How to say “picture” in 44 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.
It is commonest in Chinese, where 照片 is the 141st most used word.
- Afrikaans prent image; picture; graphic #1,511
- Arabic فلم film, motion picture #830
- Armenian ֆիլմ film; motion picture, movie #461
- Basque irudi picture, image #631
- Bengali চিত্র a picture, drawing, painting #1,649
- Bosnian slike picture, image #737
- Bulgarian картина painting, picture, artwork #1,663
- Chinese 照片 photograph; picture #141
- Croatian slike picture, image #784
- Czech obraz picture, painting, image #1,635
- Danish billede picture, image #725
- Esperanto bildoj picture, image #1,515
- Estonian pilt #892
- Finnish kuva picture, figure #1,109
- French image picture, image #1,470
- Georgian სურათი #1,010
- Greek εικόνα picture, image, painting, illustration,… #1,154
- Hebrew תמונה photograph, photo, picture #721
- Hindi तस्वीर #475
- Hungarian képet picture, image #1,038
- Icelandic myndir image, picture #334
- Indonesian membayangkan to picture to one's self #1,247
- Italian immagino to imagine, picture, fancy, conceive #662
- Korean 사진 photograph, picture #417
- Macedonian слика image, picture, painting #527
- Malay gambar picture; drawing #439
- Malayalam ചിത്രം #345
- Norwegian bilde picture, image #811
- Persian عکس photograph, picture #349
- Polish zdjęcia photograph, picture #769
- Portuguese imagem image; picture; figure #1,483
- Russian кино movie, motion picture, film #1,353
- Serbian slike picture, image #739
- Slovak obraz image, picture, painting #765
- Slovenian slika picture, image #529
- Spanish situación situation, scenario, picture #752
- Swedish bild #1,025
- Tagalog larawan picture; portrait; photograph #1,299
- Tamil படம் drawing, picture, painting #506
- Telugu బొమ్మ An image, picture, painting #954
- Turkish resmi #777
- Ukrainian кіно movie, motion picture, film #1,279
- Urdu تصویر image, picture, photograph #408
- Vietnamese tranh painting, picture #494
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.