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[-] tuto193@lemmy.world 63 points 2 years ago

Shouldn't UK or at least England be "arse" and not "ass"?

[-] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago

Yeah it's a total fuck up.

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[-] Hrafyn@kbin.social 51 points 2 years ago

Asal in Ireland means the donkey sort of ass not the ass sort of ass!

[-] joranvar@feddit.nl 11 points 2 years ago

Like the Dutch "ezel" (which is the same word used in Dutch for painting-supporters which in English are called "easel").

[-] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago

That's funny, in art school we used a bench with a back that we called 'donkeys'

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

That sounded silly until I remembered English has "sawhorse."

[-] joranvar@feddit.nl 2 points 2 years ago

At least the sawhorse resembles a horse :)

[-] jdr@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago

Should be "tón" or something

[-] TheDobharChu@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Tóin is arse. Tón is tone.

[-] jdr@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

You're right and I can't spell, is tusa an fíorshaoi de na dtóinenna.

[-] coolboole@infosec.pub 41 points 2 years ago
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[-] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 37 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's this meant to be ass as in your rear end? Or like a donkey? If it's the former the UK is actually arse. Ass is north American

[-] dragnucs@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago

This is not a 100% accurate. I guess it is based on some translation tool. Arabic word used is standard Arabic which is very polite. Dialects use other words depending on the degree of vulgarity. Many countries have the same different words to describe the same. Think of it like ass, rear and bottom.

[-] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

What I'm getting at is though that no-one I know in the UK (unless they "terminally" consume North American content) says "ass" unironically. They say "arse".

[-] dragnucs@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Which means the chart is not accurate.

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[-] Sheeple@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

All the translations are for rear end so

[-] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

So it should be "Arse"

[-] obinice@lemmy.world 33 points 2 years ago

Ahem ahemmmm hexcuse me, we speak English in the UK, not Murikan.

It's Arse, not Ass.

:-P

[-] pfaca@lemm.ee 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Portugal uses "rabo" or "cu". "Bunda" is more a Portuguese Brazilian thing.

It has some differences like UK English and US English.

[-] Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

Exatamente. “Traseiro” é uma alternativa adequada

[-] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

And "ass" is American.

[-] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 years ago

Is that where bunda in the uk as slang for ass comes from?

[-] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

Yeah. Same word. More a Brazilian thing I believe - unless there’s some Portuguese who know better and can correct me.

[-] mikey@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 years ago

In Hungarian it says "segglyuk", but that means "asshole". It should be "segg" to match "ass".

[-] Rubanski@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago

Segg like in rendőrségg ?

[-] jak@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

Hm, I wonder if that’s related to German “Loch,” with the same meaning?

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[-] pheeef@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Austrian here:

It is refereed to as “oasch” almost everywhere in Austria instead of “arsch”

[-] Hegar@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Kont in Dutch - English's closest major relative - is very interesting.

Presumably it's cognate with cunt, which reminds me of the different meanings of fanny in UK/US English.

Also Finnish and Estonian both with perse - cool, they're both Uralic so that makes sense. And just below them dirsa seems so similar, despite Latvian being Indo-European. But then along comes their Uralic buddy Hungarian with the utterly dissimilar segglyuk.

[-] Firipu@startrek.website 2 points 2 years ago

Would be gat in flemish dutch tbh. Not kont

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[-] Thorry84@feddit.nl 9 points 2 years ago

Zoomers: GYAT

[-] defame@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Prochi (პროჭი) in Georgian means asshole specifically, it should say traki (ტრაკი) for ass

[-] Rubanski@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

Is this the famous κωλος of Rhodes ?

[-] nobloat@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

The Arabic "muakhirah" means something like "the behind". Funny enough, it shares some roots with the word "muta'akhir" which means "being late" and "akhir" which means "the latest". It's polite and used even in some dialects to just refer politely to it. Every dialect though has other specific words that are more vulgar. Some are different in every country. Egyptians would use "Tiz" to refer to it and Moroccans would use the more vulgar "Zok". Middle Eastern countries also often use "Tiz".

[-] virku@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

In Norwegian depending on context and where you're from you might say other words like Rumpe, Rass, Rauv, etc. The most polite and normally written one of them is Rumpe.

[-] sevenapples@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 years ago
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[-] IHateFacelessPorn@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Göt is just a beautiful world to say.

[-] Andrew15_5@mander.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

задник is so hilarious from the perspective of Russian. xD

[-] nukul4r@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

Why does Norway have a different color than Denmark and Sweden?

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Oh wow, Top Gear was right.

[-] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago

in maltese (the one at the bottom center) it's just "sorm".

"Toqba tas-sorm" means "asshole"

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