good evening

English

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Etymology

An ellipsis for an expression such as "I wish you a good evening.".

Pronunciation

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Noun

good evening

1. Used as a greeting in the evening.

Coordinate terms

• good afternoon
• good morning
• good night

Translations

greeting said in the evening

• Abkhaz: уа, хәылбзиа (ab) (ua, x°ylbzia)
• Afrikaans: goeie naand
• Albanian: mirëmbrëma (sq)
• Arabic: مساء الخير (ar) (masaa' al-khayr), مساء النور (ar) (masaa' al-nuur) (as a reply)
• Armenian: բարի երեկո (hy) (bari yereko)
• Belarusian: добры вечар (be) (dóbry véčar)
• Bulgarian: добър вечер (bg) (dóbǎr véčer)
• Catalan: bon vespre (ca)
• Chechen: суьйре дика йойла (süyre dika yoyla)
• Chichewa: (greeting) mwachoma bwanji, (response) ndachoma bwino
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 晚上好 (cmn) (wǎnshàng hǎo), 晚安 (cmn) (wǎn'ān)

• Classical Syriac: ܒܪܝܟ ܪܡܫܐ
• Czech: dobrý večer (cs)
• Danish: godaften (da)
• Dutch: goedenavond (nl)
• Esperanto: bonan vesperon (eo)
• Ewe: fiẽ
• Finnish: hyvää iltaa (fi), iltaa (fi)
• French: bonsoir (fr)
• Georgian: საღამო მშვიდობისა (ka) (saḡamo mšvidobisa)
• German: guten Abend (de)
• Greek: καλησπέρα (el) (kalispéra), καλό βράδυ (el) (kaló vrády)
• Hawaiian: aloha ahiahi
• Hebrew: עֶרֶב טוֹב (he) (érev tov)
• Hiligaynon: maayong gabi
• Hindi: नमस्ते (hi) (namastē), गुड ईवनिंग (hi) (guḍ īvniṅg)
• Hungarian: jó estét (hu)
• Icelandic: gott kvöld (is)
• Indonesian: selamat malam (id)
• Irish: tráthnóna maith agat (ga)
• Italian: buona sera (it)
• Japanese: 今晩は (ja) (こんばんは, konban-wa)
• Khmer: សាយណ្ណសួស្ដី (km) (saaynnɑ suəsdəy)
• Korean: 안녕하세요 (ko) (annyeong-haseyo) (generic greeting)

• Kurdish: êvarbaş (ku), ئێواره‌ت باش
• Latvian: labvakar (lv), labs vakars (lv)
• Lithuanian: labas vakaras (lt)
• Luxembourgish: gudden Owend (lb)
• Macedonian: добровечер (mk) (dobróvečer)
• Maltese: il-lejla t-tajba, bonasira
• Navajo: yáʼátʼééh iʼííʼą́
• Northern Sami: buorre eahket
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: god kveld (no), god aften (no)

  Nynorsk: god kveld (nn)

• Occitan: bon vèspre (oc)
• Palauan: ungil kebesengei
• Persian: عصر بخیر (fa) (asr bekheyr)
• Polish: dobry wieczór (pl)
• Portuguese: boa noite (pt)
• Romanian: bună seara (ro)
• Russian: добрый вечер (ru) (dóbryj véčer)
• Scottish Gaelic: feasgar math (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: добро вече (sh), добра вечер (sh)

  Roman: dobro veče (sh), dobra večer (sh)

• Shona: maneru
• Slovak: dobrý večer (sk)
• Slovene: dober večer (sl)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: dobry wjacor

  Upper Sorbian: dobry wječor (hsb)

• Spanish: buenas noches (es) f pl, buenas tardes (es) f pl
• Swedish: god kväll (sv), god afton (sv)
• Tagalog: magandang gabi (tl)
• Thai: สวัสดี (th) (sàwàtdee)
• Turkish: iyi akşamlar (tr), tünaydın (tr)
• Ukrainian: добрий вечір (uk) (dóbryj véčir)
• Vietnamese: chào buổi tối (vi), xin chào buổi tối (vi)
• Welsh: noswaith dda (cy)

Synonyms

• (obsolete) good-den