Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: ruggraat
- Amharic: ጥቁር
- Arabic: العمود الفقري
- Azerbaijani: eləcə də
- Bashkir: костяк
- Belarusian: касцяк
- Bulgarian: гръбнакът на
- Bengali: দাঁড়া
- Bosnian: kičma
- Catalan: columna vertebral
- Cebuano: backbone
- Czech: páteř
- Welsh: asgwrn cefn
- Danish: rygraden
- German: Rückgrat
- Greek: ραχοκοκαλιά
- Esperanto: spino
- Spanish: columna vertebral
- Estonian: selgroog
- Basque: bizkarrezurra
- Persian: ستون فقرات
- Finnish: selkäranka
- French: épine dorsale
- Irish: cnámh droma
- Scottish Gaelic: beachd
- Galician: espiña dorsal
- Gujarati: બેકબોન
- Hebrew: עמוד השדרה
- Hindi: रीढ़ की हड्डी
- Croatian: okosnicu
- Haitian: zo rèl do a
- Hungarian: gerinc
- Armenian: կորիզը
- Indonesian: punggung
- Icelandic: dug
- Italian: spina dorsale
- Japanese: 背骨
- Javanese: penyangga
- Georgian: ხერხემალი
- Kazakh: ұйытқысы
- Khmer: ឆ្អឹងខ្នង
- Kannada: ಬೆನ್ನೆಲುಬು
- Korean: 백본
- Kyrgyz: костяк
- Latin: narum
- Luxembourgish: Stäip
- Lao: ເເລ
- Lithuanian: stuburas
- Latvian: mugurkauls
- Malagasy: hazondamosina
- Mari: лулеге
- Maori: tuaiwi
- Macedonian: 'рбетот
- Malayalam: നട്ടെല്ല്
- Mongolian: нуруу
- Marathi: कणा
- Hill Mari: кӹшкӓр
- Malay: tulang belakang
- Maltese: sinsla
- Burmese: ကျောရိုး
- Nepali: मेरुदण्ड
- Dutch: backbone
- Norwegian: ryggraden
- Punjabi: ਲੱਕ
- Papiamento: pilar federal
- Polish: trzon
- Portuguese: espinha dorsal
- Romanian: coloana vertebrală
- Russian: костяк
- Sinhalese: කොඳු නාරටිය
- Slovak: chrbtovú
- Slovenian: hrbtenica
- Albanian: shtylla kurrizore
- Serbian: кичма
- Sundanese: tulang tonggong
- Swedish: ryggraden
- Swahili: uti wa mgongo
- Tamil: முதுகெலும்பாக
- Telugu: వెన్నెముక
- Tajik: костяк
- Thai: backbone
- Tagalog: gulugod
- Turkish: omurga
- Tatar: нигезен
- Udmurt: костяк
- Ukrainian: кістяк
- Urdu: ریڑھ کی ہڈی
- Uzbek: magistral
- Vietnamese: xương sống
- Xhosa: ithambo
- Yiddish: באַקבאָון
- Chinese: 骨干
Synonyms, close and similar words for backbone
- spine
- vertebral column
- skeleton
- spinal column
- rachis
- back
- chine
- mainstay
- base
- linchpin
- anchor
- main line
- trunking
- grit