happiness, joy, bliss (state or emotion) · luck, success (mostly when seen as dependant on unearned, accidental factors) · good luck, chance (positive coincidence)
çekim: tamlayan Glückes
eş: Zufallsglück, Schwein, Massel, Dusel, Fortuna, Wohl
köken: From Middle High German gelücke (12th century), at first along the Lower and Middle Rhine. Probably borrowed from Old Dutch *gilukki as part of the Flemish knight culture; compare Middle Dutch gelucke (1240), whence modern Dutch geluk. (The fact that the word is attested in High German before Dutch must be disregarded in view of the minimal attestation of Old Dutch as a whole.) Further origin…
köken: The 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 為合わす, 仕合わす (shiawasu, “to put together well; to work together well”, lower bigrade, with continuative form ending in -e), itself a compound of Old Japanese verbs 為 (su, “to do, to make something be a certain way”) + 合わす (awasu, “to join together, to fit together”). Often spelled 幸せ with the final せ to indicate the reading.
joy, happiness · luck, (good) fortune · a small farm field
çekim: çoğul lyckor · tamlayan lyckas
köken: Borrowed from Middle Low German lucke, gelucke. According to the OED, it may be related to the source of English lock (compare Proto-Germanic *lūkaną (“to close, to shut”)). Compare Danish and Norwegian Bokmål lykke, and Norwegian Nynorsk lukke f. Compare also English luck, German Glück, Yiddish גליק (glik), West Frisian gelok, Dutch and Afrikaans geluk, Saramaccan and Sranan Tongo koloku.
a female given name · a male given name, today mostly appearing as a second given name · a surname originating as a patronymic
köken: From medieval Danish Lydik, Lydike, from Middle Low German Ludeke, diminutive of Germanic compound names beginning with the element Liut' ("folk"), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *liudiz (“folk, people”). By folk etymology associated with Danish lykke (“happiness”).
well-being, welfare, (common) wealth (material living conditions characterized by prosperity and security)
çekim: çoğul labklājības · tamlayan labklājības
köken: An early 19th-century coinage, from labs (“good”) + klājs (“cover”) + -ība, which replaced other contemporary coinages (labklāšana, labklāšanās).