How to say “fly” in 44 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 Malay, where terbang is the 332nd most used word.
- Afrikaans vlieg #504
- Albanian fluturoj to fly #1,833
- Armenian թռչող to fly #1,438
- Basque euli #1,590
- Bengali মাছি #1,910
- Catalan volar to fly #1,398
- Chinese 航行 to sail or fly; to navigate; to cruise #1,916
- Croatian letjeti to fly #1,909
- Czech letí to fly #2,234
- Danish flyve to fly #1,022
- Dutch vliegen a fly #948
- Esperanto flugi to fly #522
- Estonian lennata to fly #1,107
- Finnish lentää to fly #1,581
- French volé to fly through the air #837
- Galician voar to fly #1,667
- Georgian ბუზი #1,071
- German fliegen to fly; to travel by air #865
- Greek πέταξε to fly #1,732
- Hebrew טס to fly #1,294
- Hindi उड़ा to fly, soar, glide #848
- Hungarian legyek #815
- Icelandic fljúga to fly #662
- Indonesian terbang to fly #525
- Italian volo to fly #1,197
- Korean 파리 #1,030
- Latvian lido to fly #970
- Lithuanian skristi to fly #960
- Macedonian лета to fly #1,482
- Malay terbang to fly #332
- Norwegian flyr to fly #1,299
- Polish leci to fly #989
- Portuguese voar to fly #1,461
- Romanian zbura to fly #2,134
- Slovak lietať to fly #1,074
- Slovenian leteti to fly #966
- Spanish vuelo to fly, to fly away #1,271
- Swedish flyga to fly #1,155
- Tagalog lumipad to fly #1,619
- Tamil ஈ fly, housefly #1,000
- Telugu ఈగ #1,680
- Turkish anında on the fly #2,042
- Urdu مکھی #1,072
- Vietnamese ruồi #2,092
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.