How to say “spring” in 34 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 Korean, where 샘 is the 423rd most used word.
- Afrikaans lente spring, the season between winter and summer #738
- Albanian burim wellspring, spring #1,908
- Arabic معين well, spring, water source #1,660
- Armenian գարուն #1,643
- Basque iturri source, spring #1,189
- Bengali বসন্ত #1,807
- Chinese 春天 #1,015
- Danish sprang jump, leap, spring #1,932
- English result To proceed, spring up or rise, as a… #2,207
- Esperanto printempo #1,394
- Estonian allikas #1,897
- French source source, spring #1,728
- Galician primavera #1,190
- German springen to spring; to leap; to bounce #2,261
- Greek ανοίξεις spring, springtime, springtide #2,000
- Icelandic linda #1,373
- Italian saltare to jump, to leap, to spring #1,394
- Korean 샘 spring, fountain #423
- Latvian avots #1,867
- Lithuanian šaltinis source of water; spring #1,398
- Macedonian извор #1,515
- Malayalam വസന്തം spring season #1,689
- Persian منبع source, spring #1,180
- Portuguese fonte #1,604
- Russian источник #2,434
- Slovak jar #1,451
- Slovenian pomlad #1,446
- Spanish fuente spring, fountain #1,877
- Tamil குதி to jump, leap, spring, bound, skip #1,480
- Telugu జల #640
- Turkish kaynağı #1,877
- Ukrainian джерело #2,311
- Urdu بہار #2,306
- Vietnamese xuân #1,671
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.