cardinal point

English

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Noun

cardinal point (plural cardinal points)

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

   Synonym: cardinal direction

Translations

any of the four main points of the compass

• Arabic: اِتِّجَاه سَمَاوِيّ m (ittijāh samāwiyy), جِهَة أَصْلِيَّة f (jiha(t) ʔaṣliyya)
• 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) (hōgaku)
• Khmer: ចតុទ្ទិស (km) (cɑɑtottɨh)
• 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.