How to Say Love in Different Languages
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Please find below many ways to say love in different languages. This page features translation of the word "love" 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 love and how to read it.
Saying Love in European Languages
| Language | Ways to say love | |
|---|---|---|
| Albanian | dashuri | |
| Basque | maitasuna | |
| Belarusian | каханне [kachannie] | |
| Bosnian | ljubav | |
| Bulgarian | любов [lyubov] | |
| Catalan | amor | |
| Corsican | amore | |
| Croatian | ljubav | |
| Czech | milovat | |
| Danish | elsker | |
| Dutch | liefde | |
| Estonian | armastus | |
| Finnish | rakkaus | |
| French | aimer | |
| Frisian | leafde | |
| Galician | amor | |
| German | Liebe | |
| Greek | αγάπη [agápi] | |
| Hungarian | szerelem | |
| Icelandic | Ást | |
| Irish | grá | |
| Italian | amore | |
| Latvian | mīlestība | |
| Lithuanian | meilė | |
| Luxembourgish | Léift | |
| Macedonian | љубов [ljubov] | |
| Maltese | imħabba | |
| Norwegian | kjærlighet | |
| Polish | miłość | |
| Portuguese | amor | |
| Romanian | dragoste | |
| Russian | любовь [lyubov'] | |
| Scots Gaelic | gaol | |
| Serbian | љубав [ljubav] | |
| Slovak | láska | |
| Slovenian | ljubezen | |
| Spanish | amar | |
| Swedish | kärlek | |
| Tatar | мәхәббәт | |
| Ukrainian | любов [lyubov] | |
| Welsh | cariad | |
| Yiddish | ליבע [libe] | |
Saying Love in Asian Languages
| Language | Ways to say love | |
|---|---|---|
| Armenian | Սեր [Ser] | |
| Azerbaijani | sevgi | |
| Bengali | ভালবাসা [bhālabāsā] | |
| Chinese Simplified | 爱 [ài] | |
| Chinese Traditional | 愛 [ài] | |
| Georgian | სიყვარული [siq’varuli] | |
| Gujarati | પ્રેમ [prēma] | |
| Hindi | प्यार [pyaar] | |
| Hmong | kev hlub | |
| Japanese | 愛 | |
| Kannada | ಪ್ರೀತಿ [prīti] | |
| Kazakh | махаббат [maxabbat] | |
| Khmer | ស្នេហា | |
| Korean | 사랑 [salang] | |
| Kyrgyz | сүйүү [süyüü] | |
| Lao | ຮັກ [hak] | |
| Malayalam | സ്നേഹം [sneham] | |
| Marathi | प्रेम [prēma] | |
| Mongolian | хайр [khair] | |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | အချစ် [aahkyit] | |
| Nepali | प्रेम [māyā] | |
| Odia | ପ୍ରେମ | |
| Pashto | مینه | |
| Punjabi | ਪਿਆਰ [pi'āra] | |
| Sindhi | پيار | |
| Sinhala | ආදරය [ādaraya] | |
| Tajik | ишк | |
| Tamil | அன்பு [aṉpu] | |
| Telugu | ప్రేమ [prēma] | |
| Thai | รัก | |
| Turkish | Aşk | |
| Turkmen | söýgi | |
| Urdu | محبت | |
| Uyghur | مۇھەببەت | |
| Uzbek | sevgi | |
| Vietnamese | yêu | |
Saying Love in Middle-Eastern Languages
| Language | Ways to say love | |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic | حب [habun] | |
| Hebrew | אהבה | |
| Kurdish (Kurmanji) | evîn | |
| Persian | عشق | |
Saying Love in African Languages
| Language | Ways to say love | |
|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | liefde | |
| Amharic | ፍቅር [fik’iri] | |
| Chichewa | chikondi | |
| Hausa | soyayya | |
| Igbo | ihunanya | |
| Kinyarwanda | urukundo | |
| Sesotho | lerato | |
| Shona | rudo | |
| Somali | jacayl | |
| Swahili | upendo | |
| Xhosa | uthando | |
| Yoruba | ife | |
| Zulu | uthando | |
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"Love in Different Languages." In Different Languages, https://www.indifferentlanguages.com/words/love. Accessed 20 Sep 2023.
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