Remote in Different Languages
Discover 'Remote' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Remote
Afrikaans afgeleë | ||
Albanian i largët | ||
Amharic የርቀት | ||
Arabic التحكم عن بعد | ||
Armenian հեռավոր | ||
Assamese দূৰৱৰ্তী | ||
Aymara rimutu | ||
Azerbaijani uzaqdan | ||
Bambara samanen | ||
Basque urrunekoa | ||
Belarusian дыстанцыйны | ||
Bengali দূরবর্তী | ||
Bhojpuri दूर में स्थित | ||
Bosnian daljinski | ||
Bulgarian дистанционно | ||
Catalan remot | ||
Cebuano hilit | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 远程 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 遠程 | ||
Corsican luntani | ||
Croatian daljinski | ||
Czech dálkový | ||
Danish fjern | ||
Dhivehi ރިމޯޓް | ||
Dogri रिमोट | ||
Dutch afgelegen | ||
English remote | ||
Esperanto fora | ||
Estonian kaugjuhtimispult | ||
Ewe si gbɔ dzi dzi | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) remote | ||
Finnish etä | ||
French éloigné | ||
Frisian ôfstân | ||
Galician remoto | ||
Georgian დისტანციური | ||
German fernbedienung | ||
Greek μακρινός | ||
Guarani mombyryeterei | ||
Gujarati દૂરસ્થ | ||
Haitian Creole aleka | ||
Hausa nesa | ||
Hawaiian mamao loa | ||
Hebrew מְרוּחָק | ||
Hindi दूरस्थ | ||
Hmong tej thaj chaw deb | ||
Hungarian távoli | ||
Icelandic fjarlægur | ||
Igbo n'ime obodo | ||
Ilocano nauneg | ||
Indonesian terpencil | ||
Irish iargúlta | ||
Italian a distanza | ||
Japanese リモート | ||
Javanese remot | ||
Kannada ರಿಮೋಟ್ | ||
Kazakh қашықтан | ||
Khmer ពីចម្ងាយ | ||
Kinyarwanda kure | ||
Konkani पयसुल्लें | ||
Korean 먼 | ||
Krio fa | ||
Kurdish dûr | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) دوور | ||
Kyrgyz алыскы | ||
Lao ຫ່າງໄກສອກຫຼີກ | ||
Latin remote | ||
Latvian tālvadības pults | ||
Lingala mosika | ||
Lithuanian nuotolinis | ||
Luganda limooti | ||
Luxembourgish ofgeleeën | ||
Macedonian далечински управувач | ||
Maithili दूर सँ | ||
Malagasy mitokana | ||
Malay jauh | ||
Malayalam വിദൂര | ||
Maltese remoti | ||
Maori mamao | ||
Marathi रिमोट | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯃꯅꯨꯡ ꯍꯝꯖꯤꯟꯕ | ||
Mizo hla | ||
Mongolian алсын | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ဝေးလံခေါင်သီ | ||
Nepali टाढा | ||
Norwegian fjernkontroll | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kutali | ||
Odia (Oriya) ସୁଦୂର | ||
Oromo fagoo | ||
Pashto لرې | ||
Persian از راه دور | ||
Polish zdalny | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) controlo remoto | ||
Punjabi ਰਿਮੋਟ | ||
Quechua karu | ||
Romanian la distanta | ||
Russian удаленный | ||
Samoan taumamao | ||
Sanskrit दूरस्थ | ||
Scots Gaelic iomallach | ||
Sepedi kgole | ||
Serbian даљински | ||
Sesotho hole | ||
Shona kure | ||
Sindhi پري | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) දුරස්ථ | ||
Slovak diaľkový | ||
Slovenian na daljavo | ||
Somali fog | ||
Spanish remoto | ||
Sundanese jauh | ||
Swahili kijijini | ||
Swedish avlägsen | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) malayo | ||
Tajik дурдаст | ||
Tamil தொலைநிலை | ||
Tatar дистанцион | ||
Telugu రిమోట్ | ||
Thai ระยะไกล | ||
Tigrinya መቆፃፀሪ | ||
Tsonga kule | ||
Turkish uzak | ||
Turkmen uzakdan | ||
Twi (Akan) akurase tuu | ||
Ukrainian віддалений | ||
Urdu ریموٹ | ||
Uyghur remote | ||
Uzbek uzoqdan | ||
Vietnamese xa xôi | ||
Welsh anghysbell | ||
Xhosa kude | ||
Yiddish ווייַט | ||
Yoruba latọna jijin | ||
Zulu kude |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | "Afgeleë" is also used figuratively to describe a concept or idea that is obscure or difficult to understand. |
| Albanian | The word "i largët" also means "far off" or "distant". |
| Amharic | የርቀት also means 'not close' or 'apart' in Amharic. |
| Armenian | The Armenian word "հեռավոր" (heravor) is cognate with the English word "horror" and has a similar connotation of distance and fear. |
| Azerbaijani | The word 'uzaqdan' in Azerbaijani derives from the Persian word 'uzuk' meaning 'far'. |
| Basque | The word "urrunekoa" in Basque can also mean "distant" or "far-off". |
| Belarusian | "Дыстанцыйны" in Belarusian is an adjective meaning "remote" and also has the additional meaning of "distant in time or place". |
| Bengali | "দূরবর্তী" (remote) comes from the Sanskrit "দূর" (far) and "বর্তী" (dwelling), meaning "dwelling far away". |
| Bosnian | "Daljinski" also means "far" in Bosnian, coming from the word "daleko" which means "far". |
| Bulgarian | Дистанционно also means "remote" in Russian and "long distance" in French. |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "remot" has additional meanings: it can mean a mountain pass, as well as "far away" metaphorically and literally |
| Cebuano | The term "hilit" is a Visayan word that means "distant" or "far from reach". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 远程(yuǎn chéng) means 'remote', 'distant', 'long-distance', or 'tele' when used as an adjective or 'remote operations' when used as a noun |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 遠程 is formed with 遠 (distant) and 程 (journey or distance), hence "distant journey". |
| Corsican | In Corsican, "luntani" also means "in another dimension" or "detached from reality or time." |
| Croatian | Daljinski derives from the Croatian word "daljina" meaning "distance," indicating its function as a device that controls something from afar. |
| Czech | The word "dálkový" can also refer to long-distance, such as "dálkový hovor" (long-distance call) or "dálková autobusová doprava" (long-distance bus transport). |
| Danish | "Fjern" also means "distant", or "away" in Danish. |
| Dutch | The word "afgelegen" can also refer to something that is "secluded" or "isolated". |
| Esperanto | "Fora" also means "except" in Esperanto and it is the past participle of "foriri" (to depart). |
| Estonian | The Estonian word "kaugjuhtimispult" literally translates to "distance steering wheel". |
| Finnish | In addition to its common meaning, "etä" can also mean "distant in time" or "distant in relation to".} |
| French | "Éloigné" comes from "éloigner," which in turn is derived from Old French "alongier," meaning "to make long". |
| Frisian | The word “ôfstân” originally meant 'to stand outside' but now means 'remote' in English. |
| Galician | In Galician, "remoto" does not exist, so it means "remote". |
| German | The German word "Fernbedienung" literally translates to "distance operation" and can also refer to a remote control for a computer. |
| Greek | The word "μακρινός" is derived from the Ancient Greek word "μακρός" (makros), meaning "long" or "distant." |
| Gujarati | The word "દૂરસ્થ" can also mean "difficult to reach or access". |
| Haitian Creole | The word "aleka" can also mean "far from the city" or "not easily accessible" in Haitian Creole. |
| Hausa | The word "nesa" derives from either the Arabic "نسا" (forgetting) or the Hausa "nase" (to scatter). |
| Hawaiian | "Mamao loa" literally means a long stretch of nothingness that goes on for what feels like an eternity. |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word מְרוּחָק (maruchaq), meaning "remote," is related to the word רוּחַ (ruach), meaning "wind." |
| Hindi | The Sanskrit root of "दूरस्थ" is "दूर" meaning "far" or "distant". |
| Hmong | "Tej thaj chaw deb" comes from "tej" (long), "thaj" (far), and "chaw deb" (go), so it literally means to go a long way. |
| Hungarian | The word "távoli" in Hungarian originally meant "foreign" and only later acquired the meaning of "remote". |
| Icelandic | Fjarlægur is also an expression used to describe a person who is aloof or disconnected from others. |
| Igbo | 'N'ime obodo' literally means 'in the bush', highlighting the remoteness of the location. |
| Indonesian | 'Terpencil' means 'remote' in Indonesian, but it also has the alternate meaning of 'poor' or 'in need'. |
| Irish | Irish iargúlta ("remote") derives from Proto-Celtic *argos ("distant"); cf. Welsh argae ("distant place") and Breton argañt ("boundary, edge"). |
| Italian | In Italian, "a distanza" can also mean "from a distance" or "at a distance." |
| Japanese | "リモート" is the Japanese pronunciation of the English word "remote". |
| Javanese | Remot can also mean 'shy' in Javanese. |
| Kannada | "ರಿಮೋಟ್" (remote) also means a "solitude" or "wild forest" in Kannada. |
| Kazakh | The word "қашықтан" can also mean "from afar" or "from a distance". |
| Korean | The word "먼" can also mean "dim" or "distant" in Korean, reflecting its original meaning of something that is difficult to see or perceive. |
| Kurdish | The word "dûr" in Kurdish can also mean "far away" or "distant". |
| Kyrgyz | The word "алыскы" comes from the Old Turkic word "alıskın", which means "far". |
| Latin | The Latin word "remotus" means "distant" or "separated" and is the root of the English word "remote." |
| Latvian | The word "tālvadības pults" is a compound of the words "tālvadis" (remote) and "pults" (control), and literally means "distance-operating console". |
| Lithuanian | It has a very similar cognate: 'noolis', which means 'arrow' in Lithuanian. |
| Luxembourgish | The word "ofgeleeën" is derived from the German word "abgelegen", which also means "remote". |
| Malagasy | The word "mitokana" likely derives from either the Proto-Austronesian word "*tuku" (to reside) or the Proto-Malayo-Polynesian word "*tukuq" (place). |
| Malay | "Jauh" in Malay not only means "remote", but also has connotations of "distant in time" or "unfamiliar" |
| Malayalam | The word "വിദൂര" originally meant "opposite direction" in Sanskrit and is also used in Malayalam to describe something that is "different" or "opposite" in nature. |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "remoti" also means "seclusion" in the sense of a retreat away from the hustle and bustle of life. |
| Maori | Mamao, meaning 'remote' in Maori, also denotes a secluded or hidden place. |
| Marathi | In Marathi, "रिमोट" (rimot) can also mean "far-off" or "distant". |
| Mongolian | The word "алсын" also means "distant" or "far away". |
| Nepali | The word "टाढा" has several alternate meanings including "distant in time or space" and "beyond understanding or comprehension". |
| Norwegian | The Norwegian word "fjernkontroll" has a double meaning, meaning both "remote control" and "remote sensing". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word 'kutali' can also refer to a secluded place, or a place that is far away from any major road. |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "لرې" also means "far off" and "distant". |
| Persian | از راه دور may also mean 'long-distance' or 'distance learning' in Persian. |
| Polish | The word "zdalny" can also mean "distant" or "far-off" in Polish. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, "controlo remoto" can also refer to an umbrella, as both words have the same etymology, ultimately derived from the Latin "remōtus" (removed). |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "la distanta" is derived from the French phrase "à distance," which means "at a distance" or "far away." |
| Russian | The word "удаленный" can also mean "dismissed" or "fired" in Russian, which is a somewhat unusual usage compared to its primary meaning of "remote." |
| Samoan | The word "taumamao" is also used to describe a secluded or tranquil place. |
| Scots Gaelic | The word "iomallach" originates from "iarmall" or "iarmaille". The root word "iar" means "west" and likely refers to places in the western isles of Scotland. |
| Serbian | The word "даљински" can also refer to a remote controller for a television or other electronic device. |
| Sesotho | The Sesotho word "hole" is related to the Zulu word "ukholo" which means a clan. |
| Shona | The word "kure" has a secondary meaning of being far from home. |
| Sindhi | Sindhi word "پري" is derived from Persian "پري" (peri), which means a fairy or a spiritual being, and is often used in literature and poetry to denote a distant or inaccessible place. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word also means "far removed in time". |
| Slovak | "Diaľkový" can also be used to describe communication over long distances, such as "diaľkový hovor" (long-distance call). |
| Slovenian | The Slovene word "na daljavo" derives from the Proto-Slavic root *dal- ('long'), related to the words *daljina ('distance') and *dolina ('valley'). |
| Somali | The Somali word "fog" can also mean "to be confused" or "to be dizzy". |
| Spanish | In Spanish, "remoto" derives from the Latin "remotus" meaning "distant" or "separated" and also connotes solitude, isolation, and remoteness from cities or civilization. |
| Sundanese | The word "jauh" in Sundanese also means "far away" or "distant". |
| Swahili | "Kijijini" is also a term used to describe a rural village or settlement in Swahili-speaking regions. |
| Swedish | The word "avlägsen" has an alternate meaning of "distant in time" or "long ago". |
| Tajik | The Tajik word “дурдаст” originates from Persian “دور دست”, which means “far distance”. |
| Tamil | The word 'தொலைநிலை' ('remote') in Tamil is also used as a technical term to refer to remote sensing or remote learning. |
| Telugu | The Telugu word "రిమోట్" can also refer to a "solitary place" or a "distant land". |
| Thai | The word "ระยะไกล" can also refer to a distant time or period in the past or future. |
| Turkish | The word "uzak" in Turkish comes from the Old Turkic word "uz", which means "to be far or distant". |
| Ukrainian | The word "віддалений" also means "detached" or "alienated" in Ukrainian. |
| Urdu | Urdu word "ریموٹ" (remote) derives from the Hindustani "rimot" which means "distant" and "away". |
| Uzbek | The word "uzoqdan" can also mean "from afar" or "from a distance" in Uzbek. |
| Vietnamese | "Xa xôi" derives from the Chinese loanword "xa", meaning "village", and "xôi", meaning "far". Thus, it evokes the idea of a village, or settlement, that is distant from the speaker's perspective. |
| Welsh | The word "anghysbell" in Welsh can also refer to a place that is difficult to access or a person who is unsociable. |
| Xhosa | The word "kude" also means "far apart" or "separated" in Xhosa. |
| Yiddish | In Yiddish, the word "ווייַט" not only means "remote," but it can also refer to a long time ago or an unspecified place or person. |
| Yoruba | "Latọna" means "very far" and "jijin", "to be far away", indicating a strong connotation of distance or remoteness. |
| Zulu | The Zulu word "kude" also means "to be far away" or "to be distant". |
| English | The word "remote" derives from the Latin verb "removere," meaning "to move away." |