all hail

See also: all-hail

English

Interjection

a phrase of salutation, welcome, or acclamation.
- 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene i]:
  Did they not sometime cry "All hail" to me?

Translations

greeting

Chinese:
Cantonese: 萬歲 (maan⁶ seoi³)

Mandarin: 萬歲 (zh)
Japanese: 万歳 (ja) (banzai)
Malay: dirgahayu
Maori: whatu katoa
Polish: niech żyje (pl)
Russian: да здравствует (ru) (da zdravstvujet), славься (slavʹsja), все приветствуют (vse privetstvujut)
Turkish: selamlar olsun
Uzbek: hamma doʻl (uz)

References

all hail in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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