How to say “stone” in 48 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 Hebrew, where לשם is the 210th most used word.
- Afrikaans stene #976
- Albanian gurë stone, rock #1,471
- Armenian քարի stone, rock #762
- Basque haitz stone, rock #2,051
- Bengali পাথর stone, rock #600
- Bosnian kamen #1,464
- Bulgarian камък stone, rock #1,420
- Catalan pedra #1,157
- Croatian kamen #1,453
- Czech kámen #1,754
- Danish sten #1,192
- Dutch steen #1,634
- English mark A stone or post used to indicate position and… #877
- Esperanto ŝtonoj #1,008
- Estonian kivi stone, rock #1,030
- French pierre #1,299
- Galician pedra #1,089
- Georgian ქვა #710
- German stein stone, rock #1,711
- Greek πέτρα rock, stone #1,786
- Hebrew לשם A kind of stone #210
- Hindi पत्थर stone, rock #1,243
- Icelandic stein stone, rock #1,527
- Indonesian batu stone, rock #629
- Italian pietra #2,349
- Korean 돌 rock, stone; pebble #1,242
- Latvian akmens stone, rock #1,088
- Lithuanian akmuo #1,324
- Macedonian камен stone, rock #924
- Malay batu stone; a hard earthen substance that form… #428
- Malayalam കല്ല് stone, rock #435
- Norwegian stein stone, rock #1,318
- Persian سنگ stone, rock #581
- Portuguese pedra #1,479
- Romanian piatră #1,666
- Russian камень stone, rock #2,093
- Serbian kamen #1,346
- Slovak kameň #866
- Slovenian kamen #598
- Spanish piedra #1,719
- Swedish sten a stone; a rock #1,739
- Tagalog bato #745
- Tamil கல் stone; rock #410
- Telugu శిలలు a stone #1,159
- Turkish taş stone, rock #1,166
- Ukrainian камінь stone, pebble #1,314
- Urdu پتھر stone, rock #550
- Vietnamese đá rock, stone #568
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.