English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Back-formation from greedy.
Pronunciation [edit]
greed (countable and uncountable; plural greeds)
- A selfish or excessive desire for more than is needed or deserved, especially of money, wealth, food, or other possessions.
- His greed was his undoing.
- What drove them was their ambition, their greed for power.
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Translations [edit]
selfish desire for more than is needed
- Albanian: lakmi
- Arabic: جشع (ar) (jášaʿ) m, طمع (ar) (ṭámaʿ) m
- Catalan: avarícia (ca) f, cobdícia (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 貪心 (cmn), 贪心 (cmn) (tānxīn), 貪欲 (cmn), 贪欲 (cmn) (tānyù), 貪婪 (cmn), 贪婪 (cmn) (tānlán)
- Czech: chamtivost (cs) f
- Dutch: hebzucht (nl) f, gulzigheid (nl) f
- Finnish: ahneus (fi)
- French: avarice (fr) f
- German: Gier (de) f, Habsucht (de) f
- Greek: απληστία (el) (aplistía)
- Hindi: लालच (hi) (lālac) m
- Hungarian: kapzsiság (hu), mohóság (hu)
- Italian: avidità (it) f, ingordigia (it) f
- Japanese: 貪 (ja) (とん, ton), 欲 (ja) (よく, yoku), 貪欲 (ja) (とんよく, ton'yoku, たんよく, tan'yoku)
- Korean: 탐욕 (ko) (tamyok)
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- Latin: avaritia (la) f
- Norwegian: grådighet (no) m and f
- Persian: حرص (fa) (hers)
- Polish: chciwość (pl) f
- Portuguese: ganância (pt) f
- Romanian: aviditate (ro) f, lăcomie (ro) f, avariție (ro) f
- Russian: алчность (ru) (álčnost') f, жадность (ru) (žádnost') f
- Scottish Gaelic: sannt (gd) m, sanntachd (gd) f
- Serbo-Croatian: pohlepa (sh), gramžljivost (sh), grabežljivost (sh), halapljivost (sh), srebroljublje (sh), škrtost (sh), požuda (sh)
- Slovene: pohlep (sl) m
- Spanish: codicia (es), gula (es) f
- Swahili: tamaa (sw)
- Swedish: girighet (sv) c
- Tamil: பேராசை (ta)
- Telugu: దురాశ (te)
- Urdu: طمع (ur) (tam'a) m, لالچ (ur) (lālac) m
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