How to say “hot” in 40 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 Telugu, where వేసవి is the 312th most used word.
- Albanian nxehtë hot, warm #714
- Arabic حار hot, burning #1,430
- Armenian թեժ heated, hot, ardent #1,032
- Basque saltxitxa hot dog #1,318
- Bengali গরম warm, hot #457
- Catalan calent hot, warm #1,687
- Czech horko #2,421
- Danish hed hot, scorching, boiling #1,118
- Dutch heet #388
- Esperanto varma warm, hot #975
- Estonian kuum #789
- Finnish kuuma #1,504
- French chaud warm, hot #893
- Galician quente hot; warm #933
- German heißen #795
- Greek ζεστό warm, hot #1,631
- Hebrew חם Hot: at a high temperature #662
- Hindi गर्म warm; hot #679
- Icelandic heitur #1,836
- Indonesian panas #473
- Italian caldo warm, hot #1,225
- Latvian seksīga sexy, hot #1,910
- Lithuanian karštas #1,555
- Macedonian жешка #2,434
- Malay panas hot because of direct heating of the sun #485
- Malayalam ചൂടുള്ള #1,111
- Norwegian het #953
- Persian هات hot, sexy #413
- Polish gorąco hot, hotly #2,213
- Portuguese quente hot, warm #985
- Romanian fierbinte #1,290
- Slovak horúci #1,853
- Slovenian vroč #1,066
- Spanish caliente hot, warm #1,077
- Swedish varmt #1,327
- Tagalog mainit hot; warm #657
- Telugu వేసవి the summer, hot season #312
- Turkish sıcak hot, warm #583
- Urdu گرم warm; hot #583
- Vietnamese nóng #767
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.