How to say “egg” in 37 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.
- 蛋蛋/tän⁵¹⁻⁵³ tän⁵¹/ Chinese
- 알[a̠ɭ] Korean
- ביצה/beːˈsˤɔː/ Hebrew
- ডিম/ɖim/ Bengali
- முட்டை/mʊʈːɐɪ̯/ Tamil
- മുട്ട/muʈʈɐ/ Malayalam
“egg” in German: eis · Portuguese: ovos · Chinese: 蛋蛋 · Korean: 알 · Turkish: yumurta
It is commonest in Korean, where 알 is the 201st most used word.
Egg in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans eiers/ˈɛiərs/ #884
- Albanian ve/vɛ/ #1,297
- Basque arrautza/arau̯t͡s̻a/ #876
- Bengali ডিম/ɖim/ #620
- Bosnian jaja/ˈjɑjɐ/ #914
- Catalan ous[ˈɔws] #1,151
- Chinese 蛋蛋/tän⁵¹⁻⁵³ tän⁵¹/ #1,896
- Croatian jaja/ˈjɑjɐ/ #991
- Czech vejce[ˈvɛjt͡sɛ] #2,023
- Danish æg/ɛːˀɡ/ #1,479
- Dutch eieren/ˈɛi̯.(j)ə.rə(n)/ #1,994
- Esperanto ovojn/ˈovoi̯n/ #1,560
- Estonian muna/ˈmunɑ/ #1,446
- Galician ovos/ˈɔβʊs/ #1,890
- German eis/aɪ̯s/ #1,417
- Hebrew ביצה/beːˈsˤɔː/ #2,192
- Hindi ब्रह्मांड/bɾəɦ.mɑːɳɖ/ the universe; "cosmic egg" #2,148
- Icelandic egg[ˈɛk(ː)] an egg #1,044
- Indonesian telur/təˈlur/ #1,310
- Korean 알[a̠ɭ] egg, roe #201
- Latvian olas/ˈuolas/ #1,673
- Lithuanian kiaušinių[kʲɛʊˈʃʲɪnʲu̟ː] #1,857
- Malay telur/təˈlur/ edible egg, of a bird, especially chicken,… #958
- Malayalam മുട്ട/muʈʈɐ/ egg; An oval or round structure produced by… #741
- Norwegian egg/ɛɡ/ an egg #1,616
- Polish jaja/ˈja.ja/ #1,417
- Portuguese ovos/ˈɔ.vus/ #1,917
- Romanian ouă/ˈo.wə/ #1,916
- Serbian jaja/ˈjɑjɐ/ #927
- Slovak vajce/vajt͡se/ #1,435
- Slovenian jajce/jàːjt͡sɛ/ #1,001
- Swedish ägg/ɛɡː/ an egg #1,683
- Tagalog itlog/ʔitˈloɡ/ #488
- Tamil முட்டை/mʊʈːɐɪ̯/ #650
- Telugu గుడ్లు/ˈɡuɖlu/ an egg #818
- Turkish yumurta/jumuɾˈtɑ/ #1,535
- Vietnamese trứng[t͡ɕɨŋ˧˦] #1,327
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).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.