How to say “room” in 52 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.
- habitación/abitaˈθjon/ Spanish
- комната[ˈkomnətə] Russian
- غرفة/ɣur.fa/ Arabic
- 屋子/u⁵⁵ d͡z̥ɹ̩²/ Chinese
- 방[pa̠ŋ] Korean
- कमरे/kəm.ɾeː/ Hindi
“room” in Spanish: habitación · French: chambre · German: zimmer · Italian: stanza · Portuguese: sala · Chinese: 屋子 · Korean: 방 · Russian: комната
It is commonest in Arabic, where غرفة is the 198th most used word.
Room in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans kamer/ˈkɑː.mər/ A room, a chamber #208
- Albanian dhomën/ðɔmən/ room, chamber #456
- Arabic غرفة/ɣur.fa/ room, compartment, cell, chamber #198
- Armenian սենյակ/seˈnjɑk/ #703
- Basque gela/ɡela/ #279
- Bengali কামরা/kamɾa/ room, apartment #2,298
- Bosnian sobu/ˈsobʊ/ #515
- Bulgarian стая[ˈstajɐ] room, chamber #448
- Catalan sala[ˈsa.lə] a large room #691
- Chinese 屋子/u⁵⁵ d͡z̥ɹ̩²/ #854
- Croatian sobu/ˈsobʊ/ #539
- Czech pokoj[ˈpokoj] #690
- Danish værelse[ˈʋaːɐlsə] room; separate part of a building #593
- Dutch ruimte/ˈrœy̯mtə/ space, room #801
- English kitchen/ˈkɪt͡ʃ(ə)n/ A room or area for preparing food #1,112
- Esperanto ĉambro/ˈt͡ʃambro/ #616
- Estonian tuba/ˈtub̥ɑ/ room, chamber #767
- Finnish tilaa/ˈtilaː/ space, volume, room #1,162
- French chambre/ʃɑ̃bʁ/ a room #390
- Galician parede[paˈɾeðe̝] wall, especially of a room or a building #1,255
- German zimmer/ˈt͡sɪmɐ/ #507
- Greek δωμάτιο/ðoˈma.ti.o/ #397
- Hebrew חדר/ˈχe.deʁ/ #486
- Hindi कमरे/kəm.ɾeː/ room, chamber #608
- Hungarian szobában[ˈsobaːbɒn] #1,360
- Icelandic herbergi[ˈhɛr.pɛrcɪ] room, apartment #452
- Indonesian ok/ˌo ˈka/ operating theatre, operating room #287
- Italian stanza/ˈstan.t͡sa/ #477
- Korean 방[pa̠ŋ] #471
- Latvian istabā/ˈistabaː/ #755
- Lithuanian kambarys[kɐmbɐ²ˈrʲiːs] #603
- Macedonian соба[ˈsɔba] #294
- Malay bilik/ˈbilek/ A room #264
- Malayalam മുറി/muri/ #289
- Norwegian plass/ˈplɑs/ room, space #529
- Persian اتاق[ʔo.t̪ʰɒ́ːɢ̥] #209
- Polish miejsce/ˈmjɛj.st͡sɛ/ place, room, space #215
- Portuguese sala/ˈsa.lɐ/ #514
- Romanian camera/ˈkameˌɾa/ #369
- Russian комната[ˈkomnətə] #1,467
- Serbian sobu/ˈsobʊ/ #518
- Slovak izba/izba/ chamber, room #746
- Slovenian prostor/prɔ̀ːstɔr/ space, room #344
- Spanish habitación/abitaˈθjon/ #494
- Swedish rum/rɵm/ a room #440
- Tagalog kuwarto/kuˈaɾto/ #361
- Tamil இடம்/ɪɖɐm/ place, room, site, spot, situation; part or… #315
- Telugu గది/ˈɡadi/ room, apartment, closet #248
- Turkish oda/oˈda/ room, chamber #692
- Ukrainian кімната[kʲimˈnatɐ] #1,336
- Urdu کمرہ/kəm.ɾɑ(ː)/ room, chamber #1,385
- Vietnamese phòng[fawŋ͡m˨˩] a room #209
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).
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