How to say “line” in 46 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.
- línea/ˈlinea/ Spanish
- लाइन/lɑː.ɪn/ Hindi
- γραμμές/ɣraˈmes/ Greek
- קו/ˈqaww/ Hebrew
- ხაზი[χäzi] Georgian
- দাগ/d̪aɡ/ Bengali
“line” in Spanish: línea · French: ligne · Italian: linea · Portuguese: linha · Hindi: लाइन · Turkish: çizgi · Greek: γραμμές
It is commonest in Macedonian, where ред is the 56th most used word.
Line in other languages, A to Z
- Albanian vijë/vijə/ #348
- Arabic خط/xatˤ.tˤa/ to draw a line #665
- Basque lerro/lero/ line, queue, string #826
- Bengali দাগ/d̪aɡ/ #819
- Bosnian linija/lǐːnija/ #1,674
- Bulgarian наред[nɐˈrɛt] sequentially, in order, in line, in turn,… #175
- Catalan línia[ˈli.ni.ə] #897
- Chinese 一句/i⁵⁵⁻³⁵ t͡ɕy⁵¹/ a line of verse #436
- Croatian linija/lǐːnija/ #1,819
- Danish række[ˈʁaɡ̊ə] row, line, rank; things arranged spatially #1,532
- Dutch regels/ˈreːɣəls/ line of writing, verse; straight line to… #890
- English along/əˈlɒŋ/ By the length of; in a line with the length… #523
- Esperanto vico/ˈvit͡so/ queue, line, file, row #1,055
- Estonian piiri/ˈpiːri/ A conventional line and the area surrounding… #1,110
- French ligne/liɲ/ #814
- Galician liña/ˈliɲa/ #750
- Georgian ხაზი[χäzi] #729
- Greek γραμμές/ɣraˈmes/ #2,070
- Hebrew קו/ˈqaww/ #868
- Hindi लाइन/lɑː.ɪn/ #597
- Hungarian egyenesen[ˈɛɟɛnɛʃɛn] in a straight line #1,059
- Icelandic beita[ˈpeiːta] to bait a fishing line #1,348
- Indonesian bohong/ˈbohoŋ/ not in line with reality and truth; untrue,… #777
- Italian linea/ˈli.ne.a/ #1,021
- Latvian rindā/ˈriŋdaː/ row, line, queue #1,849
- Lithuanian eilė[ɛɪ²ˈlʲeː] line, string, row #650
- Macedonian ред[rɛt] line, string, row #56
- Malay garis/ˈɡaris/ line, dash, stripe #1,276
- Malayalam രേഖ/ɾeːkʰɐ/ #1,106
- Norwegian rekker/ˈrɛkər/ a row or line #1,493
- Persian خط[xæt̪ʰt̪ʰ] #425
- Polish linii/ˈliɲ.ji/ #1,766
- Portuguese linha/ˈlĩ.ɲɐ/ #759
- Romanian linia/ˈlinja/ to line #1,179
- Russian очередь[ˈot͡ɕɪrʲɪtʲ] queue, line #1,184
- Serbian linija/lǐːnija/ #1,799
- Slovak pointa/pɔenta/ punch line #1,664
- Slovenian vrsta/ʋə̀rsta/ queue, line #614
- Spanish línea/ˈlinea/ #802
- Swedish rad/ˈrɑːd/ a row; a line of entries in a table, or a… #2,289
- Tagalog linya/ˈlinja/ #577
- Telugu గీతలు/ˈɡiːtalu/ a line #872
- Turkish çizgi/t͡ʃizˈɟi/ line; a path through two or more points; a… #1,783
- Ukrainian курс[kurs] course, policy, line, route #1,685
- Urdu قطار/qɪ.t̪ɑːɾ/ queue, line, row #892
- Vietnamese câu[kəw˧˧] sentence; expression; line #256
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), Slovenian (artur (sl_SI), CC BY 4.0) and Vietnamese (vais1000 (vi_VN), CC BY 4.0).
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