The sport we know as squash is not necessarily called by the same name around the world. Here are the names for squash in many of the languages of the world. The names are taken from the Wikipedia page for squash in each of these languages. You will notice that many of the names appear to be phonetic spelling of squash in the other languages.
Name by Language
Language | Name for the sport of squash |
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Afrikaans | Muurbal |
Arabic | إسكواش |
Armenian | Սքվոշ |
Asturian | Escuax |
Azerbaijani | Skvoş |
Bashkir | Сквош |
Basque | Squash |
Bengali | স্কোয়াশ |
Breton | Squash |
Bulgarian | Скуош |
Cantonese | 壁球 |
Catalan | Esquaix |
Chinese | 壁球 |
Croatian | Skvoš |
Czech | Squash |
Danish | Squash |
Dutch | Squash |
Eastern Punjabi | ਸਕੁਐਸ਼ |
Egyptian Arabic | اسكواش |
English | Squash |
Esperanto | Skvaŝo |
Estonian | Squash |
Faroese | Squash |
Finnish | Squash |
French | Squash |
Galician | Squash |
German | Squash |
Greek | Τοιχοσφαίριση |
Hebrew | סקווש |
Hindi | स्क्वैश (खेल) |
Hungarian | Fallabda |
Indonesian | Skuas |
Italian | Squash |
Japanese | スカッシュ |
Kannada | ಸ್ಕ್ವ್ಯಾಷ್ |
Kazakh | Сквош |
Kinyarwanda | Squash |
Korean | 스쿼시 |
Latvian | Skvošs |
Lithuanian | Skvošas |
Malay | Skuasy |
Malayalam | സ്ക്വാഷ് |
Min Nan | Piah-kiû |
Norwegian | Idretten squash |
Norwegian | Squash |
Persian | اسکواش |
Polish | Squash |
Portuguese | Squash |
Romanian | Squash |
Russian | Сквош |
Scots | Squash |
Serbian | Skvoš |
Serbo-Croatian | Skvoš |
Sinhalese | ස්කොෂ් ක්රීඩාව |
Slovak | Squash |
Slovene | Skvoš |
Spanish | Squash |
Swedish | Squash |
Tamil | சுவர்ப்பந்து |
Tibetan | རྫོང་གྲུག |
Turkish | Squash |
Ukrainian | Сквош |
Urdu | اسکواش |
Vietnamese | Bóng quần |
Welsh | Sboncen |
Western Punjabi | اسکواش |