From en.wiktionary.org:
[Comfort]
** English
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [kŭm'fərt] , [en]
- [kŭmfôrt'] , [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
[en] From [en], from [en], [fro], from the stem of [en]. It replaced [ang],
[enm].
**** Noun
[~]
1. Contentment , ease .
2. * [en]
3. * [en]
4. * [edition=revised]
5. Something that offers comfort.
6. A consolation ; something relieving suffering or worry .
7. A cause of relief or satisfaction .
***** Derived terms
{{col3|en |cold comfort |comfortability |comfortable |comfort food |comfort
woman|comfort
stone|comfortative|comfortfic|comfortful|comfortize|comfortless|comfortment|comfortsome|comfortwear|miscomfort|uncomfort
|comfort zone |creature comfort |discomfort |letter of comfort |comfort
break|comfort eating|comfort fic|comfort girl|comfort letter|comfort
noise|comfort room|comfort station|comfort stop|comfort tone|comfort-eat|Dutch
comfort|Job's comfort|Lawson comfort criterion|lip comfort|too close for
comfort}}
***** Translations
[contentment, ease]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be] , [be]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Gothic: [got]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi]
- Papiamentu: [pap]
- Persian: [fa] , [fa]
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Somali: [so]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tajik: [tg] , [tg]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
- Uyghur: [ug] , [ug]
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[consolation]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Gothic: [got]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Irish: [ga]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Maori: [mi]
- Old Church Slavonic: [cu]
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh] , [sh]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tocharian B: [txb]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Walloon: [wa]
- Welsh: [cy]
- Yiddish: [yi]
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[cause of relief or satisfaction]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh] , [sh]
- Swedish: [sv]
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- Afrikaans: [af]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Estonian: [et]
- French: [fr]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Italian: [it]
- Korean: [ko]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd] , [gd] , [gd] , [gd] , [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh] (zadovoljstvo)
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl] , [sl]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Telugu: [te]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Welsh: [cy]
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- Woiwurrung: [wyi]
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*** Etymology 2
From [en], from [en], from [en], itself from [en] + [la].
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To relieve the distress or suffering of; to provide comfort to.
2. * [Psalms]
3. * [passage=Light, above all things, excelleth in COMFORTING the spirits of men.]
4. [en] To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate.
5. * {{ RQ:Hooker Laws
|passage=God's own testimony [...] doth not a little COMFORT and confirm the
same.}}
1. [en] To assist or help; to aid.
2. * [IV]
***** Derived terms
- [en]
- [en] [adjective]
- [en]
***** Translations
[to provide comfort to]
- Albanian:
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be] , [be] , [be] , [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Chinese:
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Gothic: [got] , [got]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Kalmyk: [xal]
- Latin: [la] , [la]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
- Ngazidja Comorian: [zdj]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Spanish: [es]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr] [usually for someone's loss]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
- West Frisian: [fy]
- Yiddish: [yi]
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** Dutch
*** Etymology
From [nl], from [nl].
*** Pronunciation
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
*** Noun
[n]
1. physical [en] , ease
**** Derived terms
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
** Middle English
*** Alternative forms
- [enm]
*** Etymology
[enm], [fro].
*** Pronunciation
- [enm]
*** Noun
[enm-noun]
1. encouragement , assurance
**** Descendants
- [en]
- [yol]
**** References
- [entry=cǒmfort]