How to say “pressure” in 35 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 Indonesian, where keras is the 352nd most used word.
- Albanian presion #1,350
- Bengali চাপ #598
- Bosnian pritisak #1,350
- Catalan pressió #1,659
- Croatian pritisak #1,557
- Czech tlak #1,514
- Danish tryk #1,745
- Dutch druk #442
- English press An instance of applying pressure; an instance… #1,140
- Estonian surve #2,109
- French pression #1,301
- Galician presión #1,813
- German druck #1,583
- Greek πίεση #1,235
- Hebrew לחץ #696
- Hindi दबाव #1,193
- Hungarian nyomás #973
- Indonesian keras resistant to pressure #352
- Italian pressione #1,323
- Korean 압력 #1,890
- Macedonian притисок #1,153
- Malayalam മർദ്ദം #2,056
- Norwegian presset #1,863
- Persian فشار #451
- Polish ciśnienie #2,317
- Portuguese pressão #1,312
- Romanian presiune #1,952
- Russian давление #2,127
- Serbian pritisak #1,308
- Slovak tlak #824
- Slovenian pritisk #726
- Spanish presión #1,382
- Tagalog presyon #1,776
- Tamil காற்றழுத்தம் atmospheric pressure #1,451
- Urdu دبانا to press, apply pressure #2,463
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.