English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Late Latin nostalgia, from Ancient Greek * νοσταλγία (nostalgia), from νόστος (nostos, “a return home”) + ἄλγος (algos, “pain, suffering”). Compare Italian nostalgia and French nostalgie.
Pronunciation [edit]
- (UK) IPA: /nɒˈstaldʒə/
- (US) IPA: /nɑˈstældʒə/, /nɔˈstældʒə/
nostalgia (plural nostalgias)
- A longing for home or familiar surroundings; homesickness.
- A bittersweet yearning for the things of the past.
- Reminiscence of the speaker's childhood or younger years.
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
yearning for the past, homesickness
- Arabic: حنين (ar) (ḥanīn) m, اشتياق (ar) (ištiyāq) m
- Armenian: կարոտ (hy) (karot)
- Berber:
- Tashelhit: amarg m
- Bulgarian: носталгия (bg) (nostalgija) f
- Catalan: nostàlgia (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 鄉愁 (cmn), 乡愁 (cmn) (xiāngchóu), 鄉思 (cmn), 乡思 (cmn) (xiāngsī), 懷舊 (cmn), (yearning for the past) 怀旧 (cmn) (huáijiù), 懷古 (cmn), 怀古 (cmn) (huáigǔ)
- Czech: nostalgie (cs) f
- Esperanto: saŭdado (eo), nostalgio (eo)
- Finnish: nostalgia (fi), haikeus (fi), kaiho (fi)
- French: nostalgie (fr) f, mal du pays (fr) m
- German: Nostalgie (de) f, Heimweh (de) n, Sehnsucht (de) f, Wehmut (de) f
- Greek: νοσταλγία (el) (nostalgía) f
- Hungarian: (yearning for the past) nosztalgia (hu), (homesickness) honvágy (hu)
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- Icelandic: nostalgía (is) f, fortíðarþrá (is) f
- Italian: nostalgia (it) f
- Japanese: 郷愁 (ja) (きょうしゅう, kyōshū), 望郷 (ja) (ぼうきょう, bōkyō), 里心 (ja) (さとごころ, satogokoro), (yearning for the past) 懐古 (ja) (かいこ, kaiko), 懐旧 (ja) (かいきゅう, kaikyū)
- Khmer: ការអាឡោះអាល័យ (km) (kaa aalɑh aalay)
- Latvian: nostaļģija (lv) f
- Malayalam: ഗൃഹാതുരത്വം (ml) (grhāturatvam), ഗതാതുരത്വം (ml) (gatāturatvam)
- Persian: نوستالژی (fa) (nostâlži)
- Polish: nostalgia (pl) f, tęsknota za krajem (pl) f
- Portuguese: saudade (pt), nostalgia (pt) f
- Russian: ностальгия (ru) (nostal'gíja) f , тоска (ru) (toská) f , (homesickness) тоска по родине (ru) (toská po ródine) f , (yearning for the past) тоска по прошлому (ru) (toská po próšlomu)
- Spanish: nostalgia (es) f, añoranza (es) f
- Swedish: nostalgi (sv)
- Welsh: hiraeth (cy) m
- Vietnamese: (yearning for the past) hoài cổ (vi)
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See also [edit]
Finnish [edit]
nostalgia
- nostalgia
Declension [edit]
Declension of nostalgia (type kulkija)
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Italian [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From nostro + -algia
nostalgia f (plural nostalgie)
- nostalgia, homesickness
Related terms [edit]
Anagrams [edit]
Spanish [edit]
nostalgia m (plural nostalgias)
- nostalgia