By surface analysis, greet + -ing.
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.
acknowledgement of a persons presence or arrival
- 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
- 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)
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greeting
- present participle and gerund of greet
