How to say “glass” in 42 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 Tamil, where கண்ணாடி is the 438th most used word.
- Afrikaans glas #697
- Albanian gotë #1,265
- Arabic كوب glass, cup #1,087
- Basque harri #683
- Bengali গ্লাস glass, tumbler #948
- Bulgarian чаша #1,093
- Chinese 玻璃 #894
- Danish glas #1,102
- Dutch glas #1,257
- Esperanto glason drinking glass #1,359
- Estonian klaas #1,738
- French verre #598
- Galician vaso drinking glass #1,758
- Georgian ჭიქა glass, cup, mug #1,440
- German glas #1,337
- Greek ποτήρι #1,636
- Hebrew כוסית A shot glass, a cup, a glass especially small #1,351
- Hungarian üveg #1,855
- Icelandic glas #766
- Indonesian kaca #1,533
- Italian bicchiere glass, cup, tumbler #1,883
- Korean 한잔 one drink; one glass #500
- Latvian glāzi #1,781
- Lithuanian stiklą #2,415
- Macedonian чаша #1,434
- Malay kaca #1,197
- Malayalam ഗ്ലാസ് #523
- Norwegian glass a glass #1,157
- Persian شیشه #2,037
- Portuguese copo #1,343
- Romanian pahar #1,301
- Slovak pohár #880
- Slovenian kozarec #685
- Spanish copa stemmed glass, glass, goblet or its content #1,423
- Swedish glas #1,055
- Tagalog baso drinking glass #850
- Tamil கண்ணாடி #438
- Telugu గాజు #567
- Turkish bardak #1,543
- Ukrainian дзеркало mirror, looking glass #2,410
- Urdu کپ cup, glass #1,344
- Vietnamese kính glass that comes in thinnish, flattish… #857
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.