Foreign language words for Shadow?

RangerWickett · Nov 13, 2002

Need some help from the linguistically minded of you. Could you please post different words for shadow in different languages? Also, dark, eclipse, obscure, or night?

It'd be great if you could cover the bases from a lot of different languages. Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, various Native American, various African, German, Old English. If you think it's necessary, please include a pronunciation guide.

Thanks.

Japanese:
Night - Yoru.

Old English:
Dark - Dox.

Dragonblade · Nov 13, 2002

Here are some off the top of my head:

Japanese:

Kage = shadow (noun)

Kurai = dark (adj.)

clark411 · Nov 13, 2002

German - Schatten

Italian - Ombra

check babelfish if you haven't yet.

http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/

Maldur · Nov 13, 2002

Ill check back with you after I speak with my girlfriend (she speak arabic).

here are the dutch:

Schaduw - shadow
Donker - dark
Nacht - night

Eclipse and obscure are the same (only pronunciation)

I cant write pronunciation, but Ill see if I can find them.

Archibald Theocliste · Nov 13, 2002

Let's try it in french :

Shadow = ombre
Dark = sombre
Eclipse = eclipse (This one was hard)
Obscure = obscure (This one was harder

)
Night = nuit

Don't know how I can write the pronunciation...

tleilaxu · Nov 13, 2002

Cantonese

Ying Ji or Ying

Ying starts at a medium tone and rises yih- (medium) ng (going up) Ji at a low tone

tleilaxu · Nov 13, 2002

More Cantonese

Dark - Ha Ngam. Ha (High Tone) Ngam (Low tone)

Eclipse - Yat Sihk. Yat (medium tone) Sihk (Low falling tone)

Obscure (difficult to translate directly) Hahm Wu . Hahm (Low tone) Wu (low rising tone)

Night - Maahn (low tone) or Yeh Maahn