How to say “bone” in 34 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.
- huesos/ˈwesos/ Spanish
- 뼈[p͈jʌ̹] Korean
- हड्डी/ɦəɖ.ɖiː/ Hindi
- עצם/ʕasˤm/ Hebrew
- ոսկոր/vosˈkoɾ/ Armenian
- হাড়/haɽ/ Bengali
“bone” in Spanish: huesos · French: os · German: knochen · Italian: ossa · Portuguese: ossos · Korean: 뼈 · Hindi: हड्डी · Turkish: kemik
It is commonest in Telugu, where ఎముక is the 671st most used word.
Bone in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans heupbeen/ˈhøəpbiən/ hip bone #1,801
- Armenian ոսկոր/vosˈkoɾ/ #1,814
- Basque hezur/es̻ur/ #1,159
- Bengali হাড়/haɽ/ #2,208
- Bulgarian кости[ˈkɔsti] #2,224
- Catalan ossos[ˈo.sus] #1,683
- Croatian kost/kôːst/ #2,444
- Czech kosti[ˈkoscɪ] #1,891
- French os/ɔs/ #1,577
- Galician ósos/ˈosos/ #1,714
- German knochen[ˈknɔχn̩] #1,989
- Hebrew עצם/ʕasˤm/ #1,282
- Hindi हड्डी/ɦəɖ.ɖiː/ #2,435
- Icelandic bein[ˈpeiːn] #1,236
- Indonesian tulang/ˈtulaŋ/ #1,074
- Italian ossa/ˈɔs.sa/ #2,103
- Korean 뼈[p͈jʌ̹] #1,672
- Latvian kaulu/ˈkaulu/ #2,426
- Macedonian коски[ˈkɔski] #1,674
- Malay tulang/ˈtulaŋ/ #913
- Malayalam എല്ല്/elːɨ/ #1,408
- Persian استخوان[ʔos.t̪ʰo.xɒːn] #1,580
- Polish kości/ˈkɔɕ.t͡ɕi/ #1,517
- Portuguese ossos/ˈɔ.sus/ #1,989
- Romanian oase/ˈo̯a.se/ #2,280
- Slovak kosti/ˈkostʲi/ #1,029
- Slovenian kost/kóːst/ #910
- Spanish huesos/ˈwesos/ #2,266
- Tagalog buto/buˈto/ #1,232
- Tamil எலும்பு/ɛlʊmbɯ/ #939
- Telugu ఎముక/emuka/ #671
- Turkish kemik/ceˈmic/ #2,170
- Urdu ہڈی/ɦəɖː.iː/ #1,983
- Vietnamese xương[sɨəŋ˧˧] #1,138
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).
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