How to say “sun” in 43 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 Tagalog, where araw is the 83rd most used word.
- Albanian dielli #847
- Arabic الشمس definite of شَمْس; the sun #407
- Basque eguzki #1,074
- Bengali সূর্য the sun #716
- Bosnian sunce #1,032
- Bulgarian слънце #1,784
- Catalan sol #249
- Croatian sunce #1,082
- Czech slunce #1,011
- Danish solen #1,215
- Dutch zon sun, Sun #1,018
- English day The time when the Sun is above the horizon… #148
- Esperanto suno the Sun #529
- Estonian päike #1,101
- Finnish aurinko the Sun #2,147
- French soleil #865
- Galician sol #468
- Greek ήλιος #1,713
- Hebrew חמה #1,552
- Indonesian matahari #669
- Korean 태양 sun; the Sun #1,649
- Latvian saule #1,121
- Lithuanian saulės #806
- Macedonian сонце #1,398
- Malay hangat hot, but not because of being left in the sun #1,411
- Malayalam രവി #2,061
- Norwegian solen #1,638
- Persian خورشید the sun #1,949
- Polish słońce #1,622
- Portuguese sol sun; sunlight, sunshine #819
- Romanian soarele #1,370
- Russian солнце #1,584
- Serbian sunce #919
- Slovak slnko #731
- Slovenian sonce #505
- Spanish sol #813
- Swedish solen #1,255
- Tagalog araw #83
- Tamil எல் #356
- Telugu పరిధి the halo of the sun or moon #1,021
- Turkish güneş #741
- Ukrainian сонце #1,196
- Urdu سورج Sun, sun #567
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.