How to Say Weed in Other Languages

Afrikaans: onkruid (on-kroyt)

Albanian: barërat e këqija (bah-rer-at eh kuh-chee-yah)

Amharic: አሃል (ah-hal)

Arabic: عشبة ضارة (osh-bah dar-rah)

Armenian: մոլախոտ (mol-a-khot)

Azerbaijani: alaq otları (ah-lahk ot-lar-uh)

Basque: belar txarra (beh-lar chah-rah)

Belarusian: пустазелле (pus-tah-zyel-lay)

Bengali: আগাছা (ah-gah-cha)

Bosnian: korov (koh-rov)

Bulgarian: плевел (pleh-vel)

Catalan: mala herba (mah-lah er-bah)

Cebuano: sagbot (sahg-boht)

Chichewa: udzu (ood-zoo)

Chinese (Mandarin): 杂草 (zá-cǎo)

Croatian: korov (koh-rov)

Czech: plevel (pleh-vel)

Danish: ukrudt (oo-kroot)

Dutch: onkruid (on-kroyt)

Esperanto: fiherbo (fee-her-boh)

Estonian: umbrohi (oom-broh-hee)

Filipino: damo (dah-moh)

Finnish: rikkaruoho (reek-kah-roo-o-hoh)

French: mauvaise herbe (moh-vez air-buh)

Galician: mala herba (mah-lah er-bah)

Georgian: სარეველა (sah-rev-eh-lah)

German: Unkraut (oon-krowt)

Greek: ζιζάνιο (zee-zah-nee-oh)

Gujarati: ખાટ (khaat)

Haitian Creole: move zèb (moh-veh zeb)

Hausa: ciyawa (chee-yah-wah)

Hebrew: עשב שוטה (eh-sev sho-teh)

Hindi: खरपतवार (khar-pat-vaar)

Hmong: nroj (nn-roj)

Hungarian: gyom (dyo-m)

Icelandic: illgresi (eel-greh-see)

Igbo: ahịhịa (ah-hee-hee-ah)

Indonesian: gulma (gool-mah)

Irish: fiailí (fee-ah-lee)

Italian: erba cattiva (air-bah kah-tee-vah)

Japanese: 雑草 (zassou)

Javanese: suket (soo-ket)

Kannada: ಕಳೆ (ka-leh)

Kazakh: арамшөп (ah-rahm-shop)

Khmer: ស្មៅ (smau)

Kinyarwanda: ibyatsi bibi (ee-byat-see bee-bee)

Korean: 잡초 (jab-cho)

Kurdish (Kurmanji): kotemîr (koh-teh-meer)

Kyrgyz: отоо (oh-toh-oh)

Lao: ພູດ (pood)

Latvian: nezāle (nez-ah-leh)

Lithuanian: piktžolė (peek-tzho-leh)

Luxembourgish: Kraut (krowt)

Macedonian: плевел (pleh-vel)

Malagasy: ahidratsy (ah-hee-drat-see)

Malay: rumpai (room-pai)

Malayalam: കുഴപ്പച്ചെടി (kuh-zha-pa-che-dee)

Maltese: ħaxix ħażin (hah-sheesh ha-zeen)

Maori: tarutaru (tah-roo-tah-roo)

Marathi: तण (tahn)

Mongolian: зэрлэг ургамал (zer-leg oor-ga-mal)

Nepali: घाँस (ghaas)

Norwegian: ugress (oo-gres)

Odia: ଯତ୍ନବାହା (yat-na-ba-ha)

Pashto: خرچول (khar-chol)

Persian: علف هرز (ah-laf harz)

Polish: chwast (hvahst)

Portuguese: erva daninha (er-vah dah-nee-nya)

Punjabi: ਜੰਗਲੀ ਬੂਟੀ (jang-lee boo-tee)

Quechua: millma (meel-mah)

Romanian: buruiană (boo-roo-yah-nah)

Russian: сорняк (sor-nyak)

Samoan: vao leaga (vao lay-ah-ga)

Serbian: коров (koh-rov)

Sesotho: lehola (leh-ho-lah)

Shona: uswa (oos-wah)

Sindhi: گاهه (gah-huh)

Sinhala: ගස්කොළ (gas-ko-lah)

Slovak: burina (boo-ree-nah)

Slovenian: plevel (pleh-vel)

Somali: caws aan la rabin (aws aan la ra-bin)

Spanish: mala hierba (mah-lah yee-air-bah)

Sundanese: suket (soo-ket)

Swahili: magugu (mah-goo-goo)

Swedish: ogräs (oh-gres)

Tajik: алафҳои бегона (ah-lahf-ho-ee beh-goh-nah)

Tamil: களைகள் (ka-lai-gal)

Tatar: чүп үләне (chup ool-eh-ne)

Telugu: కలుపు (ka-loo-poo)

Thai: วัชพืช (wát-cha-pêet)

Tigrinya: ሃሳር (hah-sar)

Turkish: yabani ot (yah-bah-nee ot)

Turkmen: alaj (ah-lahj)

Ukrainian: бур’ян (boor-yan)

Urdu: جڑی بوٹی (ja-ree boot-tee)

Uzbek: begona o’t (beh-goh-nah oot)

Vietnamese: cỏ dại (caw dahy)

Welsh: chwyn (khw-in)

Xhosa: ukhula (oo-khoo-lah)

Zulu: ukhula (oo-koo-lah)

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