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[edit] English
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[edit] Etymology
From Old French corage (French: courage), from Latin cor, “heart”.
[edit] Pronunciation
courage (uncountable)
- The quality of a confident character not to be afraid or intimidated easily but without being incautious or inconsiderate.
- "A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The ability to do things which one finds frightening.
- "Courage is not the absence of fear. It is acting in spite of it." -Mark Twain
[edit] Derived terms
[edit] Translations
quality of a confident character
- Albanian: guxim
- Arabic: شجاعة (šajāʕa) f.
- Armenian: քաջություն (k'aǰut'yun), արիություն hy(hy) (ariut’yun)
- Basque: kemen
- Catalan: coratge m. ^, valor m. ^
- Chinese: 勇气 (yǒngqì), 胆量 (dǎnliàng)
- Czech: odvaha cs(cs) f.
- Danish: mod n., tapperhed c.
- Dutch: moed nl(nl) m.
- Esperanto: kuraĝo eo(eo)
- Estonian: julgus
- Finnish: rohkeus fi(fi), urheus fi(fi), urhoollisuus fi(fi)
- French: courage fr(fr) m.
- Georgian: გულადობა (guladoba), მამაცობა (mamatsoba), ვაჟკაცობა (važkatsoba)
- German: Courage f. (1), Mut m. ^ (1)
- Greek: κουράγιο el(el) n. (kourágio), θάρρος el(el) n. (thárros)
- Guaraní: py'aguasu
- Hebrew: אומץ (ometz) m.
- Hindi: हिम्मत
- Hungarian: bátorság hu(hu)
- Interlingua: corage
- Italian: coraggio it(it) m.
- Japanese: 勇気 (ゆうき, yūki), 度胸 (どきょう, dokyō)
- Korean: 용기 (yonggi)
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- Kurdish:
- Kurmanji: wêrekî f., bistehî f., cesaret f., curet f., mêranî f.
- Latin: fortitudo la(la) f., virtus la(la) f., animus la(la) m.
- Latvian: drosme
- Lithuanian: drąsa
- Macedonian: храброст mk(mk) (hrábrost) f., смелост mk(mk) (smélost) f.
- Maltese: kuraġġ
- Maori: please add this translation if you can
- Mongolian: эр зориг (êr zorig)
- Persian: شهامت
- Polish: odwaga pl(pl) f.
- Portuguese: coragem pt(pt) f.
- Romanian: curaj n.
- Russian: мужество ru(ru) (múžestvo) n., смелость ru(ru) (smélost’) f.
- Slovene: pogum sl(sl) m.
- Spanish: coraje m., valor m. ^
- Swedish: mod sv(sv) n.
- Tagalog: tápang, katapangan tl(tl)
- Telugu: ధైర్యము (dhairyamu)
- Thai: ความกล้า (kwaam glâa)
- Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: cesaret tr(tr)
- Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
- Welsh: hyfdra m.
- West Frisian: moed
- Yiddish: מוט (mut) m.
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ability to do frightening things
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[edit] See also
[edit] French
[edit] Pronunciation
courage m. (plural courages)
- courage
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