How to say “bridge” in 41 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.
- puente/ˈpwente/ Spanish
- جسر/d͡ʒisr/ Arabic
- 다리[ta̠ɾi] Korean
- पुल/pʊl/ Hindi
- γέφυρα/ˈʝefira/ Greek
- גשר/ˈɡeʃeʁ/ Hebrew
“bridge” in Spanish: puente · French: pont · German: brücke · Italian: ponte · Portuguese: ponte · Korean: 다리 · Arabic: جسر · Hindi: पुल
It is commonest in Malayalam, where പാലം is the 565th most used word.
Bridge in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans brug/brœχ/ bridge, a structure used to cross a gap or a… #843
- Albanian ura/uɾa/ #1,684
- Arabic جسر/d͡ʒisr/ #1,925
- Basque zubia/s̻uˈβiˌa/ #1,029
- Bengali পুল/pul/ #1,615
- Bosnian most/môːst/ #1,565
- Bulgarian моста/ˈmɔstɐ/ #2,066
- Catalan pont[ˈpɔn] a bridge #945
- Croatian most/môːst/ #1,651
- Czech most[ˈmost] #2,296
- Danish broen/ˈbʁoːˀən/ #1,674
- Dutch brug/brʏx/ #1,500
- French pont/pɔ̃/ #1,502
- Galician ponte/ˈponte/ #843
- Georgian ხიდი[χidi] #1,149
- German brücke/ˈbʁʏkə/ #1,582
- Greek γέφυρα/ˈʝefira/ #1,322
- Hebrew גשר/ˈɡeʃeʁ/ #1,997
- Hindi पुल/pʊl/ #1,567
- Icelandic brúna/ˈpruːna/ #1,640
- Italian ponte/ˈpon.te/ #1,750
- Korean 다리[ta̠ɾi] #568
- Latvian tilta/ˈtilta/ #2,482
- Lithuanian tiltas[¹ˈtʲɪltɐs] #1,931
- Macedonian мост[mɔst] #2,183
- Malay jambatan/d͡ʒamˈbatan/ #1,130
- Malayalam പാലം/paːlɐm/ #565
- Norwegian broen/ˈbruːən/ #1,922
- Persian پل[pʰol̥] #891
- Portuguese ponte/ˈpõ.t͡ʃi/ #1,565
- Romanian pod/ˈpod/ #1,919
- Serbian most/môːst/ #1,668
- Slovak most/mɔst/ #1,203
- Slovenian most/móːst/ #679
- Spanish puente/ˈpwente/ #1,618
- Swedish bron/bruːn/ a bridge #2,274
- Tagalog tulay/tuˈlaj/ #1,900
- Telugu వంతెన/ʋan̪t̪ena/ #1,309
- Turkish köprü/cøpˈɾy/ #2,381
- Ukrainian міст[mʲist] #2,487
- Urdu پل/pʊl/ #743
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) and Slovenian (artur (sl_SI), CC BY 4.0).
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