How to say “release” in 31 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.
- سراح/sa.raːħ/ Arabic
- 推出/tʰu̯eɪ̯⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰu⁵⁵/ Chinese
- छोड़/t͡ʃʰoːɽ/ Hindi
- արձակել/ɑɾt͡sʰɑˈkel/ Armenian
- வெளியீடு/ʋɛɭɪjiːɖɯ/ Tamil
“release” in French: lâche · German: entlassen · Chinese: 推出 · Arabic: سراح · Hindi: छोड़
It is commonest in Hindi, where छोड़ is the 152nd most used word.
Release in other languages, A to Z
- Albanian lësho/ləʃɔ/ to let, let go, release #884
- Arabic سراح/sa.raːħ/ #1,566
- Armenian արձակել/ɑɾt͡sʰɑˈkel/ to release, to set free, to liberate #797
- Bosnian pusti/ˈpustɪ/ to let, let go, release #303
- Catalan alliberar[ə.ʎi.βəˈɾa] to liberate; free; release #2,372
- Chinese 推出/tʰu̯eɪ̯⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰu⁵⁵/ to release; to launch; to present to the… #2,424
- Croatian pusti/ˈpustɪ/ to let, let go, release #370
- Danish slap/ˈslɑb/ to let go, release, drop #440
- English throw/θɹoʊ/ To hurl; to release with some force from… #689
- Esperanto liberigu/libeˈriɡu/ to free, liberate, release #1,531
- French lâche/laʃ/ to release; to loosen; to let go #1,328
- German entlassen/ˌɛntˈlasn̩/ to release #1,877
- Hebrew שחרר/ʃiˈχʁeʁ/ To free, release, let go: to set free from… #1,378
- Hindi छोड़/t͡ʃʰoːɽ/ to release, let go #152
- Icelandic lausn[ˈlœistn̥] #1,221
- Indonesian melepaskan/mələˈpaskan/ to release from one's grasp #1,023
- Lithuanian atleisti/ɐtˈlʲæ̂ːɪsʲtʲɪ/ to release, let go #852
- Macedonian пушти[ˈpuʃti] to let, let go, release #281
- Malayalam വിട്/ʋiʈɨ/ to leave something, release hold #169
- Polish puść/ˈpuɕt͡ɕ/ to let go, to release #1,344
- Romanian elibera/e.li.beˈra/ to free, set free, release #2,447
- Serbian pusti/ˈpustɪ/ to let, let go, release #325
- Slovak pustiť/puscic/ to release, let go #873
- Slovenian spustiti/spustìːti/ to let go, to release #973
- Swedish släpp/ˈslɛp/ to let go; release #385
- Tagalog bumitiw/bumiˈtiw/ to release one's hold; to let go of; to unhand #1,660
- Tamil வெளியீடு/ʋɛɭɪjiːɖɯ/ the act of publishing; release; issue #1,085
- Telugu విడుదల/ʋiɖud̪ala/ leaving, release, liberation #550
- Turkish bırakmak/bɯ.ɾakˈmak/ to let go, release, relinquish #1,216
- Ukrainian звільнити[zʲʋʲilʲˈnɪte] to free, to liberate, to release, to set free #1,666
- Vietnamese thả[tʰaː˧˩] to release; to let go; to set free #687
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), 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.