How to say “door” in 45 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.
- puerta/ˈpweɾta/ Spanish
- дверь[dvʲerʲ] Russian
- 문[mun] Korean
- द्वार/d̪ʋɑːɾ/ Hindi
- πόρτα/ˈpor.ta/ Greek
- דלת/dalt/ Hebrew
“door” in Spanish: puerta · French: portes · German: tür · Portuguese: porta · Korean: 문 · Russian: дверь · Hindi: द्वार · Turkish: kapıyı
It is commonest in Telugu, where తలుపు is the 161st most used word.
Door in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans voordeur/ˈfʊə̯r.dɪør/ front door #1,468
- Albanian derën/dɛɾən/ #439
- Arabic بوب/baw.wa.ba/ to put a door #452
- Basque ate/ate/ door, entrance #438
- Bengali দরজা/d̪ɔɾd͡ʒa/ #257
- Bulgarian врата[vrɐˈta] door, gate, gates #582
- Chinese 隔壁/kɤ³⁵ pi⁵¹/ next door #1,076
- Czech dveře[ˈdvɛr̝ɛ] #488
- Danish døren/ˈdœːˀʌn/ #441
- Dutch deur/døːr/ #421
- Esperanto pordon/ˈpordon/ door, gate #404
- Estonian uks/uks/ #553
- Finnish ovi/ˈoʋi/ #672
- French portes/pɔʁt/ #1,171
- Galician porta/ˈpɔɾta/ #320
- Georgian კარი[kʼäɾi] #733
- German tür/tyːr/ #396
- Greek πόρτα/ˈpor.ta/ #358
- Hebrew דלת/dalt/ #890
- Hindi द्वार/d̪ʋɑːɾ/ #1,769
- Hungarian ajtót[ˈɒjtoːt] #648
- Icelandic dyr[ˈtɪːr] a door, a doorway #962
- Indonesian pintu/ˈpintu/ #329
- Korean 문[mun] #261
- Latvian durvis/ˈdurʋis/ #369
- Lithuanian durys[ˈdʊrʲiːs] #542
- Macedonian врата[ˈvrata] #482
- Malay pintu/ˈpintu/ #255
- Malayalam വാതിൽ/ʋaːd̪il/ door; A portal of entry into a building or… #351
- Norwegian døra/ˈdøːrɑ/ a door #684
- Persian درها[d̪æɹ.hɒː] #1,947
- Polish drzwi/ˈdʐvi/ #365
- Portuguese porta/ˈpɔʁ.tɐ/ #324
- Russian дверь[dvʲerʲ] #439
- Slovak dvere/ˈdvɛrɛ/ #254
- Slovenian vrata/ʋràːta/ #188
- Spanish puerta/ˈpweɾta/ #320
- Swedish dörren/ˈdœrɛn/ a door #455
- Tagalog pinto/pinˈtoʔ/ #229
- Tamil கதவு/kɐd̪ɐʋɯ/ door, gate #328
- Telugu తలుపు/t̪alupu/ #161
- Turkish kapıyı/kapɯˈjɯ/ #484
- Ukrainian двері[ˈdʋɛrʲi] door, doors #368
- Urdu دروازہ/d̪əɾ.ʋɑː.zɑ(ː)/ #464
- Vietnamese cửa[kɨə˧˩] door or window #298
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), 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).
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