How to say “bomb” in 43 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.
- bomba/ˈbomba/ Spanish
- قنبلة/qun.bu.la/ Arabic
- 폭탄[pʰo̞k̚tʰa̠n] Korean
- बम/bəm/ Hindi
- βόμβα/ˈvomva/ Greek
- פצצה/pt͡saˈt͡sa/ Hebrew
“bomb” in Spanish: bomba · French: bombe · German: bombe · Italian: bomba · Portuguese: bomba · Korean: 폭탄 · Arabic: قنبلة · Hindi: बम
It is commonest in Malayalam, where ബോംബ് is the 441st most used word.
Bomb in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans bom/bɔm/ bomb, explosive #671
- Albanian bombë/bɔmbə/ #1,196
- Arabic قنبلة/qun.bu.la/ bomb, grenade #944
- Basque bonba/ˈbonba/ #628
- Bengali বোমা/boma/ #548
- Bosnian bomba/bôːmba/ #1,486
- Bulgarian бомба[ˈbɔmbɐ] #1,329
- Catalan bomba[ˈbom.bə] #1,179
- Croatian bomba/bôːmba/ #1,511
- Czech bomba[ˈbomba] #1,722
- Danish bombe/bombə/ #1,556
- Dutch bom/bɔm/ #1,159
- Estonian pomm/ˈpomː/ #1,137
- Finnish pommi/ˈpomːi/ #2,415
- French bombe/bɔ̃b/ #1,202
- German bombe/ˈbɔmbə/ #1,619
- Greek βόμβα/ˈvomva/ #1,111
- Hebrew פצצה/pt͡saˈt͡sa/ #1,237
- Hindi बम/bəm/ #898
- Hungarian bomba[ˈbombɒ] #1,960
- Icelandic sprengja[ˈspreiɲca] a bomb #835
- Indonesian bom[ˈbɔm] bomb, an explosive device used or intended as… #791
- Italian bomba/ˈbom.ba/ #1,287
- Korean 폭탄[pʰo̞k̚tʰa̠n] #886
- Lithuanian bomba[¹ˈbɔmbɐ] #958
- Macedonian бомба[ˈbɔmba] #957
- Malay bom/bom/ #521
- Malayalam ബോംബ്/boːmbɨ/ #441
- Norwegian bombe/ˈbʊmbə/ a bomb #1,889
- Persian بمب[bomb̥] #541
- Polish bomba/ˈbɔm.ba/ #2,474
- Portuguese bomba/ˈbõ.bɐ/ #1,050
- Romanian bombă/ˈbom.bə/ #1,634
- Serbian bomba/bôːmba/ #1,581
- Slovak bomba/bɔmba/ #870
- Slovenian bomba/bóːmba/ #653
- Spanish bomba/ˈbomba/ #1,260
- Swedish bomb/bɔmb/ a bomb #2,041
- Tamil வெடிகுண்டு/ʋɛɖɪɡʊɳɖɯ/ #1,258
- Turkish bomba/bomˈba/ #1,048
- Ukrainian бомба[ˈbɔmbɐ] #2,283
- Urdu بم/bəm/ #449
- Vietnamese bom[ʔɓɔm˧˧] #847
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.