How to say “table” in 47 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.
- mesa/ˈmesa/ Spanish
- стол[stoɫ] Russian
- طاولة/tˤaː.wi.la/ Arabic
- 테이블[tʰe̞ibɯɭ] Korean
- टेबल/ʈeː.bəl/ Hindi
- τραπέζι/tɾaˈpezi/ Greek
“table” in Spanish: mesa · Italian: tavolo · Portuguese: mesa · Korean: 테이블 · Russian: стол · Arabic: طاولة · Hindi: टेबल · Turkish: masa
It is commonest in Afrikaans, where tafel is the 468th most used word.
Table in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans tafel/ˈtɑːfəl/ #468
- Arabic طاولة/tˤaː.wi.la/ #1,239
- Armenian սեղանի/ˌseʀaˈni/ #620
- Basque mahai/mahai̯/ #646
- Bengali টেবিল/ʈebil/ #1,033
- Bosnian stol/stôːl/ #1,689
- Bulgarian маса[ˈmasɐ] #1,265
- Catalan taula[ˈtaw.lə] #799
- Chinese 案子/ˀän⁵¹ d͡z̥ɹ̩¹/ long table; counter #272
- Croatian stol/stôːl/ #1,044
- Czech stůl[ˈstuːl] #1,266
- Danish bord/ˈboːˀr/ table, desk #751
- Dutch tafel/ˈtaːfəl/ #920
- English desk/dɛsk/ A table, frame, or case, in past centuries… #1,683
- Esperanto tablo/ˈtablo/ #1,034
- Galician mesa/ˈmesa/ #768
- German tisch/tɪʃ/ dining table, dinner table #906
- Greek τραπέζι/tɾaˈpezi/ #860
- Hebrew שולחן/ʃulˈħaːn/ table, desk #1,158
- Hindi टेबल/ʈeː.bəl/ a table #2,335
- Icelandic borð[ˈpɔrð] #1,510
- Indonesian meja/ˈmed͡ʒa/ #792
- Italian tavolo/ˈta.vo.lo/ table, board, desk #1,183
- Korean 테이블[tʰe̞ibɯɭ] #1,237
- Latvian galda/ˈɡallda/ #723
- Lithuanian stalas[²ˈstɑːlɐs] #1,718
- Macedonian маса[ˈmasa] #866
- Malay meja/ˈmed͡ʒə/ #732
- Malayalam മേശ/meːʃɐ/ #1,080
- Norwegian bord/buːɽ/ #835
- Persian خوان[xɒːn] table or large tray particularly such one as… #761
- Polish stole/ˈstɔ.lɛ/ #2,291
- Portuguese mesa/ˈme.zɐ/ #750
- Romanian masă/ˈma.sə/ #809
- Russian стол[stoɫ] #1,569
- Serbian stol/stôːl/ #2,419
- Slovak stôl/stu̯ɔɫ/ #695
- Slovenian miza/mìːza/ #1,023
- Spanish mesa/ˈmesa/ #816
- Swedish bordet/ˈbuːrdɛt/ a table #1,332
- Tagalog lamesa/laˈmesa/ #995
- Tamil மேசை/meːtʃɐɪ̯/ #848
- Telugu సొరుగు/soruɡu/ the drawer of a table or box #1,425
- Turkish masa[mɑˈsɑ] #1,721
- Ukrainian стіл[sʲtʲiɫ] #1,477
- Urdu میز/meːz/ #1,082
- Vietnamese bàn[ʔɓaːn˨˩] #477
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.