courage

See also: Courage

English

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Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌɹɪdʒ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌɹɪdʒ/, IPA^(key): /ˈkɝɪdʒ/

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Noun

courage (uncountable)

1. 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.

2. 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.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:courage

Derived terms

• courageous
• discourage
• encourage

Related terms

• cardiac

Translations

quality of a confident character

• Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
• Afrikaans: moed, dapperheid
• Albanian: guxim m, trimëri f
• Amharic: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: شجاعة f (šajāʿa)
• Aragonese: corache m
• Armenian: քաջություն (hy) (kʿaǰutʿyun), արիություն (ariutʿyun), խիզախություն (xizaxutʿyun)
• Asturian: coraxe m, bravura f, braveza f
• Azeri: cəsarət (az)
• Bashkir: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: kemen
• Belarusian: смеласць f (smjélascʹ), храбрасць f (xrábrascʹ), адвага f (adváha), мужнасць f (múžnascʹ)
• Bengali: সাহস (shahôs)
• Breton: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: смелост (bg) f (smélost), храброст (bg) f (hrábrost), кураж (bg) m (kuráž)
• Burmese: သူရသတ္ (sura.sat,)
• Catalan: coratge (ca) m, valor (ca) m
• Chechen: please add this translation if you can
• Cherokee: ᎠᎵᎦᎵᏴᎯ (aligaliyvhi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 勇氣, 勇气 (zh) (yǒngqì), 膽量 (zh), 胆量 (zh) (dǎnliàng)

• Czech: odvaha (cs) f, kuráž f, statečnost f
• Danish: mod n, tapperhed c
• Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: moed (nl) m, dapperheid f
• Esperanto: kuraĝo
• Estonian: julgus, vaprus (et)
• Faroese: dirvi n, mót n, áræði n, treysti n
• Finnish: rohkeus (fi), urheus (fi), urhoollisuus (fi)
• French: courage (fr) m
• Friulian: please add this translation if you can
• Galician: coraxe f
• Georgian: გულადობა (guladoba), მამაცობა (mamac’oba), ვაჟკაცობა (važkac’oba)
• German: Courage (de) f, Mut (de) m, Tapferkeit (de) f
• Greek: κουράγιο (el) n (kourágio), θάρρος (el) n (thárros)
• Guaraní: py'aguasu
• Gujarati: હિંમત m (himmata)
• Hawaiian: koa
• Hebrew: אומץ (he) m (ometz)
• Hindi: साहस (sāhas)
• Hungarian: bátorság (hu)
• Icelandic: hugrekki (is) f, n, kjarkur (is) m
• Ido: kurajo (io)
• Igbo: please add this translation if you can
• Indonesian: keberanian (id)
• Interlingua: corage
• Interlingue: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: misneach (ga) m
• Italian: coraggio (it) m
• Japanese: 勇気 (ja) (ゆうき, yūki), 度胸 (どきょう, dokyō)
• Javanese: wani, kawenan
• Kannada: please add this translation if you can
• Kazakh: батылдық (batıldıq), аужарлық (awjarlıq)
• Khmer: សេចក្ដីក្លាហាន (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

• Kyrgyz: кайрат (kayrat), кайраттуулук (kayrattuuluk), жүрөктүүлүк (cüröktüülük)

• Lao: ເສົາຣະຍະ (sao ra nya), ຄວາມກ້າຫານ (khuām kā hān)
• Latin: fortitudo (la) f, virtus (la) f, animus (la) m, audentia f
• Latvian: drosme
• Lithuanian: drąsa (lt)
• Luganda: please add this translation if you can
• Luxembourgish: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: храброст f (hrábrost), смелост f (smélost)
• Malay: keberanian
• Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
• Maltese: kuraġġ
• Maori: hautoa, māia, toa (mi)
• Marathi: धाड़सी (dhāṛasī)
• Mirandese: coraige
• Mongolian: эр зориг (er zorig)
• Nepali: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mot (no) n, tapperhet m

• Novial: please add this translation if you can
• Occitan: coratge (oc) m
• Oriya: please add this translation if you can
• Ossetian: please add this translation if you can
• Pashto: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: شهامت (fa) (šahâmat), جرات (fa) (jorât), جسارت (fa) (jasârat), شجاعت (fa) (šajâ'at)
• Polish: odwaga (pl) f, męstwo (pl) n, śmiałość (pl) f
• Portuguese: coragem (pt) f, valentia (pt) f
• Romanian: curaj (ro) n
• Russian: смелость (ru) f (smélostʹ), храбрость (ru) f (xrábrostʹ), отвага (ru) f (otvága), мужество (ru) n (múžestvo)
• Scottish Gaelic: tapachd f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: храброст f, смелост f

  Roman: hrabrost (sh) f, smelost f

• Sicilian: curaggiu (scn) m
• Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can
• Slovak: odvaha f
• Slovene: pogum (sl) m, hrabrost f
• Spanish: coraje (es) m, valor (es) m, valentía (es) f
• Swedish: mod (sv) n, tapperhet (sv) c
• Tagalog: tapang, katapangan, lakas ng loob
• Tajik: ҷасурӣ (jasurī), далерӣ (dalerī), диловарӣ (dilovarī), ҷуръат (jurʾat), ҷасорат (jasorat)
• Tamil: தைரியம் (ta) (tairiyam)
• Telugu: ధైర్యము (te) (dhairyamu)
• Thai: ความกล้า (kwaam glâa)
• Tibetan: སྙིང་སྟོབས (snying stobs)
• Turkish: cesaret (tr), yüreklilik (tr)
• Turkmen: batyrlyk (tk), mertlik, ýüreklilik
• Tuvan: эрес дидим чорук (eres didim čoruk)
• Ukrainian: сміливість (uk) f (smilývistʹ), хоробрість f (xoróbristʹ), мужність f (múžnistʹ), відвага f (vidváha)
• Urdu: ساہس (sāhas)
• Uyghur: please add this translation if you can
• Uzbek: botirlik (uz), jasurlik (uz), mardlik
• Vietnamese: can đảm (vi)
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can
• Walloon: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: hyfdra (cy) m
• West Frisian: moed
• Yiddish: מוט m (mut)
• Zulu: isibindi (zu) class 7/8

ability to do frightening things

• Armenian: խիզախություն (xizaxutʿyun)
• Bulgarian: мъжество (bg) n (mǎ̀žestvo), решителност (bg) f (rešítelnost)
• Catalan: coratge (ca) m
• Danish: mod n
• German: Mut (de) m
• Khmer: សេចក្ដីក្លាហាន (səckdəy klaa haan)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: پاڵه‌وانی (pALawAnee)

• Maori: hautoa, māia, toa (mi)
• Marathi: धाडस (dhāḍas)
• Mirandese: coraige f, oudácia f
• Portuguese: coragem (pt) f, audácia (pt) f
• Russian: мужество (ru) n (múžestvo), решительность (ru) f (rešítelʹnostʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: tapachd f
• Spanish: valor (es) m, valentía (es) f
• Tagalog: katapangan, lakas ng loob
• Zulu: isibindi (zu) class 7/8

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• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} شجاع (shajāʿ)
• Estonian: ^{(please verify)} vaprust
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 용기 (ko) (yonggi)
• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} mot (no) n
• Scottish Gaelic: ^{(please verify)} cridhe m, ^{(please verify)} misneachd f, ^{(please verify)} gaisgeachd f, ^{(please verify)} meanmna m, ^{(please verify)} smior m, ^{(please verify)} smioralas m

Verb

courage (third-person singular simple present courages, present participle couraging, simple past and past participle couraged)

1. (obsolete) To encourage. [15^th-17^thc.]
   • 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XIX, chapter x:

     And wete yow wel sayd kynge Arthur vnto Vrres syster I shalle begynne to handle hym and serche vnto my power not presumyng vpon me that I am soo worthy to hele youre sone by my dedes / but I wille courage other men of worshyp to doo as I wylle doo

   • William Tyndale (1494-1536)

     Paul writeth unto Timothy […] to courage him.

See also

• fearlessness
• bield

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French

Etymology

cœur +‎ -age or Old French corage, from a Latin root *coraticum, from cor.

Pronunciation

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Noun

courage m (plural courages)

1. courage

Related terms

• courageusement
• courageux

External links

• “courage” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).