English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
longing
- present participle of long
longing (plural longings)
- An earnest and deep, not greatly passionate, but rather melancholic desire.
- The buying of a financial instrument with the expectation that its value will rise
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Translations[edit]
melancholic desire
- Arabic: شَوْق m (šawq)
- Catalan: enyorança
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 渴望 (zh) (kěwàng)
- Czech: touha (cs) f, tesknění n
- Dutch: verlangen (nl) n
- Esperanto: sopiro
- Finnish: kaipuu (fi), kaipaus (fi), ikävä (fi)
- French: nostalgie (fr) f
- Galician: morriña (gl) f, saudade f, soidade (gl) f, estranía f
- German: Sehnsucht (de) f, Sehnen (de) n, Verlangen (de) n
- Greek:
- Ancient: πόθος m (póthos), ὄρεξις f (órexis)
- 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 (ja) (akogare), 切望 (ja) (せつぼう, setsubō)
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- 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
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