How to say “road” in 51 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.
- carretera/kareˈteɾa/ Spanish
- 길[kiɭ] Korean
- रास्ता/ɾɑːs.t̪ɑː/ Hindi
- כביש/ˈkviʃ/ Hebrew
- ճամփա/t͡ʃɑmˈpʰɑ/ Armenian
- রাস্তা/rast̪a/ Bengali
“road” in Spanish: carretera · French: route · Italian: strada · Korean: 길 · Hindi: रास्ता
It is commonest in Persian, where راه is the 85th most used word.
Road in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans straat/strɑːt/ street, road #622
- Albanian rrugë/ˈruɡə/ road, street #315
- Arabic طريق/tˤa.riːq/ way, road, path, track, street #221
- Armenian ճամփա/t͡ʃɑmˈpʰɑ/ #460
- Basque errepide/erepide/ #1,161
- Bengali রাস্তা/rast̪a/ road, street #281
- Bosnian putu/ˈputʊ/ #593
- Bulgarian път[pɤt] path, road, way, alley #127
- Catalan camí[kəˈmi] road; way; path #344
- Chinese 路上/lu⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʂɑŋ⁵¹/ on the road #358
- Croatian putu/ˈputʊ/ #595
- Czech cestě[ˈt͡sɛscɛ] #564
- Danish vejen/ˈvɑjən/ #381
- Dutch baan/baːn/ a road, way, path #545
- English street/stɹit/ A paved part of road, usually in a village or… #620
- Estonian teid/tei̯d̥/ road, way #117
- Finnish tien/ˈtien/ way, road, path, route #1,207
- French route/ʁut/ #548
- Galician estrada/esˈtɾaða̝/ road, highway #1,006
- Georgian გზა[ɡ̊zä] way, path, road #295
- German straße/ˈʃtʁaːsə/ street; road #719
- Greek δρόμο/ˈðromo/ roadway, road, street, way #361
- Hebrew כביש/ˈkviʃ/ A road, a street, especially a highway #1,847
- Hindi रास्ता/ɾɑːs.t̪ɑː/ road, path, street #385
- Icelandic götunni/ˈkœːtʏnɪ/ street, road #902
- Indonesian jalan/ˈd͡ʒalan/ road; way; street #178
- Italian strada/ˈstra.da/ road, way, street #407
- Korean 길[kiɭ] a road, a path, a street, a track; passage,… #449
- Latvian ceļu/ˈt͡seʎu/ road, way #418
- Lithuanian kelias[²ˈkʲæːlʲɛs] #306
- Macedonian пат[pat] way, road #126
- Malay jalan/ˈd͡ʒalan/ path; road; street; track; way #182
- Malayalam റോഡ്/roːɖɨ̆/ #427
- Norwegian vei/ˈvæ͡ɪ/ road, street, path #217
- Persian راه[ɹɒːʱ] #85
- Polish drogi/ˈdrɔ.ɡi/ #545
- Portuguese rua/ˈʁu.ɐ/ street; road #635
- Romanian drumul/druˈmul/ #324
- Russian пути[pʊˈtʲi] way, path, road #603
- Serbian putu/ˈputʊ/ #606
- Slovak ceste/t͡sesce/ #299
- Slovenian cesta/t͡sèːsta/ #1,028
- Spanish carretera/kareˈteɾa/ road, highway #1,881
- Swedish väg/vɛːɡ/ a road #234
- Tagalog kalsada/kalˈsada/ road; street #1,137
- Tamil வழி/ʋɐɻiː/ way, road, path #85
- Telugu రహదారి/ɾahad̪aːɾi/ road, roadway #405
- Turkish yol[jɔɫ] path, road, way #352
- Ukrainian дорога[dɔˈrɔɦɐ] road, way #1,130
- Urdu سڑک/sə.ɽək/ #470
- Vietnamese đường[ʔɗɨəŋ˨˩] road; street; path; route; trace #188
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.