How to ask people to stop in many different languages.
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| Language | Stop! |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | Stop! |
| Albanian (Gheg) | Nalu! |
| Albanian (Tosk) | Ndalo! |
| Aleut | Haaĝanil! |
| Altay | Токто! (Tokto!) |
| Amharic | ቁም! (qum) >m ቁሚ! (qumi) >f |
| Arabic (Egyptian) | (uʿaf!) أقف! |
| Arabic (Lebanese) |
5alas! |
| Arabic (Moroccan) |
(wqef!) وقف! |
| Aragonese | Alto! |
| Armenian (Western) |
Կեցի՛ր: (Getseer) |
| Assamese | ৰ’ব! (robô!) - frm ৰ'বা! (roba) - inf |
| Asturian | ¡Para! ¡Déxalo! |
| Azerbaijani | Dayanın! |
| Basque | Geldi! |
| Bavarian | Šdobb! |
| Belarusian | Супыніцеся! (Supynićes'a) |
| Bengali | থামুন। (Thamun) |
| Bhojpuri | रूक (rook) |
| Bislama | Stop! |
| Breton | Dihan! Paouez! |
| Bulgarian | Стоп! (Stop!) Спри! (Spri!) inf Спрете! (Sprete!) Стойте! (Stojte!) frm |
| Burmese | ရပ်။ (yaq) |
| Chinese (Cantonese) |
停低! (tìhng dài!) |
| Catalan | Alto! |
| Cebuano | Hunung! Undang! Sakto na! |
| Chabacano de Cavite | Para! |
| Chabacano de Zamboanga | Para usted! Para tu! Para vos! Basta! |
| Chamorro (Guam dialect) |
Båsta! Påra! |
| Chamorro (North Marianas dialect) |
Basta! |
| Chechen | Саца! (Saca!) |
| Chichewa | Ima! |
| Chinese (Hakka) |
停! (tin2!) |
| Chinese (Mandarin) |
停! (tíng!) 停下! (tíngxià!) 停車! [停车] (tíng chē) when in vehicle 站住! (zhànzhù) to someone on foot 立正 (lìzhèng) "halt!" - used by the military |
| Chinese (Shanghainese) |
停! (ting!) |
| Chinese (Taiwanese) |
停！ (thêng!) |
| Coastal Kadazan | Tingkod no! |
| Cornish | Hedh! |
| Corsican | Arristeti! Piantala! |
| Croatian | Stani! |
| Cuyonon | Pagtadeng! |
| Czech | Stůj! |
| Dutch | Stop! |
| Efik | Tre! |
| Elfdalian | Stą’nnið! |
| Estonian | Pidage kinni! Peatuge! Stopp! |
| Ewe | Tↄ! |
| Extremaduran | Alto! |
| Faroese | Steðga! Gevst! |
| Fijian | Taro-va! Vakamuduka! |
| Finnish | Seis! Pysähdy! (sg) Pysähtykää! (pl) |
| Flemish (West) | Stop! |
| French | Arrêtez ! |
| Frisian (North - Mooring) | Hüülj! |
| Frisian (West) | Stop! Stûkje! |
| Friulian | Ferme! |
| Galician | Para! |
| Gascon | Arrestats ! Pro hèit ! |
| Georgian | შეჩერდით! (shecherdit!) გაჩერდით! (gacherdit!) |
| German | Halt! |
| Greek (Ancient) | Παῦε! (Paúe!) |
| Greek (Modern) | Στόπ! (Stop!) Σταμάτα! (Stamáta!) - inf/sg Σταματήστε! (Stamatíste!) - frm/pl |
| Gujarati | થોભો (thobho!) |
| Haitian Creole | Rete! |
| Hausa | Tsaya! Dakata! |
| Hawaiian | Hoʻopau! Hoʻokū! |
| Hebrew | (atsor!) עצור! |
| Hindi | रुको! (ruko!) |
| Hmong (White) | Tso tseg |
| Hungarian | Állj meg! |
| Icelandic | Hættu! |
| Igbo | Kwụsi! |
| Iloko | Sardeng! |
| Indonesian | Berhenti! Stop! |
| Inuktitut | ᐊᓱ! (Ahu! / Asu!) |
| Iñupiaq | Qasruqtuq! Asu! Nutqaġiñ! |
| Irish (Gaelic) | Stad! |
| Italian | Ferma! Stop! Alt! |
| Jamaican | Stop! |
| Japanese | |
| Javanese | ꦱ꧀ꦠꦺꦴꦥ꧀! (Stop!) |
| Kalmyk | Зогс! (Zogs!) |
| Kannada | ನಿಲ್ಲಿ (nilli!) ನಿಲ್ಲಿಸು (nillisu!) |
| Kashmiri | ठहर! (ṭeuhar!) |
| Kazakh | Тоқта! (Toqta!) |
| Khmer | ឈប់! (chhôb!) |
| Khoekhoe (Nama) | ǀÛ! |
| Kiribati | Toki! |
| Kurdish (Kurmanji) | Bisekène! (frm) Bisekine! (frm) |
| Kyrgyz | Токто! (Tokto!) |
| Lakota Sioux | Ayúštaŋ yo (m>sg) Ayúštaŋ ye (f>sg) Ayúštaŋ po (m>pl) Ayúštaŋ pe (f>pl) |
| Lao | ຢຸດ! (yút!) |
| Latin | Siste! (sg) Sistete! (pl) |
| Latvian | Stāviet! (frm) Stāvi! (inf) |
| Lingala | Tika! |
| Lithuanian | Stop! |
| Low Saxon | Stopp! |
| Lozi | Yema! |
| Luganda | Yimirira! |
| Luxembourgish | Stop! Bleif stoen! |
| Macedonian | Стој! (Stoy!) - inf Застани! (Zastani!) - inf Стојте! (Stoyte!) - frm Застанете! (Zastanete!) - frm |
| Magahi | रुका! /rʊkaː/ |
| Malagasy | Mijanona! |
| Malay | Berhenti! |
| Malayalam | നിര്ത്തൂ! (nirthoo!) |
| Maldivian | (Madu kurey!) މަޑު ކުރޭ! |
| Maltese | Ieqaf! |
| Manx (Gaelic) | Fark ort! |
| Māori | Kāti! |
| Marathi | थांबा! (thāmbā!) |
| Mazandarani | (Save!) سأوه |
| Mongolian | Зогс (Zogs!) |
| Nahuatl | ¡Ximocahcāhua! |
| Ndebele (Northern - Zimbabwe) | Mana! |
| Nepali | रोक्नुहोस् (roknuhos) |
| Newari / Nepal Bhasa | आसे! (āse!) |
| Northern Sámi | Bisán! |
| Northern Sotho | Ema! |
| Norwegian | Stopp! |
| Occitan | Estòp! Arrèsta! Arrestatz! |
| Okinawan | |
| Oriya | ରୁହ! (Ruha!) |
| Papiamento | Stop! |
| Pashto | (wadrega!) ودريږه! |
| Persian (Farsi) | (vâysâ!) وایسا |
| Polish | Stop! Stój! |
| Portuguese | Pare! (frm) Pára! (inf) Parem! (pl) |
| Portuguese (Brazilian) | Pare! (frm) Pára! (inf) Parem! (pl) |
| Punjabi | ਰੁਕੋ! (ruko!) |
| Romanian | Stop! Stai! |
| Romansh | |
| Russian | Стой! (Stoy!) |
| Rusyn | Стайте! (Stajte!) - frm Стай! (Staj!) - inf |
| Sakha | Тохтооҥ! (toxtooŋ) |
| Samoan | Soia! |
| Sanskrit | तिष्ठ (tiṣṭha) |
| Sardinian (Logudorese) | Sirvone! |
| Scots | Stop! |
| Serbian | Стани! (Stani!) |
| Sesotho | Ema! |
| Shona | Mira! |
| Sicilian | Statti! (sg) Stàtivi (stop you all) Finèmula! Finìscila (sg) Finìtila (stop you all) |
| Sinhala | නවතින්න! (navatinna!) |
| Slovak | Stop! Stoj! |
| Slovenian | Ustavite se! (frm) Ustavi se! (inf) |
| Somali | Joogso! |
| Spanish | ¡Para! |
| Sundanese | Eureun! |
| Swahili | Usifanye hivyo! |
| Swedish | Stanna! |
| Swiss German | Halt! |
| Tagalog | Tigil! Para! (to tell vehicle to stop) |
| Tamil (formal) | நில்! (nil) [fm] |
| Tamil (informal) | நில்லு! (nillu) [ml] [fm] |
| Tatar | Tuqtagız! |
| Telugu | ఆపండి ! (aapaṅdi!) |
| Tetum | Para! |
| Thai | หยุด! (yùt!) |
| Tibetan | ཁ་བཀག་དང། (ga ka-da) སྒུཀ་རེགས་གནང། (goo-ro nâng!) - Please wait |
| Tigrinya | ጠጠው በል! (Tetew Bel) m/sg ጠጠው በሊ! (Tetew Beli) f/sg |
| Tok Pisin | Holim! Stap! |
| Tongan | Tuku ia! |
| Tsotsil | Te' no'ox! |
| Tswana | Ema! |
| Tumbuka | |
| Turkish | Dur! |
| Tuvaluan | Tū! (sg) |
| Ukrainian | Стій! (Stij!) |
| Urdu | (roko) روکو |
| Uyghur | توختا! (Tohta!) |
| Uzbek | To'htang! |
| Venetian | Férmate! |
| Vietnamese | Ngừng lại! |
| Võro | Lõpõdaq! |
| Welsh | Aros! Arhoswch! |
| Westrobothnian | Schtann! |
| Wolof | Taxawal! |
| Xhosa | Yima! |
| Yiddish | (Halt!) האלט! |
| Yolngu | Ḏaḏaw! |
| Yoruba | Duro nbẹ! |
| Yucatec Maya | |
| Zazaki | Vind! |
| Zulu | Ma! |
| Auxiliary and constructed languages | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Esperanto | Haltu! Ĉesu! |
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| Interlingua | Stoppa! | ||
| Klingon | mev! | ||
| Lojban | ko sisti | ||
| Volapük | Stopö! | ||
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