How to say “fly” in 44 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.
- vuelo/ˈbwelo/ Spanish
- 파리[ˈpʰa̠(ː)ɾi] Korean
- उड़ा/ʊ.ɽɑː/ Hindi
- πέταξε/ˈpetakˌse/ Greek
- טס/tas/ Hebrew
- ბუზი[b̥uzi] Georgian
“fly” in Spanish: vuelo · German: fliegen · Italian: volo · Portuguese: voar · Korean: 파리 · Hindi: उड़ा · Greek: πέταξε
It is commonest in Malay, where terbang is the 332nd most used word.
Fly in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans vlieg/fliχ/ #504
- Albanian fluturoj/flutuɾɔj/ to fly #1,833
- Armenian թռչող/tʰərˈt͡ʃʰoʁ/ to fly #1,438
- Basque euli/eu̯li/ #1,590
- Bengali মাছি/mat͡ʃʰi/ #1,910
- Catalan volar[buˈla] to fly #1,398
- Chinese 航行/xɑŋ³⁵ ɕiŋ³⁵/ to sail or fly; to navigate; to cruise #1,916
- Croatian letjeti/lětjeti/ to fly #1,909
- Czech letí[ˈlɛciː] to fly #2,234
- Danish flyve/flyːvə/ to fly #1,022
- Dutch vliegen/ˈvli.ɣə(n)/ a fly #948
- Esperanto flugi/ˈfluɡi/ to fly #522
- Estonian lennata/ˈlenːɑtɑ/ to fly #1,107
- Finnish lentää/ˈlentæːˣ/ to fly #1,581
- French volé/vɔ.le/ to fly through the air #837
- Galician voar/boˈaɾ/ to fly #1,667
- Georgian ბუზი[b̥uzi] #1,071
- German fliegen/ˈfliːɡn̩/ to fly; to travel by air #865
- Greek πέταξε/ˈpetakˌse/ to fly #1,732
- Hebrew טס/tas/ to fly #1,294
- Hindi उड़ा/ʊ.ɽɑː/ to fly, soar, glide #848
- Hungarian legyek[ˈlɛɟɛk] #815
- Icelandic fljúga[ˈfljuː(ɣ)a] to fly #662
- Indonesian terbang/tərˈbaŋ/ to fly #525
- Italian volo/ˈvo.lo/ to fly #1,197
- Korean 파리[ˈpʰa̠(ː)ɾi] #1,030
- Latvian lido/ˈliduo/ to fly #970
- Lithuanian skristi[ˈsʲkʲɾʲɪsʲtʲɪ] to fly #960
- Macedonian лета[ˈlɛta] to fly #1,482
- Malay terbang/ˈtə(r)baŋ/ to fly #332
- Norwegian flyr/ˈflyːr/ to fly #1,299
- Polish leci/ˈlɛ.t͡ɕi/ to fly #989
- Portuguese voar/voˈa(ʁ)/ to fly #1,461
- Romanian zbura/zbuˈra/ to fly #2,134
- Slovak lietať/ʎɪ̯etac/ to fly #1,074
- Slovenian leteti/lɛtèːti/ to fly #966
- Spanish vuelo/ˈbwelo/ to fly, to fly away #1,271
- Swedish flyga/ˈflyːˌɡa/ to fly #1,155
- Tagalog lumipad/lumiˈpad/ to fly #1,619
- Tamil ஈ/iː/ fly, housefly #1,000
- Telugu ఈగ/iːɡa/ #1,680
- Turkish anında/anɯnˈda/ on the fly #2,042
- Urdu مکھی/mək.kʰiː/ #1,072
- Vietnamese ruồi[zuəj˨˩] #2,092
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.