How to say “beauty” in 37 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.
- belleza/beˈʝeθa/ Spanish
- جمال/d͡ʒa.maːl/ Arabic
- 미[mi(ː)] Korean
- सौंदर्य/sɔːnd̪əɾjə/ Hindi
- ομορφιά/o.moɾˈfça/ Greek
- יופי/ˈjofi/ Hebrew
“beauty” in Spanish: belleza · French: beauté · Italian: bellezza · Portuguese: beleza · Korean: 미 · Arabic: جمال · Hindi: सौंदर्य · Turkish: güzellik
It is commonest in Urdu, where ادا is the 293rd most used word.
Beauty in other languages, A to Z
- Albanian bukuri/bukuˈɾi/ #1,343
- Arabic جمال/d͡ʒa.maːl/ #1,041
- Armenian գեղեցկություն/ɡeʁet͡sʰkuˈtʰjun/ #1,574
- Basque edertasun/edertas̺un/ #1,341
- Bengali জামাল/d͡ʒamal/ beauty, grace, elegance #1,145
- Bulgarian красота[krɐsoˈta] #1,843
- Catalan bellesa[bəˈʎɛ.zə] #1,461
- Chinese 美女/meɪ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ ny²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ beautiful woman; beauty; lovely lady #639
- Czech krása[ˈkraːsa] #2,243
- Danish skønhed/ˈsɡœnˌheðˀ/ #2,286
- Dutch miss/mɪs/ a winner of a beauty contest #595
- English beautiful/ˈbju.tɪ.fəl/ Possessing beauty, impressing the eye;… #363
- Esperanto beleco/beˈlet͡so/ #1,859
- Estonian kaunitar/ˈkɑu̯nitɑr/ a beautiful woman, a beauty #1,979
- French beauté/bo.te/ #1,389
- Galician beleza/beˈleθa/ #1,096
- German miss/mɪs/ title for a beauty queen #482
- Greek ομορφιά/o.moɾˈfça/ #1,845
- Hebrew יופי/ˈjofi/ #316
- Hindi सौंदर्य/sɔːnd̪əɾjə/ #2,401
- Italian bellezza/belˈlet.t͡sa/ #1,736
- Korean 미[mi(ː)] #747
- Lithuanian grožis[²ˈɡroːʒʲɪs] #1,745
- Macedonian убавина[uˈbavina] #1,772
- Malay kecantikan/kət͡ʃanˈtekan/ beauty; prettiness #1,792
- Malayalam മനോഹരം/manoːhaɾam/ #537
- Persian خال[xɒːl̥] beauty spot #2,242
- Portuguese beleza/beˈle.zɐ/ #1,625
- Slovak krása/kraːsa/ #1,267
- Slovenian lepota/lɛpɔ̀ːta/ #1,189
- Spanish belleza/beˈʝeθa/ #1,657
- Swedish skönhet/ˈsxœnheːt/ #2,495
- Tagalog ganda/ɡanˈda/ #869
- Tamil அழகு/ɐɻɐɡɯ/ beauty, elegance, comeliness, handsomeness #621
- Turkish güzellik[ɟyzælːic] beauty, beautifulness, fairness #2,050
- Urdu ادا/ə.d̪ɑː/ beauty, charm #293
- Vietnamese dung[zʊwŋ͡m˧˧] beauty, one of the tứ đức that women are… #1,238
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).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.