How to say “danger” 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.
- peligro/peˈliɡɾo/ Spanish
- خطر/xatˤar/ Arabic
- κίνδυνο/ˈcin.ði.no/ Greek
- বিপদ/bipɔd̪/ Bengali
- ஆபத்து/ɑːbɐt̪ːɯ/ Tamil
- ముప్పు/ˈmuppu/ Telugu
“danger” in Spanish: peligro · German: gefahr · Portuguese: perigo · Arabic: خطر · Turkish: tehlike · Greek: κίνδυνο
It is commonest in Icelandic, where hætta is the 241st most used word.
Danger in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans gevaar/χəˈfɑːr/ danger, peril #420
- Albanian rrezik/rɛzik/ #569
- Arabic خطر/xatˤar/ danger, risk, hazard, peril, calamity,… #434
- Basque arrisku/aris̺ku/ #767
- Bengali বিপদ/bipɔd̪/ #636
- Bosnian opasnost/opǎːsnoːst/ #1,442
- Bulgarian опасност[oˈpasnost] danger, peril #934
- Catalan perill[pəˈɾiʎ] #572
- Croatian opasnost/opǎːsnoːst/ #1,515
- Czech nebezpečí[ˈnɛbɛspɛt͡ʃiː] #1,145
- Danish fare/ˈfaːrə/ danger, hazard #801
- Dutch gevaar/ɣəˈvaːr/ danger, peril #788
- English safe/ˈseɪ̯f/ Not in danger; out of harm's reach #560
- Esperanto danĝero/danˈd͡ʒero/ #702
- Estonian ohus/ˈohus/ danger, hazard #1,069
- Finnish vaarassa/ˈvaːrassa/ danger, risk, peril, hazard, jeopardy #1,648
- Galician perigo/peˈɾiko/ #822
- German gefahr/ɡəˈfaːɐ̯/ danger, hazard, peril, risk #960
- Greek κίνδυνο/ˈcin.ði.no/ #1,124
- Hebrew אבטחה/av.taˈχa/ The act of protecting from danger;… #1,068
- Hungarian veszélyben[ˈvɛseːjbɛn] #1,900
- Icelandic hætta[ˈhaihta] #241
- Indonesian bahaya/baˈhaja/ #738
- Italian pericolo/peˈri.ko.lo/ peril, danger #1,073
- Korean 위해[ˈɥi(ː)ɦɛ] harm; danger #83
- Latvian briesmas[ˈbɾīɛ̄smas] #1,375
- Lithuanian pavojus[pɐ²ˈʋoːjʊ̟s] #765
- Macedonian опасност[ˈɔpasnɔst] danger, peril #633
- Malay bahaya/baˈhaja/ #532
- Norwegian fare/ˈfɑːrə/ #624
- Persian خطر[xæ.t̪ʰǽɹ] #433
- Portuguese perigo/peˈɾi.ɡu/ #993
- Romanian pericol/peˈri.kol/ danger, hazard #856
- Serbian opasnost/opǎːsnoːst/ #1,468
- Spanish peligro/peˈliɡɾo/ danger, peril #949
- Tagalog ligtas/liɡˈtas/ safe; free from danger #346
- Tamil ஆபத்து/ɑːbɐt̪ːɯ/ danger, threat, hazard #541
- Telugu ముప్పు/ˈmuppu/ #1,292
- Turkish tehlike/teh.liˈce/ #1,582
- Urdu خطرہ/xət̪.ɾɑ(ː)/ risk, danger #475
- Vietnamese nạn[naːn˧˨ʔ] accident, danger, calamity, disaster,… #543
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) 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.