How to say “wound” in 36 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.
- جرح/d͡ʒurħ/ Arabic
- 상처[sʰa̠ŋt͡ɕʰʌ̹] Korean
- τραύμα/ˈtɾav.ma/ Greek
- פגע/ˈpeɡaʔ/ Hebrew
- վերք/veɾkʰ/ Armenian
- ক্ষত/kʰɔt̪o/ Bengali
“wound” in French: blessé · Korean: 상처 · Arabic: جرح · Turkish: yara · Greek: τραύμα
It is commonest in Tamil, where காயம் is the 408th most used word.
Wound in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans wond[vɔnt] wound, injury #1,025
- Albanian plagë/plaɡə/ #1,712
- Arabic جرح/d͡ʒurħ/ #1,464
- Armenian վերք/veɾkʰ/ #463
- Basque zauri/s̻au̯ɾi/ #1,019
- Bengali ক্ষত/kʰɔt̪o/ #1,223
- Bosnian povrijediti/poʋrjěːditi/ to hurt, injure, wound #1,453
- Bulgarian нараня[nɐrɐˈnʲɤ̟] to wound, to hurt, to injure #1,786
- Croatian povrijediti/poʋrjěːditi/ to hurt, injure, wound #1,185
- Danish såret/sɔːˀrəð/ #1,048
- Dutch gewond/ɣəˈʋɔnt/ to wound, hurt #1,100
- Esperanto vundita/vunˈdita/ to wound, to injure #1,331
- Estonian haav/hɑːv/ #1,995
- French blessé/blɛ.se/ to wound, to injure #1,068
- Galician mágoa/ˈmaɡoa/ minor injury, wound, excoriation #974
- Georgian იარა[iäɾä] slash, sore, wound #550
- Greek τραύμα/ˈtɾav.ma/ wound, injury #2,006
- Hebrew פגע/ˈpeɡaʔ/ a wound, an injury #1,050
- Hindi चोट/t͡ʃoːʈ/ injury, hurt, wound #414
- Icelandic særa[ˈsaiːra] to wound, to injure #1,298
- Indonesian terluka/tərˈluka/ suffering from a wound, especially one… #554
- Korean 상처[sʰa̠ŋt͡ɕʰʌ̹] wound; injury #740
- Lithuanian žaizda[ʒɐɪ̯ˑz̪ˈd̪ɐ] #1,589
- Macedonian рана[ˈrana] #1,896
- Malay luka/ˈlukə/ #866
- Malayalam മുറിവ്/muriʋɨ/ wound, cut #629
- Norwegian såret/ˈsoːrət/ a wound #1,061
- Persian زخم[zæxm] #897
- Polish rany/ˈra.nɘ/ #887
- Serbian povrediti/poʋrěːditi/ to hurt, injure, wound #1,722
- Slovenian rana/ràːna/ wound, injury #927
- Tagalog sugat/ˈsuɡat/ wound; cut #739
- Tamil காயம்/kɑːjɐm/ wound, injury, bruise #408
- Turkish yara[jɑɾɑ] wound, injury #1,520
- Ukrainian рана[ˈranɐ] #2,404
- Urdu زخم/zəxm/ #938
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), Estonian (news (et_EE), CC BY 4.0) and Slovenian (artur (sl_SI), CC BY 4.0).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.