How to say “order” in 51 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.
- orden/ˈoɾden/ Spanish
- أمر/ʔamara/ Arabic
- 命令/miŋ⁵¹⁻⁵³ liŋ⁵¹/ Chinese
- आदेश/ɑː.d̪eːʃ/ Hindi
“order” in Spanish: orden · French: ordre · Italian: ordine · Portuguese: ordem · Chinese: 命令 · Arabic: أمر · Hindi: आदेश · Turkish: buyur
It is commonest in Polish, where porządku is the 94th most used word.
Order in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans orde/ˈɔrdə/ #444
- Albanian rendi/ɾɛndi/ row, order, line #1,808
- Arabic أمر/ʔamara/ to order, to command, to bid, to instruct #139
- Armenian որպեսզի/voɾˈpeszi/ in order to #318
- Basque ordenatu/ordenatu/ to put in order, to arrange #2,064
- Bengali জন্য/d͡ʒonːo/ for; on behalf of; about; due to; because of;… #15
- Bulgarian наред[nɐˈrɛt] sequentially, in order, in line, in turn,… #175
- Catalan ordre[ˈɔr.dɾə] order, organization, discipline #535
- Chinese 命令/miŋ⁵¹⁻⁵³ liŋ⁵¹/ order; command; directive #224
- Croatian zapovijed/zâpoʋijeːd/ order, command #1,614
- Czech rozkaz[ˈroskas] order, command #1,171
- Danish orden/ɔrˀdən/ order, neatness #304
- Dutch bevel/bəˈvɛl/ order, command #1,057
- English fly/flaɪ/ Any insect of the order Diptera;… #951
- Esperanto ordo/ˈordo/ #289
- Estonian käsk/kæsk/ order, command #1,104
- Finnish jotta/ˈjotːɑ/ so that, in order that, for the purpose that #313
- French ordre/ɔʁdʁ/ #740
- Galician orde/ˈɔɾde/ #428
- Georgian რათა[ɾätʰä] in order to, so that #246
- German befehl[bəˈfeːl] command, order #1,151
- Greek ώστε/ˈo.ste/ so that, in order that, in order for #383
- Hebrew כדי/keˈdej/ in order: specifies a purpose #58
- Hindi आदेश/ɑː.d̪eːʃ/ order, mandate, injunction #376
- Hungarian rendbe[ˈrɛndbɛ] #1,026
- Icelandic skipun[ˈscɪːpʏn] command, order #1,067
- Indonesian agar/ˈa.ɡar/ to; in order to #344
- Italian ordine/ˈor.di.ne/ #785
- Korean 번째[pʌ̹ɲt͡ɕ͈ɛ] a dependent noun used to express the order or… #385
- Latvian pavēles/ˈpaʋeːles/ order, command #1,830
- Lithuanian tvarka[tʋɐrˈkɐ] order, orderliness; method #1,002
- Macedonian наредба[ˈnaɾɛdba] command, order #793
- Malay suruh/suruh/ to order someone to do something #406
- Malayalam ആജ്ഞ/äd͡ʒɲä/ command; order #1,139
- Norwegian orden/ˈɔrdn̩/ #361
- Persian دستور[d̪æs.t̪ʰuːɹ] command, order #438
- Polish porządku/pɔˈʐɔnt.ku/ #94
- Portuguese ordem/ˈɔʁ.dẽj̃/ #770
- Romanian ordine/ˈor.di.ne/ order, command #780
- Russian команда[kɐˈmandə] command, order #1,132
- Slovak poriadok/pɔrɪ̯adɔk/ #1,429
- Slovenian red/réːt/ #482
- Spanish orden/ˈoɾden/ #608
- Swedish sedan/seːdan/ then, after this, afterwards; next in order #269
- Tagalog para/ˈpaɾa/ for; so; in order to #18
- Tamil சட்டம்/tʃɐʈːɐm/ rule, order, law, act, condition, regulation,… #404
- Telugu అక్రమము/ˈakraˌmamu/ want of order #1,277
- Turkish buyur/buˈjuɾ/ to order, to command #1,464
- Ukrainian щоб[ʃt͡ʃɔb] so that, in order that; in order to #48
- Urdu نظام/nɪ.zɑːm/ system, order #183
- Vietnamese để[ʔɗe˧˩] in order to, so that, for, to #39
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