why

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from , instrumental case of ,.

Cognate with 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, archaic 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬 , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬 , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Compare 🇨🇬. See.

Adverb

 * 1)  For what cause, reason, or purpose.
 * 2) * 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
 * Why do you have a map of the world?
 * Why don't you ask her out for dinner?
 * 1)  For which cause, reason, or purpose.
 * 2)  The cause, reason, or purpose for which.
 * That is why the sky is blue.
 * Why do you have a map of the world?
 * Why don't you ask her out for dinner?
 * 1)  For which cause, reason, or purpose.
 * 2)  The cause, reason, or purpose for which.
 * That is why the sky is blue.
 * 1)  For which cause, reason, or purpose.
 * 2)  The cause, reason, or purpose for which.
 * That is why the sky is blue.
 * 1)  For which cause, reason, or purpose.
 * 2)  The cause, reason, or purpose for which.
 * That is why the sky is blue.
 * 1)  The cause, reason, or purpose for which.
 * That is why the sky is blue.

Translations

 * Abkhaz: ахьԥа, иахьԥа
 * Afrikaans:, hoekom
 * Alabama: sáhmi
 * Albanian: ,
 * American Sign Language: OpenB@Sfhead Y@FromSfhead
 * Amharic: ለምን
 * Arabic: لِمَاذَا,
 * Chadian Arabic: مالا
 * Egyptian Arabic: ليه
 * Gulf Arabic: لِيش
 * Hijazi Arabic: لِيش, ليه
 * Moroccan Arabic: علاش, علياش, علاه, لاش, لاه
 * North Levantine Arabic: لِيش, ليه
 * South Levantine Arabic: لِيش
 * Armenian:, ,
 * Old Armenian: էր, հիմ, իմ, ընդէր, էրում, զի, զմէ
 * Assamese: কিয়, কেলেই, কেলৈ
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܠܡܵܐ, ܠܡܘܿܢ, ܩܵܡܘܿܕܝܼ, ܩܲܝ
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani: niyə, nə üçün
 * Bakhtiari: سیچی, سیچه
 * Bashkir: ни өсөн, ниңә
 * Basque: zergatik
 * Belarusian: чаму́
 * Bengali:
 * Bikol Central:
 * Bikol Daet: bakin
 * Bikol Legazpi:
 * Bikol Naga:
 * Bikol Partido: hadaw
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ဘာဖြစ်လို့
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: ngano
 * Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵎⴰⵅ
 * Chechen: хӏунда
 * Cherokee: ᎦᏙᏃ
 * Chichewa: chifukwa chiyani
 * Chickasaw: katimi ta
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:, 為乜, 做乜, 做乜嘢, 做咩
 * Dungan: виса, захуэй
 * Hakka: 做麼個
 * Hokkien: 物代, 為甚物//為什物//为什物, 為啥物, 是按怎, 因何,
 * Mandarin: 為甚麼//為什麼//为什么,, , 幹嗎//幹嘛 ,
 * Wu: 啥體, 為啥
 * Chukchi: иаʼм
 * Chuvash: мӗншӗн
 * Cornish: prag
 * Crimean Tatar: ne içün, ne sebepten
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Deccani: کئیکو
 * Dhivehi: ކީއްވެ
 * Dutch:
 * Eastern Mari: молан
 * Erzya: мекс, мезекс, мейс
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: hví
 * Finnish:, mitä varten, minkä tähden, minkä vuoksi
 * French:
 * Middle French: parquoy
 * Galician:, e logo
 * Georgian: რატომ, რისთვის
 * German:, , ,
 * Gothic: 𐌳𐌿𐍈𐌴
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: τί, διὰ τί
 * Greenlandic: sooq
 * Hawaiian: aha
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hiligaynon: ngaa
 * Hindi:, क्यूँ
 * Hungarian:
 * Ibanag: ngatta
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Ilocano: apay
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Ingrian: miks, minen peräst
 * Irish: cad chuige, cén fáth, canathaobh
 * Old Irish: cid ara
 * Italian:
 * Jamaican Creole: wa mek
 * Japanese:, なんで, どうして,
 * Kannada: ,
 * Kapampangan: obakit, bakit, obat, ot
 * Karachay-Balkar: нек
 * Kashmiri: کیٛازِ, क्याज़ि
 * Kazakh:
 * Khakas: ноға
 * Khmer: ហេតុអ្វី, ហេតុអី
 * Kikuyu: nĩkĩ, nĩ ũndũ kĩ
 * Korean:
 * Krio: wetin mek
 * Kumyk: неге, не учун
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: بۆ, لەبەر چی
 * Northern Kurdish:, , ,
 * Kyrgyz: эмне үчүн,, эмнеге, эмнеден
 * Lao: ເປັນຫຍັງ
 * Latgalian: parkū, deļkuo
 * Latin: cūr, quārē
 * Latvian:, kādēļ, kālab
 * Limburgish: boerum, veurwat, woerum
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luxembourgish: firwat
 * Macanese: qui-foi, cuza
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay: mengapa,, kena apa, apa kena, apa pasal
 * Malayalam:, എന്തിന്
 * Maltese: għaliex
 * Maori: na
 * Maranao: ngin, ngkaino
 * Marathi: का
 * Mbyá Guaraní: mba'e re
 * Moksha: мес
 * Mongolian:
 * Navajo: haʼátʼíísh biniinaa
 * Neapolitan: pecché
 * Nepali:
 * Norman: pourtchi
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: korfor,
 * Occitan:
 * Odia:
 * Ojibwe: aaniish, aaniin, aanishwin
 * Old Church Slavonic: въскѫѭ
 * Old English: hwȳ
 * Pangasinan: akin
 * Persian:, برای چی,
 * Pitjantjatjara: nyaaku
 * Polabian: jocel
 * Polish:, , , na co
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romani: sosθar
 * Romanian: de ce, pentru ce
 * Russian:, ,
 * Samoan: 'aiseā
 * Sanskrit: किमर्थं, ,
 * Scots: why
 * Scottish Gaelic: carson
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: за̏што
 * Roman:
 * Sinhalese: ඇයි
 * Slovak: prečo
 * Slovene:
 * Southern Altai: нениҥ учун, не керек,
 * Spanish:
 * Sranan Tongo: sanede, fu san
 * Swahili: kwaje, mbona
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Tahitian: no te aha
 * Tajik: чаро
 * Tamil: ,
 * Tashelhit: ⵎⴰⵅ
 * Tatar: нигә, нар ни өчен, ния
 * Tausug: mayta'
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: ,
 * Tibetan: ག་རེ་བྱས་ནས
 * Tok Pisin: watpo
 * Tongan: hā
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Turkmen: üçin, näme üçin
 * Tuvan: чүге, чоп
 * Ugaritic: 𐎍𐎎
 * Ukrainian:, чом
 * Urdu: کیوں
 * Uyghur: نېمە ئۈچۈن
 * Uzbek:
 * Veps: mihe
 * Vietnamese:, ,
 * Volapük:
 * Võro: mille
 * Walloon:
 * Waray-Waray: kay-ano
 * Welsh: pam, paham
 * West Frisian: wêrom
 * Wutunhua: mashema
 * Yakan: we'ey
 * Yakut: тоҕо, туохтан, туох иһин
 * Yiddish: למאַי, פֿאַרוואָס, וואַרום, היתּכן, זאַטשעם
 * Yola: farthoo
 * Yoruba: kilode
 * Zazaki: çıra


 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Dalmatian: percó
 * Dutch: ,
 * Faroese: hví
 * French:
 * Friulian: parcè
 * German:
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: بۆ, لەبەر چی
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: kādēļ
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay: mengapa,
 * Middle French: parquoy
 * Norman: pourtchi
 * Occitan:
 * Polish: ,
 * Romanian: de ce
 * Romansch: pertge
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: зашто
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: prečo
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, por lo que

Noun

 * 1) Reason.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, どうして
 * Latin: cur
 * Latvian: kādēļ
 * Macedonian:, причина
 * Malay: mengapa,
 * Maltese: il-għala
 * Neapolitan: pecché
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: pentru ce
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:, lí do tại sao

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ей, хей
 * Danish: hva', hov
 * Deccani: کئیکو
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: no mutta
 * French:, , , , ,
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Malay: eh, eh
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish:

Verb

 * 1)  To ask (someone) the question "why?".

Noun

 * 1)  A young heifer.

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

Pronoun

 * 1)   formal or plural