How to Say Wood in Other Languages

Afrikaans: hout (howt)

Albanian: dru (droo)

Amharic: ዕንጨት (inchet)

Arabic: خشب (khashab)

Armenian: փայտ (p’ayt)

Azerbaijani: ağac (ah-gach)

Basque: egur (ay-gur)

Belarusian: дрэва (dreva)

Bengali: কাঠ (kaṭh)

Bosnian: drvo (dur-vo)

Bulgarian: дърво (dar-voh)

Catalan: fusta (foos-tah)

Cebuano: kahoy (kah-hoy)

Chichewa: mtengo (m-ten-go)

Chinese (Mandarin): 木 ()

Corsican: legnu (le-nu)

Croatian: drvo (dur-vo)

Czech: dřevo (drzeh-voh)

Danish: træ (treh)

Dutch: hout (howt)

Esperanto: ligno (lee-nyoh)

Estonian: puit (poyt)

Finnish: puu (poo)

French: bois (bwah)

Galician: madeira (mah-day-rah)

Georgian: ხე (khe)

German: Holz (holts)

Greek: ξύλο (ksee-loh)

Gujarati: લાકડું (laa-kaḍuṃ)

Haitian Creole: bwa (bwah)

Hausa: katako (ka-ta-ko)

Hawaiian: lāʻau (la’ao)

Hebrew: עץ (etz)

Hindi: लकड़ी (lakree)

Hmong: ntoo (ntaw)

Hungarian: fa (fah)

Icelandic: viður (vee-thur)

Igbo: osisi (oh-see-see)

Indonesian: kayu (kah-yoo)

Irish: adhmad (a-dh-mad)

Italian: legno (le-nyoh)

Japanese: 木 (ki)

Javanese: kayu (kah-yoo)

Kannada: ಮರ (mara)

Kazakh: ағаш (a-ghash)

Khmer: ឈើ (choeur)

Korean: 나무 (na-moo)

Kurdish: dar (dar)

Kyrgyz: жыгач (zhygach)

Lao: ໄມ້ (mai)

Latvian: koks (kohks)

Lithuanian: medis (meh-dis)

Luxembourgish: Holz (holts)

Macedonian: дрво (dur-voh)

Malagasy: hazo (hah-zoo)

Malay: kayu (kah-yoo)

Malayalam: മരം (maram)

Maltese: injam (in-jam)

Maori: rakau (rah-kow)

Marathi: लाकूड (laakood)

Mongolian: мод (mod)

Myanmar (Burmese): သစ်သား (thit-tha)

Nepali: काठ (kaath)

Norwegian: tre (treh)

Odia: କାଠ (kaṭh)

Pashto: لرګي (lar-gei)

Persian: چوب (choob)

Polish: drewno (dr-yev-noh)

Portuguese: madeira (mah-day-rah)

Punjabi: ਲੱਕੜ (lakkar)

Quechua: sach’a (sa-cha)

Romanian: lemn (lehmn)

Russian: дерево (deh-ree-vah)

Samoan: laupapa (low-pah-pah)

Scottish Gaelic: fiodh (fee-yoh)

Serbian: дрво (dur-voh)

Sesotho: patsi (pah-tsee)

Shona: huni (hoo-nee)

Sindhi: ڪاٺ (kaṭh)

Sinhala: ලී (lee)

Slovak: drevo (dr-yeh-voh)

Slovenian: les (lehs)

Somali: alwaax (al-wahh)

Spanish: madera (mah-day-rah)

Sundanese: kayu (kah-yoo)

Swahili: kuni (koo-nee)

Swedish: trä (treh)

Tagalog: kahoy (kah-hoy)

Tajik: чӯб (choob)

Tamil: மரம் (maram)

Tatar: агач (agach)

Telugu: చెక్క (chekka)

Thai: ไม้ (mai)

Tigrinya: ዕንጨት (inchet)

Turkish: odun (o-dun)

Ukrainian: дерево (derevo)

Urdu: لکڑی (lakree)

Uzbek: yog’och (yo-ghoch)

Vietnamese: gỗ (go)

Zulu: izinkuni (ee-zeen-koo-nee)

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