favor

Etymology
From, , , from , from mainland , from , from , ultimately from , from the root. Respelled in American English to more closely match its Latin etymon. Compare also 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, from the same Romance source.

Noun

 * 1) A kind or helpful deed; an instance of voluntarily assisting (someone).
 * 2) Goodwill; benevolent regard.
 * 3) A small gift; a party favor.
 * A marriage favour is a bunch or knot of white ribbons or white flowers worn at a wedding.
 * 1) Mildness or mitigation of punishment; lenity.
 * 2) The object of regard; person or thing favoured.
 * 3)  Appearance; look; countenance; face.
 * 4)  Partiality; bias
 * 5)  A letter, a written communication.
 * 6)  Anything worn publicly as a pledge of a woman's favor.
 * 7)  A ribbon or similar small item that is worn as an adornment, especially in celebration of an event.
 * 1) Mildness or mitigation of punishment; lenity.
 * 2) The object of regard; person or thing favoured.
 * 3)  Appearance; look; countenance; face.
 * 4)  Partiality; bias
 * 5)  A letter, a written communication.
 * 6)  Anything worn publicly as a pledge of a woman's favor.
 * 7)  A ribbon or similar small item that is worn as an adornment, especially in celebration of an event.
 * 1)  Partiality; bias
 * 2)  A letter, a written communication.
 * 3)  Anything worn publicly as a pledge of a woman's favor.
 * 4)  A ribbon or similar small item that is worn as an adornment, especially in celebration of an event.
 * 1)  A ribbon or similar small item that is worn as an adornment, especially in celebration of an event.

Usage notes

 * Favor is the standard US spelling, and an alternative in Canada. Favour is the standard spelling in Canada and outside North America.
 * English speakers usually "do someone a favor" (rather than *"make them a favor", which would be sense 3 only). See Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take for uses and meaning of favor collocated with these words.

Translations

 * Arabic: مَعْرُوف
 * Basque: ,
 * Belarusian: паслу́га
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: favoro
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: favor
 * German:, ,
 * Gothic: 𐌰𐌽𐍃𐍄𐍃
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: χάρις
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: gar
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, , , ,
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:, , ,
 * Ladino: favor, hatir
 * Latin: venia
 * Macedonian: услуга
 * Mongolian:
 * Ngazidja Comorian: fadhwila
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: tjeneste
 * Nynorsk: tenest, teneste
 * Ottoman Turkish: مساعده
 * Plautdietsch: Gonst
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Sanskrit: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: у̏слуга
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: láskavosť
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: paki-usap
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: послу́га
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh: ,


 * Belarusian: прыхі́льнасць
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: přízeň
 * Danish: god vilje, gunst
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: favor
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: εὔνοια
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Irish: fabhar
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 호의(好意)
 * Luxembourgish: Gonscht
 * Manx: foayr
 * Middle English: favour
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Volapük:


 * Czech:
 * Finnish: pöytälahja ; pikkulahja
 * Hungarian: apró ajándék
 * Italian:
 * Romanian:


 * Finnish:
 * Romanian:


 * Finnish:
 * Romanian:


 * Esperanto:

Verb

 * 1) To look upon fondly; to prefer.
 * 2) To use more often.
 * 3) To encourage, conduce to
 * 4) To do a favor [noun sense 1] for; to show beneficence toward.
 * 5) To treat with care.
 * 6)  To resemble; especially, to look like (another person).
 * 1) To do a favor [noun sense 1] for; to show beneficence toward.
 * 2) To treat with care.
 * 3)  To resemble; especially, to look like (another person).
 * 1) To treat with care.
 * 2)  To resemble; especially, to look like (another person).
 * 1)  To resemble; especially, to look like (another person).

Translations

 * Afrikaans: guns
 * Arabic: أَنْعَمَ
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:, dávat přednost, favorizovat, zvýhodňovat
 * Esperanto: favori, favorigi,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Irish: fabhraigh
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Ladino: enfavoreser, favorizar
 * Latin: faveō, addīcō
 * Maori: takahoa, popore, mariu
 * Middle English: favouren
 * Ottoman Turkish: بگنمك
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Volapük:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Esperanto: bonvoli
 * Finnish: tehdä palvelus
 * Italian: fare un favore
 * Latin: faveō
 * Maori: mariu
 * Middle English: favouren


 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Maori: popore

Etymology
From. .

Noun

 * 1) favour

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) favour
 * 2) pleasure

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) good will, inclination, partiality,
 * 2) support
 * 1) support
 * 1) support

Etymology
From +, from  + , from. Compare Shetlandic.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) favor

Etymology
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1)  instance of voluntarily assisting someone
 * 2) ; goodwill benevolent regard

Adverb

 * 1)  please (seen on warnings and the like)

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) /favour

Etymology
Compare 🇨🇬

Noun

 * 1) favour