Deeper word for friend

International Friendship day friend in different languages

FRIEND! Around the world, this simple word is used as an expression of companionship, camaraderie, loyalty, support, trust and good times. Yes, it may appear as a straightforward word, yet it holds so much of meaning for almost everyone. This word is said an infinite number of times each day in a plethora of situations across cultures, traditions, and backgrounds. Every language has a way of expressing friendship out loud and since you’re looking for another word for friend, you’ve certainly come to the right place! Continue reading to discover more than 100 ways to say friend in different languages of the world.

True friends are never apart, maybe in distance, but never in heart

The dictionary defines friend as a person you like and enjoy being with. Someone that you feel affection towards.

A person that you have met repeatedly and who has a passing knowledge or understanding of and with you. Another individual who provides help and support.

While the world may seem to be filled with many differences, friendship and fellowship are universal. Many of us have friends located all over the world, whether we met them online or during past travels. Why not impress these friends or make new ones by knowing how to greet them in the language of their country. Below you will find out how to say friend in any and every country.

Get ready to impress your friends, amigos, freunde, péngyǒumen, rafikis, and dost around the world.

Do you know:
July 30th is International Day of Friendship and the ideal opportunity for celebrating our friends around the world

The word friend is guaranteed to induce feelings of closeness and joy. A simple way of making someone feel loved, acknowledged, and appreciated.

A friend is someone who gets you, who you can talk to about anything, someone you can share your thoughts and problems with. A friend is another person who shares the same interests as you. Someone you can have new experiences with, like trying weird foods, or discovering beautiful places, or simply watching the sun rise together.

There’s no shortage of words for friend and ways to call someone a friend in many languages around the world. The words may be different, but the good intentions and intended joy are one and the same, with infinite feelings no matter which country you may find yourself in. You can learn a lot about a region and its inhabitants from the way the locals express themselves and a benefit of traveling is this experience gained. 

It’s always a good idea to know a few words in the language of the country you’re exploring. Start conversations, impress the locals, and make a new best friend by learning these other words too:

  • HELLO in every language of the world
  • I LOVE YOU in different languages of the world
  • CHEERS in all languages of the world
  • GOODBYE in other languages
  • THANK YOU in another language
  • GOOD MORNING in a different language
  • GOOD NIGHT in different languages
  • LIGHT in different languages

Friendship around the World

Do you know:

Where does the term FRIEND come from?

The etymological origin of the word friend is from
Old English frēond, which meant to love or to favour. It is of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vriend and German Freund, from an Indo-European root meaning ‘to love.’

The word for friend in Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish is also derived from the verb to love. The root of ‘ven’ in Danish means beautiful. However, in Arabic, the root of the word ‘Sadeeq’ (from Sadaqa صدق), means truth. This is from a saying, “who is your friend? The one who tells you the truth.”

Friend, of Anglo-Saxon origin, was name for a person who was considered to be very good-natured, considerate, and neighborly. During the Middle Ages people would use this word when they referred to their relatives or their kinsmen.

Good friends are like stars.
You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there

friend is different languages

Continue reading to discover the complete list of friends in all languages. Copy and paste, save to your phone, or print out and stick it in your passport. I’ll be continually updating this as I discover other different languages for friend.

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If you wanted to call every person in the world a friend, you would need to learn those individual words from over 7,000 languages.

Fortunately, just by reading this guide I have put together for you, you will be able to say friendship in different languages to more than 90% of the world’s population. So whether you find yourself in Africa, Europe, Asia, or America, I’ve got you covered, my beautiful friend.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out

Other Creative and Fun Ways to Say Friend

In addition to saying the word friend in other languages, here are ten other words for friend in English that you could use:

  1. mate
  2. confidante
  3. companion
  4. comrade
  5. buddy
  6. chum
  7. pal
  8. ally
  9. homeboy
  10. bestie

FRIEND IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES

Calling someone a close or best friend is sure to bring a huge smile to their face.

Here’s your ultimate guide on how to say friend in a different language.
Over 100 ways to acknowledge friendship in the most spoken languages of the world.

With pronunciation. In brackets you will find how to pronounce the word as it can often be difficult to know how to vocalise the word just by reading or looking at the direct translation.

Are you ready to take a trip around the world and learn how to convey some friendly vibes?

I have included the word for friend in every language I could think of. If you don’t spot your language, let me know (in the comments) and I will be happy to add it to this list.

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Let’s get into it…

Here’s how you say “friend” in:

Afrikaans

  • vriend
    — is the Afrikaans word for friend
  • vriendskap
    — friendship in Afrikaaans

Afrikaans is a West Germanic language of Southern Africa mostly derived from Dutch. It developed as Dutch settlers and indigenous African mixed languages beginning in the 17th century. Today, an estimated 15 to 23 million people call Afrikaans their mother tongue. It is mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia and can also be heard in parts of Botswana and Zimbabwe.

Albanian

  • miq
    — is the Albanian word for friend
  • miqësi
    — word for friendship in Albanian

Albanian is an Indo-European language, spoken mainly in Albania and Kosovo, though it is also spoken in other areas of the Balkans. With about 7.5 million speakers, it comprises an independent branch within the Indo-European languages and is not closely related to any other language in Europe.

Alsatian

  • freund
    — is the Alsatian word for friend

Alsatian is a West Germanic language spoken by around 900,000 people, mainly in the Alsace region of northeastern France.

Amharic

  • ጓደኛ gwadenya
    — is the Amharic word for friend
  • ጓደኝነት gwadenyineti

Amharic is a Semitic language and the official language of Ethiopia. It can also be heard in Egypt and Eritrea, as well as in Israel, Sweden, Canada and the United States.

Arabic

  • صديق  sadiq
    — the word for friend in Arabic
  • رفيق  rafiq
  • sadaqa
    — means friendship in Arabic

Arabic (العربية) is a Semitic language spoken by over 420 million people as their first language in countries in Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and other parts of the Middle East. Many more people can also understand it as a second language. Modern Standard Arabic is the liturgical language for 1.6 billion Muslims and is the official written form of the language with the Arabic alphabet, which is written from right to left.

Aragonese

  • amigo
    — masculine version of friend in Aragonese
  • amiga
    — feminine form

Aragonese is a language in the Romance language family that is native to Spain and spoken by just over 10, 000 people in the Pyrenees valley of Aragon.

Armenian

  • ընկեր ynker
    — friend in Armenian
  • բարեկամություն barekamut’yun
    — friendship in Armenian

Armenian is an Indo-European language spoken in the Republic of Armenia, as well as in large communities of Armenian diaspora by around 6.7 million people.

Assamese

  • বান্ধৱ
    — friend in Assamese

Assamese is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the northeast Indian state of Assam, where it is an official language. Native to India and Bangladesh, it is spoken by over 23 million people.

Asturian

  • amigo
    — friend in Asturian
  • amiga

Asturian is a West Iberian Romance language spoken by around 400,000 people in Asturias, Spain.

Azerbaijani

  • dost
    — means friend in Azerbaijani
  • dostum
  • dostluq
    — the word for friendship in Azerbaijani

Azerbaijani or Azeri is the primary and official language of Azerbaijan by its 8.8 million native speakers. It is also widely spoken in Northern Iran and to a small extent in southern Dagestan, the Kvemo Kartli region of Georgia, eastern Turkey, in Shia cities of Iraq, like Karbala and Kirkuk. The language is a Turkic language and is highly intelligible with modern-day Turkish.

Basque

  • laguna
     is the Basque word that translates as friends
  • adiskidetasuna

Basque (euskara) is a language spoken in the Basque Country (Gipuzkoa, Araba, Bizkaia) and Navarra (in Spain) as well as in the French Basque Country (Labourd, Soule and Basse-Navarre). Linguistically, Basque is a language isolate and is unrelated to the other languages of Europe.

Bavarian / Austrian German

  • to say friend in Bavarian use:
    Spezl

Bavarian is a regional dialect of German spoken in the German state of Bavaria, western Austria, and Northeastern Italy by over 14 million people. It uses German grammar, but takes several root words from Latin.

Belarusian

  • сябар siabar
    — is the Belarusina word for friend
  • siabroŭstva
    — friendship in Belarusian

Belarusian is the official language of Belarus. This East Slavic language is also spoken in Russia, Ukraine and Poland.

Bengali

  • বন্ধু bandhu
    — The Bengali noun for friend
  • bandhutba
    — means friendship in Bengali

Bengali বাংলা is the only official language of Bangladesh, one of the 22 official languages of India, and the sixth most spoken language in the world. It is spoken as a first language by the majority of the population in Bangladesh, as well as people in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Bodo

  • suthru

Bodo बर’/बड़ is the Sino-Tibetan language spoken primarily by the Bodo people of Northeast India, Nepal and Bengal. It is official language of the Bodoland Autonomous region and co-official language of the state of Assam in India.

Bosnian

  • prijatelj
    — is the Bosnian word for friend
  • prijateljstvo
    — friendship pronounced (pre-yah-tell-svo)

Bosnian, a south Slavic language of the Indo-European family, is the official language of Bosnia and is essentially the same language as Croatian and Serbian. All three languages used to be known as Serbo-Croatian before the break-up of Yugoslavia.

Brazilian Portuguese

  • amigo
    —is the word for male friend in Brazilian Portuguese
  • amiga
    — female friend

Brazilian Portuguese (Português do Brasil) is the variety of Portuguese dialect spoken in Brazil. It is spoken by virtually all of the 200 million inhabitants of Brazil and spoken widely across the Brazilian diaspora. European Portuguese differs from the Brazilian variety in pronunciation, as well as in some vocabulary.

Breton

  • kamarad
    — is the word for friend in Breton

Breton is a Southwestern Brittonic language of the Celtic language spoken in Brittany in the northwest of France.

Bulgarian

  • приятел priyatel
    is the Bulgarian word for friend
  • приятелство priyatelstvo
    — the word for friendship in Bulgarian

Bulgarian is a South Slavic language spoken in Southeastern Europe, primarily in Bulgaria. It is the country’s only official language and Bulgarian is written with Cyrillic.

Burmese

  • သူငယ်ချင်း suungaalhkyinn
    — friend in Burmese
  • ခင်မင်မှု hkainmainmhu

Burmese is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Myanmar where it is an official language and the language of the Bamar people, the country’s principal ethnic group.

Cambodian Khmer

  • មិត្តភក្តិ mitt phokte
    — means friend in Khmer

Khmer is the language of the Khmer people and the official language of Cambodia. With over 16 million speakers, it is the second most widely spoken Austroasiatic language.

Catalan

  • amic
    — is the word for friend in Catalan, masculine
  • amiga
    — feminine form of friend
  • amistat
    — friendship in Catalan

Catalan is a Western Romance language derived from Vulgar Latin and named after the medieval Principality of Catalonia, in northeastern of modern Spain. It is the only official language of Andorra, and a co-official language of the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencia.

Cebuano

  • higala

Cebuano, also known as Bisaya or Binisaya, is an Austronesian language spoken in the southern Philippines region in Central Visayas, western parts of Eastern Visayas and the majority of Mindanao.

Chamorro

  • amiga
  • amigu
  • ga’chong

Chamorro is an Austronesian language, the native and spoken language of the Chamorro people, who are the indigenous people of the Mariana Islands.

Cheyenne

  • navésé’e
    — this is the Cheyenne for friend, only said by a female, of a female friend
  • néséne
    — said by a male of a male friend

Cheyenne is the Native American language spoken by the Cheyenne people of the United States. It is part of the Algonquian language family. The Cheyenne are a Native American tribe that live in the Great Plains of Minnesota, Montana, Oklahoma, Colorado, Wyoming and South Dakota.

Chichewa

  • mnzanga

Chichewa, also known as Nyanja, is a Bantu language spoken in much of Southern, Southeast and East Africa. It is the national language of Malawi and is also spoken in Zambia, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.

Chinese Cantonese

How to say friend in Chinese Cantonese:

  • 朋友
    — the Chinese word for friend
    pronounced (pang you)

Cantonese is a variety of Chinese originating from the city of Guangzhou and its surrounding area in Southeastern China. Belonging to the Sino-Tibetan family of languages, it is the traditional prestige variety of the Yue Chinese dialect group, which has about 68 million native speakers.

Chinese Mandarin

How do you say friends in Chinese Mandarin:

  • 朋友  Peng You
    — the Chinese word for friend
    pronounced (pong yoh)
  • 友谊 Yǒuyì
    — is Chinese for friendship

Mandarin Chinese is the official language of Mainland China and Taiwan, and is one of the official languages of Singapore. Mandarin is often placed first in lists of languages by number of native speakers with almost a billion speakers.

Corsican

  • amicu

Corsican is a Romance language from the Italo-Dalmatian family that is spoken predominantly on the Mediterranean island of Corsica. Corsican is closely related to Tuscan and to the Florentine-based Italian.

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Croatian

  • prijatelj
    — is the Croatian word for friend
  • prijateljstvo
    — friendship in Croatian, pronounced (pre-yah-tell-svo)

Croatian or Hrvatski is a South Slavic language spoken mainly in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, some parts of Serbia, and the neighbouring countries by about 5.5 million people.

Czech

  • přitelé
    — the word for friend in Czech
  • přátelství
    — friendship in Czech

Czech is a Western Slavic language which is mutually intelligible with Slovak. It is mainly spoken in the Czech Republic with over 10,5 million speakers.

Danish

  • ven
    — is the word for friend in Danish
  • venskab
    — friendship in Danish

Danish is a Scandinavian language and the only official language of the Kingdom of Denmark. Closely related to Swedish and Norwegian, it is spoken in Denmark and in some parts of Greenland and northern Germany.

Dhivehi

  • rahumaiytheriyaa
    — is the word for friend in Dhivehi

Dhivehi or Maldivian is an Indo-Aryan language spoken on the islands of Maldives where it is an official language.

Dogri

  • साथन

Dogri is a Northern Indo-Aryan language spoken by around five million people in India, mainly in the Jammu region of Jammu and Kashmir.

Dutch

  • vriend
    — the Dutch word meaning friend
  • vriendje
    — the plural form of friend
  • vriendschap
    — friendship in Dutch

Dutch is a West Germanic language spoken by about 27 million people world-wide mostly in the Netherlands and northern Belgium.

Dzongkha

  • charo

Dzonkha or Bhutanese is the sole official and national language of the Kingdom of Bhutan. This Sino-Tibetan language is spoken by over half a million people in Bhutan and is written with the Tibetan alphabet.

English

  • Friend

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in Anglo-Saxon England in the early Middle Ages. It is spoken in many countries around the world with over 375 million native speakers. English is the second most spoken language, and the most international language in the world.

Estonian

  • sõber
    — is the Estonian word for friend
  • sõprus
    — friendship in Estonian, pronounced (suh-pruhs)

Estonian is a Finno-Ugric language spoken as the official language in Estonia. It is closely related to Finnish.

Faroese

  • vinur
    — is the word for best friend in Faroese

Faroese is a North Germanic language spoken as a first language by Faroe Islanders, residing on the Faroe Islands and in other areas, mainly Denmark.

Farsi / Persian

  • دوست  dost
  • رفیق  rafeeq
    — the Persian word meaning friends

Persian is an ancient language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages. It is a pluricentric language predominantly spoken and used officially within Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan.

Fijian

  • itau
    — this is the Fijian word for friend

Fijian is an Austronesian language of the Malayo-Polynesian family. It is an official language of Fiji spoken by some 350,000–450,000 ethnic Fijians as a native language.

Finnish

  • ystävä
    — is the Finnish word for friend, pronounced (oo-stah-vah)
  • ystävyys
    — Finnish for friendship (oo-stah-voo)

Finnish is a Finno-Ugric language spoken only in Finland as the official language and by ethnic Finns elsewhere in Scandinavia.

Flemish

  • vriend
    is the Flemish word for friend
  • maat

Flemish is a Low Franconian dialect cluster of the Dutch language, native to the historical region of Flanders in northern Belgium. It is sometimes referred to as Flemish Dutch, Belgian Dutch, or Southern Dutch spoken by over 6 million people.

French

  • ami
    — is the French masculine word for friend
    pronounced like (ah-me)
  • amie
    — feminine form of friend in French
  • amitié
    — the word for friendship in French, pronounced (ah-me-tee-eh)

French is a Romance language of the Indo-European family spoken by over 354 million people in France and around the world. It is the third most spoken language in Europe, the official language of 29 countries, spoken in parts of Africa, North America, and South America.

Frisian

  • freon

The Frisian languages are a closely related group of Germanic languages, spoken by about 500,000 Frisian people, who live on the southern fringes of the North Sea in the Netherlands and Germany.

Galician

  • amigo

Galician is a Romance language spoken by around 2.4 million people in Galicia, a region in northwestern Spain, where it is the official language.

Georgian

  • მეგობარო megobari
  • მეგობრობა megobroba
    — friendship in Georgian

Georgian is the official language of Georgia and the country’s most widely spoken language with over 4.1 million people.

German

  • freund
    — the German noun that translates to friend, masculine form
  • freundin
    — feminine form of friend in German
  • freundschaft
    — friendship in German

German Deutsch is the official language of both Germany and Austria and one of the three official languages of Switzerland. German belongs to the West Germanic group of the Indo-European language family. One of the major languages of the world, German is a native language to almost 100 million people worldwide and the most widely spoken native language in the European Union.

Gilbertese

  • raou

Gilbertese, also called Kiribati, is an Austronesian Oceanic language spoken mainly in Kiribati, but also on the islands of Fiji, the Solomon Islands and Tuvalu.

Greek

  • φίλος Fílos
    — word for friend in Greek, pronounced (fee-yohs)
  • filía
    — friendship in Greek

Greek (ελληνικά) belongs to the Hellenic branch of the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Greece and Cyprus an an official language. It has the longest documented history of any living Indo-European language, spanning more than 3000 years of written records. There are about 13.1 million speakers of Greek worldwide and it is recognised as a minority language in Albania, Armenia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey and Ukraine.

Greenlandic

  • ikinngut
    — is the Greenlandic word for friend

Greenlandic falls under the Eskimo–Aleut language family, spoken by around 57,000 Greenlandic Inuit people in Greenland.

Gujarati

  • મિત્ર mitra
    — is the Gujarati word for friend
  • મિત્રતા mitratā

Gujarati is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Indian state of Gujarat and spoken predominantly by the Gujarati people. Gujarati is part of the greater Indo-European language family.

Haitian Creole

Say friends in Creole:

  • zanmi
  • amitye

Haitian Creole (kreyòl ayisyen)) is a French-based creole language spoken by 10–12 million people worldwide and the only language of most Haitians. Along with French it is one of the official languages of Haiti.

Hausa

  • aboki
  • abota
    — friendship in Hausa

Hausa language, the most important indigenous bridge language in West and Central Africa, spoken as a first or second language by about 40–50 million people. It belongs to the Western branch of the Chadic language family within the Afro-Asiatic language phylum. It is spoken mainly in northern Nigeria and Niger, and also in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, the Central African Republic (CAR), Chad, Congo, Eritrea, Germany, Ghana, Sudan and Togo.

Hawaiian

How to say friend in Hawaiian:

  • hoa
  • makamaka
  • aloha
    — to say friendship use aloha

The Hawaiian language is a Polynesian language that takes its name from Hawaiʻi, the largest island in the tropical North Pacific archipelago where it developed. Hawaiian, along with English, is an official language of the State of Hawaii and here are the best words about Hawaii to know.

Hebrew

  • חבר yadid
    — is the Hebrew word for friend
  • חֲבֵרוּת
    — friendship in Hebrew

Hebrew is a Northwest Semitic language spoken by over nine million people worldwide. Historically, it is regarded as the language of the Israelites and their ancestors. It is written using its own script from right to left.

Hindi

  • दोस्त Dosth
  • मित्र Mitra
  • यार Yaar
    — are the Hindi words for friends
  • mitratā
    — friendship in Hindi

Hindi (हिन्दी) is an Indo-European language spoken in India, Nepal, and throughout the Indian diaspora. Hindi is descended from Sanskrit, sometimes called “the mother of all languages.” While there are 22 official languages and over 1,000 dialects of India, Hindi and English take precedence in government affairs. It is a link-language for over half of India’s population.

Hmong

  • phooj ywg

Hmong is a Hmong-Mien language spoken by about 2.6 million people in China, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, USA, and French Guiana.

Hopi

  • wikwawa wikwawa

Hopi is a Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Hopi people in northeastern Arizona, USA.

Hungarian

  • barát
    — this is the word for friend in Hungarian
  • barátság
    — friendship in Hungarian

Hungarian is a Uralic language of the Ugric branch spoken in Hungary and parts of several neighbouring countries. It is the official language of Hungary and one of the 24 official languages of the European Union.

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Icelandic

  • vinur
    — is the Icelandic word for friend
  • vinátu
    — friendship in Icelandic

Icelandic (íslenska) is a North Germanic language spoken in Iceland as its official language. It’s most closely related to Faroese and Western Norwegian and has around 314,000 speakers. The language is more conservative than most other Western European languages.

Igbo

  • enyi

Igbo is the principal native language of the Igbo people of southeastern Nigeria with around 45 million speakers and over 20 dialects.

Indonesian Bahasa

  • teman
    — the Indonesian noun for friend

Indonesian (bahasa Indonesia) is the official language of Indonesia.With over 230 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world. It is a group of varieties of Malay, an Austronesian language that has been used as the common language in the multilingual Indonesian archipelago for centuries. Indonesia uses the Latin alphabet system and Arabic numerals.

Inuktitut

  • piqatialuk
    — is the word for best friend in Inuktitut (pi-qa-TIA-luk)

Inuktitut is an Eskimo-Aleut language spoken in Arctic territories and the topmost span of North America including Alaska and Northern Canada.

Irish

  • cara
    — this is the all-purpose word for friend n Irish, pronounced (kor-juhs)
  • cairdeas
    — friendship in Irish (kor-juhs)

Irish (Gaeilge) is one of the three Goidelic languages, along with Scottish Gaelic and Manx. This Goidelic branch together with the Brythonic branch (Welsh, Cornish and Breton) form the Celtic language family.

Italian

How to say friend in Italian:

  • amico
    is the Italian noun for male friend, and it’s pronounced as (ah-ME-co)
  • amica
    — feminine form of friend in Italian
  • amicizia
    — the word for friendship in Italian

Italian (Italiano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family spoken by over 90 million people, the vast majority of which are in Italy, Sicily and Sardinia. It is the official language of Italy, San Marino, and the Vatican City.

Japanese

  • 友達 tomodachi
    — the word for friend in Japanese, pronounced (to -mo-da-chi)
    written as ともだち
    or トモダチ
  • 友人 yûjin
  • 友情 yūjō
    — is how you say friendship in Japanese, pronounced (yoo-joo)

Japanese (日本語 Nihongo) is an East Asian language of the Japonic language family. It is spoken by about 125 million people, mostly in Japan, where it is the official and national language.

Jamaican

  • friend
    — is a Jamaican saying to express friendship

Jamaican Patois, often also referred to as Jamaican Creole, is an English-based creole language with West African influences spoken mainly in Jamaica. Belonging to the English Creole language family, it is spoken by the the majority of Jamaicans with over 3 million native speakers.

Javanese

  • kanca
    — is the word for friend in Javanese

Javanese is the language of the Javanese people of the island of Java, in Indonesia that is the native language of more than 98 million people.

Kannada

  • gelati ಸ್ನೇಹಿತ
    — is the Kannada word for friends

Kannada, spoken by nearly 45 million native speakers, is a Dravidian language of the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, and by significant linguistic minorities in the states of Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Kerala and abroad.

Kazakh

  • дос dos
    — friend in Kazakh
  • достық dostıq

Kazakh is a Turkic language of the Kipchak branch spoken in Central Asia and the official language of Kazakhstan. The language comprises 21 million native speakers including regions of Bayan-Ulgii in Mongolia and the Dzungarian region of Xinjiang, China.

Kikuyu

  • mũrata

Kikuyu or Gĩkũyũ is a Bantu language of the Niger-Congo language family that is spoken as a first language by over 6.6 million Agĩkũyũ people in Kenya.

Kinyarwanda

  • shuti

Kinyarwanda, an official language of Rwanda, is a Bantu language of the Niger-Congo language family that is spoken by at least 10 million people in Rwanda, DR Congo, and Uganda.

Korean

Friend in Korean:

  • 친구 chingu
    — friend in Korean pronounced (chin-goo)
  • 우정 ujeon
    — friendship in Korean, pronounced (oo-djong)

Korean, an East Asian language, is the official language of South Korea (Republic of Korea) and North Korea (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) spoken by more than 75 million people.

Kurdish

  • heval

Kurdish is spoken by about 30 million Kurds in western Asia including parts of Kurdistan, Iraq, Turkey, Iran, and Syria. It is one of the Indo-Iranian languages, ranks as the third largest Iranian language, after Persian and Pashto.

Kyrgyz

  • дос dos
    — friend in Kyrgyz
  • достук dostuk

Kyrgyz is a member of the Kipchak branch of the Turkic language family spoken by over 4 million speakers mainly in Kyrgyzstan, and also in China, Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Turkey.

Lao

  • ເພື່ອນ pheuon
  • ມິດຕະພາບ midtaphab
    — friendship in Lao

Lao is the main language of Laos. It is a Kra–Dai language serving as a common language among all citizens of Laos, who speak approximately 90 other languages, many of which are unrelated to Lao. Modern Lao is heavily influenced by the Thai language and comprises over 30 million native speakers.

Latin

  • amicus
    — is the Latin word for male friend
  • amica
    — is the Latin word for female friend

Latin was the dominant language of the Roman Empire from 6th century BC to 600 AD. When the Roman Empire collapsed, Latin evolved into the various languages that we know today. Italian, French, Portuguese, Spanish, and Romanian all consider Latin as their parent tongue. Latin is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

Latvian

  • draugs
    — translates as friend in Latvian
  • draudzība
    — the word for friendship in Latvian

Latvian (latviešu valoda) is an Indo-European Eastern Baltic language spoken in the Baltic region. It is the official language of Latvia and one of the official languages of the European Union.

Lebanese

  • sahbe
    — is the Lebanese word for friend
  • rfiki

Lebanese is a variety of North Levantine Arabic, indigenous to and spoken primarily in Lebanon. With significant linguistic influences borrowed from other Middle Eastern and European languages it is spoken by over 5,7 million native speakers.

friendship in different languages

Limburgish

  • vriend

Limburgish is a member of the East Low Franconian group of the Germanic languages considered a variety of German or Dutch by many people. It is spoken by around 1.6 million people in the Netherlands and Belgium.

Lingala

  • moninga

Lingala is a Bantu language spoken throughout the northwestern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a large part of the Republic of the Congo by over 70 million people.

Lithuanian

  • draugas
    — is the word for friend in Lithuanian
  • draugystė
    — friendship in Lithuanian

Lithuanian (lietuvių kalba) is an Eastern Baltic language spoken in the Baltic region as the official language of Lithuania. It is also one of the official languages of the European Union spoken by just under 3 million native speakers. The language is one of the oldest in the world.

Luxembourgish

  • Frënd

Luxembourgish is a West Germanic language that is spoken mainly in Luxembourg. About 390,000 people speak Luxembourgish worldwide.

Luganda

  • mukwano
    — friend in Luganda, (moo-kwa-no)

Luganda, a Bantu language, is an official language of Uganda along with English and Swahili. It is spoken primarily in Kampala, but may be understood in much of the country and in the African Great Lakes region.

Macedonian

  • пријател prijatel
  • пријателство prijatelstvo
    — friendship in Macedonian

Macedonian, the official language of the Republic of North Macedonia, is a south Slavic language spoken as a first language by 2 million people.

Malagasy

  • namana
    — friend and friendship in Malagasy

Malagasy is the national language of Madagascar belonging to the Austronesian Malayo-Polynesia family of languages spoken by 25 million people.

Malay

  • kawan
    — is the Malay word for friend
  • persahabatan
    — friendship in Malay

Malay (Bahasa Melayu) is an Austronesian language spoken as the sole official language of Malaysia and Brunei. It is also heard in Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand at a total of 250 – 300 million speakers.

Malayalam

  • സുഹൃത്ത് suhr̥tt
    — is the word for friends in Malayalam (su-hu-ru-tth)
  • സൗഹൃദം sahr̥daṁ
    — friendship in Malayalam

Malayalam (മലയാളം) belongs to the Dravidian language family, spoken mostly in the Southern Indian states of Kerala and Lakshadweep. Around 36 million people use this language, which is one of the 22 official languages of India.

Maltese

  • habib
    — is how you say friend in Maltese

Maltese, a language of central Semitic origin written in the Latin script, is the national language of Malta. It is spoken by around 420,000 people on the Mediterranean islands of Malta, Gozo and Comino. The Maltese language developed from Sicilian Arabic, Over the centuries, it has incorporated many words derived from English, Italian and French.

Māori

  • hoa
    friend in Māori

Māori is an Eastern Polynesian language spoken by the Māori people, the indigenous population of New Zealand. it has also gained recognition as one of New Zealand’s official languages.

Marathi

  • मित्र mitra
  • मैत्री maitrī

Marathi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by around 83.1 million Marathi people of Maharashtra, India. It is the official language and co-official language in the Maharashtra and Goa states of Western India, respectively, and is one of the 22 scheduled languages of India.

Marshallese

  • motta
    — is the Marshallese word for friend

Marshallese, also known as Ebon, is a Micronesian language spoken in the Marshall Islands by about 44,000 people. It is an official language of the Marshall Islands, along with English, and is used as the language of instruction in most primary schools.

Mongolian

  • найз naiz
    — the word for friend in Mongolian
  • нөхөрлөл nökhörlöl
    — friendship in Mogolian

Mongolian is the official language of Mongolia and both the most widely-spoken and best-known member of the Mongolic language family. It is an Altaic language spoken by approximately 5 million people in Mongolia, China, Afghanistan and Russia.

Moroccan Arabic

  • صاحب saheb
    — male friend

  • صاحبة sabha
    — female friend

Moroccan Arabic, also known as Darija, is a form of vernacular Arabic spoken in Morocco. It is part of the Maghrebi Arabic dialect continuum, with over 30 million native speakers.

Nahuatl

  • cnīuh

Nahuatl is a group of languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family. It was the language of the Aztecs and the Toltecs. Variations of Nahuatl are spoken by around 1.7 million Nahua people of Central Mexico and the USA and Nahuatl remains the most widely-spoken group of Native American languages in North America.

Nauruan

  • dañan

Nauruan is an Austronesian language, spoken natively on the island country of Nauru by around 6,000 people.

Navajo

  • shik’is
    — is the general Navajo word for friends
  • alah
    — friend of the opposite gender
  • akis
    — friend of the same gender

Navajo is an American Indian language of the Athabascan family, spoken by around 170, 000 Navajo people in the Southwestern United States regions of Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado.

Ndebele

  • umngane
    — is the Ndebele word for friend

Ndebele, an African language of the Nguni group of Bantu languages, is spoken by around 5 million Northern Ndebele people of Zimbabwe.

Nepali

  • साथी mitra
    — is the Nepali word for friend
  • मित्रता mitratā
    — friendship in Nepali

Nepali (नेपाली), is an Indo-Aryan language of the sub-branch of Eastern Pahari written in Devanagari script It is the sole official language of Nepal and one of the 22 scheduled languages of India. While most Nepalese people speak at least some Nepali, there are more than 100 different languages and dialects spoken in Nepal.

Neapolitan

Friend in Neapolitan

  • amico

Neapolitan is a Romance language of the Italo-Dalmatian group spoken across much of southern Italy by 6 million people. It is related to but generally not mutually intelligible with Italian.

Northern Sotho / Sepedi

  • mogwera

Northern Sotho is a Bantu language spoken primarily in South Africa, where it is one of the 11 official languages. It is spoken by about 4.2 million people in the South African provinces of Gauteng, Limpopo and Mpumalanga.

Norwegian

The word for friend in Norwegian:

  • venn
  • vennskap
    — friendship in Norwegian

Norwegian (norsk) is a Germanic language derived from Old Norse spoken primarily in Norway by over 5 million people where it is the official language.

Odia

  • इआर

Odia is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Indian state of Odisha where it is the official language.

Oromo

  • fira-i

Oromo is a Cushitic language spoken by about 30 million people in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Egypt. It is the third largest language in Africa.

Papiamento

Friednship in Papiamento:

  • amigu
    — male friend
  • amiga
    — female friend

Papiamento is a Portuguese-based creole language spoken in the Dutch Caribbean by less than 500,00 native speakers. It is the most-widely spoken language on the Caribbean ABC islands, having official status in Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao.

Pashto

  • ملګرې malgarey
  • دوست  dost
    — means friends in Pashto

Pashto is an Eastern Iranian language in the Indo-European family spoken in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran. It is an official language of Afghanistan along with Dari.

Polish

Say the word friend in Polish:

  • przyjaciel
    — male friend in Polish
  • przyjaciółka
    — female friend in Polish
  • przyjaźń
    — friendship in Polish, pronounced (pshey-ah-szuhn)

Polish (polski) is a West Slavic language spoken by about 45 million people. Said to be one of the hardest languages to learn, it is the official language of Poland. It is understood and can be used for communication in the western parts of Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania.

Portuguese

  • amigo
    — the Portuguese masculine noun for friend. The pronunciation is (ah-me-go)
  • amiga
    — feminine form of friend in Portuguese
  • amigos
    — the plural form of friend in Portuguese
  • amizade
    — friendship in Portuguese, pronounced (ah-mih-zah-dje)

Portuguese (português) is a Romance language spoken as the official language of Portugal and Brazil. It is also the official language of Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé e Principe, Angola, Mozambique, and the co-official language of East Timor, and Macau. There are around 200 million native Portuguese speakers.

Punjabi

  • ਮਿਤ੍ਰ mitra
  • ਦੋਸਤ dost
    — the Punjabi word for friend
  • dōsatī
    — friendship in punjabi

Punjabi is an Indo-Aryan language with more than 130 million native speakers in the Indian subcontinent and around the world. It is the 10th most spoken language in the world.

Romanian

  • prieten
    — the Romanian word for friend
  • prietenie
    — friendship in Romanian, pronounced (pree-eh-tehn-ee-ey)

Romanian (limba română) is a Balkan Romance language spoken by approximately 24–26 million people as a native language, primarily in Romania and Moldova, and by another 4 million people as a second language. Although it descended from Vulgar Latin, Romanian was influenced by Slavic and Greek languages in the Middle Ages. It is an official and national language of both Romania and Moldova.

Russian

  • друг droog
    — the Russian noun for friend, masculine form
  • padrooga подруга
    — a female friend in Russian
  • prijátel
    — you could also use this as friend in Russian
  • druzhba Дружба
    — friendship in Russian

Russian is an East Slavic language spoken by 300+ million people worldwide. It is  is an official language in the Russian Federation, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, and many other people in Central Asia, the Baltic states, the Caucasus, and Eastern Europe know it as a second language. Commonly written in Cyrillic, it is the 8th most widely spoken language in the world.

friends in every language

Samoan

  • uo
    — a commonly used word for friend in Samoan
  • faigauo

Samoan is the official language spoken in the Samoan Islands, which is made up of the Independent State of Samoa and the American Samoa. The language is the most spoken of the Polynesian language family with a total of 510,000 speakers worldwide.

Sanskrit

  • mitra
    — a commonly used word for friend in Sanskrit

Sanskrit is a 4,000-year-old classical language that belongs to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. Known as ‘the mother of all languages,’ Sanskrit is the root of many, but not all, Indian languages. It is also the liturgical language of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism. Sanskrit has less than 15,000 native speakers at present and is mostly used by Hindu priests during religious ceremonies.

Sardinian

  • amico
    — a commonly used word for friend in Sardinian

Sardinian or Sard is a Romance language spoken by over 1.5 million inhabitants of the Mediterranean island of Sardinia in Italy.

Scottish Gaelic

  • caraid

Scots Gaelic is a Goidelic language of the Celtic and Indo-European language family, native to the Gaels of Scotland. As a Goidelic language, Scottish Gaelic, like Modern Irish and Manx, developed out of Middle Irish.

Serbian

  • пријатељу prijatelj
  • пријатељство prijateljstvo
    — friendship in Serbian

Serbian is a South Slavic language spoken mainly in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and Macedonia by about 9 million people. Serbian is the official and main language of Serbia and Montenegro.

Sesotho

  • motswalle

Sesotho (Sotho) is a Southern Bantu language of the Sotho-Tswana group, spoken primarily by the Basotho in Lesotho, where it is the national and official language, South Africa, where it is one of the 11 official languages and in Zimbabwe where it is one of 16 official languages.

Shona

  • shamwari

Shona, one of the most widely spoken Bantu languages, is the main language in Zimbabwe.

Sicilian

  • amicu

Sicilian is a Romance language spoken by more than 4 million speakers on the island of Sicily in Italy.

Sindhi

  • دوست

Sindhi, an Indo-Aryan language, is the official language of the Pakistani province of Sindh and spoken by over 25 million Sindhi people.

Sinhala

  • මිතුරා miturā
    — friend in Sinhala
  • මිත්රත්වය mitratvaya
    — friendship in Sinhala

Sinhala is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by approximately 16 million Sinhalese people in Sri Lanka and is one of two official languages of Sri Lanka.

Slovak

  • priateľ
    — translates to friend in Slovak
  • priateľstvo
    — friendship in Slovak

Slovak, the official language of Slovakia, is a West Slavic language where it is spoken by approximately 5.6 million people.

Slovenian

  • prijatelj
    — is the Slovenian word for friend
  • prijateljstvo
    — friendship in Slovenian

Slovenian, an Indo-European language of the South Slavic language branch is the official and national language of Slovenia spoken by less than 3 million people.

Somali

  • saaxiib

Somali, an Afro-Asiatic language spoken by over 16 million people, is an official language of Somalia, a national language in Djibouti, and a working language in the Somali Region of Ethiopia.

Spanish

A number of different words in Spanish are used to express the concept of friendship including:

  • amigo
    — a general term to use when you are referring to a friend in Spanish
  • amiga
    — feminine form of friend in Spanish
  • amistad
    — the word for friendship in Spanish

Spanish is the second most widely used language in the world natively spoken by more than 437 million people including Spain, most of Central and South America, Mexico, Dominican Republic, and the USA. There are over 21 countries in the world that have Spanish as their official language. It is a Romance language that originated in the Iberian Peninsula.

Sundanese

  • réréncangan

Sundanese is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by about 39 million people mainly in western Java in Indonesia. There are also speakers in Banten, Jakarta, parts of western Central Java and southern Lampung. It is the third most-spoken language in Indonesia.

Swahili

  • rafiki
    — is the Swahili word for friend
  • urafiki
    — friendship in Swahili

Swahili is a Bantu languages spoken by the Swahili communities in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Swati

  • umngane

Swati is a Bantu language of the Nguni group spoken in Eswatini and South Africa by the Swazi people. It is the official language of Swaziland (along with English) and since 1994 one of the nine indigenous languages to enjoy official recognition in South Africa. The number of speakers is estimated to be in the region of 2.4 million.

Swedish

  • vän
  • vännen
    — the Swedish word for friend
  • vänskap
    — friendship in Swedish, pronounced (vahn-skopp)

Swedish is a North Germanic language, closely related to Norwegian and Danish spoken by around 10 million people. A descendant of Old Norse, it is the national language of Sweden and the official language of the Åland Islands.

Swiss German

  • fründ
    — the Swiss German word for boyfriend or male friend
  • fründin
    — the Swiss German word for girlfriend or female friend

Swiss German (Schweizerdeutsch) is the collective name for the great variety of Upper German dialects spoken in Switzerland, Liechtenstein, in the Austrian province of Vorarlberg, in parts of Baden-Württemberg in Germany and Alsace in France.

Tagalog Filipino

  • kaibigan
    — friend in filipino
  • pagkakaibigan
    — friendship, pronounced as (pah-GEE-big)

Tagalog is an Austronesian language spoken as a first language by a quarter of the population of the Philippines and as a second language by the majority. Its standardized form, officially named Filipino, is the national language of the Philippines, and is one of two official languages alongside English.

Tahitian

  • hoa
    — is the Tahitian word for friend

Tahitian belongs to the Eastern Polynesian language group, spoken mainly on the Society Islands in French Polynesia and Bora Bora.

Tajik

  • дуст doost
    — friend in Tajik
  • дӯстӣ dūstī

Tajik is the main language of Tajikistan, closely related to Farsi and Kurdish. Since the late 1930s, it is written using a variant of the Cyrillic script.

Tamil

  • நண்பன் nanban
    — the general term for friend in Tamil (nan-pan)

Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken in southern India, Sri Lanka and Singapore by about 67.5 million people. It can also be heard in Mauritius and Malaysia.

Tarifit

  • amidi

Tarifit or Tarifit Berber is spoken by around 4 million speakers in Arrif (Northern Africa) and Europe.

Tatar

  • дус
    — friend in Tatar
  • дуслык

Tatar (татарча), the national language of the Tatars, is a Turkic language spoken mainly in the Russian republic of Tatarstan as well as Siberia by about 7 million people in Central Asia. It refers to the Volga-Kipchak Kipchak subgroup of the Turkic group of languages. 

Telugu

  • స్నేహితుడు Snehithu
    — is the Telugu word meaning friend

Telugu is a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and the union territories of Puducherry by 75 million Telugu people.

Tetum

  • belu or belo
    — is the Tetum word meaning friend

Tetum is an official language of Timor-Leste belonging to the Austronesian language family and spoken by just under 400,000 people.

Thai

How to say friends in Thai:

  • เพื่อน Pheụ̄̀xn
    — is the Thai noun for friend
  • มิตรภาพ Mitrp̣hāph
    — Thai word for friendship

Thai ภาษาไทย, the sole official and national language of Thailand, spoken by 50 million people, belongs to the Tai group of the Kra–Dai language family of Southeast Asia.

Tibetan

  • mdza’ bshes (མཛའ་བཤེས)
    — This is the Tibetan word for friend
  • grogs po (གྲོགས་པོ)
    — can also be used


Tibetan is an official language of the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China. The Tibetic languages are a cluster of Tibeto-Burman languages descended from Old Tibetan, spoken across a wide area of eastern Central Asia bordering the Indian subcontinent, including the Tibetan Plateau and the Himalayas.

Tok Pisin

  • wantok
    — This is the Tok Pisin word for friend

Tok Pisin, more commonly known as New Guinea Pidgin, is a creole language spoken throughout Papua New Guinea, where it is an official language. It is the most widely used language in the country, spoken by around 120,000 people.

Tongan

  • kaungame’a
    — This is the Tongan word for friend

Tongan is an Austronesian language of the Polynesian branch mainly spoken in Tonga, where it is the official language.

Tsalagi Cherokee

  • unalii
    — friend pronounced (oo-nah-lee-ee)
  • olii
    — friendship in Cherokee

Cherokee (Tsalagi) belongs to the Iroquoian language family. The Cherokee language is unique among Native American languages in that it is both a written and spoken language.

Tshivenda

  • thama

Tshivenda is a language spoken by the Venda people of South Africa

Tsonga

  • munghana

Tsonga is a Bantu language spoken by the Tsonga people totalling 12 million people mainly in South Africa, but also Mozambique and Eswatini.

Tswana

  • mmata

Tswana is a Bantu language spoken by about 4.4 million people in Bostwana, where it is the national and majority language, Namibia, Zimbabwe and South Africa. The majority of speakers, about 3.6 million, live in South Africa, where the language is officially recognised.

Turkish

  • arkadaş
    — the Turkish word for friend.
  • dostluk or arkadaşlık
    — friendship in Turkish

Turkish is a Turkic language believed to be of the Altaic language family spoken mainly in Turkey, Northern Cyprus, Cyprus and other countries of the former Ottoman Empire by about 88 million people.

Turkmen

  • dost
    — friend in Turkmen
  • dostluk

Turkmen belongs to the Turkic language family and is spoken by around 11 million Turkmen people of Central Asia, mainly in Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, and Iran.

Tuvaluan

  • taugasoa
    — the Tuvaluan word for friend

Tuvaluan is a Polynesian language that is native to Tuvalu, Fiji, Kiribati, and Nauru.

Ukrainian

  • друг druh
    — the Ukrainian word for friend
  • druzhba
    — friendship in Ukrainian

Ukrainian is an Eastern Slavic language spoken mainly in Ukraine by about 51 million people.

Urdu

  • دوست dost
    — friend in Urdu
  • یار yaar
  • دوستی
    — friendship in Urdu

Urdu is the official national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is a member of the Indo-Aryan group within the Indo-European family of languages and is mutually intelligible with Hindi.

Uyghur

  • دوستى
    — friend in Uyghur
  • دوستلۇق

Uyghur is a Turkic language of the Karluk branch written in a Uyghur Perso-Arabic script. It is spoken primarily by 10 million Uyghur people in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China.

Uzbek

  • do’stim
  • do’stlik
    — friendship in Uzbek

Uzbek is a Turkic language that is the official national language of Uzbekistan spoken by around 27 million people.

Vietnamese

How to express friendship in Vietnamese:

  • bạn
  • người bạn
    — the word for friend in Vietnamese
  • hữu nghị
    — friendship in Vietnamese, (hee-uhn-gyee)

Vietnamese is an Austroasiatic language spoken mainly in Vietnam, where it is the national and official language, by about 82 million people.

Welsh

  • ffrind
    — how to say friend in Welsh
  • cyfeillgarwch
    — friendship in Welsh

Welsh is a Brittonic language of the Celtic language family spoken natively in Wales, and by some in England.

Woiwurrung

  • bunji

Woiwurrung or Woiworung is an Australian Aboriginal language of the Kulin Nation of Central Victoria.

Wolof

  • xharit
    — friend in Wolof, pronounced (hair-reet)

Wolof is a national language of Senegal, where it is spoken by approximately 5.4 million people as a first language. It belongs to the Atlantic group of the Niger-Congo language family and is the native language of the Wolof people.

Xhosa

  • umhlobo
    — is the Xhosa word for friend
  • ubuhlobo
    — friendship in Xhosa

Xhosa is a Nguni Bantu language with click consonants and is one of the official languages of South Africa. It is spoken as a first language by approximately 8.2 million people and by another 11 million as a second language in South Africa, mostly in Eastern Cape Province.

Yiddish

  • פרייַנד fraynd
  • פרייַנדשאַפט frayndshaft
    — friendship in Yiddish

Yiddish is the historical language of the Ashkenazi Jews originating during the 9th century in Central Europe. Belonging to the Indo-European language family, it is spoken by 1.5 million people.

Yoruba

  • ọ̀rẹ́
    — friend and friendship in Yoruba

Yoruba is a pluricentric language spoken in West Africa with the number of speakers estimated between 30 and 40 million. It is a language spoken principally in Nigeria and Benin, with communities in Sierra Leone, Liberia, other parts of Africa.

Zulu

  • umngani
    — is the word for friend in Zulu
  • ubungane
    — friendship in Zulu

Zulu is a member of the Bantu/Nguni family of languages. It is one of the official languages of South Africa spoken by about 10 million people mainly in Zululand and northern Natal in South Africa and also in Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique and Eswatini.

FRIENDSHIP in Different Languages — BONUS

in different languages friend

–> Here a couple final ways on how to say friend in different languages

American Sign Language (ASL)

How to sign friend in American Sign Language:

  • Hold out both of your index fingers hooked in a curved or ‘C’-like shape, while the rest of your fingers are folded into each palm.

    Hold one hand with your hook index facing up, and hook the second index into the first. Then reverse the position for the hands and do it again. 

American Sign Language is a complete, natural language that has the same linguistic properties as spoken languages, with grammar that differs from English, expressed by movements of the hands and face.

British Sign Language (BSL)

How to sign friend in British Sign Language:

  • The primary hand holds the secondary hand.
    This is followed by the hands making a small up and down movement in front of the body.

British Sign Language is a sign language used in the United Kingdom as the first or preferred language of some deaf people. The language makes use of space and involves movement of the hands, body, face, and head.

Dothraki

  • okeo
    — How to say friend in Dothraki

Dothraki is a constructed fictional language spoken by the Dothraki, a nomadic people in the fictional world of George Martin’s fantasy novel series A Song of Ice and Fire and its television adaptation the Game of Thrones.

Elvish Sindarin

  • mellon
    — How to say friend in Elvish, masculine
  • melleth
    — feminine form of friend in Sindarin


Elvish Sindarin is one of the fictional languages created by J. R. R. Tolkien for use in his fantasy stories set in Arda, primarily in Middle-earth. Sindarin is one of the many languages spoken by the Elves, called the Eledhrim or Edhellim in Sindarin.

Espetanto

  • amiko

Esperanto is an artificially constructed language and belongs to no linguistic family, with most of its vocabulary coming from the Romance languages. This phonetic language is the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language.

Klingon

  • jup
    — this is the word for friend in Klingon

Klingon is a language that was made for the Klingons in the Star Trek movie. It is a constructed language, and not one that developed naturally. Only a few people can speak the Klingon language well enough to talk in it.

Minionese

  • migo

Minionese spoken by the minions of the Despicable Me movie series appears to be a polyglot language which borrows words and grammatical rules from many different languages.

Na’vi

  • ‘eylan

Na’vi is a constructed language, created for the fictional Na’vi, the humanoid inhabitants of the moon Pandora in the 2009 film Avatar.

Quenya

  • meldo
    — masculine form for friend in Quenya
  • melde
    — feminine friend in Quenya

Quenya is one of the fictional languages devised by J. R. R. Tolkien and used by the immortal Elves in the Lord of the Rings and as inspiration for countless travel quotes. Tolkien began devising the language around 1910 and restructured the grammar several times until Quenya reached its final state. The vocabulary remained relatively stable throughout the creation process.


LEARN THESE WORDS IN OTHER LANGUAGES TOO!

MY LOVE: LOVE in different languages

THANK YOU: thanks in every language of the world

HELLO: hi in every language of the world

GOOD MORNING: morning in different languages

GOOD NIGHT: night in different languages

GOOD BYE: Bye in different languages

CHEERS: Cheers in all languages

BEAUTIFUL: You are beautiful in all languages

Aaaaaaaand now you know how to say friendship in different languages and friend in all languages of the world! An expression of joy and an acknowledgement of someone that delights you and your senses.

OVER TO YOU GUYS!
What is the word for friendship in your language? Extra points if you can speak several languages… Let me know in the comments.

If you see an error here or if your language is missing from this list, please comment and let me know!

`Your friendly amigo,

Rai

Find heartwarming words to describe friendship and people. These words lists will help you to describe any personality!

  • Friend Adjectives
  • Friend Nouns
  • Friend Verbs
  • Negatives
  • Friend Phrases
  1. accepting
  2. affectionate
  3. agreeable
  4. always
  5. always there
  6. amazing
  7. amiable
  8. appreciated
  9. appreciative
  10. beautiful
  11. best
  12. bestest
  13. blessed
  14. brotherly
  15. buddy-buddy
  16. caring
  17. cheerful
  18. cherished
  19. close
  20. comfortable
  21. comforting
  22. comical
  23. connected
  24. considerate
  25. cooperative
  26. cordial
  27. crazy
  28. dauntless
  29. dear
  30. dependable
  1. intimate
  2. irreplaceable
  3. kind
  4. kindhearted
  5. laidback
  6. lasting
  7. long-lasting
  8. lovable
  9. loving
  10. loyal
  11. marvelous
  12. meaningful
  13. mutual
  14. nicest
  15. noble
  16. one-of-a-kind
  17. ours
  18. patient
  19. perfect
  20. personal
  21. precious
  22. priceless
  23. profound
  24. protective
  25. rare
  26. real
  27. receptive
  28. relaxing
  29. reliable
  30. remarkable
  1. easy
  2. effortless
  3. empathizing
  4. encouraging
  5. enjoyable
  6. everlasting
  7. everyday
  8. extraordinary
  9. fabulous
  10. faithful
  11. favorite
  12. fond
  13. forever
  14. fortunate
  15. friendly
  16. fun
  17. funnest
  18. funny
  19. generous
  20. genuine
  21. grateful
  22. grounded
  23. happy
  24. heartfelt
  25. heartwarming
  26. hilarious
  27. honest
  28. important
  29. in agreement
  30. in common
  1. sincere
  2. sisterly
  3. special
  4. steadfast
  5. supportive
  6. sweet
  7. sweet-hearted
  8. thankful
  9. thoughtful
  10. timeless
  11. together
  12. touching
  13. treasured
  14. tried-and-true
  15. true
  16. trustworthy
  17. truthful
  18. uncommon
  19. unconditional
  20. understanding
  21. unique
  22. unpretentious
  23. unselfish
  24. uplifting
  25. valued
  26. warm
  27. warmhearted
  28. wonderful

  1. a friendly face
  2. a helping hand
  3. accord
  4. acquaintance
  5. admiration
  6. adventure
  7. advice
  8. affection
  9. ally
  10. amigo
  11. angel
  12. back
  13. best buds
  14. best friend
  15. blessing
  16. blossoming friendship
  17. bond
  18. bosom buddy
  19. brethren
  20. brotherhood
  21. buddy
  22. camaraderie
  23. caring
  24. character
  25. chat
  26. cheer
  27. chum
  1. history
  2. honesty
  3. hug
  4. humor
  5. inspiration
  6. interaction
  7. joy
  8. kindness
  9. laughing
  10. life
  11. loyalty
  12. mate
  13. memories
  14. mentor
  15. old friend
  16. pal
  17. partner
  18. patience
  19. personality
  20. playmate
  21. presence
  22. qualities
  23. rapport
  24. relationship
  25. reliance
  26. saint
  27. sanity
  1. closeness
  2. club
  3. comfort
  4. communication
  5. companion
  6. companionship
  7. company
  8. concern
  9. confidante
  10. connection
  11. conversation
  12. decisions
  13. devotion
  14. discussion
  15. disposition
  16. encouragement
  17. fellowship
  18. forgiveness
  19. free therapy
  20. friend
  21. friendly face
  22. friendship
  23. fun
  24. girl friend
  25. good times
  26. guy friend
  27. happiness
  1. security
  2. sentiment
  3. shared interests
  4. shoulder
  5. shoulder to cry on
  6. sisterhood
  7. smile
  8. someone special
  9. soul mate
  10. spirit
  11. strength
  12. sunshine
  13. support
  14. supporter
  15. team
  16. therapist
  17. therapy
  18. thoughtfulness
  19. thoughts
  20. ties
  21. trust
  22. us
  23. warmth
  24. willingness
  25. wisdom
  26. worth

  1. accept
  2. admire
  3. adore
  4. advise
  5. agree with
  6. appreciate
  7. assist
  8. assure
  9. be friends
  10. be in like
  11. be myself
  12. be partners in crime
  13. befriend
  14. believe in
  15. bounce ideas off of
  16. brighten
  17. call up
  18. care about
  19. celebrate
  20. chat
  21. cheer on
  22. cherish
  23. chime in
  24. chitchat
  25. comfort
  26. communicate
  27. confess to
  28. confide
  29. confide in
  1. have a great time with
  2. have my back
  3. help
  4. hug
  5. identify with
  6. keep company
  7. keep promises
  8. keep secrets
  9. know
  10. know me
  11. last
  12. laugh
  13. laugh with
  14. lean on
  15. learn
  16. lift spirits
  17. like
  18. listen
  19. live
  20. love
  21. love unconditionally
  22. make my day
  23. mean what you say
  24. overcome
  25. party with
  26. play
  27. provide
  28. rant & rave
  29. reciprocate
  1. connect with
  2. converse
  3. counsel
  4. count on
  5. crack me up
  6. cry
  7. depend
  8. discuss
  9. empathize
  10. encourage
  11. enjoy
  12. entrust
  13. experience
  14. express
  15. extend your heart
  16. feel
  17. feel at ease
  18. flatter
  19. fool around
  20. forgive
  21. gab
  22. giggle
  23. give
  24. give advice
  25. go out
  26. go out of your way
  27. go out on the town
  28. gossip
  29. guide
  1. relish
  2. rely
  3. respect
  4. satisfy
  5. share
  6. share clothes
  7. share secrets
  8. shop
  9. show
  10. show you care
  11. smile
  12. sort out
  13. speak the truth
  14. speak up for me
  15. spend
  16. stick up for
  17. support
  18. sympathize
  19. talk
  20. tell
  21. tell it like it is
  22. think of
  23. treasure
  24. treat
  25. trust
  26. trust in
  27. understand
  28. value
  29. voice

  1. accusatory
  2. accuse
  3. adversary
  4. alone
  5. argue
  6. argument
  7. attack
  8. backstabber
  9. betray
  10. bicker
  11. blue
  12. bored
  13. cold shoulder
  14. companionless
  15. compete
  16. deceive
  17. depressed
  1. jerk
  2. joyless
  3. lack
  4. lacking
  5. lonely
  6. lonesome
  7. loss
  8. lost
  9. mean
  10. meanie
  11. miserable
  12. neglectful
  13. nemesis
  14. offend
  15. offensive
  16. oppose
  17. pose
  1. difficulty
  2. disagree
  3. disagreement
  4. disappointment
  5. distrust
  6. drift apart
  7. empty
  8. enemy
  9. failure
  10. far away
  11. fear
  12. fight
  13. fighting
  14. gossip
  15. hard to talk to
  16. hardship
  17. hateful
  1. regret
  2. removed
  3. rival
  4. rude
  5. sad
  6. scared
  7. solitary existence
  8. sorry
  9. squabble
  10. steal
  11. struggle
  12. tell
  13. underhanded
  14. unhappy
  15. untrustworthy

  1. 10 years as friends and going strong
  2. a friend is a gift whose worth cannot be measured
  3. a friend is like a psychiatrist with a sense of humor
  4. a friend like you
  5. a friend through thick and thin
  6. a friendly face to greet me
  7. a friendship like ours
  8. a friendship that grows better with time
  9. a friendship that never fades
  10. a gem of a friend
  11. a good long talk can cure almost anything
  12. a part of my life
  13. a shoulder to cry on
  14. a warm, welcoming personality
  15. always there for me
  16. best friends carry you when your wings forget how to fly
  17. best friends like us stay close in heart
  18. best friends to the end
  19. BFF
  20. BFFL (best friends for life)
  21. calories don’t count when you are having lunch with a friend
  22. central to my life
  23. cherish the time we spend together
  24. close at heart
  25. dance like no one is watching
  26. enjoy your company
  27. forever friends
  1. live by the golden rule
  2. live well, love much, and laugh often
  3. make new friends, but keep the old, some are silver and the others are gold
  4. my friend and therapist
  5. not afraid to be myself around you
  6. on the same page
  7. our friendship is a journey without end
  8. our friendship is easy/effortless/natural
  9. our special friend blend
  10. ours is a beautiful friendship
  11. partner in crime
  12. side by side or miles apart
  13. so much in common
  14. spending time together is effortless
  15. stand by my side
  16. thank you for being my unbiological sister/brother
  17. thanks for being my friend
  18. thanks for your support
  19. that’s what friends are for
  20. the bond of friendship
  21. the comfort of your friendship
  22. the friendship we share
  23. the love and laughter of friends
  24. the meaning of true friendship
  25. the time we spend together is []
  26. there for each other
  27. there is nothing we can’t get through together
  1. friends are angels without wings
  2. friends are flowers that never fade away
  3. friends are the best accessories
  4. friends are the sunshine of life
  5. friends bring sunshine to our lives
  6. friends forever
  7. friends since the school bus
  8. friendship is forever
  9. gems may be precious, but friends are priceless
  10. girls just want to have fun
  11. God gives us friends
  12. good times are even better when they are shared
  13. grateful that you are my friend
  14. gratitude can turn a stranger into a friend
  15. happiness is making new friends
  16. he who finds a friend finds treasure
  17. heart to heart
  18. I can tell you anything
  19. I cannot measure or express your worth to me
  20. I’m here for you
  21. I’m not me without you
  22. I’m on your side
  23. I’m so glad we are friends
  24. I’m your biggest fan/supporter
  25. I’ve got your back
  26. just being with you is fun
  27. lean on me
  1. to whom I can voice my concerns
  2. tried and true friend
  3. true spirit of friendship
  4. we are connected heart to heart; distance and time cannot break us apart
  5. we found each other
  6. we make a great team
  7. who will tell me the truth
  8. you accept me for who I am
  9. you are a special friend
  10. you are my person. You will always be my person
  11. you are my sunshine
  12. you are my tribe
  13. you are very special to me
  14. you brighten my day
  15. you can count on me
  16. you catch me when I fall
  17. you give me peace of mind
  18. you know me in and out
  19. you lift my spirits
  20. you make me smile
  21. you make my soul blossom
  22. you make the world a more beautiful place
  23. you mean so much to me
  24. you speak my language
  25. you’re always a bright, shining star in my life
  26. you’re one of those special people who make life worth living
  27. you’ve made such a beautiful impact on my life

1

Charles Darwin

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A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

2

Charles R. Swindoll

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I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun.

3

Pam Brown

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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often — just to save it from drying out completely.

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4

Thomas Fuller

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

6

Octavia Butler

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Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.

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7

Saint Francis de Sales

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A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

8

Unknown

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A true friend accepts who you are, but also helps you become who you should be.

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Misty Copeland

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Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.

11

Christie Brinkley

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Share your smile with the world. It’s a symbol of friendship and peace.

12

Unknown

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A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.

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Proverbs 27:9​​​

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A sweet friendship refreshes the soul.

14

Maya Angelou

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Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.

15

Gina Barreca

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It’s not that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds.

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16

Unknown

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In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.

17

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.

18

Unknown

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There are friends, there is family and then there are friends that become family.

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19

Unknown

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Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.

20

Unknown

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Life was meant for good friends and great adventures.

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