Summary
Death in Different Languages: The word death comes from old English word “deao” which means cause of death, or dying. Death is a great mystery of life. This is a topic on which many writers and scientist spend their whole life to study. Many of us have passion to learn more about death or the topics related to the death.
Death in All Languages
Translation of word death in almost 100+ different languages of the world.
Different Languages | Word Death |
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Albanian | vdekje |
Basque | heriotza |
Belarusian | смерць |
Bosnian | smrt |
Bulgarian | смърт |
Catalan | mort |
Croatian | smrt |
Czech | smrt |
Danish | død |
Dutch | dood |
Estonian | surm |
Finnish | kuolema |
French | décès |
Galician | morte |
German | Tod |
Greek | θάνατος [thánatos] |
Hungarian | halál |
Icelandic | Dauða |
Irish | bás |
Italian | morte |
Latvian | nāve |
Lithuanian | mirtis |
Macedonian | смрт |
Maltese | mewt |
Norwegian | død |
Polish | śmierć |
Portuguese | morte |
Romanian | moarte |
Russian | смерть [smert'] |
Serbian | смрт [smrt] |
Slovak | úmrtia |
Slovenian | smrt |
Spanish | muerte |
Swedish | död |
Ukrainian | смерть [smert'] |
Welsh | marwolaeth |
Yiddish | טויט |
Armenian | մահվան |
Azerbaijani | ölüm |
Bengali | মরণ |
Chinese Simplified | 死亡 [sǐwáng] |
Chinese Traditional | 死亡 [sǐwáng] |
Georgian | სიკვდილი |
Gujarati | મૃત્યુ |
Hindi | मौत |
Hmong | tuag |
Japanese | 死 |
Kannada | ಸಾವಿನ |
Kazakh | өлім |
Khmer | ការស្លាប់ |
Korean | 죽음 [jug-eum] |
Lao | ການເສຍຊີວິດ |
Malayalam | മരണം |
Marathi | मृत्यू |
Mongolian | үхэл |
Myanmar (Burmese) | သေဆုံးခြင်း |
Nepali | मृत्यु |
Sinhala | මරණ |
Tajik | марг |
Tamil | மரணம் |
Telugu | మరణం |
Thai | ความตาย |
Turkish | ölüm |
Urdu | موت |
Uzbek | o'lim |
Vietnamese | tử vong |
Arabic | الموت [almawt] |
Hebrew | מוות |
Persian | مرگ |
Afrikaans | dood |
Chichewa | imfa |
Hausa | mutuwa |
Igbo | ọnwụ |
Sesotho | lefu |
Somali | dhimashada |
Swahili | kifo |
Yoruba | iku |
Zulu | ukufa |
Cebuano | kamatayon |
Filipino | kamatayan |
Indonesian | kematian |
Javanese | pati |
Malagasy | fahafatesana |
Malay | kematian |
Maori | mate |
Esperanto | morto |
Haitian Creole | lanmò |
Latin | mortem |
Death in European Languages
Translation of word death in almost 42 European languages.
Different Languages | Word Death |
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Albanian | vdekje |
Basque | heriotza |
Belarusian | смерць |
Bosnian | smrt |
Bulgarian | смърт |
Catalan | mort |
Corsican | a morte |
Croatian | smrt |
Czech | smrt |
Danish | død |
Dutch | dood |
Estonian | surm |
Finnish | kuolema |
French | décès |
Frisian | dea |
Galician | morte |
German | Tod |
Greek | θάνατος [thánatos] |
Hungarian | halál |
Icelandic | Dauða |
Irish | bás |
Italian | morte |
Latvian | nāve |
Lithuanian | mirtis |
Luxembourgish | Doud |
Macedonian | смрт |
Maltese | mewt |
Norwegian | død |
Polish | śmierć |
Portuguese | morte |
Romanian | moarte |
Russian | смерть [smert'] |
Scots Gaelic | bàs |
Serbian | смрт [smrt] |
Slovak | úmrtia |
Slovenian | smrt |
Spanish | muerte |
Swedish | död |
Tatar | үлем |
Ukrainian | смерть [smert'] |
Welsh | marwolaeth |
Yiddish | טויט |
Death in Asian Languages
Translation of word death in almost 36 Asian languages.
Different Languages | Word Death |
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Armenian | մահվան |
Azerbaijani | ölüm |
Bengali | মরণ |
Chinese Simplified | 死亡 [sǐwáng] |
Chinese Traditional | 死亡 [sǐwáng] |
Georgian | სიკვდილი |
Gujarati | મૃત્યુ |
Hindi | मौत |
Hmong | tuag |
Japanese | 死 |
Kannada | ಸಾವಿನ |
Kazakh | өлім |
Khmer | ការស្លាប់ |
Korean | 죽음 [jug-eum] |
Kyrgyz | өлүм |
Lao | ການເສຍຊີວິດ |
Malayalam | മരണം |
Marathi | मृत्यू |
Mongolian | үхэл |
Myanmar (Burmese) | သေဆုံးခြင်း |
Nepali | मृत्यु |
Odia | ମୃତ୍ୟୁ |
Pashto | مرګ |
Punjabi | ਮੌਤ |
Sindhi | موت |
Sinhala | මරණ |
Tajik | марг |
Tamil | மரணம் |
Telugu | మరణం |
Thai | ความตาย |
Turkish | ölüm |
Turkmen | ölüm |
Urdu | موت |
Uyghur | ئۆلۈم |
Uzbek | o'lim |
Vietnamese | tử vong |
Death in Middle East Languages
Translation of word death in 4 middle eastern languages.
Different Languages | Word Death |
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Arabic | الموت [almawt] |
Hebrew | מוות |
Kurdish (Kurmanji) | mirin |
Persian | مرگ |
Death in African Languages
Translation of word death in almost 13 African languages.
Different Languages | Word Death |
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Afrikaans | dood |
Amharic | ሞት |
Chichewa | imfa |
Hausa | mutuwa |
Igbo | ọnwụ |
Kinyarwanda | urupfu |
Sesotho | lefu |
Shona | rufu |
Somali | dhimashada |
Swahili | kifo |
Xhosa | ukufa |
Yoruba | iku |
Zulu | ukufa |
Death in Austronesian Languages
Translation of word death in almost 10 Austronesian languages.
Different Languages | Word Death |
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Cebuano | kamatayon |
Filipino | kamatayan |
Hawaiian | make |
Indonesian | kematian |
Javanese | pati |
Malagasy | fahafatesana |
Malay | kematian |
Maori | mate |
Samoan | oti |
Sundanese | maot |
Death in Other Foreign Languages
Different Languages | Word Death |
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Esperanto | morto |
Haitian Creole | lanmò |
Latin | mortem |
More Information about Death
This is the biggest truth of life because no one can escape from death. This is the wish of everyone in this world to live 100 years or more.
There are lots of information and articles related to this topic available on the internet and books. Some of them are mind blowing facts.
Average Age
The average age of death is different in all countries. It also differs in males and females. According to the research of UN in 2019, the global average age is 72 years.
In the developed countries like Hong Kong, Japan, Switzerland, UK, and US, it is above 80 years. In some countries like China, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Turkey, Thailand, Brazil, Russia and Egypt, it is between 70 to 80 years.
In some countries like Pakistan, Kenya, Yemen, Sudan, Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, it is between 60 to 70 years. In some under developed countries, it is 50 years.
Facts about Death
It is an estimate that one Lac and fifty thousand people in the world die every day. According to a facts book, eight out of one thousand people die every year.
While collecting the data, we have read some amazing facts related to the death. The number of people dies during taking selfies is more than the people die from the attacks of shark.
Only in US, every year 6,000 killed due to mistakes on doctor notes or prescription which may be due to their messy handwriting and wrong treatment with wrong medicine etc. This is so fearful fact.
Ancient Egyptians believe that there are many passages of life and death is one of them. In New York City, the ratio of death due to suicide is more than murder.
There are many ways to say death in different languages. Some words also used in place of death like end, expire, passed etc. Every year a dozen people killed due to shark attack but man is killing thousands of sharks daily.
It is also a true fact that air pollution is increasing day by day and every year 7 million people killed due to air pollution. Leading causes of deaths are Heart diseases, Cancer, Accidents, HIV and Diabetes.
Words for death in other languages are almawt, morte, tod, dood. These are the words of different countries but meaning is same.
Believes on Death
Concept of death and life after death, There are different believes of different people and differ country to country and religion to religion.
In some religion, people belief that life is one time, there is no life after death, on the other side, some religion belief that there is another life after death and that is the actual life, where everyone will get the reward according to his doings in life.
If a person spends the whole life in a good way, he will get the place in heaven and if he spends the life in a bad way, he will get the place in hell.
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