thirsty

English

Etymology

From Middle English thirsti, from Old English þurstiġ.

Pronunciation

• enPR: thûrst′ē, IPA^(key): /ˈθɜː(ɹ)st.i/

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  Rhymes: -ɜː(r)sti

Adjective

thirsty (comparative thirstier, superlative thirstiest)

1. Needing to drink.

   After all that work I am really thirsty.

2. Causing thirst; giving one a need to drink.
   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula:

     I had for dinner, or rather supper, a chicken done up some way with red pepper, which was very good but thirsty.

   • 2004, Charlotte Williamson, Vehicle maintenance for women, →ISBN:

     Invest in a water bottle: cycling can be thirsty work.

3. Craving something.

   I am thirsty for knowledge.

   After the president left office, the nation was thirsty for change.

   1. (slang) Desiring sex.

Synonyms

• (needing to drink, craving something): athirst (archaic)
• (needing to drink): parched

Derived terms

• bloodthirsty

Related terms

• thirst

Translations

needing to drink

• Albanian: etur (sq)
• Arabic: عَطْشَان (ʕaṭšān), ظَمْآن (ẓamʔān)

  Egyptian Arabic: عطشان (ʕaṭšān)

• Armenian: ծարավ (hy) (carav)
• Aromanian: sitos
• Azerbaijani: susuz
• Bashkir: һыуһаған (hıwhağan)
• Belarusian: які́ хо́ча піць (jakí xóča picʹ)
• Bulgarian: жа́ден (bg) (žáden)
• Burmese: ရေငတ် (my) (re-ngat), ရေဆာ (rehca)
• Catalan: assedegat (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 口渴 (hau² hot³), 頸渴／颈渴 (geng² hot³), 颈渴 (geng² hot³)

  Hakka: 嘴渴 (choi-hot), 肚渴 (tú-hot)

  Mandarin: 渴 (zh) (kě), 口渴 (zh) (kǒukě)

  Min Nan: 喙焦 (zh-min-nan) (chhùi-ta)

• Czech: žíznivý (cs) m
• Danish: tørstig (da)
• Dutch: dorstig (nl)
• Esperanto: soifi
• Finnish: janoinen (fi)
• French: avoir soif (fr) (be thirsty)
• Gallurese: sititu
• Georgian: მწყურვალი (mc̣q̇urvali), მოწყურებული (moc̣q̇urebuli)
• German: durstig (de)
• Greek: διψασμένος (el) (dipsasménos)

  Ancient: δίψιος (dípsios)

• Hebrew: צָמֵא (he) (tsame)
• Hindi: प्यासा (hi) (pyāsā)
• Hungarian: szomjas (hu)
• Icelandic: þyrstur (is)
• Ido: durstoza (io)
• Indonesian: haus (id)
• Irish: indicated by phrases using the noun tart (ga) m "thirst"
• Isan: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: assetato (it)
• Japanese: 喉が渇いた (のどがかわいた, nodo ga kawaita)
• Kazakh: сусаған (susağan), шөлдеген (kk) (şöldegen)
• Khmer: ស្រេកទឹក (sreɛk tɨk)
• Korean: 목마른 (ko) (mongmareun), 갈증난 (galjeungnan)
• Lao: ຫິວນ້ຳ (hiu nam)
• Latin: sitiens, siccus
• Latvian: izslāpis
• Lithuanian: ištroškęs
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• Luxembourgish: duuschtereg
• Lü: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: жеден (žeden)
• Malay: dahaga, haus
• Maori: matewai, hiawai
• Mongolian: ангасан (angasan)
• Nahuatl: āmiqui
• Norwegian: tørst (no)
• Old English: þurstiġ (thirsty), þyrstan (to be thirsty)
• Old Norse: þyrstr
• Persian: تشنه (fa) (tešne)
• Polish: spragniony (pl) m
• Portuguese: sequioso (pt), sedento (pt), com (pt) sede (pt)
• Quechua: yarqa
• Romanian: setos (ro), însetat (ro)
• Russian: жа́ждущий (ru) (žážduščij), томи́мый жа́ждой (tomímyj žáždoj), (verb) хоте́ть пить impf (xotétʹ pitʹ)
• Sardinian:

  Campidanese: sídiu

  Logudorese: sídiu

• Sassarese: settiu
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: жедан

  Roman: žedan (sh)

• Shan: please add this translation if you can
• Slovak: smädný
• Slovene: žejen (sl)
• Spanish: sediento (es)
• Swedish: törstig (sv), törstande (sv) (rare)
• Tagalog: uhaw
• Tajik: ташна (tašna)
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: กระหาย (th) (gràhăai)
• Tibetan: ཁ་བསྐོམས (kha bskoms)
• Turkish: susuz (tr)
• Turkmen: teşne, suwsan
• Ukrainian: спра́глий (spráhlyj)
• Urdu: پیاسا (pyāsā)
• Uzbek: chanqagan (uz), tashna (uz)
• Vietnamese: khát (vi)
• Welsh: sychedig (cy)
• White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
• Yiddish: דאָרשטיק (dorshtik)
• Zhuang: hozhawq, hozgan

See also

• hungry
• I am thirsty

Anagrams

• thristy