How to say “village” in 33 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.
- 村子/t͡sʰu̯ən⁵⁵ d͡z̥ɹ̩²/ Chinese
- 마을[ma̠ɯɭ] Korean
- गाँव/ɡɑ̃ːʋ/ Hindi
- গ্রাম/ɡɾam/ Bengali
- గ్రామము/ˈɡraːmamu/ Telugu
- روستا[ɹuːs.t̪ʰɒː] Persian
“village” in German: dorf · Italian: villaggio · Portuguese: aldeia · Chinese: 村子 · Korean: 마을 · Hindi: गाँव
It is commonest in Basque, where herri is the 440th most used word.
Village in other languages, A to Z
- Albanian fshat/fʃat/ village, especially as a unit of local… #1,303
- Basque herri/heri/ village, town #440
- Bengali গ্রাম/ɡɾam/ a village #831
- Bosnian selo/sělo/ #1,586
- Bulgarian село[ˈsɛɫo] #1,782
- Chinese 村子/t͡sʰu̯ən⁵⁵ d͡z̥ɹ̩²/ village; hamlet #1,150
- Croatian selo/sělo/ #1,694
- Czech vesnice[ˈvɛsɲɪt͡sɛ] #2,009
- Dutch dorp/dɔr(ə)p/ village, small settlement #1,342
- Esperanto vilaĝo/viˈlad͡ʒo/ #971
- Estonian küla/ˈkylɑ/ #1,326
- Galician aldea/alˈdea/ village, hamlet #866
- German dorf/dɔrf/ #1,466
- Greek χώρα/ˈxoɾa/ main town or village #585
- Hindi गाँव/ɡɑ̃ːʋ/ village, hamlet #1,705
- Indonesian desa/ˈdɛsa/ #951
- Italian villaggio/vilˈlad.d͡ʒo/ village, hamlet #1,784
- Korean 마을[ma̠ɯɭ] village, hamlet, usually in rural surroundings #677
- Macedonian село[ˈsɛɫɔ] #1,345
- Malay kampung/ˈkampuŋ/ #709
- Malayalam ഊര്/uːɾɨ/ town, village #381
- Norwegian landsbyen/ˈlɑnsˌbyːən/ #2,245
- Persian روستا[ɹuːs.t̪ʰɒː] #1,743
- Portuguese aldeia/awˈdej.ɐ/ #1,840
- Romanian sat/ˈsat/ #1,653
- Serbian selo/sělo/ #1,453
- Slovak dediny/ɟeɟini/ #1,322
- Spanish pueblo/ˈpweblo/ town, village #566
- Tagalog baryo/ˈbaɾjo/ barrio; village; suburban district of a… #1,714
- Tamil பூசாரி/puːtʃɑːɾiː/ priest of a village deity #1,471
- Telugu గ్రామము/ˈɡraːmamu/ #1,406
- Urdu گاؤں/ɡɑ̃ː.oː/ village, hamlet #747
- Vietnamese làng[laːŋ˨˩] #1,277
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), Estonian (news (et_EE), CC BY 4.0) and Vietnamese (vais1000 (vi_VN), CC BY 4.0).
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Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.