How to say “image” in 37 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.
- imagen/iˈmaxen/ Spanish
- 形象/ɕiŋ³⁵ ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵¹/ Chinese
- דמות/dmut/ Hebrew
- মূর্তি/muɾt̪i/ Bengali
- బొమ్మ/bomːa/ Telugu
- تصویر/t̪əs.ʋiːɾ/ Urdu
“image” in Spanish: imagen · Italian: immagini · Portuguese: imagem · Chinese: 形象
It is commonest in Vietnamese, where hình is the 275th most used word.
Image in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans prent/prɛnt/ image; picture; graphic #1,511
- Basque irudi/iɾudi/ picture, image #631
- Bengali মূর্তি/muɾt̪i/ image, form, appearance #1,384
- Bosnian slike/ˈslikɛ/ picture, image #737
- Bulgarian представа[prɛtˈstavɐ] mental image #564
- Catalan imatge[iˈma.d͡ʒə] #1,372
- Chinese 形象/ɕiŋ³⁵ ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵¹/ #1,189
- Croatian slike/ˈslikɛ/ picture, image #784
- Czech obraz[ˈobras] picture, painting, image #1,635
- Danish billede/ˈbeləðə/ picture, image #725
- Dutch beeld/beːlt/ #1,321
- English imagine/ɪˈmæd͡ʒ.ɪn/ To form a mental image of something; to… #767
- Esperanto formo/ˈformo/ form, shape, image #1,458
- French image/i.maʒ/ picture, image #1,470
- Galician imaxe/iˈmaʃe/ #803
- German vorstellung/ˈfoːɐ̯ˌʃtɛlʊŋ/ idea, image, representation #2,131
- Greek εικόνα/iˈko.na/ picture, image, painting, illustration,… #1,154
- Hebrew דמות/dmut/ An image, a picture, a likeness #1,758
- Hungarian képet[ˈkeːpɛt] picture, image #1,038
- Icelandic myndir/ˈmɪntɪr/ image, picture #334
- Italian immagini/imˈma.d͡ʒi.ni/ #1,968
- Korean 영상[jʌ̹ŋsʰa̠ŋ] picture, image, video #1,153
- Lithuanian paveikslas[pɐ¹ˈʋʲæˑɪkslɐs] #1,959
- Macedonian слика[ˈslika] image, picture, painting #527
- Malay cermin/t͡ʃərˈmin/ surface that reflects the image of other… #1,016
- Malayalam നിഴൽ/n̪iɻɐl/ shadow; A dark image cast upon a surface by a… #1,901
- Norwegian bilde/ˈbɪldə/ picture, image #811
- Polish obraz/ˈɔ.bras/ #1,651
- Portuguese imagem/iˈma.ʒẽj̃/ image; picture; figure #1,483
- Romanian imagine/iˈmadʒiˌne/ #1,650
- Serbian slike/ˈslikɛ/ picture, image #739
- Slovak obraz/ɔbras/ image, picture, painting #765
- Slovenian slika/slíːka/ picture, image #529
- Spanish imagen/iˈmaxen/ #1,500
- Telugu బొమ్మ/bomːa/ An image, picture, painting #954
- Urdu تصویر/t̪əs.ʋiːɾ/ image, picture, photograph #408
- Vietnamese hình[hïŋ˨˩] #275
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), 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.