Station in Different Languages
Discover 'Station' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Station
Afrikaans stasie | ||
Albanian stacioni | ||
Amharic መሣፈሪያ | ||
Arabic محطة | ||
Armenian կայարան | ||
Assamese ষ্টেছন | ||
Aymara puriñawja | ||
Azerbaijani stansiya | ||
Bambara sitasiyɔn | ||
Basque geltokia | ||
Belarusian станцыя | ||
Bengali স্টেশন | ||
Bhojpuri स्टेशन | ||
Bosnian kolodvor | ||
Bulgarian гара | ||
Catalan estació | ||
Cebuano estasyon | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 站 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 站 | ||
Corsican stazione | ||
Croatian stanica | ||
Czech stanice | ||
Danish station | ||
Dhivehi ސްޓޭޝަން | ||
Dogri स्टेशन | ||
Dutch station | ||
English station | ||
Esperanto stacidomo | ||
Estonian jaama | ||
Ewe ʋuɖoƒe | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) istasyon | ||
Finnish asemalle | ||
French station | ||
Frisian stasjon | ||
Galician estación | ||
Georgian სადგური | ||
German bahnhof | ||
Greek σταθμός | ||
Guarani arajere | ||
Gujarati સ્ટેશન | ||
Haitian Creole estasyon | ||
Hausa tashar | ||
Hawaiian kahua paʻa | ||
Hebrew תַחֲנָה | ||
Hindi स्टेशन | ||
Hmong chaw nres tsheb | ||
Hungarian állomás | ||
Icelandic stöð | ||
Igbo ebe | ||
Ilocano istasion | ||
Indonesian stasiun | ||
Irish stáisiún | ||
Italian stazione | ||
Japanese 駅 | ||
Javanese stasiun | ||
Kannada ನಿಲ್ದಾಣ | ||
Kazakh станция | ||
Khmer ស្ថានីយ៍ | ||
Kinyarwanda sitasiyo | ||
Konkani स्टेशन | ||
Korean 역 | ||
Krio steshɔn | ||
Kurdish meydan | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) وێستگە | ||
Kyrgyz бекет | ||
Lao ສະຖານີ | ||
Latin statione | ||
Latvian stacijā | ||
Lingala esika engbunduka etelamaka | ||
Lithuanian stotis | ||
Luganda sitenseni | ||
Luxembourgish gare | ||
Macedonian станица | ||
Maithili स्टेशन | ||
Malagasy peo | ||
Malay stesen | ||
Malayalam സ്റ്റേഷൻ | ||
Maltese stazzjon | ||
Maori teihana | ||
Marathi स्टेशन | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯒꯥꯔꯤ ꯇꯣꯡꯐꯝ | ||
Mizo chawlhhmun | ||
Mongolian станц | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ဘူတာရုံ | ||
Nepali स्टेशन | ||
Norwegian stasjon | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) siteshoni | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଷ୍ଟେସନ | ||
Oromo buufata | ||
Pashto سټیشن | ||
Persian ایستگاه | ||
Polish stacja | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) estação | ||
Punjabi ਸਟੇਸ਼ਨ | ||
Quechua estacion | ||
Romanian statie | ||
Russian станция | ||
Samoan nofoaga | ||
Sanskrit स्थानः | ||
Scots Gaelic stèisean | ||
Sepedi setiši | ||
Serbian станица | ||
Sesotho seteishene | ||
Shona chiteshi | ||
Sindhi اسٽيشن | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) ස්ථානය | ||
Slovak stanica | ||
Slovenian postaja | ||
Somali saldhigga | ||
Spanish estación | ||
Sundanese stasiun | ||
Swahili kituo | ||
Swedish station | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) istasyon | ||
Tajik истгоҳ | ||
Tamil நிலையம் | ||
Tatar станция | ||
Telugu స్టేషన్ | ||
Thai สถานี | ||
Tigrinya ጣብያ | ||
Tsonga xitici | ||
Turkish istasyon | ||
Turkmen bekedi | ||
Twi (Akan) dwumadibea | ||
Ukrainian станція | ||
Urdu اسٹیشن | ||
Uyghur station | ||
Uzbek stantsiya | ||
Vietnamese ga tàu | ||
Welsh gorsaf | ||
Xhosa isikhululo | ||
Yiddish סטאַנציע | ||
Yoruba ibudo | ||
Zulu esiteshini |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "stasie" originates from Dutch and originally meant "a post for horses, carts or wagons", or "stopping place". |
| Albanian | Alternate meaning: the first 14 verses of a chapter of the Qur'an |
| Amharic | While it is likely to be derived from the Greek word "σταθμός" (station), there is also a theory that "መሣፈሪያ" is derived from the ancient Egyptian word "stp" which means "dock" or "landing point". |
| Arabic | The etymology of the word "محطة" includes the meaning "to stay or rest for a while" in classical Arabic. |
| Armenian | "Կայարան" originated from the Arabic "qārah" (settlement), and later was borrowed into Persian as "qerār-gāh" (settlement) and finally to Armenian |
| Azerbaijani | In Azerbaijani, the word "stansiya" is also used to refer to a "police station" or a "hospital". |
| Basque | The word "geltokia" is a Basque loanword from Spanish "estación", which in turn comes from Latin "statio" (meaning "stop or stopping place"). |
| Belarusian | The word "станцыя" is derived from the Latin word "statio" meaning "standing" or "stopping place". |
| Bengali | The word 'স্টেশন' ('station') comes from the Latin word 'statio', meaning 'standing place'. |
| Bosnian | The word 'kolodvor' in Bosnian stems from 'kola' ('tracks') and 'dvor' ('courtyard'), reflecting its original use as a place where horse-drawn carriages gathered. |
| Bulgarian | "Гара" also means "garage" in Bulgarian, coming from the French word "gare". |
| Catalan | The word "estació" originally meant "stopover" or "halt" but has acquired the additional meaning of "station" in Catalan. |
| Cebuano | The word 'estasyon' in Cebuano can also refer to a bus stop or a railway station. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 站, in addition to its primary meaning of "station," can also mean "to stand," "to stop," or "to garrison." |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The word "站" (station) in Traditional Chinese can also mean "to stand" or "to stop". |
| Corsican | In Corsican, "stazione" can also refer to a place where cattle are kept, a stage in a journey, or a halt in a military march. |
| Croatian | The word 'stanica' in Croatian, meaning 'station', also derives from 'stati', which means 'to stand'. |
| Czech | Czech word "stanice" comes from the German word "Station" and can also mean "room" or "stop on a route". |
| Danish | In the context of the railways, 'station' in Danish refers to a stop for passenger trains as opposed to a freight yard, which in Danish is 'banegård'. |
| Dutch | In Dutch, "station" also means "estate" in the countryside. |
| Esperanto | "Stacidomo" is a neologism originally proposed by Antoni Grabowski in 1905 as an alternative to the Zamenhofian "stacio". |
| Estonian | In Finnish, "jaama" also means "gang" or "bunch" of people. |
| Finnish | Asemalle also means "to a place of residence" or "to a location of a person that is being visited". |
| French | "Station" derives from the Latin "statio," meaning "a place where one stands" or "a stopping place," and also refers to a military post or a religious observance. |
| Frisian | De alternatieve betekenis van 'stasjon' is 'treinstation'. |
| Galician | In Galician, "estación" can also refer to the different stops that make up the Way of St. James pilgrimage route. |
| Georgian | The word |
| German | The German word "Bahnhof" comes from the French "banque" (bank) and the Middle High German "hof" (court), originally referring to the banking and commercial activities that took place at train stations. |
| Greek | "Σταθμός" can also mean "stature, status" or "stop, halt". |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "સ્ટેશન" can also refer to a railway station, a bus stop, or a police station. |
| Haitian Creole | In Haitian Creole, "estasyon" can also mean "police station" or "fire station." |
| Hausa | The Hausa word "tashar" also has the meaning "place, location, or home". |
| Hawaiian | The literal meaning of kahua paʻa is to bind a place in time and space, as a post anchors a fence in the ground. |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "תחנה" can also mean "request" or "stop" (as in a bus stop). |
| Hindi | The word "स्टेशन" (station) in Hindi can also refer to a position or rank in society or organization. |
| Hmong | The word "chaw nres tsheb" is also used to refer to a "resting place" or a "place of residence" in Hmong. |
| Hungarian | The word "állomás" is related to the word "áll" (to stand) and originally meant a place where one stops to rest or to wait. |
| Icelandic | Cognate of German "Stadt" and English "stead", "stöð" once also referred to farmlands, villages, and urban settlements. |
| Igbo | The word "ebe" in Igbo can also refer to a place of worship or a sacred meeting point. |
| Indonesian | The Indonesian word "stasiun" derives from the Dutch word "statie", which itself comes from the Latin "statio", meaning "standing place" or "post". |
| Irish | The Irish word 'stáisiún' is cognate with the English word 'station', both deriving from the Latin 'statio', meaning 'a standing'. |
| Italian | The word 'stazione' comes from the Latin 'statio', meaning a 'place where one stands or remains'. |
| Japanese | The character 駅, originally meaning 'to lodge troops', can also refer to a stage in a journey or a place to stay. |
| Javanese | In Javanese, "stasiun" can also refer to a location where people gather, such as a market or a meeting place. |
| Kannada | ನಿಲ್ದಾಣ ('nil-daan') in Kannada, a word with roots in 'to stand' or 'to stay', is used to refer not just to a physical station but also to places of stability and permanence, especially in a metaphorical sense. |
| Kazakh | Станция - слово полисемантичное. Оно может иметь значения "железнодорожный вокзал", "метро", "автобусная остановка", "научно-исследовательский центр". |
| Khmer | The Khmer word ស្ថានីយ៍ (station) is derived from the Sanskrit word स्थानीय (sthānīya), meaning "local" or "pertaining to a place." |
| Korean | '역' literally means a 'village' or a 'place to rest', which reflects the original purpose of a train station. |
| Kurdish | The Kurdish word "meydan" also has the alternate meaning of "public square" in Arabic and Persian. |
| Kyrgyz | The Kyrgyz word "бекет" ("station") originally referred to a military outpost and is related to the Turkish word "beklemek" ("to wait, to watch over"). |
| Lao | The Lao word ສະຖານີ (pronounced "sà-tàa-níi") is likely derived from Thai สถานี (pronounced "sà-tàa-níi") which is borrowed from the English word "station". |
| Latin | "Statione" can also refer to penitential periods or pilgrimage churches. |
| Latvian | In Latvian, "stacija" has two different meanings: "station" and "episode". |
| Lithuanian | The word "stotis" in Lithuanian can also refer to an army post or a place where people gather, such as a bus stop or a train station. |
| Luxembourgish | In Luxembourgish, "Gare" originated as a loanword from the French "gare," which itself derived from the Old French verb "garer" meaning "to watch" or "to guard". |
| Macedonian | In Slavic languages, 'станица' often refers to a Cossack settlement, rather than a transportation hub. |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "peo" also means "place of gathering" or "market". |
| Malay | Malay word "stesen" is derived from Dutch word "station", which refers to a railway or bus stop. |
| Malayalam | The word "സ്റ്റേഷൻ" also has meanings such as position, rank, workplace, base, etc. in Malayalam. |
| Maltese | The word "stazzjon" is derived from the Latin word "statio", meaning "a stopping place". |
| Maori | The word "teihana" also means "to stop off" or "to stay somewhere for a short time" in Maori. |
| Marathi | The word "station" can also refer to a place where soldiers are stationed or a place where people wait for a bus or train. |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word |
| Nepali | The Nepali word "स्टेशन" (station) comes from the English word "station", which originally referred to a place where troops were stationed or a place to stop on public transport. |
| Norwegian | In Norwegian, "stasjon" can refer to a railway or bus station, as well as a radio or television station. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word 'siteshoni' in Nyanja can also refer to a railway station or a police station. |
| Pashto | In Pashto, the word "سټیشن" ("station") also refers to a police station or a military base. |
| Persian | The word "ایستگاه" can also mean "resting place" or "stage". |
| Polish | In Polish, "stacja" can also refer to a radio or television station or a stage in a religious procession. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, 'estação' is the word for 'season', 'stage' and 'stop', and originally comes from the Latin 'statio', meaning 'post' or 'position'. |
| Punjabi | The Punjabi word ਸਟੇਸ਼ਨ derives from the English word “station”, meaning a designated area for a specific purpose, or a fixed place for official functions. |
| Romanian | Statie (plural statii) is also used in Romanian to denote a bus station, railway station, or other public transport facility. |
| Russian | The word "станция" (station) in Russian can also mean a specific location or facility, such as a metro station or a bus stop. |
| Samoan | Nofoaga can also mean 'resting place' or 'residence' in Samoan. |
| Scots Gaelic | In Gaelic, 'stèisean' comes from the French 'station' but is also used to refer to the 'weather' or 'season'. |
| Serbian | In Serbian, "станица" also refers to a Cossack settlement, likely originating from the Russian term "станица" with the same meaning. |
| Sesotho | Sesotho word "seteishene" originates from the English word "station" and was probably introduced to Sesotho language during the British colonial era. |
| Shona | The word 'chiteshi' is also used to refer to the people at the station or the area surrounding it. |
| Sindhi | The word "اسٽيشن" (station) in Sindhi is derived from the English word "station" and is also used to refer to a railway station. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The term "ස්ථානය" can also refer to a position, place, or location in Sinhala. |
| Slovak | The word "stanica" originates from the Proto-Slavic word "*stanъ", meaning "campsite" or "settlement". |
| Slovenian | The word "postaja" in Slovenian can also refer to a place where people or animals stop to rest or to change vehicles. |
| Somali | The word **saldhigga** originates from Arabic, where it also means place or headquarters. |
| Spanish | The word "estación" in Spanish is derived from the Latin word "statio," which means "standing" or "stopping place." |
| Sundanese | In Sundanese, "stasiun" also means "stop on a journey" or "resting place". |
| Swahili | "Kituo" derives from the Proto-Bantu verbal extension "-tu-" denoting the site or place of an action, as in "kukalia kituo", to cry at the place. |
| Swedish | In Swedish, "station" can also refer to a "railway station" or a "television channel." |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The Tagalog word "istasyon" comes from the Spanish word "estación," which means both "station" and "season." |
| Tajik | The word "истгоҳ" in Tajik can also refer to a phase, a condition, or a step in a process. |
| Tamil | "நிலையம்" (station) comes from the Sanskrit word "sthana" meaning "place" or "position", and also carries the connotations of "firmness" or "stability". |
| Telugu | The word "స్టేషన్" (station) in Telugu can also refer to a place where a deity is worshipped or a place where a person is stationed for a specific purpose. |
| Thai | The Thai word "สถานี" (station) is derived from the Sanskrit word "sthana" meaning "place" or "location". |
| Turkish | The word "istasyon" in Turkish originated from the Persian word "istagāh", meaning "a place where one stops or resides". |
| Ukrainian | In the Ukrainian military sense, станція may refer to the military base and its facilities. |
| Urdu | The word "اسٹیشن" can also refer to a place where vehicles stop regularly, such as a bus stop or a railway station. |
| Uzbek | The word "stantsiya" in Uzbek also refers to a customs post or a place where livestock are grazed. |
| Vietnamese | The word "ga tàu" in Vietnamese literally translates to "train house", reflecting its original purpose as a shelter for trains. |
| Welsh | The word 'gorsaf' can also refer to a stop, a stage, or a resting place |
| Xhosa | The word "isikhululo" in Xhosa is used to refer to any place where people or vehicles stop temporarily, including train stations, bus stops, and taxi ranks. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "סטאַנציע" derives from the Slavic word "stanitsa" meaning "outpost" or "settlement". |
| Yoruba | "IBUDO" is likely derived from "ibu + odo","house" +"river/road." Originally "riverside settlements," then simply "settlements" |
| Zulu | In Zulu, 'esiteshini' not only means 'station' but also 'a place where people gather' like a bus stop or even a church. |
| English | The word "station" can also refer to a place where soldiers are stationed or a stage in a journey. |