joie de vivre

English

Borrowed from French joie de vivre (literally “joy of living”).

joie de vivre (uncountable)

Enjoyment of living; happiness, ebullience, zest for life.
- 1984 April 21, “P'Town for Memorial Day (personal advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, page 18:
  2 LF (young 38 & 47 friends only) without lovers seeking similar for fun weekend in P'Town. Enjoy good food, dancing and joie de vivre.

enjoyment of living, zest for life

Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Basque: bizipoz (eu)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 生活情趣 (shēnghuó qíngqù), 生活樂趣／生活乐趣 (shēnghuó lèqù)
Danish: livsglæde c, livslyst c
Dutch: levensvreugde (nl) f, levenslust (nl) m
Esperanto: vivĝojo
Faroese: lívsgleði
Finnish: elämänilo, elämänhalu
French: joie de vivre (fr) f
Galician: delicia de vivir f
German: Lebensfreude (de) f, Lebenslust (de) f
Hindi: जीने की ख़ुशी f (jīne kī xuśī)
Hungarian: életöröm (hu)
Icelandic: lífsgleði f
Italian: gioia di vivere f
Japanese: 生きる歓び (いきるよろこび, ikiru yorokobi)
Kannada: ಬಾಳಸವಿ (kn) (bāḷasavi), ಜೀವನ ಮಾಧುರ್ಯ (kn) (jīvana mādhurya), ಜೀವನದ ಸುಖೋತ್ಕರ್ಷ (kn) (jīvanada sukhōtkarṣa)
Korean: please add this translation if you can
Latvian: dzīvesprieks m, dzīves prieks m
Limburgish: laeveslös (li) m
Luxembourgish: liewensfreed
Norwegian:
Bokmål: livsglede m or f, livslyst m or f

Nynorsk: livsglede f, livslyst f
Polish: radość życia f
Portuguese: alegria de viver f
Romanian: bucurie de a trăi f
Russian: жизнера́достность (ru) f (žiznerádostnostʹ)
Spanish: alegría de vivir f
Swedish: livsglädje (sv) c, livslust (sv) c
Ukrainian: життєра́дісність f (žyttjerádisnistʹ)
Uzbek: xushchaqchaqlik (uz)
Vietnamese: niềm vui sống

FWOTD – 12 June 2017

joie de vivre f (uncountable)

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