laughter

Etymology
From, , , from , from , from ,. Cognate with 🇨🇬, Danish and Norwegian, Icelandic. More at.

Noun

 * 1) The sound of laughing, produced by air so expelled; any similar sound.
 * 2) A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the laughing face, particularly of the lips, and of the whole body, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs.
 * 3)  A reason for merriment.
 * 1) A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the laughing face, particularly of the lips, and of the whole body, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs.
 * 2)  A reason for merriment.
 * 1)  A reason for merriment.
 * 1)  A reason for merriment.

Translations

 * Abkhaz: аччара
 * Albanian:, gajasje
 * Amharic: ሳቅ
 * Arabic: ,
 * Armenian: ,
 * Aromanian: arãs
 * Azerbaijani:, qəhqəhə
 * Basque: barre
 * Belarusian: смех, ро́гат
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ရယ်မောခြင်း
 * Catalan:, ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: ridado
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: ridade, ridi
 * Galician: risa
 * Georgian: სიცილი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: γέλως
 * Hebrew:
 * Higaonon: potawa
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:, ,
 * Irish: gáire
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Javanese:
 * Kazakh: күлкі
 * Khmer:, , ,
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:, кулуу
 * Lao: ສຽງຫົວ
 * Latin:, cachinnus
 * Latvian: smiekli
 * Lithuanian:
 * Low German: Lachen
 * Macedonian: сме́а
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: daħq
 * Marathi: हास्य
 * Middle English: laughter
 * Mongolian:
 * Navajo: dloh
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan:, risada
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: смѣхъ
 * Old East Slavic: смѣхъ
 * Old English: hleahtor
 * Oromo: kolfa
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, risos
 * Quechua:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Romansch: riez, riöz, riem, risada, risaglia
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Sardinian: risida
 * Scottish Gaelic: gàire
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: сме̑х, смије̑х, хихот, кикот
 * Roman: smȇh,, ,
 * Sinhalese:
 * Skolt Sami: smiâhh
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: směch
 * Upper Sorbian: směch
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: tawa
 * Tajik:
 * Thai: เสียงหัวเราะ
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: gülki, jakyrdy
 * Ugaritic: 𐎕𐎈𐎖
 * Ukrainian: сміх, ре́гіт
 * Urdu: ہنسی
 * Uzbek:, ,
 * Vietnamese:, tiếng cười
 * Yiddish: געלעכטער


 * Armenian: ,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: grin
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: γέλως
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: gáire
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer:
 * Lao: ສຽງຫົວ
 * Latin:
 * Macedonian: смеа
 * Navajo: dloh
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Quechua:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: gàire
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Skolt Sami: smiâhh
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: pagtawa
 * Ukrainian: сміх
 * Vietnamese:


 * Afrikaans: ,
 * Albanian:
 * Breton:
 * Guaraní:
 * Icelandic:
 * Interlingua:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: ,
 * Northern Kurdish: (1 and 2),  (1 and 2)
 * Latin:
 * Romanian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish:
 * Tupinambá:
 * Vietnamese:

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) Laughter; the production of laughs or snickers.
 * 2) An instance or bout of laughing or laughter.
 * 3) A humorous matter; something worthy of being derided.
 * 1) A humorous matter; something worthy of being derided.