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English
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Etymology
From French gratitude, from Medieval Latin grātitūdō (“thankfulness”), from Latin grātus (“thankful”). Displaced native Old English þancung.
Pronunciation
Noun
gratitude (countable and uncountable, plural gratitudes)
- The state of being grateful.
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Translations
state of being grateful
- Albanian: mirënjohje (sq) f
- Amharic: ምስጋና (məsgana)
- Arabic: شُكْر m (šukr), اِمْتِنَان m (imtinān), تَشَكُّر m (tašakkur)
- Armenian: երախտագիտություն (hy) (eraxtagitutʻyun)
- Azerbaijani: minnətdarlıq, təşəkkür (az), minnət
- Belarusian: падзя́ка f (padzjáka), удзя́чнасць f (udzjáčnascʹ)
- Bengali: শোকর (bn) (śōkor)
- Bulgarian: благода́рност (bg) f (blagodárnost), призна́тельност f (priznátelʹnost)
- Burmese: ကျေးဇူး (my) (kye:ju:), ကတညုတ (my) (ka.ta.nyu.ta.)
- Catalan: gratitud (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 感恩 (zh) (gǎn'ēn), 謝意／谢意 (zh) (xièyì)
- Czech: vděčnost (cs) f, vděk (cs) m
- Danish: taknemmelighed (da) c
- Dutch: dankbaarheid (nl) f
- Esperanto: dankemo
- Estonian: tänulikkus
- Faroese: takksemi
- Finnish: kiitollisuus (fi)
- French: gratitude (fr) f
- Galician: gratitude (gl) f
- Georgian: მადლიერება (madliereba)
- German: Dankbarkeit (de) f
- Greek: ευγνωμοσύνη (el) f (evgnomosýni)
- Ancient: εὐχαριστία f (eukharistía)
- Hebrew: תּוֹדָה (he) f (todá), הוֹדָיָה f (hodayá)
- Hindi: आभार (hi) m (ābhār), कृतज्ञता (hi) f (kŕtajñatā), शुक्र (hi) m (śukr)
- Hungarian: hála (hu)
- Icelandic: þakklæti (is) n
- Ido: gratitudo (io)
- Irish: buíochas m
- Italian: gratitudine (it) f, riconoscenza (it) f
- Japanese: 感謝 (ja) (かんしゃ, kansha)
- Jingpho: chyeju
- Kashubian: wdzãcznosc f
- Kazakh: алғыс (alğys), рақмет (raqmet), ризалық (rizalyq), ризашылық (rizaşylyq)
- Khmer: កតញ្ញុតា (km) (kaʼtaññutaa)
- Korean: 감사(感謝) (ko) (gamsa)
- Kyrgyz: алкыш (ky) (alkış), ыракмат (ky) (ırakmat)
- Latin: grātitūdō f
- Latvian: pateicība f
- Lithuanian: dėkingumas m
- Macedonian: благодарност f (blagodarnost)
- Malay: bersyukur, syukur (ms)
- Malayalam: കൃതജ്ഞത (ml) (kr̥tajñata), നന്ദി (ml) (nandi)
- Maori: ngākau reka
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: талархал (mn) (talarxal)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: takknemlighet (no) m or f
- Nynorsk: takksemd f, takknemlegheit f
- Occitan: gratitud (oc)
- Old English: þancung f
- Ottoman Turkish: شكر (şükr, şükür)
- Persian: تشکر (fa) (tašakor), امتنان (fa) (emtenân), شنوهر (šenuhr), سپاسگزاری (fa) (sepâsgozâri), قدردانی (fa) (qadrdâni)
- Polish: wdzięczność (pl)
- Portuguese: gratidão (pt) f
- Romanian: gratitudine (ro) f, recunoștință (ro) f
- Russian: благода́рность (ru) f (blagodárnostʹ), призна́тельность (ru) f (priznátelʹnostʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: buidheachas m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: благодарност f, захвалност f
- Roman: blagodarnost (sh) f, zahvalnost (sh) f
- Shan: ၵျေးၸူး (shn) (kjée tsúu), ၵေးၸူး (shn) (kée tsúu)
- Slovak: vďačnosť f
- Slovene: hvaležnost f
- Somali: abal m
- Spanish: gratitud (es) f
- Swahili: ushukuru
- Swedish: tacksamhet (sv) c
- Tajik: ташаккур (tg) (tašakkur), миннатдорӣ (minnatdorī), сипосгузорӣ (siposguzorī), имтинон (imtinon)
- Telugu: కృతజ్ఞత (te) (kr̥tajñata)
- Thai: กตเวทิตา (th), ความกตัญญู (th)
- Turkish: şükür (tr), şükran (tr), teşekkür (tr), minnet (tr)
- Turkmen: minnetdarlyk
- Ukrainian: вдя́чність (uk) f (vdjáčnistʹ)
- Urdu: شکر m (śukr), شکرانہ m (śukrāna), تشکر (taśakkur)
- Uyghur: مىننەتدارلىق (minnetdarliq)
- Uzbek: tashakkur (uz), minnatdorlik (uz), minnatdorchilik (uz)
- Vietnamese: lòng biết ơn (vi)
- Yakut: махтал (maqtal)
- Yiddish: דאַנקבאַרקייט f (dankbarkeyt)
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Further reading
- “gratitude”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “gratitude”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “gratitude”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
French
Etymology
From Late Latin gratitudō.
Pronunciation
Noun
gratitude f (plural gratitudes)
- gratitude
- Synonym: reconnaissance
- Antonym: ingratitude
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