safe and sound

safe and sound

English

Etymology

Conjunction of safe (“not in danger”) and sound (“healthy”). Compare with Old French sauf et sain.

Adjective

safe and sound (not comparable)

1. Having come to no harm, especially after being exposed to danger.

   Synonyms: in one piece, unharmed, unhurt, uninjured, unscathed

   • c. 1594, William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene iv], page 96:

     Come to the Centaur, fetch our ſtuffe from thence: / I long that we were ſafe and ſound aboord.

Translations

having come to no harm

Armenian: please add this translation if you can Azerbaijani: sağ-salamat Catalan: sa i estalvi (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 安好 (zh) (ānhǎo), 平安 (zh) (píng'ān), 亳髮無傷／亳发无伤 (bòfāwúshāng), 安然無恙／安然无恙 (zh) (ānránwúyàng) Dutch: veilig en wel Esperanto: sanigita kaj savita Finnish: kunnossa (fi), turvassa French: sain et sauf (fr) Galician: san e salvo m, sa e salva f German: wohlbehalten (de), ganz und heil, gesund und munter Greek: σώος και αβλαβής (el) (sóos kai avlavís) Hungarian: ép és egészséges Icelandic: heill á húfi m, heilu og höldnu, klakklaust Interlingua: san e salve Italian: sano e salvo m, sana e salva f, incolume (it), indenne (it) Japanese: 無事に (ja) (ぶじに, buji-ni) Khmer: ដោយសោត្ថិភាព (daoy saottʰe’pʰiep), ដោយសុវត្ថិភាព (daoy so’vattʰe’pʰiep), សុវត្ថិភាពនិងសុខុដុម (sowtthephiəpnɨngsokhodom), សុខសុវត្ថិភាព (soksowtthephiəp) Korean: 무사하다 (ko) (musahada) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: ساغ و سەلیم‎ (saẍ û selîm) Latin: sani salvique, sospes, incolumis Latvian: sveiks un vesels Lithuanian: sveikas ir gyvas Mongolian: энх тунх (enx tunx) Norwegian: Bokmål: helskinnet Polish: cały i zdrowy (pl) m, cała i zdrowa f Portuguese: são e salvo m, sã e salva f Romanian: teafăr (ro) m or n, sănătos (ro) m or n, teafăr și nevătămat m or n Russian: в це́лости и сохра́нности (v célosti i soxránnosti), це́лый и невреди́мый (célyj i nevredímyj) Serbo-Croatian: zdrav i čitav Slovak: živý a zdravý m, živá a zdravá f Spanish: sano y salvo Swedish: välbehållen (sv), helskinnad (sv) Thai: please add this translation if you can Turkish: sağ salim (tr), sağ selamet (tr)

References

• "safe and sound" in the Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989. See "safe."