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• good-day (dated)

good day

1. (dated, formal) A somewhat formal greeting generally used between sunrise and sunset.
   Synonym: (Australia) g'day
   Good day, gentlemen.
   • c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 200:
     Good day, and happineſſe, deere Roſalind.
2. (dated, formal) A dismissal; sometimes used to express annoyance.
   Perhaps another time. Good day.
   • 2012, Mike Cerrone, Bobby & Peter Farrelly, The Three Stooges (motion picture), spoken by Carbunkle (Ray Collins):
     This is an invitation-only party! Now, good day!

• g’day
• Tok Pisin: gude

greeting between sunrise and sunset

• Abkhaz: уа, мшы бзиа (wa, mŝə bzja)

• Afrikaans: goeiedag

• Albanian: mirëdita (sq)

• Arabic: نَهَارَك سَعِيد (nahārak saʕīd), مَسَاء اَلْخَيْر (masāʔ al-ḵayr); مَسَاء اَلنُّور (masāʔ an-nūr) (response)

• Aramaic:
  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܝܵܘܡܵܐ ܒܪܝܼܟ݂ܵܐ (yāwmā brīḵā)

• Armenian: բարի օր (bari ōr)

• Aromanian: bunã dzua

• Aymara: suma urukiya

• Basque: egun on (eu)

• Belarusian: до́бры дзень (dóbry dzjenʹ)

• Bengali: শুভ দিন (śubho din)

• Bikol:
  Central Bikol: marhay na aldaw

• Breton: demat (br)

• Bulgarian: добъ́р ден (dobǎ́r den)

• Catalan: bon dia (ca)

• Cebuano: maayong adlaw

• Chechen: де дика дойла (de dika dojla)

• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 日安 (zh) (rì'ān), 你好 (zh) (nǐhǎo)

• Czech: dobrý den (cs)

• Danish: goddag (da)

• Dutch: goedendag (nl), goeiedag (nl)

• Esperanto: bonan tagon

• Estonian: tere päevast (et)

• Faroese: góðan dag

• Finnish: hyvää päivää (fi), päivää (fi)

• French: bonjour (fr)

• Frisian:
  West Frisian: goeie

• Galician: bos días

• Georgian: დღე მშვიდობისა (dɣe mšvidobisa)

• German: guten Tag (de), Tach
  Alemannic German: guete Tag

• Greek: καλημέρα (el) (kaliméra)

• Greenlandic: kutaa

• Hanunoo: mayad pag sirang

• Hausa: barka da rana

• Hawaiian: aloha awakea

• Hebrew: יום נעים (yom na'ím), שָׁלוֹם (he) (shalom)

• Hindi: नमस्ते (hi) (namaste) (generic)

• Hmong:
  White Hmong: nyob zoo

• Hungarian: (less formal) jó napot (hu), (more formal) jó napot kívánok (hu)

• Icelandic: góðan dag (is)

• Ido: bona jorno

• Ilocano: naimbag nga aldaw

• Indonesian: selamat sore (id), selamat siang (id)

• Ingrian: tere päivää, hyvvää päivää

• Italian: buon giorno, buongiorno (it)

• Iu Mien: yiem longx nyei

• Japanese: こんにちは (ja) (konnichi wa), 今日は (ja) (こんにちは, konnichi wa)

• Javanese: sugeng siang, sugeng rinten

• Kapampangan: mayap a aldo

• Karelian: hyviä päiviä, terveh taloih (when entering a house)

• Khmer: ថ្ងៃល្អ (tŋay l’ɑɑ), ទិវាសួស្ដី (ti’vie suəsdəy)

• Komi:
  Komi-Zyrian: бур лун (bur lun)

• Korean: 안녕하세요 (ko) (annyeonghaseyo), 안녕하십니까 (annyeonghasimnikka) (honorific), 안녕 (ko) (annyeong) (casual)

• Kurdish:
  Northern Kurdish: rojbaş (ku)

• Latvian: labdien (lv), laba diena (lv)

• Lithuanian: labà dienà

• Low German:
  Paderbornish German Low German: guden Dag, gu'n Dag, gun Dag

• Luganda: osiibye otyanno?

• Luxembourgish: gudden Dag

• Macanese: bôm-dia

• Macedonian: добар ден (dobar den)

• Malagasy: manao ahoana, tsarandro (mg), tsara andro

• Malay: selamat pagi (ms)

• Maltese: il-ġurnata t-tajba

• Navajo: yáʼátʼééh

• Norwegian: god dag (no)

• Ohlone:
  Northern Ohlone: HorSe Tuuxi

• Ojibwe: boozhoo

• Ossetian: дӕ бон хорз (dæ bon xorz) (Iron), дӕ бон хуарз (dæ bon xwarz) (Digoron)

• Pannonian Rusyn: добри дзень (dobri dzenʹ)

• Persian: روز بخیر (fa) (ruz be-xeyr), وقت بخیر (vaqt be-xeyr), روز خوش (fa) (ruz-e xoš)

• Polish: dzień dobry (pl)

• Portuguese: bom dia (pt)

• Quechua: allin p'unchay, allin p'unchaj

• Romani: laćho dǐves, dobroj tut (singular), dobroj tumen (plural)

• Romanian: bună ziua

• Russian: до́брый день (ru) (dóbryj denʹ)

• Sami:
  Inari Sami: pyeri peivi
  Northern Sami: buorrẹ beaivi
  Skolt Sami: tiõrv
  Southern Sami: buerie biejjie

• Scottish Gaelic: latha math

• Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: до̏бар да̑н
  Latin: dȍbar dȃn

• Slovak: dobrý deň

• Slovene: dóber dán

• Sorbian:
  Lower Sorbian: dobry źeń
  Upper Sorbian: dobry dźeń

• Spanish: buenos días (es), (informal) buenas (es)

• Sranan Tongo: odi

• Swahili: habari za mchana (noon or afternoon), habari za leo, siku njema

• Swedish: god dag (sv)

• Tagalog: magandang araw (tl)

• Thai: สวัสดี (th) (sà-wàt-dii)

• Turkish: iyi günler (tr)

• Udmurt: бур нуналэн (bur nunalen)

• Ukrainian: до́брий день (dóbryj denʹ), добридень (uk) (dobrydenʹ)

• Unami: wëli kishku

• Urdu: روز بخیر (roz baxair)

• Walloon: bondjoû (wa), diewåde (wa) (old)

• Welsh: dydd da

• Zulu: sawubona (zu) (familiar), sanibonani (plural, respectful)

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