How to say “wall” in 42 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 Urdu, where دیوار is the 380th most used word.
- Afrikaans muur #481
- Arabic نافذة opening in a wall, air hole #1,682
- Bengali প্রাচীর a wall; rampart; parapet #2,118
- Bosnian zid #1,161
- Catalan mur #882
- Croatian zid #1,193
- Czech zdi #1,479
- Danish væggen #1,780
- Dutch muur #1,081
- English media The middle layer of the wall of a blood… #2,171
- Esperanto muro #1,000
- Estonian seina #1,170
- French mur #1,157
- Galician muro #662
- Georgian კედლის #588
- German wand wall, partition #1,533
- Greek τοίχο #1,276
- Hebrew דופן wall, side #1,481
- Hindi दीवार #887
- Indonesian dinding #943
- Italian muro #1,426
- Korean 벽 #955
- Latvian sienas wall that limits a building, a room, etc #1,218
- Lithuanian siena #1,195
- Macedonian ѕид #1,463
- Malay dinding inner wall of a house #739
- Malayalam മതിൽ fence wall #1,899
- Norwegian veggen a wall #1,340
- Persian دیوار #1,528
- Portuguese parede #1,367
- Romanian perete #1,699
- Serbian zid #1,171
- Slovak stene #1,061
- Slovenian zid #689
- Spanish pared wall, especially of a house or room #1,527
- Swedish väggen a wall #1,502
- Tagalog dingding wall of a room or house; partition between… #1,039
- Tamil சுவர் #653
- Telugu గోడ a wall #546
- Turkish duvar #2,046
- Urdu دیوار #380
- Vietnamese tường #892
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.