greet

Etymology 1
From, from , from.

Verb

 * 1)  To welcome in a friendly manner, either in person or through another means such as writing.
 * 2)  To arrive at or reach, or meet.
 * 3)  To accost; to address.
 * 4)  To meet and give salutations.
 * 5)  To be perceived by (someone).
 * 1)  To accost; to address.
 * 2)  To meet and give salutations.
 * 3)  To be perceived by (someone).
 * 1)  To meet and give salutations.
 * 2)  To be perceived by (someone).
 * 1)  To be perceived by (someone).

Translations

 * Arabic: حَيَّا
 * Moroccan Arabic: سلم, بلغ السلام
 * Armenian: ,
 * Aromanian: bunuescu, ghinuescu, cãlimirsescu, hiritisescu
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani: salamlamaq
 * Belarusian: віта́ць, здаро́ўкацца, сустрака́ць
 * Bengali: অভিবাদন করা, অভিবাদন জানান
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee: ᎠᏲᎵᎭ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 打招呼
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Min Nan: 相借喙
 * Chukchi: мынгаймэтык
 * Czech:
 * Danish: hilse
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: saluti
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: მისალმება
 * German: ,
 * Gothic: 𐌲𐍉𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἀσπάζομαι
 * Hindi: अभिवादन करना, स्वागत करना, नमस्कार करना
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Ingrian: terettää
 * Italian:, dare il benvenuto, fare gli auguri, scambiarsi gli auguri
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Kazakh: амандасу, сәлемдесу
 * Khmer: ,
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao:, ທັກ, ທັກທາຽ
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: sveikt, sveicināt
 * Lithuanian: sveikinti
 * Low German:
 * German Low German: begröten
 * Luxembourgish: gréissen
 * Macedonian: поздравува, поздрави
 * Malay:
 * Maori: owha, oha
 * Mongolian:
 * Ngazidja Comorian: laulia
 * Occitan:
 * Persian: سلام دادن
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Quechua: rimaykuy
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: по̀здрављати, по̀здравити
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: zdraviť
 * Slovene: pozdravljati,
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: strowiś, witaś
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: bati, magsaludo
 * Tajik: салом додан
 * Thai: ,
 * Tibetan: འཚམས་འདྲི་ཞུས
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: salamlaşmak
 * Ukrainian: віта́ти, здоро́ватися, зустріча́ти
 * Urdu: سلام کرنا, آداب کرنا
 * Uyghur: سالاملاشماق
 * Uzbek: salom bermoq,
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon:, , fé sene bondjoû, priyî l' bondjoû ,
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: גריסן, מקבל־פּנים זײַן, באַגריסן, אויפֿנעמען
 * Zazaki: selam kerden


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Italian:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * Italian:


 * Dutch: ,tegemoet komen
 * Finnish:
 * Italian:, fare i convenevoli, , omaggiare
 * Spanish:
 * Tagalog: saludo

Etymology 2
From,.

Adjective

 * 1)  Great.

Etymology 3
From a blend of two verbs,,  (itself from ); and of 🇨🇬 (itself from ), both meaning "to weep, lament". Possibly reinforced in Northern England and Scotland by, whence also 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, all meaning "to cry, to weep".

Verb

 * 1)   To weep; to cry.

Noun

 * 1)  Mourning, weeping, lamentation.

Etymology 1
From a blend of two verbs,  (cognate with 🇨🇬', Danish ) and  (of uncertain ultimate origin), both ‘weep, lament’.

Verb

 * 1) to weep, lament

Noun

 * 1) cry, lamentation