good night

See also: goodnight

English

English phrasebook

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Alternative forms

• good-night (archaic)
• goodnight
• g'night (colloquial)

Etymology

Probably a shortening of "May you have a good night."

Pronunciation

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Phrase

good night

1. A farewell said in the evening or before going to sleep.
2. (colloquial, dated) Expressing incredulity.
   • 1920, William Darling Lyell, The House in Queen Anne Square: A Tale, page 34:

     […] peculiarities of your law always interest me. What is 'legitim'?"
     "Oh! Good-night!" I said derisively.
     "But I am in dead earnest, and really want to know," he added with a perfectly serious face; "I have a small bet on."

   • 1954, Franklin W. Dixon, The Yellow Feather Mystery:

     Together they pried into the sodden mass, yanking out what was left of the record books.
     "Oh, good night!" Joe moaned in dismay. "The fire extinguisher liquid has messed up what the fire didn't."

Synonyms

• night
• night night

Coordinate terms

• good afternoon
• good day
• good evening
• good morning

Derived terms

• goodnight (noun), good-night (verb)
• goodnight Vienna

Related terms

• nighty night

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: kuneti

Translations

a farewell

• Abkhaz: ашара шәӡыбзиарахааит (aŝara ŝʷdzəbzjaraxaajtʼ)
• Albanian: natën e mirë
• Aleut: angali kingachxicax
• Arabic: تُصْبِح عَلَى خَيْر (tuṣbiḥ ʕalā ḵayr), لَيْلَة سَعِيدَة (layla saʕīda)

  Hijazi Arabic: تصبح على خير m (tiṣbaḥ ʕala ḵēr), و إنت من اهله m (u inta min ahlu) (as a reply) تِمْسِي على خير m (timsi ʕala ḵēr) (sleeping during the day)

• Armenian: բարի գիշեր (bari gišer)
• Asturian: bones nueches (ast), bona nueche
• Azerbaijani: gecəniz xeyrə qalsın
• Basque: gabon
• Belarusian: дабра́нач (dabránač)
• Bengali: শুভ রাত্রি (śubho ratri)
• Breton: noz vat (br)
• Bulgarian: ле́ка нощ (léka nošt)
• Catalan: bona nit (ca)
• Chechen: буьйса декъал йогӏийла (büüsa deqʼal joğiı̇la)
• Cherokee: ᎣᏍᏓ ᏒᏃᏱ (osda svnoyi)
• Chichewa: usiku wabwino
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: (formal) 晚安 (maan⁵ on¹), (informal) 早唞 (yue) (zou² tau²)

  Hokkien: 安眠 (zh-min-nan) (an-bîn), 暗安 (àm-an)

  Mandarin: 晚安 (zh) (wǎn'ān)

• Cornish: nos da
• Czech: dobrou noc (cs)
• Danish: godnat (da)
• Dutch: goedenacht (nl), goeienacht, welterusten (nl) (literally “sleep well”), trusten (familiar), slaapwel (nl) (Belgium)
• Elfdalian: gunatt
• Esperanto: bonan nokton
• Estonian: head ööd (et)
• Ewe: dɔ agbe
• Faroese: góða nátt
• Finnish: hyvää yötä (fi), öitä (fi) (informal)
• French: bonne nuit (fr)
• Galician: boa noite, boas noites
• Garo: walnam
• Georgian: ღამე ნებისა (ɣame nebisa), ძილი ნებისა (ʒili nebisa)
• German: gute Nacht (de)

  Alemannic German: guetnacht (Gressoney), gut nacht (Issime), guot nacht (Carcoforo), göt nacht, göti nacht (Formazza), schlàwol (Rimella)

  Bavarian: guade Nochd

• Greek: καληνύχτα (el) (kalinýchta), καλό βράδυ (kaló vrády)
• Greenlandic: sinilluarit, kunaat
• Gujarati: શુભ રાત્રી (śubh rātrī)
• Hawaiian: aloha pō
• Hebrew: לַיְלָה טוֹב (he) (láyla tov)
• Hindi: शुभ रात्रि (śubh rātri), शब बख़ैर (śab baxair), गुड नाइट (guḍ nāiṭ)
• Hungarian: jó éjszakát (hu), jó éjszakát kívánok (hu)
• Icelandic: góða nótt (is)
• Ido: bona nokto
• Indonesian: selamat malam (id)
• Interlingua: bon nocte
• Irish: oíche mhaith
• Italian: buona notte (it), buonanotte (it)
• Japanese: おやすみなさい (ja) (oyasuminasai), おやすみ (ja) (oyasumi) (casual), おやすみやす (oyasumiyasu) (Kyoto)
• Javanese: sugeng dalu
• K'iche': xokaq'ab'
• Karelian: hyviä yödy
• Karok: yáv pa'ikxáram
• Kazakh: қайырлы түн (qaiyrly tün)
• Khmer: រាត្រីសួស្ដី (riətrəy suəsdəy)
• Korean: 안녕히 주무십시오 (annyeonghi jumusipsio), 안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo), 잘 자요 (jal jayo), 잘 자 (jal ja)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: شەو باش (şew baş)

  Northern Kurdish: şev baş (ku), şev xweş, şev bixêr

• Lao: ໃນ​ຕອນ​ກາງ​ຄືນ​ທີ່​ດີ (nai tǭn kāng khư̄n thī dī)
• Latin: placidē quiēscās, bene quiēscās, molliter cubēs, ōtiōsē dormiās; in utramvīs aurem dormiās, in dextram aurem dormiās (idioms); vale (la); placidam noctem, bonam noctem (calques)
• Latvian: arlabunakti
• Lingala: butú elámu (ln)
• Lithuanian: labanaktis, labos nakties, saldžių sapnų
• Luxembourgish: gutt Nuecht
• Macedonian: лека ноќ (leka noḱ), добра ноќ f (dobra noḱ)
• Malay: selamat malam (ms)
• Malayalam: ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
• Maltese: il-lejl it-tajjeb, bonswa
• Mòcheno: guata nòcht
• Navajo: nizhónígo háádíilyįh, nizhónígo niidoołkááł, yáʼátʼéehgo háádíilyįh
• Norman: bouan gniet
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: god natt (no)

  Nynorsk: god natt

• Odia: ଶୁଭ ରାତ୍ରି (śubha rātri)
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: льгъка нощь (lĭgŭka noštĭ)

• Old English: gōde niht
• Old Tupi: tiá nde putuna
• Pashto: شپه دې نېکمرغه (šəpa dē nēkəmərga)
• Persian:

  Classical Persian: شَب بَخَیْر (fa) (šab baxayr), شَب خْوَش (šab xwaš)

  Iranian Persian: شَب بِخِیْر (fa) (šab bexeyr), شَب خوش (šab xoš)

• Polish: dobranoc (pl)
• Portuguese: boa noite (pt)
• Quechua: wuynas nuchis, allin tuta
• Romani: sov Devleça (singular), soven Devleça (plural)
• Romanian: noapte bună
• Romansch: buna notg
• Russian: споко́йной но́чи (ru) (spokójnoj nóči), до́брой но́чи (ru) (dóbroj nóči)
• Sami:

  Inari: pyeri ijjâ

  Northern: buorrẹ idja

  Skolt: vuä´đ tiõrvân

  Southern: buerie jïjje

• Samoan: manuia le po
• Samogitian: labanakt
• Scots: guid nicht
• Scottish Gaelic: oidhche mhath
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: лаку ноћ

  Roman: laku noć

• Sicilian: bona notti (scn)
• Slovak: dobrú noc
• Slovene: lahko noč
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: dobru noc

• Spanish: buenas noches (es)
• Sranan Tongo: sribi switi
• Swahili: usiku mwema
• Swedish: god natt (sv), go'natt (informal), natti (familiar, before going to sleep)
• Tajik: шоми хуш (šomi xuš), шаб ба хайр (šab ba xayr), шабатон хуш бод (šabaton xuš bod)
• Tamil: இனிய இரவு (iṉiya iravu)
• Telugu: శుభరాత్రి (te) (śubharātri)
• Tetum: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: ราตรีสวัสดิ์ (th) (raa-dtrii-sà-wàt)
• Tongan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: iyi geceler
• Udmurt: ӟеч изь (dźeć iź)
• Ukrainian: на добра́ніч (na dobránič), добра́ніч (dobránič)
• Urdu: شَب بَخَیر (śab baxair)
• Uzbek: xayrli tun
• Vietnamese: ngủ ngon
• Welsh: nos da
• West Frisian: goenacht, nacht (fy)
• Winnebago: hąhe pį
• Yiddish: אַ גוטע נאַכט (yi) (a gute nakht)
• Zulu: lala kahle, ulale kahle sg, lalani kahle, nilale kahle pl

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