Weather in Different Languages
Discover 'Weather' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Weather
Afrikaans weer | ||
Albanian moti | ||
Amharic የአየር ሁኔታ | ||
Arabic طقس | ||
Armenian եղանակ | ||
Assamese বতৰ | ||
Aymara pacha | ||
Azerbaijani hava | ||
Bambara waati | ||
Basque eguraldia | ||
Belarusian надвор'е | ||
Bengali আবহাওয়া | ||
Bhojpuri मौसम | ||
Bosnian vrijeme | ||
Bulgarian метеорологично време | ||
Catalan temps | ||
Cebuano panahon | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 天气 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 天氣 | ||
Corsican tempu | ||
Croatian vrijeme | ||
Czech počasí | ||
Danish vejr | ||
Dhivehi މޫސުން | ||
Dogri मौसम | ||
Dutch weer | ||
English weather | ||
Esperanto vetero | ||
Estonian ilm | ||
Ewe ya me | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) panahon | ||
Finnish sää | ||
French la météo | ||
Frisian waar | ||
Galician tempo | ||
Georgian ამინდი | ||
German wetter | ||
Greek καιρός | ||
Guarani ára | ||
Gujarati હવામાન | ||
Haitian Creole move tan | ||
Hausa yanayi | ||
Hawaiian aniau | ||
Hebrew מזג אוויר | ||
Hindi मौसम | ||
Hmong huab cua | ||
Hungarian időjárás | ||
Icelandic veður | ||
Igbo ihu igwe | ||
Ilocano tiempo | ||
Indonesian cuaca | ||
Irish aimsir | ||
Italian tempo metereologico | ||
Japanese 天気 | ||
Javanese cuaca | ||
Kannada ಹವಾಮಾನ | ||
Kazakh ауа-райы | ||
Khmer អាកាសធាតុ | ||
Kinyarwanda ikirere | ||
Konkani हवामान | ||
Korean 날씨 | ||
Krio wɛda | ||
Kurdish hewa | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) کەشوهەوا | ||
Kyrgyz аба ырайы | ||
Lao ສະພາບອາກາດ | ||
Latin tempestatibus | ||
Latvian laikapstākļi | ||
Lingala mopepe | ||
Lithuanian oras | ||
Luganda obudde | ||
Luxembourgish wieder | ||
Macedonian временски услови | ||
Maithili मौसम | ||
Malagasy weather | ||
Malay cuaca | ||
Malayalam കാലാവസ്ഥ | ||
Maltese it-temp | ||
Maori huarere | ||
Marathi हवामान | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯑꯏꯪ ꯑꯁꯥ | ||
Mizo khawchin | ||
Mongolian цаг агаар | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ရာသီဥတု | ||
Nepali मौसम | ||
Norwegian vær | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) nyengo | ||
Odia (Oriya) ପାଣିପାଗ | ||
Oromo haala qilleensaa | ||
Pashto هوا | ||
Persian هوا | ||
Polish pogoda | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) clima | ||
Punjabi ਮੌਸਮ | ||
Quechua llapiya | ||
Romanian vreme | ||
Russian погода | ||
Samoan tau | ||
Sanskrit वातावरणम् | ||
Scots Gaelic aimsir | ||
Sepedi boso | ||
Serbian временске прилике | ||
Sesotho boemo ba leholimo | ||
Shona mamiriro ekunze | ||
Sindhi موسم | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) කාලගුණය | ||
Slovak počasie | ||
Slovenian vreme | ||
Somali cimilada | ||
Spanish clima | ||
Sundanese hawa | ||
Swahili hali ya hewa | ||
Swedish väder | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) panahon | ||
Tajik обу ҳаво | ||
Tamil வானிலை | ||
Tatar һава торышы | ||
Telugu వాతావరణం | ||
Thai สภาพอากาศ | ||
Tigrinya አየር | ||
Tsonga maxelo | ||
Turkish hava | ||
Turkmen howa | ||
Twi (Akan) wiem bɔberɛ | ||
Ukrainian погода | ||
Urdu موسم | ||
Uyghur ھاۋارايى | ||
Uzbek ob-havo | ||
Vietnamese thời tiết | ||
Welsh tywydd | ||
Xhosa imozulu | ||
Yiddish וועטער | ||
Yoruba oju ojo | ||
Zulu isimo sezulu |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | "Weer" in Afrikaans comes from the Dutch word "weer" which can also mean "defense" or "resistance". |
| Albanian | "Moti" may also refer to "climate", "temperature" or "condition" depending on the context. |
| Amharic | The term "የአየር ሁኔታ" in Amharic is a compound word that literally translates to "the condition of the air," implying a direct relationship between weather and the state of the atmosphere. |
| Arabic | The Arabic word "طقس" also refers to religious rituals and ceremonies |
| Armenian | The word "եղանակ" ("weather") in Armenian is derived from the Old Armenian word "եկանել" ("to come"), signifying the idea of something that "comes and goes". |
| Azerbaijani | The word "hava" in Azerbaijani has the same root as the Persian word "hawā", which means "air" or "space." |
| Basque | The word "eguraldia" may also refer to someone or something that has changed or altered, or to the process of changing. |
| Belarusian | Belarusian "надвор'е" comes from "двор" (yard, courtyard) so etymologically it means "state of things in the yard", as well as "environment" or "circumstances". |
| Bosnian | "Vrijeme" is also used to refer to "time" within the context of an event scheduled within a specific timeframe; however, "vrijeme" as "weather" is more common. |
| Bulgarian | The word |
| Catalan | In Catalan, "temps" comes from the Latin "tempus" (time) and also means "time". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "天气" can also mean a person's complexion, mood, or state of mind. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 天氣 can also mean temperament, mood, or atmosphere. |
| Corsican | Corsican "tempu" is likely derived from Latin "tempus" (time), due to the close relationship between time and weather. |
| Croatian | The Croatian word "vrijeme" comes from the Proto-Slavic word "vьremę", meaning "time". |
| Czech | "Počasí" is derived from the Old Church Slavonic word "pogoditi," meaning "to hit" or "to affect." |
| Danish | "Vejr" is also used colloquially to refer to a person's mood or general disposition. |
| Dutch | "Weer" is not only Dutch for "weather" but also for "back", "pain", or "defence". |
| Esperanto | "Vetero" is also an archaic term for "star". It was used in the early days of Esperanto to translate the word "astronomy". |
| Estonian | The word |
| Finnish | "Sää" is also used to refer to precipitation or the state of the sky. |
| French | In addition to its literal meaning, "la météo" can also refer to "the weather forecast" or "the weather service" in French. |
| Frisian | Frisian 'waar' is derived from Old Frisian 'wār' meaning 'water', and has a similar meaning to 'water' in Modern English. |
| Galician | In Galician, "tempo" derives from the Latin "tempus," meaning "time" or "season," giving it a broader sense than the limited meteorological context of English "weather." |
| German | Beyond |
| Greek | The word "καιρός" also means "opportune moment" or "suitable time" in Greek, with its root in the Proto-Indo-European word "krei-", meaning "to separate". |
| Gujarati | "હવામાન" is also a term used in astrology to refer to a specific period of time. |
| Haitian Creole | The Haitian Creole word for weather, “move tan,” is also an archaic phrase for a change of heart in French. |
| Hausa | The Hausa word "yanayi" also means "season". |
| Hebrew | 'מזג' (Temperament) can also refer to 'Nature', 'Disposition' or 'Character'. 'אוויר' (Air) is from 'אוורר' (to Air out), ultimately from the root 'אור' (Light). |
| Hindi | "मौसम" (weather) may also refer to the period of life |
| Hmong | The Hmong word for weather, 'huab cua,' also means the 'face of the day.' |
| Hungarian | Hungarian "időjárás" literally means "nature of time" and could describe time itself or "weather" depending on the context |
| Icelandic | The word "veður" also means "wind" and is related to the Latin "ventus". "veðra" is a plural form that can refer to both "weather" and "winds." |
| Igbo | "Ihu" refers to the face and "igwe" means sky in Igbo, so "ihu igwe" literally means "the face of the sky," referring to what we see up in the atmosphere. |
| Indonesian | The word |
| Irish | In meteorology, |
| Italian | In Italian, "tempo metereologico" literally means "meteorological time," emphasizing the dynamic and ever-changing nature of weather conditions. |
| Japanese | The kanji "気" in "天気" also means "mood" or "feeling," reflecting the connection between weather and our emotional state. |
| Javanese | The word "cuaca" in Javanese also means "the state of the sky or atmosphere at a particular time or place". |
| Kannada | In Kannada, ಹವಾಮಾನ (havā-māna) is derived from the Sanskrit phrase सुवमान (su-vaman), meaning "good measure or proportion", referring to the moderate and balanced state of the atmosphere. |
| Kazakh | "Ауа-райы" is derived from the words "ауа" (air) and "райы" (condition), indicating the state of the atmosphere. |
| Khmer | The word "អាកាសធាតុ" in Khmer, which means "weather", also refers to the element of space or sky in traditional Khmer cosmology. |
| Korean | 날씨 is cognate with the Japanese word "tenki" (天気), both ultimately derived from the Middle Chinese "tien-khi" (天氣), meaning "the appearance of the sky". |
| Kurdish | The word 'hewa' can also refer to the sky, atmosphere, or climate. |
| Kyrgyz | The word "аба ырайы" can also refer to the climate or a person's mood |
| Latin | "Tempestatibus" also means "storms" or "bad weather" in Latin. |
| Latvian | The word "laikapstākļi" originates from the word "laiks" meaning "time" and "apstākļi" meaning "conditions". |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word "oras" comes from the Proto-Indo-European root "*h₃ers-ōs" meaning "year," which also gave rise to the English word "year" and the Latin word "annus." |
| Luxembourgish | The verb "wieder" is also used in the sense of "to become" or "to turn", e.g. "d'Wieder huet sech gebessert" (the weather has improved). |
| Macedonian | The word "временски услови" can also refer to a person's overall condition or circumstances. |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "WEATHER" can also mean "air" or "climate". |
| Malay | Cuaca can also mean 'face' in Malay, such as in the idiom 'menjaga cuaca', which means 'to be diplomatic'. |
| Malayalam | The word "കാലാവസ്ഥ" can also mean "season" or "climate" depending on the context. |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "it-temp" is cognate with the word "temple" in English, both coming from the Proto-Semitic root *T-M-P. |
| Maori | The Maori word 'huarere' can also refer to a squall or tempest. |
| Marathi | The Marathi word हवामान (hawaman) likely derives from the Hindi word hawamaan, which in turn derives from the Sanskrit word vayumandala, meaning 'atmosphere'. |
| Mongolian | The word "цаг агаар" originally referred to time and space, and later acquired its current meaning of "weather" in the 19th century. |
| Nepali | The word "मौसम" is also used in Nepali to refer to "season" and "climate." |
| Norwegian | The word "vær" is thought to be related to the word "vara" meaning "to be" and also to the Icelandic word "vera" meaning "the weather". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word “nyengo” can also mean “time” in Nyanja. |
| Pashto | The word هوا is also used in Pashto to refer to "desire" or "opinion". |
| Persian | The word "هوا" (hawa) can also refer to "desires" or "wishes" in Persian. |
| Polish | "Pogoda" comes from the Proto-Slavic word "pogodъ" meaning "favorable time". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | "Clima" can also mean "climate" in Portuguese. |
| Romanian | The word "vreme" also means "time" in Romanian due to its etymological root in the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European word *gʷer- meaning "warm season; year; weather". |
| Russian | The word "Погода" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word "pogodъ" meaning "suitable time" or "calm weather". |
| Samoan | The Samoan word "tau" can also mean "year" or "season", reflecting the strong connection between weather and time in Polynesian culture. |
| Scots Gaelic | The word "aimsir" in Scots Gaelic derives from the Old Irish "aimser" meaning "time", likely because the weather was considered a manifestation of the passage of time. |
| Serbian | The word "временске прилике" in Serbian also means "circumstances". |
| Sindhi | The word 'موسم' is derived from the Arabic word 'موسم', meaning 'time' or 'season'. This explains why the Sindhi word for 'weather' refers to more than just the daily climate conditions, but the general state of the atmosphere over a period of time. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The term "kālaguṇaya" can refer to a period, the duration of an action, an occasion, an interval, the weather, the season or an era. |
| Slovak | The word "počasie" comes from the word "čas" meaning "time" and refers to the state of the atmosphere at a particular time. |
| Slovenian | The word 'vreme' is also used to refer to the atmosphere or the conditions of the sky, and derives from the verb 'vreti', meaning 'to boil' or 'to bubble'. |
| Somali | "Cimilada" may also refer to a meteorological event or a specific type of weather condition. |
| Spanish | "Clima" in Spanish does not only mean "weather" but also "climate" and is not related to the word "climax" |
| Sundanese | In Sundanese, the word "hawa" also commonly denotes "air", with the latter sense extending metaphorically to refer to one's mood, disposition, or temperament. |
| Swahili | The Swahili word "hali ya hewa" literally means "state of the air". |
| Swedish | Väder also literally means 'direction', 'side' or 'point of the compass' from Old Norse 'veðr'. |
| Tajik | The word "обу ҳаво" in Tajik can also mean "air" or "climate". |
| Tamil | In Tamil, 'வானிலை' can also refer to the sky, atmosphere, or climate. |
| Telugu | "వాతావరణం" in Telugu also refers to the "climate" or "the surrounding conditions" in a specific geographic area. |
| Thai | The Thai word for weather, "สภาพอากาศ," can also refer to the state or condition of something. |
| Turkish | In Ottoman Turkish, |
| Ukrainian | In Czech, Polish, and Slovak, “pogoda” means “harmony,” “tranquility.” |
| Urdu | The word "موسم" can also refer to a period of time characterized by a particular type of weather, such as the rainy season or the monsoon season. |
| Uzbek | In Chagatai, the word "ob-havo" had the meaning "climate". |
| Vietnamese | "Thời tiết" (weather) can also mean "climate" or "season" in Vietnamese, depending on the context. |
| Welsh | The Welsh word 'tywydd' is cognate with the English word 'tide,' and both terms originally referred to cyclical atmospheric changes. |
| Xhosa | The word "Imozulu" is also used to mean "mood" or "temperament" in Xhosa. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "וועטער" is derived from the Middle High German word "weder," meaning "weather" or "season." |
| Yoruba | The Yoruba word "oju ojo" is believed to refer to the watchful eyes of the gods, which control the weather. |
| Zulu | The Zulu word "isimo sezulu" also means "weather". |
| English | The word 'weather' comes from the Old English word 'weder', which means 'wind'. It is related to the Dutch word 'weder' and the German word 'wetter', both of which also mean 'weather'. |