fortunate

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈfɔː.t͡ʃə.nɪt/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈfɔː.t͡ʃə.nət/
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• General-American: /ˈfɔɹ.t͡ʃə.nɪt/
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• General-American: /ˈfɔɹt͡ʃ.nɪt/
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• /ˈfɔɹ.t͡ʃə.nət/ General American, weak vowel merger
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• /ˈfɔɹt͡ʃ.nət/ General American, weak vowel merger
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• CMU ARPABET: F AO1 R CH AH0 N AH0 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: F AO1 R CH UW0 N AH0 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English fortunat(e) (“fortunate”), from Latin fortūnātus, from fortūna (“fortune, luck”) + -ātus (adjective-forming suffix), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). See also Middle English fortunaten (“to assure the success (of), make fortunate”); cognate with French fortuné (“lucky”). By surface analysis, fortune + -ate.

81 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: късметли́йски (kǎsmetlíjski) — coming by good luck or favorable chance
• Catalan: afortunat — coming by good luck or favorable chance
• Esperanto: fortuna — coming by good luck or favorable chance
• Finnish: onnekas — coming by good luck or favorable chance
• German: glücklich — coming by good luck or favorable chance
• Gothic: 𐌰𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌷𐌰𐍆𐍄𐍃 (audahafts) — coming by good luck or favorable chance
• Ido: fortunoza — coming by good luck or favorable chance
• Irish: sonasach — coming by good luck or favorable chance
• Irish: méanar — coming by good luck or favorable chance
• Manx: traaoil — coming by good luck or favorable chance
• Māori: momoho — coming by good luck or favorable chance
• Māori: angitu — coming by good luck or favorable chance
• Persian: خجسته (xojaste) — coming by good luck or favorable chance
• Polish: fortunny — coming by good luck or favorable chance
• Portuguese: propício — coming by good luck or favorable chance
• Russian: уда́чный (udáčnyj) — coming by good luck or favorable chance
• Sikkimese: སྐལ་ལྡན (skal ldan) — coming by good luck or favorable chance
• Spanish: afortunado — coming by good luck or favorable chance
• Turkish: uğurlu — coming by good luck or favorable chance
• Ottoman Turkish: اوغورلو (uğurlu) — coming by good luck or favorable chance
• Ottoman Turkish: میمون (maymun) — coming by good luck or favorable chance
• Urdu: خوش قسمت (xuš qismat) — coming by good luck or favorable chance
• Bulgarian: щастли́в (štastlív) — bringing some good thing not foreseen as certain
• Catalan: propici — bringing some good thing not foreseen as certain
• German: günstig — bringing some good thing not foreseen as certain
• German: verheißungsvoll — bringing some good thing not foreseen as certain
• Greek: τυχερός (tycherós) — bringing some good thing not foreseen as certain
• Ido: hazarda — bringing some good thing not foreseen as certain
• Ido: hazardala — bringing some good thing not foreseen as certain
• Portuguese: propício — bringing some good thing not foreseen as certain
• Russian: счастли́вый (sčastlívyj) — bringing some good thing not foreseen as certain
• Russian: уда́чный (udáčnyj) — bringing some good thing not foreseen as certain
• Spanish: propicio — bringing some good thing not foreseen as certain
• Spanish: favorable — bringing some good thing not foreseen as certain
• Turkish: uğurlu — bringing some good thing not foreseen as certain
• Ottoman Turkish: اوغورلو (uğurlu) — bringing some good thing not foreseen as certain
• Bulgarian: благоприя́тен (blagoprijáten) — auspicious
• Catalan: favorable — auspicious
• Catalan: propici — auspicious
• Finnish: lupaava — auspicious
• Finnish: suotuisa — auspicious
• German: verheißungsvoll — auspicious
• Old Turkic: 𐰴𐰆𐱃𐰞𐰆𐰍 (qutluɣ) — auspicious
• Russian: благоприя́тный (blagoprijátnyj) — auspicious
• Turkish: kutlu — auspicious
• Turkish: uğurlu — auspicious
• Ottoman Turkish: قوتلو (kutlu) — auspicious
• Ottoman Turkish: میمون (maymun) — auspicious
• Bulgarian: уда́чен (udáčen) — receiving some unforeseen or unexpected good, or some good, independent of one's own skill or efforts
• Finnish: onnekas — receiving some unforeseen or unexpected good, or some good, independent of one's own skill or efforts
• Greek: τυχερός (tycherós) — receiving some unforeseen or unexpected good, or some good, independent of one's own skill or efforts
• Russian: уда́чливый (udáčlivyj) — receiving some unforeseen or unexpected good, or some good, independent of one's own skill or efforts
• Russian: счастли́вый (sčastlívyj) — receiving some unforeseen or unexpected good, or some good, independent of one's own skill or efforts
• Albanian: gullmëmadh — lucky, favored by fortune
• Albanian: gullmëbardhë — lucky, favored by fortune
• Bulgarian: късметли́йски (kǎsmetlíjski) — lucky, favored by fortune
• Catalan: afortunat — lucky, favored by fortune
• Danish: heldig — lucky, favored by fortune
• Finnish: onnekas — lucky, favored by fortune
• French: fortuné — lucky, favored by fortune
• German: glücklich — lucky, favored by fortune
• Greek: τυχερός (tycherós) — lucky, favored by fortune
• Greek: καλότυχος (kalótychos) — lucky, favored by fortune
• Ancient Greek: ἐυτυχής (eutukhḗs) — lucky, favored by fortune
• Gujarati: નસીબદાર (nasībdār) — lucky, favored by fortune
• Gujarati: ભાગ્યશાળી (bhāgyaśāḷī) — lucky, favored by fortune
• Gujarati: સુભાગી (subhāgī) — lucky, favored by fortune
• Gujarati: દૈવવાન (daivvān) — lucky, favored by fortune
• Latin: fortunātus — lucky, favored by fortune
• Old Turkic: 𐰴𐰃𐱃𐰞𐰆𐰍 (qutluɣ) — lucky, favored by fortune
• Portuguese: afortunado — lucky, favored by fortune
• Portuguese: sortudo — lucky, favored by fortune
• Portuguese: feliz — lucky, favored by fortune
• Russian: уда́чливый (udáčlivyj) — lucky, favored by fortune
• Russian: счастли́вый (sčastlívyj) — lucky, favored by fortune
• Scottish Gaelic: fortanach — lucky, favored by fortune
• Spanish: afortunado — lucky, favored by fortune
• Spanish: fortunado (disused) — lucky, favored by fortune
• Swedish: lycklig — lucky, favored by fortune
• Tocharian B: skwassu — lucky, favored by fortune
• Ottoman Turkish: قوتلو (qutlu) — lucky, favored by fortune