Posted on 15 May 2009 by tomatocasual.com

Traveling Abroad? Learn How to Say Tomato!

sayBy 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 - tomàquet
  • Chinese (Simplified) - 番茄
  • Chinese (Traditional) - 番茄
  • Croatian - paradajz
  • Czech - rajče
  • Danish - tomat
  • Dutch - tomaat
  • English - tomato
  • Estonian - tomat
  • Filipino - kamatis
  • Finnish - tomaatti
  • French - tomate
  • Galician - tomate
  • German - Tomaten
  • Greek - ντομάτα
  • Hebrew - עגבניה
  • Hindi - टमाटर
  • Hungarian - paradicsom
  • Indonesian - tomat
  • Italian - pomodoro
  • Japanese - トマト
  • Korean - 토마토
  • Latvian - tomātu
  • Lithiuanian - pomidorų
  • Maltese - tadam
  • Norwegian - tomat
  • Polish - pomidor
  • Portuguese - tomate
  • Romanian - roşii
  • Russian - томат
  • Serbian - парадајз
  • Slovak - paradajka
  • Slovenian - paradižnika
  • Spanish - tomate
  • Swedish - tomat
  • Thai - โทมาโท
  • Turkish - domates
  • Ukrainian - томат
  • Vietnamese - cà chua

4 Responses to “Traveling Abroad? Learn How to Say Tomato!”

  1. tomatocasual.com our friend Ben Says:

    Thanks, Vanessa! What a delightful post!

  2. tomatocasual.com Nancy Bond Says:

    It’s interesting how similar some of them are to the English word. But, is it to-may-to or to-mah-to? ;-)

  3. tomatocasual.com Raffi Says:

    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 :-)

  4. tomatocasual.com Raffi Says:

    by the way, Tomato in Armenian is լոլիկ (lolig or lolik)

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