How to say “taste” 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 Malay, where rasa is the 68th most used word.
- Afrikaans lekkerder having a nice taste, tasty, good, delicious #1,621
- Albanian shije taste, flavour #1,118
- Bengali স্বাদ taste, flavour, savour, relish #774
- Bosnian ukus taste, as in a person’s implicit set of… #1,547
- Bulgarian вкус taste, flavour, savour, smack #1,349
- Catalan gust #785
- Chinese 味道 flavor; taste #362
- Croatian okus taste; flavor #2,074
- Czech chuť #1,363
- Danish smag #1,671
- Dutch lekker having a nice taste, tasty, delectable #444
- English delicious Pleasing to the sense of taste; tasty #1,982
- Esperanto dolĉa sweet, having a taste similar to sugar and… #1,628
- Estonian maitse #1,173
- French goût taste, flavour #1,512
- Galician gusto #917
- German schmeckt to taste #1,741
- Greek γλυκιά sweet in taste #530
- Hebrew מתוק Sweet: having a pleasant taste, akin to that… #652
- Hindi स्वाद #1,587
- Icelandic smakka to taste #2,081
- Indonesian rasa #247
- Korean 맛 taste, flavor #1,060
- Latvian garšo to taste good, to please #980
- Macedonian вкус #1,070
- Malay rasa taste, flavour #68
- Malayalam രുചി #834
- Norwegian smaker #1,745
- Persian مزه taste, flavour, smack, relish #922
- Romanian gust #1,525
- Russian вкус #1,763
- Serbian ukus taste, as in a person’s implicit set of… #1,432
- Slovak chuť #707
- Slovenian okus taste, flavour #581
- Spanish gusto #745
- Swedish smaka to taste #1,845
- Tagalog mamahalin having characteristics of something of… #1,019
- Tamil இனிப்பு the taste of sweetness #835
- Telugu రుచి taste, flavour, relish #468
- Turkish tatlı sweet; having a pleasant taste, akin to that… #537
- Ukrainian смак #1,947
- Urdu ذائقہ #1,599
- Vietnamese vị #247
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.