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• Received-Pronunciation: nēd
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• Received-Pronunciation: /niːd/
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• Received-Pronunciation: [nɪi̯d]
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• Canada, General-American: /nid/
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• homophone: knead
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• homophone: kneed
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• rhymes with -iːd
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From Middle English need, nede, a merger of two terms: * Old English nīed (West Saxon), nēd (Mercian), nēad (“necessity, compulsion, want”), from Proto-West Germanic *naudi, from Proto-Germanic *naudiz, from Proto-Indo-European *neh2w- (“death”). * Old English nēod (“desire, longing”), from Proto-West Germanic *niudi (“desire, eagerness”), from Proto-Indo-European *new- (“to incline, tend, move, push, nod, wave”).

From Middle English neden, from Old English nēodian.

397 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: need — something required
• Albanian: nevojë — something required
• Arabic: حَاجَة (ḥāja) — something required
• Arabic: ضَرُورَة (ḍarūra) — something required
• Arabic: اِحْتِيَاج (iḥtiyāj) — something required
• Armenian: կարիք (karikʻ) — something required
• Armenian: անհրաժեշտություն (anhražeštutʻyun) — something required
• Azerbaijani: ehtiyac — something required
• Azerbaijani: zərurət — something required
• Bashkir: ихтыяж (ixtıyaj) — something required
• Bashkir: кәрәклек (kərəklek) — something required
• Basque: behar — something required
• Belarusian: патрэ́ба (patréba) — something required
• Belarusian: ну́жа (núža) — something required
• Bengali: দরকার (dôrkar) — something required
• Bengali: প্রয়োজন (proẏōjon) — something required
• Central Bikol: kaipohan — something required
• Bulgarian: ну́жда (núžda) — something required
• Bulgarian: потре́бност (potrébnost) — something required
• Bulgarian: необходи́мост (neobhodímost) — something required
• Catalan: necessitat — something required
• Cebuano: kinahanglan — something required
• Chinese Mandarin: 需求 (xūqiú) — something required
• Ngazidja Comorian: hadja — something required
• Czech: potřeba — something required
• Danish: behov — something required
• Dutch: behoefte — something required
• Egyptian: DA-A-r:V32-A2 (ḏꜣr) — something required
• Esperanto: bezono — something required
• Esperanto: bezonaĵo — something required
• Faroese: tørvur — something required
• Faroese: tarvur — something required
• Faroese: trongd — something required
• Finnish: tarve — something required
• Finnish: syy — something required
• French: besoin — something required
• French: nécessité — something required
• Old French: besoing — something required
• Friulian: bisugne — something required
• Friulian: necessitât — something required
• Galician: necesidade — something required
• German: Notwendigkeit — something required
• German: Bedarf — something required
• German: Bedürfnis — something required
• Gothic: 𐌸𐌰𐍂𐌱𐌰 (þarba) — something required
• Gothic: 𐌽𐌰𐌿𐌸𐍃 (nauþs) — something required
• Ancient Greek: χρεία (khreía) — something required
• Haitian Creole: bezwen — something required
• Hebrew: צורך \ צֹרֶךְ (tsórekh) — something required
• Hiligaynon: kinahanglan — something required
• Hiligaynon: kilinahanglanon — something required
• Hindi: आवश्यकता (āvaśyaktā) — something required
• Hindi: ज़रूरत (zarūrat) — something required
• Hungarian: szükség — something required
• Icelandic: þörf — something required
• Ido: bezono — something required
• Ilocano: kasapulan — something required
• Interlingua: necessitate — something required
• Interlingua: besonio — something required
• Irish: gá — something required
• Irish: riachtanas — something required
• Istriot: bazuogno — something required
• Italian: bisogno — something required
• Italian: necessità — something required
• Italian: requisito — something required
• Italian: esigenza — something required
• Japanese: 必要 (hitsuyō) — something required
• Kannada: ಆವಶ್ಯಕ್ತೇ (āvaśyaktē) — something required
• Korean: 필요 (piryo) — something required
• Latin: necessitudo — something required
• Latin: necessitas — something required
• Latin: opus — something required
• Latvian: vajadzība — something required
• Ligurian: bezéugno — something required
• Lombard: bisogn — something required
• Macedonian: потреба (potreba) — something required
• Macedonian: нужда (nužda) — something required
• Macedonian: зорт (zort) — something required
• Magahi: 𑂏𑂩𑂔 (garaj) — something required
• Magahi: 𑂔𑂩𑂳𑂃𑂞 (jaruat) — something required
• Malay: keperluan — something required
• Malayalam: ആവശ്യം (āvaśyaṁ) — something required
• Malayalam: വേണം (vēṇaṁ) — something required
• Maltese: bżonn — something required
• Marathi: आवश्यकता (āvaśyaktā) — something required
• Marathi: गरज (garaj) — something required
• Norman: bésouogn — something required
• Occitan: besonh — something required
• Church Slavic: ноужда (nužda) — something required
• Old East Slavic: нужа (nuža) — something required
• Old English: þarf — something required
• Old Saxon: tharf — something required
• Pangasinan: kaokulan — something required
• Persian: نیاز (niyâz) — something required
• Persian: ضرورت (zarurat) — something required
• Persian: احتیاج (ehteyâj) — something required
• Plautdietsch: Muss — something required
• Plautdietsch: Bederfniss — something required
• Polish: potrzeba — something required
• Portuguese: necessidade — something required
• Romanian: necesitate — something required
• Romanian: cerință — something required
• Romanian: nevoie — something required
• Romansh: basegn — something required
• Russian: нужда́ (nuždá) — something required
• Russian: потре́бность (potrébnostʹ) — something required
• Russian: необходи́мость (neobxodímostʹ) — something required
• Russian: потре́ба (potréba) — something required
• Scottish Gaelic: feum — something required
• Serbo-Croatian: потреба — something required
• Serbo-Croatian: нужда — something required
• Serbo-Croatian: potreba — something required
• Serbo-Croatian: nužda — something required
• Sicilian: bisognu — something required
• Slovak: potreba — something required
• Spanish: necesidad — something required
• Spanish: menesteres — something required
• Swahili: uhitaji — something required
• Swahili: haja — something required
• Swedish: behov — something required
• Tagalog: pangangailangan — something required
• Tagalog: kailangan — something required
• Tajik: ниёз (niyoz) — something required
• Tajik: зарурат (zarurat) — something required
• Tajik: талабот (talabot) — something required
• Tamil: தேவை (tēvai) — something required
• Telugu: అవసరము (avasaramu) — something required
• Turkish: gereksinim — something required
• Turkish: ihtiyaç — something required
• Turkish: eksik — something required
• Turkish: gereklilik — something required
• Ukrainian: нужда́ (nuždá) — something required
• Ukrainian: потре́ба (potréba) — something required
• Ukrainian: необхі́дність (neobxídnistʹ) — something required
• Ukrainian: ну́жа (núža) — something required
• Urdu: ضرورت (zarūrat) — something required
• Uyghur: ئېھتىياج (ëhtiyaj) — something required
• Uyghur: لازىملىق (lazimliq) — something required
• Uyghur: كېرەكلىك (këreklik) — something required
• Uyghur: زۆرۈرىيەت (zörüriyet) — something required
• Uyghur: ھاجەت (hajet) — something required
• Uzbek: ehtiyoj — something required
• Uzbek: lozimlik — something required
• Venetan: bixogno — something required
• Vietnamese: nhu cầu — something required
• Waray-Waray: kinahanglan — something required
• Waray-Waray: kasuko — something required
• Yiddish: באַדאַרף (badarf) — something required
• Azerbaijani: ehtiyac — lack of means of subsistence
• Azerbaijani: imkansızlıq — lack of means of subsistence
• Azerbaijani: darlıq-korluq — lack of means of subsistence
• Bulgarian: бе́дност (bédnost) — lack of means of subsistence
• Catalan: necessitat — lack of means of subsistence
• Danish: nød — lack of means of subsistence
• Dutch: nood — lack of means of subsistence
• Esperanto: senhaveco — lack of means of subsistence
• Finnish: puute — lack of means of subsistence
• Finnish: köyhyys — lack of means of subsistence
• Galician: necesidade — lack of means of subsistence
• Galician: laceira — lack of means of subsistence
• German: Not — lack of means of subsistence
• Gothic: 𐌸𐌰𐍂𐌱𐌰 (þarba) — lack of means of subsistence
• Ancient Greek: χρεία (khreía) — lack of means of subsistence
• Hungarian: szükséglet — lack of means of subsistence
• Italian: indigenza — lack of means of subsistence
• Malayalam: വേണ്ടത് (vēṇṭatŭ) — lack of means of subsistence
• Occitan: necessitat — lack of means of subsistence
• Polish: potrzeba — lack of means of subsistence
• Portuguese: necessidade — lack of means of subsistence
• Spanish: necesidad — lack of means of subsistence
• Spanish: egestad — lack of means of subsistence
• Swedish: nöd — lack of means of subsistence
• Ottoman Turkish: یوقسوللق (yoksulluk) — lack of means of subsistence
• Albanian: nevojit — to have an absolute requirement for
• Southern Altai: керексинер (kereksiner) — to have an absolute requirement for
• Arabic: اِحْتَاجَ (iḥtāja) — to have an absolute requirement for
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܣܢܝܼܩܵܐ (snīqā) — to have an absolute requirement for
• Armenian: կարիք ունենալ (karikʻ unenal) — to have an absolute requirement for
• Azerbaijani: lazım olmaq — to have an absolute requirement for
• Azerbaijani: gərəkmək — to have an absolute requirement for
• Basque: behar — to have an absolute requirement for
• Belarusian: патрабава́ць (patrabavácʹ) — to have an absolute requirement for
• Bulgarian: тря́бва (trjábva) — to have an absolute requirement for
• Bulgarian: нужда́я се (nuždája se) — to have an absolute requirement for
• Burmese: လို (lui) — to have an absolute requirement for
• Burmese: လိုအပ် (luiap) — to have an absolute requirement for
• Catalan: necessitar — to have an absolute requirement for
• Catalan: requerir — to have an absolute requirement for
• Cherokee: ᎤᏂᎬᎦ (unigvga) — to have an absolute requirement for
• Chinese Mandarin: 需要 (xūyào) — to have an absolute requirement for
• Czech: potřebovat — to have an absolute requirement for
• Danish: behøve — to have an absolute requirement for
• Danish: kræve — to have an absolute requirement for
• Danish: have brug for — to have an absolute requirement for
• Dutch: vereisen — to have an absolute requirement for
• Dutch: nodig hebben — to have an absolute requirement for
• Dutch: behoeven — to have an absolute requirement for
• Dutch: benodigen — to have an absolute requirement for
• Esperanto: bezoni — to have an absolute requirement for
• Estonian: vajama — to have an absolute requirement for
• Estonian: pidama — to have an absolute requirement for
• Evenki: гэлэ- (gələ-) — to have an absolute requirement for
• Faroese: tørva — to have an absolute requirement for
• Faroese: tørvast — to have an absolute requirement for
• Finnish: tarvita — to have an absolute requirement for
• Finnish: vaatia — to have an absolute requirement for
• French: avoir besoin de — to have an absolute requirement for
• French: nécessiter — to have an absolute requirement for
• Galician: necesitar — to have an absolute requirement for
• Galician: requirir — to have an absolute requirement for
• Galician: precisar — to have an absolute requirement for
• Galician: cumprir — to have an absolute requirement for
• Georgian: საჭიროება (sač̣iroeba) — to have an absolute requirement for
• German: benötigen — to have an absolute requirement for
• German: brauchen — to have an absolute requirement for
• German: bruuche — to have an absolute requirement for
• Gothic: 𐌸𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌱𐌰𐌽 (þaurban) — to have an absolute requirement for
• Greek: χρειάζομαι (chreiázomai) — to have an absolute requirement for
• Ancient Greek: χρῄζω (khrēízō) — to have an absolute requirement for
• Ancient Greek: δέω (déō) — to have an absolute requirement for
• Haitian Creole: bezwen — to have an absolute requirement for
• Hebrew: צריך (tsaríkh) — to have an absolute requirement for
• Hindi: मुहताज होना (muhtāj honā) — to have an absolute requirement for
• Hungarian: kell — to have an absolute requirement for
• Icelandic: þurfa — to have an absolute requirement for
• Ido: bezonar — to have an absolute requirement for
• Indonesian: memerlukan — to have an absolute requirement for
• Ingrian: hoolia — to have an absolute requirement for
• Ingrian: tarvita — to have an absolute requirement for
• Ingrian: tahtoa — to have an absolute requirement for
• Interlingua: besoniar — to have an absolute requirement for
• Irish: teastaigh ó — to have an absolute requirement for
• Irish: is gá do — to have an absolute requirement for
• Italian: avere bisogno di — to have an absolute requirement for
• Japanese: 必要する (hitsuyōto-surú) — to have an absolute requirement for
• Japanese: ...が必要 (...ga hitsuyō) — to have an absolute requirement for
• Japanese: 要る (iru) — to have an absolute requirement for
• Khmer: ត្រូវការ (trəvkaa) — to have an absolute requirement for
• Korean: 필요하다 (piryohada) — to have an absolute requirement for
• Korean: 요하다 (yohada) — to have an absolute requirement for
• Central Kurdish: پێ ویستن (pê wîstin) — to have an absolute requirement for
• Northern Kurdish: pê vên — to have an absolute requirement for
• Ladino: tener menester de — to have an absolute requirement for
• Lao: ຕ້ອງການ (tǭng kān) — to have an absolute requirement for
• Latin: egeō — to have an absolute requirement for
• Latin: requīrō — to have an absolute requirement for
• Latin: desiderō — to have an absolute requirement for
• Latvian: vajadzēt — to have an absolute requirement for
• Lithuanian: reikėti — to have an absolute requirement for
• Macedonian: треба (treba) — to have an absolute requirement for
• Malay: perlu — to have an absolute requirement for
• Malayalam: ആവശ്യമാണ് (āvaśyamāṇŭ) — to have an absolute requirement for
• Maltese: għand bżonn — to have an absolute requirement for
• Māori: matea — to have an absolute requirement for
• Marathi: गरज असणे (garaj asṇe) — to have an absolute requirement for
• Mauritian Creole: bizin — to have an absolute requirement for
• Mongolian: дутагдах (dutagdax) — to have an absolute requirement for
• Nanai: гэлэ- (gele-) — to have an absolute requirement for
• Navajo: tʼáá ákónéehee átʼé — to have an absolute requirement for
• Norwegian: trenge — to have an absolute requirement for
• Occitan: necessitar — to have an absolute requirement for
• Old English: þurfan — to have an absolute requirement for
• Old Saxon: thurvan — to have an absolute requirement for
• Old Saxon: thurƀan — to have an absolute requirement for
• Persian: احتیاج داشتن (ehtiyâj dâštan) — to have an absolute requirement for
• Persian: نیاز داشتن (niyâz dâštan) — to have an absolute requirement for
• Persian: لازم داشتن (lâzem dâštan) — to have an absolute requirement for
• Persian: کسر داشتن (kasr dâštan) — to have an absolute requirement for
• Polish: potrzebować — to have an absolute requirement for
• Portuguese: precisar — to have an absolute requirement for
• Portuguese: necessitar — to have an absolute requirement for
• Romanian: trebui — to have an absolute requirement for
• Romanian: avea nevoie de — to have an absolute requirement for
• Romansh: avair basegn da — to have an absolute requirement for
• Russian: нужда́ться (nuždátʹsja) — to have an absolute requirement for
• Russian: быть ну́жным (bytʹ núžnym) — to have an absolute requirement for
• Russian: тре́боваться (trébovatʹsja) — to have an absolute requirement for
• Northern Sami: dárbbašit — to have an absolute requirement for
• Serbo-Croatian: trebati — to have an absolute requirement for
• Serbo-Croatian: требати — to have an absolute requirement for
• Slovak: potrebovať — to have an absolute requirement for
• Slovene: potrebovati — to have an absolute requirement for
• Slovene: rabiti — to have an absolute requirement for
• Spanish: necesitar/precisar (de) — to have an absolute requirement for
• Spanish: hacer(le) falta (a) — to have an absolute requirement for
• Spanish: ocupar — to have an absolute requirement for
• Swahili: -hitaji — to have an absolute requirement for
• Swedish: behöva — to have an absolute requirement for
• Tagalog: mangailangan — to have an absolute requirement for
• Tagalog: kailanganin — to have an absolute requirement for
• Tajik: эҳтиёҷ доштан (ehtiyoj doštan) — to have an absolute requirement for
• Tajik: ниёз доштан (niyoz doštan) — to have an absolute requirement for
• Thai: ต้องการ (dtɔ̂ng-gaan) — to have an absolute requirement for
• Tibetan: མཁོ (mkho) — to have an absolute requirement for
• Tibetan: དགོས (dgos) — to have an absolute requirement for
• Turkish: gereksinmek — to have an absolute requirement for
• Turkish: gereksinim duymak — to have an absolute requirement for
• Turkish: gereksinimi olmak — to have an absolute requirement for
• Turkish: ihtiyaç duymak — to have an absolute requirement for
• Turkish: ihtiyacı olmak — to have an absolute requirement for
• Turkish: lazım olmak — to have an absolute requirement for
• Turkish: gerekmek — to have an absolute requirement for
• Ukrainian: потребува́ти (potrebuváty) — to have an absolute requirement for
• Vietnamese: cần — to have an absolute requirement for
• Yiddish: דאַרפֿן (darfn) — to have an absolute requirement for
• Zhuang: aeuyungh — to have an absolute requirement for
• Arabic: اِحْتَاجَ (iḥtāja) — to want strongly
• Bulgarian: желая (želaja) — to want strongly
• Chinese Mandarin: 需要 (xūyào) — to want strongly
• Chinese Mandarin: 要 (yào) — to want strongly
• Ngazidja Comorian: ukaya na utadjifu wa — to want strongly
• Danish: behøve — to want strongly
• Dutch: moeten hebben — to want strongly
• Esperanto: bezoni — to want strongly
• Finnish: tarvita — to want strongly
• Finnish: olla pakko — to want strongly
• French: avoir besoin de — to want strongly
• German: brauchen — to want strongly
• Ancient Greek: δέω (déō) — to want strongly
• Hindi: ज़रूरत होना (zarūrat honā) — to want strongly
• Indonesian: perlu — to want strongly
• Ingrian: hoolia — to want strongly
• Ingrian: tarvita — to want strongly
• Ingrian: tahtoa — to want strongly
• Irish: teastaigh ó — to want strongly
• Irish: is gá do — to want strongly
• Japanese: 要る (iru) — to want strongly
• Korean: 필요하다 (piryohada) — to want strongly
• Korean: 요하다 (yohada) — to want strongly
• Latin: desidero — to want strongly
• Malay: memerlukan — to want strongly
• Malayalam: വേണം (vēṇaṁ) — to want strongly
• Malayalam: വേണ്ടുക (vēṇṭuka) — to want strongly
• Norwegian: trenge — to want strongly
• Persian: احتیاج داشتن (ehtiyâj dâštan) — to want strongly
• Persian: نیاز داشتن (niyâz dâštan) — to want strongly
• Portuguese: precisar — to want strongly
• Slovene: potrebovati — to want strongly
• Slovene: rabiti — to want strongly
• Spanish: necesitar/precisar (de) — to want strongly
• Spanish: hacer(le) falta (a) — to want strongly
• Vietnamese: cần — to want strongly
• Vietnamese: muốn — to want strongly
• Bulgarian: трябва (trjabva) — to be obliged to
• Catalan: haver de — to be obliged to
• Catalan: caldre — to be obliged to
• Chinese Mandarin: 必要 (bìyào) — to be obliged to
• Chinese Mandarin: 必需 (bìxū) — to be obliged to
• Chinese Mandarin: 得 (děi) — to be obliged to
• Danish: behøve — to be obliged to
• Dutch: moeten — to be obliged to
• Esperanto: devi — to be obliged to
• Faroese: mega — to be obliged to
• Finnish: täytyä — to be obliged to
• Finnish: pitää — to be obliged to
• Finnish: tarvita — to be obliged to
• French: être obligé de — to be obliged to
• French: nécessiter — to be obliged to
• German: müssen — to be obliged to
• Gothic: 𐌸𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌱𐌰𐌽 (þaurban) — to be obliged to
• Icelandic: þurfa — to be obliged to
• Indonesian: perlu, harus, wajib — to be obliged to
• Ingrian: pittää — to be obliged to
• Ingrian: hoolia — to be obliged to
• Irish: caithfidh — to be obliged to
• Italian: necessitare — to be obliged to
• Japanese: しなければいけない (shinakereba ikenai) — to be obliged to
• Japanese: 義務がある (gimu ga aru) — to be obliged to
• Khmer: ចាំបាច់ (cam bac) — to be obliged to
• Latin: obligor — to be obliged to
• Latin: debeo — to be obliged to
• Macedonian: мора (mora) — to be obliged to
• Macedonian: треба (treba) — to be obliged to
• Old English: motan — to be obliged to
• Old Saxon: motan — to be obliged to
• Portuguese: precisar — to be obliged to
• Portuguese: necessitar — to be obliged to
• Romanian: trebui — to be obliged to
• Northern Sami: galgat — to be obliged to
• Northern Sami: fertet — to be obliged to
• Spanish: necesitar — to be obliged to
• Spanish: ser necesario que — to be obliged to
• Swedish: måste — to be obliged to
• Swedish: nödgas — to be obliged to
• Thai: จําเป็น (jam-bpen) — to be obliged to
• Turkish: zorunda olmak — to be obliged to
• Turkish: lazım olmak — to be obliged to
• Turkish: gerekmek — to be obliged to
• Turkish: -meli — to be obliged to
• Turkish: -malı — to be obliged to
• Vietnamese: cần phải — to be obliged to
• Bulgarian: необходимо е (neobhodimo e) — to be required or necessary
• Dutch: nodig zijn — to be required or necessary
• Esperanto: devi — to be required or necessary
• Finnish: täytyä — to be required or necessary
• Finnish: pitää — to be required or necessary
• Finnish: olla välttämätöntä — to be required or necessary