How to say “throw” in 46 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.
- echar/eˈt͡ʃaɾ/ Spanish
- бросить[ˈbrosʲɪtʲ] Russian
- طرح/tˤaraħa/ Arabic
- זרק/zaˈʁak/ Hebrew
- ყრის[χʼɾis] Georgian
- նետել/neˈtel/ Armenian
“throw” in Spanish: echar · French: jeter · German: werfen · Portuguese: atirar · Russian: бросить · Arabic: طرح · Turkish: at
It is commonest in Basque, where bota is the 150th most used word.
Throw in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans gooi/ˈxɔɪ/ to throw #461
- Albanian hedh/hɛð/ to throw, toss, hurl #722
- Arabic طرح/tˤaraħa/ to throw, to cast, to fling, to toss #1,996
- Armenian նետել/neˈtel/ to throw, to cast #635
- Basque bota/bota/ to throw #150
- Bosnian baci/ˈbatsɪ/ to throw, cast #932
- Bulgarian хвърля[ˈxvɤrlʲɐ] to throw, to toss #1,940
- Catalan tirar[tiˈɾa] to throw, cast #1,653
- Chinese 投入/tʰoʊ̯³⁵ ɻu⁵¹/ to throw into; to put into; to insert #1,028
- Croatian baci/ˈbatsɪ/ to throw, cast #1,050
- Czech hodit[ˈɦoɟɪt] to cast, throw #1,461
- Danish smide[ˈsmiːðə] to throw, toss #1,349
- Dutch gooi/ɣoːi̯/ to throw #1,193
- English cast/kæst/ To throw #2,279
- Esperanto ĵetu/ˈʒetu/ to throw, fling, lob, pitch #1,260
- Estonian visata/ˈvisɑtɑ/ to throw #1,171
- Finnish heittää/ˈhei̯tːæːˣ/ to throw, cast, hurl, toss #1,676
- French jeter/ʒə.te/ to throw #1,081
- Galician botar/boˈtaɾ/ to throw #874
- Georgian ყრის[χʼɾis] to throw #1,520
- German werfen/ˈvɛrfən/ to throw #1,371
- Hebrew זרק/zaˈʁak/ To throw, to toss: to cause an object to move… #1,883
- Hungarian dobd[ˈdobd] to throw, to cast #1,976
- Icelandic kasta[ˈkʰasta] to throw, to fling, to hurl, to toss #907
- Indonesian buang/ˈbuaŋ/ to throw away #1,075
- Latvian met[ˈmɛt] to throw #770
- Lithuanian mesti[ˈmʲɛsʲtʲɪ] to throw #1,039
- Macedonian фрли[ˈfr̩li] to throw, toss #583
- Malay buang/ˈbuaŋ/ to discard, reject, or throw away #641
- Malayalam കള/kɐɭɐ/ #572
- Norwegian kastet/ˈkɑstə/ #741
- Persian پرتاب[pʰæɹ.t̪ʰɒːb̥] throw, toss, hurl, shot #1,045
- Polish rzuć/ˈʐut͡ɕ/ to throw; to pitch, to toss, to cast with… #1,845
- Portuguese atirar/a.t͡ʃiˈɾa(ʁ)/ to throw #1,595
- Romanian aruncat/ˌaɾunˈkat/ throw, cast, hurl #952
- Russian бросить[ˈbrosʲɪtʲ] to throw #1,543
- Serbian baci/ˈbatsɪ/ to throw, cast #939
- Slovak hod/ɦɔt/ #2,117
- Slovenian vreči/ʋrèːt͡ʃi/ to throw #924
- Spanish echar/eˈt͡ʃaɾ/ to throw, toss, cast, jettison #1,625
- Swedish kasta/ˈkasta/ to throw #1,047
- Tagalog ihagis/ʔiˈhaɡis/ to cast; to throw #1,498
- Tamil வீச்சு/ʋiːtʃtʃɯ/ throw, cast #1,111
- Turkish at/ˈat/ to throw, cast, fire #560
- Ukrainian кинути[ˈkɪnʊte] to throw, to cast, to fling, to hurl #1,793
- Vietnamese phóng[fawŋ͡m˧˦] to throw; to launch; to let out #859
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 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.