How to Say Water in Other Languages

Afrikaans: water (vah-ter)

Albanian: ujë (oo-yeh)

Amharic: ውሃ (wee-ha)

Arabic: ماء (maa)

Armenian: ջուր (jhoor)

Azerbaijani: su (soo)

Basque: ura (oo-rah)

Belarusian: вада (va-da)

Bengali: পানি (pah-nee)

Bosnian: voda (voh-dah)

Bulgarian: вода (voh-da)

Catalan: aigua (eye-gwah)

Cebuano: tubig (too-big)

Chichewa: madzi (mah-dzee)

Chinese (Mandarin): 水 (shway)

Corsican: acqua (ah-kwah)

Croatian: voda (voh-dah)

Czech: voda (voh-dah)

Danish: vand (van)

Dutch: water (vah-ter)

Esperanto: akvo (ahk-voh)

Estonian: vesi (veh-see)

Fijian: wai (why)

Filipino: tubig (too-big)

Finnish: vesi (veh-see)

French: eau (oh)

Galician: auga (ow-gah)

Georgian: წყალი (ts’kha-li)

German: Wasser (vah-ser)

Greek: νερό (neh-roh)

Gujarati: પાણી (pah-nee)

Haitian Creole: dlo (dlo)

Hausa: ruwa (roo-wah)

Hawaiian: wai (why)

Hebrew: מים (mah-yim)

Hindi: पानी (pah-nee)

Hmong: dej (day)

Hungarian: víz (veez)

Icelandic: vatn (vaht-n)

Igbo: mmiri (mmee-ree)

Indonesian: air (ah-yer)

Irish: uisce (ish-kah)

Italian: acqua (ah-kwah)

Japanese: 水 (mee-zoo)

Javanese: banyu (bah-nyoo)

Kannada: ನೀರು (nee-roo)

Kazakh: су (soo)

Khmer: ទឹក (dtuhk)

Kinyarwanda: amazi (ah-mah-zee)

Korean: 물 (mool)

Kurdish (Kurmanji): av (ahv)

Kyrgyz: суу (soo-oo)

Lao: ນ້ຳ (naam)

Latin: aqua (ah-kwah)

Latvian: ūdens (oo-dens)

Lithuanian: vanduo (van-dwo)

Luxembourgish: Waasser (vah-sser)

Macedonian: вода (voh-dah)

Malagasy: rano (rah-noh)

Malay: air (ah-yer)

Malayalam: വെള്ളം (vell-lam)

Maltese: ilma (il-mah)

Maori: wai (why)

Marathi: पाणी (pah-nee)

Mongolian: ус (oos)

Myanmar (Burmese): ရေ (yay)

Nepali: पानी (pah-nee)

Norwegian: vann (vahn)

Oriya: ପାଣି (pah-nee)

Pashto: اوبه (obeh)

Persian: آب (aab)

Polish: woda (voh-dah)

Portuguese: água (ah-gwah)

Punjabi: ਪਾਣੀ (pah-nee)

Romanian: apă (ah-pah)

Russian: вода (vah-dah)

Samoan: vai (why)

Sanskrit: जल (jal)

Serbian: вода (voh-dah)

Sesotho: metsi (meh-tsee)

Shona: mvura (mboo-rah)

Sindhi: پاڻي (pah-nee)

Sinhala: ජලය (jah-lah-yah)

Slovak: voda (voh-dah)

Slovenian: voda (voh-dah)

Somali: biyo (bee-yoh)

Spanish: agua (ah-gwah)

Sundanese: cai (chai)

Swahili: maji (mah-jee)

Swedish: vatten (vaht-ten)

Tajik: об (ob)

Tamil: நீர் (neer)

Telugu: నీరు (nee-roo)

Thai: น้ำ (nahm)

Turkish: su (soo)

Ukrainian: вода (voh-dah)

Urdu: پانی (pah-nee)

Uzbek: suv (soov)

Vietnamese: nước (nook)

Yoruba: omi (oh-mee)

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