How to say “pull” 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.
- سحب/sa.ħa.ba/ Arabic
- 빼[p͈ɛ] Korean
- खींचो/kʰĩː.t͡ʃoː/ Hindi
- വലിക്ക്/ʋɐlikkɨ/ Malayalam
- లాగండి/ˈlaːɡanɖi/ Telugu
“pull” in German: ziehen · Italian: tiro · Korean: 빼 · Arabic: سحب · Hindi: खींचो · Turkish: çek
It is commonest in Norwegian, where dra is the 147th most used word.
Pull in other languages, A to Z
- Albanian heq/hɛc/ to pull out #643
- Arabic سحب/sa.ħa.ba/ to pull, to drag #1,089
- Armenian հանել/hɑˈnel/ to pull out, to extract #487
- Bengali আকর্ষণ/akoɾʃon/ attraction, pull, draw #1,085
- Bosnian izvući/izʋǔːt͡ɕi/ to pull out, draw out #945
- Bulgarian измъкна[izˈmɤknɐ] to pull out #1,259
- Chinese 拿出/nä³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰu⁵⁵/ to take out; to pull out #842
- Croatian izvući/izʋǔːt͡ɕi/ to pull out, draw out #775
- Danish træk/trɛk/ to pull, drag, haul, tow #668
- Dutch trek/trɛk/ to pull, to draw #758
- English picked/pɪkt/ To grasp and pull with the fingers or… #1,151
- Esperanto tiru/ˈtiru/ to drag, draw, pull #822
- Estonian tõmbama/ˈtɤmb̥ɑmɑ/ to pull #2,061
- Finnish vetää/ˈʋetæːˣ/ to pull, drag, draw #1,347
- French tirer/ti.ʁe/ to draw, drag, pull #726
- Galician sacar/saˈkaɾ/ to take out, bring out, pull out #1,024
- Georgian გამომივიდა[ɡ̊ämo̞mividä] to succeed, to work out, to pull off #1,304
- German ziehen/ˈt͡siːən/ to pull; to drag #698
- Greek ξεκίνησε/kseˈciniˌse/ to start out, start off, set off, pull away #1,252
- Hebrew שלה/ʃaˈla/ to pull out, to draw out #124
- Hindi खींचो/kʰĩː.t͡ʃoː/ to pull #1,390
- Hungarian húzd[ˈhuːzd] to pull, draw #1,753
- Icelandic draga[ˈtraːɣa] to draw, drag, pull #727
- Indonesian menarik/məˈnarik/ to pull, to draw #348
- Italian tiro/ˈti.ro/ to pull, to draw, to tug, to drag #1,772
- Korean 빼[p͈ɛ] to pull, to remove, to take out #1,113
- Latvian velc/ˈʋælt͡s/ to pull #1,599
- Macedonian извади[ˈizvadi] to pull out, take out #742
- Malay menarik/məˈnarik/ to pull; to haul; to drag #320
- Malayalam വലിക്ക്/ʋɐlikkɨ/ to pull #836
- Norwegian dra/ˈdrɑː/ to pull, draw, drag #147
- Persian کشیدن[kʰʲæ.ʃiː.d̪æn] to pull, to drag, to haul #2,099
- Polish wyciągnąć/vɘˈt͡ɕɔŋɡ.nɔɲt͡ɕ/ to pull out, to take out #2,169
- Romanian trage/ˈtra.d͡ʒe/ to pull, draw, drag #665
- Russian вытащить[ˈvɨtəɕːɪtʲ] to take out; to pull out, to drag out #2,191
- Serbian izvući/izʋǔːt͡ɕi/ to pull out, draw out #1,014
- Slovak vytiahnuť/vicɪ̯aɦnuc/ to extract, pull out, take out #1,253
- Swedish dra/drɑː/ to pull #341
- Tagalog hila/ˈhila/ pull; pulling #976
- Tamil இழு/ɪɻɯ/ to drag, pull #587
- Telugu లాగండి/ˈlaːɡanɖi/ #351
- Turkish çek/t͡ʃec/ to pull #600
- Urdu کھینچنا/kʰẽːt͡ʃ.nɑː/ to pull #2,329
- Vietnamese kéo[kɛw˧˦] to pull #630
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) and Vietnamese (vais1000 (vi_VN), CC BY 4.0).
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Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.