How to say “storm” in 34 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.
- tormenta/toɾˈmenta/ Spanish
- عاصفة/ʕaː.sˤi.fa/ Arabic
- 폭풍[pʰo̞k̚pʰuŋ] Korean
- ქარიშხალი[kʰäɾiʃχäli] Georgian
- փոթորիկ/pʰotʰoˈɾik/ Armenian
- তুফান/t̪ufan/ Bengali
“storm” in Spanish: tormenta · Portuguese: tempestade · Korean: 폭풍 · Arabic: عاصفة · Turkish: fırtına
It is commonest in Tamil, where புயல் is the 248th most used word.
Storm in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans storm/stɔrm/ #1,231
- Albanian stuhi[stuˈhi] #1,579
- Arabic عاصفة/ʕaː.sˤi.fa/ #1,626
- Armenian փոթորիկ/pʰotʰoˈɾik/ storm; hurricane #1,203
- Basque ekaitz/ekai̯t͡s̻/ #1,117
- Bengali তুফান/t̪ufan/ #2,234
- Bosnian oluja/olǔːja/ #1,901
- Bulgarian буря[ˈburʲɐ] storm, tempest #1,853
- Catalan tempesta[təmˈpes.tə] storm, tempest #1,731
- Croatian oluja/olǔːja/ #1,988
- Dutch storm/stɔrm/ storm; a wind scale for very strong wind,… #1,885
- Esperanto ŝtormo/ˈʃtormo/ #2,305
- Estonian torm/torm/ #1,531
- Galician tormenta/toɾˈmɛnta̝/ #1,797
- Georgian ქარიშხალი[kʰäɾiʃχäli] #1,004
- Greek καταιγίδα/ka.teˈʝi.ða/ thunderstorm, storm #2,119
- Hungarian vihar[ˈviɦɒr] #2,494
- Indonesian badai/ˈbadai̯/ #1,169
- Korean 폭풍[pʰo̞k̚pʰuŋ] #1,764
- Latvian vētra[vǣːtɾa] storm which causes strong waves and land… #1,709
- Lithuanian audra[ˈâ̤ˑʊ.drɐ] #1,129
- Malay ribut/ˈribut/ #1,017
- Persian طوفان[t̪ʰuː.fɒ́ːn] storm, tempest #1,104
- Portuguese tempestade/tẽ.pesˈta.d͡ʒi/ #1,943
- Romanian furtună/furˈtu.nə/ storm, tempest, squall #2,332
- Serbian oluja/olǔːja/ #1,887
- Slovak búrka/buːrka/ #1,153
- Slovenian nevihta/nɛʋíːxta/ #932
- Spanish tormenta/toɾˈmenta/ #2,068
- Tamil புயல்/pʊjɐl/ storm, gale, tempest #248
- Telugu తుఫాను/ˈtupʰaːnu/ storm, tempest #354
- Turkish fırtına/fɯɾˈtɯ.na/ storm, tempest #1,871
- Urdu طوفان/t̪uː.fɑːn/ storm, tempest #679
- Vietnamese bão[ʔɓaːw˦ˀ˥] #1,354
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), Estonian (news (et_EE), CC BY 4.0), Slovenian (artur (sl_SI), CC BY 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.