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| Language | Translations for "LONG FOR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | verlang (desire, wish, yearn). (various references) | |
Arabic | حن (crave, slobber, wish for, yearn), إشتاق لشئ ما, إشتاق (have a yen for, pine, yearn). (various references) | |
Chinese | 覬 (covet), 思念 (miss, think of), 戀 (feel attached to, love). (various references) | |
Czech | toužit po (covet, crave, pine, sigh, suspire). (various references) | |
Danish | længsel (ache, longing, yearn), kræve (ache, need, require, yearn). (various references) | |
Dutch | zuchten naar (ache, yearn), zuchten (moan, sigh), verlangen (desire, want, yearn), smachten (ache, yearn), reikhalzen (yearn), naar (to, bleak, ill, sick, toward, towards), hunkeren (yearn). (various references) | |
Esperanto | sopiri (yearn). (various references) | |
Faeroese | leingjast eftir (ache, yearn), suffa (ache, groan, moan, yearn). (various references) | |
Finnish | kaivata (ache, lack, long, miss, need, require, yearn). (various references) | |
French | soupirer. (various references) | |
German | verlangen nach (crave, to long for), verlangen (require, ask, demand, hankering, appetites, craving, desire, longing, postulate), sich sehnen (yearn, hanker), sich ersehnen (ache, yearn), ersehnen (ache, crave, to long for). (various references) | |
Greek | λαχταρώ (ache, crave, desire, hanker, thrill, yearn). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לערוג (languish, pine, thirst, yearn), לאוות (covet, crave, desire eagerly, wish, yearn), לכסוף (pine, yearn), להיות צמא (be thirsty, covet, yearn), להתאוות (covet, crave, desire, lust), להתגעגע (languish, pine, sigh, yearn), להשתוקק (crave, desire, hanker, hunger, lust, strive, want, wish for, yearn), להכסף (pine, sigh for, yearn), לנהות אחרי (follow, yearn). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vágyik valamire (desire, wish), vágyakozik (to hanker), vágyódik (to hunger, to yammer, to yearn), sóvárog (to hanker, to hunger, to yearn, yearn). (various references) | |
Icelandic | þrá (ache, ache for, longing, yearn). (various references) | |
Indonesian | teragak, mendambakan (crave, yearn), kangen (longing, nostalgic), bercita-cita (aspire, longing, yearning). (various references) | |
Italian | vagheggiare (Ogle, yearn for), sospirare (sigh), bramare (covet, desire), ambire (aspire). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 憧れる (to admire, to be attracted by, to long for, to yearn after), 待ち焦がれる (to long for). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | まちこがれる (to long for), あこがれる (to admire, to be attracted by, to long for, to yearn after). (various references) | |
Norwegian | lengte (yearn). (various references) | |
Papiamen | anhelá (ache, yearn). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | onglay orfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tersaudadesde (ache, yearn), suspirar (sigh, yearn), sentir saudade, darais (ache, yearn), ansiar (cause alarm, desire, hanker, hunger, long, pant, yearn), almejar (ache, crave, woo). (various references) | |
Romanian | tânji dupã patrie (long for one's motherland), tânji dupã ceva (long for smth.). (various references) | |
Russian | с нетерпением ждать. (various references) | |
Scottish | sanntaich (desire), miannaich (covet, See <A HREF="mf08.html#mèananaich">mèananaich</A>), ionndrainn. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | žudeti (ache, aspire, covet, crave, hanker, hunger, lust, thirst, yearn). (various references) | |
Spanish | extrañar (deport, estrange, find strange, Miss, surprise), desvivirse (lean, wait on), desear (desire, wish, ache), anhelar (gasp). (various references) | |
Swedish | längta efter (crave). (various references) | |
Turkish | arzulamak (desire). (various references) | |
Turkmen | ymtylmak (aspire), зygylmak (grieve). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | нудьгувати (sigh, vaporize). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
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