Afrikaans: skoenlapper (skuen-lapper)
Albanian: flutur (floo-tour)
Amharic: አንበጣ (an-be-ta)
Arabic: فراشة (fa-ra-sha)
Armenian: թիթեռ (te-ter)
Azerbaijani: kəpənək (ke-peh-nek)
Basque: tximeleta (chi-meh-leh-ta)
Belarusian: матылёк (ma-ti-lyok)
Bengali: প্রজাপতি (pro-jaa-po-ti)
Bosnian: leptir (lep-teer)
Bulgarian: пеперуда (pe-peh-roo-da)
Catalan: papallona (pa-pa-yo-na)
Cebuano: alibangbang (ah-lee-bang-bang)
Chechen: бухӀалдуо (buh-hal-duo)
Chinese (Mandarin): 蝴蝶 (hú dié)
Croatian: leptir (lep-teer)
Czech: motýl (mo-teel)
Danish: sommerfugl (*som-mer-foo-l)
Dutch: vlinder (vlin-der)
Esperanto: papilio (pa-pee-lee-oh)
Estonian: liblikas (lee-blee-kas)
Finnish: perhonen (per-ho-nen)
French: papillon (pa-pee-yon)
Galician: bolboreta (bol-bo-reh-ta)
Georgian: პეპელა (pe-peh-la)
German: Schmetterling (shmet-ter-ling)
Greek: πεταλούδα (pe-ta-loo-da)
Gujarati: તિતલી (tit-lee)
Haitian Creole: papiyon (pa-pee-yon)
Hausa: faretin (fa-re-tin)
Hebrew: פרפר (par-par)
Hindi: तितली (tit-lee)
Hungarian: pillangó (pee-lan-go)
Icelandic: fiðrildi (fith-ril-dhi)
Igbo: ugo (oo-go)
Indonesian: kupu-kupu (koo-poo-koo-poo)
Irish: féileacán (fay-leh-cawn)
Italian: farfalla (far-fal-la)
Japanese: 蝶 (choh)
Javanese: kumbang (koom-bang)
Kannada: ಚಿಟ್ಟೆ (chit-te)
Kazakh: көбелек (köb-el-ek)
Khmer: សត្វស្លាប (sat slaap)
Korean: 나비 (na-bi)
Kurdish (Kurmanji): pirrîk (pir-reek)
Kyrgyz: көбөлөк (köbö-lök)
Lao: ແມງຜີ້ (maeng-pee)
Latvian: tauriņš (tau-rinsh)
Lithuanian: drugelis (dru-gel-lis)
Macedonian: пеперутка (pe-pe-root-ka)
Malagasy: lolo (lo-lo)
Malay: rama-rama (rah-mah rah-mah)
Malayalam: ശലഭം (sha-la-bham)
Maltese: farfett (far-fett)
Maori: pūrerehua (poo-re-re-hwa)
Marathi: फुलपाखरू (ful-paa-khroo)
Mongolian: эрвээхий (er-vee-khii)
Nepali: पुतली (poot-lee)
Norwegian: sommerfugl (som-mer-fugl)
Oriya: ପରୀ (par-ree)
Pashto: پتنګ (pa-tang)
Persian: پروانه (par-va-neh)
Polish: motyl (mo-til)
Portuguese: borboleta (bor-bo-let-ah)
Punjabi: ਤਿਤਲੀ (tit-lee)
Romanian: fluture (floo-too-reh)
Russian: бабочка (ba-boch-ka)
Samoan: pepe (peh-peh)
Sanskrit: पतङ्गः (pa-tan-ga-ha)
Serbian: лептир (lep-teer)
Sinhala: සමනලයා (sa-ma-na-la-ya)
Slovak: motýľ (mo-teel)
Slovenian: metulj (meh-toolj)
Somali: balanbaalis (ba-lan-baa-lis)
Spanish: mariposa (ma-ree-po-sa)
Swahili: kipepeo (kee-peh-peh-oh)
Swedish: fjäril (fyah-ril)
Tagalog: paruparo (pa-roo-pa-roo)
Tajik: шапалак (sha-pa-lak)
Tamil: சிறகியன் (chi-ra-ki-yan)
Tatar: күбәләк (kü-ba-lak)
Telugu: పర్పరపర (par-pa-ra-pa-ra)
Thai: ผีเสื้อ (pee-seua)
Tigrinya: ኣንበጣ (an-bet-ta)
Turkish: kelebek (ke-le-bek)
Turkmen: kepderi (kep-de-ri)
Ukrainian: метелик (me-te-lik)
Urdu: تتلی (tit-lee)
Uzbek: kapalak (ka-pa-lak)
Vietnamese: bướm (buhm)
Welsh: pili-pala (pee-lee-pa-la)
Wolof: jinax (jee-nax)
Xhosa: uvemvane (oo-vem-va-ne)
Yiddish: שלמעטערלינג (shmet-ter-ling)
Yoruba: labalábá (la-ba-la-ba)
Zulu: uvemvane (oo-vem-va-ne)
Māori: pūrerehua (poo-re-re-hwa)
Mongolian: эрвээхий (er-vee-khii)
Lao: ແມງຜີ້ (maeng-pee)
Hawaiian: pulelehua (pu-le-le-hua)