How to say “blind” in 30 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.
- अंधा/ən.d̪ʱɑː/ Hindi
- עיוור/iˈveʁ/ Hebrew
- ბრმა[b̥ɾmä] Georgian
- կույր/kujɾ/ Armenian
- অন্ধ/ɔnd̪ʱo/ Bengali
- کور[kʰuːɹ] Persian
“blind” in French: aveugle · Hindi: अंधा · Turkish: kör
It is commonest in Tagalog, where bulag is the 695th most used word.
Blind in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans blind/blənt/ #847
- Albanian verbër/ˈvɛɾbəɾ/ #1,486
- Arabic عمي/ʕamija/ to be or become blind #739
- Armenian կույր/kujɾ/ #1,406
- Basque itsu/it͡s̺u/ blind, unseeingly #834
- Bengali অন্ধ/ɔnd̪ʱo/ blind, sightless #891
- Catalan cec[ˈsek] #1,904
- Danish blind/ˈblenˀ/ #1,729
- Esperanto blinda/ˈblinda/ #2,179
- French aveugle/a.vœɡl/ #1,917
- Galician cego/ˈθɛɡo/ #2,252
- Georgian ბრმა[b̥ɾmä] #1,312
- Hebrew עיוור/iˈveʁ/ #1,682
- Hindi अंधा/ən.d̪ʱɑː/ #2,244
- Hungarian vak[ˈvɒk] #2,260
- Icelandic blindur[ˈplɪntʏr] #1,632
- Korean 미팅[mitʰiŋ] blind date; first date #2,307
- Lithuanian aklas[ˈaːklɐs] #1,452
- Macedonian слеп[slɛp] #2,125
- Malay buta/ˈbuta/ #1,108
- Norwegian blind/ˈblɪn/ #1,809
- Persian کور[kʰuːɹ] #1,438
- Romanian orb/orb/ #2,145
- Slovak slepý/sʎepiː/ #1,426
- Slovenian slep/sléːp/ #1,009
- Swedish blind/blɪnːd/ blind; unable or failing to see #2,079
- Tagalog bulag/buˈlaɡ/ blind; sightless #695
- Turkish kör/ˈcøɾ/ #1,192
- Urdu کور/koːɾ/ #703
- Vietnamese mù[mu˨˩] #1,314
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).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.