How to say “bottle” in 38 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 കുപ്പി is the 587th most used word.
- Afrikaans bottel #1,086
- Albanian shishe #1,065
- Basque botila #608
- Bengali বোতল #991
- Bosnian bocu #2,175
- Bulgarian бутилка #1,529
- Catalan ampolla #2,451
- Chinese 瓶子 #1,547
- Croatian bocu #1,777
- Czech láhev #2,219
- Danish flaske #1,666
- Dutch fles #1,443
- Estonian pudel #1,689
- French bouteille #1,556
- Galician botella #1,788
- German flasche bottle; flask; flagon #1,546
- Greek μπουκάλι #1,370
- Hebrew בקבוק #1,249
- Hindi बोतल #1,199
- Indonesian botol #1,452
- Italian bottiglia #1,763
- Korean 병 bottle; jar #970
- Latvian pudeli #1,606
- Macedonian шише #1,411
- Malay botol #1,178
- Malayalam കുപ്പി #587
- Norwegian flaske a bottle #1,947
- Portuguese garrafa #1,729
- Serbian bocu #2,270
- Slovak fľaša #2,291
- Slovenian steklenica #1,486
- Spanish botella #1,605
- Swedish flaska a bottle #2,024
- Tagalog bote #1,127
- Tamil குப்பி bottle, vial, flask #1,387
- Turkish şişe #1,443
- Urdu بوتل #1,389
- Vietnamese chai #1,254
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.