luck

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• Received-Pronunciation: /lʌk/
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• Received-Pronunciation: [lɐk]
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• US: /lʌk/
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• Northern-England: /lʊk/
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• rhymes with -ʌk
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• homophone: look (some dialects)
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• CMU ARPABET: L AH1 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From the given name Luke.

From Middle English luk, lukke, related to Old Frisian luk (“luck”), West Frisian gelok (“luck”), Saterland Frisian Gluk (“luck”), Dutch geluk (“luck, happiness”), Low German luk (“luck”), German Glück (“luck, good fortune, happiness”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål lykke (“luck, happiness”), Norwegian Nynorsk lukke (“luck, happiness”), Swedish lycka (“luck, happiness”), Icelandic lukka (“happiness”). According to the OED, it may be related to lock. A loanword into English in the 15th century (probably as a gambling term) from Middle Dutch luc, a shortened form of gheluc (“good fortune”), whence Modern Dutch geluk. Middle Dutch luc, gheluc has parallels with Middle High German lücke, gelücke (Modern German Glück). The word occurs only from the 12th century, apparently first in Rhine Frankish. Perhaps from a Frankish *galukki. The word enters standard Middle High German during the 13th century, and spreads to English and Scandinavian in the Late Middle Ages. Its origin seems to have been regional or dialectal, and there were competing German words such as gevelle or schick, or the Latinate fortūne from Latin fortūna. Its etymology is unknown, although there are numerous proposals as to its derivations from a number of roots. Use as a verb in American English is late (1940s), but there was a Middle English verb lukken (“to chance, to happen by good fortune”) in the 15th century.

155 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: gullmë — something that happens to someone by chance
• Albanian: fat — something that happens to someone by chance
• Arabic: حَظّ (ḥaẓẓ) — something that happens to someone by chance
• Arabic: بَخْت (baḵt) — something that happens to someone by chance
• Arabic: حظ (ḥaẓẓ) — something that happens to someone by chance
• Arabic: بخت (baxt) — something that happens to someone by chance
• Arabic: حَظ (ḥaẓ) — something that happens to someone by chance
• Arabic: زهر (zhar) — something that happens to someone by chance
• Armenian: բախտ (baxt) — something that happens to someone by chance
• Asturian: suerte — something that happens to someone by chance
• Azerbaijani: bəxt — something that happens to someone by chance
• Azerbaijani: uğur — something that happens to someone by chance
• Basque: zori — something that happens to someone by chance
• Basque: adur — something that happens to someone by chance
• Belarusian: уда́ча (udáča) — something that happens to someone by chance
• Belarusian: шча́сце (ščáscje) — something that happens to someone by chance
• Bulgarian: късме́т (kǎsmét) — something that happens to someone by chance
• Bulgarian: ща́стие (štástie) — something that happens to someone by chance
• Burmese: ကံ (kam) — something that happens to someone by chance
• Cahuilla: 'esweerta — something that happens to someone by chance
• Catalan: sort — something that happens to someone by chance
• Cebuano: suwerte — something that happens to someone by chance
• Chinese Mandarin: 運氣 /运气 (yùnqi) — something that happens to someone by chance
• Chinese Mandarin: 時運 /时运 (shíyùn) — something that happens to someone by chance
• Czech: štěstí — something that happens to someone by chance
• Danish: held — something that happens to someone by chance
• Dutch: geluk — something that happens to someone by chance
• Esperanto: sorto — something that happens to someone by chance
• Estonian: õnn — something that happens to someone by chance
• Finnish: onni — something that happens to someone by chance
• Finnish: tuuri — something that happens to someone by chance
• Finnish: munkki — something that happens to someone by chance
• Finnish: säkä — something that happens to someone by chance
• Finnish: mäihä — something that happens to someone by chance
• Finnish: flaksi — something that happens to someone by chance
• Finnish: tsägä — something that happens to someone by chance
• Finnish: lykky — something that happens to someone by chance
• French: chance — something that happens to someone by chance
• French: veine — something that happens to someone by chance
• French: bol — something that happens to someone by chance
• French: cul — something that happens to someone by chance
• French: chatte — something that happens to someone by chance
• West-Frisian: lok — something that happens to someone by chance
• West-Frisian: gelok — something that happens to someone by chance
• Galician: sorte — something that happens to someone by chance
• German: Glück — something that happens to someone by chance
• Gothic: 𐌰𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌲𐌴𐌹 (audagei) — something that happens to someone by chance
• Greek: τύχη (týchi) — something that happens to someone by chance
• Ancient Greek: τύχη (túkhē) — something that happens to someone by chance
• Ancient Greek: εὐτυχία (eutukhía) — something that happens to someone by chance
• Ancient Greek: εὐτύχημα (eutúkhēma) — something that happens to someone by chance
• Hebrew: מַזָּל (mazál) — something that happens to someone by chance
• Hebrew: גָּד (gad) — something that happens to someone by chance
• Hindi: भाग्य (bhāgya) — something that happens to someone by chance
• Hindi: सौभाग्य (saubhāgya) — something that happens to someone by chance
• Hungarian: szerencse — something that happens to someone by chance
• Hunsrik: Glick — something that happens to someone by chance
• Icelandic: heppni — something that happens to someone by chance
• Icelandic: lukka — something that happens to someone by chance
• Ido: chanco — something that happens to someone by chance
• Indonesian: keberuntungan — something that happens to someone by chance
• Ingrian: onni — something that happens to someone by chance
• Ingrian: lykky — something that happens to someone by chance
• Interlingua: sorte — something that happens to someone by chance
• Irish: ádh — something that happens to someone by chance
• Italian: fortuna — something that happens to someone by chance
• Japanese: 運 (un) — something that happens to someone by chance
• Japanese: 運勢 (unsei) — something that happens to someone by chance
• Japanese: 福 — something that happens to someone by chance
• Khmer: សំណាង (sɑmnaang) — something that happens to someone by chance
• Khmer: ជោគ (cook) — something that happens to someone by chance
• Korean: 운 (un) — something that happens to someone by chance
• Korean: 재수 (jaesu) — something that happens to someone by chance
• Central Kurdish: بەخت (bext) — something that happens to someone by chance
• Lao: ໂຊກ (sōk) — something that happens to someone by chance
• Latin: fortūna — something that happens to someone by chance
• Latin: fors — something that happens to someone by chance
• Latvian: veiksme — something that happens to someone by chance
• Lithuanian: sėkmė — something that happens to someone by chance
• Low German: Glücke — something that happens to someone by chance
• Macedonian: среќа (sreḱa) — something that happens to someone by chance
• Malay: tuah — something that happens to someone by chance
• Malayalam: അദൃഷ്ടം (adr̥ṣṭaṁ) — something that happens to someone by chance
• Mongolian: аз (az) — something that happens to someone by chance
• Muna: dawua — something that happens to someone by chance
• Ojibwe: minose — something that happens to someone by chance
• Old English: ġesǣlþ — something that happens to someone by chance
• Oromo: carraa — something that happens to someone by chance
• Persian: شانس (šâns) — something that happens to someone by chance
• Plautdietsch: Jlekj — something that happens to someone by chance
• Polabian: lük — something that happens to someone by chance
• Polish: szczęście — something that happens to someone by chance
• Portuguese: sorte — something that happens to someone by chance
• Quechua: ataw — something that happens to someone by chance
• Romanian: noroc — something that happens to someone by chance
• Romanian: șansă — something that happens to someone by chance
• Romanian: soartă — something that happens to someone by chance
• Russian: уда́ча (udáča) — something that happens to someone by chance
• Russian: везе́ние (vezénije) — something that happens to someone by chance
• Russian: сча́стье (sčástʹje) — something that happens to someone by chance
• Serbo-Croatian: сре̏ћа — something that happens to someone by chance
• Serbo-Croatian: талија — something that happens to someone by chance
• Serbo-Croatian: srȅća — something that happens to someone by chance
• Serbo-Croatian: talija — something that happens to someone by chance
• Sinhalese: වාසනාව (wāsanāwa) — something that happens to someone by chance
• Slovak: šťastie — something that happens to someone by chance
• Slovene: srẹ́ča — something that happens to someone by chance
• Somali: nasiib — something that happens to someone by chance
• Spanish: suerte — something that happens to someone by chance
• Sranan Tongo: koloku — something that happens to someone by chance
• Swahili: bahati — something that happens to someone by chance
• Swedish: lycka — something that happens to someone by chance
• Swedish: tur — something that happens to someone by chance
• Tagalog: suwerte — something that happens to someone by chance
• Tajik: барор (baror) — something that happens to someone by chance
• Tamil: அதிட்டம் (atiṭṭam) — something that happens to someone by chance
• Telugu: అదృష్టం (adr̥ṣṭaṁ) — something that happens to someone by chance
• Thai: โชค (chôok) — something that happens to someone by chance
• Tibetan: ལམ་འགྲོ (lam 'gro) — something that happens to someone by chance
• Turkish: uğur — something that happens to someone by chance
• Turkish: şans — something that happens to someone by chance
• Turkish: talih — something that happens to someone by chance
• Ottoman Turkish: اوغور (uğur) — something that happens to someone by chance
• Ottoman Turkish: قوت (kut) — something that happens to someone by chance
• Ottoman Turkish: بخت (baht) — something that happens to someone by chance
• Ukrainian: уда́ча (udáča) — something that happens to someone by chance
• Ukrainian: ща́стя (ščástja) — something that happens to someone by chance
• Unami: tëminakw — something that happens to someone by chance
• Urdu: قسمت (qismat) — something that happens to someone by chance
• Urdu: تقدیر (taqdīr) — something that happens to someone by chance
• Vietnamese: may mắn — something that happens to someone by chance
• Vietnamese: vận may — something that happens to someone by chance
• Vietnamese: vận — something that happens to someone by chance
• Volapük: läb — something that happens to someone by chance
• Walloon: tchance — something that happens to someone by chance
• Walloon: bouneur — something that happens to someone by chance
• Zazaki: bext — something that happens to someone by chance
• Zazaki: sehud — something that happens to someone by chance
• Belarusian: по́спех (póspjex) — success
• Bulgarian: успе́х (uspéh) — success
• Czech: úspěch — success
• Finnish: onni — success
• Finnish: tuuri — success
• Macedonian: успех (uspeh) — success
• Middle English: sped — success
• Polish: sukces — success
• Russian: успе́х (uspéx) — success
• Serbo-Croatian: у̀спех — success
• Serbo-Croatian: у̀спјех — success
• Serbo-Croatian: ùspeh — success
• Serbo-Croatian: ùspjeh — success
• Slovak: úspech — success
• Slovene: uspȅh — success
• Ukrainian: у́спіх (úspix) — success
• Zazaki: şayen — success