Tunnel in Different Languages
Discover 'Tunnel' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Tunnel
Afrikaans tonnel | ||
Albanian tunel | ||
Amharic ዋሻ | ||
Arabic نفق | ||
Armenian թունել | ||
Assamese সুৰংগ | ||
Aymara túnel ukax mä juk’a pachanakanwa | ||
Azerbaijani tunel | ||
Bambara tunnel (tunɛli) la | ||
Basque tunel | ||
Belarusian тунэль | ||
Bengali টানেল | ||
Bhojpuri सुरंग के बा | ||
Bosnian tunel | ||
Bulgarian тунел | ||
Catalan túnel | ||
Cebuano tunel | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 隧道 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 隧道 | ||
Corsican tunnel | ||
Croatian tunel | ||
Czech tunel | ||
Danish tunnel | ||
Dhivehi ޓަނަލް އެވެ | ||
Dogri सुरंग | ||
Dutch tunnel | ||
English tunnel | ||
Esperanto tunelo | ||
Estonian tunnel | ||
Ewe mɔ̃memimɔ̃ | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) lagusan | ||
Finnish tunneli | ||
French tunnel | ||
Frisian tunnel | ||
Galician túnel | ||
Georgian გვირაბი | ||
German tunnel | ||
Greek σήραγγα | ||
Guarani túnel rehegua | ||
Gujarati ટનલ | ||
Haitian Creole tinèl | ||
Hausa rami | ||
Hawaiian tunnel | ||
Hebrew מִנהָרָה | ||
Hindi सुरंग | ||
Hmong qhov av | ||
Hungarian alagút | ||
Icelandic göng | ||
Igbo ọwara | ||
Ilocano tanem ti tanem | ||
Indonesian terowongan | ||
Irish tollán | ||
Italian tunnel | ||
Japanese トンネル | ||
Javanese trowongan | ||
Kannada ಸುರಂಗ | ||
Kazakh туннель | ||
Khmer ផ្លូវរូងក្រោមដី | ||
Kinyarwanda umuyoboro | ||
Konkani बोगदो | ||
Korean 터널 | ||
Krio tanɛl | ||
Kurdish tûnêl | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) تونێل | ||
Kyrgyz туннель | ||
Lao ອຸໂມງ | ||
Latin curriculum | ||
Latvian tunelis | ||
Lingala tunnel na yango | ||
Lithuanian tunelis | ||
Luganda tunnel | ||
Luxembourgish tunnel | ||
Macedonian тунел | ||
Maithili सुरंग | ||
Malagasy tonelina | ||
Malay terowong | ||
Malayalam തുരങ്കം | ||
Maltese mina | ||
Maori kauhanga | ||
Marathi बोगदा | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯇꯅꯦꯜ ꯇꯧꯕꯥ꯫ | ||
Mizo tunnel a ni | ||
Mongolian хонгил | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ဥမင်လိုဏ်ခေါင်း | ||
Nepali सुरुnel | ||
Norwegian tunnel | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) ngalande | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଟନେଲ୍ | ||
Oromo tunnel jedhamuun beekama | ||
Pashto تونل | ||
Persian تونل | ||
Polish tunel | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) túnel | ||
Punjabi ਸੁਰੰਗ | ||
Quechua tunel | ||
Romanian tunel | ||
Russian туннель | ||
Samoan alavai | ||
Sanskrit सुरङ्गः | ||
Scots Gaelic tunail | ||
Sepedi thanele ya | ||
Serbian тунел | ||
Sesotho kotopo | ||
Shona tunnel | ||
Sindhi سرنگ | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) උමග | ||
Slovak tunel | ||
Slovenian predor | ||
Somali tunnel | ||
Spanish túnel | ||
Sundanese torowongan | ||
Swahili handaki | ||
Swedish tunnel | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) lagusan | ||
Tajik нақб | ||
Tamil சுரங்கம் | ||
Tatar тоннель | ||
Telugu సొరంగం | ||
Thai อุโมงค์ | ||
Tigrinya ታንከር | ||
Tsonga mugodi wa mugodi | ||
Turkish tünel | ||
Turkmen tunel | ||
Twi (Akan) tunnel a wɔde fa nsu mu | ||
Ukrainian тунель | ||
Urdu سرنگ | ||
Uyghur تونېل | ||
Uzbek tunnel | ||
Vietnamese đường hầm | ||
Welsh twnnel | ||
Xhosa itonela | ||
Yiddish טונעל | ||
Yoruba eefin | ||
Zulu umhubhe |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "tonnel" comes from Dutch "ton" (barrel), a reference to its cylindrical shape. |
| Albanian | Albanian "tunel" comes from Ottoman Turkish "tünel" (modern "tünel"), meaning "tunnel". |
| Amharic | The word ዋሻ derives from the Proto-Ethio-Semitic root ʾWŠ, which means "to bore through". |
| Arabic | The word "نفق" can also refer to a "burrow" or a "passageway" more generally. |
| Armenian | Թունել also means "poison" in Armenian, derived from the Persian word زهر "zahār" with the same meaning. |
| Azerbaijani | "Tünel" refers to both a tunnel and an underground passageway with several entrances. |
| Basque | The Basque word "tunel" is derived from the Greek word "tylos" meaning "knob" or "lump" and also referred to an artificial gallery through a hill. |
| Bengali | The word 'টানেল' in Bengali also has the alternate meaning of 'a pipe for conveying liquids or gases'. |
| Bosnian | In Turkish, "tünel" also means "funnel" or a "shaft of an elevator or well". |
| Bulgarian | The Bulgarian word "тунел" also refers to an underground passageway, or a covered-top arch bridge. |
| Catalan | Túnel comes from the Latin word "tonnellus" meaning "large cask" or "barrel"} |
| Cebuano | In Cebuano, "tunel" can also refer to the space between the eyebrows or a narrow opening in a wall. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The word "隧道" (suìdào) originally meant "an underground passageway for water", but now it also refers to an underground passageway for transportation. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | "隧道"指通过山岭或水体的人工通道，也可指通过困难或障碍的比喻途径。 |
| Corsican | Corsican "tunnel" also means "cork stopper". |
| Croatian | The word "tunel" in Croatian also refers to a narrow passageway in a mine or cave. |
| Czech | The word "tunel" is also used in Czech to refer to the space between the upper and lower teeth when the mouth is opened wide. |
| Danish | In Danish, "tunnel" can also refer to a tube or duct, especially one used for transporting liquids or gases. |
| Dutch | In Dutch, the word “tunnel” can also refer to a narrow passage or a funnel-shaped container. |
| Esperanto | The word "tunelo" in Esperanto is derived from the French word "tunnel", meaning "underground passageway" or "subterranean gallery". |
| Estonian | In addition to its primary meaning, the word tunnel can also refer to a long, narrow passage built in the ground or under a road or railway. |
| Finnish | The word "tunneli" comes from the Swedish word "tunell", which in turn derives from the Latin word "tonnellus," meaning "a small cask". |
| French | In French, a "tunnel" can also refer to a narrow underground passageway, such as a mine shaft or a sewer. |
| Frisian | The word "tunnel" in Frisian can also mean a drain or culvert, or a barrel that a liquid is passed through. |
| Galician | Galician "túnel" also refers to a small tunnel-shaped oven made in the ground to bake bread. |
| Georgian | The word "გვირაბი" in Georgian is derived from the Persian word "gerdab" meaning "whirlpool" and figuratively "vortex". |
| German | The word ‘tunnel’ originated in the 17th century from the French word ‘tonnelle’ meaning ‘funnel’ or ‘vault’. |
| Greek | The word "σήραγγα" comes from the Latin word "sagitta", meaning "arrow". |
| Gujarati | The word "tunnel" comes from the Latin word "tunna" meaning "pipe or barrel". |
| Haitian Creole | The word 'tinèl' shares its origin with the French 'tunnel', which itself comes from the Latin 'tunna', meaning 'cask'. |
| Hausa | The word "rami" also means "path" or "way" in Hausa. |
| Hawaiian | The Hawaiian word "tunnel" can also refer to a narrow or enclosed space, like a cave or a narrow passageway. |
| Hebrew | The word "מִנהָרָה" ("minhara") derives from the root "נ.ה.ר" ("n.h.r"), which means "to flow". It originally referred to a subterranean channel for water. |
| Hindi | The word 'सुरंग' ('surang') in Hindi can also refer to a mine or an underground passage. |
| Hmong | "Qhov av" is also used to describe underground networks or tunnels formed naturally by water or animals. |
| Hungarian | The word "alagút" may originally stem from the word for "ditch" and is cognate with words such as "alj/olló" meaning "bottom". The Turkish word for tunnel is "tünel". Interestingly, "alagút" can also describe certain caves or other types of tunnels not related to human infrastructure. |
| Icelandic | In Old Icelandic, "göng" meant a walk or a journey. |
| Igbo | Ọwara also means a path through a dense forest in Igbo. |
| Indonesian | The word 'terowongan' in Indonesian is derived from the Malay word 'terong' ('eggplant') and 'an', a suffix denoting a place, due to an imagined resemblance between a tunnel and an eggplant. |
| Irish | The Proto-Celtic word "*tol" is cognate with the Latin "*tull" which means "to raise" or "to lift" in English, referring to the tunnel being a route "over" a river. |
| Italian | In Italian, the word "galleria" can also refer to an art exhibition space |
| Japanese | トンネル comes from the Dutch word "tonnel", which originally meant "barrel". |
| Javanese | "Trowongan" in Javanese also refers to a subterranean tunnel used for mining or drainage. |
| Kannada | The word "ಸುರಂಗ" in Kannada is derived from the Sanskrit word "suranga", which means "mine" or "passage under the ground." |
| Kazakh | The word "туннель" in Kazakh also means "underground passageway" or "subway". |
| Korean | The word "터널" can be traced back to the Latin word "tunica", meaning "tube" or "covering". |
| Kurdish | 'Tûnêl' also refers to a hidden space used to store valuables or smuggled goods in Kurdish. |
| Kyrgyz | The word "туннель" also means "tube" in Kyrgyz. |
| Lao | The Lao word ອຸໂມງ is derived from the Sanskrit word 'udumbara', which means 'fig tree', and originally referred to a tunnel dug through a hill. |
| Latin | The Latin word "curriculum" shares its root with "currere," meaning "to run," and was used to describe both a running track and a course of study. |
| Latvian | The word “tunnel” (tunelis) is derived from the French “tonnelle,” meaning “a barrel vault,” which in turn comes from early Germanic “tunna,” meaning “cask”. |
| Lithuanian | In Lithuanian the word "tunelis" also means a "funnel". |
| Macedonian | Тун, in Albanian, refers to a cave, suggesting the possible Albanian origin of the Macedonian word "тунел". |
| Malagasy | The word was derived from the Malagasy 'tonelina', which means 'to go under or through'. |
| Malay | The Malay word "terowong" is cognate with "terong", meaning "eggplant". |
| Malayalam | "തുരങ്കം" is cognate with the Tamil "துரங்கம்" (turankam) meaning 'a tunnel' and is derived from Proto-Dravidian *tur- 'to bore'. |
| Maltese | The word 'mina' is used to refer to mines in Maltese, likely deriving from the French 'mine' or Spanish 'mina'. |
| Maori | The word "kauhanga" can also refer to a path or passageway, not necessarily underground. |
| Marathi | "बोगदा" (Marathi for "tunnel") has Sanskrit origins, possibly meaning "a hole made by boring" or "a cavern." |
| Mongolian | "Хонгил" is also the name of a Mongolian folk song about two young nomads in love. |
| Nepali | 'सुरुnel' (tunnel) derives from Sanskrit 'surang' meaning "mine". |
| Norwegian | The Norwegian word "tunnel" is likely derived from the French word "tonnelle", meaning a barrel-vaulted structure. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "ngalande" can also refer to a passage, channel, or narrow opening. |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "تونل" can also mean "underground passageway" or "secret passage". |
| Persian | The word تونل also refers to a type of Persian rug woven in the city of Kashan, known for its vibrant colors and intricate designs. |
| Polish | "Tunel" derives from French and can also mean "funnel" or, in the context of mining, "seam". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, "túnel" can also mean "underpass" or "subway station". |
| Punjabi | The word "surang" in Punjabi can also mean a mine or an underground passage. |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "tunel" also means a type of sweet bread, similar to a croissant. |
| Russian | The word "туннель" in Russian is derived from the Latin word "tunica", meaning "coat" or "covering", and can also refer to a mine shaft or underground passage. |
| Samoan | In Samoan, "alavai" can also refer to a dark, enclosed space or a hidden passageway. |
| Scots Gaelic | The Gaelic word 'tunail' also shares roots with 'tonn', meaning 'wave', perhaps referring to a tunnel as a dark wave-like space. |
| Serbian | The word "тунел" originally referred to a narrow underground passageway used by soldiers during a siege. |
| Shona | The Shona word "tunnel" is derived from English and primarily refers to an underground passageway, rather than having any additional meanings or etymologies. |
| Sindhi | The word "سرنگ" also refers to the act of digging or tunneling, as well as a narrow, underground passage or drain. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "උමග" also means "pathway" or "road" in Sinhala. |
| Slovak | "Tunel" can also refer to a type of oven or hearth in Slovak. |
| Slovenian | Slovenian word "predor" derives from the Latin "prodire" meaning "to come forth", originally referring to a breakthrough of water in a mine. |
| Somali | Somali word 'tunnel' is borrowed from English and has no alternate meanings. |
| Spanish | The word "túnel" in Spanish, besides meaning "tunnel", is also used to refer to a type of pastry filled with cream or jelly, or to a small, narrow passageway or space. |
| Sundanese | The word "torowongan" in Sundanese is derived from the Old Javanese word "tarubungan", meaning "covered passageway". |
| Swahili | The word 'handaki' may originate from the Proto-Bantu term '*-daŋga', meaning 'to dig' or 'to penetrate'. |
| Swedish | The Old Swedish synonym was "tunnle" with the same etymological root as in English, "tonnel". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "lagusan" is also used in Filipino slang to refer to a secret meeting place. |
| Tajik | The Tajik word "нақб" also has the alternate meaning of "conspiracy." |
| Tamil | The word "சுரங்கம்" (tunnel) derives from the Sanskrit word "suranga" meaning "mine" or "underground passageway". |
| Telugu | The word "సొరంగం" is derived from the Sanskrit word "suranga", which means "mine" or "underground passageway". |
| Thai | The word "อุโมงค์" (tunnel) is derived from the Sanskrit "udranga", meaning "cave" or "underpass". |
| Turkish | The word "tünel" in Turkish comes from the French word "tonnelle", meaning "arbor" or "canopy". |
| Ukrainian | The word "тунель" in Ukrainian can also refer to a tunnel effect in physics. |
| Urdu | The word "سرنگ" has its origin in the Sanskrit word "Suranga", meaning "underground passage or mine". |
| Uzbek | In Uzbek, "tonel" comes from the Russian word "тоннель" meaning "underground tunnel" or "passage." |
| Vietnamese | "Đường hầm" can also mean "sugar" in the context of Vietnamese iced coffee. |
| Welsh | The alternative meaning of twndell is an arbour; a hut with a roof constructed of boughs of trees. |
| Xhosa | Itonela is also an isiXhosa term for a type of traditional necklace adorned with beads. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "טונעל" also means "funnel". |
| Yoruba | In some Yoruba dialects, "eefin" can also refer to a narrow path or passageway. |
| Zulu | Zulu word "umhubhe" also refers to someone who digs up or tunnels something. |
| English | The word 'tunnel' originates from the Latin word 'tonnellus', meaning 'large cask'. |