How to say “season” in 33 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.
- temporada/tempoˈɾada/ Spanish
- сезон[sʲɪˈzon] Russian
- موسم/maw.sim/ Arabic
- 철[t͡ɕʰʌ̹ɭ] Korean
- मौसम/mɔː.səm/ Hindi
- עונה/(ʔ)oˈna/ Hebrew
“season” in Spanish: temporada · French: saison · Italian: stagione · Portuguese: estação · Korean: 철 · Russian: сезон · Arabic: موسم · Hindi: मौसम
It is commonest in Malayalam, where കാലം is the 166th most used word.
Season in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans seisoen/səi̯ˈsun/ season, time of year #674
- Arabic موسم/maw.sim/ #2,124
- Basque sasoi/s̺as̺oi̯/ season, time #1,041
- Bosnian sezona/sezǒːna/ #2,061
- Bulgarian сезон[sɛˈzɔn] #1,063
- Catalan estació[əs.tə.siˈo] #1,879
- Croatian sezona/sezǒːna/ #2,144
- Dutch seizoen/sɛi̯ˈzun/ a season, major part of the year #2,390
- Estonian hooaeg/hoːɑ̯e̯ɡ̊/ season, period, epoch #1,694
- French saison/sɛ.zɔ̃/ #1,709
- Galician época/ˈɛpoka/ time, season #962
- Georgian სეზონი[se̞zo̞ni] #883
- Greek εποχή/e.poˈçi/ age, epoch, season #1,076
- Hebrew עונה/(ʔ)oˈna/ #473
- Hindi मौसम/mɔː.səm/ #1,187
- Hungarian évad[ˈeːvɒd] #2,099
- Italian stagione/staˈd͡ʒo.ne/ #1,184
- Korean 철[t͡ɕʰʌ̹ɭ] #1,873
- Lithuanian sezonas[sʲɛˈzɔnɐs] #2,406
- Macedonian сезона[sɛˈzɔna] #1,356
- Malay musim/ˈmusim/ #675
- Malayalam കാലം/kaːlɐm/ #166
- Persian فصل[fæsl̥] #905
- Portuguese estação/is.taˈsɐ̃w̃/ #1,310
- Russian сезон[sʲɪˈzon] #1,348
- Serbian sezona/sezǒːna/ #2,036
- Spanish temporada/tempoˈɾada/ season, period, span of time #2,018
- Tamil வேனில்/ʋeːnɪl/ summer season #1,730
- Telugu వేసవి/ˈʋeːsaʋi/ the summer, hot season #312
- Turkish sezon/seˈzon/ #1,442
- Ukrainian сезон[seˈzɔn] #966
- Urdu گرما/ɡəɾ.mɑː/ summer, the hot season #1,748
- Vietnamese vụ[vu˧˨ʔ] #171
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 Catalan (upc_ona (ca_ES), CC BY-SA 4.0), Estonian (news (et_EE), CC BY 4.0) and Vietnamese (vais1000 (vi_VN), CC BY 4.0).
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Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.