List of Names For The Milky Way - List of Names in Various Languages

List of Names in Various Languages

• Arabic: درب التبانة‎ (Darb Al-Tabbāna) "Hay Merchants Way" or درب اللبانة (Darb Al-Labbāna)' "Milky Way"
• Armenian: Յարդ զողի Ճանապարհ hard goghi chanaparh "Straw Thief's Way", from a myth.
• Basque: Esne bidea, from Latin
• Bosnian: Mliječni Put, "Milky Way" translated from Latin
• Bulgarian: Млечен Път, "Milky Way", translated from Latin
• Catalan: Via Làctia "Milky Way", translated from Latin
• Catalan: Camí de Sant Jaume, "The Road to Santiago"
• Chechen: Ça Taxina Taça "the route of scattered straw"
• Cherokee: ᎩᎵ ᎤᎵᏒᏍᏓᏅᏱ Gili Ulisvsdanvyi "The Way the Dog Ran Away", from a myth
• Chinese: 銀河 "Silver River"
• Croatian: Mliječni Put "Milky Way" translated from Latin. Traditionally it was named Kumova slama (Godfather's straw).
• Czech: Mléčná dráha "Milky Way" translated from Greek or Latin
• Danish: Mælkevejen "The Milky Way"
• Dutch: Melkweg "Milky Way" translated from Latin
• English: Milky Way, translated from Latin
• Erzya: Каргонь ки "Way of the Crane"
• Estonian: Linnutee "Way of Birds", from a myth
• Finnish: Linnunrata "Way of Birds", from a myth
• Faroese: Vetrarbreytin "The Winter Way"
• French: La voie lactée "The Milky Way"
• Galician: Via Láctea "Milky Way", translated from Latin
• Galician: Camiño de Santiago, "The Road to Santiago"
• Georgian: ირმის ნახტომი, irmis naxtomi "The Deer Jump"
• German: Milchstraße "Milky Way"
• Greek: Γαλαξίας κύκλος Galaxias Kyklos "Milky Circle", from a myth
• Hebrew: שביל החלב "The Milky Way"
• Hindi: आकाशगंगा "Ganges River of Heaven", from a myth
• Hungarian: Hadak Útja "The Road of the Warriors", from a myth (historical)
• Hungarian: Tejút "Milky Way"
• Icelandic: Vetrarbrautin "The Winter Way"
• Irish: Bealach na Bó Finne "The Fair Cow's Path"
• Irish: Claí Mór na Réaltaí "Great Fence of the Stars"
• Irish: Slabhbra Luigh "Lugh's Chain"
• Indonesian: Bima Sakti "Poweful Bima", a character in Sanskrit epic Mahabharata
• Italian: Via Lattea "Milky Way", translated from Latin
• Japanese: 天の川 Ama no Gawa "River of Heaven"
• Korean: 은하 eunha "Silver River", from Chinese, or "미리내"(mirinae) in pure Korean. The Milky Way is specifically called "Uri Eunha" ("Our Galaxy")
• Latin: Via Lactea "Milky Way", translated from Greek
• Latvian: Putnu Ceļš, The Birds' Path
• Lithuanian: Paukščių Takas, The Birds' Path
• Malay: Bima Sakti "Magical Bima", a character in Sanskrit epic Mahabharata
• Maltese: Triq Sant' Anna, "St Anne's way"
• Norwegian: Melkeveien "The Milky Way" (Bokmål, comes from Danish)
• Norwegian: Vinterbrauta "The Winter Way" (Nynorsk, related to Icelandic)
• Persian: راه شیری‎
• Polish: Droga Mleczna "Milky Way", translated from Latin
• Portuguese: Via Láctea "Milky Way", translated from Latin, "Estrada de Santiago" "The Road of Santiago" (less common)
• Romanian: Calea Lactee "Milky Way", translated from Latin; traditional name: Calea Robilor or Drumul Robilor ("The Road of the Slaves")
• Russian: Млечный путь "Milky Way", translated from Latin
• Sanskrit: मंदाकिनी "Mandakini", "calm or unhurried"
• Serbian: Mlečni put "Milky Way", translated from Latin
• Serbian: Млечни пут "Milky Way", translated from Latin
• Slovak: Mliečna dráha "Milky Way", translated from Latin
• Slovene: Rimska cesta "The Roman Road", because pilgrims followed it when traveling to Rome
• Spanish: Via láctea "Milky Way", translated from Latin
• Spanish: Compostela "Field of Stars", originally from Latin
• Spanish: Camino de Santiago "The Road to Santiago"
• Swedish: Vintergatan "Winter Street"
• Tamil: பால் வழி "Milky Way", translated from Latin
• Thai: ทางช้างเผือก "The way of the white elephant"
• Turkish: Samanyolu "Road of Straw"
• Ukrainian: Чумацький шлях "Way of Chumak"
• Vietnamese: Ngân Hà "Silver River", translated from Chinese
• Welsh: Llwybr Llaethog "Milky Way", translated from the Latin
• Welsh: Caer Wydion "The Fort of Gwydion" (Gwydion)