How to say “flower” 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 Afrikaans, where blomme is the 410th most used word.
- Afrikaans blomme #410
- Albanian lule #1,084
- Arabic زهرة flower, blossom #2,091
- Armenian ծաղիկ #655
- Basque lore #705
- Bengali ফুল #635
- Catalan flors #1,589
- Danish blomster #1,662
- Dutch bloemen flower, bloom of flowering plant #1,502
- Esperanto floroj #1,064
- Estonian lilled #1,537
- French fleurs flower; bloom; blossom; collectively, the… #1,334
- Galician flores #985
- German blumen flower, blossom of an angiosperm #1,543
- Greek λουλούδια #1,333
- Hebrew פרח #2,370
- Hindi फूल #1,326
- Indonesian berkembang to flower, to bloom #1,700
- Korean 꽃 flower; flowering plant #976
- Latvian puķes #2,044
- Lithuanian gėlių #1,320
- Macedonian цвеќе #2,099
- Malay bunga #622
- Malayalam പൂ #1,004
- Persian گل #608
- Polish kwiaty #2,021
- Portuguese flores #1,487
- Romanian flori #1,480
- Slovak kvety #878
- Slovenian cvet #1,484
- Spanish flores #1,313
- Swedish blommor a flower #1,827
- Tagalog bulaklak #841
- Tamil பூம் #1,114
- Turkish çiçek #1,346
- Urdu پھول #1,409
- Vietnamese hoa flower; flowering plant #578
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.