gallantry

English

Etymology

From French galanterie

Noun

gallantry (countable and uncountable, plural gallantries)

1. courage
   • 1926, P. G. Wodehouse, 'Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend', Penguin, Harmondsworth: 1992, p 98.

     'I have the greatest respect for the young lady to whom you refer. She behaved on a certain recent occasion - on two recent occasions - with notable gallantry and resource, and I won't have her bally-ragged.'

2. chivalrous courtliness, especially towards women
3. an instance of gallant behaviour or speech

Translations

courage

• Bulgarian: смелост (bg) f (smelost), храброст (bg) f (hrabrost)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 勇敢 (zh) (yǒnggǎn), 英勇 (zh) (yīngyǒng), 勇氣 (zh), 勇气 (zh) (yǒngqì)

• Finnish: urheus (fi)
• French: courage (fr) m
• Georgian: ვაჟკაცობა (važḳacoba)
• German: Tapferkeit (de)

• Italian: galanteria
• Japanese: 勇敢 (ja) (ゆうかん, yūkan)
• Maori: toanga, hautoa
• Romanian: curaj (ro) n, bravură (ro) f, cutezanță (ro) f
• Russian: хра́брость (ru) f (xrábrostʹ), отва́га (ru) f (otvága), сме́лость (ru) f (smélostʹ), му́жество (ru) n (múžestvo)
• Spanish: coraje (es) m, valor (es) m
• Tagalog: kagilasan

chivalrous courtliness, especially towards women

• Bulgarian: учтивост (bg) f (učtivost), галантност f (galantnost)
• Czech: galantnost f
• Finnish: ritarillisuus (fi)
• French: galanterie (fr) f

• Georgian: ვაჟკაცობა (važḳacoba)
• Romanian: galanterie (ro) f, curtoazie (ro) f
• Russian: гала́нтность (ru) f (galántnostʹ)
• Tagalog: kagilasan