How to say “flower” 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.
- flores/ˈfloɾes/ Spanish
- زهرة/zah.ra/ Arabic
- 꽃[k͈o̞t̚] Korean
- फूल/pʰuːl/ Hindi
- λουλούδια/luˈluðja/ Greek
- פרח/ˈpeʁaχ/ Hebrew
“flower” in Spanish: flores · French: fleurs · German: blumen · Portuguese: flores · Korean: 꽃 · Arabic: زهرة · Hindi: फूल · Turkish: çiçek
It is commonest in Afrikaans, where blomme is the 410th most used word.
Flower in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans blomme/ˈblɔmə/ #410
- Albanian lule[ˈlulɛ] #1,084
- Arabic زهرة/zah.ra/ flower, blossom #2,091
- Armenian ծաղիկ/t͡sɑˈʁik/ #655
- Basque lore/loɾe/ #705
- Bengali ফুল/pʰul/ #635
- Catalan flors[ˈflɔs] #1,589
- Danish blomster/ˈblʌmˀsdɐ/ #1,662
- Dutch bloemen/ˈblu.mə(n)/ flower, bloom of flowering plant #1,502
- Esperanto floroj/ˈfloroi̯/ #1,064
- Estonian lilled/ˈlilːed̥/ #1,537
- French fleurs/flœʁ/ flower; bloom; blossom; collectively, the… #1,334
- Galician flores/ˈfloɾes/ #985
- German blumen/ˈblʊmən/ flower, blossom of an angiosperm #1,543
- Greek λουλούδια/luˈluðja/ #1,333
- Hebrew פרח/ˈpeʁaχ/ #2,370
- Hindi फूल/pʰuːl/ #1,326
- Indonesian berkembang/bərkəmˈbaŋ/ to flower, to bloom #1,700
- Korean 꽃[k͈o̞t̚] flower; flowering plant #976
- Latvian puķes/ˈpuces/ #2,044
- Lithuanian gėlių[ɡʲeː²ˈlʲu̟ː] #1,320
- Macedonian цвеќе[ˈt͡svɛcɛ] #2,099
- Malay bunga/ˈbuŋa/ #622
- Malayalam പൂ/puː/ #1,004
- Persian گل[ɡ̥ol̥] #608
- Polish kwiaty/ˈkfja.tɘ/ #2,021
- Portuguese flores/ˈflo.ɾis/ #1,487
- Romanian flori[ florʲ ] #1,480
- Slovak kvety/kveti/ #878
- Slovenian cvet/t͡sʋéːt/ #1,484
- Spanish flores/ˈfloɾes/ #1,313
- Swedish blommor/ˈblɔmuːr/ a flower #1,827
- Tagalog bulaklak/bulakˈlak/ #841
- Tamil பூம்/puːm/ #1,114
- Turkish çiçek/t͡ʃiˈt͡ʃec/ #1,346
- Urdu پھول/pʰuːl/ #1,409
- Vietnamese hoa[hwaː˧˧] flower; flowering plant #578
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.