Traveling Abroad? Learn How to Say Tomato!
By Vanessa Richins
Someday soon I dream of traveling around the world.
I am fascinated by other cultures, especially the foods and languages.
In fact, I have a dream of being able to read and write in 11 different languages. So far I know English, Spanish at an intermediate level, and a bit in a few other languages.
As I was idly thinking tonight, I realized that I only knew how to say tomato in 2 different languages – English and Spanish. How would I ever survive in another country if I didn’t know how to ask for my favorite vegetable?
I hopped on over to Google to use their translator. It features 42 languages. When I typed in “I want to grow a tomato”, I learned that I need to say “Voglio crescere un pomodoro.” when in Italy.
Without further ado, here are their translations for the word “tomato”.
- Albanian – domate
- Arabic – الطماطم
- Bulgarian – домат
- Catalan – tomà quet
- Chinese (Simplified) – 番茄
- Chinese (Traditional) – 番茄
- Croatian – paradajz
- Czech – rajÄe
- Danish – tomat
- Dutch – tomaat
- English – tomato
- Estonian – tomat
- Filipino – kamatis
- Finnish – tomaatti
- French – tomate
- Galician – tomate
- German – Tomaten
- Greek – ντομάτα
- Hebrew – ×¢×’×‘× ×™×”
- Hindi – टमाटर
- Hungarian – paradicsom
- Indonesian – tomat
- Italian – pomodoro
- Japanese – トマト
- Korean – í† ë§ˆí†
- Latvian – tomÄtu
- Lithiuanian – pomidorų
- Maltese – tadam
- Norwegian – tomat
- Polish – pomidor
- Portuguese – tomate
- Romanian – roÅŸii
- Russian – томат
- Serbian – парадајз
- Slovak – paradajka
- Slovenian – paradižnika
- Spanish – tomate
- Swedish – tomat
- Thai – โทมาโท
- Turkish – domates
- Ukrainian – томат
- Vietnamese – cà chua
May 15th, 2009 at 7:36 am
Thanks, Vanessa! What a delightful post!
May 15th, 2009 at 11:04 am
It’s interesting how similar some of them are to the English word. But, is it to-may-to or to-mah-to?
May 27th, 2009 at 9:19 pm
hey – I just noticed you have a “tomato wiki” – my site is also a wiki for gardeners. I hope you check it out and like it… if so I’d love a link to my site, or at least the tomato article
May 27th, 2009 at 9:21 pm
by the way, Tomato in Armenian is Õ¬Õ¸Õ¬Õ«Õ¯ (lolig or lolik)