How to say “pig” in 39 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.
- خنزير/xin.ziːr/ Arabic
- 돼지[ˈtwɛ(ː)d͡ʑi] Korean
- सूअर/suː.əɾ/ Hindi
- γουρούνι/ɣuˈɾuni/ Greek
- חזיר/χaˈziʁ/ Hebrew
- പന്നി/pɐn̪n̪i/ Malayalam
“pig” in Italian: maiale · Portuguese: porco · Korean: 돼지 · Arabic: خنزير · Hindi: सूअर · Turkish: domuz · Greek: γουρούνι
It is commonest in Malayalam, where പന്നി is the 564th most used word.
Pig in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans varke/ˈfɐrkə/ #743
- Albanian derr/dɛr/ #1,509
- Arabic خنزير/xin.ziːr/ pig, swine, hog #1,522
- Basque txerri/t͡ʃeri/ #950
- Bosnian svinja/sʋǐːɲa/ #2,022
- Catalan porc[ˈpɔrk] pig, swine #1,580
- Croatian svinja/sʋǐːɲa/ #2,181
- Czech prase[ˈprasɛ] #2,145
- Danish galt[ˈɡalˀd] a castrated male pig #286
- Dutch big/bɪx/ piglet, little pig #1,908
- Esperanto porkoj/ˈporkoɪ/ #2,145
- Estonian siga/ˈsiɡ̊ɑ/ #1,273
- Galician porco[ˈpɔɾkʊ] #1,074
- German schwein/ʃvaɪ̯n/ swine, pig #1,379
- Greek γουρούνι/ɣuˈɾuni/ pig, hog, swine #2,054
- Hebrew חזיר/χaˈziʁ/ #1,080
- Hindi सूअर/suː.əɾ/ pig, boar #778
- Hungarian disznó[ˈdisnoː] swine, pig #2,343
- Icelandic svín[ˈsviːn] pig, swine #1,239
- Indonesian babi/ˈbabi/ #1,089
- Italian maiale/maˈja.le/ #2,352
- Korean 돼지[ˈtwɛ(ː)d͡ʑi] pig, swine #816
- Lithuanian kiaulė[²ˈkʲɛʊˑlʲeː] pig, piglet #1,561
- Macedonian свиња[ˈsviɲa] pig, swine #1,748
- Malay babi/ˈbabi/ #1,048
- Malayalam പന്നി/pɐn̪n̪i/ #564
- Norwegian svin/ˈsviːn/ hog, pig, swine #1,484
- Persian خوک[xuːkʰʲ] #962
- Portuguese porco/ˈpoʁ.ku/ #1,763
- Romanian porc/pork/ pig, hog, swine #1,643
- Serbian svinja/sʋǐːɲa/ #2,071
- Slovak sviňa/sviɲa/ #1,257
- Slovenian prašič/pràːʃit͡ʃ/ #1,361
- Swedish svin/sviːn/ hog, pig, swine #1,559
- Tagalog baboy/ˈbaboj/ #790
- Tamil பன்றி/pɐnriː/ hog, pig, swine #1,180
- Telugu పంది/pan̪d̪i/ pig, swine, hog #832
- Turkish domuz/doˈmuz/ pig, swine #1,132
- Vietnamese heo[hɛw˧˧] a pig #1,534
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