How to say “voice” in 49 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.
It is commonest in Italian, where detto is the 61st most used word.
- Albanian zë #640
- Armenian բացվել passive voice of բացել #889
- Basque ahots #702
- Bengali কণ্ঠ #1,271
- Bosnian glas #764
- Bulgarian глас #1,092
- Catalan veus #337
- Chinese 聲音 sound; noise; voice #1,417
- Croatian glas #778
- Czech hlas #960
- Danish stemme #839
- Dutch stemmen voice, sound made by the mouth using airflow #1,472
- English speak To communicate with one's voice, to say words… #465
- Esperanto voĉo #943
- Estonian hääl #1,004
- French voix #713
- Galician voz #593
- Georgian ხმა voice, sound #248
- German stimmen voice, call of an animal #1,425
- Greek φωνή voice, sound #869
- Hebrew קול #675
- Hindi आवाज़ voice; call, cry #1,289
- Hungarian hang #1,967
- Icelandic rödd #754
- Indonesian suara voice, utterance #410
- Italian detto to utter with one's voice #61
- Korean 목소리 #795
- Latvian balss #946
- Lithuanian balsas #876
- Macedonian глас #759
- Malay suara voice, utterance #461
- Malayalam ശബ്ദം #157
- Norwegian stemmer a voice #412
- Persian صدا sound, call, voice #369
- Polish głos #978
- Portuguese voz #842
- Romanian vocea #1,170
- Russian голос #994
- Serbian glas #756
- Slovak hlas #541
- Slovenian glas #379
- Spanish voz #703
- Swedish röst #1,116
- Tagalog boses #1,170
- Tamil குரல் #493
- Turkish ses voice, sound #613
- Ukrainian голос #681
- Urdu آواز #521
- Vietnamese tiếng #267
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.