How to say “strike” in 43 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.
- ضرب/dˤa.ra.ba/ Arabic
- 走向/t͡soʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵¹/ Chinese
- χτύπησες/ˈxti.pi.ses/ Greek
- զարկել/zɑɾˈkel/ Armenian
- படுத்த/pɐɖʊt̪ːɐ/ Tamil
- സമരം/samaɾam/ Malayalam
“strike” in Chinese: 走向 · Arabic: ضرب · Greek: χτύπησες
It is commonest in Vietnamese, where đánh is the 250th most used word.
Strike in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans geskrap/xəsˈkrɐp/ to strike or cross out #1,845
- Albanian rrahur/rahuɾ/ to strike, beat #1,647
- Arabic ضرب/dˤa.ra.ba/ to strike, to beat, to hit #871
- Armenian զարկել/zɑɾˈkel/ to strike, hit, knock, tap #1,484
- Basque jo/ɟo/ to hit, strike, punch #152
- Bengali আঘাত/aɡʱat̪/ blow, strike, hit #302
- Bosnian udariti/ǔdariti/ to physically strike, to hit #2,345
- Catalan cop[ˈkɔp] hit, blow, strike #201
- Chinese 走向/t͡soʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵¹/ #1,270
- Croatian udariti/ǔdariti/ to physically strike, to hit #2,041
- Dutch slag/slɑx/ a blow, knock, strike #1,066
- English beat/bɛt/ To hit; to strike #654
- Esperanto trafis/ˈtrafis/ to hit, strike #669
- Finnish lyö/ˈlyø̯/ to hit, strike, knock #1,718
- French frappé/fʁa.pe/ to hit, to strike, to bash #1,485
- Galician bates/ˈbates/ to hit; to strike #1,380
- German angriff/ˈanˌɡʁɪf/ attack, offensive, strike, assault,… #1,535
- Greek χτύπησες/ˈxti.pi.ses/ to strike, knock, hit, beat #2,298
- Hebrew פגיעה/pɡiˈʔa/ a blow, a strike, a hit #1,638
- Hindi मार/mɑːɾ/ to beat, hit, strike, knock #171
- Hungarian ütött[ˈytøtː] to hit, strike, beat, knock, slap, smack #1,983
- Icelandic slá[ˈstlauː] to hit, to strike #786
- Indonesian memukul/mə.mu.kʊl/ to hit, to strike, to beat #856
- Korean 쳐[t͡ɕʰʌ̹] to hit, to beat, to strike, to slap, to pound #792
- Latvian sit/ˈsit/ to hit, to strike, to beat #1,234
- Lithuanian mušti/ˈmʊʃ.tʲɪ/ to beat, strike, hit #2,227
- Macedonian удри[ˈudri] to hit, strike, punch #594
- Malay pukul/ˈpukul/ to hit, to strike, to beat #365
- Malayalam സമരം/samaɾam/ #918
- Norwegian treffe/ˈtrɛfə/ to hit, strike #429
- Persian بزن[bé.zæn] to beat, hit, strike #177
- Romanian lovit[loˈvit] to hit; to strike #662
- Russian удар[ʊˈdar] hit, blow, strike, kick, punch, cuff #1,292
- Slovak udrel/udrel/ to strike, to hit #1,019
- Slovenian udariti/udàːriti/ to hit, to strike #1,204
- Spanish golpe/ˈɡolpe/ hit, blow, strike #1,251
- Swedish jack/jak/ a narrow indentation from a strike of a sharp… #500
- Tamil படுத்த/pɐɖʊt̪ːɐ/ to strike, land on, fall on, touch, come into… #1,273
- Telugu కొట్టు/koʈːu/ a blow, a stroke, a strike #582
- Turkish vur/vuɾ/ to hit, to strike, to pound, to beat #1,110
- Ukrainian удар[ʊˈdar] blow, hit, strike, stroke #1,037
- Urdu مارنا/mɑːɾ.nɑː/ to beat, hit, strike #822
- Vietnamese đánh[ʔɗajŋ̟˧˦] to strike, usually with one's palms or a… #250
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), 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.