How to say “escape” in 34 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.
- escapar/eskaˈpaɾ/ Spanish
- بد/budd/ Arabic
- 도망[to̞ma̠ŋ] Korean
- छूट/t͡ʃʰuːʈ/ Hindi
- தப்பி/t̪ɐpːiː/ Tamil
“escape” in Spanish: escapar · French: échapper · German: entkommen · Portuguese: escapar · Korean: 도망 · Arabic: بد · Hindi: छूट
It is commonest in Persian, where فرار is the 193rd most used word.
Escape in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans vlug/ˈflœx/ flight, escape #529
- Arabic بد/budd/ escape, means of avoiding something #299
- Armenian փախչել/pʰɑχˈt͡ʃʰel/ to run away, to escape, to flee #654
- Basque ihes/ihes̺/ flight, escape #217
- Bengali বাঁচাও/bãt͡ʃao/ rescue, escape #546
- Bulgarian избягам[izˈbʲa̟ɡɐm] to run away, to escape #2,314
- Catalan escapar[əs.kəˈpa] to escape #980
- Chinese 逃出/tʰɑʊ̯³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰu⁵⁵/ to break out; to escape; to evade #2,005
- Croatian bijeg/bjêːɡ/ #2,076
- Danish undgå[ˈɔnˌɡ̊ɔˀ] to avoid, evade, escape #1,140
- Dutch ontsnappen/ˌɔntˈsnɑ.pə(n)/ to escape #1,294
- Esperanto eskapi/esˈkapi/ to escape #2,467
- Estonian põgenema/ˈpɤɡ̊enemɑ/ to flee, to escape, to abscond #1,677
- Finnish karkuun/ˈkarkuːn/ flight, escape #2,117
- French échapper/e.ʃa.pe/ to escape, evade #1,674
- Galician escapar[eskaˈpaɾ] to escape; to get away; to get out #1,542
- German entkommen[ʔɛntˈkɔmən] escape, getaway #1,591
- Hebrew נמלט/nimˈlat/ to flee, escape; be a fugitive #1,990
- Hindi छूट/t͡ʃʰuːʈ/ escape, deliverance, letting go #1,729
- Icelandic sleppa[ˈstlɛhpa] to escape, get away #486
- Italian fuga/ˈfu.ɡa/ flight, escape #1,952
- Korean 도망[to̞ma̠ŋ] escape, decampment #1,286
- Macedonian бегство[ˈbɛkstvɔ] escape, flight #1,444
- Norwegian slipp/ˈʃlɪp/ to escape, be let off, to avoid, to not have… #392
- Persian فرار[fæ.ɹɒ́ːɹ] #193
- Portuguese escapar/is.kaˈpa(ʁ)/ to escape #1,612
- Slovak utiecť/ucɪ̯et͡sc/ to escape #736
- Slovenian zbežati/zbɛʒàːti/ to escape, to get free #1,198
- Spanish escapar/eskaˈpaɾ/ to escape, get out #1,347
- Tagalog tumakas/tuˈmakas/ to escape #609
- Tamil தப்பி/t̪ɐpːiː/ to escape #1,041
- Turkish kaçmak/kat͡ʃˈmak/ to run away, to escape #1,824
- Urdu چھوٹ/t͡ʃʰuːʈ/ escape, deliverance, letting go #1,521
- Vietnamese thoát[tʰwaːt̚˧˦] to escape, to exit #517
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.