حضرتك

Meaning

you (polite second-person personal pronoun)

Concepts

husband

🤵

lordship

monseigneur

sir

Sir

dear employer

Synonyms

أستاذ

أفندي

سيد

سيدي

ﺳﻴﺪ

Translations

senyor

Herr

👨

mein Herr

Mein Herr

κύριος

σερ

Σέρ

dame

monsieur

seigneur

Monsieur

signore

dominus

homo

heer

Etymology

حَضْرَة (ḥaḍra, “presence”) + كَ/كِ (ka/ki, “your”); "your presence" (i.e. "your grace"). Compare Spanish usted (from vuestra merced (“your mercy”)), and the cognate Portuguese term você.