How to say “wall” in 42 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.
- pared/paˈɾed/ Spanish
- 벽[pjʌ̹k̚] Korean
- दीवार/d̪iː.ʋɑːɾ/ Hindi
- τοίχο/ˈtixo/ Greek
- דופן/ˈdofen/ Hebrew
- კედლის[kʼedlis] Georgian
“wall” in Spanish: pared · French: mur · German: wand · Italian: muro · Portuguese: parede · Korean: 벽 · Hindi: दीवार · Turkish: duvar
It is commonest in Urdu, where دیوار is the 380th most used word.
Wall in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans muur[myr] #481
- Arabic نافذة/naː.fi.ða/ opening in a wall, air hole #1,682
- Bengali প্রাচীর/pɾat͡ʃiɾ/ a wall; rampart; parapet #2,118
- Bosnian zid/zîːd/ #1,161
- Catalan mur[ˈmur] #882
- Croatian zid/zîːd/ #1,193
- Czech zdi[ˈzɟɪ] #1,479
- Danish væggen/ˈvɛːˀɡən/ #1,780
- Dutch muur/myr/ #1,081
- English media/ˈmi.di.ə/ The middle layer of the wall of a blood… #2,171
- Esperanto muro/ˈmuro/ #1,000
- Estonian seina/ˈsei̯nɑ/ #1,170
- French mur/myʁ/ #1,157
- Galician muro/ˈmuɾo/ #662
- Georgian კედლის[kʼedlis] #588
- German wand/vant/ wall, partition #1,533
- Greek τοίχο/ˈtixo/ #1,276
- Hebrew דופן/ˈdofen/ wall, side #1,481
- Hindi दीवार/d̪iː.ʋɑːɾ/ #887
- Indonesian dinding/ˈdindiŋ/ #943
- Italian muro/ˈmu.ro/ #1,426
- Korean 벽[pjʌ̹k̚] #955
- Latvian sienas/ˈsieːnas/ wall that limits a building, a room, etc #1,218
- Lithuanian siena[¹ˈsʲiɛnɐ] #1,195
- Macedonian ѕид[d͡zit] #1,463
- Malay dinding/ˈdindiŋ/ inner wall of a house #739
- Malayalam മതിൽ/mɐd̪il/ fence wall #1,899
- Norwegian veggen/ˈvɛɡən/ a wall #1,340
- Persian دیوار[d̪iː.vɒ́ːɹ] #1,528
- Portuguese parede/paˈɾe.d͡ʒi/ #1,367
- Romanian perete[peˈrete] #1,699
- Serbian zid/zîːd/ #1,171
- Slovak stene/ˈstʲeɲe/ #1,061
- Slovenian zid/zíːt/ #689
- Spanish pared/paˈɾed/ wall, especially of a house or room #1,527
- Swedish väggen/ˈvɛɡjɛn/ a wall #1,502
- Tagalog dingding/diŋˈdiŋ/ wall of a room or house; partition between… #1,039
- Tamil சுவர்/tʃʊʋɐɾ/ #653
- Telugu గోడ/ˈɡoːɖa/ a wall #546
- Turkish duvar/duˈvaɾ/ #2,046
- Urdu دیوار/d̪iːʋɑːɾ/ #380
- Vietnamese tường[tɨəŋ˨˩] #892
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).
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