How to say “sight” in 32 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.
- رؤية/ruʔ.ja/ Arabic
- नज़र/nə.zəɾ/ Hindi
- מראה/maʁˈ(ʔ)e/ Hebrew
- দর্শন/d̪ɔɾʃon/ Bengali
- காட்சி/kɑːʈtʃiː/ Tamil
- దృష్టి/d̪ɻ̍ʂʈi/ Telugu
“sight” in Arabic: رؤية · Hindi: नज़र
It is commonest in Arabic, where رؤية is the 245th most used word.
Sight in other languages, A to Z
- Albanian pamje/pamjɛ/ appearance, sight, view #858
- Arabic رؤية/ruʔ.ja/ sight; vision #245
- Armenian տեսողություն/tesoʁuˈtʰjun/ eyesight, sight, vision #1,248
- Bengali দর্শন/d̪ɔɾʃon/ sight, vision, observation, view, semblance #1,064
- Catalan visió[bi.ziˈo] vision, sight #1,848
- Chinese 看到/kʰän⁵¹⁻⁵³ tɑʊ̯⁵¹/ to catch sight of; to see #19
- Danish syn/ˈsyːˀn/ vision, faculty of sight #1,794
- Dutch zicht/zɪxt/ sight, view, vision #1,925
- English hide/haɪd/ To put in a place where it will be out of… #903
- Finnish esiin/ˈesiːn/ out, in the open, into sight #1,008
- French vision/vi.zjɔ̃/ vision, sight #2,095
- German sehen/ˈzeː.ən/ to see; to have sight #107
- Greek θέα/ˈθea/ view, sight #2,102
- Hebrew מראה/maʁˈ(ʔ)e/ sight, appearance #822
- Hindi नज़र/nə.zəɾ/ sight, vision, glance, look #1,053
- Indonesian pandangan/panˈdaŋan/ #1,729
- Lithuanian vaizdas[²ˈʋɐɪˑzdɐs] view, sight #1,211
- Macedonian вид[vit] #516
- Malay nampak/ˈnampak/ to see; to catch sight of; to perceive… #122
- Malayalam നോട്ടം/n̪oːʈʈɐm/ look, sight, examination #660
- Norwegian syn/ˈsyːn/ sight, eyesight, vision #2,102
- Persian تماشا[t̪ʰæ.mɒː.ʃɒː] sight, seeing, beholding, watching, looking… #909
- Polish zobaczyć/zɔˈba.t͡ʂɘt͡ɕ/ to see; to catch sight of, to glimpse #256
- Romanian vedere/veˈde.re/ #736
- Russian увидеть[ʊˈvʲidʲɪtʲ] to see, to catch sight of, to notice #428
- Slovak zrak/zrak/ vision, sight #1,551
- Swedish syns/ˈsyns/ sight, vision #1,639
- Tamil காட்சி/kɑːʈtʃiː/ sight, view #501
- Telugu దృష్టి/d̪ɻ̍ʂʈi/ sight, seeing #382
- Turkish görüntü/ɟø.ɾynˈty/ view, sight, scenery #1,987
- Urdu منظر/mən.zəɾ/ sight; view; scene #1,011
- Vietnamese đi[ʔɗi˧˧] away; out of sight #8
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) 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.