Aray Devaa ! Oi troi phat oi! !

It is a truth universally accepted, that whenever individuals of varied religious persuasions, or even absent religious persuasions have seen or heard something, and been at a loss for comments, . they have shaken their heads, clutched the nearest pillar,lamppost or person, and invoked the name of Someone Up There, and said, "Oh! my God!"......in their respective tongues.

Today , the world has become smaller, and it is not unknown for someone to be at lunch in India, and be chatting simultaneously with someone having breakfast in the UK, or , an early dinner in Australia, or even a previous day's dinner in California, all at the same time. And I am not even mentioning what people in , say Japan, or Kenya, or South Africa may be up to.

Should you be shocked into a heavenly exclamation while communicating, here's how you say it in various languages:

1. Afrikaans: O God!
2. Albanian: O Zot!
3. Arabic: Ya Allah!
4. Bahasa Melayu (Malay) Ya tuhanku!
5. Basque: Jaungoikoa!
6. Bengali: Oh Allah! (as used in Bangladesh), Hey Bhagoban (as used by Indian Bengalis)
   
7. Bosnian: Boze moj!
8. Bulgarian: Bozhe moi
9. Catalan: Déu meu!
10. Celtic: Mo Dhia!
11. Czech: Pane boze!
12. Danish: Åh Gud!
13. Dutch: O, mijn God!
14. English, Old : Wa min God!
15. Esperanto: Mia Dio!
16. Estonian: Oh mu Jumal,
17. Farsi: Oh! Khodayeh Man!
18. Finnish: Voi Luoja!
19. Flemish: Godverdoeme,
20. German: O mein Gott!
21. German (Upper Austrian dialect): Hümmi, Orsch und Zwirn!
22. Greek, Modern The'Mou! Hristo Mou !
    
    
23. Gujarati: Aare Bhaghwan!
24. Hebrew Oh Ellohim!
25. Hindi: Hay Bhagwaan!
26. Hungarian: Jaj Istenem,
27. Icelandic: Gud minn godur!
28. Inuktitut (Greenlandic) Åh gootinga!
29. Irish, Modern Ó mo Dhia!
30. Italian: Dio mio!
31. Italian (Trieste dialect) Co dio!
32. Japanese: ahh, kamisama!
33. Korean aigo, OtchOna!
34. Kyrgyz: Oh Kuday!
35. Latin: Deus Meus!
36. Latvian: Ak Dievs!
37. Lithuanian Dieve mano,
38. Macedonian O, Gospodi!
39. Malayalam Entey Deiwame
40. Maltese Alla tieghi,
41. Maori Aue Te Ariki!
42. Marathi: Aray Devaa!
43. Norwegian, New Herregud!
44. Polish: O Moj Boze
45. Portuguese: Meu Deus!
46. Romanian Dumnezeule!
47. Russian Gospodi!
48. Sanskrit He mama deva!
49. Sinhala Ane Deviyane!
50. Slovenian: Moj Bog!
51. Spanish: Dios mio!
52. Swahili: Siyo!
53. Swedish Oh, Herregud!
54. Tagalog: Ay Dios ko!
55. Tamil: Ada kadavule!
56. Telegu Ore devudo!
57. Turkish Aman Tanrim;
58. Urdu Au Mere Allah
59. Vietnamese: Oi gioi oi! / Oi troi phat oi!/ Chu'a toi oi!
60. Welsh A Dduw!
61. Yiddish gotenyu!

The interesting thing is, that if God actually decided to answer , he would probably raise an eyebrow, and ask , "Yes ?".....

In Greek, He would say, "Nai" (Sounds like "n-ae")

In my language, Marathi, it means , NO.

I give up.

Maybe we should leave God out of all this and just look amazed, and say "Well, I never ....."

Now to find how to say that in all these languages......:-)