FromMiddle English glad gled Old English glæd ( “ shining; bright; cheerful; glad ” ) , fromProto-Germanic *gladaz ( “ shiny; gleaming; radiant; happy; glossy; smooth; flat ” ) , fromProto-Indo-European *gʰladʰ- *ǵʰelh₂- ( “ to shine ” ) .
Cognate withScots gled glaid ( “ shining; bright; glad ” ) ,Saterland Frisian glääd ( “ smooth; sleek ” ) ,West Frisian glêd ( “ smooth ” ) ,Dutch glad ( “ smooth; sleek; slippery ” ) ,German glatt ( “ smooth; sleek; slippery ” ) ,Danish Norwegian Swedish glad ( “ glad; happy; cheerful ” ) ,Icelandic glaður ( “ glad; joyful; cheery ” ) ,Latin glaber ( “ smooth; hairless; bald ” ) ,Russian гла́дкий ( gládkij ,“ smooth ” ) .Doublet ofglatt
glad (comparative gladder or moreglad ,superlative gladdest or mostglad )( usually predicative )
Pleased happy ;gratified .I'mglad the rain has finally stopped.
I'm alwaysglad to be of service.
I wasglad of receiving the tent in time for the camping trip.
I amglad of you. And so I have been since our first encounter.
I'm veryglad at this decision because we'd been on the ropes for a while.
I am happy andglad at your success.
Every day I feelglad about the life I am living.
1595 December 9 (first known performance),William Shakespeare , “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second ”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , andEd[ ward] Blount , published1623 ,→OCLC [ Act III, scene 2] :Glad am I that your highness is so arm'd / To bear the tidings of calamity.
1909 September 9,Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter II, inThe Squire’s Daughter , London:Methuen & Co. [ … ] →OCLC "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal. I never did that. I always made up my mind I'd be a big man some day, and—I'mglad I didn't steal."
( obsolete ) bright orcheerful appearance ;expressing orexciting joy ;producing gladness .1667 John Milton , “Book I”, inParadise Lost. [ … ] [ … ] [Samuel Simmons ], and are to be sold by Peter Parker [ … ] [ a] nd by Robert Boulter [ … ] [ a] nd Matthias Walker, [ … ] →OCLC Paradise Lost in Ten Books: [ … ] , London: Basil Montagu Pickering [ … ] 1873 ,→OCLC Glad Eevening &glad morn crownd the fourth day.
happy, pleased, satisfied
Albanian:gëzuar (sq) Arabic:فَرِح (ar) ( fariḥ ) Azerbaijani:şad (az) Bashkir:шат ( şat ) Belarusian:ра́ды ( rády ) ,шчаслі́вы (be) ( ščaslívy ) ,задаво́лены ( zadavóljeny ) Bulgarian:дово́лен (bg) ( dovólen ) ,охотен (bg) ( ohoten ) ,ра́достен (bg) ( rádosten ) ,склонен (bg) ( sklonen ) ,щастли́в (bg) ( štastlív ) Burmese:ပျော် (my) ( pyau ) ,ဝမ်းသာ (my) ( wam:sa ) Catalan:alegre (ca) ,content (ca) Chamicuro:pya'kijnani Chinese:Cantonese:高興 / 高兴 ( gou1 hing3 ) Mandarin:高興 / 高兴 (zh) ( gāoxìng ) Czech:rád (cs) ,radostný (cs) ,šťastný (cs) Danish:glad (da) Dutch:blij (nl) ,gevallig verheugd (nl) Esperanto:ĝoja Faroese:glaður m glað f Finnish:onnellinen (fi) French:content (fr) ,heureux (fr) German:froh (de) ,fröhlich (de) ,glücklich (de) ,freudig (de) ,heilfroh (de) Greek:χαρούμενος (el) ( charoúmenos ) Hindi:प्रसन्न (hi) ( prasann ) ,मुदित (hi) ( mudit ) ,ख़ुश ( xuś ) ,मगन (hi) ( magan ) Hungarian:( “to be glad”; a verb ) örül (hu) ,( happy ) boldog (hu) ,( cheerful ) vidám (hu) Icelandic:glaður (is) Interlingua:gaudiose Irish:áthasach áthasúil áthas m ( as a predicative, usually expressed by a construction with the noun ) Italian:lieto (it) ,soddisfatto (it) ,appagato (it) ,compiaciuto (it) Japanese:嬉しい (ja) ( うれしい, ureshii ) Korean:기쁘다 (ko) ( gippeuda ) ,반갑다 (ko) ( ban'gapda ) Kurdish:Central Kurdish:پێخۆشحاڵ ( pêxoşḧall ) Lao:ຍິນດີ ( nyin dī ) Latgalian:prīceigs Latin:gāvīsus laetus (la) Latvian:priecīgs Lithuanian:džiaugsmingas Lü:please add this translation if you can Macedonian:задоволен ( zadovolen ) Māori:uruhau Megleno-Romanian:bucuros Nahuatl:paquini (nah) ,paqui Plautdietsch:froo schaftich Polish:zadowolony (pl) ,usatysfakcjonowany (pl) ,szczęśliwy (pl) ,rad (pl) ,uradowany Portuguese:grato (pt) ,feliz (pt) ,alegre (pt) ,contente (pt) Romanian:bucuros (ro) ,vesel (ro) Russian:счастли́вый (ru) ( sčastlívyj ) ,ра́достный (ru) ( rádostnyj ) ,дово́льный (ru) ( dovólʹnyj ) ,рад (ru) ( rad ) Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:за̏дово̄љан Latin:zȁdovōljan (sh) Shan:please add this translation if you can Slovak:rád šťastný (sk) Slovene:vesel (sl) Spanish:contento (es) ,chocho (es) ,gustoso (es) ,alegre (es) ,qué bueno ( interjection ) Swedish:glad (sv) ,nöjd (sv) ,belåten (sv) Tagalog:natutuwa Tatar:шат (tt) ( şat ) Thai:ดีใจ (th) ( dii-jai ) ,กระหยิ่ม (th) ,กรุ้มกริ่ม (th) ,ชื่น (th) ( chʉ̂ʉn ) ,บันเทิง (th) ( ban-təəng ) ,ปราโมทย์ ปริ่ม (th) ( bprìm ) ,ปรีดา (th) ,ปลื้ม (th) ( bplʉ̂ʉm ) ,ปิติ ( bpì-dtì ) ,หฤหรรษ์ เปรม (th) ( bpreem ) ,โสมนัส Ukrainian:ра́дий ( rádyj ) ,ра́дісний ( rádisnyj ) ,задово́лений ( zadovólenyj ) ,щасли́вий (uk) ( ščaslývyj ) Vietnamese:vui mừng (vi) ,vui lòng (vi) ,vui (vi) Volapük:fredik (vo) Walloon:binåjhe (wa) m or f contin (wa) m Woiwurrung:barbornenin Yiddish:צופֿרידן ( tsufridn ) Zhuang:please add this translation if you can
glad (third-person singular simple present glads present participle gladding simple past and past participle gladded
( archaic , transitive ) Synonyms: cheer up gladden exhilarate 1922 A. E. Housman ,Epithalamium , line 3:God thatglads the lover's heart
Abbreviation ofgladiolus
glad (plural glads
( informal ) gladiolus ( plant ) .2008 The Flower Farmer , page217 :Glads are widely grown as cut flowers both in the United States and abroad.
FromMiddle Breton gloat ( “ kingdom, wealth ” ) , fromProto-Brythonic *gwlad Proto-Celtic *wlatis ( “ sovereignty ” ) , fromProto-Indo-European *h₂wélh₁tis ~ *h₂wl̥h₁téy- *h₂welh₁-
glad f plural gladoù
arable landpatrimony ,estate ( archaic ) territory ,country ( archaic ) feudal domain Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Breton.
FromOld Danish glath Old Norse glaðr
IPA (key ) : /ˈɡlað/ ,[ˈɡ̊læð] ,[ˈklæð̠˕ˠ] Rhymes:-ad glad (neuter glad plural and definite singular attributive glade comparative gladere superlative (predicative) gladest superlative (attributive) gladeste
happy ,glad Synonym: fornøjet Antonyms: trist ked af det 1 When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite,2 The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.
FromMiddle Dutch glat Old Dutch *glad Proto-Germanic *gladaz
glad (comparative gladder superlative gladst
smooth ,polished slippery glad
completely ,entirely ( mostly along with verbs and adjective with a negative meaning ) The usage as an adverb is highly restricted to verbs such asvergeten ( “ to forget ” ) andbederven ( “ to spoil, to rot ” ) and adjectives such asmis ( “ wrong, incorrect ” ) andverkeerd ( “ wrong, incorrect ” ) .
FromOld English glæd Proto-West Germanic *glad Proto-Germanic *gladaz
glad
joyful ,merry ,happy FromOld Norse glaðr
glad (neuter singular glad definite singular and plural glade comparative gladere indefinite superlative gladest definite superlative gladeste
happy ,glad “glad” inThe Bokmål Dictionary .FromOld Norse glaðr English glad
glad (neuter singular glad definite singular and plural glade comparative gladare indefinite superlative gladast definite superlative gladaste
happy ,glad “glad” inThe Nynorsk Dictionary .glād
first / third-person singular preterite indicative ofglīdan FromProto-Germanic *gladaz
glad
glad Positive forms of glad Strong declension singular plural masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter nominative glad glad glad glade glada glada glad glada accusative gladan gladen glada glad glada glade glada glad glada genitive glades gladas gladara gladaro glades gladas gladaro gladoro gladero gladaro gladoro gladero gladaro gladoro gladero dative gladumu gladum gladun gladun gladon gladen gladan gladaro gladaru gladara gladumu gladum gladun gladun gladon gladen gladan gladun gladon gladum gladun gladon gladun gladon gladum Weak declension singular plural masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter nominative glado glada glada glade glada glade gladon gladun gladon gladun gladan gladon gladun accusative gladon gladan gladun gladon gladan glada glade gladon gladun gladon gladun gladan gladon gladun genitive gladen gladan gladun gladan gladen gladen gladan gladono gladeno gladono gladono gladeno dative gladon gladen gladan gladun gladan gladon gladen gladan gladon gladun gladon gladun gladon gladun
Comparative forms of glad (weak only) Weak declension singular plural masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter nominative gladoro gladora gladora gladore gladora gladore gladoron gladorun gladoron gladorun gladoran gladoron gladorun accusative gladoron gladoran gladorun gladoron gladoran gladora gladore gladoron gladorun gladoron gladorun gladoran gladoron gladorun genitive gladoren gladoran gladorun gladoran gladoren gladoren gladoran gladorono gladoreno gladorono gladorono gladoreno dative gladoron gladoren gladoran gladorun gladoran gladoron gladoren gladoran gladoron gladorun gladoron gladorun gladoron gladorun
Superlative forms of glad Strong declension singular plural masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter nominative gladost gladost gladost gladoste gladosta gladosta gladost gladosta accusative gladostan gladosten gladosta gladost gladosta gladoste gladosta gladost gladosta genitive gladostes gladostas gladostara gladostaro gladostes gladostas gladostaro gladostoro gladostero gladostaro gladostoro gladostero gladostaro gladostoro gladostero dative gladostumu gladostum gladostun gladostun gladoston gladosten gladostan gladostaro gladostaru gladostara gladostumu gladostum gladostun gladostun gladoston gladosten gladostan gladostun gladoston gladostum gladostun gladoston gladostun gladoston gladostum Weak declension singular plural masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter nominative gladosto gladosta gladosta gladoste gladosta gladoste gladoston gladostun gladoston gladostun gladostan gladoston gladostun accusative gladoston gladostan gladostun gladoston gladostan gladosta gladoste gladoston gladostun gladoston gladostun gladostan gladoston gladostun genitive gladosten gladostan gladostun gladostan gladosten gladosten gladostan gladostono gladosteno gladostono gladostono gladosteno dative gladoston gladosten gladostan gladostun gladostan gladoston gladosten gladostan gladoston gladostun gladoston gladostun gladoston gladostun
Inherited fromProto-Slavic *goldъ
glȃd f Cyrillic spelling гла̑д
hunger (T)ko radi, neboji se gladi . ―Who works, fearshunger not. “glad ”, inHrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal 2006–2026 Inherited fromProto-Slavic *gȏldъ
glȃd m inan
hunger Synonym: lakota “glad Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU , portal Fran “glad Termania , Amebis See also thegeneral references englad smiley somler happy smiley smiling] FromOld Swedish glaþer Old Norse glaðr Proto-Germanic *gladaz Proto-Indo-European *gʰladʰ- Proto-Indo-European *gʰel- ( “ to shine ” ) .
glad (comparative gladare superlative gladast
happy ,glad Antonym: ledsen vara påglatt humör ―be in ahappy mood englad nyhet ―a piece ofhappy news glad ochledsen happy and sadJag blevglad när jag fick klappa den gulliga kaninen och fick en storglass ―I was [became]happy when I got to pet the cute rabbit and got a big ice cream. De blevglada när laget dehejade ―They were [became]happy when the team they were rooting for won. (Can wedate this quote?) , “Klappa händerna när du är riktigtglad [Clap Your Hands When You Are ReallyHappy [ If You're Happy and You Know It] ]”[1] Mora Träsk :Klappa händerna när du är riktigtglad (klapp klapp). Klappa händerna när du är riktigtglad (klapp klapp). Du kan också glädja andra som på denna jorden vandra [old present tense plural, usuallyvandrar ]. Klappa händerna när du är riktigtglad (klapp klapp). Clap your hands ["the hands" – Swedish often prefers to express possession by putting nouns in the definite] when you are reallyhappy (clap clap). Clap your hands when you are reallyhappy (clap clap). You can also make others happy who wander [upon] this earth [You can also make-happy / gladden others who upon this earth wander]. Clap your hands when you are reallyhappy (clap clap). ( somewhat colloquial , withi ( “ in ” ) ) fond of Near-synonym: svår på varaglad i kvinnor / sprit ―befond of women / alcohol [liquor] Jag ärglad i dig ―I amfond of you [implies romantically] 1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.2 Dated or archaic.3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
