How to say “army” in 45 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.
- ejército/eˈxeɾθito/ Spanish
- جيش/d͡ʒajʃ/ Arabic
- 군[kun] Korean
- सेना/seː.nɑː/ Hindi
- στρατό/straˈto/ Greek
- არმია[äɾmiä] Georgian
“army” in Spanish: ejército · French: armée · German: armee · Italian: esercito · Portuguese: exército · Korean: 군 · Arabic: جيش · Hindi: सेना
It is commonest in Georgian, where არმია is the 241st most used word.
Army in other languages, A to Z
- Albanian ushtri/uʃtɾi/ #997
- Arabic جيش/d͡ʒajʃ/ an army, a military force #1,173
- Basque gudaroste/ɡudaɾos̺te/ #1,527
- Bengali বাহিনী/bahini/ battalion, army unit #678
- Bosnian vojska/ʋǒːjska/ #1,222
- Bulgarian армия[ˈarmijɐ] #1,257
- Catalan exèrcit[əɡˈzɛr.sit] #610
- Chinese 中士/ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵ ʂɻ̩⁵¹/ sergeant of the army or air force #984
- Croatian vojska/ʋǒːjska/ #1,260
- Czech armáda[ˈarmaːda] #1,696
- English lieutenant/l(j)uˈtɛn.ənt/ In the US Army, Air Force and Marines,… #979
- Esperanto armeo/arˈmeo/ #873
- Estonian armee/ɑrˈmeː/ #1,023
- Finnish armeijan/ˈarmeijan/ #1,922
- French armée/aʁ.me/ #769
- Galician exército/ɛˈʃɛɾθito/ #322
- Georgian არმია[äɾmiä] #241
- German armee/arˈmeː/ #1,264
- Greek στρατό/straˈto/ army, military force #1,088
- Hindi सेना/seː.nɑː/ army, military, body of troops #436
- Hungarian hadsereg[ˈhɒt͡ʃːɛrɛɡ] #2,101
- Icelandic her[ˈhɛːr] army, military #946
- Indonesian kapten/ˈkaptɛn/ an army or air force officer whose rank is… #436
- Italian esercito/eˈzɛr.t͡ʃi.to/ #1,079
- Korean 군[kun] #402
- Lithuanian armija[¹ˈɑˑrʲmʲɪjɛ] #872
- Macedonian војска[ˈvɔjska] #888
- Malay tentera/təntəˈra/ #331
- Malayalam സൈന്യം/säinjɐm/ #434
- Persian ارتش[ʔæɹ.t̪ʰéʃ] #502
- Polish armii/ˈar.mji/ #2,299
- Portuguese exército/eˈzɛʁ.si.tu/ #864
- Romanian armată/arˈmatə/ #1,387
- Serbian vojska/ʋǒːjska/ #1,380
- Slovak vojsko/vɔjskɔ/ #2,385
- Slovenian vojska/ʋɔ̀ːjska/ #545
- Spanish ejército/eˈxeɾθito/ #915
- Swedish armén/arˈmeːn/ #1,516
- Tagalog hukbo/hukˈbo/ army; troop; legion #1,105
- Tamil படை/pɐɖɐɪ̯/ #635
- Telugu పరి/ˈpari/ An army #1,628
- Turkish ordu/oɾˈdu/ #1,392
- Ukrainian армія[ˈarmʲijɐ] army, troops #1,626
- Urdu فوج/fɔːd͡ʒ/ #328
- Vietnamese quân[kwən˧˧] troops, army #317
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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