How to say “chest” in 37 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 Arabic, where صندوق is the 551st most used word.
- Afrikaans bors #1,189
- Albanian gjoks chest, thorax #1,933
- Arabic صندوق chest, box, trunk, crate #551
- Basque bular chest, breast #1,493
- Bengali বুক chest, thorax, breast, bosom #918
- Bosnian grudi thorax, chest, breast, bosom #1,450
- Chinese 胸部 chest; thorax #1,187
- Croatian kutija box, chest #1,853
- Danish bringe #1,129
- Dutch kist a box, chest #2,318
- Esperanto keston box, chest #2,044
- Estonian kast box, chest, crate #2,074
- French coffre chest, box #1,691
- German kiste chest, box #2,237
- Greek στήθος chest, thorax #1,474
- Hebrew חזה chest, thorax #1,892
- Indonesian dada chest, thorax #1,918
- Italian petto #2,432
- Korean 가슴 chest, breast #752
- Lithuanian krūtinės #1,523
- Macedonian гради #1,306
- Malay peti box, chest, case #909
- Malayalam നെഞ്ച് #1,786
- Norwegian bringe #1,874
- Persian سینه #1,717
- Portuguese peito #1,741
- Romanian piept chest; breast; bosom #1,706
- Russian грудь #2,253
- Serbian grudi thorax, chest, breast, bosom #1,472
- Slovak hrudi #1,821
- Tagalog dibdib #1,380
- Tamil பெட்டி chest, trunk, box, case #746
- Telugu ఛాతీ #971
- Turkish göğüs #1,840
- Ukrainian груди thorax, chest, breast, bosom #1,538
- Urdu بکس box, chest #1,768
- Vietnamese ngực #1,154
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.