How to say “whole” in 48 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.
- entero/enˈteɾo/ Spanish
- पूरी/puː.ɾiː/ Hindi
- όλοι/ˈoli/ Greek
- ողջ/voχt͡ʃʰ/ Armenian
- সারা/ʃaɾa/ Bengali
- எல்லாம்/ɛllɑːm/ Tamil
“whole” in Spanish: entero · Italian: intero · Portuguese: inteiro · Hindi: पूरी · Greek: όλοι
It is commonest in Tamil, where எல்லாம் is the 112th most used word.
Whole in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans gaaf/ˈxɑːf/ whole, complete #297
- Arabic صحيح/sˤa.ħiːħ/ complete, perfect, whole #65
- Armenian ողջ/voχt͡ʃʰ/ whole, entire #158
- Basque urtebete/urtebete/ whole year #662
- Bengali সারা/ʃaɾa/ whole, entire #425
- Bosnian svih/ˈsvih/ all, complete, whole #485
- Bulgarian цял[t͡sʲa̟ɫ] entire, whole, all, full, intact, in one… #458
- Catalan sencer[sənˈsɛ] whole, entire #1,795
- Chinese 世上/ʂɻ̩⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʂɑŋ⁵¹/ in all of the world; in the whole world; on… #538
- Croatian svih/ˈsvih/ all, complete, whole #485
- Czech celý[ˈt͡sɛliː] #335
- Danish hele/ˈheːlə/ whole, entire, complete, full #118
- Dutch hele/ˈɦeː.lə/ complete, full, whole #203
- English piece/piːs/ A part of a larger whole, usually in such a… #687
- Esperanto tuta/ˈtuta/ whole, entire #214
- Estonian kogu/ˈkoɡ̊u/ all, whole, entire #151
- Finnish koko/ˈkoko/ whole, entire #113
- French public/py.blik/ of the people as a whole #1,037
- Galician enteiro/enˈtejɾo/ #1,390
- German ganze/ɡantsə/ entire, whole, complete #282
- Greek όλοι/ˈoli/ whole, entire #120
- Hebrew כל/ˈkul/ All, whole, entirety, everything; found… #16
- Hindi पूरी/puː.ɾiː/ #245
- Hungarian egészet[ˈɛɡeːsɛt] entirety, whole #821
- Icelandic almennt/ˈalmɛn̥t/ generally, on the whole #2,367
- Indonesian seluruh[səˈlurʊh] whole, entire, all #286
- Italian intero/inˈtɛ.ro/ whole, entire #1,257
- Korean 온[o̞(ː)n] all, whole, entire #136
- Latvian visu/ˈʋisu/ all, whole, entire #56
- Lithuanian visas/ˈvʲɪ.sɐs/ all, whole, entire; all, every #229
- Macedonian сите[ˈsitɛ] entire, whole, all #54
- Malay seluruh/seluruh/ the whole, the entire #301
- Malayalam മൊത്തം/mot̪t̪ɐm/ #266
- Norwegian hele/ˈheːlə/ whole, unbroken #139
- Polish cały/ˈt͡sa.wɘ/ whole, complete, entire; all #225
- Portuguese inteiro/ĩˈtɛ(j).ɾu/ whole; entire; in full #1,329
- Romanian toate/ˈto̯a.te/ all, the whole #113
- Russian всех[fsʲex] all, the whole, all of, the whole of, the… #162
- Serbian svih/ˈsvih/ all, complete, whole #472
- Slovak celý/t͡seliː/ #178
- Slovenian cel/t͡séːʋ/ #331
- Spanish entero/enˈteɾo/ whole; entire #1,956
- Swedish hela/ˈheːla/ #137
- Tamil எல்லாம்/ɛllɑːm/ the whole, entire; throughout #112
- Turkish hepsi/hepˈsi/ all, all of it, the whole #213
- Ukrainian весь[ʋɛsʲ] all, the whole #243
- Urdu پورا/puː.ɾɑː/ whole, entire #496
- Vietnamese ám[ʔaːm˧˦] a dish of whole poached fish served with… #1,041
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).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.