English
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Noun
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.
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missing one's home or family
- Arabic: حَنِين m (ḥanīn), اِشْتِيَاق (ar) m (ištiyāq)
- Bulgarian: носталгия (bg) f (nostalgija)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 思鄉 (zh), 思乡 (zh) (sīxiāng), (colloquial) 想家 (zh) (xiǎngjiā), (literary) 鄉愁 (zh), 乡愁 (zh) (xiāngchóu), (dated) 懷鄉 (zh), 怀乡 (zh) (huáixiāng)
- Czech: nostalgie f, stesk po domově m
- Danish: hjemve
- Dutch: heimwee (nl) n
- Finnish: koti-ikävä
- French: mal du pays (fr) m, nostalgie (fr) f, dépaysement (fr)
- Galician: morriña (gl) f
- German: Heimweh (de) n, Nostalgie (de) f
- Alemannic German: Häiwee n
- Greek: νοσταλγία (el) f (nostalgía)
- Hungarian: honvágy (hu)
- Icelandic: heimþrá (is) f
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- Irish: cumha (i ndiaidh an bhaile) m
- Italian: nostalgia (it) f
- Japanese: 郷愁 (きょうしゅう, kyōshū), 望郷 (ぼうきょう, bōkyō), 里心 (さとごころ, satogokoro)
- Low German:
- German Low German: Heemweh n
- Norwegian: hjemlengsel
- Polish: nostalgia (pl) f, tęsknota za krajem f
- Portuguese: saudade (pt)
- Russian: ностальги́я (ru) f (nostalʹgíja), тоска́ (ru) f (toská), тоска́ по ро́дине f (toská po ródine)
- Scottish Gaelic: cianalas m
- Spanish: nostalgia (es) f, añoranza (es) f
- Swedish: nostalgi (sv), hemlängtan (sv)
- Tagalog: pagkahidlaw, kahidlawan
- Welsh: hiraeth (cy) m
- Yiddish: בענקעדיג (benkedig)
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