English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French hospitable, formed from the root of Latin hospitare with the suffix -able. Displaced native Old English cumlīþe (literally “guest-gentle”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
hospitable (comparative more hospitable, superlative most hospitable)
- cordial and generous towards guests
- Synonym: guestfriendly
hospitable family
- receptive and open-minded
- favorable
- favorable for life; livable; suitable for life.
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Translations
cordial and generous towards guests
- Armenian: հյուրընկալ (hy) (hyurənkal), հյուրասեր (hy) (hyuraser)
- Azerbaijani: qonaqsevər, qonaqcıl
- Bashkir: ҡунаҡсыл (qunaqsıl)
- Belarusian: гасці́нны (hascínny)
- Bulgarian: гостоприемен (bg) (gostopriemen)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 好客 (hou3 haak3)
- Hokkien: 好客 (hòⁿ-kheh)
- Mandarin: 好客 (zh) (hàokè)
- Czech: pohostinný m
- Danish: gæstfri
- Dutch: gastvrij (nl)
- Esperanto: gastama
- Finnish: vieraanvarainen (fi)
- French: hospitalier (fr)
- Georgian: სტუმართმოყვარე (sṭumartmoq̇vare) სტუმართმოყვარული (sṭumartmoq̇varuli)
- German: gastfreundlich (de), gastfrei (de)
- Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐍃𐍄𐌹𐌲𐍉𐌸𐍃 (gastigōþs)
- Greek: φιλόξενος (el) (filóxenos)
- Ancient: φιλόξενος (philóxenos), εὔξεινος (grc) (eúxeinos)
- Hebrew: מַכְנִיס אוֹרְחִים (makhnís-'or'khím)
- Hungarian: vendégszerető (hu)
- Icelandic: gestrisinn
- Interlingua: hospital (ia)
- Irish: aíoch, aíochtach, iostasach, gartach (literary)
- Italian: ospitale (it)
- Japanese: もてなしのよい (motenashi no yoi)
- Latin: hospitālis
- Latvian: viesmīlīgs
- Maori: whakamanuhiri, marae, manaaki
- Norwegian: gjestfri
- Old English: cumlīþe, ġiestlīþe
- Polish: gościnny (pl)
- Portuguese: hospitaleiro (pt)
- Russian: гостеприи́мный (ru) (gostepriímnyj), раду́шный (ru) (radúšnyj)
- Serbo-Croatian: gostoljùbiv (sh)
- Slovak: pohostinný
- Spanish: hospitalario, hospitable
- Swedish: gästfri (sv), gästvänlig (sv)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: misafirperver (tr)
- Ukrainian: гости́нний (hostýnnyj)
- Vietnamese: hiếu khách, lịch thiệp (vi)
- Yiddish: מכניס־אורחים (makhnis-orkhim), גאַסטפֿרײַנדלעך (gastfrayndlekh)
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receptive and open-minded