luck

Etymology
From, , related to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. According to the OED, it may be related to.

A loanword into English in the 15th century (probably as a gambling term) from, a shortened form of , whence Modern Dutch. Middle Dutch, has parallels with Middle High German ,  (Modern German ). The word occurs only from the 12th century, apparently first in Rhine Frankish. Perhaps from a. The word enters standard Middle High German during the 13th century, and spreads to English and Scandinavian in the Late Middle Ages. Its origin seems to have been regional or dialectal, and there were competing German words such as or schick, or the Latinate  from Latin. Its etymology is unknown, although there are numerous proposals as to its derivations from a number of roots.

Use as a verb in American English is late (1940s), but there was a Middle English verb in the 15th century.

Noun

 * 1) Something that happens to someone by chance, a chance occurrence, especially a favourable one.
 * 2) A superstitious feeling that brings fortune or success.
 * 3) Success.
 * 4)  The results of a.
 * 1) A superstitious feeling that brings fortune or success.
 * 2) Success.
 * 3)  The results of a.
 * 1) Success.
 * 2)  The results of a.
 * 1) Success.
 * 2)  The results of a.
 * 1)  The results of a.
 * 1)  The results of a.

Synonyms

 * , ; see also Thesaurus:luck
 * ,, , ; see also Thesaurus:luck

Translations

 * Albanian: ,
 * Arbëresh: psorë
 * American Sign Language: Open8@Chin-PalmBack Open8@NearSideChinhigh-PalmForward
 * Arabic: حَظّ
 * Egyptian Arabic: حظ, بخت
 * Hijazi Arabic: حَظ
 * Moroccan Arabic: زهر
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: suerte
 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Basque: zori,
 * Belarusian: уда́ча, шча́сце
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese:
 * Cahuilla: 'esweerta
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: suwerte
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:, , , ,  ,  ,  ,
 * French:, ,  ,
 * Galician: sorte
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐌰𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌲𐌴𐌹
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: τύχη, εὐτυχία, εὐτύχημα
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi:, क़िस्मत, तक़दीर
 * Hungarian:
 * Hunsrik: Glick
 * Icelandic: heppni, lukka
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: onni, lykky
 * Interlingua: sorte
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Khmer: ,
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Lao:
 * Latin: fortūna, fors
 * Latvian: veiksme
 * Lithuanian: sėkmė
 * Low German: Glücke
 * Macedonian: среќа
 * Malay: tuah
 * Malayalam: അദൃഷ്ടം
 * Middle English:
 * Mongolian:
 * Ojibwe: minose
 * Old English: ġesǣlþ
 * Oromo: carraa
 * Ottoman Turkish: اوغور, قوت, بخت
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Jlekj
 * Polabian: lük
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: ataw
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: сре̏ћа
 * Roman: srȅća
 * Sinhalese: වාසනාව
 * Slovak: šťastie
 * Slovene:
 * Somali: nasiib
 * Spanish:
 * Sranan Tongo: koloku
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: suwerte
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: ལམ་འགྲོ
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Ukrainian: уда́ча,
 * Urdu: قسمت, تقدیر
 * Vietnamese:, vận may,
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon: ,
 * West Frisian: lok, gelok
 * Zazaki: bext, sehud


 * Belarusian: по́спех
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Macedonian: успех
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: у̀спех, у̀спјех
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: úspech
 * Slovene:
 * Ukrainian: у́спіх
 * Zazaki: şayen

Verb

 * 1)  To find something through good fortune; used with into, on, onto or upon.