How to say “blood” in 49 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.
It is commonest in Persian, where خون is the 195th most used word.
- Afrikaans bloed #457
- Albanian gjak #506
- Armenian արյուն #271
- Basque odol #506
- Bengali রক্ত #340
- Bosnian krv #595
- Bulgarian кръв #484
- Catalan sang #283
- Chinese 血液 #772
- Croatian krv #578
- Czech krev #628
- Danish blod #480
- Dutch bloed #455
- Esperanto sango #573
- Estonian verd #719
- Finnish verta #731
- French sang #298
- Galician sangue #402
- Georgian სისხლი #1,230
- German blut #581
- Greek αίμα #455
- Hebrew דם #426
- Hungarian ér blood vessel #707
- Indonesian darah #375
- Italian sangue #436
- Korean 피 #601
- Latvian asinis #634
- Lithuanian kraujo #466
- Macedonian крв #320
- Malay darah #350
- Malayalam രക്തം #251
- Norwegian blod #575
- Persian خون #195
- Polish krwi #621
- Portuguese sangue #381
- Romanian sânge #563
- Russian кровь #645
- Serbian krv #578
- Slovak krv #392
- Slovenian kri #277
- Spanish sangre #426
- Swedish blod #534
- Tagalog dugo #324
- Tamil இரத்தம் standard form of ரத்தம்; blood #1,151
- Telugu రక్త of or pertaining to blood #444
- Turkish kan #400
- Ukrainian кров #595
- Urdu خون #273
- Vietnamese máu #457
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.