Fabric Planet
Estonian: kangas
German: Stoff
Japanese: nuno
Finnish: kanga
French: tissu
Italian: tessuto
Norwegian: Stoff
Polish: tkanina
Portuguese: pano / tecido
Russian: tkan
Spanish: tela / tejido
Swedish: tyg
Welsh: defnydd
Other major world languages that we still need if we’re going to be serious here!: Arabic(s), Bengali, Chinese(s), Danish, Dutch, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Javanese, Korean, Polish, Thai, Tagalog, Turkish, Romanian, Swahili, Vietnamese, and the dozens of other Indian and African languages.
I also would love to have images of words usually written in non-Latin alphabets.
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Norwegian: stoff (common nouns start with a small letter, only names are capitalized)
Danish: stof
It’s fun to see the similarities and differences between different languages!
Tagalog is the same as Spanish – tela. I could be wrong but I am almost positive.
Jonah, you’re right. In Tagalog it’s tela.
Here’s a link to a dictionary showing a video clip of the American Sign Language sign for “fabric”
http://www.aslpro.com/cgi-bin/aslpro/aslpro.cgi
You’ll need to navigate to the F’s then find the word for fabric.
Can you see this?
Russian: ткань (tkan)
Hello there! Delurking to let you know that the Korean word for fabric is ‘ot ggam’. Sorry I couldn’t figure out how to display it in the Korean alphabet, but that’s the pronunciation. I love your site!
In Bosnian, my dictionary gives tkanina, materijal (the “j” is pronounced like the “y” in “you”), and stof.
I’m totally keeping this list on my iPod for reference. Not that my international travels are super frequent, but who knows?
Oh, and Hebrew is ×ריג, pronounced “areeg”, with emphasis on the ‘ee’.
In Hindi it is कपड़ा (kapra) which is also the word for a garment.
The Japanese looks like: 布 (in kanji, pictographs) or ã¬ã®ã€€(in hiragana, the syllabary ) Aren’t langagues interesting?
Mandarin Chinese is buliao (布料）or just bu （布）.
Turkish:
KumaÅŸ
Dutch:
Stof
Bahasa Indonesia: kain
In Arabic: Qemash قماش
In Malagasy (Madagascar): lamba