Yard in Different Languages
Discover 'Yard' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Yard
Afrikaans erf | ||
Albanian oborr | ||
Amharic ግቢ | ||
Arabic حديقة منزل | ||
Armenian բակ | ||
Assamese গজ | ||
Aymara uta anqaxa | ||
Azerbaijani həyət | ||
Bambara dukɛnɛ | ||
Basque patioa | ||
Belarusian двор | ||
Bengali উঠোন | ||
Bhojpuri बाड़ा | ||
Bosnian dvorište | ||
Bulgarian двор | ||
Catalan pati | ||
Cebuano nataran | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 码 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 碼 | ||
Corsican iardia | ||
Croatian dvorište | ||
Czech yard | ||
Danish gård | ||
Dhivehi ޔާޑް | ||
Dogri गज्ज | ||
Dutch werf | ||
English yard | ||
Esperanto korto | ||
Estonian õue | ||
Ewe dzidzenu | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) bakuran | ||
Finnish piha | ||
French cour | ||
Frisian hiem | ||
Galician iarda | ||
Georgian ეზო | ||
German garten | ||
Greek αυλή | ||
Guarani korapy | ||
Gujarati યાર્ડ | ||
Haitian Creole lakou | ||
Hausa yadi | ||
Hawaiian pā | ||
Hebrew חָצֵר | ||
Hindi यार्ड | ||
Hmong mev | ||
Hungarian udvar | ||
Icelandic garður | ||
Igbo yad | ||
Ilocano yarda | ||
Indonesian halaman | ||
Irish clós | ||
Italian cortile | ||
Japanese ヤード | ||
Javanese pekarangan | ||
Kannada ಅಂಗಳ | ||
Kazakh аула | ||
Khmer ទីធ្លា | ||
Kinyarwanda yard | ||
Konkani यार्ड | ||
Korean 마당 | ||
Krio gadin | ||
Kurdish hewş | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) گۆڕەپان | ||
Kyrgyz короо | ||
Lao ເດີ່ນບ້ານ | ||
Latin navale | ||
Latvian pagalms | ||
Lingala lopango | ||
Lithuanian kiemas | ||
Luganda yaadi | ||
Luxembourgish haff | ||
Macedonian двор | ||
Maithili अँगना | ||
Malagasy tokontany | ||
Malay halaman rumah | ||
Malayalam മുറ്റം | ||
Maltese tarzna | ||
Maori iari | ||
Marathi यार्ड | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯂꯝꯄꯥꯛ | ||
Mizo tual | ||
Mongolian хашаанд | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ခြံ | ||
Nepali आँगन | ||
Norwegian hage | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) bwalo | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଅଗଣା | ||
Oromo mooraa keessa | ||
Pashto انګړ | ||
Persian حیاط | ||
Polish dziedziniec | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) jardim | ||
Punjabi ਵਿਹੜਾ | ||
Quechua kancha | ||
Romanian curte | ||
Russian двор | ||
Samoan fanua | ||
Sanskrit अङ्गण | ||
Scots Gaelic gàrradh | ||
Sepedi jarata | ||
Serbian двориште | ||
Sesotho jarete | ||
Shona yard | ||
Sindhi يارڊ | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) අංගනය | ||
Slovak dvor | ||
Slovenian dvorišče | ||
Somali dayrka | ||
Spanish yarda | ||
Sundanese pakarangan | ||
Swahili yadi | ||
Swedish gård | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) bakuran | ||
Tajik ҳавлӣ | ||
Tamil முற்றத்தில் | ||
Tatar ишегалды | ||
Telugu యార్డ్ | ||
Thai หลา | ||
Tigrinya ቐጽሪ | ||
Tsonga rivala | ||
Turkish avlu | ||
Turkmen howly | ||
Twi (Akan) basafa | ||
Ukrainian двір | ||
Urdu صحن | ||
Uyghur ھويلى | ||
Uzbek hovli | ||
Vietnamese sân | ||
Welsh iard | ||
Xhosa iyadi | ||
Yiddish הויף | ||
Yoruba àgbàlá | ||
Zulu igceke |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "erf" in Afrikaans originates from the Dutch word "erf", meaning "inheritance" or "plot of land". |
| Albanian | The Albanian word "oborr" is of Proto-Indo-European origin, related to the Latin "area" and the Greek "αὐλή" (aulē). |
| Amharic | The word "ግቢ" can also mean "the space between buildings" or "an open space surrounded by houses". |
| Arabic | The Arabic word "حديقة منزل" can also refer to a small garden within a house or apartment. |
| Armenian | "Բակ" also means "garden" and is a loanword from Persian "bagh". |
| Azerbaijani | Həyət shares its root with the word “hayat,” meaning “life.” It comes from the Arabic word “hayāt,” referring to a courtyard or enclosure. |
| Basque | In Basque, the word "patioa" means "courtyard" and it comes from the Latin "patia" |
| Belarusian | The word "двор" can also mean "court" or "courtyard" in Belarusian. |
| Bengali | "উঠোন" is also used to refer to the courtyard area of a traditional Bengali house. |
| Bosnian | "Dvorište" is a Slavic word meaning "court" or "courtyard". |
| Bulgarian | The Bulgarian word "Двор" derives from the Proto-Slavic language meaning "court" and is used in Russian to mean "palace". |
| Catalan | In Catalan, the word "pati" is derived from Latin "patere", meaning "to lie open", and can also refer to an inner courtyard or open space within a building. |
| Cebuano | The term 'nataran' may also refer to public lands in towns and cities. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 码, a Chinese character also used in Japanese and Korean, shares the same origin with "yard" and means "enclosure" in its original meaning |
| Chinese (Traditional) | "碼" is also the Chinese character that stands for "code" (or programming code) due to its resemblance to a "bar code."} |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "iardia" is also synonymous with "cortile" in Italian, meaning "courtyard". |
| Croatian | "Dvorište" is a word that in certain Croatian regions also refers to the front door, i.e. the entryway into the house. |
| Czech | In Czech, "yard" translates to "sad", though it also means "garden", "orchard", or even "park." |
| Danish | The Danish word "gård" can also refer to a farmhouse or a cluster of buildings in a rural area. |
| Dutch | The word "werf" in Dutch can also refer to a shipyard or wharf, and is cognate with the English word "wharf". |
| Esperanto | Korto relates to the Latin word "cohors", meaning enclosed space or courtyard |
| Estonian | The word |
| Finnish | The word |
| French | "Cour," the French word for "yard," derives from the Latin word "cohors," which could refer to a cohort, an enclosed space, or a farmyard. |
| Frisian | The word "hiem" can also mean "home" and is related to the Dutch word "heem". |
| Galician | The Galician word "iarda" comes from the Germanic "gard" and ultimately from the Indo-European root "*gher-", meaning "to enclose." |
| Georgian | The word "ეზო" might derive from the Georgian word "ოზო" meaning "meadow" or from the Turkish word "avlu" meaning "courtyard". |
| German | The German word "Garten" is derived from the Old High German "gart", meaning "enclosure". It has also been used to refer to a park or garden, particularly one attached to a castle or monastery. |
| Greek | The Greek word "αυλή" can also refer to a palace or royal court. |
| Gujarati | The word "yard" comes from the Old English word "geard", which originally meant a stick or rod and was used as a unit of length as early as the 7th century. |
| Haitian Creole | Haitian Creole "lakou" derives from French "enclos" (enclosure) and also refers to a community social group. |
| Hausa | The Hausa word 'yadi' also means 'arm' in some contexts, and can refer to a specific measurement of length ('kibiya') in others. |
| Hawaiian | A second meaning of pā is an enclosure built around a residence or fortification, used to keep animals or prisoners out. |
| Hebrew | Historically, the word "חָצֵר" also referred to a fortified city or temple courtyard. |
| Hindi | The word "यार्ड" (yard) in Hindi can also refer to a courtyard or an enclosed area, similar to the meanings of the English word "yard". |
| Hmong | The word 'mev' is also used in some Hmong dialects to denote a 'foot' as a unit of length. |
| Hungarian | The word "udvar" is also used in Hungarian to refer to a feudal estate or manor. |
| Icelandic | The word "garður" in Icelandic has a dual meaning, as it can also refer to a "fence" or "enclosure." |
| Igbo | The Igbo word 'yad' is also used to refer to a type of traditional Igbo dance. |
| Indonesian | The word "halaman" in Indonesian comes from the Sanskrit word "pālapāna" which means "shelter". |
| Irish | In Old Irish, the word 'clós' also carried the meanings of 'womb' and 'enclosure' |
| Italian | The Italian word "cortile" comes from the Latin word "cohors", meaning "enclosure" or "courtyard". |
| Japanese | The word "ヤード" can also mean "yard" in the sense of a garden or a courtyard. |
| Javanese | "Pekarangan" in Javanese also refers to the area surrounding a house, including a garden, yard, or courtyard, and is related to the Old Javanese word "pekarah" meaning "to enclose". |
| Kannada | The word "ಅಂಗಳ" also refers to a courtyard, quadrangle, or open area in a temple or palace in Kannada. |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "аула" (yard) has several meanings, including "village" and "camp of nomads". |
| Khmer | The word "ទីធ្លា" can also mean "area" or "location" in Khmer. |
| Kurdish | "Hewş" which means "yard" in Kurdish also means "hope" or "expectation" in some dialects. |
| Kyrgyz | The word "короо" in Kyrgyz also means "a place of worship"} |
| Latin | The Latin word 'navale' can also refer to a shipyard or dockyard, where ships are built and repaired. |
| Latvian | The word "pagalms" is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *pagh-, meaning "to protect" or "to enclose". |
| Lithuanian | Derived from the root "kiem" meaning "to gather", also refers to a place for gathering or holding livestock. |
| Luxembourgish | The word "Haff" in Luxembourgish can also refer to a piece of land surrounded by water, similar to a pond or small lake. |
| Macedonian | The word "двор" can also refer to a courtyard or a palace. |
| Malagasy | The word "tokontany" also means "village" or "district" in Malagasy. |
| Malay | "Halaman rumah" comes from the Sanskrit word "halaman" meaning "courtyard" or "front yard". |
| Malayalam | The word "മുറ്റം" also means "court" or "courtyard". |
| Maltese | The word "tarzna" can also refer to a small garden, patio, or other enclosed outdoor area. |
| Maori | The word 'iari' can also refer to an enclosure or a fenced-in area. |
| Mongolian | The word "хашаанд" can also refer to a fenced-off area or an enclosed space. |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | "ခြံ" also means a stockade, fence, or enclosure for livestock or poultry. |
| Nepali | Nepali "आँगन" is borrowed from Sanskrit and possibly means "courtyard" in some languages like Marathi but retains the meaning "yard" in Nepali. |
| Norwegian | The word "hage" originally referred to a fenced area, and is related to the words "hedge" and "hay". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The Nyanja word "bwalo" can also refer to a courtyard or compound, especially in a rural setting. |
| Pashto | The word "انګړ" also means "hand"} |
| Persian | The word "حیاط" can also refer to a courtyard or patio. |
| Polish | The word "dziedziniec" originally meant "inherited land" and was related to the words "dziedzic" (heir) and "dziedzictwo" (heritage). |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | The word "Jardim" derives from the Arabic word "Jardin", meaning "garden" or "park". |
| Punjabi | The word 'ਵਿਹੜਾ' also means a courtyard or a playground in Punjabi and is derived from the Sanskrit word 'विहार' meaning 'to wander or roam'. |
| Romanian | In Romanian, "curte" can also refer to a group of buildings, enclosed by a wall or fence, forming a private or communal space. |
| Russian | The Russian word "двор" can also refer to a courtyard or an estate. |
| Samoan | The Samoan word "fanua" has a secondary meaning and comes from the Polynesian language group, meaning "land". |
| Serbian | The term "двориште" (yard) derived from the word "двор" (court) and can refer to an area around a building, a courtyard, or a garden. |
| Sesotho | The Sesotho word for "yard" is also used to refer to a cattle enclosure or a fenced-in area for animals. |
| Shona | The Shona word for "yard" is "pota", which can also mean "field" or "garden". |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "يارڊ" comes from the English word "yard" and means a linear measure of length equal to 3 feet or 0.9144 meters. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The Sinhala word "අංගනය" ("anganya") originally meant "an open space" or "a courtyard" and is related to the Sanskrit word "अंगण" ("aṅgaṇa") with the same meaning. |
| Slovak | The word "dvor" derives from the Proto-Slavic word `*dvorъ`, meaning "enclosed space", and is cognate with the English word "yard". |
| Slovenian | The word also means "garden" in Croatian and is used as a surname in Slovenia and Croatia. |
| Somali | The term "dayrka" can also refer to a courtyard or a place of assembly in Somali culture. |
| Spanish | "Yarda" may be a corruption of the Old English word "gyrd" which means "stick" or "pole". |
| Sundanese | Pakarangan originally referred to a rice field or plantation, and may also refer to the area around a house. |
| Swahili | The word "yadi" in Swahili can also mean "garden" or "yard" in English, but it does not have the same connotation of a backyard. |
| Swedish | The Swedish word "gård" also refers to a farm, and ultimately derives from the Proto-Germanic word *gardo meaning "enclosure". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Bakuran" is also a place in the Philippines named after the Tagalog word for yard. |
| Tajik | In Tajik, the word “ҳавлӣ” (yard) can also refer to a courtyard or garden, and is related to the Persian word “حیاط” (hayat), meaning inner courtyard. |
| Tamil | முற்றத்தில் also refers to a place where the king or chieftain assembled his council of ministers. |
| Telugu | The word "యార్డ్" can also refer to a person's home or residence. |
| Thai | The term "หลา" also refers to a unit of length equivalent to 90 centimetres in Thai traditional measurements. |
| Turkish | The word "avlu" is derived from the Persian word "hayat" which means "life" or "living space". |
| Ukrainian | The word "двір" in Ukrainian can also refer to a courtyard or a palace. |
| Urdu | "صحن" is a Farsi word that means 'a courtyard in front of a house or mosque' or 'a small garden surrounded by walls' |
| Uzbek | The word "hovli" also means "courtyard" or "compound" in Uzbek. |
| Vietnamese | The word |
| Welsh | 'Iard' in Welsh can also mean 'garden' or 'home', as in 'y tŷ iard' ('the home house'). |
| Xhosa | The term "iyadi" also denotes a homestead or farmyard in Xhosa vernacular. |
| Yiddish | In Yiddish, 'הויף' ('hof') can also refer to a courtyard, farmyard, or an aristocratic estate. |
| Yoruba | Àgbàlá comes from the word `gbà`, meaning `to accept`, and `là`, meaning `to put down`, representing the traditional role of the yard as a place of acceptance and rest. |
| Zulu | Igceke, a Zulu word for 'yard,' may be derived from the Nguni word 'igceke,' meaning 'a patch of ground' or 'a place where something is grown'. |
| English | "Yard" comes from Old English "gerd" meaning "enclosure"} |