How to say “hate” in 38 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.
- odio/ˈodjo/ Spanish
- بغض/baɣadˤa/ Arabic
- 仇恨/ʈ͡ʂʰoʊ̯³⁵ xən⁵¹/ Chinese
- μισώ/miˈso/ Greek
- איב/aˈjav/ Hebrew
- വെറുപ്പ്/ʋeruppɨ/ Malayalam
“hate” in Spanish: odio · French: déteste · German: hasse · Italian: odia · Portuguese: odeio · Chinese: 仇恨 · Arabic: بغض · Turkish: nefret
It is commonest in Turkish, where nefret is the 301st most used word.
Hate in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans gehaat/xəˈhɑːt/ to hate #2,337
- Albanian urrej/uˈrɛj/ to hate #550
- Arabic بغض/baɣadˤa/ to hate, to detest, to loathe #1,358
- Basque gorrotatu/ɡorotatu/ to hate #1,221
- Bengali বিদ্বেষ/bid̪.d̪eʃ/ hatred, hate #2,402
- Bosnian mrzi/ˈmrzi/ to hate #1,410
- Catalan odio/uˈðiu/ to hate #1,441
- Chinese 仇恨/ʈ͡ʂʰoʊ̯³⁵ xən⁵¹/ to hate #1,630
- Croatian mrzi/ˈmrzi/ to hate #1,445
- Danish hader/ˈhaːðɐ/ to hate #431
- Dutch haat/ɦaːt/ to hate #593
- Esperanto malamas/maˈlamas/ to hate, dislike #656
- Estonian vihkama/ˈvihkɑmɑ/ to hate #2,411
- French déteste/de.tɛst/ to hate, to detest #743
- Galician odio[ˈɔð̞jʊ] #754
- German hasse/ˈhasə/ to hate #847
- Greek μισώ/miˈso/ to hate #835
- Hebrew איב/aˈjav/ to be hostile to, to hate, to be an enemy to #2,397
- Hungarian utálom[ˈutaːlom] to hate #1,014
- Icelandic hata[ˈhaːta] to hate #483
- Indonesian membenci/məmbəntˈʃi/ to hate #1,356
- Italian odia/ˈodia/ to hate, to detest, to loathe #2,449
- Lithuanian nekenčiu[nʲɛkʲɛnʲˈt͡ʃʲʊ̟] to hate #486
- Macedonian мразам[ˈmrazam] to hate, loathe, resent, detest #493
- Malayalam വെറുപ്പ്/ʋeruppɨ/ #1,114
- Norwegian hater/ˈhɑːtər/ to hate #491
- Persian تنفر/tænæffoɾ/ #2,285
- Polish nienawidzę/ɲɛ.naˈvi.d͡zɛ/ to hate #1,020
- Portuguese odeio/ˌoˈdeɪu/ to hate, to loathe #1,180
- Romanian urăsc[uˈrəsk] to hate #796
- Serbian mrzi/ˈmrzi/ to hate #1,400
- Slovak nenávisť/ɲenaːvisc/ hatred, hate #1,446
- Slovenian sovražiti/sɔʋraʒìːti/ to hate #1,692
- Spanish odio/ˈodjo/ hate, hatred, loathing #672
- Swedish hatar/ˈhɑːtar/ to hate #540
- Tamil வெறுப்பு/ʋɛrʊpːɯ/ hatred, hate, dislike, enmity #1,282
- Turkish nefret/nefˈɾet/ hate, hatred #301
- Urdu نفرت/nəf.ɾət̪/ hate, hatred #489
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), Catalan (upc_ona (ca_ES), CC BY-SA 4.0), Estonian (news (et_EE), CC BY 4.0) and Slovenian (artur (sl_SI), CC BY 4.0).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.