How to say “area” in 41 different 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.
- 지역[t͡ɕijʌ̹k̚] Korean
- אזור/(ʔ)eˈzoʁ/ Hebrew
- এলাকা/elaka/ Bengali
- പ്രദേശം/prad̪eːʃam/ Malayalam
- علاقہ/(ʔ)ɪ.lɑː.qɑ(ː)/ Urdu
“area” in Portuguese: área · Korean: 지역 · Turkish: alan
It is commonest in Malay, where kawasan is the 458th most used word.
Area in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans area/ˈɑːriˌɐ/ #2,005
- Arabic ساحة/saː.ħa/ field, area #1,261
- Basque gune/ɡune/ place, area #1,066
- Bengali এলাকা/elaka/ area; field #862
- Bosnian područje/pǒdruːt͡ʃje/ area, region, territory #1,756
- Catalan àrea[ˈa.ɾe.ə] #2,124
- Chinese 地方/ti⁵¹ fɑŋ¹/ place; region; area #23
- Croatian područje/pǒdruːt͡ʃje/ area, region, territory #1,319
- Czech okolí[ˈokoliː] surroundings, surrounding area #1,543
- Danish området/ˈʌmˌʁɔːðəð/ area, region, territory #1,077
- Dutch gebied/ɣəˈbit/ area, region #1,004
- English under/ˈʌndɚ/ Beneath; below; at or to the bottom of, or… #378
- Estonian ala/ˈɑlɑ/ area, territory, region #1,081
- Finnish ala/ˈɑlɑ/ #809
- Galician zona[ˈθonɐ] zone, area #790
- German mark[maʁk] a usually fortified area along the border;… #1,275
- Greek περιοχή/pe.ɾi.oˈçi/ region; district; area #673
- Hebrew אזור/(ʔ)eˈzoʁ/ an area, region, zone #1,231
- Hindi क्षेत्र/kʂeːt̪.ɾᵊ/ field, area of study #558
- Icelandic svæði[ˈsvaiːðɪ] #2,423
- Indonesian daerah/daˈerah/ region; area #796
- Italian zona/ˈd͡zɔ.na/ a zone, area or district #1,010
- Korean 지역[t͡ɕijʌ̹k̚] area, district, particular geographic region #635
- Latvian leju/ˈleju/ low area, low place, below #1,492
- Macedonian област[ˈɔbɫast] district, region, area #1,360
- Malay kawasan/ka.wa.san/ an area #458
- Malayalam പ്രദേശം/prad̪eːʃam/ #830
- Norwegian området/ˈɔmˌroːdə/ an area #954
- Persian منطقه[mæn̪.t̪ʰæ.ʁe] zone, area, region #484
- Polish poza/ˈpɔ.za/ denotes an area not within; beyond, out of,… #352
- Portuguese área/ˈa.ɾjɐ/ area; region; place #1,045
- Serbian područje/pǒdruːt͡ʃje/ area, region, territory #1,976
- Slovak oblasť/ɔblasc/ #961
- Slovenian cona/t͡sóːna/ zone, area #2,039
- Spanish zona/ˈθona/ zone, district, area #1,084
- Swedish mark/mark/ ground, or the area beneath it #906
- Tagalog tabi/taˈbi/ area beside a person or thing #388
- Tamil மனை/mɐnɐɪ̯/ A unit of land area equal to 24 square feet #1,756
- Turkish alan/ɑˈɫɑn/ area, square as for place #705
- Urdu علاقہ/(ʔ)ɪ.lɑː.qɑ(ː)/ #1,085
- Vietnamese khu[xu˧˧] district, area, zone #492
The speaker reads the word in the voice the LangX app uses for that language — synthesised, not a recording of a native speaker, so treat it as a guide. A row without a button has no reading we are free to use, or none we trust, yet. Voices for Bengali (google (bn_BD), CC BY-SA 4.0), Catalan (upc_ona (ca_ES), CC BY-SA 4.0), Estonian (news (et_EE), CC BY 4.0), Slovenian (artur (sl_SI), CC BY 4.0) and Vietnamese (vais1000 (vi_VN), CC BY 4.0).
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