How to Say "Dog" in Different Languages

A tan dog is laying on a wooden beach front deck with lawn chairs and flower pots on it.

Abkhaz = ala

Ainu = seta

Afrikaans = hond

Akkadian = kalbum

Alacaluf = kiurro

Albanian = qen

Algonquian = athemwa

Amharic = wäshsha

Anglo-Saxon = docga, hund

Apache = góshé

Arabic = kalb
Aragonian = gos
Aramaic = kalba
Armenian = shun
Arrernte (Western) = kngwelye
Assamese = kukur
Assyrian = kalbu
Asturian = perru
Atayal = huzil
Aymara = anu
Balinese = cicing
Bashkir = et
Basque = zakur, txakur
Batak (Toba) = asu
Belarusian = sabaka
Bemba = imbwa
Bengali = kukur
Berber (Kabyl) = uccay
Berber (Tamazight) = aydi
Bergamasco = ca
Blackfoot = immitta
Bolognese = can
Bosnian = pas
Breton = ki
Bugotu = aku, iuiu
Bulgarian = kuche
Burmese = hkway:
Burushaski = huk
Cambodian = Jakay
Cantonese = gáu, káu
Catalan = gos
Cham = Sao
Chamorro (Northern Marianas Islands and Guam) = Galagu
Chechen = zh9ala
Cheremis (Mari) = piy
Cherokee = gi li, gi-tli
Chewa (Nyanja) = Galu
Chinese (Mandarin) = gou (using the 3rd tone)
Chinook = kamuks
Choctaw = ofi
Chuvash = jyta
Coptic = uhor
Cornish = ki
Corsican = cane
Cree = atim
Croatian = pas
Czech = pes
Danish = hund
Dholuo = guok
Dutch = hond
Ecuadorian Quechua = allcu
Egyptian (ancient) = auau, uahr, uher
English = dog
Esperanto = hundo
Estonian = koer
Evenki = nginakin
Faeroese = hundur
Fijian = kolii
Finnish = koira
French = chien
Frisian = hun, dogge
Fulani = rawandu
Gagauz = köpek
Galician = can
Georgian = dzahhli
German = Hund
Gothic = hunds
Grebo = gbe
Greek (New Greek) = skyli
Greek (Old Greek) = kyon
Greenlandic = Qimmeq
Guarani = jagua
Gujarati = kutto
Haitian Creole = chen
Hakka = kieu-e
Hausa = kare
Hawaiian = ilio, 'iilio
Hebrew = kelev
Hindi = kuttA or shvAna
Hmong = dev
Hungarian = kutya
Icelandic = hundur
Igbo = nkita
Ilocano = aso
Indonesian = anjing
Interlingua = can
Inuit = kringmerk
Inuktitut = qimmiq
Irish = madra
Italian = cane
Japanese = inu
Javanese = asu
Kalmyk = noha
Kannada = nay
Karachay-Balkar = it
Karelian = koiru
Kashmiri = hune
Kawi = asu
Kazakh = it
Kikuyu = gui
Kobon (Papua) = kain
Komi-Permyak = pon
Kongo = mbwa
Konkani = Suno
Korean = gae
Kuna = achu
Kunza = locma
Kurdish = seg, fendo, kelb, kûçik
Kyrgyz = it
Láadan = lanemid
Lampung = kuyuk
Lao = ma
Lapp = beana
Latin = canis
Latvian = suns
Leonese = perru
Ligurian = can
Lingala = mbwa
Lithuanian = suo
Loglan = kangu
Lojban = gerku
Lushootseed = sqwebay
Luxemburgian = Hond
Macedonian = kuche, pes
Madurese = pate
Malayalam = naaya/patti
Malagasy = alika
Malay = anjing
Maltese = kelb
Manchu = indahon
Mandinka = wulo
Manx = moddey
Mapuche = trewa
Marathi = Kutra
Marshallese (Majuro) = Konak
Masai = ol-dia
Miami/Peoria Indian = alemwa
Micmac = lmuj
Mohawk = erhar
Mongolian = noqai, nohoj
Mordovian = pine
Morisyen = lesyen
Mundari = seta
Nahuatl = chichi, itzcuintli
Nanay = enda
Navajo = lha-cha-eh
Nepali = kukur
Nggela = kau
Nicobarese (Car) = am
Nivkh = qan
Norwegian = hund
Ojibwe = animosh
Old High German = hunt
Old Norse = hundr
Oromo = saree
Ossetic = kuidz
Pahlavi = sag
Panjabi = kutta
Papago-Pima = gogs
Papiamento = kacho
Pashto = spay
Persian, Farsi = sag
Phoenician = klb
Pidgin = dok
Pig Latin = ogday
Pilipino = áso
Polish = pies
Portuguese = cão
Pulaar = rawaandu
Purépecha: wíchu
Pushtu = spay
Quechua (Ancash) = allqu
Rapanui = paihenga
Romanian = cîine
Romansch = chaun
Romani = juk
Romany = zhukel
Romany = rikono (means puppy)
Rotuman = kami
Roviana = siki
Ruanda = inbwa
Russian = sobaka (cobaka)
Samoan = maile
Sanskrit = svan
Sardinian (Logudorese dialect) = cane
Sardinian (Campidanese dialect) = cani
Scottish = cù
Sepedi = mpaa
Serbian = pas
Shelknam = wulan
Shona = imbwá
Sicilian = cani
Sinhala = balla
Slovak = pes
Slovakian = jukel
Slovene = pes
Somali = eey
Sorbian, Wendish, Upper Lusatian = pos, psyk
Sotho, Northern = mpsha
Sotho, Southern; Sesotho, Sesuto = ntsa
Spanish = perro
Sranan = dagu
Sumerian = ur
Sundanese = anjing
Swahili = mbwa
Swazi = inja
Swedish = hund
Swiss German = Hund
Tagalog = áso
Tahitian = uri
Taino = aon
Taiwanese = kao and kaẃ ar
Tajik = sag
Tamil = nay
Tarahumara = kochi
Tatar = et
Telugu = Kukka
Tetum = asu
Tigrinya = kalbi
Thai = ёáò, mah, soonahk
Tibetan = khyi
Tlingit = kyetl
Tocharian = ku
Tongan = kuli
Tsonga = Mbyana
Tswana = ntsa
Turkish = köpek
Turkmen = it
Tuvan = yt
Twi, Akan = okeraman
Tzeltal: tz'i'
Udmurt (Votyak) = puny
Ugaritic = klb
Ukrainian = sobaka, pes
Urdu = kutta
Uzbek = it
Venda = mmbwa
Vietnamese = chó
Vogulic = amp
Volapük = dog
Warlpiri = maliki
Welsh = ci
Wolio = mantoa
Wolof = hatch, xaj
Xhosa = inja
Yakut = yt
Yiddish = kelef or hunt
Yoeme = chuu'u
Yoruba = aja
Yucatec = peḱ
Yukagir = mane
Yup'ik = qimugta
Yurak = men
Zapotec = bicu
Zarma = hansi
Zulu = inja

Many thanks to Andras Rajki for his contribution to this page.

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