How to say “world” in 47 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 Tagalog, where mundo is the 92nd most used word.
- Afrikaans wêreld #225
- Albanian tokë land, earth, world; ground, floor #469
- Arabic عالم #443
- Armenian աշխարհ world, universe #1,466
- Basque mundu #231
- Bengali বিশ্ব globe; world #947
- Bosnian svijet #577
- Bulgarian свят world, earth, universe #359
- Chinese 世上 in all of the world; in the whole world; on… #538
- Croatian svijet #433
- Czech svět #497
- Danish verden #249
- Dutch wereld #287
- English physical Pertaining to the world as understood through… #2,110
- Esperanto mondo #166
- Estonian maailma #376
- Finnish maailman the Earth, the world #512
- French monde #135
- Galician mundo #129
- Georgian სამყარო world, Universe #528
- German welt #266
- Greek γη world, earth #565
- Hebrew העולם the world: singular definite form of עוֹלָם #315
- Hindi दुनिया #206
- Hungarian világ #385
- Icelandic heiminum #466
- Indonesian dunia #182
- Italian mondo #262
- Korean 세상 #527
- Latvian pasaulē #324
- Lithuanian pasaulio #323
- Macedonian свет #307
- Malay dunia #168
- Malayalam ലോകം #167
- Persian دنیا #534
- Polish świat #455
- Portuguese mundo #216
- Romanian lumea #183
- Serbian svijet #1,222
- Slovak svet the world #277
- Spanish mundo world, earth #164
- Swedish världen #326
- Tagalog mundo world; the earth #92
- Tamil உலகம் world, earth #409
- Turkish dünya #326
- Ukrainian світ #371
- Urdu دنیا #117
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.