happy

Etymology
From, perhaps an alteration of , , possibly related to or from ; and potentially assimilated to be equivalent to. Compare also 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. See further at.

Adjective

 * 1) Having a feeling arising from a consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, such as comfort, peace, or tranquillity; blissful, contented, joyous.
 * 2) * 1731,, Divine Benevolence: or, An Attempt to Prove that the Principal End of the Divine Providence and Government is the Happiness of His Creatures: Being an Answer to a Pamphlet, Entitled, Divine Rectitude; or, An Inquiry Concerning the Moral Perfections of the Deity. With a Refutation of the Notions therein Advanced Concerning Beauty and Order, the Reason of Punishment, and the Necessity of a State of Trial antecedent to Perfect Happiness, London: Printed for John Noon, at the White-Hart in , near Mercers-Chapel, 642498368 ; quoted in Andrew I. Dale, Most Honourable Remembrance: The Life and Work of Thomas Bayes (Studies and Sources in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences), New York, N.Y.: Springer, 2003, ISBN 978-0-387-00499-0 , page 138:
 * For the most happy universe is not one that consists of the greatest possible number of the most happy beings only; but one that consists of that, and the greatest possible number of beings next inferior to the first rank, and so downward, till we come to those that approach the nearest to insensible matter.
 * 1) Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky, propitious.
 * 2)  Elect or saved after death, blessed.
 * 3) Content, willing, satisfied (with or to do something); having no objection (to something).
 * 4)  Appropriate, apt, felicitous.
 * 5)  Favoring or inclined to use.
 * 6)  Dexterous, ready, skilful.
 * Happy birthday!, Happy Fourth of July!, Happy anniversary!, Happy job-hunting!
 * 1) Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky, propitious.
 * 2)  Elect or saved after death, blessed.
 * 3) Content, willing, satisfied (with or to do something); having no objection (to something).
 * 4)  Appropriate, apt, felicitous.
 * 5)  Favoring or inclined to use.
 * 6)  Dexterous, ready, skilful.
 * Happy birthday!, Happy Fourth of July!, Happy anniversary!, Happy job-hunting!
 * 1) Content, willing, satisfied (with or to do something); having no objection (to something).
 * 2)  Appropriate, apt, felicitous.
 * 3)  Favoring or inclined to use.
 * 4)  Dexterous, ready, skilful.
 * Happy birthday!, Happy Fourth of July!, Happy anniversary!, Happy job-hunting!
 * 1)  Appropriate, apt, felicitous.
 * 2)  Favoring or inclined to use.
 * 3)  Dexterous, ready, skilful.
 * Happy birthday!, Happy Fourth of July!, Happy anniversary!, Happy job-hunting!
 * 1)  Favoring or inclined to use.
 * 2)  Dexterous, ready, skilful.
 * Happy birthday!, Happy Fourth of July!, Happy anniversary!, Happy job-hunting!
 * 1)  Favoring or inclined to use.
 * 2)  Dexterous, ready, skilful.
 * Happy birthday!, Happy Fourth of July!, Happy anniversary!, Happy job-hunting!
 * 1)  Dexterous, ready, skilful.
 * Happy birthday!, Happy Fourth of July!, Happy anniversary!, Happy job-hunting!
 * 1)  Dexterous, ready, skilful.
 * Happy birthday!, Happy Fourth of July!, Happy anniversary!, Happy job-hunting!
 * Happy birthday!, Happy Fourth of July!, Happy anniversary!, Happy job-hunting!
 * Happy birthday!, Happy Fourth of July!, Happy anniversary!, Happy job-hunting!
 * Happy birthday!, Happy Fourth of July!, Happy anniversary!, Happy job-hunting!

Usage notes

 * Said of people, hours, times, thoughts, etc.
 * Said of efforts, expedients, omens, ventures, etc.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:happy
 * See also Thesaurus:happy
 * See also Thesaurus:happy

Translations

 * Afrikaans:, gelukkig
 * Albanian:, , (i) gëzuar
 * American Sign Language: OpenB@Chest-PalmBack-OpenB@Chest-PalmBack Upanddown-Upanddown OpenB@SideNeckhigh-PalmBack-OpenB@SideNeckhigh-PalmBack
 * Arabic: سَعِيد,
 * Egyptian Arabic: مبسوط, سعيد, فرحان, منشكح
 * Hijazi Arabic: مبسوط, فَرْحان
 * Armenian: ,
 * Aromanian: ambar, hãrios
 * Assamese: সুখী
 * Asturian:, contentu, gayoleru, gayasperu
 * Azerbaijani:, məsud, , səadətli,
 * Bashkir: бәхетле
 * Basque: pozik
 * Belarusian: ,
 * Bengali:
 * Bikol Central:
 * Brunei Malay: gumbira
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese: ,
 * Catalan:, ,
 * Chakma:
 * Chamicuro: pya'kijnani
 * Chechen: реза
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 高興
 * Hokkien: ,
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Cornish: lowen
 * Czech: ,
 * Dalmatian: alegr
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: feliĉa
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: glaður
 * Fijian:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:, , , , ,
 * Friulian: feliç
 * Galician: ,
 * Georgian: ბედნიერი
 * German:, , ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Haitian Creole: kontan
 * Hawaiian: hauʻoli
 * Hebrew: מאושר,
 * Hindi:, ख़ुश,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: hyvämeeliin, onnelikas, osalliin
 * Interlingua:
 * Irish: áthasach, sona
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Kabuverdianu: filís
 * Kaingang: mrir
 * Kazakh: бақытты, аруақты, базарлы
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:, ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: دڵ خۆش,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Ladin:
 * Lao: ກະຈົວະກະຈວກ,
 * Latgalian: laimeigs
 * Latin:, beatus
 * Latvian: laimīgs,
 * Ligurian: feliçe
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lombard: felice
 * Louisiana Creole French: gé, èrè, konten
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian: среќен, радосен
 * Malay: bahagia, gembira
 * Malayalam: സന്തോഷിപ്പിക്കുന്ന
 * Maltese:, ferħan
 * Manx: maynrey
 * Mazanderani: خار
 * Middle English: wynne
 * Mizo: hlim
 * Mongolian: азтай,, жаргалтай
 * Norman: heûtheux
 * North Frisian: bliir
 * Norwegian:, lykkelig
 * Occitan:, , ,
 * Old English: blīþe
 * Old Tupi: oryb, ory
 * Ottoman Turkish: سرخوش
 * Persian:, , ,
 * Piedmontese: felice
 * Plautdietsch: froo, freelich, schaftich
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: kusi, kusisqa
 * Rohingya: kúci
 * Romagnol:
 * Romani: baxtalo, baxtali, baxtale
 * Romanian: ,
 * Romansch: legher, alleger, cuntent, cuntaint, ventiraivel
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit: ,
 * Scots: blithe
 * Scottish Gaelic: sona, toilichte, àghmhor
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: срећан, сретан
 * Roman: srećan ,
 * Shor: ырыстығ
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovak:, radostný, rád, rada
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Sylheti:
 * Tagalog: masaya
 * Tajik: ,
 * Tatar: бәхетле
 * Telugu: ,
 * Thai: มีความสุข,
 * Tocharian B: sākre
 * Tongan: fiefia
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: hoşbagt
 * Ukrainian:, ра́дісний
 * Urdu: خوش, سکھی, پرسن
 * Uzbek:, , ,
 * Vietnamese:, ,
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh: ,
 * West Frisian: bliid
 * Yiddish: פֿריילעך, גליקלעך, באַגליקט, צופֿרידן
 * Yucatec Maya: kiimak ool


 * Afrikaans: gelukkig
 * Arabic: مَحْظُوظ
 * Azerbaijani: bəxtli, bəxti gətirən,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: heldig
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: feliĉa
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician: afortunado
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: εὐτυχής
 * Hindi: ख़ुश,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Ingrian: onnekas
 * Irish: séanmhar, sona, sonasach
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 運のよい
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: 운좋은
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: بەختەوەر
 * Latin: felix
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Mizo: vannei
 * Norman: heûtheux
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan:, , , fortunat, fortunós, benastruc, benastrat, benaürat,
 * Old English: ġesǣliġ
 * Old Turkic: 𐰴𐰆𐱃𐰞𐰆𐰍
 * Ottoman Turkish: قوتلو
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: срећан, сретан
 * Roman: srećan ,
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: masaya, suwerte
 * Telugu: అదృవ్ష్టవంతమైన
 * Turkish: ,
 * Vietnamese:, , , ,


 * Afrikaans: tevrede, gelukkig
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Cornish: lowen
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:,  kun plezuro,  kontenta pri
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, , , , ,
 * German:
 * Hungarian:, meg van elégedve
 * Irish: sásta
 * Italian: ,
 * Korean:
 * Malayalam:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ,
 * Nynorsk: fornøgd
 * Occitan:, , satisfait,
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: toilichte, sàsaichte
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: задовољан
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: spokojný
 * Swedish: ,
 * Thai:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Afrikaans: handig, kundig, slim
 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: feliĉa
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Greek: ,
 * Italian:
 * Occitan:, benastrat, benaürat
 * Romanian:
 * Slovak:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Welsh:, dda


 * Konkani:
 * Tagalog:, ,
 * Welsh:, , ,

Noun

 * 1)  A happy event, thing, person, etc.

Verb

 * 1)  Often followed by : to become happy; to brighten up, to cheer up.
 * 2)  Often followed by : to make happy; to brighten, to cheer, to enliven.
 * 1)  Often followed by : to make happy; to brighten, to cheer, to enliven.
 * 1)  Often followed by : to make happy; to brighten, to cheer, to enliven.

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1)  to amuse oneself
 * 2)  to party; to make love

Adjective

 * 1)  happy

Adverb

 * 1)  happily

Adjective

 * 1)  happy; delightful; delighted

Adverb

 * 1)  happily; delightfully; delightedly

Etymology
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Adjective

 * 1)  glad; satisfied; momentarily

Usage notes

 * The German word is used as a synonym of rather than.
 * On the rare occasion that this adjective is used attributively, the positive form happy typically remains undeclined, whereas the comparison forms are declined in the normal fashion.

Adjective

 * 1) fortunate, prosperous, lucky; blessed