| Example in Icelandic | Translation in English |
|---|---|
| Í Singapúr er það glæpur að skyrpa á jörðina. | In Singapore, it is a crime to spit on the ground. |
| "Hættu ađ skyrpa ūegar ūú æpir." | "Stop spitting when you yell." |
| Í Singapúr er það glæpur að skyrpa á jörðina. | In Singapore, it is a crime to spit on the ground. |
| Ég skyrpi á hann! | I spit on him! |
| Language | Verb(s) | Language | Verb(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | spoeg | Arabic | بصق,سفد |
| Catalan | escopir | Danish | spytte |
| Dutch | bespugen, spugen, uitspugen | English | spit |
| Esperanto | elkraĉi, kraĉi | Estonian | sülgama, sülitama |
| Faroese | spýta | Finnish | räkiä, syljeksiä, sylkeä, sylkäistä |
| French | cracher, crachiner, crachoter | German | anspeien, ausspucken, bespeien, speien, spucken |
| Greek | πτύω, πτωχαίνω | Hungarian | köp |
| Indonesian | ludahi, meludah | Italian | sputacchiare, sputare |
| Lithuanian | nusispjauti, spjaudyti, spjauti | Macedonian | плука, плукне |
| Malay | ludah | Maltese | beżaq |
| Norwegian | spytte | Polish | napluć, opluć, pluć, plunąć, plwać, pokrapywać, popadywać, popluwać, splunąć, spluwać, zapluć |
| Portuguese | espetar | Quechua | thuqay |
| Romanian | scuipa | Russian | наплевать, плевать, плеваться, плюнуть |
| Spanish | escupir, escupirse | Swedish | spotta, spottloska |
| Thai | กระอัก, ถ่ม, พ่น | Turkish | tükürmek |
| Vietnamese | khạc, khạc nhổ, nhổ, phỉ nhổ, thổ |