How to say “grass” in 32 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.
- घास/ɡʱɑːs/ Hindi
- ঘাস/ɡʱaʃ/ Bengali
- புல்/pʊl/ Tamil
- പുല്ല്/pulːɨ/ Malayalam
- పచ్చిక/ˈpaccika/ Telugu
- گھاس/ɡʱɑːs/ Urdu
“grass” in French: herbe · German: gras · Italian: erba · Hindi: घास · Turkish: ot
It is commonest in Telugu, where పచ్చిక is the 721st most used word.
Grass in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans gras/ˈxrɐs/ #1,390
- Albanian bar/ˈbaɾ/ #953
- Basque belar/belar/ #1,000
- Bengali ঘাস/ɡʱaʃ/ #1,447
- Bosnian travu/ˈtravʊ/ #2,407
- Bulgarian трева[trɛˈva] #1,735
- Croatian travu/ˈtravʊ/ #2,410
- English green/ˈɡɹin/ The color of grass and leaves; a primary… #1,009
- Estonian rohtu/ˈrohtu/ #1,864
- French herbe/ɛʁb/ #2,250
- German gras/ɡʁaːs/ #2,364
- Hindi घास/ɡʱɑːs/ #2,227
- Icelandic gras[ˈkraːs] #1,524
- Indonesian rumput/ˈrʊmpʊt̚/ #1,831
- Italian erba/ˈɛr.ba/ #1,916
- Latvian zāles/ˈzaːles/ #811
- Lithuanian žolės[ʒoˈlʲeːs] #1,321
- Macedonian трева[ˈtrɛva] #1,370
- Malay rumput/ˈrumput/ #1,599
- Malayalam പുല്ല്/pulːɨ/ grass; short plants with long narrow leaves… #894
- Persian علف[ʔæ.lǽf] fodder, provender, grass, hay #2,061
- Romanian iarbă/ˈjar.bə/ #2,248
- Serbian travu/ˈtravʊ/ #2,328
- Slovak tráva/traːva/ #1,944
- Slovenian trava/tràːʋa/ #1,188
- Swedish gräs/ˈɡrɛːs/ grass; any plant of the family Poaceae #2,313
- Tagalog damo/daˈmo/ #1,886
- Tamil புல்/pʊl/ #899
- Telugu పచ్చిక/ˈpaccika/ #721
- Turkish ot/ˈot/ #2,143
- Urdu گھاس/ɡʱɑːs/ #2,177
- Vietnamese cỏ[kɔ˧˩] #1,426
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).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.