How to say “camera” in 33 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.
- كاميرا/kaː.miː.raː/ Arabic
- 카메라[kʰa̠me̞ɾa̠] Korean
- कैमरा/kɛːm.ɾɑː/ Hindi
- κάμερα/ˈkameˌra/ Greek
- מצלמה/mat͡sleˈma/ Hebrew
- ক্যামেরা/kæmeɾa/ Bengali
“camera” in German: kamera · Korean: 카메라 · Arabic: كاميرا · Hindi: कैमरा · Greek: κάμερα
It is commonest in Korean, where 카메라 is the 570th most used word.
Camera in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans kamera/ˈka.mə.ra/ #948
- Arabic كاميرا/kaː.miː.raː/ #1,265
- Bengali ক্যামেরা/kæmeɾa/ #590
- Bosnian kamera/kǎmera/ video camera #1,425
- Bulgarian камера[ˈkamɛrɐ] compartment, camera #1,381
- Catalan càmera[ˈka.mə.ɾə] #1,192
- Croatian kamera/kǎmera/ video camera #1,427
- Czech kameru[ˈkamɛru] #2,270
- Dutch camera/ˈkaː.mə.raː/ #831
- Estonian kaamera/ˈkɑːmerɑ/ #998
- Finnish kamera/ˈkɑmerɑ/ #2,135
- French caméra/ka.me.ʁa/ video camera #1,459
- German kamera[ˈkaməʁa] #1,324
- Greek κάμερα/ˈkameˌra/ #1,064
- Hebrew מצלמה/mat͡sleˈma/ #1,187
- Hindi कैमरा/kɛːm.ɾɑː/ #1,394
- Hungarian kamera[ˈkɒmɛrɒ] #1,903
- Icelandic myndavél[ˈmɪntaˌvjɛːl] #1,335
- Indonesian kamera[kaˈmɛ.ra] #710
- Italian telecamere/teleˈkamere/ television camera #2,230
- Korean 카메라[kʰa̠me̞ɾa̠] #570
- Latvian kameras/ˈkamæras/ #1,229
- Macedonian камера[ˈkamɛɾa] #1,224
- Malay kamera[kɛ.mə.rə] #608
- Malayalam കാമറ/kaːmɐrɐ/ #1,117
- Norwegian kameraet/ˈkɑːmərɑə/ a camera #1,686
- Polish kamery/kaˈmɛ.rɘ/ video camera #2,120
- Serbian kamera/kǎmera/ video camera #1,501
- Slovak kamery/kameri/ #769
- Swedish kameran/ˈkameːˌran/ #1,554
- Tagalog kamera/ˈkameɾa/ #1,711
- Turkish kamera/kɑˈmeɾɑ/ video camera #1,287
- Urdu کیمرہ/kɛːm.ɾɑː/ #1,287
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 Estonian (news (et_EE), CC BY 4.0).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.