magnificent

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• /mæɡˈnɪfəsənt/
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From Middle English magnificent, from Middle French magnificent, from Latin magnificentior, comparative of magnificus (“great in deeds or sentiment, noble, splendid, etc.”), from magnus (“great”) + -ficēns, a form of -ficiēns, the regular form, in compounds, of faciēns, a participle of facere (“to do”).

62 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: عَظِيم (ʕaẓīm) — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• Arabic: رَائِع (rāʔiʕ) — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• Arabic: عضيم (ʕḍim) — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• Arabic: فن (fən) — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• Armenian: փառահեղ (pʻaṙaheġ) — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• Armenian: վեհաշուք (vehašukʻ) — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• Armenian: պերճ (perč) — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• Bulgarian: великолепен (velikolepen) — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• Catalan: magnífic — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• Chinese Mandarin: 壯麗 /壮丽 (zhuànglì) — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• Chinese Mandarin: 堂皇 (tánghuáng) — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• Dutch: prachtig — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• Esperanto: belega — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• Esperanto: grandioza — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• Finnish: suurenmoinen — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• Finnish: hieno — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• Finnish: upea — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• Finnish: mahtava — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• French: magnifique — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• Friulian: famôs — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• Galician: magnífico — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• German: prächtig — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• Greek: μεγαλοπρεπής (megaloprepís) — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• Ancient Greek: μεγαλοπρεπής (megaloprepḗs) — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• Hebrew: נֶהְדָּר (nehdár) — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• Hindi: शानदार (śāndār) — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• Hindi: भव्य (bhavya) — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• Hindi: गौरवशाली (gauravśālī) — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• Hindi: विराट (virāṭ) — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• Italian: magnifico — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• Japanese: 素晴しい (subarashii) — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• Korean: 장엄한 (jang'eom-han) — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• Macedonian: величенствен (veličenstven) — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• Malayalam: ഗംഭീരമായ (gambhīramāya) — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• Māori: whakahirahira — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• Persian: ورجاوند (varjâvand) — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• Portuguese: magnífico — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• Russian: великоле́пный (velikolépnyj) — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• Serbo-Croatian: величанствен — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• Serbo-Croatian: veličanstven — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• Lower Sorbian: kšasny — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• Spanish: magnífico — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• Spanish: macanudo — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• Spanish: pulento — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• Swedish: storartad — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• Swedish: magnifik — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• Tagalog: dakila — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• Tagalog: magnipisente — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• Tagalog: maringal — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• Turkish: muhteşem — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• Vietnamese: tráng lệ — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• Walloon: mirlifike — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• Welsh: arddun — grand, elegant or splendid in appearance
• Bulgarian: величествен (veličestven) — grand or noble in action
• Finnish: suurenmoinen — grand or noble in action
• Finnish: mahtava — grand or noble in action
• Ancient Greek: προστατικός (prostatikós) — grand or noble in action
• Macedonian: вели́чествен (velíčestven) — grand or noble in action
• Finnish: suurenmoinen — exceptional for its kind
• Finnish: upea — exceptional for its kind
• German: ausgezeichnet — exceptional for its kind
• Malayalam: ഗംഭീരമായ (gambhīramāya) — exceptional for its kind