How to say “travel” in 44 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.
- viaje/biˈaxe/ Spanish
- 旅行/ly²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕiŋ³⁵/ Chinese
- 여행[jʌ̹ɦɛŋ] Korean
- נסע/naˈsa/ Hebrew
- ճամփորդել/t͡ʃɑmpʰoɾˈtʰel/ Armenian
- সফর/sɔpʰoɾ/ Bengali
“travel” in Spanish: viaje · Portuguese: viajar · Chinese: 旅行 · Korean: 여행
It is commonest in Urdu, where سفر is the 374th most used word.
Travel in other languages, A to Z
- Albanian udhëtim/uðətim/ travel, journey #774
- Arabic ذهب/ða.ha.ba/ to go, to travel #304
- Armenian ճամփորդել/t͡ʃɑmpʰoɾˈtʰel/ to travel #1,725
- Basque bidaia/bidai̯a/ trip, travel #425
- Bengali সফর/sɔpʰoɾ/ #1,457
- Bosnian putovanje/ˈputoˌvɐɲe/ #1,257
- Catalan viatjar[bi.əˈd͡ʒa] to travel; to voyage #2,367
- Chinese 旅行/ly²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕiŋ³⁵/ to go on a trip; to travel; to tour #454
- Croatian putovanje/ˈputoˌvɐɲe/ #1,219
- Dutch reis/rɛi̯s/ to travel #923
- English flying/ˈflaɪ.ɪŋ/ To travel through the air, another gas, or a… #1,383
- Esperanto vojaĝis/voˈjad͡ʒis/ to travel #2,109
- Estonian reisida/ˈrei̯sid̥ɑ/ to travel #2,332
- Finnish ajaa/ˈɑjɑːˣ/ to drive, ride, travel, transport #838
- Galician viaxe/ˈbjaʃe/ to travel #638
- German fliegen/ˈfliːɡn̩/ to fly; to travel by air #865
- Hebrew נסע/naˈsa/ To travel #1,886
- Hindi गया/ɡə.jɑː/ to go, move, travel, leave, depart; to… #33
- Hungarian menj[ˈmɛɲː] to go, travel #152
- Icelandic ferðast/ˈfɛrðast/ to travel #2,493
- Indonesian bepergian/bəpərˈɡian/ to travel #2,182
- Italian camminare/kam.miˈna.re/ to walk, to tread, to travel, to wander, to… #1,778
- Korean 여행[jʌ̹ɦɛŋ] #714
- Latvian ceļojums/ˈt͡seʎuojums/ trip, journey, travel #1,970
- Lithuanian keliauti[kʲɛ¹ˈlʲæˑʊtʲɪ] to travel #775
- Macedonian патување[paˈtuvaɲɛ] journey, trip, travel, voyage #823
- Malay perjalanan/pərd͡ʒaˈlanan/ journey; trip; travel; voyage #399
- Malayalam സഞ്ചാരം/sɐɲt͡ʃaːɾɐm/ journey, travel, tour #2,181
- Norwegian far/ˈfɑːr/ go; travel #194
- Persian سفر[sæ.fǽɹ] #474
- Polish podróż/ˈpɔ.druʂ/ #1,547
- Portuguese viajar/vi.aˈʒa(ʁ)/ to travel #1,933
- Romanian călătorie[kə.lə.tor.ˈi.e] #1,266
- Russian ход[xot] motion, movement, travel, progress,… #1,991
- Serbian putovanje/ˈputoˌvɐɲe/ #1,212
- Slovak cestovať/t͡sestɔvac/ to travel #1,359
- Spanish viaje/biˈaxe/ to travel, journey #620
- Swedish far/fɑːr/ to go, to travel #232
- Tamil பயணம்/pɐjɐɳɐm/ journey, travel, voyage #274
- Telugu ప్రయాణిస్తున్న/ˈprajaːˌɳistunna/ to travel, to make a journey #1,561
- Turkish uçan/uˈt͡ʃan/ to fly, to travel through the air, another… #2,340
- Ukrainian подорож[ˈpɔdɔrɔʒ] journey, travel #1,472
- Urdu سفر/sə.fəɾ/ travel, trip, journey, voyage #374
- Vietnamese chuyến[t͡ɕwiən˧˦] trip, instance of travel #758
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) 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.