In Brazilian (and probably European) Portuguese, it sounds like “aye!” (as in Spanish or French). My girlfriend (who is Brazilian) makes fun of the way Americans say “ouch,” which sounds completely unrealistic to her. I think I usually say “ow” myself…
But if it really hurts, she’ll unleash a string of Portuguese profanities, which are quite impressive.
IN China, in most places we say"Aiyao" or"Aiya" , it is varies a little around different area!
IN China, in most places we say"Aiyao" or"Aiya" , it is varies a little around different areas!
In Tagalog (Philippines) it’s “aray.” I’d explain how to pronounce it but I don’t want to trouble myself. 
In Hungarian, it’s “jaj!” Pronounced “ya iy”. 
when the pain is caused by getting burned, it’s “ah-cheee” in japanese. it’s an exclamatory variant of “atsui” which means hot.
and if it’s your fingertips that got burned, you grab your earlobes to cool them down.
The strange thing is, when you speak a foreign language, you tend to pick up their way of saying ‘ouch’ too. After six months or so of living in France, I found myself automatically saying ‘aïe’ rather than ‘ow’.
Tamil: aiyo
From what I’m getting, it seems to be the same bunch of words, only with differnt accents.
My wife does this all the time and it always makes me laugh to hear her say it (much to her consternation)!
Mancunian: f%&k b@$£&%d t£@&ting c&@t, or words to that effect.
Classical Greek: popoi
UnuMondo
In Bangladesh people generally say “eesh” or “oof” in the region my family originates
In Brazil :
EyEeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
In Polish it’s oj pronounced “oy”.
How was THIS datum uncovered? Written on an urn somewhere? (“What does the inscription say?” “It says, ‘Beauty is truth, truth-- popoi! F&*%ing chisel slipped!’” “Truth is pain?” "Look, if the chisel had slipped, he wouldn’t bother to WRITE ‘aaargh’, he’d just SAY ‘aaargh’. “Maybe he was dictating.”)
Seriously, I’d like to know. Thanks.
Anybody know how people say “wow” in other languages?
My cousin’s husband is Italian (they live in Florence), and when he sees something impressive he says “ooh la la!” It’s the cutest thing. I don’t know if that’s characteristic of all Italians, or just him.
hijack: so what does “oy vey” mean?
Finnish: Ai! (pronounced like “I”) or, when it really hurts: aijaijaijaijai!
This is certainly interesting… I don´t know of any other interjection that´s so similar in so many languages.
You know, the Greeks wrote a lot of drama. A person hurting themselves in a comedy might shout “ouch!” to the mirth of the audience. Indeed, it’s from Aristophanes’ Clouds that we know how Greeks wrote the sound of farting.
UnuMondo