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Etymology Edit From happy -ness
Pronunciation Edit IPA (key ) : /ˈhæpinəs/
Hyphenation: hap‧pi‧ness
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happiness (countable and uncountable plural happinesses
( uncountable ) The emotion of being happy ; joy .
1877 , W. S. Gilbert , The Sorcerer Yes, Aline, true happiness comes of true love, and true love should be independent of external influences.
( archaic , uncountable ) Good luck ; good fortune; prosperity .
( obsolete , countable ) Fortuitous elegance; unstudied grace; — used especially of language.
Some beauties yet no precepts can declare, For there's a happiness , as well as care. — Alexander Pope .
Usage notes Edit Happiness is generic , and is applied to almost every kind of enjoyment.
Translations Edit
emotion of being happy
Afrikaans: geluk (af)
Albanian: lumturi (sq)
Arabic: سَعَادَة f saʿāda )
Armenian: երջանկություն (hy) (erǰankutʿyun )
Asturian: felicidá f
Azeri: xoşbəxtlik səadət
Bashkir: бәхет bäxet )
Belarusian: шча́сце n ščáscje )
Bengali: সুখ shukh )
Bulgarian: ща́стие (bg) n štástie )
Burmese: သုခ (my) (su.hka. )
Catalan: felicitat (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 幸福 (zh) (xìngfú ), 快樂 (zh) , 快乐 (zh) (kuàilè ), 愉快 (zh) (yúkuài )
Czech: štěstí (cs) n
Danish: lykke (da) c glæde c
Dutch: blijheid (nl) f blijdschap (nl) , geluk (nl) n vreugde (nl) f
Esperanto: feliĉeco
Estonian: õnn (et)
Faroese: gleði f
Finnish: onnellisuus (fi)
French: bonheur (fr) m
Galician: felicidade (gl) f
Georgian: ბედნიერება bedniereba )
German: Glück (de) n Glücklichkeit (de) f
Greek: ευτυχία (el) f eftychía )
Hawaiian: hauʻoli
Hebrew: אושר (he) m 'ósher )
Hindi: ख़ुशी f xuśī )
Hungarian: boldogság (hu)
Icelandic: gleði (is) f hamingja (is) f
Ido: feliceso (io)
Indonesian: kebahagiaan (id)
Ingush: ираз iraz )
Irish: sonas m
Italian: felicità (it) f gioia (it) f
Japanese: 幸福 (ja) (こうふく, kōfuku ), 幸せ (ja) (しあわせ, shiawase ), 愉快 (ja) (ゆかい, yukai )
Kazakh: бақыт baqıt )
Khmer: សុភមង្គល (km) (so’pʰea’ meaŋkʊəl )
Korean: 행복 (ko) (haengbok ) (幸福 (ko) )
Kyrgyz: бакыт (ky) (bakıt )
Lao: ຄວາມສຸກ (lo) (khuām suk )
Latgalian: laime
Latin: laetitia f gaudium n felicitas f
Latvian: laime (lv) f
Lithuanian: laimė (lt)
Luxembourgish: Gléck n
Macedonian: среќа f sreḱa ), радост f radost )
Malay: kebahagiaan kegembiraan
Malayalam: ആനന്ദം (ml) (ānandaṃ ), സന്തോഷം (ml) (santōṣaṃ ), ആഹ്ളാദം āhḷādaṃ )
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Mauritian Creole: jos lazwa
Mongolian: аз жаргал az žargal )
Navajo: ił hózhǫ́
Northern Sami: illu
Norwegian: lykke (no) m glede (no) m Nynorsk: lukke
Novial: feliseso
Occitan: felicitat (oc) f bonaür
Old Norse: gleði f
Persian: خوشبختی (fa) (xoš'bàxti ), شادی (fa) (šâdi ), سعادت (fa) (sa'âdat )
Polish: szczęście (pl) n radość (pl) f
Portuguese: felicidade (pt) f alegria (pt) f
Quechua: kusi
Romani: baxt f
Romanian: bucurie (ro) f fericire (ro) f
Russian: сча́стье (ru) n sčástʹje ), ра́дость (ru) f rádostʹ )
Sanskrit: सुख (sa) n sukhá )
Scottish Gaelic: àigh m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: срећа f
Roman: sreća (sh) f
Shor: ырыс ırıs )
Sinhalese: සන්තෝෂය santōṣaya )
Slovak: šťastie n radosť f
Slovene: sreča (sl) f
Spanish: felicidad (es) f
Swahili: raha (sw)
Swedish: lycka (sv) c glädje (sv) c fröjd (sv) c
Tagalog: kaligayahan ligaya (tl)
Tajik: бахт baxt ), саодат saodat ), шодӣ (tg) (šodī )
Tamil: மகிழ்ச்சி (ta) (makiḻcci ), சந்தோஷம் (ta) (cantōṣam )
Tatar: бәхет (tt) (bäxet ), сәгадәть sägadät’ ), сәгадәт (tt) (sägadät )
Telugu: సంతోషం (te) (saṃtōṣaṃ )
Thai: ความสุข (th) (kwaam-sùk )
Tibetan: བདེ་བ bde ba )
Turkish: mutluluk (tr) , saadet (tr)
Turkmen: bagt (tk) , şatlyk eýgilik
Ukrainian: ща́стя (uk) n ščástja )
Urdu: خوشی f xuśī )
Uzbek: baxt (uz) , chogʻlik (uz) , xushbaxtlik (uz)
Venetian: ałegrézsa f ałegrìa f
Vietnamese: hạnh phúc (vi) (幸福
Welsh: hapusrwydd (cy)
Yiddish: גליק n glik )
fortuitous elegance
Macedonian: среќа f sreḱa )
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