Thursday, September 25, 2014

Railroad, reli, and ferrovia


--To read this post in Japanese, click here.

Let's go where the railroad runs.

Portuguese: ferrovia (ferro=iron)

Italian: ferrovia (ferro=iron)

Spanish: ferrocarril (hierro=iron)

German: Eisenbahn  (Eisen=iron)

English: railway

Swahili: reli

Hindi: रेलवे[rēlavē]

Dutch: spoorweg
 
Arabic: سكة حديدية [sikka(tun) hadiidiya(tun)]
                 (حديد = iron)

French: chemin de fer (fer=iron)

Russian: железная дорога (железо=iron)

Chinese: 铁路/鐵路[tiělù] (铁/鐵=iron)
 
Korean: 철도 [cheoldo] (철=iron)

Japanese: 鉄道(てつどう) [tetsudou] (鉄=iron)
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