How to say “appearance” in 31 languages
Every one of these is a word that turns up in ordinary speech, not a dictionary curiosity — the number beside it is where it ranks in that language.
It is commonest in Hindi, where रूप is the 100th most used word.
- Albanian pamje appearance, sight, view #858
- Armenian երևում appearance, emergence #406
- Basque itxura appearance, shape #221
- Bengali বেশ #200
- Bosnian lik form, shape, figure, appearance #1,115
- Bulgarian вид look, appearance #574
- Catalan aspecte look, appearance #1,535
- Chinese 樣子 appearance; shape #1,320
- Croatian lik form, shape, figure, appearance #1,266
- English apparently Seemingly; in appearance #1,293
- Esperanto aspekto appearance, aspect #2,110
- Estonian välimus appearance, look #2,138
- Galician aspecto appearance, look #1,429
- German aussehen look, appearance #1,138
- Greek εμφάνιση #2,435
- Hebrew מראה sight, appearance #822
- Hindi रूप outward appearance, form, figure, shape,… #100
- Icelandic útlit appearance, look #1,859
- Indonesian adegan the appearance of a new character or a change… #1,947
- Korean 꼴 the shape or appearance of a thing #1,168
- Lithuanian išvaizda appearance, look, apparition #2,346
- Macedonian изглед appearance, looks #1,938
- Malay rupa form, appearance #1,166
- Persian قیافه exterior appearance of a person; physiognomy #2,239
- Portuguese aspecto appearance, look #1,910
- Russian виду look, looks, appearance, air #342
- Serbian lik form, shape, figure, appearance #1,086
- Tagalog itsura appearance; form; figure #467
- Ukrainian вигляд appearance, look, aspect #1,261
- Urdu صورت #439
- Vietnamese vẻ look, appearance #295
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.