Dude in other languages

in mandarin chinese:

"ge men" 哥们

it has to be pronounced with an added "er" sound at the end, even though it is not written like that, or you'll sound like a dumb ass.

this is the beijing dialect, it would be different in other regions.

Portuguese:

"Palerma" or "Pateta"

Palerma=silly
Pateta= goofy

In mexican spanish it's guey.

Chuy - in my Cebuano dialect = cool
Pare - in Tagalog(buwisit ang mga Tagalog, lami kaayo pangsipaon and mga nawong ani nila) from Spanish, I believe its from compadre no se.

Portuguese

dude= pedante

"Kumpel" can also be used in German, although it originally referred to miners.

Dude in Norwegian:
Fyr, type
But they cannot be used as forms of adress.

IIRC "Macker" is also used to mean somethingg like "dude" in German, but considering that I know it is also a Low Saxon word, it might be primarily limited to the area under Low Saxon (substratum) influence and areas adjacent to such, like with "moin" (which happens to be a Low Saxon loan in German).

In albanian "dude" would be : shoku, lali, robi

Lali in Albanian

I think in Spain the closest equivalent would be tio

In Panama there are a lot of usages. I heard the guys in my family say either " que pasa che!" or "Oye homen!"

In Brazilian Portuguese, dude is said (O) CARA

CARA = face

Guest, you got it all wrong.
In Brazil A CARA = face, but O CARA = guy

In Costa Rica "mae" which comes from shortening "maje" (somebody ingenuously silly) which has an unknown origin. Curiously "mae" doesn't mean silly just dude or guy in a colloquial way.

In Argentina I think it would be "pibe". And in Colombia and Cuba I think they use "chico".