How to say “restaurant” in 35 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.
- restaurante/restauˈɾante/ Spanish
- ресторан[rʲɪstɐˈran] Russian
- مطعم/matˤ.ʕam/ Arabic
- 식당[ɕʰik̚t͈a̠ŋ] Korean
- εστιατόριο/e.sti.aˈto.ɾi.o/ Greek
- מסעדה/mis.(ʔ)aˈda/ Hebrew
“restaurant” in Spanish: restaurante · German: restaurant · Italian: ristorante · Portuguese: restaurante · Korean: 식당 · Russian: ресторан · Arabic: مطعم · Greek: εστιατόριο
It is commonest in Persian, where رستوران is the 798th most used word.
Restaurant in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans restaurant/rɛstʊə̯ˈrant/ #1,496
- Albanian restorant/ɾɛstɔˈɾant/ #1,715
- Arabic مطعم/matˤ.ʕam/ #824
- Basque jatetxe/ɟatet͡ʃe/ #810
- Bengali রেস্তোরাঁ/rest̪oɾã/ #1,480
- Bosnian restoran/ˈrɛstorɐn/ #1,342
- Bulgarian ресторант[rɛstoˈrant] #1,451
- Croatian restoran/ˈrɛstorɐn/ #1,475
- Czech restaurace[ˈrɛstau̯rat͡sɛ] #1,759
- Danish restaurant[ʁɛsd̥oˈʁɑŋ] #1,972
- Dutch restaurant/rɛstoːˈrɑnt/ #1,376
- Estonian restoran/ˈrestorɑn/ #2,070
- Galician restaurante/restawˈɾante/ #2,418
- German restaurant/rɛs.toˈrãː/ #1,725
- Greek εστιατόριο/e.sti.aˈto.ɾi.o/ #1,327
- Hebrew מסעדה/mis.(ʔ)aˈda/ #2,084
- Indonesian restoran/resˈtoran/ #1,208
- Italian ristorante/ris.toˈran.te/ #1,409
- Korean 식당[ɕʰik̚t͈a̠ŋ] #1,356
- Lithuanian restoranas[rʲɛstɔ²ˈrɑːnɐs] #1,221
- Macedonian ресторан[rɛstɔˈran] #1,494
- Malay restoran/resˈtorən/ #1,063
- Norwegian restauranten/rəstæ͡ʉˈrɑŋən/ a restaurant #2,254
- Persian رستوران[ɹes.t̪ʰo.ɹɒːn] #798
- Polish restauracji/rɛs.tawˈra.t͡sji/ #1,964
- Portuguese restaurante/ʁes.tawˈɾɐ̃.t͡ʃi/ #1,306
- Romanian restaurant/resˌtauˈɾant/ #1,402
- Russian ресторан[rʲɪstɐˈran] #2,277
- Serbian restoran/ˈrɛstorɐn/ #1,393
- Slovak reštaurácia/reʃtavraːt͡sia/ #1,711
- Slovenian restavracija/rɛstaʋràːt͡sija/ #1,156
- Spanish restaurante/restauˈɾante/ #1,444
- Swedish restaurang/rɛstɵˈraŋ/ a restaurant #2,478
- Tamil உணவகம்/ʊɳɐʋɐɡɐm/ restaurant, mess #1,843
- Ukrainian ресторан[restɔˈran] #1,437
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 Slovenian (artur (sl_SI), CC BY 4.0).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.