How to say “drink” in 51 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.
- bebé/beˈbe/ Spanish
- выпить[ˈvɨpʲɪtʲ] Russian
- شراب/ʃa.raːb/ Arabic
- पी/piː/ Hindi
- משקה/maʃˈke/ Hebrew
- სმა[smä] Georgian
“drink” in Spanish: bebé · French: boire · Italian: bere · Portuguese: beber · Russian: выпить · Arabic: شراب · Hindi: पी
It is commonest in Georgian, where სმა is the 102nd most used word.
Drink in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans drink/ˈdrəŋk/ to drink #203
- Albanian pije/pijɛ/ #494
- Arabic شراب/ʃa.raːb/ drink, beverage #669
- Armenian խմել/χəˈmel/ to drink #428
- Basque edan/edan/ #286
- Bosnian piće/pǐːt͡ɕe/ drink, beverage #618
- Bulgarian питие[pitiˈɛ] beverage, drink #1,126
- Catalan beure[ˈbɛw.ɾə] to drink #779
- Chinese 喝酒/xɤ⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯oʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ to drink alcohol #343
- Croatian piće/pǐːt͡ɕe/ drink, beverage #585
- Czech pití[ˈpɪciː] to drink #979
- Danish drikke[ˈd̥ʁɛɡ̊ə] a drink, beverage #675
- Dutch drinken/ˈdrɪŋkə(n)/ to drink, consume a liquid #538
- English beer/ˈbɪɚ/ An alcoholic drink fermented from starch… #1,065
- Esperanto trinku/ˈtrinku/ to drink #906
- Estonian juua/juːɑ̯/ to drink #741
- Finnish juo/ˈjuo̯/ to drink #1,275
- French boire/bwaʁ/ to drink #660
- Galician beber[beˈβeɾ] to drink #828
- Georgian სმა[smä] to drink #102
- German trinken/ˈtʁɪŋkən/ to drink by mouth #575
- Greek ποτό/poˈto/ beverage, drink #624
- Hebrew משקה/maʃˈke/ #865
- Hindi पी/piː/ to drink #290
- Hungarian inni[ˈinːi] to drink #1,565
- Icelandic drekka[ˈtrɛhka] to drink #457
- Indonesian minum/ˈminum/ to drink #305
- Italian bere/ˈbe.re/ to drink #641
- Korean 한잔[ha̠ɲd͡ʑa̠n] one drink; one glass #500
- Latvian iedzert/ˈiedzært/ to drink, to have a drink #1,093
- Lithuanian išgerti/ɪʒʲˈɡʲæ̂ːrʲ.tʲɪ/ to drink up, drink dry, drink full entirety… #594
- Macedonian пијалок[ˈpi(j)aɫɔk] drink, beverage #974
- Malay minum/ˈminom/ to drink #300
- Malayalam ഡ്രിങ്ക്/ɖriŋkɨ̆/ #726
- Norwegian drikke/ˈdrɪkə/ #667
- Persian آشام[ʔɒː.ʃɒ́ːm] #872
- Polish pić/ˈpit͡ɕ/ to drink #1,819
- Portuguese beber/beˈbe(ʁ)/ to drink #624
- Romanian bea/be̯a/ to drink #819
- Russian выпить[ˈvɨpʲɪtʲ] to drink, to drink up #907
- Serbian piće/pǐːt͡ɕe/ drink, beverage #568
- Slovak piť/pic/ to drink #748
- Slovenian piti/pìːti/ to drink #724
- Spanish bebé/beˈbe/ to drink #477
- Swedish dricka/²drɪkːa/ to drink #733
- Tagalog uminom/ʔumiˈnom/ to drink; to have a drink #640
- Tamil பானம்/bɑːnɐm/ #543
- Turkish içki/it͡ʃˈci/ alcoholic beverage, drink #653
- Ukrainian пити[ˈpɪte] to drink #809
- Urdu پینا/piː.nɑː/ to drink #522
- Vietnamese uống[ʔuəŋ˧˦] to drink #371
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 Catalan (upc_ona (ca_ES), 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).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.