How to say “month” in 39 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.
- meses/ˈmeses/ Spanish
- месяц[ˈmʲesʲɪt͡s] Russian
- شهر/ʃahr/ Arabic
- 월[wʌ̹ɭ] Korean
- महीने/mə.ɦiː.neː/ Hindi
- μήνες/ˈmines/ Greek
“month” in Spanish: meses · French: mois · German: monate · Italian: mesi · Portuguese: meses · Korean: 월 · Russian: месяц · Arabic: شهر
It is commonest in Basque, where hil is the 50th most used word.
Month in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans maande/ˈmɑːndə/ A month #391
- Albanian muaj/ˈmuäj/ #357
- Arabic شهر/ʃahr/ #472
- Armenian ամիս/ɑˈmis/ #268
- Basque hil/hil/ #50
- Bengali মাস/maʃ/ #393
- Bulgarian месец[ˈmɛsɛt͡s] #596
- Catalan mesos[ˈme.zus] #498
- Danish måneder/ˈmɔːnəðɐ/ #489
- Dutch maanden/ˈmaːn.də(n)/ a month #468
- Esperanto monatoj/moˈnatoɪ/ #783
- Finnish kuukautta/ˈkuːkautːa/ #875
- French mois/mwa/ #321
- Galician mes/ˈmes/ #582
- Georgian თვის[tʰʷis] #664
- German monate/ˈmoːnatə/ #883
- Greek μήνες/ˈmines/ #448
- Hebrew חודשים/χodaˈʃim/ #428
- Hindi महीने/mə.ɦiː.neː/ #440
- Hungarian hónap[ˈhoːnɒp] #1,261
- Indonesian sebulan/səˈbulan/ a month #1,555
- Italian mesi/ˈme.zi/ #522
- Korean 월[wʌ̹ɭ] #2,014
- Latvian mēneša/ˈmeːneʃa/ #1,959
- Macedonian месеци[ˈmɛsɛt͡si] #353
- Malayalam മാസം/maːsɐm/ #208
- Norwegian måneder/ˈmoːnədər/ #542
- Polish miesięcy/mjɛˈɕɛn.t͡sɘ/ #716
- Portuguese meses/ˈme.zis/ #439
- Russian месяц[ˈmʲesʲɪt͡s] #991
- Slovenian mesec/méːsət͡s/ #391
- Spanish meses/ˈmeses/ #458
- Swedish månader/ˈmoːnadɛr/ a month #516
- Tagalog buwan-buwan/buˌan buˈan/ monthly; every month #2,231
- Tamil மாதம்/mɑːd̪ɐm/ #503
- Telugu నెలల/ˈnelala/ #300
- Ukrainian місяць[ˈmʲisʲɐt͡sʲ] #822
- Urdu یکم/jə.kʊm/ first day of the month #2,004
- Vietnamese tháng[tʰaːŋ˧˦] #441
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), Slovenian (artur (sl_SI), CC BY 4.0) and Vietnamese (vais1000 (vi_VN), CC BY 4.0).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.