How to say “queen” in 50 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 Georgian, where დედოფალი is the 235th most used word.
- Afrikaans koningin #494
- Albanian mbretëresha #1,207
- Arabic ملكة #936
- Armenian թագուհի #1,491
- Basque erregina #498
- Bengali রাণী #1,215
- Bosnian kraljica #1,199
- Catalan reina #436
- Chinese 女王 queen regnant; queen #701
- Croatian kraljica #1,324
- Czech královna #1,682
- Danish dronning #1,548
- English kingdom A realm having a king or queen as its actual… #2,468
- Esperanto reĝino female monarch. queen regnant #763
- Estonian kuninganna #864
- Finnish kuningatar #2,049
- French reine #1,178
- Galician raíña #644
- Georgian დედოფალი #235
- German miss title for a beauty queen #482
- Greek βασίλισσα #1,106
- Hebrew שרה lady, princess, queen #552
- Hindi रानी queen, princess #868
- Hungarian királynő queen regnant #2,183
- Icelandic drottning #1,454
- Indonesian ratu queen regnant: female monarch #748
- Italian regina #1,140
- Korean 퀸 a queen #1,110
- Latvian karaliene #1,479
- Lithuanian karalienė queen, female sovereign or ruler #954
- Macedonian кралица #1,125
- Malay ratu A queen regnant #996
- Malayalam റാണി queen, a female ruler or the female spouse of… #583
- Norwegian dronning #1,710
- Persian ملکه #565
- Portuguese rainha #1,106
- Romanian regina #1,091
- Russian королева #2,072
- Serbian kraljica #1,304
- Slovak kráľovná #808
- Slovenian kraljica #499
- Spanish reina #1,063
- Swedish drottning a queen #1,866
- Tagalog reyna queen; queen consort #1,978
- Tamil ராணி #1,994
- Telugu రాణి the wife of a king, a queen #1,627
- Turkish kraliçe #1,397
- Ukrainian королева #1,127
- Urdu ملکہ #1,079
- Vietnamese hậu #866
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.