How to say “path” in 36 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.
- পথ/pɔt̪ʰ/ Bengali
- വഴി/ʋɐɻi/ Malayalam
- راستہ/ɾɑːs.t̪ə/ Urdu
“path” in French: chemin · German: wege · Portuguese: caminho · Turkish: yol
It is commonest in Malayalam, where വഴി is the 82nd most used word.
Path in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans pad[pɑt] path; way; street #264
- Arabic طريق/tˤa.riːq/ way, road, path, track, street #221
- Bengali পথ/pɔt̪ʰ/ path, trail #258
- Bulgarian път[pɤt] path, road, way, alley #127
- Catalan camí[kəˈmi] road; way; path #344
- Dutch baan/baːn/ a road, way, path #545
- English line/laɪn/ A path through two or more points; a… #512
- Estonian rada/ˈrɑd̥ɑ/ track, path #1,559
- Finnish tien/ˈtien/ way, road, path, route #1,207
- French chemin/ʃə.mɛ̃/ path, way, road #640
- Galician carreira/kaˈrejɾa/ way; a path or traditional road, usually… #1,147
- Georgian გზა[ɡ̊zä] way, path, road #295
- German wege/ˈvɛkə/ path, trail, track #2,327
- Greek διαδρομή/ˌðiaðroˈmi/ route, path, drive #1,901
- Hebrew מהלך/mahaˈlaχ/ course, path, trip #1,235
- Hindi रास्ता/ɾɑːs.t̪ɑː/ road, path, street #385
- Hungarian úton[ˈuːton] way, path, track, course #639
- Icelandic braut[ˈprœiːt] path, course, way #877
- Indonesian jalur[ˈd͡ʒalʊr] #1,100
- Korean 길[kiɭ] a road, a path, a street, a track; passage,… #449
- Lithuanian takas[²ˈtɑːkɐs] footpath, path #2,356
- Macedonian патека[ˈpatɛka] path, route #2,292
- Malay jalan/ˈd͡ʒalan/ path; road; street; track; way #182
- Malayalam വഴി/ʋɐɻi/ #82
- Norwegian vei/ˈvæ͡ɪ/ road, street, path #217
- Portuguese caminho/kaˈmĩ.ɲu/ #330
- Russian пути[pʊˈtʲi] way, path, road #603
- Slovenian poti/ˈpoːti/ way, path #212
- Swedish stig/stiːɡ/ a path, a trail #1,972
- Tagalog landas/lanˈdas/ path; trail; pathway; footpath #1,565
- Tamil வழி/ʋɐɻiː/ way, road, path #85
- Telugu దారి/d̪aːɾi/ a way, road, path #649
- Turkish yol[jɔɫ] path, road, way #352
- Ukrainian шлях[ʃlʲax] way, path #692
- Urdu راستہ/ɾɑːs.t̪ə/ path, way #215
- Vietnamese đường[ʔɗɨəŋ˨˩] road; street; path; route; trace #188
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.