How to say “mouth” in 49 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 Bengali, where মুখ is the 296th most used word.
- Afrikaans mond #556
- Albanian gojë #1,048
- Armenian երախ mouth, maw, jaws #1,062
- Basque ahoa #536
- Bengali মুখ #296
- Bosnian usta #747
- Catalan boca #720
- Chinese 嘴巴 #1,249
- Croatian usta #812
- Czech pusu #1,413
- Danish kæft #428
- Dutch mond #563
- English eat To consume by putting it into the mouth and… #366
- Esperanto buŝon #1,086
- Estonian suu #638
- Finnish suu #1,651
- French bouche #1,007
- Galician boca #547
- Georgian პირის #1,244
- German trinken to drink by mouth #575
- Greek στόμα #781
- Hindi मुँह #1,121
- Hungarian pofa face, mouth, muzzle, snout #1,513
- Icelandic munn #2,437
- Italian bocca #780
- Korean 입 #364
- Latvian muti #961
- Lithuanian burna #1,611
- Macedonian уста #972
- Malay mulut #628
- Malayalam വായ #559
- Norwegian kjeft #484
- Persian دهن #1,038
- Polish usta #1,888
- Portuguese boca #651
- Romanian gura #676
- Russian рот #1,178
- Serbian usta #767
- Slovak ústa #800
- Slovenian usta #462
- Spanish boca mouth, oral cavity #697
- Swedish käften a jaw or mouth of an animal #695
- Tagalog bibig #787
- Tamil ஆவி to open the mouth so as to express loudly #440
- Telugu వా #1,104
- Turkish ağzına #1,781
- Ukrainian рот #1,126
- Urdu منہ #588
- Vietnamese miệng #804
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.