How to say “foot” in 43 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 Arabic, where رجل is the 69th most used word.
- Afrikaans voete #703
- Arabic رجل to go on foot, to walk #69
- Armenian ոտքի #316
- Basque zutik standing, on foot, erect #540
- Bengali ফুট #760
- Bosnian stopala #1,816
- Catalan peus foot, a part of the body #861
- Chinese 英尺 #802
- Croatian stopala #1,998
- Danish fod #1,326
- Dutch voeten #1,213
- English shoes A protective covering for the foot, with a… #1,099
- Esperanto piedoj #1,063
- Estonian jalga foot, leg #578
- Finnish jalat foot, leg; a lower supporting limb of a human… #2,366
- French pieds #853
- Galician pé foot, part of the body #485
- Georgian ფეხით on foot #975
- German fuß #1,200
- Hebrew רגל foot, leg #934
- Hindi पैर #666
- Icelandic fætur #574
- Indonesian kaki #425
- Italian piedi #560
- Korean 발 #587
- Latvian kājas leg, foot #706
- Lithuanian pėstininkas infantryman, foot soldier #2,199
- Malay kaki foot, leg #308
- Malayalam പാദം #1,948
- Norwegian føttene a foot #1,859
- Persian فوت #1,057
- Polish stóp #2,245
- Portuguese pé foot, part of the human body #637
- Serbian stopala #1,791
- Slovenian stopalo #1,377
- Spanish pie #729
- Swedish fot a foot #1,705
- Tagalog paa #711
- Tamil அடி #455
- Telugu అడుగుల #302
- Turkish ayak #826
- Urdu فٹ #441
- Vietnamese bộ on foot #243
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.