cardinal point

English

Noun

cardinal point (plural cardinal points)

Any of the four principal compass directions: north, south, east and west.

Synonyms

cardinal direction

Translations

cardinal point

Arabic: اِتِّجَاه سَمَاوِيّ m (ittijāh samāwiyy)
Bashkir: тараф (taraf)
Catalan: punt cardinal (ca) m
Czech: světová strana (cs) f
Esperanto: kompasdirektoj, ĉefpunkto geografia
Estonian: põhi-ilmakaar
Finnish: pääilmansuunta (fi)
French: point cardinal (fr) m
Galician: punto cardinal (gl) m
German: Haupthimmelsrichtung (de) f
Hungarian: égtáj (hu), világtáj (hu)
Icelandic: höfuðátt f
Indonesian: mata angin (id)
Irish: príomhaird f
Italian: punto cardinale m
Japanese: 方角 (ja) (ほうがく, hōgaku)
Khmer: ចតុទ្ទិស (km) (ca’tottɨh)
Malay: mata angin
Manx: bun-ard f, ard-ard
Polish: strona świata f
Portuguese: ponto cardeal (pt) m
Romanian: punct cardinal (ro) n
Russian: сторона́ све́та (ru) f (storoná svéta)
Slovak: svetová strana f
Spanish: punto cardinal m
Swedish: kardinalstreck (sv) n
Volapük: please add this translation if you can

See also

intercardinal direction
ordinal direction
Appendix:Cardinal directions

Further reading

“cardinal point”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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