How to say “west” in 38 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 Chinese, where 東西 is the 300th most used word.
- Afrikaans wes #1,487
- Armenian արևմտյան western, west #1,056
- Basque mendebal #2,274
- Bengali পশ্চিম #1,147
- Bosnian zapad #2,484
- Bulgarian запад #1,877
- Catalan oest #1,336
- Chinese 東西 from east to west #300
- Danish vest toward the west, westwards #2,005
- Dutch westen the West #1,966
- English west Towards the west; westwards #1,197
- Esperanto okcidento #1,872
- Estonian lääne #1,751
- French ouest #1,722
- Galician oeste #999
- Georgian დასავლეთით west, westerly, westward, westwards #982
- German westen the west #2,431
- Hebrew מערב #1,945
- Hindi पश्चिम #903
- Icelandic vestur #1,216
- Indonesian barat #1,014
- Korean 서 #360
- Latvian rietumiem #2,148
- Macedonian запад #1,406
- Malay barat The west #876
- Malayalam പടിഞ്ഞാറ് #1,068
- Norwegian vest #2,088
- Persian غرب the west #1,175
- Portuguese oeste #1,777
- Romanian vest #1,427
- Slovak západ #1,308
- Spanish oeste #1,696
- Tagalog kanluran west; the direction of sunset #1,573
- Tamil மேற்கு #371
- Turkish batı #1,258
- Ukrainian захід #1,787
- Urdu مغرب the west, the West #1,378
- Vietnamese tây #717
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.