In this section, you will find a list of translations of the word "glass" in various languages.
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A

Afghan dari: peahala, glass
Afghan pashtoo: khikha
Afrikaans (South Africa): glas
Arabic (original): ZooGag
Arabic Egyptian (colloquial): izzaz
Armenian: apaki
Azerbaijani:

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B

Bahasa Malaysia: kaca
Bengali: sheesha
Bosnian: staklo
Bulgarian: staklo
Byelorussian: styaklo

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C

Castellano: vidrio
Catalan: vidre
Chinese mandarin (official language): boli
Chinese cantonese: ball lay
Croatian: staklo
Czech: sklo

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D

Danish: glas
Dinka: gazaz, zujag
Dutch: glas

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E

Egyptian: zuggag
Estonian: Klaas

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F

Farsi (Persian): shisheh
Filipino: salamin
Filipino (broken glass): bubog
Finnish: lasi
French: verre
Friesian: glês

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G

Gaelic: Gloine
Georgian: mina
German: Glas
Gujarati: kaanch
Greek: gyali
(note that the current term is only slighlty different from the 3,500-year-old Greek word, mentioned by Homer too, "yalos", which can serve as the Ancient Greek equivalent);
tzami (colloquial word meaning mainly window-pane)

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H

Hebrew: zchuchit
Hindi: kach; sheesha
Hungarian: uveg

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I

Iceland: gler
Indonesian: kaca
Iranian: shishe
Italian: vetro

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J

Japanese: galasu

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K

Korean: yuri
Kurdish: Vanadick

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L

Latvian: stikls
Lithuanian: stiklas
Luxemburger: glas

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M

Malay: gelas
Malayalam (Kerala, India): Kannadi, Chillu
Malgasy: fitaratra
Maltese: hgieg (The pronunciation of both g's is similar to the English "G" in "Germany" while the pronciation of the middle "ie" is similar to an English "ea" in "read")
Maori: karaehe
Marathi (Mumbai, India): kach (pronounced "kaa ch")

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N

Nepal: shisa
Norwegian: glass

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O

Omani: zigag

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P

Pakistani (urdu): sheesha
Palestinian: kazaz
Pashtoo (Afghanistan): khikha
Persian (Farsi): shisheh
Polish: szklo
Portuguese: vidro

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Q

Quebecois: vitre

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R

Romanian: sticla (used for all glass, from old Slav language),
geam (window glass only)
Russian: steklo

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S

Senegalese: wer (a deformation of the French "verre")
Serbian: staklo
Slovak: sklo
Slovenian: steklo
Spanish: vidrio
Sri Lankan: veeduru
Swahili: Singular: kioo / Plural: vioo
Swedish: glas

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T

Taiwaness: bolei
Tamil: kannadi
Telugu: gaju
Thai: gaew
Turkish: cam

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U

Ukrainian: sklo
Uto-Atzecan: güishte
Urdu: sheesha

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V

Valencian: vidre
Vietnamese: thuõ kinh

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W

Welsh: gwydr

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