Cubing terminology in different languages
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Pronunciation is given in square brackets, in pinyin in for Mandarin and in IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) for other languages. Literal translations are given in parentheses.
Indo-European Languages
| Germanic | Romance | Slavic | |||||||||
| English | Dutch | German | Swedish | Icelandic (1) | French | Spanish | Italian | Romanian | Russian | Polish | Croatian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rubik's Cube | Rubiks kubus | Zauberwürfel
['tsaʊbɐ̯vʏɐ̯fɛl] |
Rubiks kub | Rubik's teningur/kubbur | Rubik's Cube
[ʁubiks kyb] |
Cubo Rubik | Cubo di Rubik | Cubul Rubik | Кубик Рубика | Kostka Rubika | |
| Corner | die Ecke
[ɛkə] |
Horn | le coin
[kw~ɛ] |
angolo | vrh | ||||||
| Edge | die Kante | Hliðarkubbur | l'arête (f)
[aʁɛt] |
spigolo | rub | ||||||
| center | Miðja | le centre
[s~atʁ] |
|||||||||
| algorithm | Algrím | l'algorithme/algo (m)
[algoʁitm/algo] |
algoritmo | ||||||||
| F2L
[ɛf tuː ɛL] |
Fyrstu tvö lögin | le F2L
[ɛf døz‿ɛl] |
Primi Due Strati | ||||||||
| to scramble | mélanger
[mel~aʒe] |
mischiare | |||||||||
(1) Although these translations are correct, the English words are often used.
Other Languages
| English | Uralic | Semitic | Sino-Tibetan | Other Asian | ||||
| English | Hungarian | Hebrew
(Israel) |
Mandarin
(Simplified) |
Chinese
(Taiwan, Traditional) |
Chinese
(Hongkong, Traditional) |
Japanese | Korean | Vietnamese |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rubik's Cube | Rubik Kocka (Rubik's Cube) / Varázs Kocka (Magic Cube) | קובייה הונגרית
(kubia hungarit) |
魔方
[mófāng] |
魔術方塊
[móshùfāngkuài] |
扭計骰
[niǔjìtóu] |
ルービックキューブ
[ɽu͍ːbiQku͍kju͍ːꜜbu͍] |
Khối lập phương Rubik | |
| corner | コーナー
[koːꜜnaː] |
|||||||
| edge | エッジ
[eQꜜdʑi] |
|||||||
| center | ||||||||
| algorithm | ||||||||
| to scramble | ||||||||
| F2L | ||||||||
External Links
- Speedsolving.com: Rubik's Cube in different languages
- Speedsolving.com: Foreign Cubing Terms?
