How to say “wound” in 36 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 Tamil, where காயம் is the 408th most used word.
- Afrikaans wond wound, injury #1,025
- Albanian plagë #1,712
- Arabic جرح #1,464
- Armenian վերք #463
- Basque zauri #1,019
- Bengali ক্ষত #1,223
- Bosnian povrijediti to hurt, injure, wound #1,453
- Bulgarian нараня to wound, to hurt, to injure #1,786
- Croatian povrijediti to hurt, injure, wound #1,185
- Danish såret #1,048
- Dutch gewond to wound, hurt #1,100
- Esperanto vundita to wound, to injure #1,331
- Estonian haav #1,995
- French blessé to wound, to injure #1,068
- Galician mágoa minor injury, wound, excoriation #974
- Georgian იარა slash, sore, wound #550
- Greek τραύμα wound, injury #2,006
- Hebrew פגע a wound, an injury #1,050
- Hindi चोट injury, hurt, wound #414
- Icelandic særa to wound, to injure #1,298
- Indonesian terluka suffering from a wound, especially one… #554
- Korean 상처 wound; injury #740
- Lithuanian žaizda #1,589
- Macedonian рана #1,896
- Malay luka #866
- Malayalam മുറിവ് wound, cut #629
- Norwegian såret a wound #1,061
- Persian زخم #897
- Polish rany #887
- Serbian povrediti to hurt, injure, wound #1,722
- Slovenian rana wound, injury #927
- Tagalog sugat wound; cut #739
- Tamil காயம் wound, injury, bruise #408
- Turkish yara wound, injury #1,520
- Ukrainian рана #2,404
- Urdu زخم #938
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.