How to say “owner” in 34 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.
- dueño/ˈdweɲo/ Spanish
- хозяин[xɐˈzʲaɪn] Russian
- αφεντικό/afendiˈko/ Greek
- տեր/teɾ/ Armenian
- মালিক/malik/ Bengali
- ഉടമ/uɖɐmɐ/ Malayalam
“owner” in Spanish: dueño · French: propriétaire · Italian: proprietario · Portuguese: dono · Russian: хозяин · Turkish: sahip · Greek: αφεντικό
It is commonest in Armenian, where տեր is the 88th most used word.
Owner in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans eienaar/ˈɛɪəˌnɑːr/ #946
- Arabic ذو/ðuː/ possessor of, owner of #362
- Armenian տեր/teɾ/ owner, proprietor #88
- Bengali মালিক/malik/ owner, proprietor, master #512
- Bosnian vlasnik/ʋlâːsniːk/ #1,363
- Bulgarian собственик[ˈsɔpstvɛnik] owner, proprietor #2,450
- Catalan amo[ˈa.mu] #1,154
- Chinese 主人/ʈ͡ʂu²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɻən³⁵/ master; owner #447
- Croatian vlasnik/ʋlâːsniːk/ #1,332
- Danish ejer/ˈɑjɐ/ #982
- Dutch eigenaar/ˈɛi̯.ɣəˌnaːr/ #1,553
- Estonian omanik/ˈomɑnik/ owner, proprietor #1,356
- French propriétaire/pʁɔ.pʁi.je.tɛʁ/ #1,920
- Galician dona/ˈdona/ #1,458
- Greek αφεντικό/afendiˈko/ owner, master #558
- Hebrew בעל/ˈbaː.ʕal/ master, owner #550
- Icelandic eigandi[ˈeiːɣantɪ] #2,268
- Indonesian pemilik/pəˈmiliʔ/ #1,196
- Italian proprietario/pro.prjeˈta.rjo/ owner, proprietary, proprietor, landlord #2,217
- Korean 주인[t͡ɕuin] master or owner #1,381
- Lithuanian savininkas/sɐvʲɪˈnʲɪŋˑkɐs/ #1,610
- Macedonian сопственик[ˈsɔpstvɛnik] owner, proprietor #2,191
- Malay pemilik/pəˈmilik/ #1,053
- Malayalam ഉടമ/uɖɐmɐ/ #1,865
- Norwegian eier/ˈæ͡ɪər/ an owner #899
- Persian صاحب[sɒː.ɦéb̥] owner; master #792
- Portuguese dono/ˈdõ.nu/ #1,631
- Russian хозяин[xɐˈzʲaɪn] owner, proprietor #2,223
- Serbian vlasnik/ʋlâːsniːk/ #1,386
- Spanish dueño/ˈdweɲo/ owner, proprietor, landlord #1,780
- Tagalog may-ari/majˈʔaɾiʔ/ owner; proprietor #355
- Turkish sahip/saːˈhip/ owner, possessor; someone who owns a property #346
- Ukrainian володар[wɔɫɔˈdar] #2,452
- Vietnamese khách[xajk̟̚˧˦] someone who is not the owner, host or… #451
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) 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.