# Foreign language Dopers--What is your word for "fart"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 2, 2009, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreign-language-dopers-what-is-your-word-for-fart/519698 "2009-12-02T14:30:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreign-language-dopers-what-is-your-word-for-fart/519698/1 "2009-12-02T14:30:17Z")
I’m not talking about “flatuence” or any cute euphemism. What is your equivelant of “fart”? ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreign-language-dopers-what-is-your-word-for-fart/519698/2 "2009-12-02T14:43:09Z")
In Spanish the verb ‘to fart’ is _eruptir._ ---
**Author:** ![Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harriet_the_Spry)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreign-language-dopers-what-is-your-word-for-fart/519698/3 "2009-12-02T14:46:29Z")
In Spain the noun is “un pedo.” I think the verb is ususally “tirarse un pedo.” Spanish varies quite a bit from country to country. ---
**Author:** ![Martha\_Medea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@Martha\_Medea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martha_Medea)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreign-language-dopers-what-is-your-word-for-fart/519698/4 "2009-12-02T14:58:03Z")
But does anyone ever pronounce the D in “pedo” apart from in jest? ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreign-language-dopers-what-is-your-word-for-fart/519698/5 "2009-12-02T15:15:14Z")
In German, _Furz_, _furzen_ is the verb. Sounds funny, doesn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreign-language-dopers-what-is-your-word-for-fart/519698/6 "2009-12-02T15:18:37Z")
In French, it’s _pêt_ (noun) or _pêtar_ (verb). See Le Petomaine. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreign-language-dopers-what-is-your-word-for-fart/519698/7 "2009-12-02T15:24:11Z")
In Hebrew it’s either \*Nod \*(pronounced like “node”) or _Flotz_ (pronounced like “floats”). ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreign-language-dopers-what-is-your-word-for-fart/519698/8 "2009-12-02T15:41:23Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > In German, _Furz_, _furzen_ is the verb. Sounds funny, doesn’t it? There’s also the somewhat more cutesy _Pups_, with the verb being analogously _pupsen_. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreign-language-dopers-what-is-your-word-for-fart/519698/9 "2009-12-02T15:42:34Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > In French, it’s _pêt_ (noun) or _pêtar_ (verb). See Le Petomaine. La Petomaine the GUV in Blazing Saddles. Now the inside joke is known everywhere. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreign-language-dopers-what-is-your-word-for-fart/519698/10 "2009-12-02T15:44:30Z")
In (some parts) of Wales, fart is _pumff_. In Cantonese it’s _fong pei_, meaning literally “thrown wind”. ---
**Author:** ![Timchik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@Timchik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Timchik)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreign-language-dopers-what-is-your-word-for-fart/519698/11 "2009-12-02T15:45:18Z")
In Russian the verb is пёрнуть (_pyornoot’_) “to fart audibly” or бздеть (_bzdet’_) “to fart silently”. The nouns are пердун (perdoon) and бздун (bzdoon), respectively. The kiddie version is пукнуть (pooknut’) “to toot” and пук (pook) “a toot”. Interestingly, an old fart is an old fart - старый пердун (stary perdoon). ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreign-language-dopers-what-is-your-word-for-fart/519698/12 "2009-12-02T15:58:11Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > La Petomaine the GUV in Blazing Saddles. Now the inside joke is known everywhere. [Evidently not.](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/363/did-a-french-vaudeville-star-once-specialize-in-trained-flatulence) And Brooks knew where he was stealing the name from. ---
**Author:** ![Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hypnagogic_jerk/32/4252_2.png) [@Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypnagogic_Jerk)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreign-language-dopers-what-is-your-word-for-fart/519698/13 "2009-12-02T16:09:01Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > In French, it’s _pêt_ (noun) or _pêtar_ (verb). See Le Petomaine. _Pet_ and _péter_. And Le Pétomane. 😛 ETA: French doesn’t have verbs with infinitive in -ar (unlike Spanish). The first group of verbs are those with infinitive in -er, pronounced /e/. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreign-language-dopers-what-is-your-word-for-fart/519698/14 "2009-12-02T16:13:13Z")
> [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](#): > > There’s also the somewhat more cutesy _Pups_, with the verb being analogously _pupsen_. Yeah, but that’s more children’s talk. A grown up man would never proudly call his successful evaporation a “Pups”. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreign-language-dopers-what-is-your-word-for-fart/519698/15 "2009-12-02T16:27:41Z")
Come on, somewhere on the Dope there must be a Latin scholar… ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreign-language-dopers-what-is-your-word-for-fart/519698/16 "2009-12-02T16:37:12Z")
In Chinese its “pee”. “Fong pee” means “to fart” or “farting” ---
**Author:** ![Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harriet_the_Spry)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreign-language-dopers-what-is-your-word-for-fart/519698/17 "2009-12-02T17:03:01Z")
> [@Martha\_Medea](#): > > But does anyone ever pronounce the D in “pedo” apart from in jest? Spanish accents vary in how they pronoun the letter d. It’s not exactly like the English pronunciation, but I wouldn’t say it’s completely missing in some accents, either. More like a th. I think Andalucia that has an accent that almost completely omits the d sound except at the beginning of words. ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreign-language-dopers-what-is-your-word-for-fart/519698/18 "2009-12-02T17:18:39Z")
In Swedish it’s _fjärt_ or _fis_. A really loud one is a _brakfis_. ---
**Author:** ![Livardo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/43a26b/32.png) [@Livardo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Livardo)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreign-language-dopers-what-is-your-word-for-fart/519698/19 "2009-12-02T17:21:45Z")
In some Spanish speaking countries pedo has other meanings as well. “Ponerse pedo” = get high. “Que pedo traes?” = “What’s your beef” ---
**Author:** ![NoLAFIN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e9bcb4/32.png) [@NoLAFIN](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoLAFIN)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreign-language-dopers-what-is-your-word-for-fart/519698/20 "2009-12-02T17:34:54Z")
We have three ‘classes’ of farts in finnish, categorized by sound. pieru = your standard fart tuhnu = silent (deadly optional) paukku = short and loud, like a pop [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foreign-language-dopers-what-is-your-word-for-fart/519698.md?page=2)