Wrestling in other Languages
The sport we know as wrestling is not necessarily called by the same name around the world. Here are the names for wrestling in many of the languages of the world. The names are taken from the Wikipedia page for wrestling in each of these languages. You will notice that many of the names appear to be phonetic spelling of wrestling in the other languages.
Name by Language
| Language | Name for the sport of wrestling |
|---|---|
| English | Wrestling |
| Acehnese | Gulat |
| Afrikaans | Stoei |
| Albanian | Mundja |
| Arabic | مصارعة |
| Armenian | Ըմբշամարտ |
| Azerbaijani | Güləş |
| Basque | Borroka (kirola) |
| Bavarian | Ringa |
| Belarusian | Барацьба |
| Belarusian | Барацьба |
| Bengali | কুস্তি |
| Bosnian | Hrvanje |
| Breton | Gouren |
| Bulgarian | Борба |
| Cantonese | 摔角 |
| Catalan | Lluita |
| Chinese | 摔跤 |
| Croatian | Hrvanje |
| Czech | Zápas |
| Danish | Brydning |
| Dinka | Wït jööt yuït |
| Dutch | Worstelen |
| Eastern Punjabi | ਕੁਸ਼ਤੀ |
| Esperanto | Luktado |
| Estonian | Maadlus |
| Fiji Hindi | Kusti |
| Finnish | Paini |
| French | Lutte |
| Galician | Loita |
| German | Ringen |
| Greek | Πάλη |
| Haitian | Lit |
| Hebrew | היאבקות |
| Hindi | कुश्ती |
| Hungarian | Birkózás |
| Indonesian | Gulat |
| Irish | Iomrascáil |
| Italian | Lotta |
| Japanese | レスリング |
| Javanese | Gulat |
| Kannada | ಕುಸ್ತಿ |
| Karakalpak | Gu'res |
| Korean | 레슬링 |
| Lak | ЛачӀун уккаву |
| Latin | Palaestrica |
| Latvian | Cīņas sports |
| Lezgian | Юкьварар |
| Lithuanian | Imtynės |
| Macedonian | Борење |
| Maithili | कुस्ती |
| Malay | Gusti |
| Malayalam | ഗുസ്തി |
| Marathi | कुस्ती |
| Mazandarani | کشتی (ورزش) |
| Min Nan | Sio-ián |
| Mongolian | Бөх |
| Norwegian | Bryting |
| Norwegian | Bryting |
| Occitan | Lucha |
| Persian | کشتی (ورزش) |
| Polish | Zapasy |
| Portuguese | Luta |
| Romanian | Lupte |
| Russian | Борьба |
| Sakha | Тустуу |
| Sanskrit | मल्लक्रीडा |
| Scots | Warstlin |
| Serbian | Рвање |
| Serbo-Croatian | Hrvanje |
| Shona | Mutsimba |
| Sinhalese | මල්ලව පොර |
| Slovak | Zápasenie (šport) |
| Slovene | Rokoborba |
| Sorani Kurdish | زۆرانبازی |
| Spanish | Lucha (deporte) |
| Swahili | Miereka |
| Swedish | Brottning |
| Tagalog | Buno |
| Tajik | Куштӣ (варзиш) |
| Tamil | மற்போர் |
| Telugu | మల్ల యుద్ధం |
| Thai | มวยปล้ำ |
| Tibetan | སྦེ་ག |
| Tulu | ಕುಸ್ತಿ |
| Turkish | Güreş |
| Turkmen | Göreş |
| Ukrainian | Боротьба (спорт) |
| Vietnamese | Đấu vật |
| West Frisian | Wrakseljen |
| Western Armenian | Ըմբշամարտ |
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