How to say “memory” in 41 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 برم is the 105th most used word.
- Afrikaans geheue #966
- Albanian kujtimet #1,635
- Arabic ذكرى remembrance, recollection, memory #1,437
- Bengali স্মৃতি memory, remembrance #650
- Bulgarian памет #2,171
- Catalan memòria #1,302
- Chinese 記得 to remember; to recall from memory #779
- Czech vzpomínky #1,719
- Danish minder a memory, remembrance #930
- Dutch herinneringen a memory, something that one remembers #1,773
- English remember To recall from one's memory; to have an image… #233
- Esperanto memoro #1,266
- Estonian mälu #1,216
- French mémoire #1,364
- Galician memoria #855
- German erinnerung memory; remembrance #1,865
- Greek μνήμη #1,477
- Hebrew זיכרון #1,584
- Hindi याद a memory, recollection #174
- Icelandic minna #410
- Indonesian ingatan #1,668
- Italian ricordi memory, recollection, remembrance #448
- Korean 기억 recall; the faculty of memory #405
- Latvian atmiņas #1,145
- Lithuanian atmintis #1,615
- Macedonian памет #1,860
- Malay kenangan memory; recollection; remembrance #1,164
- Malayalam ഓർമ്മ #1,198
- Norwegian minner #1,090
- Persian برم #105
- Polish pamięć #2,049
- Portuguese memória #1,298
- Romanian memoria #1,876
- Russian память #1,557
- Slovak pamäť #1,045
- Slovenian spomin #476
- Spanish memoria #1,437
- Swedish minne memory; component used in computers etc.… #1,488
- Tamil ஞாபகம் memory, reminiscence #232
- Telugu స్మృతి recollection, memory, remembrance #823
- Urdu یاد #135
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.