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English
Etymology
From Middle English beside, besiden, bisyde (also besides > besides), from Old English be sīdan, bī sīdan (“by the side (of), on the side (of)”), equivalent to be- + side. Compare Saterland Frisian biesiede (“aside”), German Low German bisied (“aside”), German beiseite (“aside, to one side”). Compare also Dutch terzijde (“aside”).
Pronunciation
Preposition
beside
- Next to; at the side of.
A small table beside the bed
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) Not relevant to.
- Besides; in addition to.
Usage notes
Derived terms
Translations
next to
- Arabic: بِجَانِب (ar) (bi-jānib)
- Egyptian Arabic: جَنْب (ganb)
- Bulgarian: до (bg) (do), край (bg) (kraj), бли́зо (bg) (blízo)
- Cebuano: tapad
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 在...旁邊 / 在...旁边 (zh) (zài...pángbiān)
- Czech: vedle (cs)
- Dutch: naast (nl)
- Esperanto: apud (eo)
- Finnish: vieressä (fi), rinnalla (fi), jonkin vieressä
- French: auprès de (fr), à côté de (fr)
- Galician: a carón de (gl), onda (gl), cabo de (gl), á beira de
- German: neben (de)
- Greek: δίπλα (el) (dípla), πλάι σε (plái se)
- Hebrew: לצד (le'tzad)
- Hindi: ... की बग़ल में (... kī baġal mẽ)
- Hungarian: mellett (hu)
- Ido: apud (io)
- Ingrian: rinnaal
- Irish: cois (ga), in aice le, in aice
- Italian: accanto (it), vicino (it)
- Japanese: ...のそばに (ja) (...no soba ni)
- Korean: ...옆에 (ko) (...yeop-e)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: لەبن (lebin), تەنیشت (tenîşt)
- Northern Kurdish: li rex (ku)
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Latin: juxta
- Maore Comorian: ɓavuni mwa
- Marathi: ...-च्या बाजूला (mr) (...-cyā bājūlā)
- Navajo: bíighahgi
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: ved (no), ved siden av (no)
- Nynorsk: ved, attmed
- Pashto: تر څنګ (ter tsang)
- Persian: پهلوی (fa) (pahlu-ye), کنار (fa) (kenâr-e)
- Polish: obok (pl), przy (pl)
- Portuguese: ao lado de, do lado de (colloquial)
- Romanian: lângă (ro), alături (ro)
- Russian: ря́дом с (ru) (rjádom s) (+ instrumental case), о́коло (ru) (ókolo) (+ genitive case), во́зле (ru) (vózle) (+ genitive case), при (ru) (pri)
- Scottish Gaelic: ri taobh
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: кра̑ј, уз, по̏ред
- Roman: krȁj (sh), uz (sh), pȍred (sh)
- Slovak: vedľa, pri, popri
- Spanish: al lado de, cabe (es)
- Swedish: intill (sv), bredvid (sv)
- Thai: ข้าง (th) (kâang), ข้างเคียง (kâang kiang)
- Ukrainian: по́ряд (pórjad), по́руч (póruč)
- Vietnamese: bên (vi)
- Waray-Waray: takin, sapit
- West Frisian: njonken
- Zazaki: panıst
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Adverb
beside (not comparable)
- Otherwise; else; in addition; besides.
- April 8 1805, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Orange Blossom"
O how the honey tells the tale of its birthplace to the sense of sight and odour! and to how many minute and uneyeable insects beside!
1817 (published 11 January 1818), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Sonnet. Ozymandias.”, in Rosalind and Helen, a Modern Eclogue; with Other Poems, London: for C and J Ollier, , published 1819, →OCLC, page 92:Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
See also
References
- “beside”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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