How to say “machine” in 42 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.
- máquina/ˈmakina/ Spanish
- 機器/t͡ɕi⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰi⁵¹/ Chinese
- मशीन/mə.ʃiːn/ Hindi
- μηχανή[mixɐˈni] Greek
- მანქანა[mäŋkʰänä] Georgian
- մեքենա/mekʰeˈnɑ/ Armenian
“machine” in Spanish: máquina · French: machine · German: maschine · Italian: macchina · Chinese: 機器 · Hindi: मशीन · Turkish: makine · Greek: μηχανή
It is commonest in Tamil, where இயந்திரம் is the 291st most used word.
Machine in other languages, A to Z
- Armenian մեքենա/mekʰeˈnɑ/ #960
- Bengali যন্ত্র/d͡ʒɔn.tro/ machine, tool #837
- Bosnian mašina/maʃǐːna/ #2,021
- Bulgarian машина[mɐˈʃinɐ] #1,352
- Catalan màquina[ˈma.ki.nə] #970
- Chinese 機器/t͡ɕi⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰi⁵¹/ #2,060
- Croatian stroj/strôːj/ machine, engine #1,578
- Czech stroj[ˈstroj] #1,749
- Danish maskine/maˈsɡiːnə/ #2,069
- Dutch machine/mɑˈʃin(ə)/ #1,669
- English screw/ˈskɹu/ A simple machine, a helical inclined plane #1,738
- Esperanto maŝino/maˈʃino/ #1,021
- Estonian masin/ˈmɑsin/ #1,198
- Finnish kone/ˈkoneˣ/ #1,705
- French machine/ma.ʃin/ machine, device #1,246
- Galician máquina/ˈmakina/ #1,081
- Georgian მანქანა[mäŋkʰänä] #810
- German maschine/maˈʃiːnə/ #1,553
- Greek μηχανή[mixɐˈni] machine, engine #922
- Hebrew מנוע/maˈnoaʔ/ engine: machine that converts energy to… #1,830
- Hindi मशीन/mə.ʃiːn/ #1,158
- Hungarian gép[ˈɡeːp] #1,680
- Icelandic vél[ˈvjɛːl] #927
- Indonesian pesawat/pəˈsawat/ #467
- Italian macchina/ˈmak.ki.na/ #344
- Korean 총[t͡ɕʰo̞ŋ] gun; rifle; machine gun #305
- Latvian mašīnu/ˈmaʃiːnu/ machine, machinery, mechanism #382
- Lithuanian mašina/mɐʃɪˈnɐ/ #359
- Macedonian машина[ˈmaʃina] #1,056
- Malay mesin/mesin/ #554
- Malayalam യന്ത്രം/jɐn̪t̪rɐm/ #695
- Norwegian maskinen/mɑʂiːn̩ː/ a machine #2,284
- Persian دستگاه[d̪æst̪ʰ.ɡɒ́ːʰ] #538
- Serbian mašina/maʃǐːna/ #1,729
- Slovak stroj/strɔj/ #837
- Slovenian stroj/strɔ́j/ #606
- Spanish máquina/ˈmakina/ #1,287
- Swedish maskinen/masˈxiːnɛn/ #2,464
- Tagalog makina/ˈmakina/ #300
- Tamil இயந்திரம்/ɪjɐnd̪ɪɾɐm/ machine, machinery #291
- Turkish makine/maˈci.ne/ #1,868
- Urdu مشین/mə.ʃiːn/ #420
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) and Slovenian (artur (sl_SI), CC BY 4.0).
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