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By surface analysis , greet -ing
greeting (countable and uncountable plural greetings
A conventional phrase used to start a letter or conversation or otherwise to acknowledge a person's arrival or presence .
It's polite to begin a letter with a greeting , but this practice is less common in email.
( uncountable ) to greet .
1897 December (indicated as 1898 ), Winston Churchill , chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode The Macmillan Company ; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd. , →OCLC I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting , […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.
acknowledgement of a persons presence or arrival
Albanian: përshëndetje (sq) f
Arabic: تَحِيَّة (ar) f ( taḥiyya )
Armenian: բարև (hy) ( barew )
Assamese: ওলগ ( ülog )
Azerbaijani: təbrik (az) , salam (az)
Belarusian: прывіта́нне n ( pryvitánnje ) , віта́нне n ( vitánnje )
Bengali: সালাম (bn) ( salam )
Bulgarian: по́здрав (bg) m ( pózdrav ) , приве́тствие (bg) n ( privétstvie )
Burmese: ပဋိသန္ဒါရစကား ( pa.ti.sandara.ca.ka: )
Catalan: salut (ca) m salutació (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 迎接 (zh) ( yíngjiē )
Czech: pozdrav (cs) m
Danish: hilsen (da) c
Dutch: begroeting (nl) f groet (nl) m
Egyptian: (njnj
Esperanto: saluto (eo)
Estonian: tervitus
Faroese: heilsa f heilsan f kvøða f
Finnish: tervehdys (fi)
French: salutation (fr) f salut (fr) m
Georgian: მისალმება ( misalmeba )
German: Gruß (de) m Begrüßung (de) f
Greek: χαιρετισμός (el) m ( chairetismós )
Ancient: ἀσπασμός m ( aspasmós )
Hindi: अभिवादन (hi) m ( abhivādan )
Hungarian: üdvözlet (hu) , köszöntés (hu)
Icelandic: kveðja (is) f
Ido: saluto (io)
Italian: saluto (it) m benvenuto (it) m
Japanese: 挨拶 (ja) ( あいさつ, aisatsu )
Kazakh: сәлемдесу ( sälemdesu )
Khmer: បច្ចុគ្គមន៍ ( paccokkum ) , ស្វាគមន៍ (km) ( svaakum )
Korean: 인사(人事) (ko) ( insa )
Kyrgyz: саламдашуу (ky) ( salamdaşuu )
Latin: salūtātiō (la) f
Latvian: sveiciens m
Lithuanian: pasveikinimas m
Luganda: okubuuza okulamusa
Luxembourgish: Begréissung f
Macedonian: поздрав m ( pozdrav ) , поздравување n ( pozdravuvanje )
Malay: ucapan (ms)
Maori: waioha mānawa
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: мэндчилгээ (mn) ( mendčilgee )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: hilsen (no) m
Nynorsk: helsing (nn)
Persian: پیشواز (fa) ( pišvâz ) , تبریک (fa) ( tabrik ) , سلام (fa) ( salâm ) , احوالپرسی (fa) ( ahvâl-porsi )
Plautdietsch: Gruss m
Polish: pozdrowienie (pl) n powitanie (pl) n
Portuguese: saudação (pt) f
Romanian: salut (ro) n salutare (ro) f
Russian: приве́тствие (ru) n ( privétstvije )
Scottish Gaelic: fàilte f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: по̏здра̄в m
Roman: pȍzdrāv (sh) m
Slovak: pozdrav m
Slovene: pozdrav (sl)
Spanish: saludo (es) m salutación (es) f saludación (es) f ( rare )
Swahili: salamu (sw)
Swedish: hälsning (sv) c hälsningsfras (sv)
Tagalog: pagbati bati saludo pugay
Tajik: табрик ( tabrik ) , салом ( salom )
Thai: การทักทาย (th) ( gaan-ták-taai )
Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: tebrik (tr) , selam (tr)
Ukrainian: віта́ння n ( vitánnja ) , привіта́ння n ( pryvitánnja )
Uzbek: tabrik (uz) , salomlashish
Vietnamese: lời chào (vi)
Volapük: glid (vo)
Welsh: cyfarchiad (cy) m
West Frisian: begroeting c
Yiddish: גרוס ( grus )
Zazaki: selam (diq)
greeting
present participle and gerund of greet 
