How to say “blood” in 49 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.
- sangre/ˈsanɡɾe/ Spanish
- кровь[krow] Russian
- 血液/ɕy̯ɛ⁵¹⁻⁵³ jɛ⁵¹/ Chinese
- 피[pʰi] Korean
- αίμα/ˈe.ma/ Greek
- דם/dam/ Hebrew
“blood” in Spanish: sangre · French: sang · German: blut · Italian: sangue · Portuguese: sangue · Chinese: 血液 · Korean: 피 · Russian: кровь
It is commonest in Persian, where خون is the 195th most used word.
Blood in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans bloed/blut/ #457
- Albanian gjak[ɟ͡ʝak] #506
- Armenian արյուն/ɑˈɾjun/ #271
- Basque odol/odol/ #506
- Bengali রক্ত/ˈrɔk.t̪o/ #340
- Bosnian krv/kr̩̂ːʋ/ #595
- Bulgarian кръв[krɤf] #484
- Catalan sang[ˈsaŋ] #283
- Chinese 血液/ɕy̯ɛ⁵¹⁻⁵³ jɛ⁵¹/ #772
- Croatian krv/kr̩̂ːʋ/ #578
- Czech krev[ˈkrɛf] #628
- Danish blod[ˈb̥loˀð] #480
- Dutch bloed/blut/ #455
- Esperanto sango/ˈsanɡo/ #573
- Estonian verd/ˈverd̥/ #719
- Finnish verta/ˈʋertɑ/ #731
- French sang/sɑ̃/ #298
- Galician sangue/ˈsaŋɡe/ #402
- Georgian სისხლი[sisχli] #1,230
- German blut/bluːt/ #581
- Greek αίμα/ˈe.ma/ #455
- Hebrew דם/dam/ #426
- Hungarian ér[ˈeːr] blood vessel #707
- Indonesian darah/ˈdarah/ #375
- Italian sangue/ˈsan.ɡwe/ #436
- Korean 피[pʰi] #601
- Latvian asinis[asinis] #634
- Lithuanian kraujo[²ˈkrɒʊˑjo̟ː] #466
- Macedonian крв[kr̩f] #320
- Malay darah/ˈdarah/ #350
- Malayalam രക്തം/ɾɐkt̪ɐm/ #251
- Norwegian blod/bluː/ #575
- Persian خون[xuːn] #195
- Polish krwi/ˈkrfi/ #621
- Portuguese sangue/ˈsɐ̃.ɡi/ #381
- Romanian sânge/ˈsɨn.d͡ʒe/ #563
- Russian кровь[krow] #645
- Serbian krv/kr̩̂ːʋ/ #578
- Slovak krv/kr̩v/ #392
- Slovenian kri/kríː/ #277
- Spanish sangre/ˈsanɡɾe/ #426
- Swedish blod/bluːd/ #534
- Tagalog dugo/duˈɡoʔ/ #324
- Tamil இரத்தம்/ɪɾɐt̪ːɐm/ standard form of ரத்தம்; blood #1,151
- Telugu రక్త/ɾakt̪a/ of or pertaining to blood #444
- Turkish kan/ˈkan/ #400
- Ukrainian кров[krɔu̯] #595
- Urdu خون/xuːn/ #273
- Vietnamese máu[maw˧˦] #457
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.