How to say “ground” in 34 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.
- أصل/ʔasˤl/ Arabic
- 土地/tʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹ ti⁵¹/ Chinese
- पृथ्वी/pɾɪt̪ʰ.ʋiː/ Hindi
- έδαφος/ˈe.ða.fos/ Greek
- მიწები[mit͡sʼebi] Georgian
- স্থল/st̪ʰɔl/ Bengali
“ground” in French: terrain · German: grund · Italian: terra · Portuguese: chão · Chinese: 土地 · Arabic: أصل · Hindi: पृथ्वी · Greek: έδαφος
It is commonest in Latvian, where zemes is the 400th most used word.
Ground in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans grond/ˈχrɔnt/ ground, dirt, soil #499
- Arabic أصل/ʔasˤl/ #915
- Bengali স্থল/st̪ʰɔl/ ground, dry land #1,646
- Bulgarian земя[zɛˈmʲa̟] earth, ground, humus; terrain #917
- Chinese 土地/tʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹ ti⁵¹/ ground; soil; land #517
- Croatian tlo/tlô/ #2,368
- Dutch aarde/ˈaːr.də/ earth, soil, ground #643
- English park[pʰɑɹk] A tract of ground kept in its natural state,… #920
- Esperanto grundo/ˈɡrundo/ ground, dirt, soil #2,335
- Finnish maahan/ˈmaːhan/ ground, land #860
- French terrain/tɛ.ʁɛ̃/ ground, landscape #1,224
- Galician terreo/tɛˈreo/ #1,365
- Georgian მიწები[mit͡sʼebi] ground, land #1,253
- German grund/ɡʁʊnt/ ground, land #458
- Greek έδαφος/ˈe.ða.fos/ #1,204
- Hindi पृथ्वी/pɾɪt̪ʰ.ʋiː/ #540
- Icelandic land[ˈlant] land, earth, ground #573
- Indonesian darat/ˈdarat/ #2,262
- Italian terra/ˈtɛr.ra/ #405
- Korean 지하[t͡ɕiɦa̠] below ground #1,442
- Latvian zemes/ˈzemes/ ground, land, mainland #400
- Malay coklat/ˈt͡ʃoklət/ Food made from ground roasted cocoa beans #1,116
- Norwegian jorden/ˈjuːrən/ earth, soil, ground #937
- Persian پرت[pʰæɹt̪ʰ] thrown to the ground #629
- Portuguese chão/ˈʃɐ̃w̃/ ground, soil, earth #729
- Romanian pământ/pəˈmɨnt/ earth, ground #624
- Spanish suelo/ˈswelo/ dirt, earth, ground, soil #876
- Swedish mark/mark/ ground, or the area beneath it #906
- Tagalog lupa/ˈlupaʔ/ earth; ground; soil #253
- Tamil காரணம்/kɑːɾɐɳɐm/ reason, ground #198
- Telugu భూమి/bʱuːmi/ land, soil, ground #236
- Turkish geleni/ɟe.leˈni/ suslik, ground squirrel, spermophile, any of… #914
- Urdu میدان/mɛː.d̪ɑːn/ ground, field, arena #786
- Vietnamese ngã[ŋaː˦ˀ˥] to fall on the ground while standing on it in… #1,247
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) 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.