English
Pronunciation
Noun
greeting (countable and uncountable plural greetings
A conventional phrase used to start a letter or conversation or otherwise to acknowledge a person's arrival or presence .
It's polite to begin a letter with a greeting , but this practice is less common in email.
( uncountable ) to greet .
1898 Winston Churchill , chapter 2, in The Celebrity I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting , […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.
Translations
acknowledgement of a persons presence or arrival
Albanian: përshëndetje (sq) f
Arabic: تَحِيَّة f ( taḥiyya )
Armenian: բարև ( barew )
Assamese: ওলগ ( ülog )
Azerbaijani: təbrik (az) , salam (az)
Belarusian: прывіта́нне n ( pryvitánnje ) , віта́нне n ( vitánnje )
Bulgarian: поздрав (bg) m ( pozdrav ) , приветствие (bg) n ( privetstvie )
Catalan: salut (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 迎接 (zh) ( yíngjiē )
Czech: pozdrav (cs) m
Danish: hilsen (da) c
Dutch: begroeting (nl) f groet (nl) m
Esperanto: saluto (eo)
Faroese: heilsa f heilsan f kvøða f
Finnish: tervehdys (fi)
French: salutation (fr) f salut (fr) m
Georgian: მისალმება ( misalmeba )
German: Gruß (de) m Begrüßung (de) f
Greek: χαιρετισμός (el) m ( chairetismós )
Ancient: ἀσπασμός m ( aspasmós )
Hindi: अभिवादन (hi) m ( abhivādan )
Hungarian: üdvözlet (hu) , köszöntés (hu)
Icelandic: kveðja (is) f
Ido: saluto (io)
Italian: saluto (it) m benvenuto (it) m
Japanese: 挨拶 (ja) ( あいさつ, aisatsu )
Khmer: បច្ចុគ្គមន៍ ( paccokkum ) , ស្វាគមន៍ (km) ( svaakum )
Korean: 인사 (ko) ( insa )
Latin: salūtātiō f
Luxembourgish: Begréissung f
(deprecated template usage ) {{trans-mid }}Macedonian: поздрав m ( pozdrav ) , поздравување n ( pozdravuvanje )
Malay: ucapan
Maori: waioha mānawa
Mongolian: мэндчилгээ (mn) ( mendčilgee )
Norwegian: hilsen (no)
Norwegian Nynorsk: helsing (nn)
Persian: پیشواز (fa) ( pišvâz ) , تبریک (fa) ( tabrik ) , سلام (fa) ( salâm )
Polish: pozdrowienie (pl) n
Portuguese: saudação (pt) f
Romanian: salut (ro) n salutare (ro) f
Russian: приве́тствие (ru) n ( privétstvije )
Scottish Gaelic: fàilte f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: по̏здра̄в m
Roman: pȍzdrāv (sh) m
Slovak: pozdrav m
Slovene: pozdrav (sl)
Spanish: saludo (es) m
Swahili: salamu (sw)
Swedish: hälsning (sv) c
Tagalog: pagbati
Tajik: табрик ( tabrik ) , салом ( salom )
Thai: การทักทาย (th) ( gaan-ták-taai )
Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: tebrik (tr) , selam (tr)
Ukrainian: віта́ння n ( vitánnja ) , привіта́ння n ( pryvitánnja )
Vietnamese: lời chào (vi)
Volapük: glid (vo)
Welsh: cyfarchiad (cy) m
West Frisian: begroeting c
See also
Verb
greeting
present participle of greet