How to say “picture” 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.
- तस्वीर/t̪əs.ʋiːɾ/ Hindi
- εικόνα/iˈko.na/ Greek
- სურათი[suɾätʰi] Georgian
- চিত্র/t͡ʃit̪ɾo/ Bengali
- ചിത്രം/t͡ʃit̪ɾɐm/ Malayalam
“picture” in French: image · Hindi: तस्वीर · Turkish: resmi · Greek: εικόνα
It is commonest in Malayalam, where ചിത്രം is the 345th most used word.
Picture in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans prent/prɛnt/ image; picture; graphic #1,511
- Arabic فلم/film/ film, motion picture #830
- Armenian ֆիլմ/film/ film; motion picture, movie #461
- Basque irudi/iɾudi/ picture, image #631
- Bengali চিত্র/t͡ʃit̪ɾo/ a picture, drawing, painting #1,649
- Bosnian slike/ˈslikɛ/ picture, image #737
- Bulgarian картина[kɐrˈtinɐ] painting, picture, artwork #1,663
- Chinese 照片/ʈ͡ʂɑʊ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ pʰi̯ɛn⁵¹/ photograph; picture #141
- Croatian slike/ˈslikɛ/ picture, image #784
- Czech obraz[ˈobras] picture, painting, image #1,635
- Danish billede/ˈbeləðə/ picture, image #725
- Esperanto bildoj/ˈbildoi̯/ picture, image #1,515
- Estonian pilt/pilt/ #892
- Finnish kuva/ˈkuʋɑ/ picture, figure #1,109
- French image/i.maʒ/ picture, image #1,470
- Georgian სურათი[suɾätʰi] #1,010
- Greek εικόνα/iˈko.na/ picture, image, painting, illustration,… #1,154
- Hebrew תמונה/tmuˈna/ photograph, photo, picture #721
- Hindi तस्वीर/t̪əs.ʋiːɾ/ #475
- Hungarian képet[ˈkeːpɛt] picture, image #1,038
- Icelandic myndir/ˈmɪntɪr/ image, picture #334
- Indonesian membayangkan/məmbaˈjaŋkan/ to picture to one's self #1,247
- Italian immagino/imˈma.d͡ʒi.no/ to imagine, picture, fancy, conceive #662
- Korean 사진[sʰa̠d͡ʑin] photograph, picture #417
- Macedonian слика[ˈslika] image, picture, painting #527
- Malay gambar/ˈɡambar/ picture; drawing #439
- Malayalam ചിത്രം/t͡ʃit̪ɾɐm/ #345
- Norwegian bilde/ˈbɪldə/ picture, image #811
- Persian عکس[ʔækʰʲs] photograph, picture #349
- Polish zdjęcia/ˈzdjɛɲ.t͡ɕa/ photograph, picture #769
- Portuguese imagem/iˈma.ʒẽj̃/ image; picture; figure #1,483
- Russian кино[kʲɪˈno] movie, motion picture, film #1,353
- Serbian slike/ˈslikɛ/ picture, image #739
- Slovak obraz/ɔbras/ image, picture, painting #765
- Slovenian slika/slíːka/ picture, image #529
- Spanish situación/sitwaˈθjon/ situation, scenario, picture #752
- Swedish bild/ˈbɪld/ #1,025
- Tagalog larawan/laˈɾawan/ picture; portrait; photograph #1,299
- Tamil படம்/pɐɖɐm/ drawing, picture, painting #506
- Telugu బొమ్మ/bomːa/ An image, picture, painting #954
- Turkish resmi/ɾes.miː/ #777
- Ukrainian кіно[kʲiˈnɔ] movie, motion picture, film #1,279
- Urdu تصویر/t̪əs.ʋiːɾ/ image, picture, photograph #408
- Vietnamese tranh[t͡ɕajŋ̟˧˧] painting, picture #494
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), 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.