How to say “leg” in 42 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 Albanian, where tu is the 200th most used word.
- Afrikaans bene leg of a human or humanoid #774
- Albanian tu pant leg #200
- Basque hanka #394
- Bosnian noge #679
- Bulgarian краката #736
- Catalan cames #1,267
- Croatian noge #714
- Czech nohy #813
- Danish ben #472
- Dutch benen leg, limb of a person, horse and certain… #1,164
- Esperanto krurojn #2,029
- Estonian jalga foot, leg #578
- Finnish jalat foot, leg; a lower supporting limb of a human… #2,366
- French jambes #1,357
- Galician perna #1,671
- Georgian ფეხი #581
- German beine leg of a person, animal, or object #1,429
- Greek πόδια #542
- Hebrew רגל foot, leg #934
- Hindi पाए foot or leg of an object #2,193
- Icelandic leggur leg, shank #966
- Italian gamba #1,316
- Latvian kājas leg, foot #706
- Lithuanian koja #955
- Macedonian нога #1,139
- Malay kaki foot, leg #308
- Malayalam കാൽ leg, a lower limb of humans, animals and… #1,017
- Norwegian legger lower leg from the knee to the ankle,… #675
- Persian پا #411
- Polish nogi #1,049
- Portuguese pernas #1,256
- Romanian picioare #709
- Serbian noge #683
- Slovak nohy #473
- Slovenian nogo #486
- Spanish piernas #1,352
- Swedish ben #528
- Tagalog binti #1,690
- Tamil காலை #221
- Telugu కాళ్లు #557
- Ukrainian нога #1,887
- Urdu ٹانگ #1,057
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.