How to say “map” in 30 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.
- mapa/ˈmapa/ Spanish
- خريطة/xa.riː.tˤa/ Arabic
- 지도[t͡ɕido̞] Korean
- χάρτη/ˈxar.ti/ Greek
- מפה/maˈpa/ Hebrew
- মানচিত্র/mant͡ʃit̪ɾɔ/ Bengali
“map” in Spanish: mapa · French: plan · Portuguese: mapa · Korean: 지도 · Arabic: خريطة · Greek: χάρτη
It is commonest in Persian, where نقشه is the 244th most used word.
Map in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans kaart/kɑːrt/ #748
- Albanian hartë/haɾtə/ #1,596
- Arabic خريطة/xa.riː.tˤa/ #1,835
- Basque mapa/mapa/ #778
- Bengali মানচিত্র/mant͡ʃit̪ɾɔ/ #1,046
- Bulgarian карта[ˈkartɐ] #853
- Catalan mapa[ˈma.pə] #1,894
- Esperanto mapo/ˈmapo/ map, chart #1,437
- Estonian kaart/kɑːrt/ #1,122
- French plan/plɑ̃/ #505
- Greek χάρτη/ˈxar.ti/ map, chart #1,966
- Hebrew מפה/maˈpa/ #416
- Icelandic kort[ˈkʰɔr̥t] #1,097
- Indonesian peta/pəˈta/ #1,303
- Korean 지도[t͡ɕido̞] #554
- Latvian plāns[ˈplāːns] plan, map, blueprint, layout #534
- Lithuanian žemėlapis[ʒʲɛ¹ˈmʲeːlɐpʲɪs] #1,790
- Macedonian карта[ˈkarta] #1,060
- Malay peta/pəta/ #968
- Malayalam ഭൂപടം/bʱuːpɐʈɐm/ chart, map #1,488
- Persian نقشه[næʁ.ʃé] #244
- Portuguese mapa/ˈma.pɐ/ #1,820
- Romanian harta[ˈharta] #2,299
- Slovak mapa/mapa/ #1,789
- Slovenian zemljevid/zɛmljɛʋíːt/ #770
- Spanish mapa/ˈmapa/ #2,151
- Swedish kartan/ˈkɑːrtan/ a map #2,466
- Tagalog mapa/ˈmapa/ #1,225
- Ukrainian карта[ˈkartɐ] #2,474
- Urdu نقشہ/nəq.ʃəɦ/ map, chart #1,569
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).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.