malheur
French
noun
Definitions
- sadness, unhappiness
- misfortune
Etymology
Compound from French mal (badly, well, illness, bad) + French heur.
Origin
French
heur
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Malheur County English
- Mallory English
- ill English
- ill stound English
- mal English
- malafide English
- malus English
- stound English
- *malifātiu(s), *malifatius Latin
- *malifātius Latin
- augurium Latin
- bonus Latin
- malefacio Latin
- malignus Latin
- malitas Latin
- malitia Latin
- malitās, malitas, malitātem Latin
- malus Latin
- pessica Latin
- Malheur German
- Malör German
- malo Italian
- bonheur French
- heur French
- heureux French
- mal French
- mal à propos French
- malintentionné French
- malmener French
- malsain French
- malveillant French
- malvenu French
- maudire French
- maudit French
- mal Spanish, Castilian
- malo Spanish, Castilian
- μῆλον Ancient Greek
- *mel- Proto-Indo-European
- malplassert Norwegian Bokmål
- malplassert Norwegian Nynorsk
- malér Czech
- eur Old French
- eur, eür Old French
- mal Old French
- maleure Old French
- mal Catalan, Valencian
- malo Galician
- малус Bulgarian
- mao Old Portuguese
- малер Macedonian
- *malos Proto-Italic
- aguamala Asturian
- malu Asturian
- mal Old Occitan
- malvat Old Occitan
- mala Sicilian
- mali Sicilian
- malu Sicilian
- mal Dalmatian
- mul Dalmatian
- malelve Mauritian Creole
- mau Bourguignon
- malu Sardinian
- mal Interlingua
- malelve Seychellois Creole