Calque of German Heimweh (“homesickness”, literally “home-woe”), equivalent to home + sickness.
homesickness (countable and uncountable, 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.
missing one's home or family
- Arabic: حَنِين m (ḥanīn), اِشْتِيَاق (ar) m (ištiyāq)
- Belarusian: настальгі́я f (nastalʹhíja)
- Bulgarian: носта́лгия (bg) f (nostálgija)
- Catalan: nostàlgia (ca) f, enyorança (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 思鄉 / 思乡 (zh) (sīxiāng), (colloquial) 想家 (zh) (xiǎngjiā), (literary) 鄉愁 / 乡愁 (zh) (xiāngchóu), (dated) 懷鄉 / 怀乡 (zh) (huáixiāng)
- Czech: nostalgie (cs) f, stesk po domově m
- Danish: hjemve c, hjemlængsel c
- Dutch: heimwee (nl) n
- Esperanto: hejmveo, nostalgio
- Finnish: koti-ikävä (fi)
- French: mal du pays (fr) m, nostalgie (fr) f
- Galician: morriña (gl) f
- German: Heimweh (de) n, Nostalgie (de) f (archaic)
- Alemannic German: Häiwee n
- Greek: νοσταλγία (el) f (nostalgía)
- Hindi: ग़ुरबत (ġurbat)
- Hungarian: honvágy (hu)
- Icelandic: heimþrá (is) f
- Irish: cumha (i ndiaidh an bhaile) m
- 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)
- Korean: 향수(鄕愁) (ko) (hyangsu), 향수병(鄕愁病) (hyangsubyeong), 회향병(懷鄕病) (ko) (hoehyangbyeong)
- Latvian: nostaļģija f
- Lithuanian: nostalgija f
- Low German:
- German Low German: Heemweh n
- Macedonian: носталгија f (nostalgija)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: hjemlengsel m
- Persian: غربت (fa) (ğorbat)
- Plautdietsch: Bang f
- Polish: nostalgia (pl) f
- Portuguese: saudade (pt)
- Romanian: dor de casă n, dor de țară n
- Russian: ностальги́я (ru) f (nostalʹgíja), тоска́ (ru) f (toská), тоска́ по ро́дине f (toská po ródine)
- Scottish Gaelic: cianalas m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: носта̀лгија f
- Roman: nostàlgija (sh) f
- Slovak: nostalgia f
- Slovene: nostalgija f
- Spanish: nostalgia (es) f, añoranza (es) f, morriña (es) f
- Swedish: nostalgi (sv) c, hemlängtan (sv) c
- Tagalog: pagkahidlaw, kahidlawan
- Thai: อาการคิดถึงบ้าน
- Turkish: gurbet (tr), yadlık (tr)
- Ukrainian: ностальгі́я f (nostalʹhíja), ту́га за до́мом f (túha za dómom)
- Welsh: hiraeth (cy) m
- Yiddish: בענקעדיג (benkedig)
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