welfare

Etymology
From, probably from the phrase  (cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, ). Equivalent to. Compare also 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (whence 🇨🇬).

The first recorded use in the sense of "social concern for the well-being of children, the unemployed, etc." is from 1904 and in the sense of "organized effort to provide for maintenance of members of a group" from 1918.

Noun

 * 1)  Health, safety, happiness and prosperity; well-being in any respect.
 * 2)  Various forms of financial aid provided by the government to those who are in need of it.
 * 1)  Various forms of financial aid provided by the government to those who are in need of it.

Translations

 * Arabic: رَفَاهَة, خَيْر
 * Belarusian: дабрабы́т, шча́сце
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: bonstato, bonfarto
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, , ख़ैर
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Korean: ,
 * Latvian: labklājība
 * Macedonian: благосостојба
 * Malay: کباجيقن
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: tokoora
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: velferd
 * Ottoman Turkish: عمارت, عمران
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Heil
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Slovak: blaho, blahobyt
 * Slovene: blaginja
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian:, добро́бут, ,


 * Armenian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 社會福利
 * Danish: forsorg
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: sosiaaliavustus, sosiaalituki
 * French:
 * Galician: beneficencia,
 * Georgian:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hindi: ख़ैरियत
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer: ជំនួយ​សុខុមាលភាព
 * Korean:
 * Macedonian: соција́лна помош
 * Maori: tokoora
 * Mongolian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: segurança social
 * Russian: социа́льная по́мощь
 * Slovak: sociálna pomoc
 * Spanish: seguridad social
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Urdu: خیریت
 * Vietnamese:

Verb

 * 1)  To provide with welfare or aid.
 * welfaring the poor

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) welfare state

Synonyms
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