How to say “proud” in 30 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.
- orgulloso/oɾɡuˈʝoso/ Spanish
- فخور/fa.xuːr/ Arabic
- 自豪/t͡sɹ̩⁵¹ xɑʊ̯³⁵/ Chinese
- περήφανος/peˈrifanos/ Greek
- גאה/ɡeˈ(ʔ)e/ Hebrew
- ამაყი[ämäχʼi] Georgian
“proud” in Spanish: orgulloso · French: fier · German: stolz · Portuguese: orgulhoso · Chinese: 自豪 · Arabic: فخور · Greek: περήφανος
It is commonest in Icelandic, where stoltur is the 695th most used word.
Proud in other languages, A to Z
- Arabic فخور/fa.xuːr/ #1,074
- Armenian հպարտ/həˈpɑɾt/ #1,620
- Basque harrotu/harotu/ to become proud, become arrogant #1,873
- Bosnian ponosan/pǒnosan/ #1,405
- Bulgarian горд[ɡɔrt] #2,109
- Catalan orgullós[ur.ɡuˈʎos] #1,654
- Chinese 自豪/t͡sɹ̩⁵¹ xɑʊ̯³⁵/ proud; gratified #996
- Croatian ponosan/pǒnosan/ #1,474
- Czech hrdý[ˈɦr̩diː] #2,224
- Danish stolt/ˈsdʌlˀd/ #817
- Estonian uhke/ˈuhke/ #723
- Finnish ylpeä/ˈylpeæ/ proud; prideful #984
- French fier/fjɛʁ/ proud, gratified, honoured #1,262
- Galician orgulloso/ɔɾɡuˈɟoso/ #1,817
- Georgian ამაყი[ämäχʼi] #1,214
- German stolz/ʃtɔlt͡s/ #811
- Greek περήφανος/peˈrifanos/ #1,603
- Hebrew גאה/ɡeˈ(ʔ)e/ #712
- Hungarian büszke[ˈbyskɛ] #952
- Icelandic stoltur[ˈstɔl̥tʏr] #695
- Indonesian bangga/ˈbaŋɡa/ #847
- Korean 자랑스럽다[t͡ɕa̠ɾa̠ŋsʰɯɾʌ̹p̚t͈a̠] to be proud #2,174
- Macedonian горд[ɡɔrt] #1,177
- Norwegian stolte/ˈstɔltə/ #1,511
- Polish dumny/ˈdum.nɘ/ #1,588
- Portuguese orgulhoso/oʁ.ɡuˈʎo.zu/ #2,073
- Serbian ponosan/pǒnosan/ #1,413
- Slovak hrdý/ɦr̩diː/ #834
- Spanish orgulloso/oɾɡuˈʝoso/ #1,628
- Vietnamese kiêu[kiəw˧˧] arrogant, proud, haughty #1,919
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 Catalan (upc_ona (ca_ES), CC BY-SA 4.0), Estonian (news (et_EE), CC BY 4.0) and Vietnamese (vais1000 (vi_VN), CC BY 4.0).
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