How to say “look” in 53 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.
- виду[ˈvʲidʊ] Russian
- നോക്ക്/n̪oːkkɨ/ Malayalam
- نگاه[ne.ɡɒːʱ] Persian
“look” in Portuguese: olha · Russian: виду · Turkish: bak
It is commonest in Malayalam, where നോക്ക് is the 43rd most used word.
Look in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans kyk/ˈkɛɪk/ to look #82
- Albanian duket/dukɛt/ to seem, appear, look #98
- Arabic ها/haː/ behold, look, lo! #127
- Armenian տեսնել/tesˈnel/ to see; to notice; to look at, to examine #226
- Basque begiratu/beɡiɾatu/ to look at #151
- Bengali রূপ/rup/ form, look #978
- Bosnian evo/ˈɛvo/ look, see, behold #182
- Bulgarian гледам[ˈɡlɛdɐm] to look at + object #547
- Catalan sembla[ˈsɛm.blə] to seem, look #140
- Chinese 期待/t͡ɕʰi⁵⁵ taɪ̯⁵¹/ to look forward to; to await #488
- Croatian evo/ˈɛvo/ look, see, behold #201
- Czech vypadá[ˈvɪpadaː] to appear, look like, seem #222
- Danish ligner/ˈliːnɐ/ resemble, look like #404
- Dutch kijk/kɛi̯k/ to look #137
- English read/ɹid/ To look at and interpret letters or other… #455
- Esperanto rigardu/riˈɡardu/ to look at, behold, watch, view #115
- Estonian vaata/ˈvɑːtɑ/ to look, to look at, to watch #102
- Finnish katso/ˈkatso/ to look, have a look, take a look #168
- French regarde/ʁə.ɡaʁd/ to look at #222
- Galician mira/ˈmiɾa/ to look #201
- Georgian უყურებს[uχʼuɾe̞bs] to watch, look at #724
- German suchen/ˈzuːxən/ to search, to look for #441
- Greek δω/ˈðo/ to see, watch, look at #130
- Hebrew מבט/maˈbat/ glance, look #809
- Hindi देखो/d̪eː.kʰoː/ to see, to look, to watch #120
- Hungarian nézd[ˈneːzd] to look #135
- Icelandic leita/ˈleiːta/ to seek, to search, to look for #231
- Indonesian tampak/ˈtampaʔ/ to look #499
- Italian sembra/ˈsem.bra/ to seem, to look, to appear #174
- Korean 볼[po̞ɭ] to see, to look at, to watch #177
- Latvian izskatās[isːkataːs] to look #212
- Lithuanian žiūrėk[ʒʲu̟ː¹ˈrʲeːk] to look at; to look into, observe; to watch #209
- Macedonian види[ˈvidi] to see, look #121
- Malay lihat[li.hat] To look at #102
- Malayalam നോക്ക്/n̪oːkkɨ/ to look #43
- Norwegian lett/lɛtː/ to look #423
- Persian نگاه[ne.ɡɒːʱ] look, glance #98
- Polish wygląda/vɘˈɡlɔn.da/ to look, to look like, to appear #191
- Portuguese olha/ˈo.ʎɐ/ to look #193
- Romanian pare/ˈpa.re/ to look #73
- Russian виду[ˈvʲidʊ] look, looks, appearance, air #342
- Serbian evo/ˈɛvo/ look, see, behold #183
- Slovak pozerať/pɔzerac/ to look at, to stare, to gaze, to watch #529
- Slovenian evo/éːʋɔ/ look, see, behold #847
- Spanish mira/ˈmiɾa/ to look at #148
- Swedish titta/²tɪta/ to look; keep one's eyes open as to be able… #178
- Tagalog tingnan/tiŋˈnan/ to look at #111
- Tamil பார்/pɑːɾ/ to see, look at, view, notice, observe, watch #126
- Telugu గో[ɡoː] there! look there! examples: అదిగో and ఇదిగో #105
- Turkish bak/bak/ to look, gaze #63
- Ukrainian дивитися[deˈʋɪtesʲɐ] to watch, to look #976
- Urdu نظر/nə.zəɾ/ look, gaze, glance #156
- Vietnamese tìm[tim˨˩] to search, to seek, to look for #102
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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