English
Etymology
Conjunction of safe (“not in danger”) and sound (“intact, healthy”). Compare with Old French sauf et sain.
Pronunciation
Adjective
safe and sound (not comparable)
- (idiomatic) Having come to no harm, especially after being exposed to danger.
- Synonyms: in one piece, unharmed, unhurt, uninjured, unscathed
c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv], page 96:Come to the Centaur, fetch our ſtuffe from thence:
I long that we were ſafe and ſound aboord.
Translations
having come to no harm
- Arabic: مَأْمُون وَسَلِيم m (maʔmūn wasalīm)
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Azerbaijani: sağ-salamat
- Bulgarian: жив и здрав (živ i zdrav), здрав и читав (zdrav i čitav)
- Catalan: sa i estalvi (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 安好 (zh) (ānhǎo), 平安 (zh) (píng'ān), 毫髮無傷 / 毫发无伤 (háofàwúshāng), 安然無恙 / 安然无恙 (zh) (ānránwúyàng)
- Dutch: veilig en wel
- Esperanto: sanigita kaj savita
- Finnish: kunnossa (fi), turvassa (fi)
- French: sain et sauf (fr)
- Galician: san e salvo
- German: wohlbehalten (de), ganz und heil, gesund und munter
- Greek: σώος και αβλαβής (el) (sóos kai avlavís)
- Hindi: सहीसलामत (hi) (sahīslāmat)
- Hungarian: ép és egészséges (hu)
- Icelandic: heill á húfi, heilu og höldnu, klakklaust
- Interlingua: san e salve
- Italian: sano e salvo, incolume (it), indenne (it)
- Japanese: 無事に (ja) (ぶじに, buji-ni)
- Khmer: ដោយសោត្ថិភាព (daoy saottʰe’pʰiep), ដោយសុវត្ថិភាព (daoy so’vattʰe’pʰiep), សុវត្ថិភាពនិងសុខុដុម (sowtthephiəpnɨngsokhodom), សុខសុវត្ថិភាព (soksowtthephiəp)
- Korean: 무사하다 (ko) (musahada)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: ساغ و سەلیم (saẍ û selîm)
- Latin: sani salvique, sospes, incolumis
- Latvian: sveiks un vesels
- Lithuanian: sveikas ir gyvas
- Mongolian: энх тунх (enx tunx)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: helskinnet
- Polish: cały i zdrowy (pl)
- Portuguese: são e salvo
- Punjabi: ਠੀਕ ਠਾਕ (ṭhīk ṭhāk)
- Romanian: teafăr (ro), sănătos (ro), teafăr și nevătămat
- Russian: в це́лости и сохра́нности (v célosti i soxránnosti), це́лый и невреди́мый (célyj i nevredímyj)
- Serbo-Croatian: zdrav i čitav
- Slovak: živý a zdravý
- Spanish: sano y salvo
- Swedish: välbehållen (sv), helskinnad (sv)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: sağ salim (tr), sağ selamet (tr)
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References
- "safe and sound" in the Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989. See "safe."