How to say “unit” 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.
- unidad/uniˈdad/ Spanish
- وحدة/waħ.da/ Arabic
- יחידה/jeχiˈda/ Hebrew
“unit” in Spanish: unidad · Arabic: وحدة
It is commonest in Arabic, where وحدة is the 727th most used word.
Unit in other languages, A to Z
- Albanian fshat/fʃat/ village, especially as a unit of local… #1,303
- Arabic وحدة/waħ.da/ #727
- Bengali বাহিনী/bahini/ battalion, army unit #678
- Catalan milles/ˈmiʎəs/ mile, English unit of distance #1,709
- Czech baru[ˈbaru] bar, a non-SI unit of pressure equal to… #1,222
- Danish gruppe[ˈɡ̊ʁub̥ə] A group, a unit, a team #1,288
- English 're An accepted metric unit of area equal to 100… #32
- Galician unidade/uniˈdade/ #1,217
- German wort/vɔrt/ word as an isolated unit #553
- Greek μονάδα/moˈnaða/ unit of measurement, charge unit #1,496
- Hebrew יחידה/jeχiˈda/ A unit, an organizational unit: a component… #1,730
- Hindi मीटर/miːʈəɾ/ metre, as a unit of measurement #1,389
- Hungarian egység[ˈɛcʃeːɡ] #1,914
- Icelandic pund[ˈpʰʏnt] a traditional unit in Iceland, 12 merkur #1,031
- Indonesian menit/məˈnɪt/ a unit of time equal to sixty seconds #298
- Korean 되[twe̞] A unit of volume equivalent to about 1.8 L #1,135
- Latvian vienība/ˈʋieːniːba/ #1,518
- Lithuanian matas[²ˈmɑːtɐs] Unit of measurement #2,349
- Macedonian единица[ɛˈdinit͡sa] #1,075
- Malay minit[minet] unit of time #286
- Malayalam പൈസ/pɐi̯sɐ/ paisa; a currency unit in India equal to… #239
- Norwegian mil/miːl/ mile; a unit of length, especially road… #2,286
- Portuguese palavra/paˈla.vɾɐ/ unit of language #552
- Romanian unitate/ˌuniˈtate/ #2,198
- Slovenian enota/ɛnɔ̀ːta/ #752
- Spanish unidad/uniˈdad/ #1,579
- Swedish mil/miːl/ Unit of length, equal to 10,000 meters #1,681
- Tamil மனை/mɐnɐɪ̯/ A unit of land area equal to 24 square feet #1,756
- Urdu پہر/pə.ɦəɾ/ unit of time equalling three hours #2,102
- Vietnamese giờ[zəː˨˩] unit for specifying a point in time in terms… #59
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), 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.