gallantry

English

Etymology

From French galanterie

Noun

gallantry (countable and uncountable, plural gallantries)

courage
- 1926, P. G. Wodehouse, 'Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend', Penguin, Harmondsworth: 1992, p 98.
  'I have the greatest respect for the young lady to whom you refer. She behaved on a certain recent occasion - on two recent occasions - with notable gallantry and resource, and I won't have her bally-ragged.'
chivalrous courtliness, especially towards women
an instance of gallant behaviour or speech

Translations

courage

Bulgarian: смелост (bg) f (smelost), храброст (bg) f (hrabrost)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 勇敢 (zh) (yǒnggǎn), 英勇 (zh) (yīngyǒng), 勇氣 (zh), 勇气 (zh) (yǒngqì)
Finnish: urheus (fi)
French: courage (fr) m
Georgian: ვაჟკაცობა (važḳacoba)
German: Tapferkeit (de)

Italian: galanteria
Japanese: 勇敢 (ja) (ゆうかん, yūkan)
Maori: toanga, hautoa
Romanian: curaj (ro) n, bravură (ro) f, cutezanță (ro) f
Russian: хра́брость (ru) f (xrábrostʹ), отва́га (ru) f (otvága), сме́лость (ru) f (smélostʹ), му́жество (ru) n (múžestvo)
Spanish: coraje (es) m, valor (es) m
Tagalog: kagilasan

chivalrous courtliness, especially towards women

Bulgarian: учтивост (bg) f (učtivost), галантност f (galantnost)
Czech: galantnost f
Finnish: ritarillisuus (fi)
French: galanterie (fr) f

Georgian: ვაჟკაცობა (važḳacoba)
Romanian: galanterie (ro) f, curtoazie (ro) f
Russian: гала́нтность (ru) f (galántnostʹ)
Tagalog: kagilasan

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