How to say “mouth” in 49 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.
- boca/ˈboka/ Spanish
- рот[rot] Russian
- 嘴巴/t͡su̯eɪ̯²¹⁴ b̥ä⁴/ Chinese
- 입[ip̚] Korean
- मुँह/mũːɦ/ Hindi
- στόμα/ˈsto.ma/ Greek
“mouth” in Spanish: boca · French: bouche · Italian: bocca · Portuguese: boca · Chinese: 嘴巴 · Korean: 입 · Russian: рот · Hindi: मुँह
It is commonest in Bengali, where মুখ is the 296th most used word.
Mouth in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans mond[mɔnt] #556
- Albanian gojë/ˈɡojə/ #1,048
- Armenian երախ/jeˈɾɑχ/ mouth, maw, jaws #1,062
- Basque ahoa/aˈoˌa/ #536
- Bengali মুখ/mukʰ/ #296
- Bosnian usta/ǔːsta/ #747
- Catalan boca[ˈbo.kə] #720
- Chinese 嘴巴/t͡su̯eɪ̯²¹⁴ b̥ä⁴/ #1,249
- Croatian usta/ǔːsta/ #812
- Czech pusu[ˈpusu] #1,413
- Danish kæft[ˈkɛfd] #428
- Dutch mond/mɔnt/ #563
- English eat/it/ To consume by putting it into the mouth and… #366
- Esperanto buŝon/ˈbuʃon/ #1,086
- Estonian suu/suː/ #638
- Finnish suu/ˈsuː/ #1,651
- French bouche/buʃ/ #1,007
- Galician boca/ˈboka/ #547
- Georgian პირის[pʼiɾis] #1,244
- German trinken/ˈtʁɪŋkən/ to drink by mouth #575
- Greek στόμα/ˈsto.ma/ #781
- Hindi मुँह/mũːɦ/ #1,121
- Hungarian pofa[ˈpofɒ] face, mouth, muzzle, snout #1,513
- Icelandic munn/mʏn/ #2,437
- Italian bocca/ˈbok.ka/ #780
- Korean 입[ip̚] #364
- Latvian muti/ˈmuti/ #961
- Lithuanian burna[bʊrˈnɐ] #1,611
- Macedonian уста[ˈusta] #972
- Malay mulut/ˈmulut/ #628
- Malayalam വായ/ʋaːjɐ/ #559
- Norwegian kjeft/ˈçɛft/ #484
- Persian دهن[d̪ɑ́ːn] #1,038
- Polish usta/ˈus.ta/ #1,888
- Portuguese boca/ˈbo.kɐ/ #651
- Romanian gura/ˈɡu.ra/ #676
- Russian рот[rot] #1,178
- Serbian usta/ǔːsta/ #767
- Slovak ústa/ˈuːsta/ #800
- Slovenian usta/ùːsta/ #462
- Spanish boca/ˈboka/ mouth, oral cavity #697
- Swedish käften/ˈɕɛftɛn/ a jaw or mouth of an animal #695
- Tagalog bibig/biˈbiɡ/ #787
- Tamil ஆவி/ɑːʋiː/ to open the mouth so as to express loudly #440
- Telugu వా/ʋaː/ #1,104
- Turkish ağzına/aːzɯˈna/ #1,781
- Ukrainian рот[rɔt] #1,126
- Urdu منہ/mʊ̃ɦ/ #588
- Vietnamese miệng[miəŋ˧˨ʔ] #804
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.