Worlds language fights: “pineapple” v “ananas”
(So far, “ananas” is winning …)
40 different languages:
- Spanish – piña
- French – ananas
- German – Ananas
- Italian – ananas
- Portuguese – abacaxi
- Dutch – ananas
- Russian – ананас (ananas)
- Ukrainian – ананас (ananas)
- Polish – ananas
- Czech – ananas
- Slovak – ananás
- Hungarian – ananász
- Romanian – ananas
- Greek – ανανάς (anás)
- Turkish – ananas
- Arabic – أناناس (ananas)
- Hebrew – אננס (ananas)
- Hindi – अनानास (ananas)
- Bengali – আনারস (anaros)
- Tamil – அன்னாசி (annāci)
- Telugu – అనాస (anāsa)
- Kannada – ಅನಾನಸ್ (anānas)
- Malayalam – അനനാസ് (ananās)
- Chinese (Mandarin) – 菠萝 (bōluó) or 凤梨 (fènglí)
- Japanese – パイナップル (painappuru)
- Korean – 파인애플 (painaepeul)
- Thai – สับปะรด (sapparot)
- Vietnamese – dứa or thơm
- Indonesian – nanas
- Malay – nanas
- Filipino (Tagalog) – pinya
- Swahili – nanasi
- Zulu – iphainaphu
- Xhosa – iphayinaphu
- Afrikaans – pynappel
- Icelandic – ananas
- Finnish – ananas
- Swedish – ananas
- Norwegian – ananas
- Danish – ananas