Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: skaam
- Amharic: አሁን
- Arabic: خجولة
- Azerbaijani: utancaq
- Bashkir: заседании
- Belarusian: сарамлівы
- Bulgarian: срамежлив
- Bengali: লাজুক
- Bosnian: stidljiva
- Catalan: tímid
- Cebuano: shy
- Czech: plachý
- Welsh: swil
- Danish: genert
- German: schüchtern
- Greek: ντροπαλός
- Esperanto: timema
- Spanish: tímido
- Estonian: häbelik
- Basque: lotsati
- Persian: خجالتی
- Finnish: ujo
- French: timide
- Irish: cúthail
- Scottish Gaelic: shy
- Galician: tímido
- Gujarati: શરમાળ
- Hebrew: ביישן
- Hindi: शर्मिला
- Croatian: sramežljivi
- Haitian: timid
- Hungarian: félénk
- Armenian: ամաչկոտ
- Indonesian: malu
- Icelandic: feiminn
- Italian: timido
- Japanese: shy
- Javanese: isin
- Georgian: ერიდება
- Kazakh: ұялшақ
- Khmer: ខ្មាស់អៀន
- Kannada: ನಾಚಿಕೆ
- Korean: 수줍어
- Kyrgyz: застенчивый
- Latin: fugax
- Luxembourgish: schei
- Lao: ຂີ້ອາຍ
- Lithuanian: drovus
- Latvian: kautrīgs
- Malagasy: saro-kenatra
- Mari: вожылшан
- Maori: whakamā
- Macedonian: срамежлив
- Malayalam: ലജ്ജ
- Mongolian: ичимхий
- Marathi: लाजाळू
- Hill Mari: шеклӓнӹдеок
- Malay: malu
- Maltese: taqbadhom
- Burmese: ရှက်
- Nepali: शर्म
- Dutch: verlegen
- Norwegian: sjenert
- Punjabi: ਸ਼ਰਮੀਲੀ
- Papiamento: tímido
- Polish: nieśmiały
- Portuguese: tímido
- Romanian: timid
- Russian: застенчивый
- Sinhalese: ලැජ්ජයි
- Slovak: plachý
- Slovenian: sramežljiv
- Albanian: i trembur
- Serbian: стидљив
- Sundanese: malu
- Swedish: blyg
- Swahili: aibu
- Tamil: வெட்கப்படவில்லை
- Telugu: పిరికి
- Tajik: шарм доранд
- Thai: ขี้อาย
- Tagalog: mahiya
- Turkish: utangaç
- Tatar: застенчивый
- Udmurt: кепырась
- Ukrainian: соромливий
- Urdu: شرم
- Uzbek: shy
- Vietnamese: nhút nhát
- Xhosa: ukuba neentloni
- Yiddish: שעמעוודיק
- Chinese: 害羞的
Synonyms, close and similar words for shy
- tremulous
- bashful
- timid
- blushing
- shamefaced
- timorous
- retiring
- diffident
- embarrassing
- sheepish
- mousy
- fainthearted
- demure
- modest
- fearful
- skittish
- be frightened
- jittery
- scary
- coy
- humble
- turn aside
- shy away