How to say “tooth” in 40 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.
- dientes/ˈdjɛntes/ Spanish
- зубы[ˈzubɨ] Russian
- 이빨[ip͈a̠ɭ] Korean
- दाँत/d̪ɑ̃ːt̪/ Hindi
- δόντια/ˈðon.dʝa/ Greek
- ատամի/ˌataˈmi/ Armenian
“tooth” in Spanish: dientes · French: dents · German: zähne · Italian: denti · Portuguese: dentes · Korean: 이빨 · Russian: зубы · Hindi: दाँत
It is commonest in Malayalam, where പല്ല് is the 650th most used word.
Tooth in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans tande/ˈtɐndə/ #886
- Albanian dhëmbët/ðəmbət/ #1,243
- Armenian ատամի/ˌataˈmi/ #1,480
- Basque hortz/hort͡s̻/ #1,097
- Bengali দাঁত/d̪ãt̪/ tooth; teeth #942
- Bosnian zube/ˈzubɛ/ #1,364
- Bulgarian зъби/ˈzɤbi/ tooth, tusk, fang #1,539
- Catalan dents/ˈdens/ #1,627
- Croatian zube/ˈzubɛ/ #1,476
- Czech zuby[ˈzubɪ] #1,288
- Dutch tanden/ˈtɑn.də(n)/ natural tooth, more specifically incisor #1,568
- Esperanto dentojn/ˈdentoi̯n/ #1,784
- French dents/dɑ̃/ #1,352
- Galician dentes/ˈdentes/ #1,589
- German zähne/ˈt͡sɛːnə/ #2,031
- Greek δόντια/ˈðon.dʝa/ #1,354
- Hindi दाँत/d̪ɑ̃ːt̪/ #1,731
- Icelandic tönn[ˈtʰœn(ː)] a tooth #2,164
- Italian denti/ˈdɛn.ti/ #1,605
- Korean 이빨[ip͈a̠ɭ] #1,604
- Latvian zobu/ˈzuobu/ #1,528
- Lithuanian dantis[dɐnʲˈtʲɪs] #999
- Macedonian заби[ˈzabi] #1,223
- Malay gigi/ɡiɡi/ tooth: hard, calcareous structure present in… #854
- Malayalam പല്ല്/pɐllɨ/ #650
- Norwegian tenner/ˈtɛnər/ a tooth #1,742
- Persian دندون/dænduːn/ #1,178
- Polish zęby/ˈzɛm.bɘ/ #2,268
- Portuguese dentes/ˈdẽ.t͡ʃis/ #1,341
- Russian зубы[ˈzubɨ] #2,308
- Serbian zube/ˈzubɛ/ #1,429
- Slovak zuby/zubi/ #767
- Slovenian zobe/ˈzoːbɛ/ tooth; cog #714
- Spanish dientes/ˈdjɛntes/ #1,474
- Swedish tänder/ˈtɛndɛr/ a tooth #1,512
- Tagalog ngipin/ˈŋipin/ #1,013
- Tamil பற்கள்/pɐrkɐɭ/ #1,154
- Turkish diş/ˈdiʃ/ #1,477
- Ukrainian зуби[ˈzube] #1,944
- Urdu دانت/d̪ɑ̃ːt̪/ #1,811
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) and Slovenian (artur (sl_SI), CC BY 4.0).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.