longing

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈlɒŋɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɒŋɪŋ
• (US) IPA: /ˈlɔːŋɪŋ/

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Verb

longing

1. Present participle of long.

Noun

longing (plural longings)

1. An earnest and deep, not greatly passionate, but rather melancholic desire.
2. The buying of a financial instrument with the expectation that its value will rise

Synonyms

• yearning

Translations

melancholic desire

• Arabic: شوق (ar) (šawq) m
• Czech: touha (cs) f
• Dutch: verlangen (nl) n
• Esperanto: sopiro (eo)
• Finnish: kaipuu (fi), kaipaus (fi), ikävä (fi)
• French: nostalgie (fr) f
• German: Sehnsucht (de) f, Sehnen (de) n, Verlangen (de) n
• Hebrew: כמיהה (kmi-ha), כִּיסּוּפִים (kisufim), כלה (he) (kaleh)
• Italian: brama (it) f
• Latvian: ilgas (lv) f pl, ilgošanās (lv)
• Lithuanian: ilgesys (lt) m

• Malay: kehendak (ms), hasrat (ms)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lengsel (nb) m

  Nynorsk: lengsel (nn) m, lengsle (nn) f

• Polish: pragnienie n, tęsknota (pl) f
• Portuguese: saudade (pt) for something absent only
• Romanian: dor (ro) n
• Russian: тоска (ru) (toská) f
• Scottish Gaelic: cianalas m, iarraidh m, fadachd m, miann m and f, ionndrainn m
• Spanish: añoranza
• Swedish: längtan (sv) c
• Turkish: özlem (tr), hasret (tr)
• Urdu: اشتیاق (ur)
• Welsh: hiraeth (cy) m

Related terms

• long

See also

• desire
• miss