| |
Language Group |
Word for Left |
Lefthanded |
Lefthander |
Negative Meaning |
| Arabic |
Semitic |
Shemaal
or
Yasaar |
Aysar |
A`sar (` = voiced
glottal plosive sound) |
- It's not nice to
be lefthanded.
- Associated with devil.
- A`sar comes from the verb (`asar) which means usually "uneasy"
or "hard"in noun form. Notice that this is in standard
Arabic and every country
has their own word for "left-hander."
- In Kuwait parents usually their tell left-handed children that
the devil eats with them with the left hand! |
| Armenian |
|
Tzakh |
|
|
Not too
normal |
| Chinese |
|
Jow |
|
|
No derogotory
meaning |
| Czech |
Slavonian |
levý |
levoruký |
levák |
The meaning
of these words is near "clumsy", "awkward"
or "unfair" |
| Danish |
|
Venstre |
|
ketjhåndet |
Awkward
or crooked |
| Dutch |
|
Links |
|
|
Handy
in a crooked way, crazy, dangerous |
| Farsi |
|
Chap |
|
|
None |
| Finnish |
Finno-Ugri |
Vasen |
|
|
Nothing |
| Hindi |
Sandskrit |
Daya |
|
|
Nothing |
| Gaelic |
|
|
|
Ciotóg
(Kitóg) |
"To
dig (kick) with the left foot". In Ireland used, as a put-down,
by Catholics to refer to Protestants, and visa-virsa. |
| German |
|
Links |
linkshändig |
|
Linkisch
- awkward |
| Hausa |
Chadic,
northern Nigeria |
Agu |
|
hunu
agu |
backwards
To give with the left is not good |
| Hungary |
|
Ball |
Balkez |
|
|
|
Italian |
Neolatin |
Sinistra |
Mancino |
Mancino |
From Latin, sinister --> evil.
"Sinistro" is also the term
used to define car accidents. |
| Japan |
|
|
|
|
Slow |
|
Latin |
|
Sinister
(on the left side) |
|
|
Evil,mMalicious, harmful, ominous |
| Punjabi |
|
khaba |
|
khaba or khabu |
none |
| Romanian |
|
Stânga |
|
|
Awkward. (rare) |
| Slovak |
Slovak |
Lavák |
|
|
Both hands are left. |
| Spanish |
|
Ixquierda |
|
Zurdo |
Al lado
izquierdo - wrong side of the road. |
| Tigrinya |
Eretria
Tigray |
Tsagum |
|
Acheli |
Munka
- is a negative. Calling someone lefthanded in a bad way. |
|
Telugu |
Dravidian |
yedama |
yedama cheti vatam |
|
|
| Yugoslav |
|
Levo |
|
Levak |
In a
bad mood.
Got out of bed on the left foot |