How to Say Black in Different Languages
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Please find below many ways to say black in different languages. This page features translation of the word "black" to over 100 other languages. We also invite you to listen to audio pronunciation in more than 40 languages, so you could learn how to pronounce black and how to read it.
Saying Black in European Languages
| Language | Ways to say black | |
|---|---|---|
| Albanian | e zezë | |
| Basque | beltza | |
| Belarusian | чорны [čorny] | |
| Bosnian | crna | |
| Bulgarian | черен [cheren] | |
| Catalan | negre | |
| Corsican | neru | |
| Croatian | crno | |
| Czech | Černá | |
| Danish | sort | |
| Dutch | zwart | |
| Estonian | must | |
| Finnish | musta | |
| French | noir | |
| Frisian | Swart | |
| Galician | negro | |
| German | schwarz | |
| Greek | μαύρος [mávros] | |
| Hungarian | fekete | |
| Icelandic | Svartur | |
| Irish | dubh | |
| Italian | nero | |
| Latvian | melns | |
| Lithuanian | juodas | |
| Luxembourgish | schwaarz | |
| Macedonian | црна [crna] | |
| Maltese | iswed | |
| Norwegian | svart | |
| Polish | czarny | |
| Portuguese | Preto | |
| Romanian | negru | |
| Russian | черный [chernyy] | |
| Scots Gaelic | Dubh | |
| Serbian | црн [crn] | |
| Slovak | čierna | |
| Slovenian | črna | |
| Spanish | negro | |
| Swedish | svart | |
| Tatar | кара | |
| Ukrainian | чорний [chornyy] | |
| Welsh | du | |
| Yiddish | שוואַרץ [shvarts] | |
Saying Black in Asian Languages
| Language | Ways to say black | |
|---|---|---|
| Armenian | Սեվ [Sev] | |
| Azerbaijani | qara | |
| Bengali | কালো [kālō] | |
| Chinese Simplified | 黑色的 | |
| Chinese Traditional | 黑色的 | |
| Georgian | შავი [shavi] | |
| Gujarati | કાળો [kāḷō] | |
| Hindi | काला [kaala] | |
| Hmong | dub | |
| Japanese | 黒 | |
| Kannada | ಕಪ್ಪು [kappu] | |
| Kazakh | қара [qara] | |
| Khmer | ខ្មៅ | |
| Korean | 검은색 [geom-eunsaeg] | |
| Kyrgyz | Кара [kara] | |
| Lao | ສີດໍາ [sidoa] | |
| Malayalam | കറുപ്പ് [karuppu] | |
| Marathi | काळा [kāḷā] | |
| Mongolian | хар [khar] | |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | အနက်ရောင် [aanaatraung] | |
| Nepali | कालो [kālō] | |
| Odia | କଳା | |
| Pashto | تور | |
| Punjabi | ਕਾਲਾ [kālā] | |
| Sindhi | ڪارو | |
| Sinhala | කලු [kalu] | |
| Tajik | сиёҳ | |
| Tamil | கருப்பு [karuppu] | |
| Telugu | నలుపు [nalupu] | |
| Thai | สีดำ | |
| Turkish | siyah | |
| Turkmen | gara | |
| Urdu | سیاہ | |
| Uyghur | black | |
| Uzbek | qora | |
| Vietnamese | đen | |
Saying Black in Middle-Eastern Languages
| Language | Ways to say black | |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic | أسود ['aswad] | |
| Hebrew | שָׁחוֹר | |
| Kurdish (Kurmanji) | reş | |
| Persian | سیاه | |
Saying Black in African Languages
| Language | Ways to say black | |
|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | swart | |
| Amharic | ጥቁር | |
| Chichewa | wakuda | |
| Hausa | baki | |
| Igbo | nwa | |
| Kinyarwanda | umukara | |
| Sesotho | ntsho | |
| Shona | nhema | |
| Somali | madow | |
| Swahili | nyeusi | |
| Xhosa | mnyama | |
| Yoruba | dudu | |
| Zulu | mnyama | |
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"Black in Different Languages." In Different Languages, https://www.indifferentlanguages.com/words/black. Accessed 19 Sep 2023.
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