How to say “hot” in 40 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.
- caliente/kaˈljente/ Spanish
- حار/ħaːrr/ Arabic
- ചൂടുള്ള/t͡ʃuːɖuɭɭɐ/ Malayalam
“hot” in Spanish: caliente · German: heißen · Portuguese: quente · Arabic: حار · Turkish: sıcak
It is commonest in Dutch, where heet is the 388th most used word.
Hot in other languages, A to Z
- Albanian nxehtë/ˈnd͡zɛhtə/ hot, warm #714
- Arabic حار/ħaːrr/ hot, burning #1,430
- Armenian թեժ/tʰeʒ/ heated, hot, ardent #1,032
- Basque saltxitxa/s̺alt͡ʃit͡ʃa/ hot dog #1,318
- Bengali গরম/ɡɔɾom/ warm, hot #457
- Catalan calent[kəˈlen] hot, warm #1,687
- Czech horko[ˈɦorko] #2,421
- Danish hed[ˈheðˀ] hot, scorching, boiling #1,118
- Dutch heet/ɦeːt/ #388
- Esperanto varma/ˈvarma/ warm, hot #975
- Estonian kuum/ˈkuːm/ #789
- Finnish kuuma/ˈkuːmɑ/ #1,504
- French chaud/ʃo/ warm, hot #893
- Galician quente/ˈkɛnte/ hot; warm #933
- German heißen/ˈhaɪ̯sən/ #795
- Greek ζεστό/zesˈto/ warm, hot #1,631
- Hebrew חם/ˈħam.mi/ Hot: at a high temperature #662
- Hindi गर्म/ɡə.ɾəm/ warm; hot #679
- Icelandic heitur[ˈheiːtʏr] #1,836
- Indonesian panas/ˈpanas/ #473
- Italian caldo/ˈkal.do/ warm, hot #1,225
- Latvian seksīga/ˈseksiːɡa/ sexy, hot #1,910
- Lithuanian karštas/ˈkaːɾʃtɐs/ #1,555
- Macedonian жешка/ʒɛʃka/ #2,434
- Malay panas/ˈpanas/ hot because of direct heating of the sun #485
- Malayalam ചൂടുള്ള/t͡ʃuːɖuɭɭɐ/ #1,111
- Norwegian het/ˈheːt/ #953
- Persian هات[hɒːt̪ʰ] hot, sexy #413
- Polish gorąco/ɡɔˈrɔn.t͡sɔ/ hot, hotly #2,213
- Portuguese quente/ˈkẽ.t͡ʃi/ hot, warm #985
- Romanian fierbinte[fjerˈbinte] #1,290
- Slovak horúci/ˈɦɔruːt͡si/ #1,853
- Slovenian vroč/ʋrɔ́t͡ʃ/ #1,066
- Spanish caliente/kaˈljente/ hot, warm #1,077
- Swedish varmt/varmt/ #1,327
- Tagalog mainit/maˈʔinit/ hot; warm #657
- Telugu వేసవి/ˈʋeːsaʋi/ the summer, hot season #312
- Turkish sıcak/sɯˈdʒɑk/ hot, warm #583
- Urdu گرم/ɡə.ɾəm/ warm; hot #583
- Vietnamese nóng[nawŋ͡m˧˦] #767
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).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.