How to say “glass” in 42 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.
- كوب/kuːb/ Arabic
- 玻璃/pu̯ɔ⁵⁵ li²/ Chinese
- ποτήρι/poˈtiri/ Greek
- ჭიქა[t͡ʃʼikʰä] Georgian
- গ্লাস/ɡlas/ Bengali
- கண்ணாடி/kɐɳːɑːɖiː/ Tamil
“glass” in French: verre · German: glas · Italian: bicchiere · Portuguese: copo · Chinese: 玻璃 · Arabic: كوب · Turkish: bardak · Greek: ποτήρι
It is commonest in Tamil, where கண்ணாடி is the 438th most used word.
Glass in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans glas/χlas/ #697
- Albanian gotë/ˈɡotə/ #1,265
- Arabic كوب/kuːb/ glass, cup #1,087
- Basque harri/hari/ #683
- Bengali গ্লাস/ɡlas/ glass, tumbler #948
- Bulgarian чаша[ˈt͡ʃa̟ʃɐ] #1,093
- Chinese 玻璃/pu̯ɔ⁵⁵ li²/ #894
- Danish glas/ˈɡlas/ #1,102
- Dutch glas/ɣlɑs/ #1,257
- Esperanto glason/ˈɡlason/ drinking glass #1,359
- Estonian klaas/klɑːs/ #1,738
- French verre/vɛʁ/ #598
- Galician vaso/ˈbaso/ drinking glass #1,758
- Georgian ჭიქა[t͡ʃʼikʰä] glass, cup, mug #1,440
- German glas/ɡlaːs/ #1,337
- Greek ποτήρι/poˈtiri/ #1,636
- Hebrew כוסית/koˈsit/ A shot glass, a cup, a glass especially small #1,351
- Hungarian üveg[ˈyvɛɡ] #1,855
- Icelandic glas[ˈklaːs] #766
- Indonesian kaca/ˈkat͡ʃa/ #1,533
- Italian bicchiere/bikˈkjɛ.re/ glass, cup, tumbler #1,883
- Korean 한잔[ha̠ɲd͡ʑa̠n] one drink; one glass #500
- Latvian glāzi/ˈɡlaːzi/ #1,781
- Lithuanian stiklą[ˈsʲtʲɪklɑː] #2,415
- Macedonian чаша[ˈt͡ʃaʃa] #1,434
- Malay kaca/ˈkat͡ʃa/ #1,197
- Malayalam ഗ്ലാസ്/ɡɭaːsɨ/ #523
- Norwegian glass/ɡlɑsː/ a glass #1,157
- Persian شیشه[ʃiː.ʃe] #2,037
- Portuguese copo/ˈkɔ.pu/ #1,343
- Romanian pahar/paˈhar/ #1,301
- Slovak pohár/pɔɦaːr/ #880
- Slovenian kozarec/kɔzáːrət͡s/ #685
- Spanish copa/ˈkopa/ stemmed glass, glass, goblet or its content #1,423
- Swedish glas/ɡlɑːs/ #1,055
- Tagalog baso/ˈbaso/ drinking glass #850
- Tamil கண்ணாடி/kɐɳːɑːɖiː/ #438
- Telugu గాజు/ɡaːd͡ʑu/ #567
- Turkish bardak[bɑɾˈdɑk] #1,543
- Ukrainian дзеркало[ˈd͡zɛrkɐɫɔ] mirror, looking glass #2,410
- Urdu کپ/kəp/ cup, glass #1,344
- Vietnamese kính[kïŋ˧˦] glass that comes in thinnish, flattish… #857
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), 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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