A Frog in Any Language...
How Do You Say Frog In...
| 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
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| Bengali | frog: byang
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| Bulgarian | frog: zhaba (ZHA-ba) (same Cyrillic spelling as Russian) |
| Cambodian | frog: gong-gaip |
| Catalan | frog: granota toad: gripau |
| Chinese | frog: qing wa
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| 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 Islands | 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)
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| 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 
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| Kazak | frog: qurbaqa (same Cyrillic spelling as Uzbek)
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| Kyrgyz | frog: baka |
| Korean | frog: Kae-gu-ri
toad: tu-ggo-bi 
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| 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) |
| Osage An aboriginal American tribe [and language]. |
 (click for pronounciation guide.) |
| Persian | frog/toad:
qúrbághih (gore-baah-gey)
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| Philipeans | I'm told there's more than 100 languages in this country! 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) 
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| Samoan | frog: rane |
| Sanskrit | frog: bheka
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| 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
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| Tatar | frog: baka
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| Tibetan | frog: sbal pa toad: sbal pa rigs shig (literally "a kind or species of frog") 
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| Thai | frog: gòp (kab)
toad: kang-kok (khAngak) 
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| 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
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| Uighur | frog: paqa
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| Ukranian | frog: zhaba (ZHA-ba) (same Cyrillic spelling as Russian) |
| Urduf | frog: meyñDak
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| Uzbek | frog: qurbaqa
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| Vietnamese | frog: con éch toad: con cóc |
| Welsh | frog: broga toad: llyffant |
| Westerlauwer Frisian (a Germanic language 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) |
