How to say “earth” in 48 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.
- земля[zʲɪˈmlʲa] Russian
- أرض/ʔardˤ/ Arabic
- भूमि/bʱuː.miː/ Hindi
- հող/hoʁ/ Armenian
- পৃথিবী/pɾit̪ʰibi/ Bengali
- ഭൂമി/b(ʱ)uːmi/ Malayalam
“earth” in French: terre · German: erde · Russian: земля · Arabic: أرض · Hindi: भूमि · Turkish: toprak
It is commonest in Catalan, where terra is the 263rd most used word.
Earth in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans aarde/ˈɑːr.də/ #283
- Albanian botë/bɔtə/ #368
- Arabic أرض/ʔardˤ/ earth, land #903
- Armenian հող/hoʁ/ #1,329
- Basque lur/lur/ earth, soil #432
- Bengali পৃথিবী/pɾit̪ʰibi/ #411
- Bosnian zemlji/ˈzɛmʎɪ/ #598
- Bulgarian свят[svʲa̟t] world, earth, universe #359
- Catalan terra[ˈtɛ.rə] #263
- Chinese 何必/xɤ³⁵ pi⁵¹/ why; why on earth; why bother #1,597
- Croatian zemlji/ˈzɛmʎɪ/ #628
- Czech zemi[ˈzɛmɪ] #455
- Danish jorden/ˈjoːˀʌn/ #487
- Dutch aarde/ˈaːr.də/ earth, soil, ground #643
- English up/ʌp/ Away from the surface of the Earth or other… #52
- Estonian maa/ˈmɑː/ #485
- Finnish maailman/ˈmɑː(ˌ)ilmɑn/ the Earth, the world #512
- French terre/tɛʁ/ earth; soil #397
- Galician terra/ˈtɛra/ soil, earth #242
- German erde/ˈeːrdə/ #769
- Greek γη/ˈʝi/ world, earth #565
- Hebrew עולם/ʕoːˈlaːm/ world: Earth, globe #792
- Hindi भूमि/bʱuː.miː/ earth, soil, ground #767
- Hungarian föld[ˈføld] earth, land #938
- Icelandic land[ˈlant] land, earth, ground #573
- Indonesian tanah/ˈtanah/ earth, soil, dirt #441
- Korean 도대체[to̞dɛt͡ɕʰe̞] on earth; the hell #271
- Macedonian земја[ˈzɛmja] earth, soil #317
- Malay bumi/ˈbumi/ #452
- Malayalam ഭൂമി/b(ʱ)uːmi/ #465
- Norwegian jorden/ˈjuːrən/ earth, soil, ground #937
- Persian زمین[zæ.míːn] #507
- Polish ziemi/ˈʑɛ.mi/ #600
- Portuguese chão/ˈʃɐ̃w̃/ ground, soil, earth #729
- Romanian pământ/pəˈmɨnt/ earth, ground #624
- Russian земля[zʲɪˈmlʲa] #1,810
- Serbian zemlji/ˈzɛmʎɪ/ #605
- Slovak zem/zem/ #396
- Slovenian zemlja/zɛ̀ːmlja/ earth, soil #634
- Spanish mundo/ˈmundo/ world, earth #164
- Swedish jorden/ˈjuːrdɛn/ earth, soil; a rock- or sand-based… #736
- Tagalog mundo/munˈdo/ world; the earth #92
- Tamil உலகம்/ʊlɐɡɐm/ world, earth #409
- Telugu మట్టి/maʈːi/ earth, soil, mud #753
- Turkish toprak/topˈɾak/ earth, soil #1,815
- Ukrainian земля[zemˈlʲa] #895
- Urdu مٹی/mɪʈ.ʈiː/ soil, earth #358
- Vietnamese đất[ʔɗət̚˧˦] earth; soil; dirt #345
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), Slovenian (artur (sl_SI), CC BY 4.0) and Vietnamese (vais1000 (vi_VN), CC BY 4.0).
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