How to say “land” in 41 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.
- धरती/d̪ʱəɾ.t̪iː/ Hindi
- জমি/d͡ʒomi/ Bengali
- നിലം/n̪ilɐm/ Malayalam
- భూమి/bʱuːmi/ Telugu
- بوم[buːm] Persian
“land” in French: pays · Portuguese: terra · Hindi: धरती
It is commonest in Urdu, where زمین is the 194th most used word.
Land in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans kaptein/kɐpˈtɛɪn/ captain, both in the land and naval senses of… #426
- Albanian tokë/tɔkə/ land, earth, world; ground, floor #469
- Arabic أرض/ʔardˤ/ earth, land #903
- Basque lurreratu/lureɾatu/ to land #1,288
- Bengali জমি/d͡ʒomi/ #675
- Catalan país[pəˈis] country, land #592
- Chinese 土地/tʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹ ti⁵¹/ ground; soil; land #517
- Danish land/lanˀ/ to land #598
- Dutch land/lɑnt/ to land from the air #434
- English field/ˈfi(ː)ld/ A land area free of woodland, cities, and… #1,034
- Esperanto lando/ˈlando/ country, land, nation #321
- Finnish maahan/ˈmaːhan/ ground, land #860
- French pays/pɛ.i/ land; region; home ground; homeland; home… #488
- Georgian მიწები[mit͡sʼebi] ground, land #1,253
- German grund/ɡʁʊnt/ ground, land #458
- Greek καταφέρω/ka.taˈfe.ɾo/ to inflict, to land #1,655
- Hebrew אדמה/a.daˈma/ earth, soil, land #1,115
- Hindi धरती/d̪ʱəɾ.t̪iː/ land, soil #1,511
- Hungarian föld[ˈføld] earth, land #938
- Icelandic land[ˈlant] land, earth, ground #573
- Indonesian negeri/nəɡəˈri/ country, land #878
- Korean 땅[t͈a̠ŋ] earth, land #1,055
- Latvian zemes/ˈzemes/ ground, land, mainland #400
- Lithuanian žemė[²ˈʒʲæːmʲeː] #808
- Malay darat/darat/ #1,659
- Malayalam നിലം/n̪ilɐm/ #1,054
- Norwegian gården/ɡoːɳ/ farm, estate, land #2,199
- Persian بوم[buːm] land, soil, earth #1,344
- Polish teren/ˈtɛ.rɛn/ terrain, land, turf #2,054
- Portuguese terra/ˈtɛ.ʁɐ/ land; region; territory #405
- Romanian teren/teˈren/ plot of land #1,178
- Slovak pôdu/pu̯ɔdu/ earth, land, soil #1,922
- Slovenian pristati/pristàːti/ to land, to arrive at the shore #1,458
- Spanish estados/esˈtados/ country, land #1,239
- Swedish land/land/ a country, a land #747
- Tagalog damuhan/damuˈhan/ grassland; grazing land #1,718
- Tamil படுத்த/pɐɖʊt̪ːɐ/ to strike, land on, fall on, touch, come into… #1,273
- Telugu భూమి/bʱuːmi/ land, soil, ground #236
- Ukrainian країна[krɐˈjinɐ] country, land #2,289
- Urdu زمین/zə.miːn/ land, plot, estate #194
- Vietnamese cập[kəp̚˧˨ʔ] to dock; land #1,097
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.