How to say “bottle” in 38 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.
- botella/boˈteʝa/ Spanish
- 瓶子/pʰiŋ³⁵ d͡z̥ɹ̩³/ Chinese
- 병[pjʌ̹ŋ] Korean
- बोतल/boː.t̪əl/ Hindi
- μπουκάλι/buˈka.li/ Greek
- בקבוק/bakˈbuk/ Hebrew
“bottle” in Spanish: botella · French: bouteille · German: flasche · Italian: bottiglia · Portuguese: garrafa · Chinese: 瓶子 · Korean: 병 · Hindi: बोतल
It is commonest in Malayalam, where കുപ്പി is the 587th most used word.
Bottle in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans bottel/ˈbɔ.təl/ #1,086
- Albanian shishe/ʃiʃɛ/ #1,065
- Basque botila/botila/ #608
- Bengali বোতল/bot̪ol/ #991
- Bosnian bocu/ˈbotsʊ/ #2,175
- Bulgarian бутилка[boˈtiɫkɐ] #1,529
- Catalan ampolla[əmˈpo.ʎə] #2,451
- Chinese 瓶子/pʰiŋ³⁵ d͡z̥ɹ̩³/ #1,547
- Croatian bocu/ˈbotsʊ/ #1,777
- Czech láhev[ˈlaːɦɛf] #2,219
- Danish flaske/flaskə/ #1,666
- Dutch fles/flɛs/ #1,443
- Estonian pudel/ˈpud̥el/ #1,689
- French bouteille/bu.tɛj/ #1,556
- Galician botella/boˈteɟa/ #1,788
- German flasche/ˈflaʃə/ bottle; flask; flagon #1,546
- Greek μπουκάλι/buˈka.li/ #1,370
- Hebrew בקבוק/bakˈbuk/ #1,249
- Hindi बोतल/boː.t̪əl/ #1,199
- Indonesian botol/ˈbotol/ #1,452
- Italian bottiglia/botˈtiʎ.ʎa/ #1,763
- Korean 병[pjʌ̹ŋ] bottle; jar #970
- Latvian pudeli/ˈpudæli/ #1,606
- Macedonian шише[ˈʃiʃɛ] #1,411
- Malay botol/ˈbotol/ #1,178
- Malayalam കുപ്പി/kuppi/ #587
- Norwegian flaske/ˈflɑskə/ a bottle #1,947
- Portuguese garrafa/ɡaˈʁa.fɐ/ #1,729
- Serbian bocu/ˈbotsʊ/ #2,270
- Slovak fľaša/fʎaʃa/ #2,291
- Slovenian steklenica/stɛklɛnìːt͡sa/ #1,486
- Spanish botella/boˈteʝa/ #1,605
- Swedish flaska/ˈflaska/ a bottle #2,024
- Tagalog bote/ˈbote/ #1,127
- Tamil குப்பி/kʊpːiː/ bottle, vial, flask #1,387
- Turkish şişe/ʃiˈʃe/ #1,443
- Urdu بوتل/boː.t̪əl/ #1,389
- Vietnamese chai[t͡ɕaːj˧˧] #1,254
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.