Learning how to say “electricity” in different languages opens up a world of linguistic and cultural understanding around this essential resource. Here are ways to say “electricity” in a variety of languages, highlighting the diversity in terminology for this energy source:
- Afrikaans: elektrisiteit
- Albanian: elektricitet
- Amharic: ኤሌክትሪክ (ēlektrik’)
- Arabic: كهرباء (kahrabā’)
- Armenian: էլեկտրականություն (elektrakanut’yun)
- Azerbaijani: elektrik
- Basque: elektrizitatea
- Belarusian: электрычнасць (elektrychnasts’)
- Bengali: বিদ্যুৎ (bidyut)
- Bosnian: elektricitet
- Bulgarian: електричество (elektrichestvo)
- Catalan: electricitat
- Cebuano: kuryente
- Chichewa: magetsi
- Chinese (Simplified): 电 (diàn)
- Chinese (Traditional): 電 (diàn)
- Corsican: elettricità
- Croatian: struja
- Czech: elektřina
- Danish: elektricitet
- Dutch: elektriciteit
- Esperanto: elektro
- Estonian: elekter
- Finnish: sähkö
- French: électricité
- Galician: electricidade
- Georgian: ელექტროენერგია (elektroenergiya)
- German: Elektrizität
- Greek: ηλεκτρισμός (ilektrismós)
- Gujarati: વિદ્યુત (vidyut)
- Haitian Creole: elektrisite
- Hausa: wutar lantarki
- Hawaiian: uila
- Hebrew: חשמל (hashmal)
- Hindi: बिजली (bijlī)
- Hmong: hluav taws xob
- Hungarian: elektromosság
- Icelandic: rafmagn
- Igbo: ọkụ ọkụ
- Indonesian: listrik
- Irish: leictreachas
- Italian: elettricità
- Japanese: 電気 (denki)
- Javanese: listrik
- Kannada: ವಿದ್ಯುತ್ (vidyut)
- Kazakh: электр (elektr)
- Khmer: អគ្គិសនី (ʔakkiʔsanī)
- Korean: 전기 (jeongi)
- Kurdish: elektrik
- Kyrgyz: электр (elektr)
- Lao: ໄຟຟ້າ (faifaa)
- Latin: electricitas
- Latvian: elektrība
- Lithuanian: elektra
- Luxembourgish: Elektrizitéit
- Macedonian: електрична енергија (elektrichna energija)
- Malagasy: herinaratra
- Malay: elektrik
- Malayalam: വൈദ്യുതി (vaiduti)
- Maltese: elettriku
- Maori: hiko
- Marathi: वीज (vīj)
- Mongolian: цахилгаан (tsakhilgaan)
- Myanmar (Burmese): လျှပ်စစ် (lyet-sait)
- Nepali: बिजुली (bijuli)
- Norwegian: elektrisitet
- Odia (Oriya): ବିଦ୍ୟୁତ (bidyut)
- Pashto: بریښنا (barishna)
- Persian: برق (barq)
- Polish: elektryczność
- Portuguese: eletricidade
- Punjabi: ਬਿਜਲੀ (bijli)
- Romanian: electricitate
- Russian: электричество (elektrichestvo)
- Samoan: eletise
- Sanskrit: विद्युत (vidyut)
- Scottish Gaelic: dealan
- Serbian: струја (struja)
- Sesotho: motlakase
- Shona: magetsi
- Sindhi: بجلي (bijli)
- Sinhala: විදුලි (viduli)
- Slovak: elektrina
- Slovenian: elektrika
- Somali: koronto
- Spanish: electricidad
- Sundanese: listrik
- Swahili: umeme
- Swedish: elektricitet
- Tajik: барқ (barq)
- Tamil: மின்சாரம் (mincāram)
- Telugu: విద్యుత్ (vidyut)
- Thai: ไฟฟ้า (fai-fá)
- Turkish: elektrik
- Ukrainian: електрика (elektryka)
- Urdu: بجلی (bijli)
- Uzbek: elektr
- Vietnamese: điện
- Welsh: trydan
- Yoruba: ina