A world full of beautiful words (Picture: METRO/mylo/Getty)

Shakespeare was a pretty wise guy, but we’re not convinced he was right when he wrote that ‘a rose by any other name would smell as sweet’.

Some words are just more beautiful than others and, like it or not, these names change the way we view the object.

Thanks to one inquisitive Reddit user, we now know some of the most beautiful words in different languages from around the world.

Of course, it is Reddit so there are few oddballs thrown in but, by and large, these words either are either a delight said out loud or have a poetic meaning.




Here are some of the top voted phrases:

This test of Hungarian accents

Just a fun word to say in Dutch

Fittingly, it kind of sounds like caress

A beautiful word for one of nature’s beauties

This Tagalog tongue-twister

Well, beauty is in the eye of the beholder

We can’t believe there’s a word for this in Burmese, but not in English

Apparently, this word rolls off the tongue

This Portuguese word has also been poetically translated as ‘the presence of absence’

Another Reddit user explained that you would use this word for belongings that were of little monetary value, but had great significance to the owner

H/t i100

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