lust

See also: Lust

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Middle English lust, from Old English lust ‎(“lust, pleasure, longing”), from Proto-Germanic *lustuz. Akin to Old Saxon, Dutch lust, Old Frisian, Old High German, German Lust, & Swedish lust, Danish lyst & Icelandic lyst, Old Norse losti, Gothic lustus, and perhaps to Sanskrit lush "to desire" and Albanian lushë ‎(“bitch, savage dog, promiscuous woman”), or to English loose. Confer list ‎(“to please”), listless.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lʌst/, /lʊst/
• Rhymes: -ʌst

• Audio (UK)

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Noun

lust ‎(countable and uncountable, plural lusts)

1. A feeling of strong desire, especially such a feeling driven by sexual arousal.

   Seeing Kim fills me with a passionate lust.

2. (archaic) A general want or longing, not necessarily sexual.

   The boarders hide their lust to go home.

   • Spenser

     For little lust had she to talk of aught.

   • Bishop Hall

     My lust to devotion is little.

3. (archaic) A delightful cause of joy, pleasure.

   An ideal son is his father's lasting lust.

4. (obsolete) virility; vigour; active power

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

Derived terms

Derived terms

bloodlust lustful lustihood lustily

lustiness lustless lust murder lusty

Related terms

• wanderlust

Translations

strong desire, especially of a sexual nature

• Arabic: رَغْبَة f ‎(raḡba), شَهْوَة f ‎(šahwa)
• Catalan: luxúria f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 情慾 (zh), 情欲 (zh) ‎(qíngyù), 肉慾 (zh), 肉欲 (zh) ‎(ròuyù), 色慾 (zh), 色欲 (zh) ‎(sèyù), 淫慾 (zh), 淫欲 (zh) ‎(yínyù), 性慾 (zh), 性欲 (zh) ‎(xìngyù)

• Czech: chtíč (cs) m
• Danish: begær n, lyst (da) c, liderlighed c
• Dutch: (zinnelijke) begeerte, lust (nl), wellust (nl)
• Esperanto: volupto
• Finnish: himo (fi)
• French: luxure (fr) f
• German: Wollust (de) f, Lust (de) f
• Greek: λαγνεία (el) f ‎(lagneía)
• Irish: collaíocht f
• Italian: libido (it), libidine (it), lussuria (it) f
• Japanese: 色欲 ‎(しきよく, shikiyoku), 淫欲 ‎(いんよく, in'yoku), 情欲 ‎(じょうよく, jōyoku)
• Latin: luxuria f

• Maltese: zina f
• Maori: pohane
• Persian: شهوت و ميل شديد
• Polish: pożądanie (pl) n, żądza (pl) f
• Portuguese: luxúria (pt) f
• Romanian: luxură (ro) f, desfrânare (ro) f, concupiscență (ro) f
• Russian: по́хоть (ru) f ‎(póxotʹ), похотли́вость (ru) f ‎(poxotlívostʹ), вожделе́ние (ru) n ‎(voždelénije), жела́ние (ru) n ‎(želánije), страсть (ru) f ‎(strastʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: miann m, f, ana-miann m, f
• Serbo-Croatian: похота f ‎(pohota), пожуда f ‎(požuda)
• Slovene: strast (sl) f
• Spanish: lujuria (es)
• Swedish: begär (sv) n, lust (sv) c, åtrå (sv) c
• Turkish: tutku (tr), ihtiras (tr), arzu (tr)
• Ukrainian: похіть f ‎(póxit')
• Vietnamese: dâm (vi)
• Volapük: rüt
• Welsh: gwŷn m

general want or longing

• Catalan: luxúria f
• Dutch: begeerte (nl), lust (nl), verlangen (nl) n
• Finnish: ikävöinti (fi), ikävä (fi)
• German: Lust (de) f, Begehren (de) n, Verlangen (de) n
• Greek: επιθυμία (el) f ‎(epithymía)

• Italian: lussuria (it) f
• Maori: pohane
• Polish: pragnienie (pl)
• Portuguese: vontade (pt) f
• Spanish: deseo (es) m, ganas (es) f pl, lujuria (es) f

delightful cause of joy, pleasure

• Catalan: luxúria f
• Dutch: plezier (nl), lust (nl)
• Finnish: ilo (fi)

• German: Freude (de) f
• Italian: lussuria (it) f
• Polish: rozkosz (pl) f
• Spanish: alegría (es) f

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Translations to be checked

• Latin: ^{(please verify)} luxuria f
• Old English: ^{(please verify)} gál n, ^{(please verify)} gálscipe m
• Scottish Gaelic: ^{(please verify)} drùis f, ^{(please verify)} feòlmhorachd f, ^{(please verify)} baois f, ^{(please verify)} baoiseachd f
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} lujuria (es) f
• Swedish: lust

Verb

lust ‎(third-person singular simple present lusts, present participle lusting, simple past and past participle lusted)

1. (intransitive, usually in the phrase "lust after") To look at or watch with a strong desire, especially of a sexual nature.

   He was lusting after the woman in the tight leather miniskirt.

Translations

strongly desire

• Danish: tørste (da) efter, begære
• Dutch: begeren (nl), lusten (nl), smachten (nl)
• Finnish: himoita (fi)
• French: joie (fr), désirer (fr)

• German: begehren (de), verlangen (de), sehnen (de)
• Greek: ποθώ (el) ‎(pothó)
• Hebrew: חמד m ‎(Chamad), התאוה (he) m ‎(Hit'avah), השתוקק m ‎(Hishtoqeq)
• Maori: mate kanehe

crave sexual contact

• Danish: føle (da) begær, begære
• Dutch: begeren (nl), lusten (nl), smachten (nl)

• Finnish: himoita (fi)
• French: désirer (fr)
• German: begehren (de), verlangen (de)
• Maori: pohane

Anagrams

• slut
• UTSL

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ʏst

Etymology

From Middle Dutch lust, from Old Dutch *lust, from Proto-Germanic *lustuz. Compare West Frisian lust, German Lust, English lust.

Noun

lust c ‎(plural lusten, diminutive lustje n)

1. lust, desire (especially sexual)
2. pleasure, joy

   Het was een lust om naar hem te kijken en te luisteren.

   It was a pleasure watching and listening to him.

3. benefit, advantage

Related terms

• lusteloos
• lusthof m
• lustig
• lustoord n
• lustpriëel n
• lusttuin
• wellust

Verb

lust

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of lusten
2. imperative of lusten

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Old English

Noun

lust m

1. desire, pleasure, appetite, lust

   Him wæs metes micel lust: he had a craving for food. (Ælfric's Homilies)

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Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse losti (late Old Norse lyst), from Middle Low German lust lüst, lyst, from Old Saxon lust, from Proto-Germanic *lustuz.

Pronunciation

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Noun

lust c

1. (uncountable) lust (a mood of desire), joy, a keen interest

   jag har ingen lust att läsa idag‎

   I don't feel like reading today

2. a desire (for something specific)

Declension

Inflection of lust
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	lust	lusten	lustar	lustarna
Genitive	lusts	lustens	lustars	lustarnas

Related terms

• förlusta
• förlustelse
• läslust
• lusta
• lustgas
• lusthus
• lustig
• lustjakt
• lustresa
• lustspel
• lysten
• lystnad
• söklust