How to say “wild” in 31 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.
- salvaje/salˈbaxe/ Spanish
- վայրի/vɑjˈɾi/ Armenian
- وحشی[væɦ.ʃiː] Persian
“wild” in Spanish: salvaje · German: wild
It is commonest in Norwegian, where ville is the 62nd most used word.
Wild in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans wilde/ˈvəldə/ #978
- Albanian egër/ɛɡəɾ/ #942
- Arabic وحش/waħʃ/ wild animal #1,021
- Armenian վայրի/vɑjˈɾi/ wild, savage #744
- Basque basati/bas̺ati/ #851
- Catalan salvatges[səlˈβa.d͡ʒəs] wild; savage #1,462
- Chinese 野心/jɛ²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕin⁵⁵/ wild ambition or schemes; careerism #2,344
- Croatian zvijer/zʋijêːr/ beast, wild animal #2,135
- Danish vild[ˈʋilˀ] #677
- Esperanto sovaĝa/soˈvad͡ʒa/ wild, savage, ferocious #1,146
- Estonian metsik/ˈmetsik/ #1,647
- Galician salvaxes/salˈbaʃes/ wild; savage #1,358
- Georgian ველური[ve̞ɫuɾi] savage, wild #474
- German wild/vɪlt/ wild, unrestrained, raucous #2,298
- Icelandic villtur[ˈvɪl̥tʏr] wild, unruly, savage #2,217
- Indonesian liar/ˈliar/ wild, untamed, undomesticated #1,249
- Latvian nikns/ˈnikŋs/ wild, furious, raging #1,999
- Lithuanian laukinis[lɒʊˈkʲɪnʲɪs] wild, untamed, uncultivated, feral #2,493
- Malay liar/ˈliar/ wild; untamed; feral #1,194
- Malayalam പേ/peː/ mad, wild, vicious #607
- Norwegian ville/ˈvɪlə/ #62
- Persian وحشی[væɦ.ʃiː] #2,060
- Serbian zver/zʋêːr/ beast, wild animal #2,243
- Slovak divoký/ɟivɔkiː/ #2,066
- Slovenian divji/dìːʋji/ #1,000
- Spanish salvaje/salˈbaxe/ wild, savage #2,460
- Swedish and/and/ a wild duck #1,799
- Tamil அஞ்சலி/ɐɲdʒɐliː/ Anjili, wild jackfruit #2,077
- Telugu ఈత/iːt̪a/ wild date tree called Phoenix sylvestris #595
- Turkish vahşi/vahˈʃi/ turbulent, lawless, wild, truculent,… #1,268
- Vietnamese rợ[zəː˧˨ʔ] #2,342
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 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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