yearning

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɜː(r)nɪŋ

Noun

yearning (plural yearnings)

1. A wistful or melancholy longing.

   She had a yearning to see her long-lost sister again.

2. (archaic) rennet

Translations

wistful or melancholy longing

• Arabic: شوق (shawq) m
• Armenian: կարոտ (hy) (karot)
• Catalan: anhel (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 憧憬 (cmn) (chōngjǐng)

• Esperanto: dezirego (eo)
• Finnish: kaipuu (fi), kaipaus (fi), ikävä (fi)
• German: Sehnsucht (de) f
• Hebrew: כִּיסּוּפִים (kisufim)

• Italian: brama (it) f
• Japanese: あこがれ (ja) (akogare)
• Korean: 동경 (ko) (tonggyeong)
• Polish: tęsknota (pl) f
• Portuguese: saudade (pt)
• Romanian: dor (ro) n, dorință arzătoare (ro) f, năzuință (ro) f
• Russian: тяга (ru) (tjaga), склонность (ru) (sklonnostʹ), стремление (ru) (stremlenije)
• Spanish: anhelo (es) m
• Turkish: hasret (tr)

Related terms

• yearn

Verb

yearning

1. Present participle of yearn.