גליק

Yiddish

Etymology

Compare German Glück, Luxembourgish Gléck, West Frisian gelok, English luck, Dutch and Afrikaans geluk, Saramaccan and Sranan Tongo koloku. Compare also to the borrowings in North Germanic languages: Norwegian Nynorsk lukke, Swedish lycka, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål lykke.

Noun

גליק • (glik) n, plural גליקן (glikn)

1. happiness
2. luck

See also

• גליקלעך (gliklekh)
• אומגליק (umglik)
• צום גליק (tsum glik)