crave

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From Middle English craven, from Old English crafian (“to crave, ask, implore, demand, summon”), from Proto-West Germanic *krafōn, from Proto-Germanic *krafjaną (“to demand”). Cognate with Danish kræve (“to demand, require”), Swedish kräva (“to crave, demand”), Icelandic krefja (“to demand”), Norwegian kreve (“to demand”).

80 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: اِشْتَهَى (ištahā) — (transitive) to want strongly
• Arabic: اشتهى (aštaha) — (transitive) to want strongly
• Bulgarian: жадувам (žaduvam) — (transitive) to want strongly
• Bulgarian: копнея (kopneja) — (transitive) to want strongly
• Burmese: မက် (mak) — (transitive) to want strongly
• Catalan: ansiar (valencià) — (transitive) to want strongly
• Catalan: anhelar — (transitive) to want strongly
• Catalan: delejar — (transitive) to want strongly
• Cherokee: ᎠᏍᏉᏍᎦ (asquosga) — (transitive) to want strongly
• Chinese Mandarin: 渴望 (kěwàng) — (transitive) to want strongly
• Chinese Mandarin: 熱望 /热望 (rèwàng) — (transitive) to want strongly
• Crimean Tatar: tamşanmaq — (transitive) to want strongly
• Czech: žadonit — (transitive) to want strongly
• Czech: dychtit — (transitive) to want strongly
• Czech: toužit po — (transitive) to want strongly
• Dutch: verlangen — (transitive) to want strongly
• Esperanto: deziregi — (transitive) to want strongly
• Finnish: haluta kovasti — (transitive) to want strongly
• Finnish: himoita — (transitive) to want strongly
• French: souhaiter — (transitive) to want strongly
• French: désirer — (transitive) to want strongly
• Galician: arelar — (transitive) to want strongly
• Galician: degorar — (transitive) to want strongly
• Galician: devecer — (transitive) to want strongly
• German: sich sehnen — (transitive) to want strongly
• German: begehren — (transitive) to want strongly
• Hebrew: הִשְׁתּוֹקֵק (hishtoqéq) — (transitive) to want strongly
• Hungarian: vágyik — (transitive) to want strongly
• Hungarian: vágyódik — (transitive) to want strongly
• Hungarian: sóvárog — (transitive) to want strongly
• Italian: bramare — (transitive) to want strongly
• Italian: desiderare — (transitive) to want strongly
• Japanese: 切望する (setsubō suru) — (transitive) to want strongly
• Latin: dēsīderō — (transitive) to want strongly
• Latin: avēo — (transitive) to want strongly
• Latvian: alkt — (transitive) to want strongly
• Latvian: kārot — (transitive) to want strongly
• Lithuanian: geisti — (transitive) to want strongly
• Lithuanian: trokšti — (transitive) to want strongly
• Māori: warawara — (transitive) to want strongly
• Māori: kaimomotu — (transitive) to want strongly
• Māori: kumama — (transitive) to want strongly
• Māori: kohekohe — (transitive) to want strongly
• Māori: matainaina — (transitive) to want strongly
• Māori: pīrangi — (transitive) to want strongly
• Middle English: craven — (transitive) to want strongly
• Persian: هوس کردن (havas kardan) — (transitive) to want strongly
• Polish: pożądać — (transitive) to want strongly
• Polish: pragnąć — (transitive) to want strongly
• Portuguese: ansiar — (transitive) to want strongly
• Romanian: dori — (transitive) to want strongly
• Romanian: jindui — (transitive) to want strongly
• Russian: жа́ждать (žáždatʹ) — (transitive) to want strongly
• Serbo-Croatian: žudjeti — (transitive) to want strongly
• Spanish: anhelar — (transitive) to want strongly
• Spanish: ansiar — (transitive) to want strongly
• Spanish: amalayar — (transitive) to want strongly
• Spanish: tener ganas/gana de — (transitive) to want strongly
• Swedish: sukta efter — (transitive) to want strongly
• Turkish: can atmak — (transitive) to want strongly
• Turkish: çok istemek — (transitive) to want strongly
• Spanish: cuitarse — (intransitive) to want strongly
• Spanish: reventar — (intransitive) to want strongly
• Spanish: acezar — (intransitive) to want strongly
• Spanish: alamparse — (intransitive) to want strongly
• Spanish: tener ganas/gana — (intransitive) to want strongly
• Catalan: implorar — to ask earnestly
• French: implorer — to ask earnestly
• Galician: pianchar — to ask earnestly
• Galician: croiñar — to ask earnestly
• Galician: deprecar — to ask earnestly
• Galician: pedichar — to ask earnestly
• German: erbitten — to ask earnestly
• German: erflehen — to ask earnestly
• Japanese: 懇願する (kongan suru) — to ask earnestly
• Middle English: craven — to ask earnestly
• Old Norse: krefja — to ask earnestly
• Polish: błagać — to ask earnestly
• Romanian: implora — to ask earnestly
• Spanish: implorar — to ask earnestly