How to say “hospital” in 46 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 Korean, where 병원 is the 497th most used word.
- Afrikaans hospitaal #593
- Albanian spital #605
- Arabic مستشفى #1,071
- Basque ospitale #1,015
- Bengali হাসপাতাল #1,003
- Bosnian bolnica #2,015
- Bulgarian болница #964
- Catalan hospital #673
- Chinese 醫院 hospital; polyclinic; general hospital #1,253
- Croatian bolnica #1,958
- Czech nemocnice #869
- Danish hospitalet #811
- Dutch ziekenhuis a hospital, medical care facility #634
- Esperanto malsanulejo #1,090
- Estonian haigla #1,386
- Finnish sairaalaan #1,356
- French hôpital #611
- Galician hospital #627
- German krankenhaus #796
- Greek νοσοκομείο #586
- Hindi अस्पताल #535
- Hungarian kórházba #1,315
- Icelandic sjúkrahús #1,692
- Italian ospedale #633
- Korean 병원 #497
- Latvian slimnīcā #1,232
- Lithuanian ligoninė #1,568
- Macedonian болница #602
- Malay hospital #600
- Malayalam ആശുപത്രി #804
- Norwegian sykehuset a hospital #848
- Persian بیمارستان hospital; bimaristan #1,223
- Polish szpitala #999
- Portuguese hospital #595
- Romanian spital #660
- Russian врач therapist, not surgeon, not hospital nurse #1,473
- Serbian bolnica #2,032
- Slovak nemocnica #1,250
- Slovenian bolnišnica #1,075
- Spanish hospital #591
- Swedish sjukhuset a hospital #861
- Tagalog mental mental hospital #1,450
- Tamil மருத்துவமனை hospital, clinic, nursing home #855
- Telugu ఆసుపత్రి #855
- Turkish hastane #1,683
- Urdu اسپتال #2,173
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.