to make (someone) happy, to gladden, to cheer · to feel happy (about something)
çekim: geçmiş gladde · ortaç gladd · ulaç glädjande
köken: From Old Swedish glæþia, glæþa, from Old Norse gleðja, from Proto-Germanic *gladjaną, derived from Proto-Germanic *gladaz. Compare Icelandic gleðja, Danish glæde, Old English gladian.
Det gladde mig att höra.
And I said: "It gladdens a young man that you've come all the way here, […]
to delight, to cheer, to indulge · be / become glad or happy
çekim: geçmiş bucurat · ortaç bucurat · şimdiki bucură
köken: * Possibly borrowed from Albanian bukur (“nice, beautiful”), but semantic difficulties exist. * Alternatively, a substrate Dacian or other Paleo-Balkanic word, akin to Albanian. * Another possible theory suggests a Vulgar Latin root *voculāre (“to call, yell”), from Latin vōcula, from vōx (“voice”), with meaning possibly confused with or influenced by *bacchulāre, from bacchor (“celebrate”), and…
to please, gladden, delight, gratify, cheer · to comfort, soothe, propitiate
köken: From Proto-Indo-Aryan *prináHti, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *prináHti, from Proto-Indo-European *pri-néH-ti (nasal infix athematic present), from *preyH- (“to like; love”). Cognate with Younger Avestan 𐬁𐬟𐬭𐬍𐬥𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (āfrīnaⁱti), Old English frēoġan (“to love”), English free and friend, Proto-Slavic *prijati (whence Serbo-Croatian пријати, prijati (“to be pleasing”), Polish sprzyjać (“to favor”), Old…
cmn使喜悅 /使喜悦, 使喜悦, 使高興 /使高兴
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shrazvesèliti, развесѐлити
Etimoloji
From Middle High German vrö(u)wen, vre(u)wen, from Old High German frewen, frouwen, a derivation of Old High German frō, frao (“glad”). Equivalent to froh (“glad”) + -en. Compare English frolic.