longing

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlɒŋɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɒŋɪŋ
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈlɔːŋɪŋ/

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Verb

longing

1. present participle of long

Noun

longing (plural longings)

1. An earnest and deep, not greatly passionate, but rather melancholic desire.
2. The buying of a financial instrument with the expectation that its value will rise

Synonyms

• yearning

Translations

melancholic desire

• Arabic: شَوْق‏‎ m (šawq)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 渴望 (zh) (kěwàng)

• Czech: touha (cs) f
• Dutch: verlangen (nl) n
• Esperanto: sopiro
• Finnish: kaipuu, kaipaus, ikävä (fi)
• French: nostalgie (fr) f
• German: Sehnsucht (de) f, Sehnen (de) n, Verlangen (de) n
• Hebrew: כְּמִיהָה‏‎ (he) (k'mihá), כיסופים \ כִּסּוּפִים‏‎ (he) (kisufim), גַּעְגּוּעַ‏‎ (he) m (ga'agú'a)
• Irish: cumha m
• Italian: brama (it) f, nostalgia (it) f, desiderio (it) m, voglia (it) f, anelito m, bramosia (it) f
• Japanese: 憧れ (akogare), 切望 (ja) (せつぼう, setsubō)
• Latvian: ilgas f pl, ilgošanās
• Lithuanian: ilgesys m

• Malay: kehendak, hasrat
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lengsel m

  Nynorsk: lengsel m, lengsle f

• Persian: سودا‏‎ (fa) (sovdâ)
• Polish: pragnienie (pl) n, tęsknota (pl) f
• Portuguese: saudade (pt) for something absent only
• Romanian: dor (ro) n
• Russian: тоска́ (ru) f (toská)
• Scottish Gaelic: cianalas m, iarraidh m, fadachd m, miann m, f, ionndrainn m
• Spanish: añoranza (es)
• Swedish: längtan (sv) c
• Turkish: özlem (tr), hasret (tr)
• Urdu: اشتیاق‏‎ (ur)
• Welsh: hiraeth (cy) m

Related terms

• long

See also

• desire
• miss