Thursday, February 22, 2007

How Do You Say 'FROG' in anoTher LanguaGe?

Afrikaans frog/toad: padda
Albanian frog: bretkocë/ toad: thithëlopë, zhabë
Ayapathu(an Australian language):frog: thata
Arabic frog: difdi' or dafda' /toad: difdi' al-jabal (lit. 'mountain frog')
Azerbaijani frog: qurbaga
Bengali frog: byang
Bulgarian frog: zhaba (ZHA-ba) (same Cyrillic spelling as Russian)
Cambodian frog: gong-gaip
Catalan frog: granota /toad: gripau
Chinese frog: qing wa
Danish frog: frø/ toad: tudse
Dutch frog: kikker /toad: pad
Ethiopian frog: enkurarit
Esperanto frog: rano /toad: bufo
Finnish frog: sammakko/ toad: rupisammakko (lit. 'scab-frog')
Fiji Island frog or toad: boto (kra-PO)
French frog: grenouille/ toad: crapaud (kra-PO)
Gamilaraay (an Australian aboriginal language)Frog: gindjurra
German frog: der Frosch /toad: die Krøte
Greek frog: batrachos (accent on first syllable)
Hausa frog: kwado
Hawiian frog: poloka, lana, mo'o lele lu'elu'e
Hungarian frog: beka /toad: varangy
Indonesian frog: kodok
Italian frog: ranocchio (m. rhymes with Pinocchio!) or ranna (f. cf latin)
Icelandic frog: froskur toad: karta
Irish frog: loscann toad: buaf
Japanese tree frog: amagaeru/ frog: kaeru or kawazu/ singing frog: kajika /bullfrog: tonosamagaeru
Kazak frog: qurbaqa (same Cyrillic spelling as Uzbek)
Kyrgyz frog: baka
Korean frog: Kae-gu-ri toad: tu-ggo-bi
Latin frog: rana /small frog: ranunculus/ toad: bufo
Lao frog: gop toad: kaan-kak
Lithuanian frog: varlé toad: rupuzé
Malay (Malaysian) frog: katak
Norwegian frog: frosk (pr. 'frosh') /toad: padde (cf. Dutch and Swedish)
Persian frog/toad: qúrbághih (gore-baah-gey)
In Tagalog (language of Manila, the capital), frog: palaka
In Visayas (a region in Southern Philippines), frog: paka
Polish frog: zaba (where z is pronounced like J in the french name Jaques)
Portuguese frog: rã, rana /toad: sapo
Romanian frog: broasca
Russian frog: lyagushka (lya-GOOSH-ka) toad: zhaba (ZHA-ba)
Samoan frog: rane
Sanskrit frog: bheka
Scots Gaelic frog: losgann (cf. Irish)/ Northern)Sotho frog/toad: segwagwa, segwegwe
Serbian frog: zaba
Slovene frog: zhaba (zaba)/toad: krastacha (krastaèa)
Spanish frog: rana/ toad: sapo
Swahili frog/toad: chura
Swedish frog: groda/ toad: padda
Tamil frog: tappaLai
Tatar frog: baka
Tibetan frog: sbal pa / toad: sbal pa rigs shig (literally "a kind or species of frog")
Thai frog: gòp (kab)/ toad: kang-kok (khAngak)
Tagalog frog/toad: palakâ
Turkish frog: kurbaga /toad: kara kurbaga (lit. 'black frog')
[N.B. "g" is silent] (cf. Azerbaijani, Kazak, Kyrgyz, Tatar, Turkmen, Uigher, Uzbek)
Turkmen frog: gurbaga
Uighur frog: paqa
Ukranian frog: zhaba (ZHA-ba) (same Cyrillic spelling as Russian)
Urduf frog: meyñDak
Uzbek frog: qurbaqa
Vietnamese frog: con éch/ toad: con cóc
Welsh frog: broga/ toad: llyffant
Westerlauwer Frisian (a Germanic languag spoken in the Netherlands)frog: kikkert/ toad: podde
Yoruba frog: àkèré kònkò/ toad: òpòló
Zulu frog: isele, iselesele, ingxangxa, ixoxo, ujunguju (frog spawn)/ toad: isele, iselele, igcogcoma, isinana (plantana)


P.S..
I know it is strange but I have this 'thing' about frogs..There is also a link in my blog about frog facts etc..Maybe it's their colour(s)..maybe it's their spooky and funny looking eyes and shape..dunno..they's just frogs..u know?

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