Toasting School Project

[Nephelae]

OK, so, for school I have to find the word for "Cheers" in as many languages as possible, with the correct spelling in the original language, the English pronunciation and the meaning. If anyone could help it would be great. Any language or many as possible please.

It going to look like this:

Hebrew- To Life- L'Chaim- לחיים

Armenia- To You- (missing pronunciation)- Ձեր կենացը՜

And so on....

[Xiao Kui]

the Chinese is gan1 bei1 [ADSO]干杯[/ADSO]

[anon6969]

It' means "dry your glass"

[cababunga]

That was Simplified Chinese. In Traditional Chinese it's 乾杯.

Pronunciation in pinyin, as was mentioned above, is gān bēi, but it sounds like English "gun bay".

[gerri]

German: Prost (with a long o, derived from the, sometimes also used, prosit: Latin for "be well").

I'm sure there's a few websites - "howtosayin" in something like that...

[renzhe]

Croatian: Živjeli!

[liuzhou]

Zhuang

Gun Lo

(It means something like - please drink. I have no idea how to write it "correctly", nor do most Zhuang people. Zhuang is almost exclusively a spoken, rather than written, language - like most languages.)

[imron]

Gun Lo

干了?

[renzhe]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhuang_logogram

Wow, just when I thought I was getting a grip on all the variations of Han characters out there, this jumps out.

To get back on topic: http://www.awa.dk/glosary/slainte.htm

[Nephelae]

Thanks everyone, you have been a great help.

[Lu]

Dutch: Proost (a lot like German Prost).

[mvk20]

Spanish = ¡Salud! (sah-lood, health)

Esperanto = Je via sano! (yeh vee-ah sah-noh, to your health)

[xiaocai]

Also 乾杯(かんぱい/kanpai) in Japanese.