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Erik Madigan Heck

🇬🇧 beauty 🌹🌹🌹

Old English: fæġernes, whence Modern English fairness.

🏛 pulchritudo, decor, forma, formositas, venustas, formula, decus, species, facies 🌷🌷🌷

🇫🇷 la beauté (Old French: biauté), whence English beauty. From Medieval Latin *bellitās (“beauty”), from Latin bellus (“beautiful, fair”). 💐💐💐

🇮🇹 la bellezza 🌻🌻🌻

🇪🇸 la belleza 🌞🌞🌞

🇵🇹 a beleza 👗👗👗

🇮🇪 áilleacht ☘️☘️☘️| Bhí sí i mblás a háilleachta san am. She was in the flower of beauty at the time. | barrshamhail naháilleachta the ideal of beauty | sampla d’áilleacht na hÉireann type of Irish beauty | áilleacht nádúrtha beauty unadorned

🇩🇪 die Schönheit; schön = cognate with English “sheen” 🌺🌺🌺

🇷🇺 красота krasotá ✨✨✨

🇬🇷 ομορφιά omorfiá 🪸🪸🪸

🇮🇷 Khoshgel (خوشگل) Zeeba (زیبا) Qashang (قشنگ) 🐚🐚🐚

🇹🇷 güzellik (adj.: güzel) 🥀🥀🥀

🇯🇵 bi • 美しさ utsukushisa | 自然の美しさ (shizen no utsukushisa), “beauty in nature.” 🌸🌸🌸

🇲🇳 ᠭᠣᠣ᠎ᠠ ᠰᠠᠶᠢᠬᠠᠨmb гоо сайхан goo saikhan | ᠭᠣᠣ᠎ᠠ ᠦᠵᠡᠰᠬᠦᠯᠡᠩmb гоо үзэсгэлэн goo uzesgelen/üdzesgelen | эмэгтэй хүний гоо үзэсгэлэн emegtei khunii goo uzesgelen “feminine beauty” | ᠦᠵᠡᠮᠵᠢmb үзэмж uzemzh/üdzemj 🌼🌼🌼

🇨🇳 美丽 Měilì • In Mandarin, 美国 měiguó means “United States”, literally “beautiful country” 🪷🪷🪷

🇰🇪 🇹🇿 jamala 🦚🦚🦚

Extract from L’après-midi d’un faune by French poet Stéphane Mallarmé

Beauty. Is. Pain.

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