Rubber Duck in other languages — While “Rubber Duckie” is a specific term, here are over 50 translations for “rubber duck” in other languages:

Rubber Duck in other languages

In some cases, these may be literal translations.

European Languages

• Albanian: rosë gome

• Armenian: ռետինե բադ (retine bad)

• Azerbaijani: rezin ördək

• Basque: gomazko ahate

• Belarusian: гумовая качка (humovaya kachka)

• Bosnian: gumena patka

• Bulgarian: гумена патица (gumena patitsa)

• Catalan: ànec de goma

• Croatian: gumena patka

• Czech: gumová kachna

• Danish: gummiged (common term is “gummiand”)

• Dutch: rubberen eend

• Estonian: kummist part

• Finnish: kumiankka

• French: canard en caoutchouc

• Galician: pato de goma

• Georgian: რეზინის იხვი (rezinis ikhvi)

• German: Quietscheentchen (also: Gummiente)

• Greek: λαστιχένια πάπια (lastihénia pápia)

• Hungarian: gumikacsa

• Icelandic: gúmmíönd

• Irish: lacha rubair

• Italian: papera di gomma (also: paperella di gomma)

• Latvian: gumijas pīle

• Lithuanian: guminė antis

• Macedonian: гумена патка (gumena patka)

• Maltese: papra tal-gomma

• Norwegian: badeand (also: gummiand)

• Polish: gumowa kaczka

• Portuguese: patinho de borracha (or pato de borracha)

• Romanian: rață de cauciuc

• Russian: резиновая уточка (rezinovaya utochka)

• Serbian: гумена патка (gumena patka)

• Slovak: gumená kačica

• Slovenian: gumijasta raca

• Spanish: patito de goma or El patito de hule

• Swedish: gummianka

• Ukrainian: гумова качечка (humova kachechka)

• Welsh: hwyaden rwber

• Yiddish: גומי קאַטשקע (gumi katsche)

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Middle Eastern & Central Asian Languages

• Arabic: بطة مطاطية (bata matāṭiyya)

• Hebrew: ברווז גומי (barvaz gumi)

• Persian (Farsi): اردک پلاستیکی (ordak-e pelastiki)

• Turkish: lastik ördek (also: kauçuk ördek)

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South Asian Languages

• Bengali: রাবার হাঁস (rabar hans)

• Hindi: रबर की बत्तख (rabar ki battakh)

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East & Southeast Asian Languages

• Chinese (Simplified): 橡皮鸭 (xiàng pí yā)

• Chinese (Traditional): 橡皮鴨 (xiàng pí yā)

• Indonesian: bebek karet

• Japanese: ゴムのアヒル (gomu no ahiru)

• Korean: 고무 오리 (gomu ori)

• Malay: itik getah

• Tagalog: goma na pato (also: plastik na pato)

• Thai: เป็ดยาง (pèt yang)

• Vietnamese: con vịt cao su

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African Languages

• Afrikaans: rubbereend

• Swahili: bata wa mpira

• Yoruba: adìẹ roba

• Zulu: idada lerabha

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Pacific & Other Languages

• Samoan: pato paʻu

• Maori: parera rapa (from earlier suggestion)

• Esperanto: kaŭĉuka anaso (constructed language)

• Latin: anas e gomma (neo-Latin/constructed)

• Haitian Creole: kanna kawotchou

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First published February 2, 2025. Last updated or published May 16, 2025.