galant

Borrowed from French galant (“gallant”).

galant

1. (historical, music, art) Of or relating to an 18th-century movement in visual arts and literature, opposing the strictures of the baroque style and emphasizing light, casual elegance.
2. (music) Of or relating to a musical movement, principally during the transition from the Baroque to the Classical period, a few decades either side of 1750, involving the use of more classically simplistic traits in comparison to the highly embellished and texturally complex precedent in the Baroque period.

• rococo

Borrowed from French galant.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ɡəˈlan]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ɡəˈlant]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ɡaˈlant]

galant m or f (masculine and feminine plural galants)

1. gallant, charming, flirtatious
2. (colloquial) remarkable, excellent

• In the sense of "excellent", galant precedes the noun it modifies, e.g. un galant jove ― a remarkable young man.

• galà
• galantejar
• galanteria

galant m (plural galants)

1. gallant
2. male lead, hero

• “galant”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Present participle of Old French galer, from Frankish *wala (“well”), from Proto-Germanic *wela, from Proto-Indo-European *wel(h₁)- (“to choose, wish”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.lɑ̃/

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galant

1. present participle of galer

galant (feminine galante, masculine plural galants, feminine plural galantes)

1. gallant, courteous, gentlemanly
2. flirtatious, amorous; racy

• femme galante
• galanterie
• rendez-vous galant

• gaulois (“bawdy”)

• → Catalan: galant, galà
• → English: gallant
• → German: galant
• → Romanian: galant
• → Russian: галантный (galantnyj)
  • → Georgian: გალანტური (galanṭuri)
• → Spanish: galante, galán

galant m (plural galants)

1. (archaic or humorous) suitor, admirer

• “galant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• glanât

From Old French galant (“brave; noble; chivalrous”).

galant m (plural galants)

1. lover

From French galant.

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• Rhymes: -ant

galant (strong nominative masculine singular galanter, comparative galanter, superlative am galantesten)

1. gallant

• “galant” in Duden online
• “galant” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Borrowed from German galant. Compare Masovian Polish galanty.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡa.lant/
• Rhymes: -alant
• Syllabification: ga‧lant

galant (not comparable, indeclinable, no derived adverb)

1. gallant

• Jan Trepczyk (1994) “szarmancki”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2
• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “szarmancki”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[1]

From Old French galant (“brave; noble; chivalrous”).

galant m (plural galants)

1. (Jersey) boyfriend

galant

1. present participle of galer

galant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular galant or galante)

1. brave; noble; chivalrous

• gale

• → Middle English: galant, galaunt
  • English: gallant, gallaunt (obsolete)
• Middle French: galant
  • French: galant (see there for further descendants)
• → Gallo: galant
• → Norman: galant

Borrowed from French galant.

galant m or n (feminine singular galantă, masculine plural galanți, feminine and neuter plural galante)

1. gallant

galant (comparative galantare, superlative galantast)

1. gallant, courteous, flirtatious

galant (not comparable)

1. splendidly, swimmingly

   Det där fixade du galant

   You did that splendidly

   Det gick galant

   It went swimmingly

• ridderlig (“chivalrous”)

• galant in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• galant in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• galant in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)