How to say “hair” 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 Georgian, where თმა is the 1st most used word.
- Albanian flokët #728
- Basque ile #558
- Bengali চুল #528
- Bosnian kosu #1,056
- Bulgarian коса #1,219
- Catalan cabells #1,268
- Croatian kosu #1,123
- Czech vlasy #803
- Danish hår #713
- Esperanto harojn #1,141
- Estonian juuksed #962
- Galician pelo #728
- Georgian თმა #1
- German haare #1,239
- Greek μαλλιά #741
- Hebrew שיער #855
- Hindi बाल #985
- Indonesian rambut #837
- Italian capelli a single hair #741
- Korean 털 #1,558
- Latvian mati #1,181
- Lithuanian plaukai #868
- Macedonian коса #798
- Malay rambut #607
- Malayalam മുടി head hair #366
- Norwegian håret #982
- Persian مو #699
- Polish włosy #1,030
- Portuguese cabelo hair, head of hair #702
- Romanian părul #1,053
- Russian волосы #1,103
- Serbian kosu #1,061
- Slovenian las hair on top of head #567
- Spanish pelo #775
- Swedish hår #920
- Tagalog buhok #1,115
- Tamil தலைமுடி hair on head #1,944
- Telugu జుట్టు #192
- Turkish saç #1,316
- Ukrainian волосся #963
- Urdu بال #589
- Vietnamese lông body hair #1,372
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.