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Etymology[edit]
From Old French corage (French: courage), from Latin cor (“heart”). Distantly related to cardiac (“of the heart”), which is from Greek, but from the same Proto-Indo-European root.
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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
- It takes a lot of courage to be successful in business.
- 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
- He plucked up the courage to tell her how he felt.
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quality of a confident character
- Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
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- Albanian: guxim (sq)
- Amharic: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: شجاعة (ar) (šajāʿa) f
- Aragonese: corache (an) m
- Armenian: քաջություն (hy) (k'aǰut'yun), արիություն (hy) (ariut’yun)
- Asturian: coraxe (ast) m
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- Azeri: please add this translation if you can
- Bashkir: please add this translation if you can
- Basque: kemen (eu)
- Belarusian: please add this translation if you can
- Breton: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: кураж (bg) (kuraž) m, смелост (bg) (smelost) f
- Burmese: please add this translation if you can
- Catalan: coratge (ca) m, valor (ca) m
- Chechen: please add this translation if you can
- Cherokee: ᎠᎵᎦᎵᏴᎯ (chr) (aligaliyvhi)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 勇氣 (cmn), 勇气 (cmn) (yǒngqì), 膽量 (cmn), 胆量 (cmn) (dǎnliàng)
- Czech: odvaha (cs) f, kuráž (cs) f
- Danish: mod (da) n, tapperhed (da) c
- Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: moed (nl) m
- Esperanto: kuraĝo (eo)
- Estonian: julgus (et)
- Faroese: dirvi (fo) n, mót (fo) n, áræði (fo) n, treysti (fo) n
- Finnish: rohkeus (fi), urheus (fi), urhoollisuus (fi)
- French: courage (fr) m
- Friulian: please add this translation if you can
- Galician: coraxe (gl) f
- Georgian: გულადობა (ka) (guladoba), მამაცობა (ka) (mamac'oba), ვაჟკაცობა (ka) (važkac'oba)
- German: Courage (de) f, Mut (de) m
- Greek: κουράγιο (el) (kourágio) n, θάρρος (el) (thárros) n
- Guaraní: py'aguasu (gn)
- Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
- Hawaiian: koa
- Hebrew: אומץ (he) (ometz) m
- Hindi: साहस (hi) (sāhas)
- Hungarian: bátorság (hu)
- Icelandic: hugrekki (is) f and n, kjarkur (is) m
- Ido: kurajo (io)
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- Interlingua: corage (ia)
- Interlingue: please add this translation if you can
- Italian: coraggio (it) m
- Japanese: 勇気 (ja) (ゆうき, yūki), 度胸 (ja) (どきょう, dokyō)
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- Khmer: សេចក្ដីក្លាហាន (km) (səckdəy klaa haan)
- Korean: 용기 (ko) (yonggi) (勇氣 (ko))
- Kurdish:
- Kurmanji: wêrekî (ku) f, bistehî (ku) f, cesaret (ku) f, curet (ku) f, mêranî (ku) f
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- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Latin: fortitudo (la) f, virtus (la) f, animus (la) m, audentia (la) f
- Latvian: drosme (lv)
- Lithuanian: drąsa (lt)
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- Macedonian: храброст (mk) (hrábrost) f, смелост (mk) (smélost) f
- Malay: keberanian (ms)
- Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
- Maltese: kuraġġ (mt)
- Maori: hautoa (mi), māia (mi), toa (mi)
- Marathi: please add this translation if you can
- Mirandese: coraige
- Mongolian: эр зориг (mn) (êr zorig)
- Nepali: please add this translation if you can
- Novial: please add this translation if you can
- Occitan: coratge (oc) m
- Oriya: please add this translation if you can
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- Pashto: please add this translation if you can
- Persian: شهامت (fa) (šahâmat)
- Polish: odwaga (pl) f
- Portuguese: coragem (pt) f
- Romanian: curaj (ro) n
- Russian: мужество (ru) (múžestvo) n, смелость (ru) (smélostʹ) f, храбрость (ru) (xrábrostʹ) f, отвага (ru) (otvága) f
- Scottish Gaelic: tapachd (gd) f
- Sicilian: curaggiu (scn) m
- Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can
- Slovak: odvaha (sk) f
- Slovene: pogum (sl) m
- Spanish: coraje (es) m, valor (es) m
- Swedish: mod (sv) n
- Tagalog: tapang (tl), katapangan (tl), lakas ng loob (tl)
- Tajik: please add this translation if you can
- Tamil: please add this translation if you can
- Telugu: ధైర్యము (te) (dhairyamu)
- Thai: ความกล้า (th) (kwaam glâa)
- Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: cesaret (tr)
- Tuvan: эрес дидим чорук (eres didim čoruk)
- Ukrainian: мужність (uk) (múžnistʹ) f, сміливість (uk) (smilývistʹ) f, хоробрість (uk) (xoróbrist') f
- Urdu: ساہس (ur) (sāhas)
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- Vietnamese: can đảm (vi)
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- Welsh: hyfdra (cy) m
- West Frisian: moed (fy)
- Yiddish: מוט (yi) (mut) m
- Zulu: isibindi (zu) 7/8
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ability to do frightening things
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courage (third-person singular simple present courages, present participle couraging, simple past and past participle couraged)
- (obsolete) To encourage. [15th-17th c.]
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XIX:
- ‘I woll corrayge othir men of worshyp to do as I woll do.’
- Paul writeth unto Timothy […] to courage him. — Tyndale.
See also[edit]
Etymology[edit]
cœur + -age or Old French corage, from a Latin root *coraticum, from cor.
Pronunciation[edit]
courage m (plural courages)
- courage
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