How to say “escape” in 34 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 Persian, where فرار is the 193rd most used word.
- Afrikaans vlug flight, escape #529
- Arabic بد escape, means of avoiding something #299
- Armenian փախչել to run away, to escape, to flee #654
- Basque ihes flight, escape #217
- Bengali বাঁচাও rescue, escape #546
- Bulgarian избягам to run away, to escape #2,314
- Catalan escapar to escape #980
- Chinese 逃出 to break out; to escape; to evade #2,005
- Croatian bijeg #2,076
- Danish undgå to avoid, evade, escape #1,140
- Dutch ontsnappen to escape #1,294
- Esperanto eskapi to escape #2,467
- Estonian põgenema to flee, to escape, to abscond #1,677
- Finnish karkuun flight, escape #2,117
- French échapper to escape, evade #1,674
- Galician escapar to escape; to get away; to get out #1,542
- German entkommen escape, getaway #1,591
- Hebrew נמלט to flee, escape; be a fugitive #1,990
- Hindi छूट escape, deliverance, letting go #1,729
- Icelandic sleppa to escape, get away #486
- Italian fuga flight, escape #1,952
- Korean 도망 escape, decampment #1,286
- Macedonian бегство escape, flight #1,444
- Norwegian slipp to escape, be let off, to avoid, to not have… #392
- Persian فرار #193
- Portuguese escapar to escape #1,612
- Slovak utiecť to escape #736
- Slovenian zbežati to escape, to get free #1,198
- Spanish escapar to escape, get out #1,347
- Tagalog tumakas to escape #609
- Tamil தப்பி to escape #1,041
- Turkish kaçmak to run away, to escape #1,824
- Urdu چھوٹ escape, deliverance, letting go #1,521
- Vietnamese thoát to escape, to exit #517
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.