How to say “truck” in 30 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 Malayalam, where ട്രക്ക് is the 507th most used word.
- Albanian kamion #1,275
- Arabic شاحنة truck, lorry #890
- Bosnian kamion #1,156
- Bulgarian камион lorry, truck #1,795
- Catalan camió lorry, truck #1,539
- Croatian kamion #1,210
- Dutch truck truck, lorry #1,777
- English cab A compartment at the front of a truck or… #2,338
- Estonian veoauto truck, lorry #2,475
- French camion lorry; truck #1,261
- Galician camión lorry; truck #1,354
- Georgian ურიკა hand truck #1,524
- Greek φορτηγό lorry, wagon, truck #1,121
- Hebrew משאית a truck #1,475
- Hindi ट्रक #1,080
- Indonesian truk truck; lorry #930
- Italian camion lorry, truck #1,795
- Korean 트럭 #875
- Lithuanian sunkvežimis #1,720
- Macedonian камион #1,282
- Malay trak #811
- Malayalam ട്രക്ക് truck, lorry #507
- Persian کامیون #2,073
- Romanian camion lorry, truck #1,664
- Serbian kamion #1,269
- Slovenian kamion truck, lorry #1,357
- Spanish camión lorry; truck #1,476
- Telugu లారీ lorry, truck #769
- Turkish kamyon truck, lorry #2,217
- Urdu ٹرک #581
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.