How to say “warm” in 32 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.
- 暖和/nu̯än²¹⁴ xu̯ɔ⁴/ Chinese
- गर्म/ɡə.ɾəm/ Hindi
- ζεστό/zesˈto/ Greek
- חמים/χaˈmim/ Hebrew
- গরম/ɡɔɾom/ Bengali
- వెచ్చని/ˈʋeccani/ Telugu
“warm” in French: chaud · German: warm · Italian: caldo · Chinese: 暖和 · Hindi: गर्म · Greek: ζεστό
It is commonest in Afrikaans, where warm is the 370th most used word.
Warm in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans warm/ˈvɐrəm/ #370
- Albanian nxehtë/ˈnd͡zɛhtə/ hot, warm #714
- Basque beroa/beɾoa/ warm, calid #527
- Bengali গরম/ɡɔɾom/ warm, hot #457
- Catalan calent[kəˈlen] hot, warm #1,687
- Chinese 暖和/nu̯än²¹⁴ xu̯ɔ⁴/ #1,983
- Danish varm/ˈvɑːˀm/ warm, hot #1,331
- Dutch warm/ʋɑr(ə)m/ warm, hot #1,091
- Esperanto varma/ˈvarma/ warm, hot #975
- Estonian soe/soe̯/ #1,366
- French chaud/ʃo/ warm, hot #893
- Galician quente/ˈkɛnte/ hot; warm #933
- German warm/varm/ warm; mildly hot #1,955
- Greek ζεστό/zesˈto/ warm, hot #1,631
- Hebrew חמים/χaˈmim/ #1,857
- Hindi गर्म/ɡə.ɾəm/ warm; hot #679
- Hungarian meleg[ˈmɛlɛɡ] #706
- Indonesian hangat/ˈhaŋat/ #1,228
- Italian caldo/ˈkal.do/ warm, hot #1,225
- Macedonian греј[ɡrɛj] to heat, warm up #2,431
- Norwegian varm/ˈvɑrm/ to warm, heat, warm up #1,241
- Persian گرم[ɡʲæɹm] warm, hot #601
- Portuguese quente/ˈkẽ.t͡ʃi/ hot, warm #985
- Romanian cald/kald/ #1,261
- Slovak teplé/ˈtʲepleː/ #1,553
- Slovenian topel/tɔ̀ːpəʋ/ #1,417
- Spanish caliente/kaˈljente/ hot, warm #1,077
- Tagalog mainit/maˈʔinit/ hot; warm #657
- Telugu వెచ్చని/ˈʋeccani/ #614
- Turkish sıcak/sɯˈdʒɑk/ hot, warm #583
- Urdu گرم/ɡə.ɾəm/ warm; hot #583
- Vietnamese ấm[ʔəm˧˦] #1,220
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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