How to say “hotel” in 43 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 Slovenian, where hotela is the 182nd most used word.
- Albanian hotel #816
- Arabic فندق inn, hotel #705
- Bengali হোটেল #854
- Bosnian hotel #1,101
- Bulgarian хотел #1,055
- Catalan hotel #924
- Chinese 酒店 hotel; inn #424
- Croatian hotel #1,134
- Czech hotelu #1,038
- Danish hotel #1,243
- Dutch hotel #848
- Esperanto hotelo #734
- Estonian hotell #1,704
- Galician hotel #666
- Georgian სასტუმრო #994
- German hotel #916
- Greek ξενοδοχείο #809
- Hebrew מלון #1,171
- Hindi होटल #823
- Hungarian hotel #2,424
- Indonesian hotel hotel, an establishment that provides… #809
- Italian albergo hotel, inn #2,175
- Korean 호텔 #757
- Latvian viesnīcā #1,338
- Lithuanian viešbutis #1,290
- Macedonian хотел #1,095
- Malay hotel #699
- Malayalam ഹോട്ടൽ #883
- Norwegian hotellet a hotel #1,321
- Persian هتل #619
- Polish hotelu #1,116
- Portuguese hotel #825
- Romanian hotel #930
- Russian отель #2,022
- Serbian hotel #1,047
- Slovak hotel #955
- Slovenian hotela #182
- Spanish hotel #754
- Swedish hotellet a hotel #1,490
- Tagalog hotel #1,079
- Turkish otel #1,260
- Ukrainian готель #1,423
- Urdu ہوٹل #564
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.