How to say “land” in 41 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 Urdu, where زمین is the 194th most used word.
- Afrikaans kaptein captain, both in the land and naval senses of… #426
- Albanian tokë land, earth, world; ground, floor #469
- Arabic أرض earth, land #903
- Basque lurreratu to land #1,288
- Bengali জমি #675
- Catalan país country, land #592
- Chinese 土地 ground; soil; land #517
- Danish land to land #598
- Dutch land to land from the air #434
- English field A land area free of woodland, cities, and… #1,034
- Esperanto lando country, land, nation #321
- Finnish maahan ground, land #860
- French pays land; region; home ground; homeland; home… #488
- Georgian მიწები ground, land #1,253
- German grund ground, land #458
- Greek καταφέρω to inflict, to land #1,655
- Hebrew אדמה earth, soil, land #1,115
- Hindi धरती land, soil #1,511
- Hungarian föld earth, land #938
- Icelandic land land, earth, ground #573
- Indonesian negeri country, land #878
- Korean 땅 earth, land #1,055
- Latvian zemes ground, land, mainland #400
- Lithuanian žemė #808
- Malay darat #1,659
- Malayalam നിലം #1,054
- Norwegian gården farm, estate, land #2,199
- Persian بوم land, soil, earth #1,344
- Polish teren terrain, land, turf #2,054
- Portuguese terra land; region; territory #405
- Romanian teren plot of land #1,178
- Slovak pôdu earth, land, soil #1,922
- Slovenian pristati to land, to arrive at the shore #1,458
- Spanish estados country, land #1,239
- Swedish land a country, a land #747
- Tagalog damuhan grassland; grazing land #1,718
- Tamil படுத்த to strike, land on, fall on, touch, come into… #1,273
- Telugu భూమి land, soil, ground #236
- Ukrainian країна country, land #2,289
- Urdu زمین land, plot, estate #194
- Vietnamese cập to dock; land #1,097
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.