heartache

English

Alternative forms

• heart-ache

Etymology

From Middle English heorteece, heorte-ece, from Old English *heortæċe, heorteċe (“heartache”), equivalent to heart +‎ ache.

Noun

heartache (countable and uncountable, plural heartaches)

1. Very sincere and difficult emotional problems or stress

Translations

very sincere and difficult emotional problems or stress

• Bulgarian: мъка (bg) f (mǎka), душевна болка f (duševna bolka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 心痛 (zh) (xīntòng)

• Dutch: hartzeer (nl) n
• Esperanto: korpremo
• Finnish: sydänsuru (fi), murhe (fi)
• French: chagrin d’amour (fr) m, peine de cœur (fr) f
• German: Herzenskummer m
• Irish: croíbhriseadh m
• Japanese: 心痛 (しんつう, shintsū)

• Latin: cordolium n
• Maori: tūmatatenga, ahotea, auhi, huamo, pākikini, mate kanehe
• Russian: душе́вная боль f (dušévnaja bolʹ), страда́ние (ru) n (stradánije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: срцобоља

  Roman: srcobolja

• Spanish: angustia (es) f, pena (es) f
• Swedish: hjärtesorg (sv)
• Thai: ไข้ใจ (th) (kâi-jai), โทมนัส (th)
• Turkish: kâlp ağrısı (tr)