beside

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• Received-Pronunciation: /bɪˈsaɪd/
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• General-American: /bɪˈsaɪd/
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• General-American: /biˈsaɪd/
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• General-American: /bəˈsaɪd/
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• US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• /bɪˈsʌɪd/ Canada, idle-idol split
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• rhymes with -aɪd
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• CMU ARPABET: B IH0 S AY1 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: B IY2 S AY1 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English beside, besiden, bisyde (also besides > besides), from Old English be sīdan, bī sīdan (“by the side (of), on the side (of)”). Compare Saterland Frisian biesiede (“aside”), German Low German bisied (“aside”), German beiseite (“aside, to one side”). Compare also Dutch terzijde (“aside”). By surface analysis, be- + side.

93 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: بِجَانِب (bi-jānib) — next to
• Arabic: جَنْب (ganb) — next to
• Arabic: جنب (janb) — next to
• Arabic: جمب (jamb) — next to
• Arabic: حد (ħadd) — next to
• Bulgarian: до (do) — next to
• Bulgarian: край (kraj) — next to
• Bulgarian: бли́зо (blízo) — next to
• Cebuano: tapad — next to
• Chinese Mandarin: 在...旁邊 /在...旁边 (zài...pángbiān) — next to
• Maore Comorian: ɓavuni mwa — next to
• Czech: vedle — next to
• Dutch: naast — next to
• Esperanto: apud — next to
• Finnish: vieressä — next to
• Finnish: rinnalla — next to
• Finnish: jonkin vieressä — next to
• French: auprès de — next to
• French: à côté de — next to
• West-Frisian: njonken — next to
• Galician: a carón de — next to
• Galician: onda — next to
• Galician: cabo de — next to
• Galician: á beira de — next to
• German: neben — next to
• Greek: δίπλα (dípla) — next to
• Greek: πλάι σε (plái se) — next to
• Hebrew: לצד (l'tsad) — next to
• Hindi: ... की बग़ल में (... kī baġal mẽ) — next to
• Hungarian: mellett — next to
• Ido: apud — next to
• Ingrian: rinnaal — next to
• Irish: cois — next to
• Irish: in aice le — next to
• Irish: in aice — next to
• Italian: accanto — next to
• Italian: vicino — next to
• Japanese: ...のそばに (...no soba ni) — next to
• Korean: ...옆에 (...yeop-e) — next to
• Central Kurdish: لەبن (lebin) — next to
• Central Kurdish: تەنیشت (tenîşt) — next to
• Northern Kurdish: li rex — next to
• Latin: juxta — next to
• Marathi: ...-च्या बाजूला (...-cyā bājūlā) — next to
• Navajo: bíighahgi — next to
• Norwegian Bokmål: ved — next to
• Norwegian Bokmål: ved siden av — next to
• Norwegian Nynorsk: ved — next to
• Norwegian Nynorsk: attmed — next to
• Pashto: تر څنګ (ter tsang) — next to
• Persian: پهلوی (pahlu-ye) — next to
• Persian: کنار (kenâr-e) — next to
• Polish: obok — next to
• Polish: przy — next to
• Portuguese: ao lado de — next to
• Portuguese: do lado de — next to
• Romanian: lângă — next to
• Romanian: alături — next to
• Russian: ря́дом с (rjádom s) — next to
• Russian: о́коло (ókolo) — next to
• Russian: во́зле (vózle) — next to
• Russian: при (pri) — next to
• Scottish Gaelic: ri taobh — next to
• Serbo-Croatian: кра̑ј — next to
• Serbo-Croatian: уз — next to
• Serbo-Croatian: по̏ред — next to
• Serbo-Croatian: krȁj — next to
• Serbo-Croatian: uz — next to
• Serbo-Croatian: pȍred — next to
• Slovak: vedľa — next to
• Slovak: pri — next to
• Slovak: popri — next to
• Spanish: al lado de — next to
• Spanish: cabe — next to
• Swedish: intill — next to
• Swedish: bredvid — next to
• Thai: ข้าง (kâang) — next to
• Thai: ข้างเคียง (kâang kiang) — next to
• Ukrainian: по́ряд (pórjad) — next to
• Ukrainian: по́руч (póruč) — next to
• Vietnamese: bên — next to
• Waray-Waray: takin — next to
• Waray-Waray: sapit — next to
• Zazaki: panıst — next to
• Dutch: naast — not relevant to
• French: outre — not relevant to
• German: neben — not relevant to
• Greek: εκτός (ektós) — not relevant to
• Norwegian: på siden — not relevant to
• Polish: poza — not relevant to
• Portuguese: irrelevante para — not relevant to
• Russian: поми́мо (pomímo) — not relevant to
• Slovak: mimo — not relevant to