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Meaning of Longing | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1 Standard

ˈlɒŋɪŋ

Definitions

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.

Equivalents

العربية اشتياق الشوق شوق صبابة مرام مشتاق

Български копнеж

Bosanski čežnja žudnja жудња Тоска чежња

Català enyorança

Čeština nyvý prahnoucí touha toužebný

Cymraeg hiraeth

Deutsch Drang Sehnen Sehnsucht sehnsüchtig Verlangen

Ελληνικά αραθυμιά άχτι καημός λαχτάρα ντέρτι

Esperanto sopiro

Español anhelo añoranza

فارسی سودا

Suomi haikea ikävä ikävöiminen ikävöinti kaihoisa kaihomieli kaipaaminen kaipaus kaipuu

Français nostalgie

Gaeilge cumha

Gàidhlig cianalas fadachd fadal fiughair iarraidh ionndrainn miann

Galego espiña morriña morriñada saudade

עברית גַּעְגּוּעַ כיסופים כמה כְּמִיהָה צמא שוק

हिन्दी चाव तमन्ना तिश्ना प्यास साध हसरत

Hrvatski čežnja žudnja жудња Тоска чежња

Magyar vágyódás

Bahasa Indonesia saudade

Italiano anelito brama bramosia desiderio nostalgia voglia

日本語したわしい切望希求思恋思慕恋慕情憧憧れ憧憬

한국어 갈망 그리움 동경 사모

Kurdî dor dor

Latina conciliatio concupiscentia desideratio dēsīderium hiulcus lubido scabies

Lietuvių ilgesys

Latviešu ilgas

Te Reo Māori manako mina

Македонски копнеж

Bahasa Melayu hasrat kehendak rindu

Nederlands verlangen

Polski pragnienie tęga tęsknota

Português saudade f for something absent only

Română dor

Русский тоска

සිංහල දොළ

Shqip mall

Српски čežnja žudnja жудња Тоска чежња

Svenska längtan längtansfull

Türkçe hasret Özlem

اردو اشتیاق

Examples

“all natural lovings and longings”

“For round the valley a great desert lies through which no common traveller may come, but those whom the gods have chosen feel suddenly a great longing at heart, and crossing the mountains that divide the desert from the world, set out across it driven by the gods, […]”

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