while

Etymology
From, from , from , from (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) An uncertain duration of time, a period of time.
 * 2)  an uncertain long period of time
 * 3)  an uncertain short moment
 * 1)  an uncertain long period of time
 * 2)  an uncertain short moment
 * 1)  an uncertain long period of time
 * 2)  an uncertain short moment
 * 1)  an uncertain short moment

Synonyms

 * ; see also Thesaurus:uncertain period

Translations

 * Arabic: مُدَّة, فَتْرَة
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 一段時間
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, , een hele tijd,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:, intre
 * Georgian:, დროის მონაკვეთი
 * German:, diminutive,
 * Gothic: 𐍈𐌴𐌹𐌻𐌰
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian:, egy ideig, egy darabig
 * Interlingua:
 * Irish: tamall, scaitheamh
 * Italian:, , lasso di tempo
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: сол уақытта
 * Korean:, ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Low German:
 * Dutch Low Saxon: zet, zetje
 * Malay:
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English: hwīl
 * Polish:, jakiś czas
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, промежу́ток вре́мени
 * Scottish Gaelic: greis
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Thai: ขณะที่
 * Turkish: -ken,
 * Walloon:, ,
 * Welsh: sbel
 * West Frisian: skoft

Conjunction

 * 1) During the same time that.
 * 2)  Although.
 * 3)  Until.
 * 4) As long as.
 * 1)  Although.
 * 2)  Until.
 * 3) As long as.
 * 1)  Until.
 * 2) As long as.
 * 1)  Until.
 * 2) As long as.
 * 1) As long as.
 * 1) As long as.
 * 1) As long as.

Usage notes

 * See.

Synonyms

 * ; see also Thesaurus:while
 * ; see also Thesaurus:even though
 * ; see also Thesaurus:until

Translations

 * Arabic: فِي حِين, بَيْنَمَا
 * Egyptian Arabic: لما
 * Moroccan Arabic: فلْوقْط
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: mientres, dun
 * Basque: bitartean
 * Belarusian: паку́ль, у той час як, да таго́ ча́су, паку́ль
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: use inessive of the second infinitive; ; ;, , samaan aikaan
 * French:, , ,
 * Galician:, ,
 * Georgian: განმავლობაში
 * German: ,
 * Gothic: 𐌸𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌴
 * Greek:, ,
 * Hebrew: בזמן ש־
 * Hungarian:, , , ,
 * Ido:, dum ke
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Interlingua: durante que
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Khmer: ក្នុងពេល
 * Korean:
 * Latgalian: cikom, koleņ
 * Latin: ,
 * Latvian: kamēr
 * Low German: wil
 * Macedonian: додека
 * Malay:, ,
 * Maori: keiwhā,
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk:
 * Old Church Slavonic: ѥгда
 * Old English: þā hwīle þe
 * Persian:, مادامی که
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: în timp ce
 * Russian:, , в то вре́мя, как;
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: док
 * Roman:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: ในขณะที่
 * Tibetan:
 * Turkish: -ken, ,
 * Ukrainian: по́ки, до́ки, під ча́с, у той час як, до тих пір, як
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Walloon: ,
 * West Frisian: wylst
 * Yiddish: בעת


 * Arabic:
 * Moroccan Arabic: وخّا
 * Bashkir: булһа ла
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, , kun taas
 * French:, ,
 * German:, , , auch wenn
 * Greek:, , ,
 * Hungarian:, , , ,
 * Interlingua:
 * Italian:, ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: ئەگەرچی
 * Macedonian: иако, макар
 * Navajo: yínee'
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Walloon: ,


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: use inessive of the second infinitive; ; niin kauan kuin, ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Irish: chomh fada is, chúns
 * Romanian: cât timp
 * Spanish: en tanto que

Preposition

 * 1)  Until.

Verb

 * 1)  To pass (time) idly.
 * 2)  To occupy or entertain (someone) in order to let time pass.
 * 3)  To elapse, to pass.
 * 1)  To occupy or entertain (someone) in order to let time pass.
 * 2)  To elapse, to pass.
 * 1)  To occupy or entertain (someone) in order to let time pass.
 * 2)  To elapse, to pass.
 * 1)  To elapse, to pass.
 * 1)  To elapse, to pass.
 * 1)  To elapse, to pass.
 * 1)  To elapse, to pass.
 * 1)  To elapse, to pass.

Synonyms

 * see also Thesaurus:loiter

Translations

 * German:


 * German:, , (gemeinsam) die Zeit verbringen
 * Italian:

Etymology
From, from , from.