How to say “foot” in 43 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.
- pie/ˈpje/ Spanish
- 英尺/iŋ⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰɻ̩²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ Chinese
- 발[pa̠ɭ] Korean
- पैर/pɛːɾ/ Hindi
- רגל/riɡl/ Hebrew
- ոտքի/votˈkʰi/ Armenian
“foot” in Spanish: pie · French: pieds · German: fuß · Italian: piedi · Portuguese: pé · Chinese: 英尺 · Korean: 발 · Hindi: पैर
It is commonest in Telugu, where అడుగుల is the 302nd most used word.
Foot in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans voete/ˈfutə/ #703
- Arabic رجل/ra.d͡ʒi.la/ to go on foot, to walk #69
- Armenian ոտքի/votˈkʰi/ #316
- Basque zutik/s̻utik/ standing, on foot, erect #540
- Bengali ফুট/pʰuʈ/ #760
- Bosnian stopala/ˈstopɐlɐ/ #1,816
- Catalan peus[ˈpɛws] foot, a part of the body #861
- Chinese 英尺/iŋ⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰɻ̩²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ #802
- Croatian stopala/ˈstopɐlɐ/ #1,998
- Danish fod[ˈfoˀð] #1,326
- Dutch voeten/ˈvu.tə(n)/ #1,213
- English shoes/ʃʲuz/ A protective covering for the foot, with a… #1,099
- Esperanto piedoj/piˈedoɪ/ #1,063
- Estonian jalga/ˈjɑlɡ̊ɑ/ foot, leg #578
- Finnish jalat/ˈjalat/ foot, leg; a lower supporting limb of a human… #2,366
- French pieds/pje/ #853
- Galician pé/ˈpɛ/ foot, part of the body #485
- Georgian ფეხით[pʰe̞χitʰ] on foot #975
- German fuß/fuːs/ #1,200
- Hebrew רגל/riɡl/ foot, leg #934
- Hindi पैर/pɛːɾ/ #666
- Icelandic fætur/ˈfaiːtʏr/ #574
- Indonesian kaki/ˈkaki/ #425
- Italian piedi/ˈpjɛ.di/ #560
- Korean 발[pa̠ɭ] #587
- Latvian kājas/ˈkaːjas/ leg, foot #706
- Lithuanian pėstininkas[¹ˈpʲeːsʲtʲɪnʲɪŋkɐs] infantryman, foot soldier #2,199
- Malay kaki/ˈkaki/ foot, leg #308
- Malayalam പാദം/paːd̪ɐm/ #1,948
- Norwegian føttene/ˈfœtn̩ə/ a foot #1,859
- Persian فوت[fowt̪ʰ] #1,057
- Polish stóp/ˈstup/ #2,245
- Portuguese pé/ˈpɛ/ foot, part of the human body #637
- Serbian stopala/ˈstopɐlɐ/ #1,791
- Slovenian stopalo/stɔpàːlɔ/ #1,377
- Spanish pie/ˈpje/ #729
- Swedish fot/fuːt/ a foot #1,705
- Tagalog paa/paˈʔa/ #711
- Tamil அடி/ɐɖiː/ #455
- Telugu అడుగుల/ˈaɖuˌɡula/ #302
- Turkish ayak/aˈjak/ #826
- Urdu فٹ/fʊʈ/ #441
- Vietnamese bộ[ʔɓo˧˨ʔ] on foot #243
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).
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Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.