How to say “heart” in 51 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 Persian, where خاطر is the 120th most used word.
- Afrikaans hart #220
- Albanian zemër #203
- Arabic قلبي related to the heart #498
- Armenian սիրտն #530
- Basque buruz by heart #138
- Bengali মন mind, heart #295
- Bosnian srce a heart #396
- Bulgarian сърце #822
- Catalan cor #367
- Chinese 中心 in the heart; with all one's heart; from the… #393
- Croatian srce a heart #434
- Czech srdce #454
- Danish hjerte #544
- Dutch hart heart, main muscle pumping blood through the… #482
- Esperanto koro #324
- Estonian süda #722
- Finnish sydän #1,730
- French cœur #596
- Galician corazón #360
- Georgian გული #305
- German herzen #1,064
- Greek καρδιά #427
- Hebrew לב #265
- Hindi दिल #272
- Hungarian szív #2,077
- Icelandic hjarta #447
- Indonesian jantung #942
- Korean 마음 mind, heart #470
- Latvian sirds #492
- Lithuanian širdis #547
- Macedonian срце #318
- Malay jantung #778
- Malayalam ഹൃദയം #321
- Norwegian hjertet #695
- Persian خاطر mind, heart #120
- Polish serce #552
- Portuguese coração #426
- Romanian inima #494
- Russian сердце #502
- Serbian srce a heart #395
- Slovak srdce #349
- Slovenian srce #248
- Spanish corazón #354
- Swedish hjärta #621
- Tagalog puso #193
- Tamil இதயம் #350
- Telugu గుండె #240
- Turkish kalp #765
- Ukrainian серце #610
- Urdu دل #303
- Vietnamese tâm the heart #237
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.