The Planet Mercury
Mercury In Other Languages
From Hermograph Press

The name of the planet Mercury in other languages, using English transliteration:

Budha           Sanskrit
Dobropan        Old Czech
Hermes          Greek
Kokhav          Hebrew
Mearcair        Irish
Mercher         Welsh
Mercur          Romanian
Mercure         French
Mercuri         Catalan
Mercurio        Italian, Spanish and Galacian
Mercúrio        Portuguese
Mercurius       Latin and Dutch
Merkur          German, Norwegian, Czech, Slovenian, Croatian and Danish
Merkùr          Hungarian
Merkür          Turkish
Merkurij        Russian
Merkurius       Swedish and Finnish
Merkuro         Esperanto
Merkurs         Latvian
Merkury         Polish
Merkuryo        Filipino
Merkuur         Estonian
Otaared         Arabic
Shuixing        Mandarin
Sihtu           Babylonian
Soosung         Korean
Suisei          Japanese
Suising         Cantonese
Ta'ero          Tahitian
Tir             Farsi
Udu-idim-gu-ud  Sumerian
Utorid          Uzbek
The translation of the name of the planet in Chinese is "Star of Water". It is written as . The planet is written as in Hindu and as in Arabic.

The name of the planet also shows up in the name of the week for several languages:

Mercurii
Woden
Wednesday
mercoledì

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