How to say “type” in 43 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.
- तरह/t̪ə.ɾəɦ/ Hindi
- ტიპის[tʼipʼis] Georgian
- тип[tɪp] Ukrainian
- نوع[nówʔ] Persian
“type” in French: type · Hindi: तरह · Turkish: tip
It is commonest in Hindi, where तरह is the 48th most used word.
Type in other languages, A to Z
- Albanian lloj/ɫɔj/ sort, kind, type #359
- Arabic نمط/na.matˤ/ pattern, type, style, manner, mode, wise #1,802
- Basque mota/mota/ type, kind, class #423
- Bengali কেমন/kæmon/ how, what type of or what kind of #137
- Bosnian tip/tîːp/ #346
- Bulgarian какъв[kɐˈkɤf] what, what kind of, what sort of, what type of #216
- Catalan tipus[ˈti.pus] type, sort, kind #411
- Chinese 一種/i⁵⁵⁻⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂʊŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ kind; sort; type #1,218
- Croatian tip/tîːp/ #345
- Czech typ[ˈtɪp] #1,170
- Danish type/ˈtyːbə/ a type #1,465
- Dutch moorden/ˈmoːr.də(n)/ murder, a type of killing legally in a more… #1,319
- English kind/kaɪnd/ A type, race or category; a group of entities… #207
- Esperanto speco/ˈspet͡so/ type; kind; sort #2,420
- Estonian tüüp/tyːp/ #598
- Finnish tyyppi/ˈtyːpːi/ #697
- French type/tip/ type; sort, kind #362
- Galician tipo/ˈtipo/ #231
- Georgian ტიპის[tʼipʼis] #971
- German art/aːrt/ kind, sort, type #471
- Greek τύπος/ˈti.pos/ sort, type, mould, stamp #328
- Hindi तरह/t̪ə.ɾəɦ/ type, kind #48
- Icelandic konar[ˈkʰɔːnar] kind, type #449
- Indonesian jenis/d͡ʒəˈnis/ type, kind #666
- Italian liceo/liˈt͡ʃɛ.o/ a type of Italian secondary school/high… #1,900
- Latvian tips/ˈtips/ #1,810
- Macedonian каков[ˈkakɔf] what kind of, what type of #274
- Malay jenis/ˈd͡ʒenis/ #448
- Malayalam അത്തരം/ɐt̪t̪ɐɾɐm/ that type #578
- Norwegian typen/ˈtyːpən/ a type #1,172
- Persian نوع[nówʔ] type, kind, sort #555
- Polish rodzaju/rɔˈd͡za.ju/ kind, type #1,316
- Portuguese tipos/ˈtʃipus/ kind; sort; type #712
- Romanian fel/ˈfel/ sort, type, kind #142
- Russian такой[tɐˈkoj] such, such, that/this kind/sort/type of,… #160
- Serbian tip/tîːp/ #375
- Slovenian tip/tíːp/ #223
- Swedish skriva/²skriːva/ to write, to type, to copy; to put letters… #597
- Tagalog uri/ˈʔuɾiʔ/ type; class; kind #485
- Turkish tip/tip/ #1,580
- Ukrainian тип[tɪp] #1,327
- Urdu قسم/qɪsm/ kind, type, category, brand #150
- Vietnamese loại[lwaːj˧˨ʔ] species, kind, type, category, sort #391
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).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.