English For All: Non-English palindromic words (5)

Non-English palindromic words

Russian

апокопа – "apocope"
заказ – "order"
казак – "cossack"
потоп – "flood"
радар – "radar"
ротор – "rotor"
топот – "tramping"
шалаш – "hut"
око – "eye" (an archaic word)
кок – ship’s cook
поп – "priest"

Serbian

neven – "marigold"
radar – "radar"
ratar – "plowman"
reper – "rapper"
oko – "eye"
pop

Slovene

neradodaren (11 letters) - non-generous

apokopa - apocope
nededen - non-inheritable
rotator - a kind of duplicator
tartrat - tartrate

cepec - boor, churl
dohod - access, entry
kajak - kayak
kisik - oxygen
madam - madam
mečem - throwing
monom - monomial
neben - palatal
neven - marigold
nežen - tender
pokop - burial
potop - deluge
radar - radar
rakar - crayfish catcher / bird crocephalus arundinaceus
ranar - army surgeon
ratar - plowman
reber - slope
reper - rapper
rever - revers
rotor - rotor

aga - agha
aha - aha
ara - deposit / parrot
ata - father
bob - broad bean / bobsled
ded - grandfather
gag - gag
iti - going
oko - eye (twin palindrome)
ono - it
oro - dance
pop - priest of the Orthodox Church
tat - thief
vrv - rope

Ada - given name
Ana - given name
Ivi - given name
Oto - given name
Natan - given name
Kuk - place name

Spanish

reconocer – "to recognize"
sometemos – "we submit"
Neuquén – a city and a province in Argentina
Menem – a former president of Argentina
rapar - shave
somos – "we are"
ananá – "pineapple"
arenera – "sandbox"
arepera – a place that sells arepas. (actually a Venezuelan colloquialism).
ala - wing
ama - mistress, a form of the verb to love
ara – (he/she) plows.
oro – gold.

Swedish

Naturrutan (10) – "The Nature Square" (name of a TV show)
retsyster (9) – "teasy sister"
varggrav (8) – "wolf-grave"
gnupung (7) – "antelope-scrotum"
raggar (6) –
tappat : "lost", "dropped", "mislaid"
Kivik (5) – name of a small Swedish fishing village also a Cider brand
rotor (same as in English)
rapar "burps"
ratar "refuses to choose"
reser "travels"
rosor "roses"
rovor "turnips"
ståts "pomp's"
stats "state's"
Anna (4) – (a female name)
amma "breast-feed"
(alfa) Laval (a name of a Swedish company)
Otto (a male name)
alla "all, everyone"
ABBA ( stands for Agneta, Björn, Benny and Annefrid, the members of the Swedish popgroup called ABBA)
naan (a bread from India)
aga (the AGA-stowe, the name of a company making liquefied petroleum gas, also "corporal punishment")
aha ( the meaning is the same as in English)
apa (3) – "monkey"
ara "a kind of parrot"
Bob (a male name and also the name of a company making jam, lemonade and marmelade)
dåd "deed"
kuk "cock"
kåk slang – "house, prison"
kök "kitchen"
nån short for någon – "somebody, anybody"
pip (the sound a bird makes
pep past tense of pipa: to make a sound as of a bird
rar "sweet, cute"
ror "rows", the thing you’re doing when you’re moving the orings)
rår "takes care of/deals with/rules over"
rör "pipe", "tube", also: "touches"
ses present tense, passive voice of se "to be seen"; coll. for "See you (later)!"
tut (the sound made by a trainwhistle)
wow (the meaning is the same as in english)
SAS (Scandinavian Airline System)
sås "sauce"
tåt "the end of a rope"
vev "crank" (the mechanism))

Thai

The Thai script does not follow a linear sequence of symbols. Vowels that sound after a consonant can be written before, above, below or around that consonant. Tone and length diacritics occur only above initial consonants. The silent symbol occurs only above a final consonant in a syllable. All these characteristics make written palindromes relatively rare. A few are:

กนก (IPA: [kanok]): "gold" (note: not a palindrome in speech)
กาก (IPA: [kaːk]): "residue"
บวบ (IPA: [buap]): "loufah" (note: not a palindrome in speech)
บอบ (IPA: [boːp]): "frail"
นาน (IPA: [naːn]): "long"
นอน (IPA: [nɔːn]): "sleep"
กก (IPA: [kok]): "base", "cuddle up"