How to say “birth” in 34 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.
- рождество[rəʐdʲɪstˈvo] Russian
- ميلاد/miː.laːd/ Arabic
- जन्म/d͡ʒən.mᵊ/ Hindi
- הולדת/huˈledet/ Hebrew
- დაბადების[d̥äbäde̞bis] Georgian
- সম্ভব/ʃɔmbʱɔb/ Bengali
“birth” in French: naissance · Russian: рождество · Arabic: ميلاد · Hindi: जन्म
It is commonest in Tagalog, where silang is the 175th most used word.
Birth in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans geboorte/χəˈbʊə̯r.tə/ #647
- Albanian lindje/ˈlindje/ #1,252
- Arabic ميلاد/miː.laːd/ #471
- Armenian ծնել/t͡səˈnel/ to give birth, to bear #535
- Basque erditu/erditu/ to give birth #1,431
- Bengali সম্ভব/ʃɔmbʱɔb/ birth, origin #254
- Bulgarian рожден[roʒˈdɛn] #1,009
- Catalan parís/pəˈɾis/ to give birth #2,069
- Danish født[ˈføˀd̥] to bear, give birth #780
- Dutch jong/jɔŋ/ to give birth, to have offspring, i.e. to… #873
- Esperanto naskis/ˈnaskis/ to give birth to, to bear #1,690
- French naissance/nɛ.sɑ̃s/ #1,759
- Galician nacemento[naθeˈmɛntʊ] #2,036
- Georgian დაბადების[d̥äbäde̞bis] #551
- German geboren/ɡəˈboːʁən/ to give birth; referring to labour, or to… #1,144
- Greek πατρίδα/paˈtriða/ homeland, country of birth #1,586
- Hebrew הולדת/huˈledet/ #867
- Hindi जन्म/d͡ʒən.mᵊ/ #914
- Icelandic el[ˈɛːl] to bear, give birth to #1,399
- Latvian dzimšanas/ˈdzimʃanas/ being born, birth; verbal noun of dzimt #644
- Lithuanian gyvenimas[ɡʲiː²ˈʋʲæːnʲɪmɐs] the time between birth and death #289
- Macedonian роден[ˈrɔdɛn] to give birth to #962
- Malay lahir/ˈlahir/ to be born, to give birth, to bear #794
- Malayalam ജന്മം/d͡ʒɐnmɐm/ #973
- Portuguese paris/paˈɾis/ to give birth #1,326
- Russian рождество[rəʐdʲɪstˈvo] birth; nativity #1,636
- Slovenian rojstvo/rɔ̀ːjstʋɔ/ #1,526
- Spanish parís/paˈɾis/ to give birth #1,354
- Tagalog silang/ˈsilaŋ/ birth; nativity #175
- Tamil பிறப்பு/pɪrɐpːɯ/ #1,117
- Telugu ఉత్పత్తి/ut̪pat̪ːi/ birth, creation, production, origin #801
- Ukrainian народження[nɐˈrɔd͡ʒenʲːɐ] #788
- Urdu پیدائش/pɛː.d̪ɑː.ɪʃ/ origin, birth; genesis, creation #768
- Vietnamese đẻ[ʔɗɛ˧˩] to give birth to #1,580
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), Slovenian (artur (sl_SI), CC BY 4.0) and Vietnamese (vais1000 (vi_VN), CC BY 4.0).
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