How to say “signal” 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.
- сигнал[sʲɪɡˈnaɫ] Russian
- 신호[ˈɕʰi(ː)nβo̞] Korean
- संकेत/səŋ.keːt̪/ Hindi
- সঙ্কেত/ʃɔŋ.ket/ Bengali
“signal” in French: signal · German: signal · Italian: segnale · Korean: 신호 · Russian: сигнал · Hindi: संकेत · Turkish: sinyal
It is commonest in Tagalog, where hudyat is the 767th most used word.
Signal in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans teken/ˈtiə̯kən/ sign; signal #467
- Albanian sinjal/siɲal/ #1,312
- Arabic إشارة/ʔi.ʃaː.ra/ sign, signal #790
- Bengali সঙ্কেত/ʃɔŋ.ket/ #2,372
- Bosnian signal/sǐɡnaːl/ #1,133
- Bulgarian сигнал/siɡˈnaɫ/ signal, call #1,262
- Catalan senyal[səˈɲal] #795
- Croatian signal/sǐɡnaːl/ #1,182
- Czech signál[ˈsɪɡnaːl] #1,245
- Danish signal/siˈnæˀl/ a signal #1,672
- Dutch signaal/sɪnˈjaːl/ #1,671
- Esperanto signo/ˈsiɡno/ sign, signal #1,720
- Estonian signaal/siɡ̊ˈnɑːl/ #1,671
- French signal/si.ɲal/ #1,520
- Galician marca/ˈmaɾka/ mark, signal #1,879
- German signal/zɪˈɡnaːl/ #2,162
- Hindi संकेत/səŋ.keːt̪/ signal, indication, hint #952
- Icelandic merki[ˈmɛr̥cɪ] sign, signal, symbol #628
- Indonesian sinyal/siɲal/ sign, signal #1,173
- Italian segnale/seɲˈɲa.le/ signal, sign #1,419
- Korean 신호[ˈɕʰi(ː)nβo̞] signal; sign #1,046
- Lithuanian signalas[sʲɪ²ˈɡnɑːlɐs] #1,107
- Macedonian сигнал[siˈɡnaɫ] #1,059
- Malay tanda/ˈtandə/ sign, mark, signal, spot, symbol #603
- Norwegian signal/sɪŋˈnɑːl/ a signal #2,112
- Polish sygnał/ˈsɘɡ.naw/ #1,612
- Romanian semnal/semˈnal/ #1,709
- Russian сигнал[sʲɪɡˈnaɫ] #1,528
- Serbian signal/sǐɡnaːl/ #1,229
- Swedish signal/sɪŋˈnɑːl/ a signal #2,134
- Tagalog hudyat/hudˈjat/ signal; warning; alert #767
- Turkish sinyal/sinˈjɑl/ #1,715
- Ukrainian сигнал[seɦˈnaɫ] #949
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 Estonian (news (et_EE), CC BY 4.0).
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