How to say “truck” in 30 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.
- شاحنة/ʃaː.ħi.na/ Arabic
- 트럭[tʰɯɾʌ̹k̚] Korean
- ट्रक/ʈɾək/ Hindi
- משאית/masaˈ(ʔ)it/ Hebrew
- ട്രക്ക്/ʈräkːɨ̆/ Malayalam
“truck” in Korean: 트럭 · Arabic: شاحنة · Hindi: ट्रक · Turkish: kamyon
It is commonest in Malayalam, where ട്രക്ക് is the 507th most used word.
Truck in other languages, A to Z
- Albanian kamion/ka.mion/ #1,275
- Arabic شاحنة/ʃaː.ħi.na/ truck, lorry #890
- Bosnian kamion/kamǐoːn/ #1,156
- Bulgarian камион[kɐmiˈɔn] lorry, truck #1,795
- Catalan camió[kə.miˈo] lorry, truck #1,539
- Croatian kamion/kamǐoːn/ #1,210
- Dutch truck/tryk/ truck, lorry #1,777
- English cab/kæb/ A compartment at the front of a truck or… #2,338
- Estonian veoauto/ˈveo̯ˌɑu̯to/ truck, lorry #2,475
- French camion/ka.mjɔ̃/ lorry; truck #1,261
- Galician camión/kaˈmjoŋ/ lorry; truck #1,354
- Georgian ურიკა[uɾikʼä] hand truck #1,524
- Greek φορτηγό/ˌfortiˈɣo/ lorry, wagon, truck #1,121
- Hebrew משאית/masaˈ(ʔ)it/ a truck #1,475
- Hindi ट्रक/ʈɾək/ #1,080
- Indonesian truk/ˈtruk/ truck; lorry #930
- Italian camion/ˈka.mjon/ lorry, truck #1,795
- Korean 트럭[tʰɯɾʌ̹k̚] #875
- Lithuanian sunkvežimis[²ˈsʊŋˑkʋʲɛʒʲɪmʲɪs] #1,720
- Macedonian камион[kamiˈɔn] #1,282
- Malay trak/ˈtrak/ #811
- Malayalam ട്രക്ക്/ʈräkːɨ̆/ truck, lorry #507
- Persian کامیون[kʰɒː.mi.jón] #2,073
- Romanian camion/ka.miˈon/ lorry, truck #1,664
- Serbian kamion/kamǐoːn/ #1,269
- Slovenian kamion/kamijóːn/ truck, lorry #1,357
- Spanish camión/kaˈmjon/ lorry; truck #1,476
- Telugu లారీ/laːɾiː/ lorry, truck #769
- Turkish kamyon/kamˈjon/ truck, lorry #2,217
- Urdu ٹرک/ʈɾək/ #581
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) and Slovenian (artur (sl_SI), CC BY 4.0).
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