How to say “floor” in 41 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.
- piso/ˈpiso/ Spanish
- пол[poɫ] Russian
- أرضية/ʔar.dˤij.ja/ Arabic
- 地板/ti⁵¹ pän²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ Chinese
- 바닥[pa̠da̠k̚] Korean
- հարկ/hɑɾk/ Armenian
“floor” in Spanish: piso · French: étage · Italian: pavimento · Chinese: 地板 · Korean: 바닥 · Russian: пол · Arabic: أرضية · Turkish: kat
It is commonest in Slovenian, where pod is the 155th most used word.
Floor in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans vloer/flur/ A floor #788
- Albanian lëmë/ləmə/ floor, threshing #724
- Arabic أرضية/ʔar.dˤij.ja/ #2,495
- Armenian հարկ/hɑɾk/ floor, storey #1,735
- Bengali মেঝে/med͡ʒʱe/ #2,179
- Bosnian sprat/sprât/ floor, story/storey #2,289
- Bulgarian етаж[ɛˈtaʃ] floor, storey #1,088
- Catalan pis[ˈpis] #1,090
- Chinese 地板/ti⁵¹ pän²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ #927
- Croatian kat/kât/ floor, storey #1,658
- Danish gulvet[ˈɡ̊ɔlˀvəð] #1,161
- Dutch vloer/vlur/ a floor #1,808
- English upstairs/ˌʌpˈstɛɹz/ Up the stairs; on or to a higher floor or… #1,213
- Esperanto etaĝo/eˈtad͡ʒo/ story/storey, floor #1,323
- Estonian korrus/ˈkorːus/ storey, floor #1,868
- French étage/e.taʒ/ floor, storey #1,471
- Galician chan/ˈt͡ʃaŋ/ #640
- Greek πάτωμα/ˈpatoˌma/ floor of a room, elevator etc #1,332
- Hebrew קומה/koˈma/ story, floor #1,974
- Indonesian lantai/ˈlantai̯/ #625
- Italian pavimento/pa.viˈmen.to/ #2,282
- Korean 바닥[pa̠da̠k̚] floor; bottom; a flat and usually low surface… #2,105
- Latvian grīdas/ˈɡriːdas/ floor, flooring #1,639
- Lithuanian grindys[²ˈɡrʲɪnʲˑdʲiːs] #2,267
- Macedonian спрат[sprat] floor, story/storey #2,002
- Malay tingkat/tiŋ.kat/ floor, storey #669
- Malayalam തറ/t̪ɐrɐ/ #2,183
- Norwegian gulvet/ˈɡʉlʋə/ a floor #1,305
- Persian طبقه[t̪ʰæ.bæ.ʁe] floor, story #494
- Romanian cat/kat/ #730
- Russian пол[poɫ] #855
- Serbian sprat/sprât/ floor, story/storey #2,131
- Slovak poschodie/pɔsxɔɟɪ̯e/ storey, floor #1,030
- Slovenian pod/pɔ́t/ #155
- Spanish piso/ˈpiso/ floor, ground #987
- Swedish golvet/ˈɡɔlvɛt/ a floor #1,330
- Tagalog sahig/saˈhiɡ/ #805
- Tamil தளம்/t̪ɐɭɐm/ floor, pavement #667
- Turkish kat/kat/ floor, storey, level #970
- Urdu منزل/mən.zɪl/ storey, floor #623
- Vietnamese tầng[təŋ˨˩] story; floor #920
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.