broken heart

English

Woman with a broken heart

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Noun

broken heart (plural broken hearts)

1. A feeling of grief or loss, especially after a failed romantic relationship.

   Synonym: heartbreak

   • 1978, Dino Fekaris, Freddie Perren (lyrics and music), “I Will Survive”, in Love Tracks, performed by Gloria Gaynor:

     It took all the strength I had, not to fall apart / Just tryin' hard to mend the pieces of my broken heart

   • 1982, Michael Cleveland (lyrics and music), “Last Night a D.J. Saved My Life”, performed by Indeep:

     Last night a DJ saved my life / Last night a DJ saved my life from a broken heart

Derived terms

• broken heart syndrome
• broken hearted

Related terms

• brokenhearted
• heartbroken

Translations

feeling of grief or loss

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bengali: ভগ্ন হৃদয় (bhogno hridoẏ)
• Burmese: အသည်းကွဲခြင်း (a.sany:kwai:hkrang:)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 失戀／失恋 (zh) (shīliàn), 破碎的心 (pòsuì-de xīn)

• Dutch: gebroken hart n
• Esperanto: rompita koro
• Faroese: hjartasorg f, hjartasár n
• Finnish: särkynyt sydän
• French: cœur blessé m, cœur brisé m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: gebrochenes Herz n, zerissenes Herz n
• Hebrew: לב שבור m (lev shavúr)
• Italian: cuore spezzato m
• Japanese: 失恋 (ja) (しつれん, shitsuren), ブロークンハート (burōkenhāto)
• Korean: 실연(失戀) (ko) (siryeon)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: złamane serce n
• Portuguese: coração partido m
• Romanian: inimă rănită f
• Russian: разби́тое се́рдце n (razbítoje sérdce)
• Sinhalese: බිඳුණු හදවත (biⁿduṇu hadawata)
• Spanish: corazón partido m
• Swedish: brustet hjärta n
• Tamil: மனமுறிவு (ta) (maṉamuṟivu)
• Thai: อกหัก (th) (òk hàk)
• Turkish: kırık kalp
• Ukrainian: розби́те се́рце n (rozbýte sérce)
• Vietnamese: vỡ tim
• Welsh: tor calon m, toriad calon m
• West Frisian: brutsen hert

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