How to say “list” in 38 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.
- список[ˈspʲisək] Russian
- قائمة/qaː.ʔi.ma/ Arabic
- सूची/suː.t͡ʃiː/ Hindi
- λίστα/ˈli.sta/ Greek
- רשימה/ʁʃiˈma/ Hebrew
- তালিকা/t̪alika/ Bengali
“list” in French: liste · German: liste · Italian: lista · Portuguese: lista · Russian: список · Arabic: قائمة · Hindi: सूची · Greek: λίστα
It is commonest in Slovenian, where seznam is the 455th most used word.
List in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans lys/ləis/ list, record #713
- Albanian listë/listə/ #1,057
- Arabic قائمة/qaː.ʔi.ma/ #487
- Bengali তালিকা/t̪alika/ #1,255
- Bosnian spisak/spîsak/ #1,994
- Bulgarian списък[ˈspisɐk] list, catalogue #1,135
- Croatian popis/pǒpis/ list, listing #1,282
- Czech seznam[ˈsɛznam] a list #969
- Danish liste/ˈlesdə/ a list #1,324
- Dutch lijst/lɛi̯st/ #863
- English bill/ˈbɪl/ A written list or inventory #823
- Estonian nimekiri/ˈnimekiri/ #1,369
- French liste/list/ #765
- German liste/ˈlɪstə/ #1,109
- Greek λίστα/ˈli.sta/ #746
- Hebrew רשימה/ʁʃiˈma/ #1,321
- Hindi सूची/suː.t͡ʃiː/ list, catalogue #915
- Icelandic skrá[ˈskrauː] list, register, file, directory #1,040
- Italian lista/ˈlis.ta/ list, pile #843
- Latvian sarakstā/ˈsarakstaː/ a written list, record, register, schedule #1,377
- Lithuanian sąrašas[¹ˈsɑːrɐʃɐs] #1,426
- Macedonian листа[ˈlista] #1,471
- Malay senarai/səˈnarai̯/ #791
- Malayalam ലിസ്റ്റ്/listɨ̆/ #761
- Norwegian listen/ˈlɪstn̩/ a list #1,669
- Persian لیست[liːst̪ʰ] #1,501
- Polish listę/ˈlis.tɛ/ list; inventory #1,613
- Portuguese lista/ˈlis.tɐ/ #718
- Romanian lista/ˈlista/ to put on a list #999
- Russian список[ˈspʲisək] list, register, roll #1,033
- Serbian spisak/spîsak/ #1,669
- Slovak zoznam/zɔznam/ #595
- Slovenian seznam/səznám/ #455
- Swedish lista/ˈlɪsta/ a list; a register or roll of paper… #1,186
- Tagalog talaan/ˌtaˈlaʔan/ #848
- Telugu జాబితా/ˈɟaːbitaː/ a list #541
- Ukrainian список[ˈspɪsɔk] list, register, roll #931
- Urdu فہرست/fəɦ.ɾɪst̪/ #462
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), Estonian (news (et_EE), CC BY 4.0) and Slovenian (artur (sl_SI), CC BY 4.0).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.