nostalgia

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• Received-Pronunciation: /nɒˈstæld͡ʒə/
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• General-American: /nɑˈstæld͡ʒə/
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• General-American: /nəˈstæld͡ʒə/
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• General-American: /nɔˈstæld͡ʒə/
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• Australian: /nəˈstæɫd͡ʒə/
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• CMU ARPABET: N AO0 S T AE1 L JH AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From New Latin nostalgia, coined by Johannes Hofer in 1688 from Ancient Greek νόστος (nóstos, “returning home”) + ἄλγος (álgos, “pain”), calquing German Heimweh. Ancient Greek *νοσταλγία (*nostalgía) is unattested. Transferred sense probably influenced by French nostalgie, especially in literature. Compare Italian nostalgia, Spanish nostalgia, Portuguese nostalgia and French nostalgie.

85 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: nostalgji — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Arabic: حَنِين (ḥanīn) — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Arabic: اِشْتِيَاق (ištiyāq) — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Armenian: կարոտաբաղձություն (karotabaġjutʻyun) — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Armenian: նոստալգիա (nostalgia) — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Asturian: señardá — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Azerbaijani: nostalgiya — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Belarusian: настальгі́я (nastalʹhíja) — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Bulgarian: носта́лгия (nostálgija) — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Catalan: nostàlgia — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Chinese Mandarin: 懷舊 /怀旧 (huáijiù) — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Chinese Mandarin: 懷古 /怀古 (huáigǔ) — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Czech: nostalgie — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Danish: nostalgi — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Dutch: nostalgie — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Esperanto: saŭdado — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Esperanto: nostalgio — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Estonian: nostalgia — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Finnish: nostalgia — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Finnish: haikeus — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Finnish: kaiho — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• French: nostalgie — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Galician: morriña — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Georgian: ნოსტალგია (nosṭalgia) — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• German: Nostalgie — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• German: Wehmut — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Greek: νοσταλγία (nostalgía) — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Hebrew: נוֹסְטַלְגְיָה (nostálgya) — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Hindi: उदासी (udāsī) — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Hindi: गृहातुरता (gŕhāturtā) — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Hindi: गृहस्मारी (gŕhasmārī) — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Hindi: गृह-विरह (gŕh-virah) — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Hungarian: nosztalgia — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Icelandic: nostalgía — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Icelandic: fortíðarþrá — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Indonesian: nostalgia — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Italian: nostalgia — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Japanese: 懐古 (kaiko) — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Japanese: 懐旧 (kaikyū) — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Japanese: ノスタルジー (nosutarujī) — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Japanese: ノスタルジア (nosutarujia) — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Khmer: ការនឹករលឹក (karnœ̆krôlœ̆k) — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Korean: 향수 (hyangsu) — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Korean: 노스탤지어 (noseutaeljieo) — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Korean: 회향 (hoehyang) — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Ladino: eskarinyo — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Ladino: deskarinyo (Izmir) — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Latvian: nostalģija — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Lithuanian: nostalgija — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Macedonian: носталгија (nostalgija) — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Malay: nostalgia — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Malayalam: ഗൃഹാതുരത്വം (gr̥hāturatvaṁ) — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Malayalam: ഗതാതുരത്വം (gatāturatvaṁ) — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Mongolian: дурсахуй (dursaxuj) — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Norwegian Bokmål: nostalgi — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Norwegian Nynorsk: nostalgi — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Persian: اندمه (andame) — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Persian: نوستالژی (nostâlži) — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Polish: nostalgia — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Portuguese: nostalgia — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Portuguese: saudade — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Romanian: nostalgie — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Russian: ностальги́я (nostalʹgíja) — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Russian: тоска́ (toská) — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Scottish Gaelic: cianalas — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Serbo-Croatian: носта̀лгија — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Serbo-Croatian: nostàlgija — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Slovak: nostalgia — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Slovene: nostalgija — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Spanish: nostalgia — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Spanish: añoranza — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Swedish: nostalgi — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Tagalog: nostalhiya — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Tagalog: pagbabalik-tanaw — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Tagalog: panglaw — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Tagalog: mapanglaw — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Tashelhit: amarg — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Thai: ความคิดถึง — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Turkish: nostalji — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Ukrainian: ностальгі́я (nostalʹhíja) — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Urdu: اداسی (udāsī) — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Vietnamese: hoài niệm — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Vietnamese: nuối tiếc — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Vietnamese: nỗi nhớ — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past
• Welsh: hiraeth — bittersweet yearning for the things of the past