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[edit] Etymology
From Middle English welcome, wolcume, wulcume, wilcume, from Old English wilcuma ("one whose coming is pleasant, a welcome person or thing, a guest"; compare also wilcume (“welcome!”, interjection)), from Proto-Germanic *weljakwumô (“a comer, a welcomed guest”), equivalent to will (“desire”) + come (“comer, arrival”). Cognate with Scots walcome (“welcome”), West Frisian wolkom (“welcome”), Dutch welkom (“welcome”), German willkommen (“welcome”), Danish and Norwegian velkommen (“welcome”), Swedish välkommen (“welcome”), Icelandic velkomin (“welcome”).
Similar constructions are common in Romance languages, such as Spanish bienvenido, French bienvenue and Portuguese bem-vindo, each meaning “[may you have fared] well [in] coming [here]”. These do not derive from Classic Latin, where a similar construction is not found, and presumably are instead the result of a calque from Germanic to Proto-Romance (Vulgar Latin).
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[edit] Interjection
welcome
- Greeting given upon someone’s arrival.
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greeting given upon someone's arrival
- Abkhaz: бзиала шәаабеит (ab) (bziala š°aabeit)
- Adangme: mo-hee-e
- Afrikaans: welkom!
- Albanian: mirë se vjen (sq), mirësevjen (sq), mirë se vini (sq), mirësevini (sq)
- American Sign Language: OpenB@DistalSideChesthigh-PalmAcross RoundVert OpenB@DistalInsideTrunkhigh-PalmUp RoundHoriz OpenB@NearCenterTrunkhigh-PalmUp
- Amharic: እንኳን ደህና መጡ (am) pl.
- Arabic: أهلاً وسهلاً (ar) ('áhlan wa-sáhlan)
- Armenian: բարի գալուստ (hy) (bari galust)
- Aromanian: ghini vinishi sg., ghini vinit pl.
- Azeri: xoş gəlmişsiniz!
- Basque: ongi etorri!
- Belarusian: вiтаем (vitájem), прывiтанне (pryvitánne)
- Bengali: স্বাগতম (bn) (sbāgôtôm)
- Bosnian: dobrodošli!
- Breton: degemer mat !
- Bulgarian: добре дошъл (dobre došãl) sg., добре дошли (dobre došli) pl.
- Burmese: ကြိုဆိုပါ၏ (my)
- Catalan: benvingut! m., benvinguda! f. benvinguts pl., benvingudes f. pl.
- Cebuano: maayong pag-abot
- Chechen: маьрша воагӀийл (märsha wooghiil) m., маьрша йогӀийл (märsha yooghiil) f., маьрша догӀийла (märsha dooghiila) pl.
- Cherokee: ᎤᎵᎮᎵᏍᏗ (ulihebisdi)
- Chinese:
- Dungan: хуан-ин (huan-ying)
- Mandarin: 歡迎光臨 (cmn), 欢迎光临 (cmn) (huānyíng guānglín), 歡迎 (cmn), 欢迎 (cmn) (huānyíng)
- Taiwanese: 歡迎光臨, 欢迎光临 (hoan-geng5-kong-lim5)
- Cantonese: 歡迎, 欢迎 (fòonying)
- Hakka: 歡迎, 欢迎 (fon2 ngiang2)
- Cornish: dynnargh dhis
- Corsican: bonavinuta
- Croatian: dobrodošli!
- Czech: vítáme tě, vítej (sg/informal), vítáme vás, vítejte (pl/formal)
- Danish: velkommen (da)!
- Dutch: welkom!
- Esperanto: bonvenon!
- Estonian: tere tulemast!
- Ewe: wòe zɔ sg., miawoe zɔ pl.
- Faroese: vælkoma (fo)
- Finnish: tervetuloa!
- French: bienvenue (fr)
- Georgian: კეთილი იყოს თქვენი მობრძანება (ket'ili ikos tkʼveni mobrżaneba) pl., კეთილი იყოს შენი მობრძანება (ket'ili ikos šeni mobrżaneba) sg.
- German: willkommen (de)
- Middle High German: willekomen!
- Old High German: willechomen!
- Greek: καλώς ορίσατε! (kalós orísate), καλώς ήρθες!
- Ancient Greek: χαῖρε (khaire)
- Greenlandic: tikilluarit
- Guaraní: tereg̃uahẽ porãite!, eguahé porá!
- Hawaiian: aloha
- Hebrew: !בָּרוּךְ הַבָּא (barúkh habá) m., !ברוכה הבאה (brukhá habáa) f., !ברוכים הבאים (brukhím habaím) pl., !ברוכות הבאות (brukhót habaót) f. pl.
- Hindi: स्वागतम (hi) (svāgatam), स्वागत है (hi) (svāgat hai)
- Hungarian: Isten hozott (hu)! (less formal), Isten hozta (hu)! (more formal)
- Icelandic: velkominn (is)! m., velkomin (is) (f sg & mixed pl), velkomnir (is) m. pl., velkomnar (is) f. pl.
- Ido: bonveno
- Igbo: nno̱, nnọọ
- Indonesian:
- Standard Indonesian: selamat datang!
- Javanese: sugeng rawuh!
- Sundanese: wilujeng sumping!
- Interlingua: benvenite!
- Inuktitut: ᐊᕆᐅᙵᐃᐹ (arionngaipaa)
- Irish: fáilte (ga), tá fáilte romhat (ga), tá fáilte romhaibh (ga), céad míle fáilte (ga), fáilte romhat isteach (ga)
- Italian: benvenuto! m., benvenuta! f., benvenuti! pl., benvenute! f. pl., salve
- Japanese: ようこそ (ja) (yōkoso), いらっしゃいませ (ja) (irasshaimase), いらっしゃい (ja) (irasshai)
- Judeo-Arabic: harif
- Jèrriais: séyiz l'beinv'nu !, séyiz la beinv'nue ! f., séyiz les beinv'nus ! pl.
- Kazakh: қош келдіңіз!, qoş keldiñiz!, قوش كەلدٴىڭٴىز!
- Khmer: ស្វាគមន៍ (km) (swagum)
- Korean: 잘 오셨습니다 (ko) (jal osyeotsimnida), 환영합니다 (ko) (hwan-yeong-hamnida)
- Kurdish:
- Kurmanji: bi xêr bên (ku) pl., bi xêr bê (ku) sg.
- Sorani: بهخێربێی (ku) (ba xêr bêi) sg., بهخێربێن (ku) (be xêr bên) pl.
- Latin: salve! sg., salvete! pl.
- Latvian: laipni lūdzam! pl.
- Limburgish: wilkóm
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- Lithuanian: sveiki atvykę
- Lojban: fi'i
- Lule Sami: buerie båeteme
- Luxembourgish: wëllkëmm! Wëllkomm
- Macedonian: добредојде! (dobrédojde!) (singular and informal), добредојдовте! (dobredójdovte!) (plural or formal)
- Malay: selamat datang (ms)
- Malayalam: സ്വാഗതം (svaagatham)
- Maltese: merħba (mt)
- Manx: failt, failt royd
- Maori: haere mai, nau mai
- Marathi: स्वागत आहे (svāgat āhe)
- Mazanderani: خش بیمونی
- Mi'kmaq: weltasualuleg
- Mongolian: тавтай морилогтун (tavtai morilogtun)
- Nahuatl: panoa (verb; singular: ximopanōlti; plural: ximopanōltih; literally, "do pass yourself/ves")
- Navajo: yáʼátʼééh
- Ngarrindjeri: nguldi arndu
- Norfuk: welkam
- Northern Sami: bures boahtin
- Norwegian: velkommen (no)
- Occitan: benvengut
- Ojibwe: aaniin, boozhoo
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: до́брѣ прити́ (dóbrě prití)
- Glagolitic: ⰴⱁⰱⱃⱑ ⱂⱃⰻⱅⰻ (dóbrě prití)
- Papiamentu: bon bini!
- Persian: (literary, polite) خوش آمدید (fa) (xoš âmadid), (literary, familiar) خوش آمدی (fa) (xoš âmadi), (colloquial, polite) خوش اومدین (fa) (xoš umadin), (colloquial, familiar) خوش اومدی (fa) (xoš umadi)
- Polish: witaj! sg., witajcie! pl., witamy
- Portuguese: bem-vindo! m., bem-vinda! f., bem-vindos! pl., bem-vindas! f. pl.
- Punjabi: ਜੀ ਆਇਆ ਨੂੰ (jī āiā nūng)
- Romanian: bine ai venit! sg., bine ați venit! pl., bun venit, bine ai venit
- Russian: добро пожаловать (ru) (dobró požálovat’)!, (we) приветствуем (ru) (privétstvujem)
- Sanskrit: स्वागतम् (sa) (svāgatam)
- Sardinian: bene bennios
- Scots: walcum
- Scottish Gaelic: fàilte, ceud mìle fàilte
- Serbian:
- Cyrillic: добродошли!
- Roman: dobrodošli!
- Sicilian: binvinutu
- Sindhi: !ڀلي ڪري آيا (bhalie karay aaya)
- Sinhalese: ආයුබෝවන් (si) (āyubōvan)
- Slovak: vitajte
- Slovene: dobrodošel! m., dobrodošla! f., dobrodošli! pl.
- Somali: soo dhowow
- Southern Sami: buorre boahtem
- Spanish: ¡bienvenido! m., ¡bienvenida! f., bienvenidos pl.
- Sukuma: tuliho!
- Swahili: karibu!
- Swedish: välkommen (sv)!, välkomna (sv) pl.
- Tagalog: maligayang pagdating, Mabuhay
- Tahitian: maeva, manava
- Tajik: хуш омадед (tg) (xuš omaded), хуш омадӣ (tg) (xuš omadī)
- Tarantino: bovègne
- Tatar: räxim itegez!
- Telugu: స్వాగతం (svaagataM)
- Thai: ยินดีต้อนรับ (th) (yindee dtôn ráp)
- Tigrinya: ገንዘብካ (genzebka = it is yours)
- እንቋዕ ብደሐን መጻእካ (ənqwaˋ bdeHen meSaəka = wonderful that you have arrived safely)
- እንቋዕ ብድሐን ጸናሕካ (ənqwaˋ bdeHen SenaHka = wonderful that you have stayed well [response to above])
- Turkish: hoşgeldin (tr) sg., hoşgeldiniz (tr) pl. (formal)
- Tz'utujil: utz epejtiik
- Ukrainian: ласкаво просимо! (laskavo prosymo)
- Urdu: خوش آمديد (ur) (khūś āmadīd)
- Uyghur: !خۇش كەپسىز (hoş kepsiz)
- Uzbek: xush kelibsiz
- Venetian: benvegnuo
- Vietnamese: xin chào (vi), chào (vi), hoan nghênh (vi) (歡迎 (vi)), được tiếp đi ân cần (vi)
- Volapük: vekömö!
- Walloon: benvnuwe
- Welsh: croeso!, croeso, croeso cynnes iawn
- West Frisian: wolkom!
- Woods Cree: ᑕᐋᐧᐤ (tawâw = come in, there's room)
- Xhosa: wamkelekile sg., namkelekile pl.
- Yiddish: !װילקום (wilkum) pl., ברוכים־הבאים (brukhim-haboim) sg., ברוך־הבא (borekh-habo)
- Zulu: isibingelelo!, sawubona!, uwamkelekile
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welcome (third-person singular simple present welcomes, present participle welcoming, simple past and past participle welcomed)
- to affirm or greet the arrival of someone, especially by saying "Welcome!".
- to accept something willingly or gladly.
- We welcome suggestions for improvement.
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affirm or greet the arrival of someone
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welcome (comparative more welcome, superlative most welcome)
- Whose arrival is a cause of joy.
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whose arrival is a cause of joy
- American Sign Language: OpenB@DistalSideChesthigh-PalmAcross RoundVert OpenB@DistalInsideTrunkhigh-PalmUp RoundHoriz OpenB@NearCenterTrunkhigh-PalmUp
- Basque: ongi etorri (eu)
- Bulgarian: желан m., желана f., желано n., желани pl. (želan, želana, želano, želani)
- Catalan: benvingut m., benvinguda f.
- Czech: vítaný (cs)
- Danish: velkommen (da)
- Dutch: welkom, welkome, graag gezien
- Esperanto: bonvena
- Filipino: mabuhay
- Finnish: tervetullut (fi)
- French: bienvenu (fr)
- German: willkommen (de)
- Hungarian: szívesen látott, kellemes
- Indonesian: dielu-elukan
- Interlingua: benvenite
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- Italian: benvenuto (it) m.
- Japanese: 歓迎すべき (ja) (kangei subeki)
- Latin: volens (la), acceptus (la),
- Macedonian: добредојден (mk) (dobrédojden) m.
- Polish: mile widziany (pl) m.
- Portuguese: bem-vindo (pt)
- Romanian: binevenit m., binevenită f.
- Russian: желанный (ru) (želánnyj)
- Scots: walcum
- Serbian: željan, željna, željni, željno, poželjan, poželjna, poželjni, poželjno
- Slovene: dobrodošel m., dobrodošla f.
- Spanish: bienvenido (es), agradable (es)
- Vietnamese: được hoan nghênh
- Volapük: vekömik
- Welsh: i'w groesawu m., i'w chroesawu f., i'w croesawu pl.
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welcome (plural welcomes)
- The act of greeting someone’s arrival, especially by saying "Welcome!"; reception.
- The utterance of such a greeting.
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act of greeting someone’s arrival
utterance of such a greeting
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[edit] Derived terms
Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb welcome
