From: jpet@candlelight.com

For all you world travelers: 
   TRAVELLERS' VOCABULARY LIST - BEER 
 
Afrikaans:      oke 
Albanian:       birre" (e" = e-umlaut, pronounced approx. schwa) 
Arabic:         bira (birra) 
Armenian:       garejure (transliteration) 
Basque:         garagarnoa 
Breton:         bier 
Bulgarian:      bira 
Burmese:        biya (transliteration) 
Cantonese:      be1jau2 (1 = high tone; 2 = high falling tone) 
Catalan:        cervesa 
Croatian:       pivo 
Czech:          pivo 
Danish:         o/l (o/ = fronted o sound, written o with slash) 
Dutch:          bier 
English:        beer 
Esperanto:      biero 
Estonian:       o~lu (o~ = o-tilde, pronounced short unrounded 'o') 
Finnish:        olut, (slang: kalja; actually other beverage) 
Flemish:        het bier 
French:         la bie`re 
Frisian:        bier 
German:         das Bier 
Greek:          mpi'ra (transliteration) ('mp' is pronounced 'b') 
Greenlandic:    immiaarag 
Hausa:          fita 
Hawaiian:       pia or bia 
Hebrew:         birah (bira) 
Hindi:          biar (transliteration) 
Hokkien:        bit3 djiu4 
Hungarian:      so~r (o~ = short-o-umlaut; s = "sh"-sound) 
Icelandic:      bjo'r (o' = o-acute accent) 
Indonesian:     bir 
Irish:          beoir 
Italian:        la birra 
Japanese:       biiru/bieru (r is sort of between USA 'r' and Eng. 'l') 
Korean:         maekju (transliteration) 
Latin:          cervisia 
Latvian:        alu 
Lithuanian:     alus 
Luxemburgois:   be'ier (e' = e-acute accent) 
Madagassian:    labiera (yes, one word) 
Malay:          bir 
Maltese:        birra 
Mandarin:       pi2jiu3 (2 = rising tone; 3 = fall/rise tone) 
Nepali:         biyar (transliteration) (from phrase book)
Nepali:         chang (from person who's been there) 
Norwegian:      o/l (o/ = fronted o, written o with slash) 
Papiamentu:     serbes 
Persian:        ab-e-jow (a = slightly rounded; j = as in 'juice') 
Pidgin (Papua): bia 
Polish:         piwo ('w' is pronounced 'v') 
Portuguese:     a cerveja 
Quechua:        sirwisa 
Raeto-romanian: bi'era (i' = i-acute accent) 
Rumanian:       bere 
Russian:        pivo 
Samoan:         pia 
Scots Gaelic:   beo`ir (o` = o-grave accent) 
Serbian:        pivo 
Singalese:      bire (transliteration) 
Slovakian:      pivo 
Slovenian:      pivo 
Spanish:        la cerveza, la birra (Central America) 
Swahili:        pombe 
Swedish:        o"l (o" = o with two dots ["med tva prickor"]) 
Tagalog:        beer 
Tasmanian:      beer 
Thai:           bia 
Tibetan:        chang (transliteration) 
Turkish:        bira 
Ukrainian:      pivo 
Welsh:          cwrw ("w" is pronounced approx. as "u" in "put") 
Yiddish:        bier (transliteration)