Cheers

Cheers in Other Languages & Cultures

By “Cheers” I mean, of course, a one-word or simple toast that is common the way Cheers is many English-speaking countries and cultures. If you know of one that’s missing here or is wrong, please be so kind as to drop me a note.

Albanian: Gëzuar / Shëndeti tuaj
American: Down the hatch / Here’s mud in your eye
Arabian: Bismilah / Fi schettak or Fisehatak (“to your health”)
Arabic: في صحتك
Armenian: Genatzt or Genatset or Genatsoot or Genatz (“life”) / կենացդ
Asturian: Gayola
Australian: Cheers / Kia ora
Austrian: Prosit / Stoss an! (“clink glasses”) / Zum Wohl
Azerbaijani: Afiyæt oslun
Basque: On egin / Topa / eskerriska
Belarusian: ўра / для Вашага здароўя (to your health)
Belgian: Gezondheid (huh-zohnd’-hayt) / Op uw gezonheid
Bislama (Vanuatu pidgin): Dringim
Bolivian: Salud
Borneo: Minum! (“drink”)
Bosnian: Zivjeli
Brazilian: Saúde (“to your health”) / Tim-tim / Viva
Breton: Yec’hed mat
Bulgarian: Nazdrave / наздраве
Burmese: Aung myin par say
Canadian: Cheers
Catalan: Txin txin
Chichewa: Wawa
Chilean: Salud
Chinese: Gom bui [Cantonese] or Gan Bei [Mandarin] or Kan bei (“dry the cup”) / Kong Chien / Nien Nien nu e / Wen lie / Yam sing, Yung sing or Yum Sen (“drink and win”)
Chinese (Mandarin): Gan bei / 乾杯 / 干杯
Colombian: Salud
Cornish: Yeghes da
Costa Rican: Pura Vida (“pure life”)
Croatian: Uzdraulje or U zdravlje / Zivjeli
Czech: Nazdar or Na zdraví (“to your health”)
Danish: Skål or Skaal
Dutch: Geluch / Gezondheid / Proost / Prut / Santé / Schol
Dzongkha (Bhutan): ཆང་མཆོད
English: Bottoms up / Cheers
Egyptian: Bisochtak / Fee sihetak
Equadoran: Salud
Esperanto: Je zia sano / Sanon
Estonian: Tervist / Terviseks (“to your health”) /rõõmuhüüded
Ethiopian: T’chen chen
Farsi: Ba’sal’a’ma’ti
Finnish: Kippis / Kippis Terveydeksi (“to your health”) / Maljanne (“a toast to you sir”)
Flemish: Proost
French: A votre santé / Santé
Frisian: Tsjoch
Gaelic: Sláinte (“to your health”) [Ireland] // Slaandjivaa (“to your health”) / Slainte Mhath (“good health”) / Slainte mhoiz or Slainte Mhor (Slainte vor, “great health”) [Scotland]
Galacian: Saúde / Chinchín
Georgian: Gagimardschoss or Gaumardschoss / Vakhtanguri / გაგიმარჯოს
German: Auf ihr wohl / Prosit
Greek: Eis Igian / Gia’sou / Jamas / Stin igia sou or Stin ijiasas
Greenlandic: Kasugta or Kassutta (“let our glasses meet”) / Imeqatigiitta (“let’s drink together”)
Guatemalan: Salud
Hawaiian: Hauolo maoli oe / Hipahipa / Meli kalikama / Okole maluna or Okole malune
Hebrew: לחיים
Hindi: Apki Lambi Umar Ke Liye / चीयर्स
Hobbit: Almien (“to good fortune”)
Holooe: Kam-poe
Honduran: Salud
Hungarian: Egészségedre (“to your health”) / Kedves egészségere / szervusz
Icelandic: Santanka nu / skál
Ido: Ye vua saneso
I-Kiribati: Mauri (“good health”)
Indian: Aanand / A la sature / Harsha [Bangla] / Jaikind
Indonesian: Pro [Bahasa] / Selamat / Tos (toss)
Iranian: Besalmati or Be salam ati (“to your health”) / Nush (“enjoy it, and let it be part of your body”) / Shemoh / Vashi [Baluchi]
Irish: Sláinte / Guid forder! (“good luck”) [Ulster-Scots]
Israeli: Le’chayim (“to life”) / Mazel Tov (“congratulations”)
Italian: A la salute / Cin cin / Salute
Japanese: Banzai / Campai or Kampai / 乾杯
Kenyan: Rathima andu atene [Kikuyu]
Khmer: សន្តិយុត្ត
Kinyarwanda: Dusangire Karyohe
Kirundi: Kira (“be healthy”)
Korean: Chukbae / Kong gang ul wi ha yo / Konbe / 乾杯 / 건배
Lao: ສຽງໂຮ
Latin: Bene tibi / Sanitas bona (“to your health”)
Latvian: Prieka / Uz veselibu
Lebanese: Kesak
Lithuanian: I sveikas / I sveikata
Macedonian: Na zdravje! (“to your health”) / на здравје
Malay: Ceria
Malayan: Slamat minum
Maltese: evviva / saħħa
Maori: Kia ora (“good health”)
Mexican: Salud
Mongolian: таны эрүүл мэндийн тѳлѳѳ
Moroccan: Saha wa’afiab
New Zealander: Kia ora (“good health”)
Nicaraguan: Salud
Norwegian: Skål
Occitan: A la vòstra / Santat
Pakistani: Sanda Bashi
Panamanian: Salud
Paraguayan: Salud
Persian: Besalmati or Be salam ati (“to your health”) / Nush (“enjoy it, and let it be part of your body”) / ممنون- شادباش
Peruvian: Salud
Philippine: Mabuhay
Polish: Na zdrowie / Vivat
Portuguese: A sua saúde / Saúde (“to your health”) / tim tim
Punjabi: jai jaikar
Romanian: Noroc (“good luck”) / Pentru sanatatea dunneavoastra / sănătate
Romansh: Viva
Russian: Budem zdorovy (“let’s stay healthy”) / Chtob vse byli zdorovy (“let everybody be healthy”) / Vashe zdorovie / Na zdorovia *may not actually be used* / Na zdorovje (“to your health”) / Za sbychu mecht / будем здоровы / за ваше здоровье / пей до дна
Scottish: Sláinte
Serbian: Ziveli (zjee-ve-lee, “let’s live long”) / Zivio Ziveli
Sesotho: Nqa
Slovakian: Na zdravie (“to your health”) / Stolicka!
Slovenian: Na zdravje / Zivjo!
Somalian: Auguryo
South African: Amandla / Gezondheid [Afrikaans]
Spanish: Salud / Chin chin
Sri Lankan: Seiradewa [Sinhala]
Swahili: Afya / Maisha marefu (“good life”) / Vifijo
Swedish: Skål / Skaal / Helan går (“everything goes”)
Swiss: Proscht [Bärndütsch]
Tagalog: Mabuhay (“long life”)
Tahitian: Manuta
Taiwanese: Gun bi
Thai: Chai yo / Choc-tee or Chook-die / Sawasdi *Sawadekaa (to a male) Sawadekap (to a female)* / ไชโย
Tongan: Ofa atu
Turkish: Serefe (“to honor”) / Sagliginiza (“to your health”) / şerefe
United Arab Emirate: Shucram
United Kingdom: Cheers
Ukranian: Boovatje zdorovi / Budem (“let’s stay healthy”) / Budmo (“shall we live forever”) *after one person says Budmo, the rest say ‘Hey’ / будьмо
Urdu: Djam
Uruguayan: Salud
Uyghur: Hoshe (“cheers”) / Salametlikingiz ucun (“for your health”)
Uzbek: o‘nga / tost, qadah ko’tarish / xayr / rahmat
Venezualan: Salud
Vietnamese: Can chén [North V.] / Can ly [South V.] / Chia / Cung ly (gumm lee)
Welsh: Iechyd da
Yugoslavian: Ziveli / Zivio
Zulu: Oogy wawa

Key:

[in brackets] = toast is in that specific language or dialect in that country
(italics in parentheses) = phonetic pronunciation
*note* = a note about the toast
(parentheses, no italics with quotation marks) = translation of the toast