| Afrikaans | lees | Albanian | lexoj |
| Arabic | قرأ,قرا | Azeri | oxumaq |
| Basque | irakurri | Catalan | llegir |
| Danish | læse | Dutch | aflezen, inlezen, inlichten, lezen, liberaliseren, nalezen, oplezen, oplichten, uitlezen, voorlezen, voorlichten |
| English | read | Esperanto | legi |
| Faroese | lesa | Finnish | lukea |
| French | bouquiner, lire, relire | German | ablesen, lesen |
| Greek | διαβάζω | Hawaiian | heluhelu |
| Hebrew | קרא | Hungarian | lektorál, olvas |
| Icelandic | lesa | Indonesian | baca, baca-baca, berbunyi, membaca, membacakan |
| Italian | leggere | Japanese | 読む, 読書, 拝読 |
| Latvian | nolasīt | Lithuanian | pasiskaityti, paskaityti, persiskaityti, skaityti |
| Macedonian | прочита, чита | Malay | baca |
| Maltese | qara | Maori | pānui |
| Norwegian | lesa, lese | Persian | خواندن |
| Polish | czytać, odczytać, odczytywać, poczytać, przeczytać, wyczytać | Portuguese | ler |
| Quechua | liyiy, ñawilliy, ñawinchay, ñawiriy, ñawiy, qillqaqhaway | Romanian | citi |
| Spanish | leer | Swedish | läsa |
| Thai | อ่าน | Turkish | okumak, okunmak |
| Vietnamese | đọc, giàng, giảng, giạng, giăng, giằng | | |
