How to say “heart” in 51 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.
- corazón/koɾaˈθon/ Spanish
- сердце[ˈsʲert͡s(ː)ə] Russian
- दिल/d̪ɪl/ Hindi
- καρδιά/karˈðʝa/ Greek
- לב/lib/ Hebrew
- გული[ɡ̊uli] Georgian
“heart” in Spanish: corazón · French: cœur · German: herzen · Portuguese: coração · Russian: сердце · Hindi: दिल · Turkish: kalp · Greek: καρδιά
It is commonest in Tagalog, where puso is the 193rd most used word.
Heart in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans hart/ˈhɐrt/ #220
- Albanian zemër/ˈzeməɾ/ #203
- Arabic قلبي/qal.bijj/ related to the heart #498
- Armenian սիրտն/siɾtn/ #530
- Basque buruz/buɾus̻/ by heart #138
- Bengali মন/mon/ mind, heart #295
- Bosnian srce/sr̩̂t͡se/ a heart #396
- Bulgarian сърце[sɐrˈt͡sɛ] #822
- Catalan cor[ˈkɔr] #367
- Chinese 中心/ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵ ɕin⁵⁵/ in the heart; with all one's heart; from the… #393
- Croatian srce/sr̩̂t͡se/ a heart #434
- Czech srdce[ˈsr̩t͡sɛ] #454
- Danish hjerte/jɛrtə/ #544
- Dutch hart/ɦɑrt/ heart, main muscle pumping blood through the… #482
- Esperanto koro/ˈkoro/ #324
- Estonian süda/ˈsyd̥ɑ/ #722
- Finnish sydän/ˈsydæn/ #1,730
- French cœur/kœʁ/ #596
- Galician corazón/koɾaˈθoŋ/ #360
- Georgian გული[ɡ̊uli] #305
- German herzen/ˈhɛʁtsn̩/ #1,064
- Greek καρδιά/karˈðʝa/ #427
- Hebrew לב/lib/ #265
- Hindi दिल/d̪ɪl/ #272
- Hungarian szív[ˈsiːv] #2,077
- Icelandic hjarta[ˈçar̥ta] #447
- Indonesian jantung/ˈd͡ʒantuŋ/ #942
- Korean 마음[ma̠ɯm] mind, heart #470
- Latvian sirds[ˈsîɾt͡s] #492
- Lithuanian širdis[ʃʲɪrʲˈdʲɪs] #547
- Macedonian срце[ˈsr̩t͡sɛ] #318
- Malay jantung/ˈd͡ʒantuŋ/ #778
- Malayalam ഹൃദയം/hrɨd̪ɐjɐm/ #321
- Norwegian hjertet/ˈjæʈət/ #695
- Persian خاطر[xɒː.t̪ʰéɹ] mind, heart #120
- Polish serce/ˈsɛr.t͡sɛ/ #552
- Portuguese coração/ko.ɾaˈsɐ̃w̃/ #426
- Romanian inima/ˈiniˌma/ #494
- Russian сердце[ˈsʲert͡s(ː)ə] #502
- Serbian srce/sr̩̂t͡se/ a heart #395
- Slovak srdce/sr̩t͡sːe/ #349
- Slovenian srce/sərt͡séː/ #248
- Spanish corazón/koɾaˈθon/ #354
- Swedish hjärta/²jɛrta/ #621
- Tagalog puso/ˈpusoʔ/ #193
- Tamil இதயம்/ɪd̪ɐjɐm/ #350
- Telugu గుండె/ɡuɳɖe/ #240
- Turkish kalp[kalp] #765
- Ukrainian серце[ˈsɛrt͡se] #610
- Urdu دل/d̪ɪl/ #303
- Vietnamese tâm[təm˧˧] the heart #237
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), Slovenian (artur (sl_SI), CC BY 4.0) and Vietnamese (vais1000 (vi_VN), CC BY 4.0).
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