Χάος

Giovan Francesco Capoferri

In the beginning was Chaos, who begat Night (Nyx) and Darkness (Erebus).  Darkness and Night fooled around, fell in love and begat Day, and Aether, but also Death, Dreams, War and Famine.  And in the beginning too was Chaos.  (Some say it was better then.)  We English speakers are not unusual in that we get our word for the disordered state from Greek, but the concept is universal.  How is Chaos called around the world in different tongues?  Let's find out!  (Approximate pronunciations are in parentheses in italics).

Arabic -فوضى. (Fawda)
Amharic -ትርምስ (Tirimisi)
Basque - Kaosa; Anabasa
Bengali -বিশৃঙ্খলা (Bisrinkhala)
Chinese -混沌 (Hundun)
Dhihevi (Maldives) - ހާލަތުގޯސްވެފައިވުން (Haalathugoasvefaivun)
Icelandic -Glundroða; Ringulreið
Igbo -Ogbaaghara
Estonian -Kaos; Segadus

Guarani (Paraguay, Brazil) - Sarambikue

Dutch - Warboel
Balinese - Kacau

Lakota - Taku Skanskan 

Hindi - अव्यवस्था (Avyavastha)

Ga (Ghana) - Basabasa

Haitian Creole - Dezòd; Tètanba

Irish - Cíor thuathail (Keer huhail)

Quechua - Chaqru
Japanese -カオス (Kaosu);無秩序 (Muchitsujo)
Korean -혼돈 (Hondon)
Romanian - Haos
Manx -Corvaal

Thai - ความวุ่นวาย (Khwam wunway)

Hungarian -Zűrzavar
Hawaiian - Haunaele

Tibetan - ཟང་ཟིང་ (Zang zing)

Wolof (Senegal, The Gambia, Mauritania) - Yàqquteef

Inuktitut (Inuit) - Tiriqquit

Rapa Nui (Easter Island) - Vekuveku

Hebrew - תוֹהוּ וָבוֹהוּ. (Tohu vevohu)

Old Norse - Hrǫngl; Vafi

Russian -Беспорядок. (Byesporyadok)

Marshallese - Poktak

Vietnamese - Sự hỗn loạn

Navajo -   Naayéé; Hóchxǫ́ǫ́

Mongolian - Эмх замбараагүй байдал (Emkh zambaraagüi baidal)

Nahuatl - Tlaxitinilia

Tahitian -Fa'aheuea

Malagasy - Korontana

Javanese - Kekacauan
Tswana - Mmudubudu
Greek -χάος