Vs in Different Languages
Discover 'Vs' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Vs
Afrikaans teen | ||
Albanian vs | ||
Amharic በእኛ | ||
Arabic ضد | ||
Armenian ընդդեմ | ||
Assamese বনাম ড | ||
Aymara vs | ||
Azerbaijani vs | ||
Bambara vs | ||
Basque vs. | ||
Belarusian супраць | ||
Bengali বনাম | ||
Bhojpuri बनाम के बा | ||
Bosnian vs. | ||
Bulgarian срещу | ||
Catalan vs. | ||
Cebuano vs. | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 与 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 與 | ||
Corsican vs | ||
Croatian nasuprot | ||
Czech vs. | ||
Danish vs. | ||
Dhivehi އާއި ދެކޮޅަށް | ||
Dogri बनाम | ||
Dutch vs | ||
English vs | ||
Esperanto kontraŭ | ||
Estonian vs | ||
Ewe vs | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) vs | ||
Finnish vs. | ||
French contre | ||
Frisian vs. | ||
Galician vs. | ||
Georgian წინააღმდეგ | ||
German vs. | ||
Greek εναντίον | ||
Guarani vs | ||
Gujarati વિ | ||
Haitian Creole vs | ||
Hausa vs. | ||
Hawaiian vs. | ||
Hebrew לעומת | ||
Hindi बनाम | ||
Hmong vs | ||
Hungarian vs. | ||
Icelandic á móti | ||
Igbo vs. | ||
Ilocano vs | ||
Indonesian vs. | ||
Irish vs. | ||
Italian vs | ||
Japanese vs | ||
Javanese vs. | ||
Kannada ವಿರುದ್ಧ | ||
Kazakh қарсы | ||
Khmer ទល់នឹង | ||
Kinyarwanda vs. | ||
Konkani वि | ||
Korean vs | ||
Krio vs | ||
Kurdish vs. | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) vs | ||
Kyrgyz vs | ||
Lao vs | ||
Latin nobis | ||
Latvian pret | ||
Lingala vs | ||
Lithuanian prieš | ||
Luganda vs | ||
Luxembourgish vs. | ||
Macedonian наспроти | ||
Maithili बनाम | ||
Malagasy vs | ||
Malay lwn | ||
Malayalam vs. | ||
Maltese vs | ||
Maori vs. | ||
Marathi वि | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯕꯔꯁ | ||
Mizo vs | ||
Mongolian vs. | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) vs | ||
Nepali बनाम | ||
Norwegian vs. | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) vs. | ||
Odia (Oriya) ବନାମ | ||
Oromo vs | ||
Pashto د | ||
Persian در مقابل | ||
Polish vs | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) vs | ||
Punjabi ਬਨਾਮ | ||
Quechua vs | ||
Romanian vs. | ||
Russian против | ||
Samoan vs. | ||
Sanskrit वि | ||
Scots Gaelic vs. | ||
Sepedi vs | ||
Serbian вс. | ||
Sesotho khl | ||
Shona vs | ||
Sindhi بمقابلہ | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) එදිරිව | ||
Slovak vs | ||
Slovenian vs | ||
Somali vs | ||
Spanish vs | ||
Sundanese vs. | ||
Swahili dhidi ya | ||
Swedish mot | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) vs. | ||
Tajik против | ||
Tamil எதிராக | ||
Tatar vs. | ||
Telugu వర్సెస్ | ||
Thai เทียบกับ | ||
Tigrinya ኣንጻር | ||
Tsonga vs | ||
Turkish vs | ||
Turkmen vs. | ||
Twi (Akan) vs | ||
Ukrainian проти | ||
Urdu بمقابلہ | ||
Uyghur vs | ||
Uzbek va boshqalar | ||
Vietnamese vs | ||
Welsh vs. | ||
Xhosa vs. | ||
Yiddish ווס | ||
Yoruba vs. | ||
Zulu vs. |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "teen" in Afrikaans, originating from the Dutch preposition "tegen", also means "against" or "opposite to". |
| Amharic | Amharic's 'በእኛ,' meaning 'against,' derives from the word 'አንጋ,' meaning 'body,' thus connoting a physical opposition. |
| Arabic | ضد, in the Quran, means 'equal', 'like' or 'opposite', as in the phrase 'وَكَذَٰلِكَ جَعَلْنَا لِكُلِّ نَبِيٍّ عَدُوًّا شَيَاطِينَ الْإِنسِ وَالْجِنِّ يُوحِي بَعْضُهُمْ إِلَىٰ بَعْضٍ زُخْرُفَ الْقَوْلِ غُرُورًا ۗ وَإِن رَّبُّكَ لَعَلِيمٌ حَكِيمٌ' (6:112) |
| Azerbaijani | The Azerbaijani word "vs" means "versus" but can also be used to express "and" when comparing two similar concepts. |
| Basque | In Basque, the abbreviation "vs." can also be translated as "edo", which means "or". |
| Belarusian | The word "супраць" in Belarusian is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *sъpratiti, meaning "to oppose" or "to fight against". |
| Bengali | The word 'বনাম' is derived from Sanskrit and it has various meanings aside from 'versus', such as 'against', 'opposed to', or 'in contrast to'. |
| Bosnian | In Bosnian, "vs." can also be used to mean "or" or "against". |
| Bulgarian | In Bulgarian, "срещу" can also mean "against" or "in return for". |
| Catalan | In Catalan, "vs." is also an abbreviation that means "versus," Latin for "against." |
| Cebuano | In sports, “vs.” is used to indicate a face-off between two teams, players, or athletes. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The character 与 (yǔ) can also mean 'and', 'together', or 'to give', and its original form was a depiction of a bound animal. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The word 與, pronounced 'yú', can also mean 'participate' or 'agree' in classical Chinese. |
| Croatian | The word "nasuprot" in Croatian is a preposition that means "opposite" or "facing" and can also be used in the context of "versus" or "against". |
| Czech | In Czech, "vs." can also be an abbreviation for "versus" in Latin, or for the Slavic preposition "proti" meaning "against". |
| Danish | In Danish (dk), "vs" often stands for "versus" or "and". |
| Dutch | In Dutch, "vs" may also refer to "versus" in a court case or "versus" indicating opposition. |
| Esperanto | The word "kontraŭ" also means "opposite" or "contrary". |
| Estonian | In some contexts, "vs" can refer to "versus" or "compared to". |
| Finnish | In Finnish, "vs" is an abbreviation for "versus" or "vastaan" meaning "against" or "facing". |
| French | The French word “contre” derives from the Latin preposition “contra” which indicates opposition, contrariety and resistance. |
| Frisian | ''Vs'' in Frisian is an abbreviation of the Latin word ''versus'', meaning ''against'' or ''in opposition to''. |
| German | "Vs." is the German abbreviation for "versus" (English: "against") and is used to denote opposition or competition between two parties. |
| Greek | In ancient Greek 'εναντίον' ('enantiōn') also meant 'opposite' (as in 'opposite side'), 'in front of' and 'against'. |
| Gujarati | The word "વિ" in Gujarati is a homograph, with one meaning being "without" and the other meaning "against". |
| Haitian Creole | The Haitian Creole word "vs" originated from the Latin phrase "versus", meaning "to turn" or "towards". |
| Hausa | The Hausa word |
| Hawaiian | The Hawaiian word "vs." is also used as an abbreviation for the word "versus" in English. |
| Hebrew | לעומת derives from the Semitic root עמת and can also have the connotation of "matching" or "comparing" |
| Hindi | In Hindi, "बनाम" also means "against" or "in comparison with" and can be used to indicate a legal case or a competition. |
| Hmong | In Hmong, "vs" is used only in written form as a neutral shorthand for either "vs. " or "vs," but never as a stand-alone word. |
| Hungarian | A "vs." rövidítés többszörös értelmű, lehet "verseny", "szembenállás", vagy "ellen" jelentésű is. |
| Icelandic | "Á móti" also means "towards" and "opposite" in Icelandic. |
| Igbo | In Igbo, |
| Indonesian | In Indonesian, 'vs' can also be an abbreviation for 'versus' or 'versus dua' meaning 'against' or 'match two'. |
| Irish | There is no equivalent to "vs." in Irish, as it is a Latin abbreviation rather than a word. |
| Italian | In Italian, the abbreviation "vs" is also used to indicate a contrast between two things, similar to the English "contra" or "versus." |
| Japanese | Originally an abbreviation of the Latin word versus, meaning "toward" or "against" |
| Javanese | In Javanese, "vs" can also mean "versus" or "against". |
| Kazakh | Қарсы (vs) also means "opposite" and comes from the Proto-Turkic word *karši, meaning "opposite side". |
| Khmer | The word "ទល់នឹង" ("vs") in Khmer can also mean "against" or "in comparison to". |
| Korean | "대" is a Sino-Korean (Hanja) character that means "big" and is pronounced "dae". |
| Kurdish | In Kurdish, “vs” can also mean “instead of” or “in place of.” |
| Kyrgyz | The word "vs" in Kyrgyz is also an abbreviation for "versus" in Latin. |
| Lao | In Lao, vs (ບ) was originally used only in the context of the Lao alphabet and was only later adapted to also mean "vs" when comparing two things. |
| Latin | In Latin, "nobis" can also mean "to us" or "for us." |
| Latvian | The word "pret" in Latvian comes from the Proto-Germanic word "fram" meaning "forward" or "from". |
| Lithuanian | Lithuanian "prieš" originally meant "front" or "face-to-face" and later acquired the meaning of "against". |
| Macedonian | "Наспроти" means "opposite" but is also used to denote rivalry, opposition, contest, or competition. |
| Malagasy | In Malagasy, the characters that look like the English "vs" are pronounced as "ampaka". |
| Malay | The word 'lwn' in Malay is short for 'lawan' (opponent), and is commonly used in competitive contexts such as sports and games. |
| Malayalam | The word 'vs.' is derived from the Latin word 'versus', meaning 'turned towards' or 'against'. |
| Maltese | The abbreviation "vs" in Maltese can also be used to mean "per" or "against". |
| Maori | The abbreviation "vs." can mean either "versus" (opposition) or "versus" (comparison) in Maori, depending on the context. |
| Marathi | The word "वि" in Marathi also translates to "without" in English, as in "रंग वि चष्मा" (a glass without color). |
| Mongolian | The Mongolian word 'vs' (вс) can also refer to 'everything' or 'all' |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The term "vs" in Burmese is also used as a prefix to indicate a "negative" or "opposite" of something. |
| Nepali | The word "बनाम" can also mean "against" or "in opposition to" in the context of legal proceedings or battles. |
| Norwegian | I det norske språket kan forkortelsen "vs" brukes som et synonym for "og" eller "mot". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | 'Vs.' is also commonly used in Nyanja (Chichewa) to refer to the phrase 'in comparison to' or 'as opposed to'. |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "د" is derived from the Persian word "در" (dar), meaning "in" or "within." |
| Persian | In Farsi, "در مقابل" literally translates to "in front of," and can also mean "against" or "opposite of." |
| Polish | In Polish, "vs" can also mean "in comparison to" or "as opposed to". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | A palavra "vs" é a abreviação do latim "versus", que significa "contra" ou "em oposição". |
| Romanian | The word "vs." is derived from the Latin abbreviation "versus" meaning "against" or "turned towards". |
| Russian | "Против" derives from "противу" meaning "opposite, against, facing". |
| Samoan | "Vs" has no etymology in Samoan as it is Latin abbreviation for versus. |
| Scots Gaelic | In Scots Gaelic, "vs." (versus) also means "against" or "in opposition to". |
| Serbian | The Serbian word "вс" (vs) is an abbreviation of the word "против" (protiv), meaning "against" or "opposite." |
| Sesotho | As a noun, "khl" also means "quarrel", "argument", or "disagreement". |
| Shona | In Shona, "Vs" can also mean "that is" or "versus." |
| Sindhi | The word "بمقابلہ" in Sindhi also has the meaning of "against" or "opposite", denoting a situation or event where two parties or things are opposed to each other. |
| Slovenian | Besides being an abbreviation for "versus", "vs" can also mean "or" or "as opposed to" in Slovenian. |
| Somali | The Somali word "vs" can also mean "with" or "and" when used in certain contexts. |
| Spanish | In Spanish, "vs" can also mean "with", "versus", or "against" depending on the context. |
| Sundanese | The Sundanese word "vs" is also used to mean "and" in a contrastive sense, as in "he's good vs. she's bad". |
| Swahili | The word "dhidi ya" can also mean "opposed to" or "in contrast to". |
| Swedish | The word "mot" means "towards" and can also imply a target or destination. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | In Tagalog, "vs." can also mean "versus" or "laban sa". |
| Tajik | The word "против" in Tajik has the primary meaning of "against" or "opposite to", but it can also be used in the sense of "comparison" or "contrast", similar to the use of "versus" in English. |
| Telugu | The word "వర్సెస్" is derived from the Latin word "versus" which means "turned toward" or "opposite". |
| Thai | เทียบกับ is a shortened form of เทียบกับว่า and translates to "compared to that which" in English. |
| Turkish | "Vs" is short for "versus", meaning "against" or "in comparison to". |
| Ukrainian | The Ukrainian word "проти" comes from the Old Slavonic word "противу", meaning "opposite" or "against." |
| Urdu | The word "بمقابلہ" can also mean "against", "in comparison to", or "in opposition to" in Urdu. |
| Vietnamese | "Đối đầu" ngoài nghĩa thông dụng là "đối đầu" còn có một số nghĩa khác ít phổ biến hơn như "mâu thuẫn" hay "trái ngược". |
| Welsh | The same abbreviation is used in Welsh as in English, pronounced as "fersiws". |
| Xhosa | The word "vs." is not used in Xhosa, but the phrase "ntoni na ntoni" is used instead. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "ווס" ("vs") also means "what" or "why". |
| Yoruba | The Yoruba word "vs," pronounced "fas," also means "in opposition to" in English. |
| Zulu | In Zulu, "vs." translates as 'noma' which directly translates as "or". |
| English | In law and sports, vs is short for versus, which is Latin for "against". |