Up in Different Languages
Discover 'Up' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Up
Afrikaans op | ||
Albanian lart | ||
Amharic ወደ ላይ | ||
Arabic فوق | ||
Armenian վեր | ||
Assamese ওপৰত | ||
Aymara alaya | ||
Azerbaijani yuxarı | ||
Bambara sanfɛ | ||
Basque gora | ||
Belarusian уверх | ||
Bengali আপ | ||
Bhojpuri ऊपर | ||
Bosnian gore | ||
Bulgarian нагоре | ||
Catalan amunt | ||
Cebuano pataas | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 向上 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 向上 | ||
Corsican up | ||
Croatian gore | ||
Czech nahoru | ||
Danish op | ||
Dhivehi މަތި | ||
Dogri उप्पर | ||
Dutch omhoog | ||
English up | ||
Esperanto supren | ||
Estonian üles | ||
Ewe dzi me | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) pataas | ||
Finnish ylös | ||
French haut | ||
Frisian op | ||
Galician cara arriba | ||
Georgian მაღლა | ||
German oben | ||
Greek πάνω | ||
Guarani yvate | ||
Gujarati ઉપર | ||
Haitian Creole leve | ||
Hausa sama | ||
Hawaiian i luna | ||
Hebrew לְמַעלָה | ||
Hindi यूपी | ||
Hmong up | ||
Hungarian fel | ||
Icelandic upp | ||
Igbo elu | ||
Ilocano ngato | ||
Indonesian naik | ||
Irish suas | ||
Italian su | ||
Japanese アップ | ||
Javanese munggah | ||
Kannada ಅಪ್ | ||
Kazakh жоғары | ||
Khmer ឡើង | ||
Kinyarwanda hejuru | ||
Konkani वयर | ||
Korean 쪽으로 | ||
Krio ɔp | ||
Kurdish bi jorve | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) سەروو | ||
Kyrgyz өйдө | ||
Lao ເຖິງ | ||
Latin autem | ||
Latvian uz augšu | ||
Lingala likolo | ||
Lithuanian aukštyn | ||
Luganda waggulu | ||
Luxembourgish erop | ||
Macedonian горе | ||
Maithili ऊपर | ||
Malagasy ny | ||
Malay naik | ||
Malayalam മുകളിലേക്ക് | ||
Maltese sa | ||
Maori ki runga | ||
Marathi वर | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯃꯊꯛ | ||
Mizo chunglam | ||
Mongolian дээш | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) တက် | ||
Nepali माथि | ||
Norwegian opp | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) mmwamba | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଅପ୍ | ||
Oromo ol | ||
Pashto بره | ||
Persian بالا | ||
Polish w górę | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) acima | ||
Punjabi ਉੱਪਰ | ||
Quechua hanay | ||
Romanian sus | ||
Russian вверх | ||
Samoan i luga | ||
Sanskrit उपरि | ||
Scots Gaelic suas | ||
Sepedi godimo | ||
Serbian горе | ||
Sesotho nyoloha | ||
Shona kumusoro | ||
Sindhi مٿي | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) ඉහළට | ||
Slovak hore | ||
Slovenian gor | ||
Somali kor | ||
Spanish arriba | ||
Sundanese nepi | ||
Swahili juu | ||
Swedish upp | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) pataas | ||
Tajik боло | ||
Tamil மேலே | ||
Tatar өскә | ||
Telugu పైకి | ||
Thai ขึ้น | ||
Tigrinya ሓፍ | ||
Tsonga henhla | ||
Turkish yukarı | ||
Turkmen ýokary | ||
Twi (Akan) soro | ||
Ukrainian вгору | ||
Urdu اوپر | ||
Uyghur up | ||
Uzbek yuqoriga | ||
Vietnamese lên | ||
Welsh i fyny | ||
Xhosa phezulu | ||
Yiddish אַרויף | ||
Yoruba soke | ||
Zulu phezulu |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | In Afrikaans, 'op' can also mean 'on' or 'at', while its equivalent in English, 'up', has connotations of movement or position. |
| Albanian | The word "lart" in Albanian shares an origin with the Latin "altus" and the Albanian "lartësi" (altitude). |
| Amharic | "ወደ ላይ" can be used to mean "to the top" or "on top of" in addition to its primary meaning of "upward". |
| Arabic | فوق means "above" in Arabic and comes from a root word meaning "to rise or ascend". |
| Armenian | Վեր (up) originally referred to the sky and heaven and is related to the Armenian word վար (down), which meant the underworld and hell. |
| Azerbaijani | "Yuxarı" is a word with a rich history, meaning both "up" in a physical sense and "superior" or "more advanced" in a qualitative sense. |
| Basque | The word "gora" in Basque can also mean "top" or "summit" and is cognate with the word "gara" in other Basque languages, which also means "up" or "high". |
| Belarusian | The word "уверх" also means "on" in Belarusian. |
| Bengali | আপ is also used as an honorific pronoun to address someone older or respected. |
| Bosnian | The word "gore" can also mean "forest" or "mountain" in Bosnian. |
| Bulgarian | The word "нагоре" is derived from the Proto-Slavic verb *nagoriti, which meant "to go up" or "to climb" |
| Catalan | The word "amunt" is also used in the sense of "above" or "top", as in the expression "la muntanya de Montserrat", which means "the mountain of Montserrat". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 向上 also means "to progress" or "to improve". |
| Chinese (Traditional) | In Chinese, "向上" (up) also means "progressing" or "improving". |
| Corsican | "Up" may also mean "closed" in relation to an umbrella or "open" in relation to a knife. |
| Croatian | Gore has a different meaning in Croatian compared to in English; it also means ‘to burn'. |
| Czech | Nahoru is also an informal term for 'drunk'. |
| Danish | The Danish word 'op' ('up') is cognate with the English word 'up', both deriving from the Proto-Germanic word *uppa. |
| Dutch | The Dutch word "omhoog" is a combination of the preposition "om" (around) and the noun "hoog" (high), indicating a movement toward a higher position around something. |
| Esperanto | The word "Supren" can also mean "supreme" or "highest" in Esperanto, derived from the Latin "supernus" meaning "above". |
| Estonian | The word "üles" is also used in Estonian to mean "on top of" or "above". |
| Finnish | The word "ylös" can be traced back to the Proto-Uralic root *yle-, which also means "up" or "high" |
| French | The word “haut” comes from the Old French word “halt” and also means “proud” or “arrogant”. |
| Frisian | In Frisian, "op" also means "open". |
| Galician | Galician's "cara arriba" derives from Latin "cara ad verticem," which could also mean "in the right way" or "straight ahead." |
| Georgian | The word "მაღლა" can also mean "high" or "tall" in Georgian. |
| German | In Old High German, 'ovana' (from which 'oben' is derived) meant 'above' or 'on top' and was also used as an adverb meaning 'upwards'. |
| Greek | The word "πάνω" in Greek can also mean "on top of" or "above". |
| Gujarati | ઉપર, an adverb of place in Gujarati, can also be used as a preposition in the sense of "on top of" or "above". |
| Haitian Creole | Leve may also mean: raise, lift, remove, or extract. |
| Hausa | Hausa |
| Hawaiian | In Hawaiian, "i luna" also means "on the mountain side", "to windward", or "in the uplands". |
| Hebrew | לְמַעלָה can refer to the sky in Biblical Hebrew as well as the future in Jewish liturgy. |
| Hindi | The word "यूपी" can also mean "above" or "on top of". |
| Hmong | In Hmong, the word "up" also means "to climb" or "to ascend". |
| Hungarian | Hungarian word "fel" can also mean "on", "over", "above", "at the top"} |
| Icelandic | Icelandic 'upp' has no relation to Norwegian and Swedish 'opp' (up), but is cognate to English 'up' (but not 'above') |
| Igbo | In addition to describing the vertical direction, "elu" also connotes greatness, superiority, or prominence. |
| Indonesian | The Indonesian word "naik" also means "to increase," "to grow," or "to be promoted." |
| Irish | "Suas" is derived from Proto-Celtic "*sous", meaning "up, above, from below", and is cognate with Latin "sursum" and Welsh "i fyny" |
| Italian | The Italian word "su" can also mean "on" or "over" when placed before a noun or pronoun. |
| Japanese | "アップ" is borrowed from English and also means "completion" or "perfection". |
| Javanese | In Indonesian, |
| Kannada | The word "ಅಪ್" can also mean "above", "on top of", or "the top of something." |
| Kazakh | "Жоғары" can also mean "superior" or "higher" in terms of rank or quality. |
| Khmer | The Khmer word "ឡើង" also means "to rise," "to increase," or "to ascend." |
| Korean | The word "쪽으로" also means "direction" or "towards". |
| Kurdish | The Kurdish word "bi jorve" is also used as an intensifier, meaning "very" or "completely". |
| Kyrgyz | 'Өй' in 'өйдө' stems from the noun 'үй' ('house'), while '-дө' is a locative suffix. Hence, 'өйдө' literally means 'in/on/at the house' and can be figuratively used to describe an elevated position. |
| Lao | The word "ເຖິງ" is related to the Chinese word "到", which can mean "at the end of" |
| Latin | Autem is often used in the sense of "but", "however", or "moreover". |
| Latvian | "Uz augšu" in Latvian is also used to mean "upwards" and "above". |
| Lithuanian | The word "aukštyn" also means "above" or "higher" in Lithuanian. |
| Luxembourgish | "Erop" comes from the Germanic word "uppa", meaning "on" or "above". |
| Macedonian | The Macedonian word "горе" (up) derives from the Proto-Slavic word *gorě, meaning "up" or "high". |
| Malagasy | The word "ny" in Malagasy can also mean "new" or "fresh". |
| Malay | The word 'naik' also means 'to ascend', 'to increase', or 'to go higher in rank' in Malay. |
| Maltese | The word "sa" in Maltese shares its etymology with the word "up" in English, but it also means "higher-up" in status or position. |
| Maori | "Ki runga" can also mean "to the north," with its opposite being "ki raro" ("south"). |
| Marathi | Marathi word 'वर (var)', which means 'above' in English comes with several connotations and has different meanings in different context |
| Mongolian | Mongolian word дээш, written with Cyrillic characters, derives from Middle Mongol term deǧü. |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | "တက်" can also mean "to take" in the sense of taking a train or plane. |
| Nepali | The word "माथि" derives from the Sanskrit word "मस्तक" (mastaka), meaning "head" or "crown", hence its meaning of "above" or "on top of". |
| Norwegian | The Norwegian word "opp" is also used figuratively, such as "opp og ned" (up and down) which means to be in an emotional turmoil. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | In some contexts, mmwamba can also refer to the upper body. |
| Pashto | "بره" also refers to the number one and "first"} |
| Persian | "بالا" in Persian can also mean "above" or "higher than" in the sense of rank or status. |
| Polish | The Polish word "w górę" can also be used to describe an increase or improvement, as in "sytuacja gospodarcza w górę" (the economic situation is improving). |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The Portuguese word "acima" originates from the Latin phrase "ad cyma", meaning "towards the summit". |
| Punjabi | The Punjabi word "ਉੱਪਰ" (up) is derived from the Sanskrit word "उपरि" (upari), and also means "above" or "on top of". |
| Romanian | "Sus" also means "to hang", implying the position of something up in the air. |
| Russian | The Russian word "вверх" can also mean "upwards" or "in a higher position". |
| Samoan | The Samoan word for "up" can also be used to mean "to ascend" or "to rise." |
| Scots Gaelic | The Scots Gaelic word "suas" is cognate with the Welsh word "syth" and the Irish word "suas" or "suasann", all meaning "up" or "above". |
| Serbian | The word "горе" in Serbian, apart from meaning "up", can also refer to a "mountain" or "uphill". |
| Sesotho | Originally used to mean "straight" or "perpendicular," over time "nyoloha" also came to mean "upwards". |
| Sindhi | The word "مٿي" also means "top" or "head" in Sindhi. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "ඉහළට" ("up") in Sinhala also means "above" or "higher than". |
| Slovak | The word "hore" in Slovak also means "onward" or "forward". |
| Slovenian | The word "gor" can also mean a small elevated part of terrain or a forest, especially a spruce one, in Slovenian. |
| Somali | There is a related noun form of "kor," "kordh" meaning "high" or "up" in an elevated position. |
| Spanish | "Arriba" also serves as an exclamation denoting encouragement or excitement. |
| Sundanese | Although the word "nepi" predominantly means "up" in Sundanese, it can also be used figuratively to refer to an elevated position or status. |
| Swahili | "Juu" in Swahili comes from the proto-Bantu word */zulu/* 'high'. |
| Swedish | The Swedish word “upp” is often preceded by “åt” to mean “towards”, e.g. “He went towards the top of the mountain/Han gick uppåt berget”. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word 'pataas' in Tagalog also means 'to rise' or 'to ascend'. |
| Tajik | The word “боло” also means “above” or “top” and originates from the Proto-Indo-European word “*bʰel-” meaning “to shine.” |
| Tamil | மேலே is used in Tamil as both an adverb and a preposition, and is cognate with Sanskrit ऊपरि (upari), from the root ऊप (ūp), "up". |
| Thai | "ขึ้น" also means "to ride" in Thai, such as "ขึ้นรถ" for "to get on a vehicle". |
| Turkish | "Yukarı" can mean not only "up" but also "higher" or "upper". |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word "вгору" is a cognate of the Russian word "вверх" and the Polish word "w górę", all of which mean "upwards" or "to a higher place". |
| Urdu | The term "اوپر" is a derivative of the Sanskrit "upari" meaning above, over or on top of. |
| Uzbek | The word "yuqoriga" can also mean "over" or "above" in Uzbek. |
| Vietnamese | The word "lên" also has alternate meanings such as "to go up," "to climb," "to rise," "to ascend," and "to advance." |
| Welsh | The Welsh word "i fyny" can also refer to the future or to a higher level of something. |
| Xhosa | The noun **phezulu** also represents a state of happiness and good fortune in Xhosa traditions. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word אַרויף shares a root with the Hebrew ערב, meaning "evening" or "sunset", which is when the sun rises in the sky. |
| Yoruba | The Yoruba word 'soke' also means to lift something from a lower to a higher position or to raise something to a standing position. |
| Zulu | The Zulu word "phezulu" can also refer to a higher or more dominant place, person or thing. |
| English | The word "up" has many meanings, including vertical direction, a state of greater intensity, and even a slang term for something good. |