earnest

Etymology 1
From, , from , , , from , a derivative of , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

The adjective is from, from , from the noun. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) Gravity; serious purpose; earnestness.
 * 2) * 1914, February 13, The Times, Obituary: Canon Augustus Jessopp
 * He wrote well in a forcible, colloquial style, with the air of being tremendously in earnest, and full of knowledge which overflowed his pages, tricked out with somewhat boisterous illustrations.
 * 1) Seriousness; reality; actuality (as opposed to joking or pretence)
 * 1) Seriousness; reality; actuality (as opposed to joking or pretence)
 * 1) Seriousness; reality; actuality (as opposed to joking or pretence)

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Czech: vážnost
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: σπουδαῖος
 * Luxembourgish: Eescht
 * Spanish: ,
 * Ukrainian: серйозність


 * Catalan:, formalitat
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: σπουδαῖος
 * Luxembourgish: Eescht
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:
 * Ukrainian: серйозність

Verb

 * 1)  To be serious with; use in earnest.

Adjective

 * 1)  Serious, sincere, ingenuous.
 * 2)  Focused in the pursuit of an objective; honestly eager to obtain or do.
 * 3) Intent; focused; showing a lot of concentration.
 * 4)  Possessing or characterised by seriousness.
 * 5) Strenuous; diligent.
 * 6) Serious; weighty; of a serious, weighty, or important nature; important.
 * 1) Strenuous; diligent.
 * 2) Serious; weighty; of a serious, weighty, or important nature; important.
 * 1) Serious; weighty; of a serious, weighty, or important nature; important.
 * 1) Serious; weighty; of a serious, weighty, or important nature; important.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: zelós, ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * French:
 * Galician: sesgo,, entergo
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: σπουδαῖος
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Latin:
 * Plautdietsch: drinjent
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Ukrainian:, ревний
 * Welsh:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Galician: guicho, enfexo
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:
 * Welsh:


 * Arabic: جَدِّي, جَادّ
 * Belarusian: сур'ёзны
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:
 * French: ,
 * Galician: sesgo, séreo, rexo,
 * German:, ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Irish: dáiríre
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Latin: sērius
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:, ,
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: серйозний
 * Welsh:

Etymology 2

 * apparently related to . Compare also.

Noun

 * 1)  A sum of money paid in advance as a deposit; hence, a pledge, a guarantee, an indication of something to come.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:, депозит
 * Catalan: paga i senyal,
 * Galician: coutela, peñor, arras
 * Gothic: 𐍅𐌰𐌳𐌹
 * Italian:
 * Persian: اربون
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Spanish: ,