How to say “map” in 30 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 Persian, where نقشه is the 244th most used word.
- Afrikaans kaart #748
- Albanian hartë #1,596
- Arabic خريطة #1,835
- Basque mapa #778
- Bengali মানচিত্র #1,046
- Bulgarian карта #853
- Catalan mapa #1,894
- Esperanto mapo map, chart #1,437
- Estonian kaart #1,122
- French plan #505
- Greek χάρτη map, chart #1,966
- Hebrew מפה #416
- Icelandic kort #1,097
- Indonesian peta #1,303
- Korean 지도 #554
- Latvian plāns plan, map, blueprint, layout #534
- Lithuanian žemėlapis #1,790
- Macedonian карта #1,060
- Malay peta #968
- Malayalam ഭൂപടം chart, map #1,488
- Persian نقشه #244
- Portuguese mapa #1,820
- Romanian harta #2,299
- Slovak mapa #1,789
- Slovenian zemljevid #770
- Spanish mapa #2,151
- Swedish kartan a map #2,466
- Tagalog mapa #1,225
- Ukrainian карта #2,474
- Urdu نقشہ map, chart #1,569
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.