How to say “quiet” in 41 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.
- queda/ˈkeda/ Spanish
- শান্ত/ʃant̪o/ Bengali
- خاموش[xɒː.múːʃ] Persian
“quiet” in Spanish: queda · Italian: zitto · Portuguese: quieto
It is commonest in Bengali, where শান্ত is the 246th most used word.
Quiet in other languages, A to Z
- Albanian qetësohem/cɛtəsɔhɛm/ to calm down, to quiet down #2,414
- Arabic هادئ/haː.diʔ/ calm, restful, quiet, tranquil #1,412
- Basque ixil/iˈʃil/ quiet, reserved in speech #2,294
- Bengali শান্ত/ʃant̪o/ quiet, calm #246
- Bosnian tih/tîx/ quiet, silent #645
- Bulgarian тишина[tiʃiˈna] silence, quiet #1,518
- Catalan calla/ˈkaʎə/ to be silent, to be quiet #633
- Croatian tih/tîx/ quiet, silent #627
- Czech ticho[ˈcɪxo] quiet, silence #987
- Danish rolig/ˈʁoːli/ calm, quiet, peaceful #341
- English chuckles/ˈtʃʌkəlz/ A quiet laugh #613
- Esperanto trankviliĝu/ˌtrankviˈlidʒu/ to calm down, quiet down #460
- Estonian vaikne/ˈvɑi̯kne/ #1,246
- Finnish hiljaa/ˈhiljɑː/ quietly, quiet, silently #429
- French tranquille/tʁɑ̃.kil/ calm, quiet, tranquil, still, peaceful, serene #919
- Galician quieto/ˈkjɛto/ quiet, still, having little motion or activity #2,086
- Georgian სიჩუმე[sit͡ʃʰume̞] calm, hush, quiet, quietness, quietude,… #1,125
- German beruhigen/bəˈʁuːiɡən/ to calm down, to quiet #1,747
- Greek σκάσε/ˈskase/ shut up, shut it, be quiet #716
- Hindi चुप/t͡ʃʊp/ silent, quiet #403
- Hungarian csendes[ˈt͡ʃɛndɛʃ] silent, quiet #2,399
- Icelandic rólegur[ˈrouː.lɛːɣʏr] quiet, calm #1,447
- Indonesian diam/ˈdiam/ #319
- Italian zitto/ˈd͡zit.to/ quiet, silent #884
- Latvian klusu/ˈklusu/ quiet, silent, quietly, silently; adverbial… #925
- Lithuanian patylėk[pɐtʲiː¹ˈlʲeːk] to be quiet; to be able to be quiet #1,190
- Macedonian молчи[ˈmɔɫt͡ʃi] to be silent, keep quiet #1,500
- Malay diam/ˈdiam/ quiet; silent #310
- Norwegian rolig/ˈruːlɪ/ calm, quiet, peaceful #413
- Persian خاموش[xɒː.múːʃ] #740
- Polish uspokój/uˈspɔ.kuj/ to calm, to soothe, to quiet #1,123
- Portuguese quieto/kiˈɛ.tu/ #1,994
- Serbian tih/tîx/ quiet, silent #655
- Slovenian tih/tíːx/ quiet, silent #1,476
- Spanish queda/ˈkeda/ quiet, still #533
- Swedish tysta/ˈtysta/ quiet, silent #1,862
- Tagalog tumahimik/tumaˈhimik/ to become quiet; to become silent #266
- Tamil அமை/ɐmɐɪ̯/ to become still, quiet, to subside #1,201
- Turkish sus/ˈsus/ to be quiet #1,245
- Urdu چپ/t͡ʃʊp/ silent, quiet #492
- Vietnamese im[ʔim˧˧] calm; silent; quiet; not talking anymore #646
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), Slovenian (artur (sl_SI), CC BY 4.0) and Vietnamese (vais1000 (vi_VN), CC BY 4.0).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.