How to say “star” in 44 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.
- estrella/esˈtɾeʝa/ Spanish
- نجمة/nad͡ʒ.ma/ Arabic
- 스타[sʰɯtʰa̠] Korean
- स्टार/sʈɑːɾ/ Hindi
- αστέρι/aˈste.ɾi/ Greek
- כוכב/koˈχav/ Hebrew
“star” in Spanish: estrella · French: star · Italian: stelle · Portuguese: estrela · Korean: 스타 · Arabic: نجمة · Hindi: स्टार · Turkish: yıldız
It is commonest in Basque, where izar is the 571st most used word.
Star in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans sterre/ˈstærə/ #837
- Albanian yll/yɫ/ #1,341
- Arabic نجمة/nad͡ʒ.ma/ #1,658
- Armenian աստղեր/asˈtʀer/ #858
- Basque izar/is̻ar/ #571
- Bengali তারকা/t̪aɾka/ #1,584
- Bosnian zvijezda/zʋijěːzda/ a star #1,511
- Bulgarian звезда[zvɛˈzda] #1,034
- Catalan estrella[əsˈtɾe.ʎə] #1,472
- Chinese 明星/miŋ³⁵ ɕiŋ⁵⁵/ celebrity; star #636
- Croatian zvijezda/zʋijěːzda/ a star #1,110
- Czech hvězda[ˈɦvjɛzda] #1,698
- Danish stjerne/stjɛrnə/ #1,845
- Dutch ster[stɛ̈ə̆r̠] #1,545
- English sun/sʌn/ A star, especially when seen as the centre of… #830
- Esperanto steloj/ˈsteloɪ/ #839
- French star/staʁ/ #1,591
- Galician estrelas/esˈtɾelas/ #1,500
- Greek αστέρι/aˈste.ɾi/ #1,964
- Hebrew כוכב/koˈχav/ #864
- Hindi स्टार/sʈɑːɾ/ star, celebrity #2,122
- Icelandic stjarna[ˈstjartna] a star #1,156
- Indonesian bintang/ˈbintaŋ/ #645
- Italian stelle/ˈstelle/ #1,812
- Korean 스타[sʰɯtʰa̠] #1,085
- Latvian zvaigznes/z-ˈʋaiɡz-nes/ #1,892
- Lithuanian žvaigždė[ʒʋɐɪɡ²ˈʒʲdʲeː] #871
- Macedonian ѕвезда[ˈd͡zvɛzda] #1,116
- Malayalam നക്ഷത്രം/n̪ɐkʂɐt̪rɐm/ star, celestial luminous star #1,128
- Norwegian stjerne/ˈstjɛrnɛ/ #2,337
- Persian ستاره[se.t̪ʰɒː.ɹé] #595
- Polish gwiazdy/ˈɡvjaz.dɘ/ #2,114
- Portuguese estrela/isˈtɾe.lɐ/ #1,385
- Romanian stele/ˈste.le/ #1,762
- Serbian zvezda/zʋěːzda/ a star #1,107
- Slovak hviezda/ɦvɪ̯ezda/ #861
- Slovenian zvezda/zʋèːzda/ #635
- Spanish estrella/esˈtɾeʝa/ #1,157
- Swedish stjärna/ˈɧɛːrˌna/ a star #2,286
- Tagalog artista/ʔaɾˈtista/ movie star; famous actor or actress #855
- Tamil நட்சத்திரம்/nɐʈtʃɐt̪ːɪɾɐm/ #723
- Turkish yıldız/jɯɫˈdɯz/ #920
- Ukrainian зірка[ˈzʲirkɐ] #2,189
- Urdu ستارہ/sɪ.t̪ɑː.ɾɑ(ː)/ #1,183
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 Slovenian (artur (sl_SI), CC BY 4.0).
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