Road in Different Languages
Discover 'Road' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Road
Afrikaans pad | ||
Albanian rrugë | ||
Amharic መንገድ | ||
Arabic طريق | ||
Armenian ճանապարհ | ||
Assamese পথ | ||
Aymara thakhi | ||
Azerbaijani yol | ||
Bambara sira | ||
Basque errepidea | ||
Belarusian дарогі | ||
Bengali রাস্তা | ||
Bhojpuri सड़क | ||
Bosnian cesta | ||
Bulgarian път | ||
Catalan carretera | ||
Cebuano dalan | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 路 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 路 | ||
Corsican strada | ||
Croatian ceste | ||
Czech silnice | ||
Danish vej | ||
Dhivehi މަގު | ||
Dogri रस्ता | ||
Dutch weg | ||
English road | ||
Esperanto vojo | ||
Estonian tee | ||
Ewe mɔ | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) daan | ||
Finnish tie | ||
French route | ||
Frisian wei | ||
Galician estrada | ||
Georgian გზა | ||
German straße | ||
Greek δρόμος | ||
Guarani tape | ||
Gujarati માર્ગ | ||
Haitian Creole wout | ||
Hausa hanya | ||
Hawaiian alanui | ||
Hebrew כְּבִישׁ | ||
Hindi सड़क | ||
Hmong kev | ||
Hungarian út | ||
Icelandic vegur | ||
Igbo okporo ụzọ | ||
Ilocano dalan | ||
Indonesian jalan | ||
Irish bóthar | ||
Italian strada | ||
Japanese 道路 | ||
Javanese dalan | ||
Kannada ರಸ್ತೆ | ||
Kazakh жол | ||
Khmer ផ្លូវ | ||
Kinyarwanda umuhanda | ||
Konkani रस्तो | ||
Korean 도로 | ||
Krio rod | ||
Kurdish rê | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) ڕێگا | ||
Kyrgyz жол | ||
Lao ຖະຫນົນຫົນທາງ | ||
Latin via | ||
Latvian ceļa | ||
Lingala nzela | ||
Lithuanian keliu | ||
Luganda oluguudo | ||
Luxembourgish strooss | ||
Macedonian патот | ||
Maithili सड़क | ||
Malagasy lalana | ||
Malay jalan raya | ||
Malayalam റോഡ് | ||
Maltese triq | ||
Maori rori | ||
Marathi रस्ता | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯁꯣꯔꯣꯛ | ||
Mizo kawng | ||
Mongolian зам | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) လမ်း | ||
Nepali सडक | ||
Norwegian vei | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) mseu | ||
Odia (Oriya) ରାସ୍ତା | ||
Oromo karaa | ||
Pashto سړک | ||
Persian جاده | ||
Polish droga | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) estrada | ||
Punjabi ਸੜਕ | ||
Quechua ñan | ||
Romanian drum | ||
Russian дорога | ||
Samoan auala | ||
Sanskrit मार्गं | ||
Scots Gaelic rathad | ||
Sepedi tsela | ||
Serbian пут | ||
Sesotho tsela | ||
Shona mugwagwa | ||
Sindhi روڊ | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) මාර්ග | ||
Slovak cesta | ||
Slovenian cesta | ||
Somali wadada | ||
Spanish la carretera | ||
Sundanese jalan | ||
Swahili barabara | ||
Swedish väg | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) kalsada | ||
Tajik роҳ | ||
Tamil சாலை | ||
Tatar юл | ||
Telugu త్రోవ | ||
Thai ถนน | ||
Tigrinya መንገዲ | ||
Tsonga gondzo | ||
Turkish yol | ||
Turkmen ýol | ||
Twi (Akan) kwan | ||
Ukrainian дорога | ||
Urdu سڑک | ||
Uyghur يول | ||
Uzbek yo'l | ||
Vietnamese đường | ||
Welsh ffordd | ||
Xhosa indlela | ||
Yiddish וועג | ||
Yoruba opopona | ||
Zulu umgwaqo |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | "Pad" in Afrikaans, meaning "road," derives from the Dutch word "pad," which originally meant "path" or "track." |
| Albanian | The word "rrugë" is cognate with the English word "rut" and the Latin word "ruga", both meaning "track" or "groove". |
| Amharic | Though it literally means "path" in Amharic, "መንገድ" is also frequently used in the sense of "law", "justice", or "rule". |
| Arabic | The term "طریق" in Arabic can also refer to a method or approach, particularly in a religious or philosophical context. |
| Azerbaijani | The Azerbaijani word "Yol" can also refer to a path, direction, or way. |
| Basque | The origin of "errepidea" may also be related to "irripide" which means "path of the dead". |
| Belarusian | The word "дарогі" in Belarusian not only means "road," but also "expensive" (in the sense of "costly"), likely due to the expense of building and maintaining roads in the past. |
| Bengali | The word "রাস্তা" is derived from the Sanskrit word "राजपथ" (rajapatha), meaning "king's path". |
| Bosnian | Cesta can also refer to a path, journey, or way of life. |
| Bulgarian | "Път" also refers to "way, path, journey" or "method, means and manner". |
| Catalan | The word "carretera" comes from the Latin word "carraria", meaning "road for carts". |
| Cebuano | The Cebuano word 'dalan', while primarily meaning 'road', also signifies a 'way of life' or a 'journey'. It is rooted in the Sanskrit word 'dalan' which denotes a 'path' or a 'route'. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "路" can also refer to the path of one's life, e.g. 人生道路 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | In Chinese tradition, "路" (road) also refers to one's path or trajectory in life, reflecting the belief that life is a journey. |
| Corsican | In Corsican, "strada" also means "path". |
| Croatian | In Istro-Romanian, "ceste" means "path" or "way". |
| Czech | Silnice is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *solьnъ, meaning "salt", likely due to the historical importance of salt roads. |
| Danish | The Danish word "vej" is derived from a word that also meant "dwelling"} |
| Dutch | The word "weg" in Dutch can also mean "gone" or "away", similar to the English word "way". |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word "vojo" (road) is derived from the Russian "дорога" (doroga), and also means "way" or "path". |
| Estonian | The word "tee" also means "way" or "manner" in Estonian, and is related to the Finnish word "tie" with the same meaning. |
| Finnish | In addition to its meaning as "road", "tie" can also refer to "line", "row", "connection", or "bond". |
| French | The French word "route" derives from the Latin word "rupta", meaning "broken", referring to a way forged through rough terrain |
| Frisian | The word “wei” can also mean: a way something is or should be done or a way of thinking about something |
| Galician | In Galician, "estrada" can also refer to a narrow path or a military road, as well as a raised platform or stage. |
| Georgian | "გზა" (road) can also refer to a "way", "path", "method", or "course of action". |
| German | "Straße" is a cognate of the English word "street" and is derived from the Latin word "strata," which means "paved way." |
| Greek | In addition to "road", the Greek word "δρόμος" also means "race" and "pathway". |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "માર્ગ" is thought to be derived from the Sanskrit word "मार्ग" (mārga), which means "path" or "way". It can also refer to a "course" or "procedure". |
| Haitian Creole | The word "wout" in Haitian Creole has its roots in the French word "route" and can also refer to a path or direction. |
| Hausa | Hausa **hanya** is also used in the sense of 'time' as in English 'this time' for Hausa **wannan hanyar**. |
| Hawaiian | The Hawaiian word 'alanui' is derived from the Proto-Polynesian word '*lānui', meaning 'great path' and ultimately from Proto-Austronesian '*zalan' meaning 'path'. |
| Hebrew | The word "כְּבִישׁ" ("road") can also be used in Biblical Hebrew to mean "trampling down" or "subduing". |
| Hindi | "सड़क" is an amalgamation of Persian "sahr" (city), "ra" (way), and "ak" (suffix), thus meaning "city street". |
| Hmong | The word “kev” in Hmong can also mean either “path” or “way,” depending on the context. |
| Hungarian | The word "út" can also refer to a "track" or "path" in Hungarian. |
| Icelandic | The Icelandic word "vegur" has cognates in most Germanic languages, such as "weg" in Dutch and "väg" in Swedish. |
| Igbo | In some dialects of Igbo, 'okporo' also means 'market' or 'village square'. |
| Indonesian | Jalan in Indonesian is also used to refer to a distance, journey, or trip. |
| Irish | The Irish word 'bóthar' may derive from the Proto-Celtic *bouta, meaning 'fodder' or 'cow pasture'. |
| Italian | The word 'strada' in Italian not only means 'road', but also 'hustle' or 'noise' in a figurative sense. |
| Japanese | The term 道 in 道路 originated as a reference to the path followed by Chinese philosophers |
| Javanese | In Balinese, "dalan" also means "temple compound". |
| Kannada | The word 'ರಸ್ತೆ' comes from the Sanskrit word 'rathapatha', meaning 'path of a chariot'. It can also refer to a street or a lane. |
| Kazakh | The word "жол" (jol) in Kazakh has an alternate meaning of "path" or "way". |
| Khmer | ផ្លូវ (phlov) in Khmer can also mean 'path', 'route', or 'way'. |
| Korean | The Korean word '도로' can also mean 'way', 'path', 'course', or 'means' |
| Kurdish | The word "rê" can also refer to a path, way, or journey. |
| Kyrgyz | The word "жол" (road) can also mean "journey" or "way" in Kyrgyz. |
| Lao | Alternate meanings: path/passage. |
| Latin | The Latin word "via" also means "way" or "manner," and is the root of the English words "via" and "voyage." |
| Latvian | The word “ceļa” also has a secondary meaning of “path” or “way”, as in "the path of life" or "the way to enlightenment." |
| Lithuanian | The word "keliu" in Lithuanian also pertains to the body's knees and means "to stand". |
| Luxembourgish | In Luxembourgish, "Strooss" can also refer to the street in a village, as opposed to a road connecting villages. |
| Macedonian | The word "патот" could be of Slavic origin from the word "patati" meaning "to fall", or it could come from the Latin word "passus" meaning "step". |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "lalana" can also mean "path", "street", or "way". |
| Malay | The term "jalan raya" literally means "great path" in Malay, reflecting its significance as a major transportation route. |
| Malayalam | The word 'റോഡ്' (road) in Malayalam is derived from the Sanskrit word 'raajpatha', which means 'king's path'. |
| Maltese | The word "triq" is derived from Arabic and also means "street" or "route". |
| Maori | The Maori word "rori" also means "pathway" and "guide". |
| Marathi | The word "रस्ता" in Marathi can also refer to a way of life or a method of doing something. |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word "зам" (road) also means "route, way, path, course, direction, line, trace, system, order, method, mode, manner, style, or fashion." |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The word "လမ်း" (road) in Myanmar (Burmese) can also mean "way" or "path". |
| Nepali | The word 'सडक' is derived from the Sanskrit word 'सह' meaning 'together' and 'दृक्' meaning 'vision'. |
| Norwegian | The Norwegian word "vei" is related to the German, Swedish, and Dutch words for path "weg". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "mseu" can also mean "way" or "direction" in Nyanja (Chichewa). |
| Pashto | In Pashto, سړک is a term for 'avenue,' which can also refer to the 'procession,' 'passage,' or the 'movement' of time. |
| Persian | The Persian word “جاده” can refer to a large or important way, road, street, highway, avenue, thoroughfare, alley, path, trail, track, lane, way, course, route or passage. |
| Polish | The word "droga" also means a "journey" or a "way" in Polish. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The Portuguese word "estrada" derives from the Latin word "strata," meaning "paved way." |
| Punjabi | The word “ਸੜਕ” originated from the Persian word “sarda,” a military term, which means an “array,” or an assembly of “troops, animals used for warfare, and military machines”. |
| Romanian | The word "drum" also means "sacred grove" or "circle" in Romanian, sharing a common root with the English word "druid" |
| Russian | Дорога could also mean a journey to some specific place that is distant or difficult to reach. |
| Samoan | The word 'auala' can also mean 'path' or 'way' in Samoan. |
| Scots Gaelic | In Irish Gaelic, "rathad" also means "a way, route, or journey" and refers to a path made by cattle or deer. |
| Serbian | The word |
| Sesotho | The Sesotho word "tsela" can also mean "path" or "way" in a more abstract sense, such as the path one takes in life. |
| Shona | The word "mugwagwa" can also refer to a journey or a path. |
| Sindhi | "روڊ" (road) in Sindhi can also refer to a "riverbed". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word 'මාර්ග' can also mean 'means' or 'route' in Sinhala. |
| Slovak | The Slovak word "cesta" is also used to denote a path, a route, or a way. |
| Slovenian | "Cesta" is also used figuratively to refer to a path or course of action. |
| Somali | The Somali word "wadada" also refers to the path of a person's life or destiny. |
| Spanish | "Carretera" derives from the Latin "carraria" (track for carts), which could also mean "quarry" or "mine". |
| Sundanese | The word "jalan" in Sundanese can also mean "to walk" or "to go". |
| Swahili | The Swahili word "barabara" can also refer to a type of street or avenue. |
| Swedish | The word "väg" can also mean "way" or "course". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Kalsada" originated from the Spanish word "calzada," meaning "paved road" or "causeway." |
| Tajik | The Tajik word "роҳ" can also refer to a path, direction, or course of action. |
| Tamil | சாலை means 'way of the chariots' in its literal meaning and is connected with the term 'cavalry' or 'horsemen'. |
| Telugu | The word 'త్రోవ' (trova) is derived from the Proto-Dravidian word 'tōr', meaning 'to cross'. |
| Thai | The word "ถนน" (road) is derived from the Sanskrit word "sthana" (place), and in the past it was used to refer to a place where people settled or lived. |
| Turkish | The word "yol", meaning "road" in modern Turkish, originally derives from a Proto-Turkic root meaning "to go". |
| Ukrainian | "Дорога" literally means 'the dear one', and can also refer to a path or direction in life. |
| Urdu | The word "سڑک" can also mean "a street" or "a path". |
| Uzbek | The word "yo'l" in Uzbek is derived from the Sogdian "ywry" meaning "passage" and also shares a connection with the Proto-Iranian "*yol" meaning "road". |
| Vietnamese | The word "đường" can also refer to sugar, a sweet substance used as food. |
| Welsh | Ffordd can also mean "way" or "direction" in Welsh, and its root word is "for", meaning "before" or "in front of". |
| Xhosa | The word 'indlela' in Xhosa not only refers to a physical road but also has a figurative meaning as the 'path' one takes through life. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "וועג" (veg) also means "path" or "way" and is related to the English word "way." |
| Yoruba | Opopona can also mean "a journey" or "a path". |
| Zulu | "Umgwaqo" also refers to a way of life or journey, not just a physical path. |
| English | The term 'road' can also refer to a way or course of progression or action. |