good evening
good evening interjection: used as a greeting in the evening.
Interjection
good evening meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
good evening in Hindi
- greeting said in the evening
- नमस्ते namaste, शुभ संध्या śubh sandhyā
good evening in Tamil
- நன்மாலை
good evening in Urdu
- greeting said in the evening
- شام بَخَیر śām baxair, شَب بَخَیر śab baxair
good evening in Bengali
- greeting said in the evening
- শুভ সন্ধ্যা śubho śonddha
More languagesFewer languages
- good evening in Kannada
- ನಲ್ಸಂಜೆ, ಚಂಚಂಜೆ
- good evening in Tagalog
- magandang gabi
- good evening in Arabic
- مَسَاء الْخَيْر masāʔ al-ḵayr, مَسَاء النُّور masāʔ an-nūr
- good evening in Malay
- selamat petang
- good evening in Indonesian
- selamat malam
- good evening in Thai
- สวัสดี sà-wàt-dii, สายัณห์สวัสดิ์ sǎa-yan-sà-wàt
- good evening in Vietnamese
- chào buổi tối, xin chào buổi tối
- Dzongkha
- ཕྱི་རུ་བདེ་ལེགས། phyi ru bde legs
Synonyms of good evening
- good-den[Appendix:Glossary
Forms of good evening
| alternative form (dated) | good-evening |
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Origin of good evening
An ellipsis for an expression such as "I wish you a good evening.".
Questions about good evening
- What does good evening mean?
- Good evening means used as a greeting in the evening.
- What is good evening in Hindi?
- Good evening in Hindi is नमस्ते (namaste), शुभ संध्या (śubh sandhyā). See Good evening meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is good evening?
- Good evening is an interjection.
Words near good evening in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: good evening (page history and authors); good evening (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); good evening (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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