How to say “money” in 48 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 Telugu, where డబ్బు is the 62nd most used word.
- Afrikaans geld #180
- Arabic نقود cash, ready money #1,016
- Basque diru #253
- Bengali অর্থ #482
- Bosnian novac #226
- Bulgarian пари #183
- Catalan diners #229
- Chinese 一票 a sum of money #2,180
- Croatian novac #232
- Czech peníze #266
- Danish penge #200
- Dutch geld #176
- English pay To give money or other compensation to in… #381
- Esperanto monon #332
- Estonian raha #168
- Finnish rahaa #290
- Galician cartos #235
- Georgian დახმარება Money given to people from the government to… #256
- German geld #190
- Greek λεφτά money, cash #241
- Hindi धन #1,100
- Hungarian pénzt #330
- Indonesian uang #196
- Italian soldi #229
- Korean 돈 #202
- Latvian naudu #191
- Lithuanian pinigai #378
- Macedonian пари #161
- Malay wang #294
- Malayalam പണം #78
- Norwegian penger #226
- Persian پول #113
- Polish pieniądze money; coin, banknote #313
- Portuguese dinheiro #167
- Romanian bani money; coin #227
- Russian деньги #222
- Serbian novac #235
- Slovak peniaze #172
- Slovenian denar #137
- Spanish dinero #163
- Swedish pengar #207
- Tagalog pera money; cash #371
- Tamil பணம் #83
- Telugu డబ్బు #62
- Turkish para #177
- Ukrainian гроші #220
- Urdu بیعانہ earnest money; deposit #2,153
- Vietnamese tiền #180
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.