beside

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

Preposition

beside

Next to; at the side of.
A small table beside the bed
(Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) 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.
Besides; in addition to.

Usage notes

Not to be confused with besides. See Adverbial genitive.

Derived terms

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)

(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: […]

References

“beside”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

beedis