Sunday, September 22, 2013

The Noun “Smile” In Other Languages!


What are other names for the smile? Well, I looked on the Internet to get the noun form of smile. Here’s what I came up with: 

Spanish: sonrisa. Czech: usmev. Arabic: ibtasem. Portugese: sorriso.   German: lacheln. Italian: sorriso. French: sourire. Afrikaans: glimlag.

Azerbaijani: tabassum.  Basque: irribarre. Latin: ridet. Irish: mionghaire. Croatian: osmijeh. Danish: smil. Estonian: naeratus. Filipino: ngiti. Finnish: hymy. Catalan: somriure. Galician: sorriso

Haitian Creole: souri. Hindi: mucarat. Hungarian: mosoly. Icelandic: bros. Indonesian: senyum. Japanese: egao or waratte. Latvian: smaids. Lithuanian: sypsena. Macedonian: hacmebka. Malay: senyuman. Maltese: tbissima.

Norwegian: smile. Polish: usmiech. Romanian: zambet. Russian: ulibka. Serbian: ocmex. Slovenian: nasmeh. swahili: smile. Swedish: leende. Turkish: tebessum. Vietnamese: nu cuoi. Welsh: gwenu or wen. Zulu: ukumamatheka.

(From translate.google.com and others)

May you have many…beautiful smiles are on all of the continents, smoothly verbal and nonverbal, actions are louder than words…smiles!

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