benevolence

Etymology
Circa 1400, original sense “good will, disposition to do good”, from  (also directly from Latin), literally “good will”, from  +, form of , form of , components cognate to English  and , more distantly  (via Proto-Indo-European).

Noun

 * 1)  Disposition to do good.
 * 2)  Charitable kindness.
 * 3)  An altruistic gift or act.
 * 4)  A kind of forced loan or contribution levied by kings without legal authority, first so called under Edward IV in 1473.

Translations

 * Arabic: النزعَة إلى الخير
 * Bulgarian: доброжела́телност
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Danish: velvilje
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician: largueza
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: φιλανθρωπία
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: örlæti
 * Ido:
 * Irish: dea-mhéin
 * Japanese: ,
 * Latin: benevolentia
 * Macedonian: доброна́мерност, благонакло́нетост
 * Old English: welwillendnes
 * Polish: benewolencja, , , ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:, , , ,
 * Ukrainian: доброзичли́вість, зичли́вість


 * Finnish:
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 * Ottoman Turkish: مساعده