How to say “egg” 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 Korean, where 알 is the 201st most used word.
- Afrikaans eiers #884
- Albanian ve #1,297
- Basque arrautza #876
- Bengali ডিম #620
- Bosnian jaja #914
- Catalan ous #1,151
- Chinese 蛋蛋 #1,896
- Croatian jaja #991
- Czech vejce #2,023
- Danish æg #1,479
- Dutch eieren #1,994
- Esperanto ovojn #1,560
- Estonian muna #1,446
- Galician ovos #1,890
- German eis #1,417
- Hebrew ביצה #2,192
- Hindi ब्रह्मांड the universe; "cosmic egg" #2,148
- Icelandic egg an egg #1,044
- Indonesian telur #1,310
- Korean 알 egg, roe #201
- Latvian olas #1,673
- Lithuanian kiaušinių #1,857
- Malay telur edible egg, of a bird, especially chicken,… #958
- Malayalam മുട്ട egg; An oval or round structure produced by… #741
- Norwegian egg an egg #1,616
- Polish jaja #1,417
- Portuguese ovos #1,917
- Romanian ouă #1,916
- Serbian jaja #927
- Slovak vajce #1,435
- Slovenian jajce #1,001
- Swedish ägg an egg #1,683
- Tagalog itlog #488
- Tamil முட்டை #650
- Telugu గుడ్లు an egg #818
- Turkish yumurta #1,535
- Vietnamese trứng #1,327
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.