How to say “movement” in 37 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.
- movimiento/mobiˈmjento/ Spanish
- चलो/t͡ʃə.loː/ Hindi
- κίνηση/ˈciniˌsi/ Greek
- ընթացք/ənˈtʰɑt͡sʰkʰ/ Armenian
- இயக்கம்/ɪjɐkːɐm/ Tamil
- നീക്കം/n̪iːkkɐm/ Malayalam
“movement” in Spanish: movimiento · French: mouvement · Italian: mossa · Portuguese: movimento · Hindi: चलो · Greek: κίνηση
It is commonest in Hindi, where चलो is the 76th most used word.
Movement in other languages, A to Z
- Arabic حركة/ħa.ra.ka/ instance noun of حَرُكَ: an instance of… #768
- Armenian ընթացք/ənˈtʰɑt͡sʰkʰ/ movement, course, development #775
- Basque mugimendu/muɡimendu/ #837
- Bengali অগ্রগতি/ɔɡ.ɡro.ɡo.t̪i/ advancement, forward movement, progressive… #1,974
- Bulgarian движение[dviˈʒɛniɛ] movement, motion, stirring #1,151
- Catalan para/ˈpaɾə/ to stop from continuing movement or action #665
- Czech pohyb[ˈpoɦɪp] motion, movement #929
- Danish hen[ˈhɛn] Used with a verb, indicating a movement… #203
- Dutch actie/ˈɑk.si/ action, activity, movement; especially a… #1,404
- English wait/weɪt/ To delay movement or action until some event… #158
- Esperanto movado/moˈvado/ #2,138
- Finnish liikettä/ˈliːketːæ/ motion, movement #1,169
- French mouvement/muv.mɑ̃/ #2,010
- Galician movemento/mobeˈmento/ #673
- German wind/vɪnt/ wind; the movement of air usually caused by… #1,529
- Greek κίνηση/ˈciniˌsi/ #890
- Hebrew לי/li/ Indicating the destination of movement #9
- Hindi चलो/t͡ʃə.loː/ #76
- Hungarian mozgás[ˈmozɡaːʃ] #824
- Icelandic utan/ˈʏːtan/ relating to movement from the outside to the… #321
- Indonesian langkah/ˈlaŋkah/ pace: an advance or movement made from one… #850
- Italian mossa/ˈmɔs.sa/ #1,389
- Korean 짓[t͡ɕi(ː)t̚] a physical act or movement #475
- Macedonian потег[ˈpɔtɛk] move, movement #1,164
- Malay gerak/ɡəˈrak/ movement; motion; action #877
- Malayalam നീക്കം/n̪iːkkɐm/ #605
- Polish do/ˈdɔ/ denotes allative movement; to, toward #11
- Portuguese movimento/mo.viˈmẽ.tu/ #1,545
- Romanian opri/oˈpri/ to stop the movement of something #696
- Russian ход[xot] motion, movement, travel, progress,… #1,991
- Slovak pokoj/pɔkɔj/ the state without movement or activity, rest #499
- Slovenian gibanje/ɡìːbanjɛ/ #1,148
- Spanish movimiento/mobiˈmjento/ #1,357
- Tagalog kilos/ˈkilos/ movement; motion; move; moving #796
- Tamil இயக்கம்/ɪjɐkːɐm/ movement, motion, moving about, function,… #509
- Ukrainian рух[rux] #1,934
- Urdu تحریک/t̪əɦ.ɾiːk/ motion, movement #1,418
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) and Slovenian (artur (sl_SI), CC BY 4.0).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
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