southwest

English

Alternative forms

• south-west
• sou'-west

Etymology

From Middle English southwest, southewest, from Old English sūþwest and sūþanwestan, equivalent to south +‎ west. Cognate with West Frisian súdwest, Dutch zuidwest, German Südwesten, Danish sydvest, Swedish sydväst.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saʊθˈwɛst/
• IPA^(key): /saʊˈwɛst/

Noun

southwest (usually uncountable, plural southwests)

1. The compass point halfway between south and west, specifically 225°, abbreviated as SW.
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Coordinate terms

• (compass point): northeast, northwest, southeast

Derived terms

• southwest by south
• southwest by west

Translations

compass point

• Armenian: հարավ-արևմուտք (harav-arewmutkʻ)
• Basque: hegosartalde, hegomendebal
• Belarusian: паўднёвы за́хад m (paŭdnjóvy záxad)
• Bulgarian: югоза́пад m (jugozápad)
• Catalan: sud-oest (ca) m
• Central Melanau: laan daya, beradayak
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 西南 (zh) (xīnán)

• Czech: jihozápad (cs) m
• Danish: sydvest
• Dutch: zuidwesten (nl) n
• Esperanto: sudokcidento, suduesto
• Estonian: edel (et)
• Faroese: útsynningur m
• Finnish: lounas (fi)
• French: sud-ouest (fr) m
• Galician: suroeste m
• Georgian: სამხრეთ-დასავლეთი (samxret-dasavleti)
• German: Südwesten (de) m
• Greek: νοτιοδυτικά (el) (notiodytiká)

  Ancient: λίψ m (líps)

• Hindi: नैऋत्य (naiŕtya)
• Hungarian: délnyugat (hu)
• Ido: sud-westo (io)
• Indonesian: barat daya (id)
• Interlingua: sud-west
• Italian: sudovest m
• Japanese: 南西 (ja) (なんせい, nanséi), (less common) 西南 (ja) (せいなん, seinan), (obsolete) 坤 (ja) (ひつじさる, hitsujisaru)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: 서남 (ko) (seonam) (西南 (ko))
• Macedonian: југоза́пад m (jugozápad)
• Malay: barat daya
• Maltese: lbiċ
• Maori: tonga-mā-uru, hauāuru-mā-tonga, uru-mā-tonga
• Navajo: shádiʼááh dóó eʼeʼaah
• Northern Sami: oarjelulli
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sørvest

  Nynorsk: sørvest

• Persian: جنوب غربی (jonub-e ğarbi)
• Polish: południowy zachód m
• Portuguese: sudoeste (pt) m
• Romanian: sud-vest (ro) n, sudvest n
• Romansch: sidvest
• Russian: ю́го-за́пад (ru) m (júgo-západ), зюйд-ве́ст (ru) m (zjujd-vést) (wind or nautical)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: југозапад m

  Roman: jugozapad (sh)

• Slovak: juhozápad m
• Slovene: jugozahod m
• Spanish: sudoeste (es) m, suroeste m
• Swedish: sydväst (sv)
• Telugu: నైఋతి (te) (nair̥ti)
• Turkish: güneybatı (tr)
• Ukrainian: півде́нний за́хід m (pivdénnyj záxid)
• Vietnamese: phía tây nam

Adjective

southwest (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to the southwest; southwestern.
2. Towards the southwest, southwestwards, southwestern.
3. From the southwest, southwesterly

Translations

southwestern

• Belarusian: паўднёва-захо́дні m (paŭdnjova-zaxódni)
• Hungarian: délnyugati (hu)
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• Maori: uru-mā-tonga, hauāuru-mā-tonga

towards the southwest

• Armenian: հարավարևմտյան (haravarewmtyan)
• Bulgarian: югоза́паден m (jugozápaden)
• Czech: jihozápadní (cs)
• Dutch: zuidwest (nl), zuidwestelijk (nl)
• Esperanto: sudokcidenta, suduesta
• Finnish: lounainen (fi)
• French: sud-ouest (fr), du sud-ouest
• Greek: νοτιοδυτικός (el) m (notiodytikós)
• Interlingua: del sud-west
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Macedonian: југозападно (jugozapadno)
• Maori: ki te tonga-mā-uru, ki te hauāuru-mā-tonga, ki te uru-mā-tonga
• Polish: południowo-zachodni (pl)
• Portuguese: sudoeste (pt), do sudoeste
• Romanian: de sud-vest, sudvestic
• Russian: юго-за́падный (ru) (jugo-západnyj)
• Spanish: suroeste, del sudoeste
• Telugu: నైఋతి (te) (nair̥ti)
• Turkish: güneybatı (tr)