homesick

English

Etymology

Back-formation from homesickness, equivalent to home +‎ sick.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhəʊ̯m.sɪk/, [ˈhəʊ̯m.sɪk]

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhoʊ̯m.sɪk/, [ˈhoʊ̯m.sɪk]
• Hyphenation: home‧sick

Adjective

homesick (comparative more homesick, superlative most homesick)

1. (often with for) Missing one's home and family very much when away; nostalgic.

   feel homesick

   become homesick

   deeply homesick

   She felt terribly homesick during her first month abroad.

   The camp counselors tried to comfort the homesick children.

Derived terms

• homesickly
• homesickness

Translations

missing one's home or family

• Bulgarian: носталгичен (nostalgičen)
• Catalan: enyorat (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 思鄉 / 思乡 (zh) (sīxiāng), (colloquial) 想家 (zh) (xiǎngjiā), (literary) 鄉愁 / 乡愁 (zh) (xiāngchóu), (dated) 懷鄉 / 怀乡 (zh) (huáixiāng)

• Czech: tesknící po domově
• Dutch: heemziek, heimwee (nl) m or f or n
• Finnish: koti-ikävä (fi) (noun, check usage at fi entry)
• German: heimwehkrank
• Greek: νοσταλγός (el) m or f (nostalgós)
• Icelandic: vera með heimþrá, vera haldinn heimþrá
• Ilocano: iliw
• Indonesian: rindu rumah (literally “to miss home”)
• Italian: nostalgico (it)
• Japanese: ホームシック (ja) (hōmushikku)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: بیری ماڵەوە (bîrî mallewe)

• Māori: manatu
• Mongolian: нутгаа санах (nutgaa sanax), үгүйлэх (mn) (ügüjlex), гэрээ санах (geree sanax)
• Polish: nostalgiczny (pl)
• Russian: тоску́ющий (toskújuščij) по (po) дому (domu) (toskújuščij po dómu)
• Tagalog: sabik sa pag-uwi, nahihidlaw
• Tongan: taʻelata
• Turkish: yurduna özlemli