Etymology
Germanic: from home + sickness (from sick + -ness)
Alternative forms
Noun
Wikipedia homesickness (plural homesicknesses)
- The characteristic of being homesick; a strong, sad feeling of missing one's home (and often left-behind loved ones, such as family and friends) when physically away.
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Translations
missing one's home or family
- Arabic: حنين (ar) (Hanīn) m, اشتياق (ar) (ishtiyāq) m
- Bulgarian: носталгия (bg) (nostalgija) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 思鄉 (cmn), 思乡 (cmn) (sīxiāng), (colloquial) 想家 (cmn) (xiǎngjiā), (literary) 鄉愁 (cmn), 乡愁 (cmn) (xiāngchóu), (dated) 懷鄉 (cmn), 怀乡 (cmn) (huáixiāng)
- Czech: nostalgie (cs) f, stesk po domově (cs) m
- Danish: hjemve (da)
- Dutch: heimwee (nl) n
- Finnish: koti-ikävä
- French: mal du pays (fr) m, nostalgie (fr) f
- German: Heimweh (de) n, Nostalgie (de) f
- Greek: νοσταλγία (el) (nostalgía) f
- Hungarian: honvágy (hu)
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- Icelandic: heimþrá (is) f
- Italian: nostalgia (it) f
- Japanese: 郷愁 (ja) (きょうしゅう, kyōshū), 望郷 (ja) (ぼうきょう, bōkyō), 里心 (ja) (さとごころ, satogokoro)
- Norwegian: hjemlengsel (no)
- Polish: nostalgia (pl) f, tęsknota za krajem (pl) f
- Portuguese: saudade (pt)
- Russian: ностальгия (ru) (nostal'gíja) f , тоска (ru) (toská) f , тоска по родине (ru) (toská po ródine) f
- Scottish Gaelic: cianalas (gd) m
- Spanish: nostalgia (es) f, morriña (es) f
- Swedish: nostalgi (sv), hemlängtan (sv)
- Welsh: hiraeth (cy) m
- Yiddish: בענקעדיג (yi)
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