yearn

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɜː(r)n

Etymology

From Old English giernan, from Proto-Germanic *girnijanan.

Verb

yearn (third-person singular simple present yearns, present participle yearning, simple past and past participle yearned)

1. (intransitive, construed with for) To long, have a strong desire (for something).
   • All I yearn for is a simple life.
2. (intransitive, construed with for) To long back with melancholy, nostalgically

Derived terms

yearner yearning yearningness

Translations

to have a strong desire; to long

Arabic: اشتاق (ar) (ishtaaqa) Chinese: Mandarin: 想念 (cmn) (xiǎngniàn), 思念 (cmn) (sīniàn), 盼念 (cmn) (pànniàn) Dutch: smachten (nl), zuchten (nl), verlangen (nl) (naar) Esperanto: sopiri (eo) Finnish: kaivata (fi), haikailla (fi) French: languir (fr) German: sich sehnen (de), verlangen (de), vermissen (de) Greek: επιθυμώ (el), λαχταρώ (el) Hungarian: sóvárog (hu), vágyódik (hu) Italian: struggersi (it) Japanese: 憧れる (ja) (あこがれる, akogareru), 恋い慕う (ja) (koishitau), 切望する (ja) (setsubō suru)

Latin: dēsīderō (la) Portuguese: ansiar (pt) Russian: скучать (ru) (skučát'), тосковать (ru) (toskovát'), жаждать (ru) (žáždat'), стремиться (ru) (stremít'sja) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: че̏знути (sh); жу́дјети (sh) (Ijekavian), жу́дети (sh) (Ekavian) Roman: čȅznuti (sh); žúdjeti (sh) (Ijekavian), žúdeti (sh) (Ekavian) Spanish: anhelar (es), desear (es), ansiar (es) Swedish: längta till (sv), längta tillbaka till (sv), längta efter (sv) Turkish: özlemek (tr), hislenmek (tr)

to long back with melancholy

Armenian: կարոտել (hy) (karotel) Dutch: terugverlangen (naar)

Esperanto: sopiri (eo)

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Romanian: a tânji (după) (does the romanian entry here include the equivalent of the English particle "to"? Shouldn't it just be tânji?)

Anagrams

• aryne, Rayne, Yaren, yarne