How to say “battle” in 42 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.
- batalla/baˈtaʝa/ Spanish
- 전투[ˈt͡ɕɘ(ː)ntʰu] Korean
- μάχη/ˈmaçi/ Greek
- ბრძოლა[b̥ɾd͡zo̞ɫä] Georgian
- бій[bʲii̯] Ukrainian
- نبرد[næ.bǽɹd̪̥] Persian
“battle” in Spanish: batalla · French: bataille · Italian: battaglia · Portuguese: batalha · Korean: 전투 · Greek: μάχη
It is commonest in Georgian, where ბრძოლა is the 313th most used word.
Battle in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans geveg/χəfaχ/ fight, battle, engagement #526
- Albanian betejë/bɛtɛjə/ #1,253
- Arabic قاتل/qaː.ta.la/ to combat, to battle, to fight #501
- Basque borroka/boˈroˌka/ battle, fight, combat #334
- Bengali সংগ্রাম/ʃɔŋɡɾam/ fight, struggle; battle; war #1,788
- Bosnian boj/bôːj/ #2,384
- Bulgarian битка[ˈbitkɐ] battle, fight, engagement, fray #1,137
- Catalan batalla[bəˈta.ʎə] #907
- Chinese 打仗/tä²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂɑŋ⁵¹/ to fight a battle; to go to war #1,052
- Croatian boj/bôːj/ #2,498
- Danish kamp/ˈkɑmˀb/ battle, struggle #670
- Dutch gevecht/ɣəˈvɛxt/ fight, combat, battle, struggle #1,173
- Esperanto batalo/baˈtalo/ #1,145
- Estonian võitlus/ˈvɤi̯tlus/ fight, battle #1,314
- French bataille/ba.taj/ #1,806
- Galician batalla/baˈtaɟa/ #688
- Georgian ბრძოლა[b̥ɾd͡zo̞ɫä] #313
- German kämpfen/kɛm(p)fən/ struggle, battle, campaign, fight #839
- Greek μάχη/ˈmaçi/ battle, combat #894
- Hebrew מלחמה/milħaːˈmaː/ war, battle #757
- Hindi जंग/d͡ʒəŋɡ/ war, battle #1,370
- Hungarian harc[ˈhɒrt͡s] battle, fight #2,102
- Icelandic bardaga/ˈpartaɣa/ battle, combat, fight #1,051
- Indonesian pertempuran/pər.təm.ˈpʊr.an/ #1,069
- Italian battaglia/batˈtaʎ.ʎa/ #1,446
- Korean 전투[ˈt͡ɕɘ(ː)ntʰu] battle; fighting #881
- Latvian kaujas/ˈkaujas/ battle, fight #1,189
- Lithuanian mūšis[²ˈmuːʃʲɪs] #1,970
- Macedonian борба[ˈbɔrba] struggle, battle, combat #557
- Malay pertempuran/pərtəmˈpuran/ #964
- Persian نبرد[næ.bǽɹd̪̥] battle, fight, combat #1,137
- Polish walki/ˈval.ki/ battle, combat, fight #1,165
- Portuguese batalha/baˈta.ʎɐ/ #1,373
- Romanian luptă/ˈluptə/ to battle #726
- Serbian boj/bôːj/ #2,323
- Slovak boj/bɔj/ fight, battle, conflict #697
- Spanish batalla/baˈtaʝa/ #1,337
- Tagalog digmaan/diɡˈmaʔan/ war; battle #725
- Tamil போர்/poːɾ/ war, fight, battle #882
- Ukrainian бій[bʲii̯] battle, combat, fight, fighting #1,454
- Urdu لڑنا/ləɽ.nɑː/ to fight, combat; battle #1,899
- Vietnamese đấu[ʔɗəw˧˦] to battle, fight #394
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) and Vietnamese (vais1000 (vi_VN), CC BY 4.0).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.