How to say “road” in 51 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 Persian, where راه is the 85th most used word.
- Afrikaans straat street, road #622
- Albanian rrugë road, street #315
- Arabic طريق way, road, path, track, street #221
- Armenian ճամփա #460
- Basque errepide #1,161
- Bengali রাস্তা road, street #281
- Bosnian putu #593
- Bulgarian път path, road, way, alley #127
- Catalan camí road; way; path #344
- Chinese 路上 on the road #358
- Croatian putu #595
- Czech cestě #564
- Danish vejen #381
- Dutch baan a road, way, path #545
- English street A paved part of road, usually in a village or… #620
- Estonian teid road, way #117
- Finnish tien way, road, path, route #1,207
- French route #548
- Galician estrada road, highway #1,006
- Georgian გზა way, path, road #295
- German straße street; road #719
- Greek δρόμο roadway, road, street, way #361
- Hebrew כביש A road, a street, especially a highway #1,847
- Hindi रास्ता road, path, street #385
- Icelandic götunni street, road #902
- Indonesian jalan road; way; street #178
- Italian strada road, way, street #407
- Korean 길 a road, a path, a street, a track; passage,… #449
- Latvian ceļu road, way #418
- Lithuanian kelias #306
- Macedonian пат way, road #126
- Malay jalan path; road; street; track; way #182
- Malayalam റോഡ് #427
- Norwegian vei road, street, path #217
- Persian راه #85
- Polish drogi #545
- Portuguese rua street; road #635
- Romanian drumul #324
- Russian пути way, path, road #603
- Serbian putu #606
- Slovak ceste #299
- Slovenian cesta #1,028
- Spanish carretera road, highway #1,881
- Swedish väg a road #234
- Tagalog kalsada road; street #1,137
- Tamil வழி way, road, path #85
- Telugu రహదారి road, roadway #405
- Turkish yol path, road, way #352
- Ukrainian дорога road, way #1,130
- Urdu سڑک #470
- Vietnamese đường road; street; path; route; trace #188
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.