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Noun [English]

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-homesickness.wav Forms: homesicknesses [plural]
Etymology: Calque of German Heimweh (“homesickness”, literally “home-woe”), equivalent to home + sickness. Etymology templates: {{calque|en|de|Heimweh|lit=home-woe|t=homesickness}} Calque of German Heimweh (“homesickness”, literally “home-woe”), {{af|en|home|sickness}} home + sickness Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} homesickness (countable and uncountable, plural homesicknesses)
  1. 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. Wikipedia link: homesickness Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Emotions Synonyms: home-sickness Derived forms: homesick (english: back-formation) Related terms: melancholy, nostalgia Translations (missing one's home or family): حَنِين (ḥanīn) [masculine] (Arabic), اِشْتِيَاق (ištiyāq) [masculine] (Arabic), настальгі́я (nastalʹhíja) [feminine] (Belarusian), носта́лгия (nostálgija) [feminine] (Bulgarian), nostàlgia [feminine] (Catalan), enyorança [feminine] (Catalan), 思鄉 (Chinese Mandarin), 思乡 (sīxiāng) (Chinese Mandarin), 想家 (xiǎngjiā) [colloquial] (Chinese Mandarin), 鄉愁 [literary] (Chinese Mandarin), 乡愁 (xiāngchóu) (Chinese Mandarin), 懷鄉 [dated] (Chinese Mandarin), 怀乡 (huáixiāng) (Chinese Mandarin), nostalgie [feminine] (Czech), stesk po domově [masculine] (Czech), hjemve [common-gender] (Danish), hjemlængsel [common-gender] (Danish), heimwee [neuter] (Dutch), hejmveo (Esperanto), nostalgio (Esperanto), koti-ikävä (Finnish), mal du pays [masculine] (French), nostalgie [feminine] (French), dépaysement [masculine] (French), morriña [feminine] (Galician), Heimweh [neuter] (German), Nostalgie [archaic, feminine] (German), Häiwee [Alemannic-German, neuter] (German), νοσταλγία (nostalgía) [feminine] (Greek), ग़ुरबत (ġurbat) (Hindi), honvágy (Hungarian), heimþrá [feminine] (Icelandic), cumha (i ndiaidh an bhaile) [masculine] (Irish), nostalgia [feminine] (Italian), 郷愁 (kyōshū) (alt: きょうしゅう) (Japanese), 望郷 (bōkyō) (alt: ぼうきょう) (Japanese), 里心 (satogokoro) (alt: さとごころ) (Japanese), 향수 (hyangsu) (alt: 鄕愁) (Korean), 향수병 (hyangsubyeong) (alt: 鄕愁病) (Korean), 회향병 (hoehyangbyeong) (alt: 懷鄕病) (Korean), nostaļģija [feminine] (Latvian), nostalgija [feminine] (Lithuanian), Heemweh [German-Low-German, neuter] (Low German), носталгија (nostalgija) [feminine] (Macedonian), hjemlengsel [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), غربت (ğorbat) (Persian), Bang [feminine] (Plautdietsch), nostalgia [feminine] (Polish), saudade (Portuguese), dor de casă [neuter] (Romanian), dor de țară [neuter] (Romanian), ностальги́я (nostalʹgíja) [feminine] (Russian), тоска́ (toská) [feminine] (Russian), тоска́ по ро́дине (toská po ródine) [feminine] (Russian), cianalas [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), носта̀лгија [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), nostàlgija [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), nostalgia [feminine] (Slovak), nostalgija [feminine] (Slovene), nostalgia [feminine] (Spanish), añoranza [feminine] (Spanish), morriña [feminine] (Spanish), nostalgi [common-gender] (Swedish), hemlängtan [common-gender] (Swedish), pagkahidlaw (Tagalog), kahidlawan (Tagalog), อาการคิดถึงบ้าน (Thai), gurbet (Turkish), yadlık (Turkish), ностальгі́я (nostalʹhíja) [feminine] (Ukrainian), ту́га за до́мом (túha za dómom) [feminine] (Ukrainian), hiraeth [masculine] (Welsh), בענקעדיג (benkedig) (Yiddish)
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      "word": "향수"
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      "code": "fa",
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      "sense": "missing one's home or family",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "тоска́ по ро́дине"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "missing one's home or family",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cianalas"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "missing one's home or family",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "носта̀лгија"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "missing one's home or family",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "nostàlgija"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "missing one's home or family",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "nostalgia"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "missing one's home or family",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "nostalgija"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "missing one's home or family",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "nostalgia"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "missing one's home or family",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "añoranza"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "missing one's home or family",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "morriña"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "missing one's home or family",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "nostalgi"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "missing one's home or family",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "hemlängtan"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "missing one's home or family",
      "word": "pagkahidlaw"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "missing one's home or family",
      "word": "kahidlawan"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "sense": "missing one's home or family",
      "word": "อาการคิดถึงบ้าน"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "missing one's home or family",
      "word": "gurbet"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "missing one's home or family",
      "word": "yadlık"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "nostalʹhíja",
      "sense": "missing one's home or family",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ностальгі́я"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "túha za dómom",
      "sense": "missing one's home or family",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ту́га за до́мом"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "missing one's home or family",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hiraeth"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "benkedig",
      "sense": "missing one's home or family",
      "word": "בענקעדיג"
    }
  ],
  "word": "homesickness"
}

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