How to say “wind” in 46 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.
- viento/ˈbjento/ Spanish
- ветер[ˈvʲetʲɪr] Russian
- 바람[pa̠ɾa̠m] Korean
- רוח/ˈru.aχ/ Hebrew
- ქარი[kʰäɾi] Georgian
- காற்று/kɑːrːɯ/ Tamil
“wind” in Spanish: viento · French: vent · German: wind · Italian: vento · Portuguese: vento · Korean: 바람 · Russian: ветер
It is commonest in Telugu, where గాలి is the 227th most used word.
Wind in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans wind/vənt/ to wind #565
- Albanian erë/eɾ(ə)/ #539
- Basque haize/ai̯s̻e/ #865
- Bengali বাতাস/bat̪aʃ/ air, wind #704
- Bosnian završio/ˈzavrʃɪo/ to end, end up, wind up #797
- Bulgarian вятър[ˈvʲa̟tɐr] #2,454
- Catalan vent[ˈben] #1,384
- Chinese 放屁/fɑŋ⁵¹⁻⁵³ pʰi⁵¹/ to fart; to break wind #1,614
- Croatian završiti/zaʋřːʃiti/ to end, end up, wind up #710
- Czech vítr[ˈviːtr̩] #1,951
- Dutch storm/stɔrm/ storm; a wind scale for very strong wind,… #1,885
- English room/ɹum/ Off from the wind #270
- Esperanto vento/ˈvento/ #561
- Estonian tuul/ˈtuːl/ #1,363
- French vent/vɑ̃/ #1,368
- Galician vento/ˈbento/ #915
- Georgian ქარი[kʰäɾi] #1,084
- German wind/vɪnt/ wind; the movement of air usually caused by… #1,529
- Hebrew רוח/ˈru.aχ/ Wind, a wind: movement of atmospheric air #571
- Hindi हवा/ɦə.ʋɑː/ air, wind, breeze #502
- Hungarian szél[ˈseːl] #1,684
- Icelandic vindur[ˈvɪntʏr] #2,118
- Indonesian angin/ˈaŋin/ #896
- Italian vento/ˈvɛn.to/ #1,709
- Korean 바람[pa̠ɾa̠m] wind, air, draft #613
- Latvian vējš[vɛ̄ːjʃ] #1,342
- Lithuanian vėjas[¹ˈʋʲeːjɛs] #1,077
- Macedonian ветер[ˈvɛtɛr] #2,456
- Malay angin/ˈaŋen/ #650
- Malayalam കാറ്റ്/kaːrrɨ/ #532
- Norwegian vinden/ˈvɪndn̩/ #2,032
- Persian باد[bɒːd̪̥] #554
- Polish wiatr/ˈvjatr/ #2,456
- Portuguese vento/ˈvẽ.tu/ #1,748
- Romanian aflat/aˈflat/ to find out, get wind of #585
- Russian ветер[ˈvʲetʲɪr] #2,447
- Serbian završio/ˈzavrʃɪo/ to end, end up, wind up #764
- Slovak vietor/vɪ̯etɔr/ #926
- Slovenian veter/ʋéːtər/ #682
- Spanish viento/ˈbjento/ #1,606
- Swedish vinden/ˈvɪndɛn/ #1,946
- Tagalog hangin/ˈhaŋin/ #279
- Tamil காற்று/kɑːrːɯ/ wind, air #249
- Telugu గాలి/ɡaːli/ #227
- Ukrainian вітер[ˈʋʲiter] #1,950
- Vietnamese gió[zɔ˧˦] #1,091
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.