How to say Sleep in Other Languages

Afrikaans: slaap (slahp)

Albanian: gjumë (joo-meh)

Amharic: እንቅልፍ (in-k’il-fuh)

Arabic: نوم (naum)

Armenian: քուն (koon)

Azerbaijani: yuxu (yoo-khoo)

Basque: lo (loh)

Belarusian: сон (son)

Bengali: ঘুম (ghoom)

Bosnian: san (sahn)

Bulgarian: сън (suhn)

Burmese: အိပ်ရာ (eit-yah)

Catalan: son (son)

Cebuano: tulog (too-lohg)

Chinese (Mandarin): 睡觉 (shway-jyow)

Croatian: san (sahn)

Czech: spánek (spah-nek)

Danish: søvn (sewn)

Dutch: slaap (slahp)

Esperanto: dormo (dor-moh)

Estonian: uni (oo-nee)

Finnish: uni (oo-nee)

French: sommeil (soh-may)

Galician: sono (soh-noh)

Georgian: ძილი (dzee-lee)

German: Schlaf (shlahf)

Greek: ύπνος (eep-nos)

Gujarati: ઊંઘ (oongh)

Haitian Creole: dòmi (doh-mee)

Hausa: barci (bar-chee)

Hebrew: שינה (shay-nah)

Hindi: नींद (neend)

Hungarian: alvás (ahl-vahsh)

Icelandic: svefn (svefn)

Igbo: ụra (oo-rah)

Indonesian: tidur (tee-door)

Irish: codladh (kud-lah)

Italian: sonno (soh-noh)

Japanese: 睡眠 (soo-ee-meen)

Javanese: turu (too-roo)

Kannada: ನಿದ್ರೆ (nid-ray)

Kazakh: ұйқы (uy-kuh)

Khmer: ការគេង (kah-kenh)

Korean: 수면 (soo-myuhn)

Kurdish: xew (khew)

Kyrgyz: уйку (uy-kuh)

Lao: ການນອນ (kahn-non)

Latvian: miegs (myeg-s)

Lithuanian: miegas (myeg-ahs)

Luxembourgish: Schlof (shlohf)

Macedonian: сон (son)

Malagasy: torimaso (toh-ree-mah-soh)

Malay: tidur (tee-door)

Malayalam: ഉറക്കം (oo-ra-kam)

Maltese: rqad (er-kad)

Maori: moe (moh-eh)

Marathi: झोप (jhop)

Mongolian: унтах (oon-tahk)

Nepali: निद्रा (nid-ra)

Norwegian: søvn (sewn)

Odia: ଶୁଇବା (shoo-ee-bah)

Pashto: خوب (khob)

Persian: خواب (khaab)

Polish: sen (sen)

Portuguese: sono (soh-noh)

Punjabi: ਨੀਂਦ (neend)

Romanian: somn (somn)

Russian: сон (son)

Samoan: moe (moh-eh)

Serbian: сан (san)

Shona: hope (hoh-peh)

Sinhala: නින්ද (nin-dah)

Slovak: spánok (spah-nok)

Slovenian: spanje (spahn-yeh)

Somali: hurdo (hur-doh)

Spanish: sueño (swen-yoh)

Sundanese: sare (sah-reh)

Swahili: usingizi (oo-seen-gee-zee)

Swedish: sömn (sewmn)

Tagalog: tulog (too-log)

Tajik: хоб (khob)

Tamil: தூக்கம் (thoo-kam)

Telugu: నిద్ర (nid-rah)

Thai: นอนหลับ (non-lahp)

Tigrinya: ድቅም (dik-im)

Turkish: uyku (oo-ee-koo)

Turkmen: uky (oo-kee)

Ukrainian: сон (son)

Urdu: نیند (neend)

Uzbek: uyqu (oo-ee-koo)

Vietnamese: ngủ (ngoo)

Welsh: cwsg (koosg)

Wolof: nelaw (neh-lahw)

Xhosa: ukulala (oo-koo-lah-lah)

Yiddish: שלאָף (shlof)

Yoruba: oorun (oh-run)

Zulu: ukulala (oo-koo-lah-lah)

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