How to say “nose” in 44 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.
- nariz/naˈɾiθ/ Spanish
- нос[nos] Russian
- 鼻子/pi³⁵ d͡z̥ɹ̩³/ Chinese
- 코[kʰo̞] Korean
- नाक/nɑːk/ Hindi
- μύτη/ˈmiti/ Greek
“nose” in Spanish: nariz · French: nez · German: nase · Italian: naso · Portuguese: nariz · Chinese: 鼻子 · Korean: 코 · Russian: нос
It is commonest in Slovenian, where nos is the 521st most used word.
Nose in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans neus/nɪøs/ #735
- Albanian hundën/hundən/ #1,725
- Armenian քիթ/kʰitʰ/ #1,210
- Basque sudur/s̺udur/ #1,259
- Bengali নাক/nak/ #737
- Bosnian nos/nôːs/ #1,120
- Bulgarian носа/noˈsa/ #1,231
- Catalan nas[ˈnas] #1,505
- Chinese 鼻子/pi³⁵ d͡z̥ɹ̩³/ #666
- Croatian nos/nôːs/ #1,109
- Danish næse[ˈnɛːsə] #1,958
- Dutch neus/nøːs/ #1,122
- Esperanto nazon/ˈnazon/ #1,282
- Estonian nina/ˈninɑ/ #716
- French nez/ne/ #1,105
- Galician nariz/naˈɾiθ/ #1,387
- German nase/ˈnaːzə/ #1,188
- Greek μύτη/ˈmiti/ #1,189
- Hindi नाक/nɑːk/ #1,674
- Icelandic nef[ˈnɛːv] #2,255
- Indonesian hidung/ˈhiduŋ/ #1,977
- Italian naso/ˈna.zo/ #1,493
- Korean 코[kʰo̞] #980
- Latvian degunu/ˈdæɡunu/ #1,638
- Lithuanian nosis[¹ˈnoːsʲɪs] #1,703
- Macedonian носот[ˈnɔsɔt] #1,169
- Malay hidung/ˈhiduŋ/ #1,233
- Malayalam മൂക്ക്/muːkkɨ/ #766
- Norwegian nesen/ˈneːsn̩/ a nose #2,313
- Persian دماغ[d̪æ.mɒ́ːɢ̥] #2,200
- Portuguese nariz/naˈɾis/ #1,493
- Romanian nas/ˈnas/ #1,658
- Russian нос[nos] #1,715
- Serbian nos/nôːs/ #1,085
- Slovak nos/nɔs/ #797
- Slovenian nos/nóːs/ #521
- Spanish nariz/naˈɾiθ/ #1,640
- Swedish luktar/ˈlɵktar/ to smell; to use one’s nose #1,091
- Tagalog ilong/ʔiˈloŋ/ #774
- Tamil மூக்கை/muːkːɐɪ̯/ nose, nostril #1,904
- Telugu ముక్కు/mukːu/ The nose #779
- Ukrainian ніс[nʲis] #1,769
- Urdu ناک/nɑːk/ #1,150
- Vietnamese mũi[muj˦ˀ˥] #1,047
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.