# greeting
## English
### Etymology

By surface analysis, greet +‎ -ing.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡɹiːtɪŋ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -iːtɪŋ

### Noun

greeting (countable and uncountable, plural greetings)
* A conventional phrase used to start a letter or conversation or otherwise to acknowledge a person's arrival or presence.
    It's polite to begin a letter with a greeting, but this practice is less common in email.
* (uncountable) The action of the verb to greet.
** 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.

#### Derived terms

* greeting card
* greetings card
* non-greeting
* season's greetings

#### Related terms

* greet

#### Translations

Albanian: përshëndetje (sq) f
Arabic: تَحِيَّة (ar) f (taḥiyya)
Armenian: բարև (hy) (barew)
Assamese: ওলগ (ülog)
Azerbaijani: təbrik (az), salam (az)
Belarusian: прывіта́нне n (pryvitánnje), віта́нне n (vitánnje)
Bengali: সালাম (bn) (salam)
Bulgarian: по́здрав (bg) m (pózdrav), приве́тствие (bg) n (privétstvie)
Burmese: ပဋိသန္ဒါရစကား (pa.ti.sandara.ca.ka:)
Catalan: salut (ca) m, salutació (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 迎接 (zh) (yíngjiē)
Czech: pozdrav (cs) m
Danish: hilsen (da) c
Dutch: begroeting (nl) f, groet (nl) m
Egyptian: (njnj)
Esperanto: saluto (eo)
Estonian: tervitus
Faroese: heilsa f, heilsan f, kvøða f
Finnish: tervehdys (fi)
French: salutation (fr) f, salut (fr) m
Georgian: მისალმება (misalmeba)
German: Gruß (de) m, Begrüßung (de) f
Greek: χαιρετισμός (el) m (chairetismós)
Ancient: ἀσπασμός m (aspasmós)
Hindi: अभिवादन (hi) m (abhivādan)
Hungarian: üdvözlet (hu), köszöntés (hu)
Icelandic: kveðja (is) f
Ido: saluto (io)
Italian: saluto (it) m, benvenuto (it) m
Japanese: 挨拶 (ja) (あいさつ, aisatsu)
Kazakh: сәлемдесу (sälemdesu)
Khmer: បច្ចុគ្គមន៍ (paccokkum), ស្វាគមន៍ (km) (svaakum)
Korean: 인사(人事) (ko) (insa)
Kyrgyz: саламдашуу (ky) (salamdaşuu)
Latin: salūtātiō (la) f
Latvian: sveiciens m
Lithuanian: pasveikinimas m
Luganda: okubuuza, okulamusa
Luxembourgish: Begréissung f
Macedonian: поздрав m (pozdrav), поздравување n (pozdravuvanje)
Malay: ucapan (ms)
Maori: waioha, mānawa
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: мэндчилгээ (mn) (mendčilgee)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: hilsen (no) m
Nynorsk: helsing (nn)
Persian: پیشواز (fa) (pišvâz), تبریک (fa) (tabrik), سلام (fa) (salâm), احوال‌پرسی (fa) (ahvâl-porsi)
Plautdietsch: Gruss m
Polish: pozdrowienie (pl) n, powitanie (pl) n
Portuguese: saudação (pt) f
Romanian: salut (ro) n, salutare (ro) f
Russian: приве́тствие (ru) n (privétstvije)
Scottish Gaelic: fàilte f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: по̏здра̄в m
Roman: pȍzdrāv (sh) m
Slovak: pozdrav m
Slovene: pozdrav (sl)
Spanish: saludo (es) m, salutación (es) f, saludación (es) f (rare)
Swahili: salamu (sw)
Swedish: hälsning (sv) c, hälsningsfras (sv)
Tagalog: pagbati, bati, saludo, pugay
Tajik: табрик (tabrik), салом (salom)
Thai: การทักทาย (th) (gaan-ták-taai)
Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: tebrik (tr), selam (tr)
Ukrainian: віта́ння n (vitánnja), привіта́ння n (pryvitánnja)
Uzbek: tabrik (uz), salomlashish
Vietnamese: lời chào (vi)
Volapük: glid (vo)
Welsh: cyfarchiad (cy) m
West Frisian: begroeting c
Yiddish: גרוס (grus)
Zazaki: selam (diq) :

#### See also

* hello
* salutation

### Verb

greeting
* present participle and gerund of greet