Room in Different Languages
Discover 'Room' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Room
Afrikaans kamer | ||
Albanian dhoma | ||
Amharic ክፍል | ||
Arabic غرفة | ||
Armenian սենյակ | ||
Assamese কোঠা | ||
Aymara uta | ||
Azerbaijani otaq | ||
Bambara soden | ||
Basque gela | ||
Belarusian пакой | ||
Bengali ঘর | ||
Bhojpuri कमरा | ||
Bosnian soba | ||
Bulgarian стая | ||
Catalan habitació | ||
Cebuano kwarto | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 房间 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 房間 | ||
Corsican stanza | ||
Croatian soba | ||
Czech pokoj, místnost | ||
Danish værelse | ||
Dhivehi ކޮޓަރި | ||
Dogri कमरा | ||
Dutch kamer | ||
English room | ||
Esperanto ĉambro | ||
Estonian tuba | ||
Ewe xɔ | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) silid | ||
Finnish huone | ||
French pièce | ||
Frisian keamer | ||
Galician cuarto | ||
Georgian ოთახი | ||
German zimmer | ||
Greek δωμάτιο | ||
Guarani irundyha | ||
Gujarati ઓરડો | ||
Haitian Creole chanm | ||
Hausa daki | ||
Hawaiian lumi | ||
Hebrew חֶדֶר | ||
Hindi कक्ष | ||
Hmong chav tsev | ||
Hungarian szoba | ||
Icelandic herbergi | ||
Igbo ime ụlọ | ||
Ilocano kuarto | ||
Indonesian kamar | ||
Irish seomra | ||
Italian camera | ||
Japanese ルーム | ||
Javanese kamar | ||
Kannada ಕೊಠಡಿ | ||
Kazakh бөлме | ||
Khmer បន្ទប់ | ||
Kinyarwanda icyumba | ||
Konkani कूड | ||
Korean 방 | ||
Krio rum | ||
Kurdish jûre | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) ژوور | ||
Kyrgyz бөлмө | ||
Lao ຫ້ອງ | ||
Latin locus | ||
Latvian istaba | ||
Lingala chambre | ||
Lithuanian kambarys | ||
Luganda ekisenge | ||
Luxembourgish zëmmer | ||
Macedonian соба | ||
Maithili कमरा | ||
Malagasy efitra | ||
Malay bilik | ||
Malayalam മുറി | ||
Maltese kamra | ||
Maori ruuma | ||
Marathi खोली | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯀꯥ | ||
Mizo pindan | ||
Mongolian өрөө | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) အခန်း | ||
Nepali कोठा | ||
Norwegian rom | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) chipinda | ||
Odia (Oriya) କୋଠରୀ | ||
Oromo kutaa | ||
Pashto کوټه | ||
Persian اتاق | ||
Polish pokój | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) quarto | ||
Punjabi ਕਮਰਾ | ||
Quechua habitacion | ||
Romanian cameră | ||
Russian комната | ||
Samoan potu | ||
Sanskrit कक्ष | ||
Scots Gaelic rùm | ||
Sepedi kamora | ||
Serbian соба | ||
Sesotho kamore | ||
Shona imba | ||
Sindhi ڪمرو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) කාමරය | ||
Slovak miestnosti | ||
Slovenian sobi | ||
Somali qol | ||
Spanish habitación | ||
Sundanese kamar | ||
Swahili chumba | ||
Swedish rum | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) silid | ||
Tajik ҳуҷра | ||
Tamil அறை | ||
Tatar бүлмә | ||
Telugu గది | ||
Thai ห้อง | ||
Tigrinya ክፍሊ | ||
Tsonga kamara | ||
Turkish oda | ||
Turkmen otag | ||
Twi (Akan) dan mu | ||
Ukrainian кімнати | ||
Urdu کمرہ | ||
Uyghur ياتاق | ||
Uzbek xona | ||
Vietnamese phòng | ||
Welsh ystafell | ||
Xhosa igumbi | ||
Yiddish צימער | ||
Yoruba yara | ||
Zulu igumbi |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "kamer" derives from the Dutch word "kamer", which meant "a small, windowless room" in Middle Dutch. |
| Albanian | The word "dhoma" in Albanian is derived from the Proto-Albanian "*dhau̯mō", which originally meant "dwelling" or "hut". |
| Amharic | "ክፍል" means space, division, or portion in Amharic and refers to more than just a room. |
| Arabic | The word "غرفة" can also refer to a place where a person resides (e.g., a home) or a place of business (e.g., an office). |
| Armenian | The word սենյակ derives from the Old Armenian word սենեկ (senek), which meant 'chamber, cell' and ultimately comes from the Indo-European root *ken- ('to hold'). |
| Azerbaijani | In Kazakh and Uzbek, "otaq" means "yurt", a portable, round tent covered with skins or felt. |
| Basque | The word 'gela' is also used in Basque to refer to a 'classroom' or a 'group of people'. |
| Belarusian | The word "пакой" in Belarusian language can also mean a "corpse" or a "dead body". |
| Bengali | The word "ঘর" in Bengali is derived from the Sanskrit word "गृह" (gr̥ha), meaning "house" or "dwelling." |
| Bosnian | In Bosnian, the word "soba" can also mean a "hall" or "apartment", and is derived from the Proto-Slavic word "*izba", meaning "a heated living space". |
| Bulgarian | The word "стая" derives from the Proto-Slavic root "*stъja" which refers to the place where a flock (especially of birds) stays. |
| Catalan | The term "habitació" (room) in Catalan is derived from the Latin word "habitare," meaning "to dwell" or "to inhabit." |
| Cebuano | The word "kwarto" in Cebuano is derived from the Spanish word "cuarto," which can also mean "a quarter" or "a fourth part." |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 房间 in Chinese, pronounced fángjiān, originally meant 'the space between two pillars' or 'the space for one pillar', indicating a spatial concept. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 房間 (room) comes from the Old Chinese word 宏, meaning 'large'. |
| Corsican | In Corsican, "stanza" also refers to a type of traditional mountain hut often grouped together with stables. |
| Croatian | The word 'soba' also refers to a 'barrel', suggesting its original usage as a storage space. |
| Czech | The word "pokoj" is also a Slavic word for "peace" and "quiet." |
| Danish | The word "værelse" in Danish is related to the word "være," meaning "to be" or "to exist," suggesting a room as a space where one can be or exist. |
| Dutch | The word "kamer" is cognate with the English "chamber" and originally denoted a private room within a palace. |
| Esperanto | Ĉambro derives from Latin camera, which referred to a vaulted space or room and is the root for many English words including chamber, camera, and chimney. |
| Estonian | In the Võro dialect of Estonian, "tuba" can also mean "house" or "flat". |
| Finnish | In Finnish, the word "huone" can have different meanings, depending on the context, such as a "room" in a building or a "cell" in a structure. |
| French | French word "pièce" originates from Latin "pensum" meaning task or assignment - a room being a space for work or rest. |
| Frisian | The Dutch word "kamer", from which "keamer" ultimately derives, is first recorded in 1387 as "camere", and is likely derived from French "chambre" or Latin "camera". |
| Galician | In Galician, "cuarto" also means "a quarter" or "a quarter of an hour." |
| Georgian | The Georgian word "ოთახი" can also refer to a chamber or a cabinet, and is related to the Persian word "اتاق" meaning "apartment or room". |
| German | In certain dialects, 'Zimmer' can also refer to small enclosures or compartments, such as 'cow chambers' or 'dog kennels'. |
| Greek | The word also shares a common root with the word |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "ઓરડો" also means "an enclosed part of a building". In other Indian languages this word often denotes "a hall". In Gujarati literature it has been used since ancient times for "a tent" as well. |
| Haitian Creole | The word "chanm" in Haitian Creole can also mean "space" or "opportunity". |
| Hausa | "Daki" in Hausa can also refer to a prison cell or the area of a house dedicated to young adult children. |
| Hawaiian | The Hawaiian word "lumi" also signifies "shelter" or "dwelling place" |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "חדר" (room) also refers to a "chamber in the heart" or the "inner sanctum" of a temple. |
| Hindi | The Sanskrit word "kaksham" (arm pit) is the origin of the Hindi word "kaks" (arm pit), which through a semantic extension, also means "room". |
| Hmong | The term "chav tsev" in Hmong can also refer to a gathering place or venue. |
| Hungarian | Despite its use for "room" today, "szoba" likely derives from the Ottoman Turkish word for "hall" or "chamber" |
| Icelandic | The word "herbergi" originally meant "resting place" or "shelter" |
| Igbo | The Igbo word “ime ụlọ” means “inside the house,” and it is often shortened to simply “ime.” |
| Indonesian | The word "kamar" can also refer to a chamber in a firearm or the interior of a vehicle. |
| Irish | The word "seomra" in Irish can also refer to a chamber, a compartment, or a space. |
| Italian | The origin of the Italian word 'camera' has another interpretation, deriving from the Greek 'kammara', which translates to 'vault'. |
| Japanese | The word "ルーム" (room) is derived from the English word "room" and can also refer to a space, area, or compartment within a larger structure. |
| Javanese | Javanese "kamar" (room) is cognate with Malay "bilik" and Sanskrit "griha" (house). |
| Kannada | The word "ಕೊಠಡಿ" is also used to refer to a section or division of a larger space, such as a room in a house or a compartment in a train. |
| Kazakh | The word "бөлме" is also used to refer to a division or section of a country, organization, or department. |
| Khmer | បន្ទប់ derives from the Sanskrit word 'panth' which referred to a wayside shelter and resting place along roads or forests. |
| Korean | The Korean word "방" ("room") can also refer to a house, a space, or a compartment, and its root word means "to divide" or "to enclose." |
| Kurdish | Kurdish "jûre" also means "dwelling" and derives from the Proto-Indo-European word "*h₂ew-es-ro-", meaning "hearth". |
| Kyrgyz | The Kyrgyz word "бөлмө" also refers to a small section or division within a larger space. |
| Lao | The Lao word ຫ້ອງ (hɔ̌ɔŋ) is derived from the Proto-Tai word *ʔɔːŋ, which also means "house" or "building." |
| Latin | The Latin word _locus_ not only means a `room`, but a location, position (in space/time) or passage (in a book). |
| Latvian | The word "istaba" is derived from the Proto-Baltic *stubā, and is cognate with the Lithuanian stuba, the Old Prussian stubo, and the Gothic stoba, all meaning "room." |
| Lithuanian | The word "kambarys" in Lithuanian possibly evolved from the word "komora" meaning "storeroom" in Old Prussian. |
| Luxembourgish | The word "Zëmmer" is derived from the Latin "camera", meaning "vaulted chamber" or "room". |
| Macedonian | In Turkish, 'soba' means 'stove' and in Romanian it means 'wife'. |
| Malagasy | "Efitra" also means "wife" or "spouse" in Malagasy, suggesting its historical function as a living space for married couples. |
| Malay | Bilik can also refer to a compartment within a plant or animal, such as a flower's ovary or a bird's nest. |
| Malayalam | In Malayalam, "മുറി" (room) is derived from the root "മുറ" (to cut or divide), indicating its function as a space separated from larger areas. |
| Maltese | The word "kamra" originally meant "chamber" or "cabin" and is also used to refer to a prison cell. |
| Maori | "Ruuma" is not the Maori word for "room"; its literal translation is "belly". |
| Marathi | Also called "kholi", a "kothri" is a small traditional hut with thatched roof and mud walls used as a dwelling, especially in the Konkan region of Maharashtra. |
| Mongolian | The word "өрөө" can also refer to a yurt or a specific part of a yurt |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The word "အခန်း" can also refer to a space or division within a larger area, such as a room within a house or a chapter within a book. |
| Norwegian | The Norwegian word "rom" has its roots in the Old Norse word "rúm", meaning "space" or "place". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | "Chipinda" can also refer to a traditional hut or a small hut-like structure. |
| Pashto | The word "کوټه" in Pashto is derived from the Persian word "اتاق" (atāq) and the Sanskrit word "कुटी" (kuṭī), both meaning "room" or "house". It can also mean "place" or "location" in a more general sense. |
| Persian | اتاق derives from Middle Persian and originally meant “fireplace” or “hearth,” and is related to the French “âtre,” “hearth”. |
| Polish | The Polish word "Pokój" has several meanings, including "room", "peace", and "reconciliation." |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese (both Portugal and Brazil), "quarto" also means a musical interval of a fourth. |
| Punjabi | The word "ਕਮਰਾ" can also refer to a specific room in a house, such as a bedroom or a living room. |
| Romanian | "Cameră" (room) comes from the Latin word for "chamber" or "room": camera. |
| Russian | The word "комната" can also mean "compartment" or "apartment". |
| Samoan | The word "potu" can also mean "house" or "building" in Samoan. |
| Scots Gaelic | The Gaelic word "rùm" can also refer to a meadow, pasture, or open space. |
| Serbian | The Serbian word "соба" can also refer to a dog house or a cell in a prison. |
| Sesotho | The word "kamore" in Sesotho can also refer to a specific type of room used for traditional ceremonies or rituals. |
| Shona | The word "imba" in Shona can also refer to a shelter, a hut, or a place of residence. |
| Sindhi | The word "ڪمرو" can also refer to a small hut or a tent. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "කාමරය" in Sinhala can also refer to a chamber or a section of a building. |
| Slovak | The word "místnost" originally meant "a place" or "a space" in Old Church Slavonic. |
| Slovenian | The word "sobi" in Slovenian comes from the Proto-Slavic word *sъba, which also meant "apartment" or "dwelling". |
| Somali | The term "Qol" in Somali can also refer to a chamber in a house or a prison cell. |
| Spanish | "Habitación" comes from the Latin "habitare" (to dwell), and originally meant "dwelling place" or "house". |
| Sundanese | The word "kamar" in Sundanese can also refer to a prison cell or a hotel room. |
| Swahili | The Swahili word "chumba" can also refer to a prison cell, a private apartment, or a cubicle and originates from the Arabic "ghurfa". |
| Swedish | In Swedish, "rum" also means "space" or "volume". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word 'silid' in Tagalog is derived from the Sanskrit word 'shalya', which means 'house' or 'dwelling'. |
| Tajik | The word "ҳуҷра" (room) in Tajik is derived from the Arabic word "حجرة" (room, chamber) and has the alternate meaning of "a cell or room in a monastery or other religious institution". |
| Tamil | The Tamil word "അறை" also means "fight" or "quarrel". |
| Telugu | The word "గది" (room) in Telugu is derived from the Proto-Dravidian root *kaṭi, meaning "a space or enclosure". |
| Thai | The word "ห้อง" (room) in Thai, is derived from the Sanskrit word "कोष्ठ" (kostha), meaning "cavity" or "chamber." |
| Turkish | The word "oda" originates from the Arabic word "ghawthah" meaning "help or assistance" and came to Turkish through Persian during the Seljuk era |
| Ukrainian | The word “кімнати” (“room”) is a plural form of “кімната”, derived from the Proto-Slavic word “komъnata”, from Proto-Indo-European “*kam-”, meaning “to hide, cover”. It can also refer to a chamber or apartment. |
| Urdu | It shares an etymology with "kamar" which means "belt" and "waist" in Hindi. |
| Uzbek | "Xona" is cognate with the Persian word "khaneh", meaning "house", and is used in Uzbek to refer to a room within a house or building. |
| Vietnamese | "Phòng" shares its etymology with the word "phòng" meaning "defence". |
| Welsh | The word 'ystafell' can also refer to a 'stable', 'parlour' or 'study'. |
| Xhosa | The word "igumbi" can also refer to a specific room within a house, such as the kitchen or the bedroom. |
| Yiddish | "צימער" also means a prison cell in Yiddish. |
| Yoruba | The Yoruba word 'yara' can also mean 'chamber', 'apartment' or 'den'. |
| Zulu | The word "igumbi" derives from the Nguni root "-gumba", meaning "to be shut or closed," suggesting a private or enclosed space. |
| English | The word 'room' also means 'space', as in 'there is no room for doubt' |