How to say “mountain” in 38 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.
- montaña/monˈtaɲa/ Spanish
- جبل/d͡ʒa.bal/ Arabic
- 산[sʰa̠n] Korean
- पहाड़/pə.ɦɑːɽ/ Hindi
- βουνό/vuˈno/ Greek
- הר/haʁ/ Hebrew
“mountain” in Spanish: montaña · French: montagne · German: berg · Italian: montagna · Korean: 산 · Arabic: جبل · Hindi: पहाड़ · Turkish: dağ
It is commonest in Slovak, where hore is the 216th most used word.
Mountain in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans berge/ˈbærɡə/ #710
- Arabic جبل/d͡ʒa.bal/ #1,618
- Armenian սարեր/saˈɹer/ #1,806
- Basque mendi/mendi/ #722
- Bengali পর্বত/pɔr.bɔt/ #1,189
- Catalan muntanya[munˈta.ɲə] #1,421
- Chinese 山谷/ʂän⁵⁵ ku²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ mountain valley #1,761
- Dutch bergen/ˈbɛrɣə(n)/ mountain, hill #2,038
- Esperanto monto/ˈmonto/ #1,335
- Estonian mäe/mæe̯/ hill, mountain #1,817
- French montagne/mɔ̃.taɲ/ #2,054
- Georgian მთა[mtʰä] mountain, hill #711
- German berg/bɛrk/ a mountain, hill #2,242
- Greek βουνό/vuˈno/ #2,002
- Hebrew הר/haʁ/ #1,601
- Hindi पहाड़/pə.ɦɑːɽ/ #1,517
- Indonesian gunung/ˈɡunuŋ/ #964
- Italian montagna/monˈtaɲ.ɲa/ #2,359
- Korean 산[sʰa̠n] #490
- Latvian kalna/ˈkallna/ mountain, hill #1,778
- Lithuanian kalno[¹ˈkɑˑlnoː] hill, mountain #1,140
- Macedonian планина[ˈpɫanina] #2,287
- Malay gunung/ˈɡunoŋ/ #759
- Norwegian fjellet/fjɛːlə/ a mountain #2,297
- Persian کوه[kʰuːʱ] #1,065
- Polish góry/ˈɡu.rɘ/ #802
- Portuguese monte/ˈmõ.t͡ʃi/ mount; a mountain or large hill #1,161
- Romanian munte/ˈmun.te/ #2,011
- Slovak hore/ˈhore/ #216
- Slovenian gora/ɡɔ̀ːra/ #1,099
- Spanish montaña/monˈtaɲa/ #1,951
- Swedish bergen/ˈbɛrjɛn/ a mountain #2,338
- Tagalog bundok/bunˈdok/ #482
- Tamil மலை/mɐlɐɪ̯/ mountain, hill #876
- Telugu మల/mala/ #960
- Turkish dağ/ˈdaː/ mountain, mount, an elevation of land of… #2,241
- Urdu پہاڑ/pə.ɦɑːɽ/ #752
- Vietnamese núi[nuj˧˦] a mountain #943
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), 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.