greed

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• /ɡɹiːd/
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• grēd
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c. 1600. Back-formation from greedy.

139 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: lakmi — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Arabic: جَشَع (jašaʕ) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Arabic: طَمَع (ṭamaʕ) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Armenian: ագահություն (agahutʻyun) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Assamese: লোভ (lübh) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Assamese: খক (khok) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Basque: gutizia — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Belarusian: хці́васць (xcívascʹ) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Belarusian: сква́пнасць (skvápnascʹ) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Belarusian: жа́дасць (žádascʹ) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Belarusian: хаплі́васць (xaplívascʹ) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Bulgarian: а́лчност (álčnost) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Catalan: avarícia — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Catalan: cobdícia — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Chinese Mandarin: 貪心 /贪心 (tānxīn) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Chinese Mandarin: 貪欲 /贪欲 (tānyù) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Chinese Mandarin: 貪婪 /贪婪 (tānlán) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Czech: chamtivost — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Dutch: hebzucht — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Dutch: gulzigheid — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Dutch: schraapzucht — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Dutch: hebgierigheid — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Dutch: hebgier — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Egyptian: A-f:a- (ꜣfꜥ) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Esperanto: avido — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Estonian: ahnus — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Estonian: aplus — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Farefare: pʋyã'anɛ — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Faroese: gírni — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Faroese: grammleiki — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Finnish: ahneus — selfish desire for more than is needed
• French: avidité — selfish desire for more than is needed
• French: cupidité — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Georgian: სიხარბე (sixarbe) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Georgian: გაუმაძღრობა (gaumaʒɣroba) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• German: Gier — selfish desire for more than is needed
• German: Habsucht — selfish desire for more than is needed
• German: Habgier — selfish desire for more than is needed
• German: Raffgier — selfish desire for more than is needed
• German: Raffsucht — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Gothic: 𐌱𐌹𐍆𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍉𐌽𐍃 (bifaihōns) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Gothic: 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌿𐌲𐌴𐌹𐍂𐍉 (faihugeirō) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Greek: απληστία (aplistía) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Ancient Greek: πλεονεξία (pleonexía) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Ancient Greek: φιλοκέρδεια (philokérdeia) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Ancient Greek: φιλαργυρία (philarguría) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Greenlandic: ueritsanneq — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Hebrew: בֶּצַע (betza') — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Hebrew: חַמְדָנוּת (ḥamdanut) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Hindi: लालच (lālac) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Hindi: लोभ (lobh) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Hungarian: kapzsiság — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Hungarian: mohóság — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Icelandic: græðgi — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Ilocano: agum — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Indonesian: rakus — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Indonesian: serakah — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Irish: antlás — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Irish: gionach — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Irish: saint — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Isnag: axum — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Italian: avidità — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Italian: ingordigia — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Japanese: 貪 (ton) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Japanese: 欲 (yoku) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Japanese: 貪欲 — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Khmer: លោភ (loop) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Khmer: លោភលន់ (loŭphlôn) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Khmer: មហាលោភ (mɔɔhaaloop) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Korean: 탐욕 (tamyok) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Korean: 욕심 (yoksim) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Northern Kurdish: çavbirçîtî — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Latin: avaritia — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Lun Bawang: angaa — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Macedonian: алчност (alčnost) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Macedonian: лакомост (lakomost) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Malayalam: അത്യാഗ്രഹം (atyāgrahaṁ) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Māori: apo — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Navajo: áchxą́hwíídéeniʼ — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Nepali: लोभ (lobh) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Norwegian Bokmål: griskhet — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Norwegian Bokmål: grådighet — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Norwegian Nynorsk: griskheit — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Norwegian Nynorsk: grådigheit — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Old English: ġītsung — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Persian: حرص (hers) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Plautdietsch: Bejia — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Plautdietsch: Jiez — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Polish: chciwość — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Portuguese: ganância — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Portuguese: cobiça — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Portuguese: avareza — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Punjabi: ਲਾਲਚ (lālac) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Romanian: aviditate — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Romanian: lăcomie — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Romanian: avariție — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Russian: а́лчность (álčnostʹ) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Russian: жа́дность (žádnostʹ) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Russian: ненасы́тность (nenasýtnostʹ) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Scottish Gaelic: sannt — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Scottish Gaelic: sanntachd — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Serbo-Croatian: pohlepa — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Serbo-Croatian: gramžljivost — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Serbo-Croatian: grabežljivost — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Serbo-Croatian: halapljivost — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Serbo-Croatian: srebroljublje — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Serbo-Croatian: škrtost — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Serbo-Croatian: požuda — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Slovak: chtivosť — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Slovene: pohlep — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Spanish: codicia — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Spanish: avaricia — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Spanish: gula — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Spanish: glotonería — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Spanish: avidez — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Spanish: cudicia — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Swedish: girighet — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Tajik: хасисӣ (xasisi) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Tamil: பேராசை (pērācai) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Telugu: దురాశ (durāśa) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Thai: โลภะ (loo-pá) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Tibetan: ཧར་པོ (har po) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Tibetan: འདོད་རྔམ ('dod rngam) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Tocharian B: maune — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Tocharian B: entse — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Tocharian B: entsesñe — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Turkish: açgözlülük — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Turkish: tamah — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Ukrainian: жа́дібність (žádibnistʹ) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Ukrainian: жадли́вість (žadlývistʹ) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Ukrainian: хти́вість (xtývistʹ) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Ukrainian: ненаже́рливість (nenažérlyvistʹ) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Urdu: طمع (tam'a) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Urdu: لالچ (lālac) — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Uzbek: hirs — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Uzbek: ochkoʻzlik — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Vietnamese: sự tham lam — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Welsh: bâr — selfish desire for more than is needed
• Welsh: barau — selfish desire for more than is needed