Foreign language Dopers--What is your word for "fart"?

Hmm, I’d say that prutta is less vulgar than fjärta.

Yeah, that would make more sense to me 'cos Mamma and the kids say it all the time.

A “fart” in Danish is a prut. The words fis (at fise) and fjært (at fjærte) can also be used. The last one is quite uncommon these days.

In Afrikaans, it’s poep, which is pronounced with a “-u-” sound like English “put” or “foot”.

So I guess “whoever smelt it, dealt it” works in both languages… :slight_smile:

Does a bear pedo in the woods?

방귀, actually. It’s pronounced Bang-gwee. That’s for the noun. The verb is 방귀를 뀌다 (Bang-gwee-ruel ggwee-da/“to break fart”).

Most pedos aren’t bears. They’re usually little scrawny guys.

Farsi: Gooz

In Latin it would be: Quisquis olfecit, effecit.

I seem to remember a similar expression in Dutch but it’s been a while since I’ve used it since, well, I’m not in grade five anymore. Anyway, here goes: ‘Wie het 't eerste ruikt, heeft zelf z’n [d’r, for the ladies] poepertje gebruikt’ - Who smells it first, used his/her own pooper.

In Irish it’s ‘scairt’. Not surprisingly a jet plane is scairt eitlean, literally a fartplane. Beware of airports! They do have a strange smell too! :slight_smile:

Thank you. And it made Threadspotting! Where else but on the Dope?

My Korean daughter-in-law and her family use “pongu” also.

In India, where Hindi is the language most widely used, at least in the northern part, it is called “paad”.

The last ‘d’ is pronounced flat, more like ‘th’ in ‘the’.

I am proud of my contrbution to the Dope.:cool:

Italian has the same latin-derived “peto” (farsi un peto), and “scoreggiare” (soft “g” as in “gentle”).

I leave it as an exercise to the reader to consider the onomatopoeic comparison of these two words.

So, like, a dental d versus a retroflex d? Voiced or unvoiced?

Dental unvoiced: द्
Dental voiced: ध्
Retroflex unvoiced: ड्
Retroflex voiced: ढ्

Dental unvoiced: द्

That.

By the way, that’s cool, but how do you get the Hindi alphabets to appear in your post?

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Copying and pasting from the Wikipedia article on Devanagari. (Thank you, one month of Sanskrit in college! :D)