| Example in Icelandic | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Hvort er hann lifandi eða dauður? Skal mala beinin í honum... til að búa til brauð. " | Be he alive or be he dead... ...I'll grind his bones... ...to make my bread." |
| Nú höfum viđ tækifæri til ađ láta ūá keppa hver viđ annan og mala ūá niđur í skítinn. | All right, what we have is an opportunity to pit all three of these suckas against each other and just grind 'em into the dirt. |
| Nú höfum við tækifæri til að láta þá keppa hver við annan og mala þá niður í skítinn. | All right, what we have is an opportunity to pit all three of these suckas against each other and just grind 'em into the dirt. |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | طحن | Catalan | moldre |
| Dutch | bijslijpen,fijnmalen, grinden, inslijpen, vergruizen, vermalen | English | grind |
| Esperanto | mueli | Estonian | ihuma, terituma |
| Faroese | knasa, mala | Finnish | jauhaa, smirgelöidä |
| French | égriser, moler, moudre | German | mahlen |
| Greek | αλέθω, αλευρώνω | Hebrew | טחן |
| Hungarian | darál, őröl | Indonesian | giling, menggilas, menggiling |
| Italian | digrignare, macinare, molare, triturare | Lithuanian | brūžinti, malti, tekinti |
| Macedonian | меле, толчи | Malay | mencanai |
| Polish | doszlifować, mielić, mleć, namleć, przemielić, przemleć, przeszlifować, rozdrabiać, szlifować, wyszlifować, zemleć, zgrzytać, zmielić | Portuguese | triturar |
| Quechua | allpayachiy, kutay | Romanian | măcina |
| Russian | молоть, отшлифовать, растереть, растирать, смолоть, шлифовать | Spanish | amolar, machar, moler, triturar |
| Swedish | mala | Thai | กรอ |
| Turkish | çektirmek | Vietnamese | giã, mài, nghiến, xay |