favor

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈfeɪ.və/
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• US: /ˈfeɪ.vɚ/
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• rhymes with -eɪvə(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: F EY1 V ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English favour, favor, faver, from Anglo-Norman favour, from mainland Old French favor, from Latin favor (“good will; kindness; partiality”), from faveō (“to be kind to”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bheh2weh1yeti (“to be favourable to”), from the root Proto-Indo-European *bheh2- (“to shine, glow light”). Respelled in American English to more closely match its Latin etymon. Compare also Danish favør (“favor”), Irish fabhar (“favor”), from the same Romance source.

169 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: nder — kind or helpful deed
• Arabic: مَعْرُوف (maʕrūf) — kind or helpful deed
• Basque: mesede — kind or helpful deed
• Basque: fabore — kind or helpful deed
• Belarusian: паслу́га (paslúha) — kind or helpful deed
• Bhojpuri: एहसान (ēhəsān) — kind or helpful deed
• Bulgarian: услу́га (uslúga) — kind or helpful deed
• Catalan: favor — kind or helpful deed
• Catalan: servei — kind or helpful deed
• Chinese Mandarin: 恩惠 (ēnhuì) — kind or helpful deed
• Chinese Mandarin: 好意 (hǎoyì) — kind or helpful deed
• Chinese Mandarin: 幫忙 /帮忙 (bāngmáng) — kind or helpful deed
• Ngazidja Comorian: fadhwila — kind or helpful deed
• Czech: laskavost — kind or helpful deed
• Czech: pomoc — kind or helpful deed
• Danish: tjeneste — kind or helpful deed
• Dutch: dienst — kind or helpful deed
• Dutch: gunst — kind or helpful deed
• Dutch: plezier — kind or helpful deed
• Esperanto: favoro — kind or helpful deed
• Finnish: palvelus — kind or helpful deed
• French: faveur — kind or helpful deed
• Galician: favor — kind or helpful deed
• German: Gefallen — kind or helpful deed
• German: Gefälligkeit — kind or helpful deed
• German: Dienst — kind or helpful deed
• Gothic: 𐌰𐌽𐍃𐍄𐍃 (ansts) — kind or helpful deed
• Greek: χάρη (chári) — kind or helpful deed
• Ancient Greek: χάρις (kháris) — kind or helpful deed
• Hebrew: טוֹבָה (tová) — kind or helpful deed
• Hindi: एहसान (ehsān) — kind or helpful deed
• Hungarian: szívesség — kind or helpful deed
• Hungarian: kedvezés — kind or helpful deed
• Hungarian: kegy — kind or helpful deed
• Irish: gar — kind or helpful deed
• Italian: favore — kind or helpful deed
• Japanese: 好意 (kōi) — kind or helpful deed
• Japanese: 贔屓 (hīki) — kind or helpful deed
• Japanese: 優遇 (yūgū) — kind or helpful deed
• Japanese: 寵愛 (chōai) — kind or helpful deed
• Japanese: 恩恵 (onkei) — kind or helpful deed
• Kazakh: жақсылық (jaqsylyq) — kind or helpful deed
• Khmer: គុណ (kun) — kind or helpful deed
• Korean: 도움 (doum) — kind or helpful deed
• Korean: 양보 (yangbo) — kind or helpful deed
• Korean: 은혜 (eunhye) — kind or helpful deed
• Korean: 부탁 (butak) — kind or helpful deed
• Ladino: favor — kind or helpful deed
• Ladino: hatir — kind or helpful deed
• Latin: venia — kind or helpful deed
• Macedonian: услуга (usluga) — kind or helpful deed
• Norwegian Bokmål: tjeneste — kind or helpful deed
• Norwegian Nynorsk: tenest — kind or helpful deed
• Norwegian Nynorsk: teneste — kind or helpful deed
• Plautdietsch: Gonst — kind or helpful deed
• Polish: przysługa — kind or helpful deed
• Portuguese: favor — kind or helpful deed
• Romanian: favoare — kind or helpful deed
• Russian: услу́га (uslúga) — kind or helpful deed
• Russian: одолже́ние (odolžénije) — kind or helpful deed
• Russian: любе́зность (ljubéznostʹ) — kind or helpful deed
• Sanskrit: राधस् (rādhas) — kind or helpful deed
• Sanskrit: वर (vara) — kind or helpful deed
• Serbo-Croatian: у̏слуга — kind or helpful deed
• Serbo-Croatian: ȕsluga — kind or helpful deed
• Slovak: láskavosť — kind or helpful deed
• Slovene: usluga — kind or helpful deed
• Spanish: favor — kind or helpful deed
• Swedish: tjänst — kind or helpful deed
• Tagalog: paki-usap — kind or helpful deed
• Turkish: iyilik — kind or helpful deed
• Ottoman Turkish: مساعده (müsâʼade) — kind or helpful deed
• Ottoman Turkish: منت (minnet) — kind or helpful deed
• Ukrainian: послу́га (poslúha) — kind or helpful deed
• Vietnamese: ơn — kind or helpful deed
• Volapük: plitod — kind or helpful deed
• Welsh: cymwynas — kind or helpful deed
• Welsh: ffafr — kind or helpful deed
• Albanian: nderim — goodwill; benevolent regard
• Belarusian: прыхі́льнасць (pryxílʹnascʹ) — goodwill; benevolent regard
• Catalan: favor — goodwill; benevolent regard
• Chinese Mandarin: 好意 (hǎoyì) — goodwill; benevolent regard
• Czech: přízeň — goodwill; benevolent regard
• Danish: god vilje — goodwill; benevolent regard
• Danish: gunst — goodwill; benevolent regard
• Dutch: gunst — goodwill; benevolent regard
• Finnish: suosio — goodwill; benevolent regard
• French: faveur — goodwill; benevolent regard
• Galician: favor — goodwill; benevolent regard
• German: Gunst — goodwill; benevolent regard
• German: Gnade — goodwill; benevolent regard
• German: Huld — goodwill; benevolent regard
• Greek: εύνοια (évnoia) — goodwill; benevolent regard
• Ancient Greek: εὔνοια (eúnoia) — goodwill; benevolent regard
• Hungarian: kegy — goodwill; benevolent regard
• Hungarian: jóindulat — goodwill; benevolent regard
• Hungarian: pártfogás — goodwill; benevolent regard
• Irish: fabhar — goodwill; benevolent regard
• Italian: favore — goodwill; benevolent regard
• Japanese: 好意 (kōi) — goodwill; benevolent regard
• Kazakh: ықылас (yqylas) — goodwill; benevolent regard
• Kazakh: шын пейіл (şyn peiıl) — goodwill; benevolent regard
• Kazakh: ізгі ниет (ızgı niet) — goodwill; benevolent regard
• Kazakh: жақсылық (jaqsylyq) — goodwill; benevolent regard
• Korean: 호의 (houi) — goodwill; benevolent regard
• Luxembourgish: Gonscht — goodwill; benevolent regard
• Manx: foayr — goodwill; benevolent regard
• Middle English: favour — goodwill; benevolent regard
• Russian: расположе́ние (raspoložénije) — goodwill; benevolent regard
• Russian: благоскло́нность (blagosklónnostʹ) — goodwill; benevolent regard
• Russian: фаво́р (favór) — goodwill; benevolent regard
• Spanish: favor — goodwill; benevolent regard
• Swedish: gunst — goodwill; benevolent regard
• Ukrainian: прихи́льність (pryxýlʹnistʹ) — goodwill; benevolent regard
• Volapük: gön — goodwill; benevolent regard
• Czech: pozornost — small gift
• Finnish: pöytälahja — small gift
• Finnish: pikkulahja — small gift
• German: Aufmerksamkeit — small gift
• Hungarian: apró ajándék — small gift
• Italian: bomboniera — small gift
• Finnish: armo — mildness or mitigation of punishment
• Finnish: suosikki — object of regard; person or thing favoured
• Afrikaans: guns — to look upon fondly; to prefer
• Arabic: أَنْعَمَ (ʔanʕama) — to look upon fondly; to prefer
• Catalan: afavorir — to look upon fondly; to prefer
• Czech: upřednostňovat — to look upon fondly; to prefer
• Czech: dávat přednost — to look upon fondly; to prefer
• Czech: favorizovat — to look upon fondly; to prefer
• Czech: zvýhodňovat — to look upon fondly; to prefer
• Esperanto: favori — to look upon fondly; to prefer
• Esperanto: favorigi — to look upon fondly; to prefer
• Finnish: suosia — to look upon fondly; to prefer
• French: favoriser — to look upon fondly; to prefer
• Galician: favorecer — to look upon fondly; to prefer
• German: begünstigen — to look upon fondly; to prefer
• Greek: ευνοώ (evnoó) — to look upon fondly; to prefer
• Irish: fabhraigh — to look upon fondly; to prefer
• Italian: preferire — to look upon fondly; to prefer
• Italian: privilegiare — to look upon fondly; to prefer
• Japanese: かわいがる (kawaigaru) — to look upon fondly; to prefer
• Japanese: 寵愛する (choai suru) — to look upon fondly; to prefer
• Ladino: enfavoreser — to look upon fondly; to prefer
• Ladino: favorizar — to look upon fondly; to prefer
• Latin: faveō — to look upon fondly; to prefer
• Latin: addīcō — to look upon fondly; to prefer
• Māori: takahoa — to look upon fondly; to prefer
• Māori: popore — to look upon fondly; to prefer
• Māori: mariu — to look upon fondly; to prefer
• Middle English: favouren — to look upon fondly; to prefer
• Polish: faworyzować — to look upon fondly; to prefer
• Portuguese: favorecer — to look upon fondly; to prefer
• Russian: благоволи́ть (blagovolítʹ) — to look upon fondly; to prefer
• Spanish: preferir — to look upon fondly; to prefer
• Spanish: favorecer — to look upon fondly; to prefer
• Ottoman Turkish: بگنمك (beğenmek) — to look upon fondly; to prefer
• Volapük: gönön — to look upon fondly; to prefer
• Bulgarian: облагодетелствам (oblagodetelstvam) — to do a favor (noun sense 1) for; to show beneficence toward
• Esperanto: bonvoli — to do a favor (noun sense 1) for; to show beneficence toward
• Finnish: tehdä palvelus — to do a favor (noun sense 1) for; to show beneficence toward
• Italian: fare un favore — to do a favor (noun sense 1) for; to show beneficence toward
• Latin: faveō — to do a favor (noun sense 1) for; to show beneficence toward
• Māori: mariu — to do a favor (noun sense 1) for; to show beneficence toward
• Middle English: favouren — to do a favor (noun sense 1) for; to show beneficence toward
• Italian: accudire — to treat with care
• Japanese: ひいきする (hiiki) — to treat with care
• Japanese: 優遇する (yūgū suru) — to treat with care
• Japanese: 寵愛する (chōai suru) — to treat with care
• Māori: popore — to treat with care