Calque of German Heimweh ( “ homesickness ” , literally “ home-woe ” ) , equivalent to home sickness
homesickness (countable and uncountable plural homesicknesses
The characteristic of being homesick ; a strong, sad feeling of missing one's home (and often left-behind loved ones, such as family and friends ) when physically away. missing one's home or family
Arabic: حَنِين m ( ḥanīn ) , اِشْتِيَاق (ar) m ( ištiyāq )
Belarusian: настальгі́я f ( nastalʹhíja )
Bulgarian: носта́лгия (bg) f ( nostálgija )
Catalan: nostàlgia (ca) f enyorança (ca) f
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: nostalgie (cs) f stesk po domově m
Danish: hjemve c hjemlængsel c
Dutch: heimwee (nl) n
Esperanto: hejmveo nostalgio
Finnish: koti-ikävä (fi)
French: mal du pays (fr) m nostalgie (fr) f dépaysement (fr) m
Galician: morriña (gl) f
German: Heimweh (de) n Nostalgie (de) f ( archaic )
Alemannic German: Häiwee n
Greek: νοσταλγία (el) f ( nostalgía )
Hindi: ग़ुरबत ( ġurbat )
Hungarian: honvágy (hu)
Icelandic: heimþrá (is) f
Irish: cumha (i ndiaidh an bhaile )m
Italian: nostalgia (it) f
Japanese: 郷愁 (ja) ( きょうしゅう, kyōshū ) , 望郷 (ja) ( ぼうきょう, bōkyō ) , 里心 (ja) ( さとごころ, satogokoro )
Korean: 향수(鄕愁) (ko) ( hyangsu ) , 향수병(鄕愁病) ( hyangsubyeong ) , 회향병(懷鄕病) (ko) ( hoehyangbyeong )
Latvian: nostaļģija f
Lithuanian: nostalgija f
Low German:
German Low German: Heemweh n
Macedonian: носталгија f ( nostalgija )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: hjemlengsel m
Persian: غربت (fa) ( ğorbat )
Plautdietsch: Bang f
Polish: nostalgia (pl) f
Portuguese: saudade (pt)
Romanian: dor de casă n dor de țară n
Russian: ностальги́я (ru) f ( nostalʹgíja ) , тоска́ (ru) f ( toská ) , тоска́ по ро́дине f ( toská po ródine )
Scottish Gaelic: cianalas m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: носта̀лгија f
Roman: nostàlgija (sh) f
Slovak: nostalgia f
Slovene: nostalgija f
Spanish: nostalgia (es) f añoranza (es) f morriña (es) f
Swedish: nostalgi (sv) c hemlängtan (sv) c
Tagalog: pagkahidlaw kahidlawan
Thai: อาการคิดถึงบ้าน
Turkish: gurbet (tr) , yadlık (tr)
Ukrainian: ностальгі́я f ( nostalʹhíja ) , ту́га за до́мом f ( túha za dómom )
Welsh: hiraeth (cy) m
Yiddish: בענקעדיג ( benkedig )
