friendship

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɹɛndʃɪp/

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Etymology

From Middle English frendshipe, frendschip, freondschipe, from Old English frēondscipe (“friendship”), equivalent to friend +‎ -ship. Cognate with Scots freindschip (“friendship”), West Frisian freonskip (“friendship”), Saterland Frisian Früündskup, Fjundskup (“friendship”), Dutch vriendschap (“friendship”), German Low German Fründschap (“friendship”), German Freundschaft (“friendship”).

Noun

friendship (countable and uncountable, plural friendships)

1. (uncountable) The condition of being friends.
2. (countable) A friendly relationship, or a relationship as friends.
3. (uncountable) Good will.

Antonyms

• foeship

Derived terms

• friendshipful
• friendshipless
• friendshiplike
• friendshiply
• friendshipped
• friendshipping
• friendshippish/friendshipish
• friendshippy/friendshipy
• guestfriendship

Translations

(uncountable) condition of being friends

• Albanian: shoqëri
• Arabic: صداقة (ar) f (ṣadāqa)
• Armenian: ընկերություն (ənkerutʿyun), բարեկամություն (barekamutʿyun)
• Asturian: amistá f
• Azeri: arxadaşlıq, dostluq (az)
• Belarusian: сяброўства n (sjabróŭstva)
• Bengali: বন্ধুত্ব (bôndhutbô)
• Bulgarian: приятелство (bg) n (prijátelstvo), дружба (bg) f (drúžba)
• Catalan: amistat (ca) f
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵜⵉⴷⴷⵓⴽⴽⵍⴰ f (tiddukkla)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 友誼 (zh), 友谊 (zh) (yǒuyì), 友情 (zh) (yǒuqíng), 友愛 (zh), 友爱 (zh) (yǒu'ài) (friendly affection)

• Crimean Tatar: dostluq
• Czech: přátelství (cs) n
• Danish: venskab (da) n
• Dutch: vriendschap (nl) f
• Estonian: sõprus (et)
• Finnish: ystävyys (fi)
• French: amitié (fr) f

  Old French: amistié f

  Middle French: amistié f

• Galician: amizade (gl) f
• Georgian: მეგობრობისათვის (megobrobisat’vis)
• German: Freundschaft (de) f

  Old High German: winescaft

• Greek: φιλία (el) f (filía)
• Hebrew: ידידות (he) f (yedidút)
• Hindi: दोस्ती f (dostī), मित्रता f (mitrtā)
• Hungarian: barátság (hu)
• Icelandic: vinátta (is) f
• Indonesian: persahabatan (id)
• Irish: cumann m
• Italian: amicizia (it)
• Japanese: 友情 (ja) (ゆうじょう, yūjō)
• Kannada: ಗೆಳೆತನ (kn) (geḷetana)
• Kazakh: достық (dostıq)
• Khmer: មិត្តភាព (mittaʔpʰiep)
• Korean: 우정 (ko) (ujeong) (友情 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: دۆستایه‌تی

• Kyrgyz: достук (dostuk)

• Lao: ມິດຕະພາບ (lo) (mit ta phāp)
• Latin: amicitia (la) f
• Latvian: draudzība (lv)
• Lithuanian: draugystė, gerumas
• Macedonian: дружба (mk) f (drúžba)
• Malay: persahabatan
• Mongolian: найрамдал (najramdal)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vennskap (no) n

  Nynorsk: venskap m, n, vennskap m, n

• Old English: winescipe m
• Old French: amistié f
• Old Norse: vinskapr m
• Old Provençal: amistat f
• Persian: دوستی (fa) (dusti)
• Polish: przyjaźń (pl) f
• Portuguese: amizade (pt) f
• Romanian: prietenie (ro) f, amiciție (ro) f
• Russian: дружба (ru) f (drúžba)
• Scottish Gaelic: càirdeas m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пријатељство n

  Roman: prijateljstvo n

• Slovak: priateľstvo n, družba f
• Slovene: prijateljstvo (sl) n
• Spanish: amistad (es) f
• Swahili: urafiki (sw)
• Swedish: vänskap (sv) c
• Tagalog: pagkakaibigan
• Tajik: дусти (dusti)
• Tamil: நட்பு (ta) (naṭpu)
• Tatar: дуслык (tt) (duslık)
• Telugu: స్నేహము (te) (snEhamu)
• Thai: มิตรภาพ (mít-dtrà-pâap)
• Turkish: arkadaşlık (tr)
• Turkmen: dostluk
• Ukrainian: дружба f (drúžba)
• Urdu: دوستی f (dostī)
• Uzbek: o`rtoqchilik
• Venetian: amicizsia f
• Vietnamese: tình bạn (vi)
• Volapük: flenam (vo)

(countable) friendly relationship

• Arabic: صداقة (ar) (ṣadāqah)
• Czech: přátelství (cs) n
• Danish: venskab (da) n
• Esperanto: amikeco (eo)
• Finnish: ystävyys (fi)
• French: amitié (fr)

  Old French: amistié f

  Middle French: amistié f

• German: Freundschaft (de) f
• Greek: φιλία (el) f (filía)

• Hungarian: barátság (hu)
• Icelandic: vinátta (is) f
• Japanese: 交際 (ja) (こうさい, kōsai)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vennskap (no) n

  Nynorsk: venskap m, n, vennskap m, n

• Old French: amistié f
• Portuguese: amizade (pt) f
• Scottish Gaelic: càirdeas m
• Turkish: arkadaşlık (tr)

(uncountable) good will

• German: Freundschaft (de) f
• Hungarian: barátság (hu)

• Scottish Gaelic: càirdeas m

Related terms

• unconditional

See also

• mateship