How to say mermaid and surfing in other languages
Gonna take a surf trip?
Anyways, part of the fun of a surf trip is to immerse yourself in the local culture and local languages.
So, here’s a quick guide for how to say surfing in other languages.
How do you say surfing in Spanish?
Here are some ways to say surfing in Spanish:
- el surf.
- surf.
- el acuaplano.
- el sorfeo.
Waves in Spanish are las olas.
How do you say surfing in Portuguese?
Surf in Portuguese is surfar or surfando.
Waves is ondas.
How do your say surfing in Japanese?
Surf/surfing in Japanese is either “safin” or simply surfing.
Waves in Japanese are pronounced “nami.”
How do you say surfing in Hawaiian?
Surfing in Hawaiian is heʻe nalu.
Waves is nalu.
How do you say surfing in French?
Surf in French is le surf or surfant.
Waves are vagues.
How do you say surfing in Indonesian?
Surf in Indonesian is berselancar.
Waves is ombak.
How do you say surfing in Arabic?
Surf in Arabic in pronounced tasafah.
Waves is pronounced ‘amwaj.
Words for mermaid in different languages
Here is an alphabetical list with words from different languages that mean mermaid.
- Albanian: sirenë
- Arabic: حُورِيَّة الْبَحْر [ḥūriyyat al-baḥr]
- Armenian: ջրահարս [ǰrahars]
- Azerbaijani: su pərisi
- Belarusian: руса́лка [rusálka]
- Bengali: মৎস্যকন্যা [môtśjôkônja]
- Bulgarian: русалка [rusalka]
- Burmese: ရေသူမ [resuma.]
- Catalan: sirena
- Chinese – Cantonese: 人鱼 [jan4 jyu4], 美人鱼 [mei5 jan4 jyu4]
- Chinese – Mandarin: 人鱼 [rényú], 美人鱼 [měirényú]
- Cornish: morvoren
- Czech: mořská panna
- Danish: havfrue
- Dutch: zeemeermin
- Esperanto: marvirino
- Estonian: merineitsi
- Finnish: merenneito
- French: sirène
- Galician: serea
- Georgian: ქალთევზა [kaltevza]
- German: Meerjungfrau
- Greek: γοργόνα [gorgóna]
- Hawaiian: wahine hiʻu iʻa
- Hebrew: בַּת יָם [bat yam]
- Hindi: जलपरी [jalparī], मत्स्यांगना [matsyāṅgnā]
- Hungarian: sellő
- Icelandic: hafmey
- Irish: maighdean mhara
- Italian: sirena
- Japanese: 人魚 [ningyo]
- Kazakh: су перісі [sw perisi]
- Khmer: មច្ឆានុ [macchaanuʼ]
- Korean: 인어 [ineo]
- Kumyk: суванасы [suwanası]
- Kyrgyz: суу периси [suu perisi]
- Lao: ນາງເງືອກ [nāng ngư̄ak]
- Latin: siren, puella marina
- Latvian: nāra
- Lithuanian: undinė
- Macedonian: сире́на [siréna]
- Malay: ikan duyung
- Maltese: sirena
- Navajo: chʼikę́ę́h łóóʼ
- Norwegian: havfrue
- Persian: پری دریایی [pari-ye daryâyi]
- Polish: syrena
- Portuguese: sereia
- Romanian: sirenă
- Russian: руса́лка
- Scottish Gaelic: maighdeann-mhara
- Serbo-Croatian: сирена [sirena]
- Slovak: morská panna
- Slovene: morska deklica
- Spanish: sirena
- Swedish: sjöjungfru
- Tagalog: sirena
- Tajik: парии обӣ [pariyi obī]
- Tatar: су анасы [su anası]
- Telugu: మత్స్యకన్య [matsyakanya]
- Thai: นางเงือก [naang-ngʉ̂ʉak]
- Turkish: deniz kızı
- Turkmen: suw perisi
- Ukrainian: руса́лка [rusálka], морська́ па́нна [morsʹká pánna]
- Uzbek: suv parisi
- Vietnamese: người cá, mỹ nhân ngư (美人魚)
- Welsh: môr-forwyn
Some of these words I got from this list on Wiktionary (double-checked it) and some I added on top. If you notice any errors, feel free to let me know.
What the different words for “mermaid” mean
Many languages actually use similar ways of referring to the mythical creatures from the ocean. In many languages, the translation of the word for mermaid literally means something like “sea maid”, “human fish” or “water fairy”.
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