beside

English

Etymology

From Middle English beside, besiden, bisyde (also besides > besides), from Old English be sīdan, bī sīdan (“by the side (of), on the side (of)”). Compare Saterland Frisian biesiede (“aside”), German Low German bisied (“aside”), German beiseite (“aside, to one side”). Compare also Dutch terzijde (“aside”). By surface analysis, be- +‎ side.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɪˈsaɪd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /bɪˈsaɪd/, /biˈsaɪd/, /bəˈsaɪd/

• Audio (US):

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• (Canada, idle-idol split) IPA^(key): /bɪˈsʌɪd/
• Rhymes: -aɪd

Preposition

beside

1. Next to; at the side of.

   A small table beside the bed

2. Not relevant to.

   That is beside the point / beside the topic / beside the subject / beside the focus of this discussion.

   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:beside.
3. Besides; in addition to.

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with besides. See Adverbial genitive.

Derived terms

• besidely
• besideness
• beside oneself
• besides
• beside the mark
• beside the point
• therebeside

Translations

next to

• Arabic: بِجَانِب (ar) (bi-jānib)

  Egyptian Arabic: جَنْب (ganb)

  Hijazi Arabic: جنب (janb), جمب (jamb) (Mispronunciation and misspelling)

  North Levantine Arabic: حد (ħadd)

• Bulgarian: до (bg) (do), край (bg) (kraj), бли́зо (bg) (blízo)
• Cebuano: tapad
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 在...旁邊 / 在...旁边 (zh) (zài...pángbiān)

• Czech: vedle (cs)
• Dutch: naast (nl)
• Esperanto: apud (eo)
• Finnish: vieressä (fi), rinnalla (fi), jonkin vieressä
• French: auprès de (fr), à côté de (fr)
• Galician: a carón de (gl), onda (gl), cabo de (gl), á beira de
• German: neben (de)
• Greek: δίπλα (el) (dípla), πλάι σε (plái se)
• Hebrew: לצד (l'tsad)
• Hindi: ... की बग़ल में (... kī baġal mẽ)
• Hungarian: mellett (hu)
• Ido: apud (io)
• Ingrian: rinnaal
• Irish: cois (ga), in aice le, in aice
• Italian: accanto (it), vicino (it)
• Japanese: ...のそばに (ja) (...no soba ni)
• Korean: ...옆에 (ko) (...yeop-e)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: لەبن (lebin), تەنیشت (tenîşt)

  Northern Kurdish: li rex (ku)

• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: juxta
• Maore Comorian: ɓavuni mwa
• Marathi: ...-च्या बाजूला (mr) (...-cyā bājūlā)
• Navajo: bíighahgi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ved (no), ved siden av (no)

  Nynorsk: ved, attmed

• Pashto: تر څنګ (ter tsang)
• Persian: پهلوی (fa) (pahlu-ye), کنار (fa) (kenâr-e)
• Polish: obok (pl), przy (pl)
• Portuguese: ao lado de, do lado de (colloquial)
• Romanian: lângă (ro), alături (ro)
• Russian: ря́дом с (ru) (rjádom s) (+ instrumental case), о́коло (ru) (ókolo) (+ genitive case), во́зле (ru) (vózle) (+ genitive case), при (ru) (pri)
• Scottish Gaelic: ri taobh
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кра̑ј, уз, по̏ред

  Roman: krȁj (sh), uz (sh), pȍred (sh)

• Slovak: vedľa, pri, popri
• Spanish: al lado de, cabe (es)
• Swedish: intill (sv), bredvid (sv)
• Thai: ข้าง (th) (kâang), ข้างเคียง (kâang kiang)
• Ukrainian: по́ряд (pórjad), по́руч (póruč)
• Vietnamese: bên (vi)
• Waray-Waray: takin, sapit
• West Frisian: njonken
• Zazaki: panıst

not relevant to

• Dutch: naast (nl)
• French: outre (fr)
• German: neben (de)
• Greek: εκτός (el) (ektós)
• Norwegian: på siden
• Polish: poza (pl)
• Portuguese: irrelevante para
• Russian: поми́мо (ru) (pomímo) (+ genitive case)
• Slovak: mimo

Adverb

beside (not comparable)

1. (literary or poetic) Otherwise; else; in addition; besides.
   • 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC:

     To all beside, as much an empty shade,
     An Eugene living, as a Caesar dead.

   • April 8 1805, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Orange Blossom"

     O how the honey tells the tale of its birthplace to the sense of sight and odour! and to how many minute and uneyeable insects beside!

   • 1817 (published 11 January 1818), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Sonnet. Ozymandias.”, in Rosalind and Helen, a Modern Eclogue; with Other Poems, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier, […], published 1819, →OCLC, page 92:

     Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
     Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
     The lone and level sands stretch far away.

   • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XLVI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 69:

     Eternal form shall still divide
     ⁠The eternal soul from all beside;
     And I shall know him when we meet: […]

See also

• para-

References

• “beside”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• beedis