good day

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good day

(dated, formal) A somewhat formal greeting generally used between sunrise and sunset.
(dated, formal) A dismissal; sometimes used to express annoyance.

Synonyms

(greeting): g'day (Australian slang)

Translations

greeting between sunrise and sunset

Abkhaz: уа, мшы бзиа (uā, mšə bziā)
Afrikaans: goeiedag
Albanian: mirëdita (sq)
Arabic: نَهَارَك سَعِيد‎ (nahārak saʿīd), مَسَاء اَلْخَيْر‎ (masāʾ al-ḵayr); مَسَاء اَلنُّور‎ (masāʾ an-nūr) (response)
Armenian: բարի օր (bari ōr)
Aymara: suma urukiya
Basque: egun on (eu)
Belarusian: до́бры дзень (dóbry dzjenʹ)
Bengali: শুভ দিন (śubh din)
Bulgarian: до́бър ден (dóbǎr den)
Catalan: bon dia (ca)
Cebuano: maayong adlaw
Chinese:
Mandarin: 日安 (zh) (rì'ān), 你好 (zh) (nǐhǎo)
Czech: dobrý den (cs)
Danish: goddag (da)
Dutch: goedendag (nl), goeiedag (nl)
Esperanto: bonan tagon
Estonian: tere päevast (et)
Faroese: góðan dag
Finnish: hyvää päivää (fi), päivää (fi)
French: bonjour (fr)
Galician: bos días
Georgian: დღე მშვიდობისა (dɣe mšvidobisa)
German: guten Tag (de)
Greek: καλημέρα (el) (kaliméra)
Hausa: barka da rana
Hawaiian: aloha awakea
Hebrew: יום נעים‎ (yom na'ím), שָׁלוֹם‎ (he) (shalom)
Hindi: नमस्त (namaste)
Hungarian: jó napot (hu)
Icelandic: góðan dag (is)
Ido: bona jorno
Indonesian: selamat sore (id), selamat siang (id)
Italian: buon giorno, buongiorno (it)
Iu Mien: yiem longx nyei
Japanese: 今日は (ja) (こんにちは, konnichi wa)
Javanese: sugeng siang, sugeng rinten
Khmer: ថ្ងៃល្អ (tŋay l’ɑɑ), ទិវាសួស្ដី (ti’vie suəsdəy)
Komi-Zyrian: бур лун (bur lun)
Korean: 안녕하세요 (ko) (annyeonghaseyo), 안녕하십니까 (annyeonghasimnikka) (honorific), 안녕 (ko) (annyeong) (casual)
Kurdish: rojbaş (ku)

Latvian: labdien, laba diena
Lithuanian: labà dienà
Low German:
Paderbornish German Low German: guden Dag, gu'n Dag, gun Dag
Luganda: osiibye otyanno?
Luxembourgish: gudden Dag
Macedonian: добар ден (dobar den)
Malagasy: manao ahoana (mg), tsarandro (mg), tsara andro
Malay: selamat siang
Maltese: il-ġurnata t-tajba
Navajo: yáʼátʼééh
Northern Sami: buorrẹ beaivi
Norwegian: god dag
Ojibwe: boozhoo
Persian: روز بخیر‎ (fa) (ruz be-xeyr)
Polish: dzień dobry (pl)
Portuguese: bom dia (pt)
Quechua: allin p'unchay, allin p'unchaj
Romanian: bună ziua
Russian: до́брый день (ru) (dóbryj denʹ)
Scottish Gaelic: latha math
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: до̏бар да̑н

Roman: dȍbar dȃn
Slovak: dobrý deň
Slovene: dóber dán
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: dobry źeń

Upper Sorbian: dobry dźeń
Spanish: buenos días (es)
Swahili: habari za mchana (noon or afternoon), habari za leo
Swedish: god dag (sv)
Tagalog: magandang araw (tl)
Thai: สวัสดี (th) (sà-wàt-dii)
Turkish: iyi günler (tr)
Ukrainian: до́брий день (dóbryj denʹ), добридень (uk) (dobrydenʹ)
Walloon: bondjoû (wa), diewåde (wa) (old)
West Frisian: goeie
Westrobothnian: gudag
White Hmong: nyob zoo
Zulu: sawubona (zu) (familiar), sanibonani (plural, respectful)

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