Stream in Different Languages
Discover 'Stream' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Stream
Afrikaans stroom | ||
Albanian rrjedhë | ||
Amharic ጅረት | ||
Arabic مجرى | ||
Armenian հոսք | ||
Assamese নিজৰা | ||
Aymara kurinti | ||
Azerbaijani axın | ||
Bambara kɔ | ||
Basque erreka | ||
Belarusian ручай | ||
Bengali প্রবাহ | ||
Bhojpuri बहल | ||
Bosnian potok | ||
Bulgarian поток | ||
Catalan corrent | ||
Cebuano sapa | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 流 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 流 | ||
Corsican flussu | ||
Croatian potok | ||
Czech proud | ||
Danish strøm | ||
Dhivehi ކޯރު | ||
Dogri नाला | ||
Dutch stroom | ||
English stream | ||
Esperanto rivereto | ||
Estonian voog | ||
Ewe tᴐsisi | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) stream | ||
Finnish virta | ||
French courant | ||
Frisian stream | ||
Galician fluxo | ||
Georgian ნაკადი | ||
German strom | ||
Greek ρεύμα | ||
Guarani ysyry | ||
Gujarati પ્રવાહ | ||
Haitian Creole kouran | ||
Hausa rafi | ||
Hawaiian kahawai | ||
Hebrew זרם | ||
Hindi धारा | ||
Hmong dej ntws | ||
Hungarian folyam | ||
Icelandic streyma | ||
Igbo iyi | ||
Ilocano karayan | ||
Indonesian aliran | ||
Irish sruthán | ||
Italian ruscello | ||
Japanese ストリーム | ||
Javanese stream | ||
Kannada ಸ್ಟ್ರೀಮ್ | ||
Kazakh ағын | ||
Khmer ស្ទ្រីម | ||
Kinyarwanda umugezi | ||
Konkani स्ट्रीम | ||
Korean 흐름 | ||
Krio strim | ||
Kurdish herrok | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) تەوژم | ||
Kyrgyz агым | ||
Lao ກະແສ | ||
Latin amnis | ||
Latvian straume | ||
Lingala mai moke | ||
Lithuanian srautas | ||
Luganda oluzzi | ||
Luxembourgish baach | ||
Macedonian поток | ||
Maithili धार | ||
Malagasy stream | ||
Malay aliran | ||
Malayalam ധാര | ||
Maltese nixxiegħa | ||
Maori rerenga | ||
Marathi प्रवाह | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯇꯨꯔꯦꯜ ꯃꯆꯥ | ||
Mizo lui te | ||
Mongolian урсгал | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ရေနွေးငွေ့ | ||
Nepali धारा | ||
Norwegian strøm | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) mtsinje | ||
Odia (Oriya) stream ରଣା | ||
Oromo yaa'uu | ||
Pashto جریان | ||
Persian جریان | ||
Polish strumień | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) corrente | ||
Punjabi ਸਟ੍ਰੀਮ | ||
Quechua purisqan | ||
Romanian curent | ||
Russian ручей | ||
Samoan vaitafe | ||
Sanskrit धारा | ||
Scots Gaelic sruth | ||
Sepedi moela | ||
Serbian поток | ||
Sesotho molapo | ||
Shona rwizi | ||
Sindhi وهڪرو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) ධාරාව | ||
Slovak prúd | ||
Slovenian tok | ||
Somali durdur | ||
Spanish corriente | ||
Sundanese aliran | ||
Swahili mkondo | ||
Swedish ström | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) stream | ||
Tajik ҷараён | ||
Tamil ஸ்ட்ரீம் | ||
Tatar агым | ||
Telugu స్ట్రీమ్ | ||
Thai กระแส | ||
Tigrinya መመሓላለፊ | ||
Tsonga xinambyana | ||
Turkish akış | ||
Turkmen akym | ||
Twi (Akan) nsuwa | ||
Ukrainian потік | ||
Urdu ندی | ||
Uyghur stream | ||
Uzbek oqim | ||
Vietnamese suối | ||
Welsh nant | ||
Xhosa umlambo | ||
Yiddish טייַך | ||
Yoruba ṣiṣan | ||
Zulu ukusakaza |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "stroom" derives from the Dutch "stroom" and is cognate with the English "stream" and German "Strom." |
| Albanian | The word rrjedhë also means "to flow" and "to pour" in Albanian. |
| Amharic | The word "ጅረት" (stream) comes from the verb "ተጅረ" (to flow) and is also used to refer to a flow of people or ideas. |
| Arabic | The word "مجرى" also means "way" or "course" in Arabic. |
| Armenian | "Հոսք" can also mean "sensation" or "intuition" in Armenian. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "axın" is also used to refer to a "millstone" or a "grindstone" in Azerbaijani. |
| Basque | The term 'erreka' has other meanings, as it can refer to a line or a streak. |
| Belarusian | The word "ручай" has alternative meanings such as "a small amount" or "a flow of liquid". |
| Bengali | The word "প্রবাহ" (stream) is derived from the Sanskrit word "प्रवाहन" (to flow). It can also refer to a literary or artistic movement or a flow of ideas or thoughts. |
| Bosnian | The word "potok" in Bosnian shares its root with the word "potop", meaning "flood" or "deluge". |
| Bulgarian | "Поток" also means "flow" in Bulgarian. |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "corrent" is derived from the Latin word "currere," meaning "to run" or "to flow." |
| Cebuano | Sapa also means "to row" in Cebuano, possibly due to its connection to water transportation |
| Chinese (Simplified) | Can also mean 'flow, current', or as a verb, 'to shed tears' |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 流 (流) is a variant form of the traditional Chinese character 瀏 (瀏), which means to stroll, to browse, or to watch. |
| Corsican | Corsican "flussu" and Italian "flusso" both derive from the Latin "fluxus" ("flow"), and the Catalan "fluix" and French "flux" have kept the same meaning. |
| Croatian | The word 'potok' is also a slang term for a 'large amount of money', a loanword from Hungarian (pénzpotok - cashflow). |
| Czech | Proud is also a colloquial term for a fast flowing river or a spring |
| Danish | "Strøm" derives from Old Norse "straumr" meaning both "stream" and "current (in the sense of electricity)" |
| Dutch | The word "stroom" in Dutch can also refer to an electric current. |
| Esperanto | "Rivereto" also refers to the part of a river at which it is shallowest |
| Estonian | The word “voog” (stream) is also used in Estonian to denote a flow, a procession, a train of thought, or a current. |
| Finnish | The word "virta" is also related to the word "virta" meaning "power" or "current". |
| French | The word "courant" in French can also mean "electric current" or "present month". |
| Frisian | In Frisian, "stream" means "current," "direction" or "flow." |
| Galician | The word "fluxo" is a derivative of the Latin word "fluxus", which means "flow". |
| Georgian | "ნაკადი" derives from the Old Georgian form of "flow" and shares a root with "flowing." |
| German | The Old High German word "strom" (stream) also referred to a riverbed (similar to the English "strand") in the Rhine-Franconian area. |
| Greek | "Ρεύμα" also means "electricity" in Greek, with "ηλεκτρικό ρεύμα" meaning "electric current". |
| Gujarati | "પ્રવાહ" (stream) can also refer to current, airflow, trend, flow, flux, or circulation. |
| Haitian Creole | "Kouran" is thought to derive from the word "courant" in French, meaning "current" |
| Hausa | The word "rafi" also refers to a type of rope made from plant fibers. |
| Hawaiian | The word "kahawai" in Hawaiian also means "gushing water". |
| Hebrew | In Hebrew, "זרם" denotes a stream of water, an electric current, or an ideology; it derives from the Akkadian word "zarāmu," meaning "to flow." |
| Hindi | The Hindi word 'धारा' (stream) comes from the Sanskrit word 'धृ' (to flow) and also refers to a 'series' or 'flow' of something. |
| Hmong | "Dej ntws" does not mean "stream" in Hmong, but rather "streambed." |
| Hungarian | The Hungarian word for "folyam" can also refer to a "process" or a "discourse". |
| Icelandic | The word "streyma" in Icelandic originates from the Old Norse word "straumr" meaning "current" or "flow". |
| Igbo | Igbo word 'Iyi' also connotes 'river', 'waterway', 'spring', and 'well'. |
| Indonesian | The word "aliran" in Indonesian can also mean "current" or "flow" in a more general sense, not just limited to water. |
| Irish | Sruth is a more archaic form of the word and has been used in poetry and literature since at least the 18th century, when the spelling sruthán first appeared in print. |
| Italian | The word “ruscello” derives from the Latin word “rivus”, meaning “stream” or “brook”. It also has the alternate meaning of “a small flow of water”. |
| Japanese | The word "stream" in Japanese can also refer to a data stream or a sequence of events. |
| Javanese | The Javanese word for "stream", "kali", can also refer to a river or canal. |
| Kannada | The Kannada word 'stream', 'ಸ್ಟ್ರೀಮ್', is derived from the English word 'stream' and refers to a continuous flow of liquid in a channel, as well as a continuous flow of data in a computer network. |
| Kazakh | The word "ағын" can also refer to a trend or current. |
| Khmer | The word ស្ទ្រីម (stream) can also refer to a river, canal, or current. |
| Korean | The word "흐름" can also mean "flow" or "current". |
| Kurdish | In some Kurdish dialects, "herrok" can also refer to a narrow passage or alleyway. |
| Kyrgyz | The word "агым" can also refer to a flow or current in a liquid or gas. |
| Lao | The word "ກະແສ" comes from the Pali word "srota", which can also mean "current" or "flow". |
| Latin | The Latin word "amnis" is cognate with the Sanskrit word "āpah" meaning "waters", and can refer to larger bodies of water such as rivers and lakes. |
| Latvian | The Latvian word "straume" is cognate with the Lithuanian "srautas" and the Sanskrit "srota", both meaning "stream", and possibly with the Old English "stream." |
| Lithuanian | The word "srautas" is also used to refer to a person's flow of energy or thoughts. |
| Luxembourgish | The word "Baach" can also refer to a ditch, canal or river and derives from the Celtic "*bakos" from the Proto-Indo-European root "*bheg-", hence meaning "to flow". |
| Macedonian | The word "поток" has a figurative meaning and can refer to any type of flow. |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "renirano" also means "river" or "watercourse". |
| Malay | "Aliran" also means "ideology" in Malay, derived from the Arabic word "al-irfan" meaning "knowledge". |
| Malayalam | The word "ധാര" in Malayalam can also refer to a continuous flow of something, such as rain, tears, or even knowledge. |
| Maltese | Nixxieġa comes from the Arabic word 'nahr' meaning 'river' through the Sicilian 'nixiegu' |
| Maori | In Maori mythology, Rerenga is also the name for the spirit path between the living and the dead. |
| Marathi | The Marathi word "प्रवाह" is derived from the Sanskrit word "प्रवहण," meaning "to flow or carry along." |
| Mongolian | The word "урсгал" can also refer to a river or channel of water. |
| Nepali | The word 'dhara' in Nepali also means 'flow', 'current', or 'stream of liquid or gas'. |
| Norwegian | The Norwegian word "strøm" can also refer to an electric current. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | "Mtsinje" also means "a channel or course for conveying water" in Nyanja (Chichewa). |
| Pashto | The word "جریان" comes from the Arabic word "جرى" that means "streaming" or "continuously flowing". |
| Persian | The Persian word "جریان" ("stream") also refers to the flow of electricity or a sequence of events. |
| Polish | "Strumień" in Polish can also refer to an electric current. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The Portuguese word "corrente" can also mean "trend" or "current". |
| Punjabi | ਸਟ੍ਰੀਮ in the context of streaming media is derived from its original meaning, a continuous flow. |
| Romanian | In Romanian, the word "curent" not only means "stream" but also a more abstract flow, such as an electrical current or the current trend in fashion. |
| Russian | Russian word "ручей" originates from a Proto-Slavic word meaning "to flow", and can also mean "creek" or "brook". |
| Samoan | The word "vaitafe" in Samoan can also refer to a "spring" or "channel" of water. |
| Scots Gaelic | In Scots Gaelic, 'sruth' means 'stream', but can also refer to a 'current' or 'flow', as in a river or a person's thoughts or emotions. |
| Serbian | The Serbian word "поток" (stream) is derived from the Proto-Slavic word "*potokъ", which originally meant "a small brook or river". |
| Shona | Rwizi is cognate with the Nyanja word for stream, m`ruzi, and the Tumbuka word m`mlusi |
| Sindhi | "وهڪرو" can also refer to a small hole from which water seeps out. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word ධාරාව can also refer to a flow or a continuous stream of liquid or gas. |
| Slovak | The Slovak word for "stream", Prúd, shares its origin with the Polish "prąd" meaning "current" and the Latin "prudens" meaning "wise". |
| Slovenian | The word "tok" can also refer to the flow of a liquid or gas, or to a stream of data or information. |
| Somali | The word "durdur" in Somali is derived from the root "duurow", which also means "to run" or "to flow". |
| Spanish | Corriente can also mean 'current,' as in 'the current of the river,' or 'commonplace,' as in 'the current fashion.' |
| Sundanese | The Sundanese word "aliran" also means "belief" or "current" in other contexts. |
| Swahili | The Swahili word 'mkondo' can also refer to a 'passage', 'channel', or 'course'. |
| Swedish | "Ström" can also refer to the force, power, or intensity of something, or to the flow of liquid or energy. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "stream" can also refer to a flow of electricity or data. |
| Tajik | In Tajik, "ҷараён" can also refer to a current or process, borrowing its meaning from its Persian equivalent. |
| Tamil | The word "ஸ்ட்ரீம்" can also refer to a flow of liquid or gas, or a continuous flow of data or information. |
| Telugu | In English, "stream" is also used to describe a sequence of data being sent over a network. |
| Thai | The word "กระแส" can also refer to electric current, fashion or trend, or a flow of water. |
| Turkish | Cognate with Hungarian "ag" (flood) and Finnish "aalto" (wave), Akış carries the meaning of "flow." |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word "потік" comes from the Proto-Slavic word *potokъ, which means "run, flow". |
| Urdu | The Urdu word "ندی" is derived from the Sanskrit word "नदी" (nadi), which also means "stream". |
| Uzbek | "Oqim" (stream) possibly comes from the Turkic word "oqum" (read), implying a place where cattle come to drink. |
| Vietnamese | The word "suối" in Vietnamese is also used to refer to a spring or a fountain. |
| Welsh | "Nant" is derived from the Proto-Celtic word "*nanto-", meaning "valley" or "stream". |
| Xhosa | In Xhosa, "umlambo" can also refer to a type of funeral ceremony or a specific lineage group. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "טייַך" can also mean "pond" or "lake". |
| Yoruba | The word ṣiṣan is Yoruba for 'stream', and can also refer to any flowing body of water. |
| Zulu | Zulu word for 'stream, river, or channel' from the root 'sakaza' meaning 'to divide' or 'branch out'. |
| English | The word 'stream' derives from the Old English 'stream' and the Middle English 'strem,' meaning 'current of flowing water,' and is also related to 'strum' and 'strong,' indicating force and movement. |