Global Culture
There is a degree of horsemanship in almost every country on the planet & we thought it would be fun for horse lovers to see what the word horse looks like in other languages. It’s interesting to note the differences (& similarities) that can be found in each language.
Translation of the word Horse to Languages of the World
Aboriginal yarraman
Afrikaans (south Africa) perd
Albanian kalë
Arabic 
Basque zaldi
Belarussian (Belarus & Russia) kon
Bosnian konj
Bulgarian kon
Catalan cavall
Cherokee so-qui-li
Chinese 
Croation konj
Czech 
Danish hest
Dutch (Nethlerlands) paard
Estonian hobune
Finnish hevonen
Flemish (Belgium) paard
French cheval
German pferd
Greek 
Hawaiian lio
Hebrew 
Hungarian lò
Icelandic hestur
Indonesian kuda
Irish capall
Italian cavallo
Japanese 
Korean 
Latvian zirgs
Lithuanian arklys
Macedonian konj
Mongolian adughun
Norwegian hest
Pashto (Afghan) aas
Pipil kalwayu
Polish koń
Portuguese cavalo
Romanian cal
Romani grast
Russian 
Scottish cuddy
Serbian konj 
Slovene konj
Spanish caballo
Swedish häst
Tagalog kabayo
Thai 
Turkish beygir
Ukranian kin
Vietnamese 
Welsh ceffyl
Zulu ihhashi
Help!
Although we did our research to find these translations we was at the mercy of online translation services & language pages across the web. If anyone has a better translation, or a language we forgot please fill us in so we can provide the most accurate information.
The word horse in Estonian is HOBUNE. It’s similar to Finnish which may or may not be apparent to a non-speaker. Finnish and Estonian are closely related languages, called the Fenno-Ugric group which include Hungarian and Saami (Lapp). There you are! The pronunciation in phonetic so you would say
HO – bu – neh.
Dear Sir of Madam,
The correct equivalent of the word horse in Czech is k??.
Best regards,
Veronika
Dear sir,
The word “Horse” in Thai language in this page spell “ar-cha” and that’s collect in Thai poet language,but in official and normal language we call “ma” in Thai is “ม้า”
actually in Thai poet language has lots of word for call horse ,sush as “us-sa-wa”,
“pa-chee” ,”sin-tob”
In Maori [New Zealand] the horse is called ‘Hoiho’