| Afrikaans | vryf | Albanian | fërkoj |
| Arabic | حك,دلك, دمم, فرك | Azeri | sürtmək |
| Danish | gnide | Dutch | afwrijven, uitwrijven, wegpoetsen, wrijven |
| English | rub | Esperanto | froti |
| Estonian | hõõrduma | Faroese | gníggja |
| Finnish | hangata, hinkata, kahnata, kehnätä, kihnuttaa, kyhnyttää | French | frictionner, frotter, froucheler, frouer, maroufler, récurer |
| German | reiben, rubbeln | Greek | τρίβω |
| Hungarian | dörzsöl | Icelandic | nudda |
| Indonesian | menggosok, mengusap, oles | Italian | arrenare, fregare, fregarsi, frizionare, frizionarsi, sfregare, sfregarsi, soffregare, strofinare, strofinarsi, stropicciare, stropicciarsi, strusciarsi |
| Japanese | 擦る | Latvian | berzēt, berzt |
| Lithuanian | trinti, trintis | Macedonian | истрие, протрие, трие |
| Maltese | għorok | Persian | مالیدن |
| Polish | czochrać, nacierać, natrzeć, pocierać, pomasować, potrzeć, przecierać, rozcierać, trzeć, wetrzeć, wmasować, zaprać | Portuguese | esfregar, friccionar |
| Quechua | thupay | Romanian | freca |
| Russian | натереть, натирать, потереть, потирать, тереть, тереться | Spanish | estregar, friccionar, frotar, frotarse, ludir, refregar, rozarse |
| Swedish | frottera, gnida, gnissla, gnistra, gno | Thai | สี |
| Turkish | günlemek, ovalamak, ovalanmak, ovulmak, ovuşturmak | Vietnamese | xát |
