lust

See also: Lust

English

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Etymology

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

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Noun

lust (countable and uncountable, plural lusts)

1. A feeling of strong desire, especially of a sexual nature.

   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

• bloodlust
• lustful
• lustihood
• lustily
• lustiness
• lustless
• lusty
• lust murder

Related terms

• wanderlust

Translations

strong desire, especially of a sexual nature

• Arabic: رغبة f (raghba), شهوة f (shahwa)
• Catalan: luxúria f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 情欲 (zh) (qíngyù), 淫欲 (zh) (yínyù)

• Czech: chtíč m
• Danish: begær n, lyst c, liderlighed c
• Dutch: (zinnelijke) begeerte, lust (nl), wellust (nl)
• Finnish: himo (fi)
• French: luxure (fr) f
• German: Wollust (de) f, Lust (de) f
• Greek: λαγνεία (el) f (lagneía)
• Irish: collaíocht f
• Italian: libido, 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

• Maori: pohane
• Persian: شهوت و ميل شديد
• Polish: pożądanie (pl) n, żądza (pl) f
• Portuguese: luxúria (pt)
• Romanian: luxură (ro) f, desfrânare (ro) f, concupiscență (ro) f
• Russian: похоть (ru) f (póxot'), похотливость (ru) f (poxotlívost'), вожделение (ru) n (voždelénije), желание (ru) n (želánije), страсть (ru) f (strast')
• 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')
• Welsh: gwŷn m

general want or longing

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

• Italian: lussuria (it) f
• Maori: pohane
• Polish: pragnienie (pl)

delightful cause of joy, pleasure

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

• Finnish: ilo (fi)
• Italian: lussuria (it) f

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• Latin: luxuria f
• Old English: gál n, gálscipe m
• Portuguese: luxúria (pt) f
• Scottish Gaelic: drùis f, feòlmhorachd f, baois f, baoiseachd f
• Spanish: lujuria (es) f
• Swedish: lust

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To desire very strongly.
2. (intransitive) To crave sexual contact urgently.

Translations

strongly desire

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

• Greek: ποθώ (el) (pothó)
• Hebrew: חמד m (Chamad), התאוה m (Hit'avah), השתוקק m (Hishtoqeq)

crave sexual contact

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

• Finnish: himoita (fi)

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• French: désirer (fr)
• German: ersüchten

Anagrams

• slut
• UTSL

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Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ʏst

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

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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

Declension of lust

	singular		plural
Common	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