Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: staatmaker
- Amharic: mainstay
- Arabic: عماد
- Azerbaijani: dayaq
- Bashkir: терәге
- Belarusian: апорай
- Bulgarian: опора
- Bengali: প্রধান অবলম্বন
- Bosnian: oslonac
- Catalan: pilar
- Cebuano: mainstay
- Czech: oporou
- Welsh: prif gynheiliad
- Danish: mainstay
- German: Standbein
- Greek: στήριγμα
- Esperanto: kolono
- Spanish: pilar
- Estonian: põhialuseks
- Basque: oinarria
- Persian: عماد
- Finnish: tukipilari
- French: pilier
- Irish: príomhghné
- Scottish Gaelic: mainstay
- Galician: esteos
- Gujarati: મુખ્ય આધાર
- Hebrew: עמוד התווך
- Hindi: मुख्य आधार
- Croatian: stup
- Haitian: poto mitan
- Hungarian: támasza
- Armenian: հենարանը
- Indonesian: andalan
- Icelandic: máttarstólpum
- Italian: mainstay
- Japanese: 主力の
- Javanese: andel
- Georgian: mainstay
- Kazakh: тірек
- Khmer: សំខាន់
- Kannada: ಮೂಲಾಧಾರವಾಗಿದೆ
- Korean: 기간
- Kyrgyz: таянуу
- Latin: firmamentum
- Luxembourgish: Standbein
- Lao: ຕົ້ນຕໍ
- Lithuanian: ramstis
- Latvian: balsts
- Malagasy: andry iankinan'ny
- Mari: эҥертыш
- Maori: mea nui rawa
- Macedonian: mainstay
- Malayalam: mainstay
- Mongolian: эзлэдэг
- Marathi: मुख्य
- Hill Mari: опора
- Malay: tulang belakang
- Maltese: pedament
- Burmese: ဓိက
- Nepali: mainstay
- Dutch: mainstay
- Norwegian: mainstay
- Punjabi: ਆਸਰਾ
- Papiamento: pilar
- Polish: wsparcie
- Portuguese: esteio
- Romanian: sprijin
- Russian: опорой
- Sinhalese: ප්රධාන ජීවිකාව
- Slovak: stálicou
- Slovenian: temelj
- Albanian: shtyllë
- Serbian: ослонац
- Sundanese: andalan
- Swedish: mainstay
- Swahili: uti wa mgongo
- Tamil: முக்கிய
- Telugu: మద్దతుదారుగా
- Tajik: опорой
- Thai: mainstay
- Tagalog: mainstay
- Turkish: dayanak
- Tatar: таяныч
- Udmurt: пыкъет
- Ukrainian: опорою
- Urdu: اہم
- Uzbek: mainstay
- Vietnamese: cột
- Xhosa: mainstay
- Yiddish: מיינסטיי
- Chinese: 中流砥柱
Synonyms, close and similar words for mainstay
- bulwark
- bastion
- backbone
- pillar
- reliance
- buttress
- foothold
- anchor
- linchpin
- keystone