in "pre ľudí" (for people). |
| Slovenian | The word "za" in Slovenian can also mean "for" or "because of" |
| Somali | The term "loogu talagalay" means "to throw water" in the sense of making it go from a container to ground and not in the sense of throwing a solid object like a ball. |
| Spanish | The Spanish word "para" can also mean "in order to" or "for the purpose of". |
| Sundanese | Pikeun can also mean 'to fill a container with a liquid' |
| Swahili | The word 'kwa' in Swahili can also mean 'in', 'at', 'to', 'on' or 'by'. |
| Swedish | Cognate with Danish "for", Norwegian "for", and English "fore"; ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- "forward". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | Para sa is also used as a preposition meaning 'for' or 'to' to indicate purpose or destination. |
| Tajik | The Tajik word "барои" (pour) also means "for" and is derived from the Persian word "برای" (for). |
| Tamil | In older Tamil, 'க்கு' could also mean 'giving', 'to attain', or 'to get'. |
| Telugu | The word "కోసం" also means "for" or "in order to" in Telugu. |
| Thai | "สำหรับ" (pour) also means "for" and "as for". |
| Turkish | The word "için" in Turkish can also mean "for" or "in order to." |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word "для" can also mean "for" or "in order to." |
| Urdu | The Urdu word "کے لئے" not only means "pour" but also means "for", as in "intended for" or "directed towards." |
| Uzbek | The word "uchun" can also mean "to sprinkle" or "to splash" in Uzbek. |
| Vietnamese | In Vietnamese, "cho" can also mean "to ask" or "to rent". |
| Welsh | The word "canys" can also refer to a spout, tap, or nozzle. |
| Xhosa | In Xhosa, 'ye' is not only used to mean 'pour,' but also refers to the action of 'emptying' something out. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "פֿאַר" can also mean "for" or "in front of." |
| Yoruba | "Fun" can also denote "to turn" which is what one does to a door handle to open or lock a door |
| Zulu | The noun 'ngoba' also means 'a drink of beer; draught' in Zulu. |
| English | The word "pour" is derived from the Middle English word "purren," meaning "to push or thrust". |