Tonight in Different Languages
Discover 'Tonight' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Tonight
Afrikaans vanaand | ||
Albanian sonte | ||
Amharic ዛሬ ማታ | ||
Arabic هذه الليلة | ||
Armenian այս երեկո | ||
Assamese আজি নিশা | ||
Aymara esta noche | ||
Azerbaijani bu axşam | ||
Bambara su ni na | ||
Basque gaur gauean | ||
Belarusian сёння ўвечары | ||
Bengali আজ রাতে | ||
Bhojpuri आज के रात | ||
Bosnian večeras | ||
Bulgarian тази вечер | ||
Catalan aquesta nit | ||
Cebuano karong gabii | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 今晚 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 今晚 | ||
Corsican sta sera | ||
Croatian večeras | ||
Czech dnes večer | ||
Danish i aften | ||
Dhivehi މިރޭ | ||
Dogri अज्ज रातीं | ||
Dutch vanavond | ||
English tonight | ||
Esperanto ĉi-vespere | ||
Estonian täna õhtul | ||
Ewe fiɛ̃ sia | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) ngayong gabi | ||
Finnish tänä yönä | ||
French ce soir | ||
Frisian fannacht | ||
Galician esta noite | ||
Georgian ამაღამ | ||
German heute abend | ||
Greek απόψε | ||
Guarani ko pyharépe | ||
Gujarati આજની રાત | ||
Haitian Creole aswè a | ||
Hausa yau da dare | ||
Hawaiian kēia pō | ||
Hebrew היום בלילה | ||
Hindi आज रात | ||
Hmong hmo no | ||
Hungarian ma este | ||
Icelandic í kvöld | ||
Igbo n'abalị a | ||
Ilocano ita a rabii | ||
Indonesian malam ini | ||
Irish anocht | ||
Italian stasera | ||
Japanese 今晩 | ||
Javanese bengi iki | ||
Kannada ಇಂದು ರಾತ್ರಿ | ||
Kazakh бүгін кешке | ||
Khmer យប់នេះ | ||
Kinyarwanda iri joro | ||
Konkani आयज रातचें | ||
Korean 오늘 밤 | ||
Krio dis nɛt | ||
Kurdish îro êvarî | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) ئەمشەو | ||
Kyrgyz бүгүн кечинде | ||
Lao ຄືນນີ້ | ||
Latin hac nocte | ||
Latvian šovakar | ||
Lingala lelo na mpokwa | ||
Lithuanian šiąnakt | ||
Luganda kiro kino | ||
Luxembourgish haut den owend | ||
Macedonian вечерва | ||
Maithili आइ रात | ||
Malagasy anio alina | ||
Malay malam ini | ||
Malayalam ഇന്ന് രാത്രി | ||
Maltese illejla | ||
Maori a te po nei | ||
Marathi आज रात्री | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯉꯁꯤ ꯅꯨꯃꯤꯗꯥꯡ | ||
Mizo zanin | ||
Mongolian өнөө орой | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ဒီည | ||
Nepali आज राती | ||
Norwegian i kveld | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) usikuuno | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଆଜି ରାତି | ||
Oromo har'a galgala | ||
Pashto نن شپه | ||
Persian امشب | ||
Polish dzisiejszej nocy | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) esta noite | ||
Punjabi ਅੱਜ ਰਾਤ | ||
Quechua kunan tuta | ||
Romanian astă seară | ||
Russian сегодня ночью | ||
Samoan po nei | ||
Sanskrit अद्यरात्री | ||
Scots Gaelic a-nochd | ||
Sepedi bošegong bjo | ||
Serbian вечерас | ||
Sesotho bosiung bona | ||
Shona manheru ano | ||
Sindhi ا tonight رات | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) අද රෑ | ||
Slovak dnes večer | ||
Slovenian nocoj | ||
Somali caawa | ||
Spanish esta noche | ||
Sundanese wengi ayeuna | ||
Swahili usiku wa leo | ||
Swedish i kväll | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) ngayong gabi | ||
Tajik имшаб | ||
Tamil இன்று இரவு | ||
Tatar бүген кич | ||
Telugu ఈరాత్రి | ||
Thai คืนนี้ | ||
Tigrinya ሎሚ ምሸት | ||
Tsonga namuntlha namadyambu | ||
Turkish bu gece | ||
Turkmen şu gije | ||
Twi (Akan) anadwo yi | ||
Ukrainian сьогодні ввечері | ||
Urdu آج کی رات | ||
Uyghur بۈگۈن ئاخشام | ||
Uzbek bugun tunda | ||
Vietnamese tối nay | ||
Welsh heno | ||
Xhosa ngokuhlwanje | ||
Yiddish היינט נאכט | ||
Yoruba lalẹ | ||
Zulu kusihlwa |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Dutch word _vanavond_, from which _vanaand_ derives, referred originally to the eve before a religious holiday. |
| Albanian | The Albanian word "sonte" ultimately derives from Latin "subinde", meaning "continuously". |
| Amharic | "ዛሬ ማታ" literally translates to "this evening". |
| Arabic | The Arabic word "هذه الليلة" literally means "this night" and can also refer to a specific night of significance or an anticipated event. |
| Azerbaijani | "Bu axşam" consists of "bu" (this) + "axşam" (evening), thus the meaning of the word - "tonight". |
| Basque | In formal Basque, the equivalent of "gaur gauean" is "gaur gau honetan", which literally means "this present night." |
| Belarusian | The word "сёння ўвечары" is an example of a calque: it is a translation of the Russian expression "сегодня вечером" |
| Bengali | The word "আজ রাতে" is also used to mean "this evening" or "tonight". |
| Bosnian | "Večeras" is cognate with "veče" ("evening") in other Slavic languages, but also means "dinner". In Serbo-Croatian it also functions as "last night". |
| Bulgarian | "Тази вечер" (tonight) in Bulgarian, literally means "this evening". |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "aquesta nit" also means "this night" in English. |
| Cebuano | The word "karong gabii" is derived from the Cebuano words "karong" and "gabii", which mean "this" and "night" respectively. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "今晚" comes from "今夜" meaning "this night." |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 今晚 means 'tonight' in Chinese (Mandarin) and is composed of two characters: 今 (today) and 晚 (night). |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "sta sera" (tonight) derives from the Latin phrases "ista sera" (this evening) and "sera" (evening). |
| Croatian | The word 'večeras' derives from the Old Church Slavonic word 'vьčerŭ', meaning 'yesterday', and has undergone a semantic shift over time to its present meaning of 'tonight'. |
| Czech | The Czech word "dnes večer" also means "this evening". |
| Danish | The Danish word "i aften" is related to the German "Abend" (evening) both sharing the common Indo-European root ‘h₂wes-, meaning evening, night. |
| Dutch | 'Vanavond' derives from the archaic 'van avonde', meaning 'from the evening' or 'from this evening'. |
| Esperanto | Ĉi-vespere is a compound word meaning "tonight" and composed of ĉi “this” and vespere “evening". |
| Estonian | The Estonian word "täna õhtul" comes from the Proto-Finnic "*tänä illa", meaning "this evening". |
| Finnish | "Tänä" is the inessive case of "tämä" in Finnish, denoting location or a specific instance. While "yönä" refers to "night", "tänä yönä" translates to "this night" or "this evening." |
| French | The French phrase "ce soir" is a contraction of "cette soir," where "cette" is the feminine form of "ce" (this). |
| Frisian | The Frisian word "fannacht" is a contraction of "foan deis nacht," meaning "from this night." |
| Galician | In some areas "esta noite" also refers to dusk. |
| German | The word "heute Abend" literally means "this evening" in German, but it can also be used to refer to the entire night. |
| Greek | "Απόψε" originates from the ancient Greek "από" (apo, meaning "from") and "ψε" (pse, meaning "night") and literally means "from the night" |
| Gujarati | "આજની રાત" literally means "this night" in Gujarati, but is also interpreted as "the day after tonight" and "any night within this week" |
| Haitian Creole | The word “aswè a” in Haitian Creole, meaning “tonight,” is derived from the French word “soirée” which also means “evening.” |
| Hausa | "Yau" means "today" and "dare" means "night." |
| Hawaiian | The Hawaiian word "kēia pō" literally means "this night" and can also refer to "the present time" or "now". |
| Hebrew | The word "היום בלילה" literally means "the day and in the night," indicating that the event discussed spans both day and night. |
| Hindi | 'आज रात' literally means 'today's night' in Hindi, but it is used to refer to the following night. |
| Hmong | The word "Hmo no" in Hmong can also mean "this evening" |
| Hungarian | "M este" (this evening), the Hungarian translation of Latin "hac nocte", originally meant "this night", but gradually shifted to mean "tonight" |
| Icelandic | Í kvöld is a contraction of í kveldi, which translates to 'in the evening', indicating a time within the early evening, rather than late at night. |
| Igbo | "N'abalị a" is derived from the Igbo word "abalị," which means "night," and the prefix "n," which indicates "this" or "the present." |
| Indonesian | "Malam" is similar to the Malay word "Malem" or "malam". In Sundanese it is known as "malem" and in Javanese it is known as "wengi". |
| Irish | "Anocht" is derived from the Old Irish word "anochd," meaning "the night after this one." |
| Italian | The Italian word "stasera" comes from the Latin "ista sera," meaning "this evening." |
| Japanese | 今晩 (konban) was originally a Buddhist term that had the meaning "tonight, before midnight only", while 夜 (yoru), as it is used today, was always "any time after sunset till daybreak". |
| Javanese | "Bengi iki" literally means "this night" in Javanese, where "bengi" means "night" and "iki" means "this". |
| Kazakh | The word “бүгін кешке” derives from the Kazakh words for “today” (бүгін) and “evening” (кешке). It can also refer to a specific time in the evening, such as sunset or dinnertime. |
| Khmer | In Khmer, "យប់នេះ" (pronounced "yob niih") can also mean "this evening" or "tonight". |
| Korean | "오늘 밤" can also be used to refer to the night of a wedding. |
| Kurdish | "Êvar" originated from the Proto-Iranian word *haparah, meaning "night, darkness, late at night". |
| Lao | คำว่า ""คืนนี้"" ยังสามารถหมายถึงคืนในอดีตได้ เช่น ประโยคภาษาไทย ""เมื่อคืนหลับฝันดีไหม"" |
| Latin | "Hac nocte" can also be translated as "on this night" or "this very night". |
| Latvian | "Šovakar" and its cognate Lithuanian "šį vakar" mean "this evening" rather than "tonight" and come from the Proto-Baltic *šĭ vákăras "late afternoon, evening". |
| Lithuanian | The word "šiąnakt" ("tonight" in Lithuanian) is derived from the Proto-Baltic root *naktis, meaning "night". |
| Luxembourgish | The phrase 'haut den Owend' in Luxembourgish is derived from the words 'haut' meaning 'high' and 'Owend' meaning 'evening', together meaning 'the high evening' or 'the evening when the moon is high'. |
| Macedonian | The word "вечерва" comes from the Proto-Slavic word *větьčerъ, which also means "evening". |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word for "tonight", "anio alina", literally means "this night". |
| Malay | The word "malam ini" (tonight) can also be used as a poetic way to refer to death. |
| Malayalam | In Malayalam, the word "ഇന്ന് രാത്രി" can alternatively mean "this evening" or "later tonight" depending on the context. |
| Maltese | The word “illejla” comes from the Arabic word “al-layla,” which also means “tonight.” |
| Maori | "A te po nei" is a Māori phrase meaning "tonight". It is derived from the words "a" (meaning "at"), "te" (meaning "the"), "po" (meaning "night"), and "nei" (meaning "this"). |
| Marathi | The Marathi word "आज रात्री" (tonight) is a compound word formed by the words "आज" (today) + "रात्र" + "-ी". |
| Mongolian | "Өнөө орой" is a Mongolian word meaning "tonight" but also means "today". |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The word "ဒီည" ("tonight") can also mean "this evening" or "this night." |
| Nepali | राती and रात are synonyms, and their combined meaning is "night". आज is an affix that refers to the present day. |
| Norwegian | The Norwegian word "i kveld" is a contraction of the phrase "i kveldingen," meaning "in the evening." |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "usikuuno" is derived from the words "usiku" (night) and "uno" (this), meaning "this night". |
| Pashto | The Pashto word for 'tonight', 'نن شپه', literally translates as 'this night'. |
| Persian | "امشب" comes from the Middle Persian "hambeshb" meaning "same night" and is made up of the words "ham" (same) and "beshb" (night). |
| Polish | The word "dzisiejszej nocy" derives from the Proto-Slavic word *dnьsь (today), with the addition of the suffix -ej (genitive singular), and the preposition "noc" (night). |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "esta noite" literally means "this night" in Portuguese and it can also refer to the evening before a specific date |
| Punjabi | The word "ਅੱਜ ਰਾਤ" does not have an alternate meaning in Punjabi, but it shares etymology with English "today night". |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "astă seară" means "this evening" and is composed of the definite article "astă" and the noun "seară" meaning "evening." |
| Russian | The word "сегодня ночью" is composed of the words "сегодня" (today) and "ночью" (at night), and it can also mean "last night" in some contexts. |
| Samoan | The Samoan word "po nei" can also mean "this evening" or "this night". |
| Scots Gaelic | The word 'a-nochd' is derived from 'an-nochd' in Early Modern Scottish Gaelic, meaning 'the night'. |
| Serbian | "Вечерас" is derived from Old Church Slavonic and is related to other Slavic words for "evening". |
| Sesotho | Bosiung bona could mean the day after tomorrow, or the time between sunset and sunrise. |
| Shona | The term "manheru ano" in Shona can also refer to "this evening" or "the present time". |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word 'ا tonight رات' ('tonight') is derived from the Sanskrit word 'ratri', meaning 'night'. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | "අද රෑ" can refer to either the upcoming night or the night just before the current day, based on context. |
| Slovak | The Slovak word "dnes večer" is a combination of two words, "dnes" (meaning "today") and "večer" (meaning "evening"), making its literal translation "today evening" |
| Slovenian | "Nocoj" originates from a contraction of the Old Slavic words *nočь* and *sego" which translates to "today evening". |
| Somali | The verb caawa "to spend the night" is homophonous to the noun caawa "tonight," implying that "tonight" is conceived as a time specifically dedicated to sleeping and resting. |
| Spanish | The Spanish word “esta noche” literally means "this night", deriving from the Latin "ecce hac nocte" meaning "behold! this night!" |
| Sundanese | The word 'wengi ayeuna' in Sundanese is used not only for 'tonight' but also 'this evening', 'later tonight', and even 'tomorrow night'. |
| Swahili | The word “usiku” (night) originates from a Proto-Bantu language meaning “to be calm, to be at rest”. |
| Swedish | }i kväll' means 'this evening' or 'tonight' and was originally used to refer to the evening after a full day's work. |
| Tajik | "ИМШАБ" - от слова "ИМШАВ", что значит "вечер". Так же от слова "ИМШАВ" образовались слова "ИМШАВИЯ" - "вечерний" и "ИМШАВГОХИ" - "вечерний гость". |
| Telugu | The word "ఈరాత్రి" (tonight) is derived from the Sanskrit word "अत्ररात्रि" (atraraatri), meaning "this night." |
| Thai | คืนนี้ is derived from the Sanskrit word "nisha" meaning "night" and is also used to refer to the evening or dusk. |
| Turkish | "Bu gece" means "tonight" in Turkish, but it also literally means "this night" or "the night of this". |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word “сьогодні ввечері” (“tonight”) shares its root with the word “вечір” (“evening”), and is literally translated as “this evening”. |
| Urdu | The word "آج کی رات" literally means "of today's night" in Urdu, while in English it is a single word. |
| Uzbek | The word "bugun tunda" literally means "this night today" in Uzbek. |
| Vietnamese | In the southern dialect of Vietnam, "tối nay" can also mean "this evening" |
| Welsh | The Welsh word "heno" means "tonight" but also refers to "this evening" and "yesterday evening". |
| Xhosa | The word "ngokuhlwanje" is an isiXhosa term referring to both the current "night" and the following "day" combined as one continuous 24-hour period. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "היינט נאכט" ("tonight") is derived from the German words "heute" ("today") and "Nacht" ("night"). |
| Yoruba | In some contexts, "lalẹ" is used as an exclamation to express surprise or disbelief. |
| Zulu | "Kusihlwa" in Zulu can also refer to a gathering or entertainment taking place in the evening. |
| English | The word "tonight" is derived from the Old English term "to niht," meaning "on this night." |