How to say “meat” in 40 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 Tagalog, where laman is the 412th most used word.
- Afrikaans vleis #880
- Albanian toka to cut or hit meat to mince it or make… #865
- Arabic لحم flesh, meat #641
- Armenian միս meat; flesh #768
- Basque okela #1,199
- Bengali মাংস flesh, meat #697
- Bosnian meso #1,252
- Bulgarian месо #1,421
- Catalan carn #903
- Croatian meso #1,349
- Czech maso #1,573
- Danish kød #1,354
- Dutch vlees #1,238
- English chuck Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other… #2,275
- Esperanto viando #1,273
- Estonian liha #953
- French viande #1,737
- Galician carne #684
- Greek κρέας #1,513
- Hebrew בשר flesh, meat #821
- Hindi मांस #1,434
- Icelandic kjöt #1,306
- Indonesian daging meat, flesh #759
- Italian carne meat, flesh #1,213
- Korean 고기 meat; flesh #1,117
- Latvian gaļas #1,762
- Lithuanian mėsa #1,496
- Macedonian месо meat, flesh #859
- Malayalam ഇറച്ചി raw meat for food #736
- Persian گوشت #637
- Romanian carne #1,166
- Serbian meso #1,233
- Slovak mäso #809
- Slovenian meso #599
- Swedish kött meat, flesh #1,515
- Tagalog laman meat; flesh #412
- Tamil இறைச்சி meat, flesh #1,124
- Telugu మాంసము flesh, meat #1,461
- Urdu گوشت #1,093
- Vietnamese lạp larb; meat salad #1,840
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.