How to say “top” in 41 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.
- قمة/qim.ma/ Arabic
- կատար/kɑˈtɑɾ/ Armenian
- ഉന്നത/un.nɐ.d̪ɐ/ Malayalam
“top” in Arabic: قمة
It is commonest in Basque, where gara is the 35th most used word.
Top in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans boonop/bʊə̯nˈɔp/ on top, above #1,441
- Albanian majë/majə/ tip, summit, top #1,415
- Arabic قمة/qim.ma/ top, peak, crown, highest point, apex, vertex #1,507
- Armenian կատար/kɑˈtɑɾ/ top, summit, peak #445
- Basque gara/ɡaɾa/ top, high #35
- Bengali উপরে/upɔɾe/ on top of; above #217
- Bosnian vrh/ʋr̩̂x/ on top of #1,911
- Bulgarian върху[vɐrˈxu] on, on top of, over #327
- Catalan sobre[ˈso.βɾə] on, on top of #119
- Chinese 上面/ʂɑŋ⁵¹⁻⁵³ mi̯ɛn⁵¹/ above; over; on top of #168
- Croatian vrh/ʋr̩̂x/ on top of #1,968
- English above/əˈbʌv/ Physically over; on top of; worn on top of,… #1,252
- Estonian peale/ˈpeɑ̯le/ onto, on top of #91
- Finnish päällä/ˈpæːlːæ/ on, on top of, atop #800
- Georgian ზედა[ze̞dä] upper, top #977
- Greek κορυφή/ˌkoriˈfi/ peak, summit, top, crest #1,643
- Hebrew על/al/ on, on top of #8
- Hindi ऊपर/uː.pəɾ/ on top of, upon #223
- Indonesian baju[ˈbad͡ʒu] #849
- Korean 위[ɥi] above, upper, upside, top #965
- Latvian augšu/ˈauɡʃu/ top, upper part #1,448
- Macedonian врз[vr̩s] on top of, atop #543
- Malay atas/ˈatas/ on, upon, on top of #140
- Malayalam ഉന്നത/un.nɐ.d̪ɐ/ #1,826
- Norwegian toppen/ˈtɔpən/ the top #1,320
- Persian سر[sæɹ] on top, on #75
- Portuguese sobre/ˈso.bɾi/ on; atop; on top of #106
- Romanian din/din/ on, on top of #27
- Russian глава[ɡɫɐˈva] head, top, summit #2,480
- Serbian vrh/ʋr̩̂x/ on top of #1,834
- Slovak vrchol/vr̩xɔl/ peak, summit, top #1,245
- Slovenian las/láːs/ hair on top of head #567
- Spanish encima/enˈθima/ on top of something #685
- Swedish på/poː/ on, on top of; touching from above #11
- Tagalog ibabaw/ʔiˈbabaw/ top; tip; apex #709
- Tamil அடுக்கு/ɐɖʊkːɯ/ to stack, pile up one on top of another #1,291
- Telugu మీద/miːd̪a/ above, on, upon, on the top of #118
- Turkish üstelik/ysteˈlic/ besides, on top of that, also, again #1,288
- Ukrainian майка[ˈmai̯kɐ] undershirt, tank top #2,214
- Urdu اوپر/uː.pəɾ/ on top #245
- Vietnamese áo[ʔaːw˧˦] #500
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), 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).
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Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.