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Word "flag" in different languages: Etymological index

Roots:

*ala
*sanjak
*band-
*bayrak
*bratakh
*ki
*kolor
*drap-
*sign
*stand-
*fan-
*flag
*flam-
*jak
*kotti
*lip
*merg
*pyw
*prapor
*steg
*veliava
*vexillum
*vimpl-
*za-stav-
*znam-
*turus-
*parcham
*jamd-
*dvaj-
*pataka
*thong
(uniques)

See also:

Word "flag" in different languages:
- Language index:
  - alphabetic order
  - group nested
- Alphabetic order index
- Etymological index
FOTW Vexillological reference
FOTW Topical Index

List

Bold face language links indicate “main” "flag" word.

*ala: 5 words

allaba: Oromo
al: Kurdish
علم: Arabic
ялав: Chuvash
ዓላማ: Amharic

*band-: 57 words

bandeira: Galician; Portuguese; Tetum
bandera: Basque; Catalan (= Valencian); Neapolitan; Sardinian (campidanese); Sardinian (logudorese); Spanish (= Castillian); Papiamento; Aragonese; Hiligaynon; Chavacano; Kapampangan; Asturian; Lingua Franca Nova
banderium: Latin
banderol: Dutch
bandèra: Emilian-Romagnian
bandéra: Lombard
bandiera: Corsican; Italian; Maltese; Romansh; Venetian; Interlingua (IALA)
bandiere: Friulian
bandilà: Tagalog
bandila: Cebuano
bandira: Quechua; Ivatan; Aklanon; Waray
bandirra: Oromo; Yolngu
baner: Cornish; Welsh
banier: Afrikaans; Dutch
bannera: Neapolitan
banner: Scots; English
bannèra: Sicilian
banniel: Breton
bannière: French
bannyire: Norman
bendera: Indonesian; Malay; Swahili; Luganda
bɛndɛ́lɛ: Lingala
gendéra: Javanese
mbendera: Nyanja
בנדיר: Sephardic
بنديرة: Arabic
μπανδον: Greek (Ancient)
ባንዴራ: Tigrinya

*bayrak: 13 words

barjak: Croatian
bayrak: Turkish
bayraq: Azeri
bayroq: Uzbek
baýdak: Turkmen
بيراق: Persian
بېرغ: Pashto
абыраҟ: Abkhaz
байракх: Chechen
байрак: Bulgarian
байрақ: Kazakh
барјак: Serbian; Macedonian

*bratakh: 3 words

bratach: Irish; Scottish Gaelic
brattagh: Manx

*drap-: 10 words

dalapo: Kongo
drapeau: French
drapea: Walloon
drapel: Romanian (= Moldavian); Occitan
drapél: Arpitan
drapo: Piemontese; Ligurian; Haitian
дӧрапас: Komi-Zyrian

*dvaj-: 3 words

ध्वजः: Sanskrit
ध्वांय: Newari
ಧ್ವಜ: Canarese

*fan-: 14 words

Faahne: Pennsylvania German
faan: Ripuarian
Fahne: German
fana: Swedish; Anglo-Saxon; Kashubian
fane: Danish
fáni: Icelandic
Fändel : Luxembourgish
findel: Frisian (Western)
Foone: Frisian (Saterland)
vaandel: Afrikaans; Dutch
פֿאָן: Yiddish

*flag: 37 words

faaka: Ndyuka
fflag: Welsh
Flaage: Frisian (Saterland)
flaga: Polish
flage: Novial
flagga: Swedish
flagge: Frisian (Western); German; Swabian
flagg: Norwegian (= bokmål); Faroese; Norwegian (= nynorsk)
flago: Esperanto; Ido
flag: English; Danish
flák: Wollof
folaga: Tswana
folakga: Southern Sotho
folanga: Pedi
fraga: Surinamese
iflegi: Xhosa
ifulegi: Zulu
plag: Neo-Melanesian
vlagge: Zeelandic; West Flemish
vlag: Afrikaans; Dutch; Dutch Low Saxon; Limburgian
vlajka: Czech; Slovak
флаг: Belarusian; Bulgarian; Russian; Tatar; Bashkir

*flam-: 3 words

flamur: Albanian
flâmula: Portuguese
flãmburã: Aromanian

*jak: 2 words

haki: Maori
jack: English

*jamd-: 7 words

جھَندَ: Urdu
ਝਂਡਾ: Punjabi
झंडा: Hindi
झण्डा: Nepali
झेंडा: Marathi
ઝંડો: Gujarati
జెండా: Telugu

*ki: 10 words

cờ: Vietnamese
gì: Chinese (Min Dong)
kok-kî: Chinese (Min Nan)
국기: Korean
国旗: Japanese
旗子: Chinese (Mandarin)
旗幟: Chinese (Mandarin)
旗: Japanese
皇室旗: Japanese
軍旗: Japanese

*kolor: 3 words

colour: English
couleu: Norman
kara: Maori

*kotti: 2 words

கொடி: Tamil
കൊടി: Malayalam

*lip: 3 words

lippu: Finnish
lipp: Estonian; Estonian Võro

*merg: 2 words

mergey: Manx
méirge: Irish

*parcham: 2 words

پرچم: Persian
پَرچھَم: Urdu

*pataka: 4 words

पताका: Pali
পতাকা: Bengali
పతాకం: Telugu
പതാക: Malayalam

*prapor: 4 words

prapor: Czech; Slovenian
proporzec: Polish
прапор: Ukrainian

*pyw: 2 words

pīwari: Maori
puwalu: Hawaiian

*sanjak: 3 words

asenǧaq: Kabyle
sancak: Turkish
ሰንደቅ: Amharic

*sign: 3 words

ensign: English
senyera: Catalan (= Valencian)
signum: Latin

*stand-: 11 words

estandarte: Portuguese
estendard: Occitan
étendard: French
standaard: Afrikaans
standardo: Esperanto
standard: English
stän: Volapuk
stendardo: Italian
stîndard: Romanian (= Moldavian)
стандарта: Serbian
штандарта: Serbian

*steg: 6 words

steag: Romanian (= Moldavian)
stijeg: Croatian
styago: Romany
стег: Serbian
стяг: Russian
сцяг: Belarusian

*thong: 3 words

ธง: Thai
ទង់ជាត: Khmer
ທຸງ: Lao

*turus-: 3 words

тырыса: Ossetian
դրոշը: Armenian
დროშა: Georgian

*veliava: 2 words

vėliava: Lithuanian
vieliava: Samogitian

*vexillum: 2 words

vessilo: Italian
vexillum: Latin

*vimpl-: 9 words

viiri: Finnish
vimpel: Danish; Swedish
vimplo: Esperanto
Wimpel: German; Dutch; Polish; Afrikaans
вымпел: Russian

*za-stav-: 5 words

zastava: Croatian; Slovenian; Bosnian
zástava: Slovak
застава: Serbian

*znam-: 4 words

знаме: Bulgarian; Macedonian
знамья: Russian
знамѧ: Old Church Slavonic

(uniques): 63 words

aniden: Nauruan
àṣíá: Yoruba
chij: Hmong
chorhoj: Upper Sorbian
desmale: Zazaki
erfalasoq: Greenlandic
frankaa: Akan
fuka: Tongan
gadati: Cherokee
galhardete: Portuguese
geus: Afrikaans
hae: Hawaiian
hayahay: Hiligaynon
ikurriña: Basque
joqwI’: Klingon
karogs: Latvian
lakam: Mayan Western Poqomchí
laylay: Pangasinan
leavga: Sami (Northern)
len: Tokipona
lepa: Hawaiian
llech: Welsh
lluman: Welsh
maniua: Gilbertese
man: Gilbertese
maro: Gilbertese
nagira: Calo (= Iberian Gispy)
ọkọlọtọ: Igbo
panji: Indonesian
pantaflana: Lombard
pan: Mayan (Yucatec)
pavillon: French
pāntli: Aztec (Classic)
pennant: English
plamenac: Croatian
poyvi: Guarany
ratabito: Gilbertese
reva: Tahitian
streamer: English
unancha: Quechua
vaan: Dutch
wagayway: Ilokano
watáwat: Tagalog
Winkelement: German
wiphala: Aymara
zászló: Hungarian
𔊓: Egyptian (Ancient)
דגל: Hebrew
נס: Hebrew
ܐܬܐ: Aramaic (Official)
راية: Arabic
لوأ: Arabic
ދިދަ: Maldivian
σημαία: Greek
былаах: Yakut (= Sakha)
далбаа: Mongolian
туг: Buriat (of Russia)
туусу: Kirghiz
𖀅𖁀𖀚𖁀: Quenya
𖀠𖀚𖀈𖁈: Orkish (= bûrz)
ᓴᐃᒻᒪᑎ: Inuktitut
: Australian Sign Language; American Sign Language

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