homesickness

See also: home-sickness

English

Alternative forms

• home-sickness

Etymology

Calque of German Heimweh (“homesickness”, literally “home-woe”), equivalent to home +‎ sickness.

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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.

Derived terms

• homesick (back-formation)

Translations

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, dépaysement (fr) m
• 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)

See also

• melancholy
• nostalgia