Slide in Different Languages
Discover 'Slide' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Slide
Afrikaans skuif | ||
Albanian rrëshqitje | ||
Amharic ተንሸራታች | ||
Arabic الانزلاق | ||
Armenian սլայդ | ||
Assamese এফলীয়া | ||
Aymara allqtaña | ||
Azerbaijani sürüşdürün | ||
Bambara ka cɛɛnɛ | ||
Basque irristatu | ||
Belarusian слайд | ||
Bengali স্লাইড | ||
Bhojpuri फिसल-पट्टी | ||
Bosnian klizanje | ||
Bulgarian пързалка | ||
Catalan lliscar | ||
Cebuano slide | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 滑动 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 滑動 | ||
Corsican slide | ||
Croatian klizati | ||
Czech skluzavka | ||
Danish glide | ||
Dhivehi ސްލައިޑް | ||
Dogri ढलक | ||
Dutch glijbaan | ||
English slide | ||
Esperanto gliti | ||
Estonian libisema | ||
Ewe ɖiɖi | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) slide | ||
Finnish dia | ||
French faire glisser | ||
Frisian slide | ||
Galician diapositiva | ||
Georgian სლაიდი | ||
German rutschen | ||
Greek ολίσθηση | ||
Guarani ta''ãngarechauka | ||
Gujarati સ્લાઇડ | ||
Haitian Creole glise | ||
Hausa zamewa | ||
Hawaiian pāheʻe | ||
Hebrew שקופית | ||
Hindi फिसल पट्टी | ||
Hmong swb | ||
Hungarian csúszik | ||
Icelandic renna | ||
Igbo slide | ||
Ilocano iyalis | ||
Indonesian meluncur | ||
Irish sleamhnán | ||
Italian diapositiva | ||
Japanese 滑り台 | ||
Javanese geser | ||
Kannada ಸ್ಲೈಡ್ | ||
Kazakh слайд | ||
Khmer ស្លាយ | ||
Kinyarwanda slide | ||
Konkani स्लायड | ||
Korean 미끄러지 다 | ||
Krio sink | ||
Kurdish şemitîn | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) سلاید | ||
Kyrgyz слайд | ||
Lao ເລື່ອນ | ||
Latin slide | ||
Latvian slidkalniņš | ||
Lingala diapositive | ||
Lithuanian skaidrė | ||
Luganda okuseerera | ||
Luxembourgish rutschen | ||
Macedonian слајд | ||
Maithili फिसलन | ||
Malagasy tsary | ||
Malay gelongsor | ||
Malayalam സ്ലൈഡ് | ||
Maltese slide | ||
Maori retireti | ||
Marathi स्लाइड | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯅꯥꯟꯊꯕ | ||
Mizo tleng | ||
Mongolian слайд | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) လျှော | ||
Nepali स्लाइड | ||
Norwegian lysbilde | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) wopanda | ||
Odia (Oriya) ସ୍ଲାଇଡ୍ | ||
Oromo mucucaachuu | ||
Pashto سلایډ | ||
Persian سرسره | ||
Polish ślizgać się | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) deslizar | ||
Punjabi ਸਲਾਈਡ | ||
Quechua diapositiva | ||
Romanian alunecare | ||
Russian горка | ||
Samoan faaseʻe | ||
Sanskrit च्यु | ||
Scots Gaelic sleamhnag | ||
Sepedi selaete | ||
Serbian тобоган | ||
Sesotho thella | ||
Shona ondomoka | ||
Sindhi سلائيڊ | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) විනිවිදකය | ||
Slovak šmykľavka | ||
Slovenian zdrs | ||
Somali boggan | ||
Spanish diapositiva | ||
Sundanese ngageser | ||
Swahili slaidi | ||
Swedish glida | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) slide | ||
Tajik слайд | ||
Tamil ஸ்லைடு | ||
Tatar слайд | ||
Telugu స్లయిడ్ | ||
Thai สไลด์ | ||
Tigrinya ገጽታ | ||
Tsonga rheta | ||
Turkish kaymak | ||
Turkmen slaýd | ||
Twi (Akan) pia fa so | ||
Ukrainian слайд | ||
Urdu سلائیڈ | ||
Uyghur تام تەسۋىر | ||
Uzbek slayd | ||
Vietnamese cầu trượt | ||
Welsh sleid | ||
Xhosa isilayidi | ||
Yiddish רוק | ||
Yoruba ifaworanhan | ||
Zulu isilayidi |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "skuif" in Afrikaans can also refer to a sudden or unexpected movement, or to a person who is clumsy or awkward. |
| Albanian | "Rrëshqitje" in Albanian also means "slipping" or "skating" in some contexts. |
| Amharic | The verb "ተንሸራታ" is also used to refer to the action of dragging something behind oneself. |
| Arabic | In the game of backgammon, "الانزلاق" refers to the illegal move of moving a checker diagonally. |
| Armenian | The name "Slide" comes from the name of the river "Slid" in Vayots Dzor province, where the slide took place. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "sürüşdürün" in Azerbaijani can also refer to a type of traditional dance performed on a slide or a slippery surface. |
| Basque | The word "irristatu" can also refer to a playground slide, or to the act of sliding down a slope. |
| Belarusian | The word "слайд" can also refer to a microscope slide or a glass slide used in photography. |
| Bengali | The word "slide" in Bengali can also mean "small" or "narrow passage". |
| Bosnian | The verb 'klizati' (to slide) derives from the Indo-European root '*klei-' meaning 'to bend'. |
| Bulgarian | The word "пързалка" is also an archaic Bulgarian word for "sled". |
| Catalan | “Lliscar” is also the Catalan word for 'to skid' or 'to skate' |
| Cebuano | In Cebuano, "slide" can also refer to a long-sleeved shirt with side slits or a type of woven fabric. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 滑动 (huá dòng) is also a computer term meaning to drag and drop or scroll. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | "滑動" literally means 'smooth movement,' and is also an alternative term for 'scroll' when used in a computing context. |
| Corsican | In Corsican, "slide" (slita) is an archaic term used for a type of traditional Corsican sandal, made of leather and featuring a wooden sole. |
| Croatian | The word klizati also means "to skate". The word "klizati" derives from the Proto-Slavic word *klьzati, meaning "to slip". |
| Czech | The term "skluzavka" is derived from the verbs "klouzat" (to slide) and "sklouznout" (to slip), referring to the movement involved in using a slide. |
| Danish | In Danish, the word "glide" has an alternate meaning of "to be slow and ineffective." |
| Dutch | The word "glijbaan" can also refer to the action of sliding, or a sloping surface that allows such action. |
| Esperanto | The word "gliti" can also mean "to skate" or "to glide" in Esperanto. |
| Estonian | The Estonian word "libisema" can also mean "to glide" or "to slip". |
| Finnish | In Finnish, "dia" comes from the Swedish "dia", meaning "positive transparency used in a slide projector". |
| French | The verb "faire glisser" also means "to slip". |
| Frisian | The word "slide" in Frisian is a cognate of the English word, and it also means a "sleigh". |
| Galician | The Galician word "diapositiva" also means "transparency" or "transparency slide" in a slide projector. |
| Georgian | The word "სლაიდი" can also refer to a photographic slide or a musical scale in Georgian. |
| German | "Rutschen", meaning slide, also refers to climbing down a ladder; its origin is thought to derive from medieval torture, the rack, as a euphemism denoting the victim's screams during interrogation." |
| Greek | In modern Greek, “ολίσθηση” can also mean “mistake” or “omission” from a duty. |
| Gujarati | In addition to its primary meaning, "સ્લાઇડ" can also refer to a type of bread roll or to the act of slipping or gliding. |
| Haitian Creole | 'glise' derives from French 'glisser', meaning to slip or slide. |
| Hausa | The word "zamewa" can also refer to a kind of dance, or the place where this dance is performed, or even a specific type of drum that is used to accompany this dance. |
| Hawaiian | "Pāheʻe" is the Hawaiian word for "slide" or "to slide", a term that also describes the popular bodysurfing pastime in which surfers ride the face of the wave on their bellies. |
| Hebrew | In Ancient Greek, "dia" meant "through," while in Hebrew, it means "enough". |
| Hindi | The word "फिसल पट्टी" can also mean a "greased track" or a "slippery path". |
| Hmong | The word "swb" (slide) in Hmong also means "to play slide guitar". |
| Hungarian | In colloquial Hungarian, "csúszik" can also mean "to fail" or "to cheat on an exam. |
| Icelandic | The word "renna" in Icelandic has an alternate meaning of "to flow". |
| Igbo | The Igbo word "slide" can also mean "to slip" or "to fall". |
| Indonesian | "Meluncur" also means to "float" or "sail," reflecting its origins in the word "luncur," which describes the movement of a boat or kite in the water or air. |
| Irish | The Irish word "sleamhnán" may also refer to a small, flat stone or a piece of wood that is used for sliding. |
| Italian | In Italian, "diapositiva" derives from Greek "diaphainó", meaning "to make transparent" but can also mean a "lecture". |
| Japanese | 滑り台 can also mean a playground slide, but the first character, 滑, literally means 'slippery'. |
| Javanese | The Javanese word "geser" also means "change", as in "geser kursi" (change seats/move chairs). |
| Kannada | The Kannada word "ಸ್ಲೈಡ್" (slide) comes from the English word "slide". |
| Kazakh | In Kazakh, "слайд" means both "slide" and "a slide rule" (a mechanical analog computer used for multiplication and division). |
| Khmer | The word "ស្លាយ" ("slide") in Khmer can also refer to "to slip" or "to skid". |
| Korean | 미끄러지다 can also mean 'to slip up' or 'to make a mistake'. |
| Kurdish | The word "şemitîn" in Kurdish is derived from the Arabic word "shamat", meaning "to rejoice" or "to insult". |
| Kyrgyz | The Kyrgyz word "слайд" also means "a slide show" and "a slide rule". |
| Lao | ເລື່ອນ can refer to a series of connected events, or a time period between events. |
| Latin | The Latin verb "labor" means "to slip, glide, slide," and in its intransitive sense "to totter". |
| Latvian | "Slidkalniņš" literally means "climbing hill" in Latvian, as early childhood slides were not so steep and had stairs. |
| Lithuanian | The word "skaidrė" is derived from the Lithuanian word "skaidrus," meaning "transparent" or "clear." |
| Luxembourgish | The word "rutschen" in Luxembourgish is cognate to the German word "rutschen", which also means "slide". Both words are of onomatopoeic origin and have been attested in Germanic languages since the early Middle Ages. |
| Macedonian | The Macedonian word "слајд" can also refer to a slide presentation or a slide rule. |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "tsary" is also used to refer to a "slope" or a "ramp". |
| Malay | "Gelongsor" is also a type of traditional Malay wedding dowry, in which items are put on a tray and presented to the bride and groom. |
| Malayalam | In Malayam, 'slide' can also refer to a musical note or a type of snake. |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "slide" is derived from the Italian word "scivolare", which means "to slip" or "to slide". In Maltese, it can also refer to a landslide, a slide rule, or a slide projector. |
| Maori | Although "retireti" generally means "slide", it can also refer to "to push" or "to send". |
| Marathi | The word "स्लाइड" originates from the Marathi word "स्लीड" meaning "to slip". |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word “слайд” (“slide”) is borrowed from Russian, where it originally meant “ice slide” and “slippery place”. |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The word "လျှော" (slide) in Myanmar (Burmese) can also mean "to smooth out," "to plane," or "to polish." |
| Nepali | The word 'स्लाइड' in Nepali originates from the English word 'slide,' meaning to move smoothly over a surface. |
| Norwegian | "Lysbilde" literally translates to "illuminated photo" and also means "transparency". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | In some parts of Malawi, a "Wopanda" can also be an adult male who's not yet married, especially in the context of the initiation rites that used to happen for unmarried young men. |
| Pashto | The word "slide" can also refer to a type of musical instrument in Pashto. |
| Persian | The word "سرسره" is derived from the Persian word "سُریدن" (to slide), and is also used to refer to a type of musical instrument consisting of a row of small drums played with the fingers. |
| Polish | The verb "ślizgać się" also means "to skate", which is likely related to its proto-Slavic root, "*sklizg-." |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | Deslizar, which means "slide" in both Portuguese from Portugal and Brazil, is likely derived from *discurrere* (run, spread) and *lisciare* (smooth). |
| Punjabi | The word "ਸਲਾਈਡ" can also refer to a glass plate used in microscopy. |
| Romanian | The word "alunecare" also refers to "slipping" and "falling". |
| Russian | The word “горка” also means “mountain” (especially a small one), “a hill,” or a small mound used by children or adults for sliding in snowy or icy weather, so that it is a slide on a hill.”} |
| Samoan | Faaseʻe can also mean "to make a mistake" or "to miss a step". |
| Scots Gaelic | The word 'sleamhnag' can also refer to a slippery surface or a place where something slides. |
| Serbian | The Russian word "Тобоган" originates from the North American Indigenous Toboggan sled, which shares the same name. |
| Sesotho | The word "thella" can also be used to refer to something that is smooth and slippery. |
| Shona | In Shona, the word "ondomoka" can also mean "to move smoothly" or "to glide" |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "سلائيڊ" also means "to slip" or "to slide down". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word ''විනිවිදකය'' can also mean “a device that helps open a locked door using a plastic strip or wire (in computing)''. |
| Slovak | The word "šmykľavka" also refers to a type of slippery pastry in Slovak. |
| Slovenian | The word "zdrs" is derived from the Proto-Slavic root *zъdrъ, which also means "to rub" or "to grind". |
| Somali | The Somali word "boggan" is also used to refer to a type of traditional Somali dance. |
| Spanish | In Spanish, "diapositiva" refers to both a slide and a transparency, while in English, it only means a slide. |
| Sundanese | "Ngageser" in Sundanese can also mean "to shift" or "to move sideways". |
| Swahili | In Swahili, "slaidi" can also mean "a piece of bread or dough used as a communion wafer" or "a small, flat piece of wood used to make a fire". |
| Swedish | The Swedish word "glida" originally meant something that slipped or drifted, and is related to the German word "gleiten" (to slide) and the Latin word "glīscere" (to glide). |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | Slide can also refer to a slide show in Tagalog. |
| Tajik | Слово "слайд" может также означать "пластинка (в фотографии)" в таджикском языке. |
| Tamil | The Tamil word ஸ்லைடு (slide) is also sometimes used to refer to a type of traditional Indian attire for women known as a saree-blouse. |
| Telugu | The word 'స్లయిడ్' in Telugu can also mean 'a piece of glass used to hold and view microscope specimens' or 'a long, narrow opening in a wall or partition.' |
| Thai | The word 'สไลด์' ('slide') is often used to refer to slipping, and in the past it could even mean falling into the water. |
| Turkish | Kaymak, which means "slide" in Turkish, also refers to the clotted cream of buffalo or sheep's milk used in desserts. |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word "слайд" (slide) is derived from the Proto-Slavic term *skladъ, meaning "to lay," and also denotes a layer or level. |
| Urdu | **سلائیڈ** can also mean **sleeper**; or a **small wooden plank** in Urdu. |
| Uzbek | In Uzbek, "slayd" also refers to a type of traditional Uzbek music and dance. |
| Vietnamese | Cầu trượt derives from two words: "cầu", meaning "bridge" and "trượt", meaning "to glide". It can also refer to a chute. |
| Welsh | Sleid can also refer to a type of horse-drawn carriage. |
| Xhosa | In botany, 'isilayidi' is also known as 'Gladiolus' or 'Sword Lily'. |
| Yiddish | In addition to its primary meaning, "רוק" can also refer to a "crack" or a "fissure" in Yiddish. |
| Yoruba | The Yoruba word "ifaworanhan" can also refer to a type of traditional dance or to the process of smoothing or flattening something out. |
| Zulu | Isilayidi comes from the phrase "isilidi la mandi" which means "the slipping of feet". |
| English | "Slide" can also mean a slip or fall, a smooth incline, or a temporary stay in a place. |