How to say “machine” 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 Tamil, where இயந்திரம் is the 291st most used word.
- Armenian մեքենա #960
- Bengali যন্ত্র machine, tool #837
- Bosnian mašina #2,021
- Bulgarian машина #1,352
- Catalan màquina #970
- Chinese 機器 #2,060
- Croatian stroj machine, engine #1,578
- Czech stroj #1,749
- Danish maskine #2,069
- Dutch machine #1,669
- English screw A simple machine, a helical inclined plane #1,738
- Esperanto maŝino #1,021
- Estonian masin #1,198
- Finnish kone #1,705
- French machine machine, device #1,246
- Galician máquina #1,081
- Georgian მანქანა #810
- German maschine #1,553
- Greek μηχανή machine, engine #922
- Hebrew מנוע engine: machine that converts energy to… #1,830
- Hindi मशीन #1,158
- Hungarian gép #1,680
- Icelandic vél #927
- Indonesian pesawat #467
- Italian macchina #344
- Korean 총 gun; rifle; machine gun #305
- Latvian mašīnu machine, machinery, mechanism #382
- Lithuanian mašina #359
- Macedonian машина #1,056
- Malay mesin #554
- Malayalam യന്ത്രം #695
- Norwegian maskinen a machine #2,284
- Persian دستگاه #538
- Serbian mašina #1,729
- Slovak stroj #837
- Slovenian stroj #606
- Spanish máquina #1,287
- Swedish maskinen #2,464
- Tagalog makina #300
- Tamil இயந்திரம் machine, machinery #291
- Turkish makine #1,868
- Urdu مشین #420
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.