How to say “arm” 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.
- 手臂/ʂoʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ pi⁵¹/ Chinese
- χέρια/ˈçeriˌa/ Greek
- יד/jaːd/ Hebrew
- বাহু/bahu/ Bengali
- بازو/bɑː.zuː/ Urdu
“arm” in French: bras · Italian: braccio · Portuguese: braço · Chinese: 手臂 · Turkish: kol · Greek: χέρια
It is commonest in Greek, where χέρια is the 331st most used word.
Arm in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans arms/ˈɐrəms/ #598
- Albanian krahët/kɾahət/ #1,058
- Arabic سلاح/si.laːħ/ weapon, arm #550
- Armenian ձեռք/d͡zerkʰ/ hand; arm #340
- Basque beso/bes̺o/ #869
- Bengali বাহু/bahu/ #1,839
- Bosnian ruke/ˈrukɛ/ #343
- Catalan braç[ˈbɾas] #1,261
- Chinese 手臂/ʂoʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ pi⁵¹/ #858
- Croatian ruke/ˈrukɛ/ #364
- Danish arme/armeː/ #1,832
- English kyle/kaɪl/ A narrow arm or channel of the sea between an… #2,299
- Esperanto brakoj/ˈbrakoi̯/ #2,142
- Finnish kädet/ˈkædet/ hand, arm; an upper limb of a human or… #900
- French bras[bʁɑ] #642
- Galician arma/ˈaɾma/ weapon, arm #723
- German waffe/ˈvafə/ weapon, arm #599
- Greek χέρια/ˈçeriˌa/ #331
- Hebrew יד/jaːd/ #632
- Hindi हथियार/ɦə.t̪ʰɪ.jɑːɾ/ weapon, arm #618
- Icelandic örmum/ˈœrmʏm/ #2,494
- Indonesian lengan/ləˈŋan/ #1,686
- Italian braccio/ˈbrat.t͡ʃo/ #1,144
- Latvian rokas/ˈruokas/ hand, arm #279
- Lithuanian rankas[rɐŋˈkɐs] hand; arm #293
- Macedonian оружје[ˈɔɾuʒjɛ] weapon, weaponry, arm #363
- Malay lengan/ləˈŋan/ #1,262
- Norwegian armen/ˈɑrmən/ an arm #1,293
- Polish ręce/ˈrɛn.t͡sɛ/ #520
- Portuguese braço/ˈbɾa.su/ #1,241
- Romanian arma/ˈarma/ arm, weapon #559
- Russian оружие[ɐˈruʐɨje] weapon, weaponry, arm #646
- Serbian ruke/ˈrukɛ/ #355
- Slovak ruky/ruki/ hand, arm #289
- Slovenian rok/ˈroːk/ hand, arm #442
- Spanish arma/ˈaɾma/ weapon, arm #521
- Swedish arm/ˈarm/ arm; the body part #1,822
- Tagalog braso/ˈbɾaso/ #2,191
- Telugu చేతులు/ˈceːtulu/ hand, arm #234
- Turkish kol/koɫ/ #2,192
- Urdu بازو/bɑː.zuː/ #1,198
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) and Slovenian (artur (sl_SI), CC BY 4.0).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
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