How to say “bomb” in 43 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 Malayalam, where ബോംബ് is the 441st most used word.
- Afrikaans bom bomb, explosive #671
- Albanian bombë #1,196
- Arabic قنبلة bomb, grenade #944
- Basque bonba #628
- Bengali বোমা #548
- Bosnian bomba #1,486
- Bulgarian бомба #1,329
- Catalan bomba #1,179
- Croatian bomba #1,511
- Czech bomba #1,722
- Danish bombe #1,556
- Dutch bom #1,159
- Estonian pomm #1,137
- Finnish pommi #2,415
- French bombe #1,202
- German bombe #1,619
- Greek βόμβα #1,111
- Hebrew פצצה #1,237
- Hindi बम #898
- Hungarian bomba #1,960
- Icelandic sprengja a bomb #835
- Indonesian bom bomb, an explosive device used or intended as… #791
- Italian bomba #1,287
- Korean 폭탄 #886
- Lithuanian bomba #958
- Macedonian бомба #957
- Malay bom #521
- Malayalam ബോംബ് #441
- Norwegian bombe a bomb #1,889
- Persian بمب #541
- Polish bomba #2,474
- Portuguese bomba #1,050
- Romanian bombă #1,634
- Serbian bomba #1,581
- Slovak bomba #870
- Slovenian bomba #653
- Spanish bomba #1,260
- Swedish bomb a bomb #2,041
- Tamil வெடிகுண்டு #1,258
- Turkish bomba #1,048
- Ukrainian бомба #2,283
- Urdu بم #449
- Vietnamese bom #847
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.