Word "flag" in different languages: Etymological index

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• *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)

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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
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