How to say “rescue” in 32 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.
It is commonest in Norwegian, where redd is the 236th most used word.
Rescue in other languages, A to Z
- Albanian shpëtoj/ʃpətɔj/ to save, rescue #1,043
- Arabic أنقذ/ʔan.qa.ða/ to save, rescue #1,279
- Basque salbatu/s̺albatu/ to save, rescue #359
- Bengali বাঁচাও/bãt͡ʃao/ rescue, escape #546
- Bulgarian спася[spɐˈsʲɤ̟] to save, to rescue #1,278
- Catalan salvar[səlˈβa] to save, to rescue to survive, or rescue from… #563
- Chinese 救命/t͡ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ miŋ⁵¹/ to save a life; to rescue someone #321
- Danish redde/reðə/ to save, rescue #467
- Dutch hulp/ɦʏlp/ help, assistance, rescue #369
- English saved/seɪvd/ To help to survive, or rescue from harm #934
- Esperanto savi/ˈsavi/ to save, rescue #617
- Finnish pelastaa/ˈpelɑstɑːˣ/ to save, rescue #797
- French sauver/so.ve/ to save, rescue; to protect #610
- German retten/ˈʁɛtn̩/ to save, to rescue #628
- Greek σώσω/ˈso.so/ to save, rescue #1,429
- Hebrew הציל/(h)iˈt͡sil/ To save, to rescue #1,589
- Hindi बचाने/bə.t͡ʃɑː.neː/ to save, rescue #622
- Icelandic bjarga[ˈpjarka] aid, rescue, help #362
- Indonesian menyelamatkan/məˌɲɛlaˈmatkan/ to save, to rescue #371
- Italian salvare/salˈva.re/ to save, rescue, retrieve, deliver #1,049
- Lithuanian gelbėti[¹ˈɡʲæˑlʲbʲeːtʲɪ] to save, to rescue #1,434
- Macedonian спаси[ˈspasi] to rescue, save #407
- Malay selamatkan/səlaˈmatkan/ to help someone survive, or rescue someone #340
- Norwegian redd/ɾɛdː/ to rescue, save #236
- Polish uratować/u.raˈtɔ.vat͡ɕ/ to rescue, to save #1,254
- Romanian salvare/salˈvaɾe/ #2,029
- Russian спасти[spɐˈsʲtʲi] to save, to rescue #761
- Tamil காப்பாற்று/kɑːpːɑːrːɯ/ to save, rescue #1,251
- Turkish kurtarmak/kuɾtaɾˈmak/ to save, rescue; to disentangle, set free #982
- Ukrainian врятувати[wrʲɐtʊˈʋate] to save, to rescue #856
- Urdu بچانا/bə.t͡ʃɑː.nɑː/ to save, rescue #1,589
- Vietnamese cứu[kiw˧˦] to save, to rescue, to relieve #238
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) 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.