How to say “pressure” in 35 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.
- presión/pɾeˈsjon/ Spanish
- давление[dɐˈvlʲenʲɪje] Russian
- 압력[a̠mɲʌ̹k̚] Korean
- दबाव/d̪ə.bɑːʋ/ Hindi
- πίεση/ˈpieˌsi/ Greek
- לחץ/ˈlaχat͡s/ Hebrew
“pressure” in Spanish: presión · French: pression · German: druck · Italian: pressione · Portuguese: pressão · Korean: 압력 · Russian: давление · Hindi: दबाव
It is commonest in Dutch, where druk is the 442nd most used word.
Pressure in other languages, A to Z
- Albanian presion/pɾɛsiɔn/ #1,350
- Bengali চাপ/t͡ʃap/ #598
- Bosnian pritisak/prǐtisak/ #1,350
- Catalan pressió[pɾə.siˈo] #1,659
- Croatian pritisak/prǐtisak/ #1,557
- Czech tlak[ˈtlak] #1,514
- Danish tryk[ˈtˢʁ̥œɡ̊] #1,745
- Dutch druk/drʏk/ #442
- English press/pɹɛs/ An instance of applying pressure; an instance… #1,140
- Estonian surve/ˈsurve/ #2,109
- French pression/pʁɛ.sjɔ̃/ #1,301
- Galician presión/pɾeˈsjoŋ/ #1,813
- German druck/dʁʊk/ #1,583
- Greek πίεση/ˈpieˌsi/ #1,235
- Hebrew לחץ/ˈlaχat͡s/ #696
- Hindi दबाव/d̪ə.bɑːʋ/ #1,193
- Hungarian nyomás[ˈɲomaːʃ] #973
- Indonesian keras/kəˈras/ resistant to pressure #352
- Italian pressione/presˈsjo.ne/ #1,323
- Korean 압력[a̠mɲʌ̹k̚] #1,890
- Macedonian притисок[ˈpritisɔk] #1,153
- Malayalam മർദ്ദം/mɐrd̪d̪ɐm/ #2,056
- Norwegian presset/ˈprɛsə/ #1,863
- Persian فشار[fe.ʃɒːɹ] #451
- Polish ciśnienie/t͡ɕiɕˈɲɛ.ɲɛ/ #2,317
- Portuguese pressão/pɾeˈsɐ̃w̃/ #1,312
- Romanian presiune/preˈsjune/ #1,952
- Russian давление[dɐˈvlʲenʲɪje] #2,127
- Serbian pritisak/prǐtisak/ #1,308
- Slovak tlak/tlak/ #824
- Slovenian pritisk/pritíːsk/ #726
- Spanish presión/pɾeˈsjon/ #1,382
- Tagalog presyon/pɾesˈjon/ #1,776
- Tamil காற்றழுத்தம்/kɑːrːɐɻʊt̪ːɐm/ atmospheric pressure #1,451
- Urdu دبانا/d̪ə.bɑː.nɑː/ to press, apply pressure #2,463
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 Slovenian (artur (sl_SI), CC BY 4.0).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.