How to Say Child in Other Languages

Afrikaans: kind (kint)

Albanian: fëmijë (fuh-MEE-yuh)

Amharic: ወጣት (wet’at)

Arabic: طفل (tifl)

Armenian: երեխա (yer-e-kha)

Azerbaijani: uşaq (oo-shahk)

Basque: haur (howr)

Belarusian: дзіця (dee-tsyah)

Bengali: শিশু (shee-shoo)

Bosnian: dijete (dee-YEH-teh)

Bulgarian: дете (deh-teh)

Burmese: ကလေး (ka-lay)

Catalan: nen (nen)

Cebuano: bata (bah-tah)

Chichewa: mwana (mwah-nah)

Chinese (Mandarin): 孩子 (hái-zǐ)

Croatian: dijete (dee-YEH-teh)

Czech: dítě (dee-tyeh)

Danish: barn (bahn)

Dutch: kind (kint)

Dzongkha: ཕྲུ་གུ (tru-ku)

Estonian: laps (lahps)

Finnish: lapsi (lahp-see)

French: enfant (on-fahn)

Georgian: ბავშვი (bavsh-vee)

German: Kind (kint)

Greek: παιδί (peh-thee)

Gujarati: બાળક (ba-lak)

Haitian Creole: timoun (tee-moon)

Hausa: yaro (yah-roh)

Hebrew: ילד (yeh-led)

Hindi: बच्चा (bach-cha)

Hungarian: gyermek (dyer-mek)

Icelandic: barn (barn)

Igbo: nwa (nwah)

Indonesian: anak (ah-nahk)

Irish: páiste (pawsh-teh)

Italian: bambino (bam-BEE-noh)

Japanese: 子供 (ko-do-mo)

Javanese: bocah (boh-chah)

Kannada: ಮಗು (ma-gu)

Kazakh: бала (bah-lah)

Khmer: កុមារ (koh-mah)

Korean: 아이 (a-ee)

Kurdish (Kurmanji): zarok (za-rohk)

Kyrgyz: бала (bah-lah)

Lao: ເດັກນ້ອຍ (dek-noy)

Latvian: bērns (bairns)

Lithuanian: vaikas (vai-kas)

Luxembourgish: Kand (kand)

Macedonian: дете (deh-teh)

Malagasy: zaza (zah-zah)

Malay: anak (ah-nahk)

Malayalam: കുട്ടി (kutti)

Maltese: tifel (tee-fel)

Maori: tamaiti (tah-mah-ee-tee)

Marathi: मूल (mool)

Mongolian: хүүхэд (khoo-khed)

Nepali: बच्चा (bach-cha)

Norwegian: barn (bahn)

Oriya: ଶିଶୁ (shi-shoo)

Pashto: ماشوم (mah-shoom)

Persian: کودک (koo-dak)

Polish: dziecko (dzye-tzko)

Portuguese: criança (kree-an-sa)

Punjabi: ਬੱਚਾ (bach-cha)

Quechua: wawa (wah-wah)

Romanian: copil (koh-peel)

Russian: ребенок (ree-byoh-nok)

Samoan: tamaitiiti (tah-ma-ee-tee-tee)

Sanskrit: बालकः (ba-la-kah)

Serbian: дете (deh-teh)

Sesotho: ngoana (ng-wah-nah)

Shona: mwana (mwa-nah)

Sindhi: ٻار (bar)

Sinhala: ළමයා (la-ma-yaa)

Slovak: dieťa (dee-tyah)

Slovenian: otrok (oh-trok)

Somali: cunug (koo-nug)

Spanish: niño (nee-nyo)

Sundanese: budak (boo-dahk)

Swahili: mtoto (m-toh-toh)

Swedish: barn (bahn)

Tajik: кӯдак (koo-dak)

Tamil: குழந்தை (ku-zhun-thai)

Telugu: పిల్ల (pil-la)

Thai: เด็ก (dek)

Tibetan: བུ་མོ (boo-mo)

Tigrinya: ቆልዓ (kol-i’a)

Turkish: çocuk (cho-jook)

Turkmen: çaga (cha-ga)

Ukrainian: дитина (dy-ty-na)

Urdu: بچہ (bach-cha)

Uzbek: bola (boh-lah)

Vietnamese: trẻ em (cheh em)

Welsh: plentyn (plen-tin)

Xhosa: umntwana (oom-ntwah-nah)

Yiddish: קינד (kind)

Yoruba: ọmọ (oh-moh)

Zulu: ingane (in-gah-neh)

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