How to say “voice” in 49 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.
- voz/ˈboθ/ Spanish
- голос[ˈɡoɫəs] Russian
- 목소리[mo̞ks͈o̞ɾi] Korean
- आवाज़/ɑː.ʋɑːz/ Hindi
- φωνή/foˈni/ Greek
- קול/qoːl/ Hebrew
“voice” in Spanish: voz · French: voix · German: stimmen · Portuguese: voz · Korean: 목소리 · Russian: голос · Hindi: आवाज़ · Turkish: ses
It is commonest in Malayalam, where ശബ്ദം is the 157th most used word.
Voice in other languages, A to Z
- Albanian zë[zə] #640
- Armenian բացվել/bɑt͡sʰˈvel/ passive voice of բացել #889
- Basque ahots/aot͡s̺/ #702
- Bengali কণ্ঠ/kɔnʈʰo/ #1,271
- Bosnian glas/ɡlâːs/ #764
- Bulgarian глас[ɡɫas] #1,092
- Catalan veus[ˈbɛws] #337
- Chinese 聲音/ʂɤŋ⁵⁵ in⁵⁵/ sound; noise; voice #1,417
- Croatian glas/ɡlâːs/ #778
- Czech hlas[ˈɦlas] #960
- Danish stemme[ˈsd̥ɛmə] #839
- Dutch stemmen/ˈstɛmə(n)/ voice, sound made by the mouth using airflow #1,472
- English speak/spik/ To communicate with one's voice, to say words… #465
- Esperanto voĉo/ˈvot͡ʃo/ #943
- Estonian hääl/ˈhæːl/ #1,004
- French voix/vwa/ #713
- Galician voz/ˈbɔθ/ #593
- Georgian ხმა[χmä] voice, sound #248
- German stimmen/ˈʃtɪmən/ voice, call of an animal #1,425
- Greek φωνή/foˈni/ voice, sound #869
- Hebrew קול/qoːl/ #675
- Hindi आवाज़/ɑː.ʋɑːz/ voice; call, cry #1,289
- Hungarian hang[ˈhɒŋɡ] #1,967
- Icelandic rödd[ˈrœt(ː)] #754
- Indonesian suara/suˈara/ voice, utterance #410
- Italian detto/ˈdet.to/ to utter with one's voice #61
- Korean 목소리[mo̞ks͈o̞ɾi] #795
- Latvian balss[bàls] #946
- Lithuanian balsas[²ˈbɐlˑsɐs] #876
- Macedonian глас[ɡɫas] #759
- Malay suara/ˈsuarə/ voice, utterance #461
- Malayalam ശബ്ദം/ʃɐbd̪ɐm/ #157
- Norwegian stemmer/ˈstɛmər/ a voice #412
- Persian صدا[se.d̪ɒ́ː] sound, call, voice #369
- Polish głos/ˈɡwɔs/ #978
- Portuguese voz/ˈvɔ(j)s/ #842
- Romanian vocea/ˈvo.t͡ʃe̯a/ #1,170
- Russian голос[ˈɡoɫəs] #994
- Serbian glas/ɡlâːs/ #756
- Slovak hlas/ɦlas/ #541
- Slovenian glas/ɡláːs/ #379
- Spanish voz/ˈboθ/ #703
- Swedish röst/rœst/ #1,116
- Tagalog boses/ˈboses/ #1,170
- Tamil குரல்/kʊɾɐl/ #493
- Turkish ses/ˈses/ voice, sound #613
- Ukrainian голос[ˈɦɔɫɔs] #681
- Urdu آواز/ɑː.ʋɑːz/ #521
- Vietnamese tiếng[tiəŋ˧˦] #267
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.