How to say “kitchen” in 35 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.
- cocina/koˈθina/ Spanish
- 부엌[puʌ̹k̚] Korean
- रसोई/ɾə.soː.iː/ Hindi
- κουζίνα/kuˈzi.na/ Greek
- রান্নাঘর/ranːaɡʱɔɾ/ Bengali
- சமையலறை/tʃɐmɐɪ̯jɐlɐrɐɪ̯/ Tamil
“kitchen” in Spanish: cocina · French: cuisine · German: küche · Italian: cucina · Korean: 부엌 · Hindi: रसोई · Turkish: mutfakta · Greek: κουζίνα
It is commonest in Afrikaans, where kombuis is the 708th most used word.
Kitchen in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans kombuis/kɔmˈbœi̯s/ #708
- Albanian kuzhinë[kuˈʒin] #1,516
- Basque sukalde/s̺ukalde/ #1,505
- Bengali রান্নাঘর/ranːaɡʱɔɾ/ #1,609
- Catalan cuina[ˈkuj.nə] #1,307
- Czech kuchyně[ˈkuxɪɲɛ] #2,057
- Danish køkkenet[ˈkʰøɡnəð] a kitchen #1,522
- Dutch keuken/ˈkøːkə(n)/ #1,241
- English chef/ʃɛf/ The presiding cook in the kitchen of a large… #1,793
- Esperanto kuirejo/kuiˈrejo/ #1,902
- Estonian köök/køːk/ #2,188
- French cuisine/kɥi.zin/ #959
- Galician cociña/koˈθiɲa/ #894
- German küche/ˈkʏçə/ #1,298
- Greek κουζίνα/kuˈzi.na/ #1,157
- Hindi रसोई/ɾə.soː.iː/ #1,321
- Icelandic eldhús[ˈɛlt.huːs] #2,279
- Indonesian dapur/ˈdapur/ #1,457
- Italian cucina/kuˈt͡ʃi.na/ #1,108
- Korean 부엌[puʌ̹k̚] #1,915
- Latvian virtuvē/ˈʋirtuʋeː/ #2,243
- Lithuanian virtuvė[ʋʲɪrˈtʊʋʲeː] #1,528
- Macedonian кујна[ˈkujna] #2,069
- Malayalam അടുക്കള/ɐɖukkɐɭɐ/ #1,217
- Norwegian kjøkkenet/ˈçœkənə/ a kitchen #1,323
- Polish kuchni/ˈkux.ɲi/ #1,462
- Romanian bucătărie/bukətəˈrije/ #1,422
- Slovak kuchyňa/kuxiɲa/ #1,750
- Slovenian kuhinja/kùːxinja/ #1,256
- Spanish cocina/koˈθina/ #997
- Swedish köket/ˈɕøːkɛt/ a kitchen #1,412
- Tagalog kusina/kuˈsinaʔ/ #1,428
- Tamil சமையலறை/tʃɐmɐɪ̯jɐlɐrɐɪ̯/ #2,099
- Telugu వంటగది/ʋaɳʈaɡad̪i/ #913
- Turkish mutfakta/mutfakˈta/ #2,362
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) and Slovenian (artur (sl_SI), CC BY 4.0).
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