thirsty

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• General-American: thûrs′tē
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• General-American: /ˈθɝs.ti/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈθɜːs.ti/
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• rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)sti
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• CMU ARPABET: TH ER1 S T IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English thirsty, from Old English þurstiġ, from Proto-West Germanic *þurstug. Equivalent to thirst + -y. Cognate with Dutch dorstig, German durstig.

150 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: etur — needing to drink
• Arabic: عَطْشَان (ʕaṭšān) — needing to drink
• Arabic: ظَمْآن (ẓamʔān) — needing to drink
• Arabic: عطشان (ʕaṭšān) — needing to drink
• Arabic: عطشان (ʕaṭšān) — needing to drink
• Armenian: ծարավ (carav) — needing to drink
• Aromanian: sitos — needing to drink
• Asturian: sedientu — needing to drink
• Aymara: phara — needing to drink
• Aymara: waña — needing to drink
• Azerbaijani: susuz — needing to drink
• Bashkir: һыуһаған (hıwhağan) — needing to drink
• Belarusian: які́ хо́ча піць (jakí xóča picʹ) — needing to drink
• Bengali: তৃষ্ণার্ত (triśnarto) — needing to drink
• Bengali: পিয়াসী (piẏaśi) — needing to drink
• Central Bikol: paha — needing to drink
• Bulgarian: жа́ден (žáden) — needing to drink
• Burmese: ရေငတ် (re-ngat) — needing to drink
• Burmese: ရေဆာ (rehca) — needing to drink
• Catalan: assedegat — needing to drink
• Catalan: sedejant — needing to drink
• Catalan: sedegós — needing to drink
• Catalan: tenir set — needing to drink
• Chinese Cantonese: 口渴 (hau2 hot3) — needing to drink
• Chinese Cantonese: 頸渴 /颈渴 (geng2 hot3) — needing to drink
• Hakka Chinese: 嘴渴 (choi-hot) — needing to drink
• Hakka Chinese: 肚渴 (tú-hot) — needing to drink
• Chinese: 喙焦 (zh-min-nan) — needing to drink
• Chinese Mandarin: 渴 (kě) — needing to drink
• Chinese Mandarin: 口渴 (kǒukě) — needing to drink
• Czech: žíznivý — needing to drink
• Danish: tørstig — needing to drink
• Dutch: dorstig — needing to drink
• Esperanto: soifanta — needing to drink
• Finnish: janoinen — needing to drink
• French: avoir soif — needing to drink
• French: assoiffé — needing to drink
• Galician: ter sede — needing to drink
• Gallurese: sititu — needing to drink
• Georgian: მწყურვალი (mc̣q̇urvali) — needing to drink
• Georgian: მოწყურებული (moc̣q̇urebuli) — needing to drink
• German: durstig — needing to drink
• Greek: διψασμένος (dipsasménos) — needing to drink
• Ancient Greek: δίψιος (dípsios) — needing to drink
• Hebrew: צָמֵא (tsamé) — needing to drink
• Hindi: प्यासा (pyāsā) — needing to drink
• Hindi: तिश्ना (tiśnā) — needing to drink
• Hungarian: szomjas — needing to drink
• Icelandic: þyrstur — needing to drink
• Ido: durstoza — needing to drink
• Indonesian: haus — needing to drink
• Irish: tartmhar — needing to drink
• Italian: assetato — needing to drink
• Italian: avere sete — needing to drink
• Japanese: 喉が渇いた (nodo ga kawaita) — needing to drink
• Kazakh: сусаған (susağan) — needing to drink
• Kazakh: шөлдеген (şöldegen) — needing to drink
• Khmer: ស្រេកទឹក (sreek tɨk) — needing to drink
• Korean: 목마르다 (mongmareuda) — needing to drink
• Korean: 갈증나다 (galjeungnada) — needing to drink
• Central Kurdish: تینوو (tînû) — needing to drink
• Northern Kurdish: tî — needing to drink
• Northern Kurdish: têhnî — needing to drink
• Kyrgyz: суусаган (suusagan) — needing to drink
• Kyrgyz: чанкаган (cankagan) — needing to drink
• Lao: ຫິວນ້ໍາ (hiu nam) — needing to drink
• Lao: ຢາກນ້ໍາ (yāk nam) — needing to drink
• Latin: sitiens — needing to drink
• Latin: siccus — needing to drink
• Latin: sitibundus — needing to drink
• Latvian: izslāpis — needing to drink
• Lithuanian: ištroškęs — needing to drink
• Luxembourgish: duuschtereg — needing to drink
• Macedonian: жеден (žeden) — needing to drink
• Malay: dahaga — needing to drink
• Malay: haus — needing to drink
• Māori: matewai — needing to drink
• Māori: hiawai — needing to drink
• Marathi: तहानलेला (tahānlelā) — needing to drink
• Marathi: तहानलेले (tahānlele) — needing to drink
• Marathi: तहानलेली (tahānlelī) — needing to drink
• Middle English: thirsty — needing to drink
• Middle English: athirst — needing to drink
• Mongolian: ангасан (angasan) — needing to drink
• Nahuatl: āmiqui — needing to drink
• Norwegian Bokmål: tørst — needing to drink
• Norwegian Nynorsk: tørst — needing to drink
• Occitan: assedat — needing to drink
• Odia: ଶୋଷିଲା (śoṣilā) — needing to drink
• Odia: ତୃଷିତ (truṣita) — needing to drink
• Church Slavic: жѩдьнъ (žjędĭnŭ) — needing to drink
• Old English: þurstiġ — needing to drink
• Old English: þyrstan — needing to drink
• Old Norse: þyrstr — needing to drink
• Persian: تشنه (tešne) — needing to drink
• Plautdietsch: darschtich — needing to drink
• Polish: spragniony — needing to drink
• Portuguese: sequioso — needing to drink
• Portuguese: sedento — needing to drink
• Portuguese: com sede — needing to drink
• Quechua: yarqa — needing to drink
• Romanian: setos — needing to drink
• Romanian: însetat — needing to drink
• Romanian: i fi sete — needing to drink
• Romansh: avair said — needing to drink
• Russian: жа́ждущий (žážduščij) — needing to drink
• Russian: томи́мый жа́ждой (tomímyj žáždoj) — needing to drink
• Russian: хоте́ть пить (xotétʹ pitʹ) — needing to drink
• Sardinian: assididu — needing to drink
• Campidanese Sardinian: sídiu — needing to drink
• Sardinian: sídiu — needing to drink
• Sassarese: settiu — needing to drink
• Serbo-Croatian: же́дан — needing to drink
• Serbo-Croatian: žédan — needing to drink
• Sicilian: assitatu — needing to drink
• Slovak: smädný — needing to drink
• Slovene: žejen — needing to drink
• Southern Altai: суузаар (suuzaar) — needing to drink
• Southern Altai: суузаҥкай (suuzaŋkay) — needing to drink
• Southern Altai: суузак (suuzak) — needing to drink
• Spanish: sediento — needing to drink
• Spanish: tener sed — needing to drink
• Spanish: sitibundo — needing to drink
• Spanish: sediente (disused) — needing to drink
• Swedish: törstig — needing to drink
• Swedish: törstande — needing to drink
• Tagalog: uhaw — needing to drink
• Tajik: ташна (tašna) — needing to drink
• Tatar: сусаган (susağan) — needing to drink
• Tausug: malanggang — needing to drink
• Thai: กระหาย (grà-hǎai) — needing to drink
• Tibetan: ཁ་བསྐོམས (kha bskoms) — needing to drink
• Tocharian B: yokaitse — needing to drink
• Turkish: susuz — needing to drink
• Ottoman Turkish: صوسز (susuz) — needing to drink
• Turkmen: teşne — needing to drink
• Turkmen: suwsan — needing to drink
• Ukrainian: спра́глий (spráhlyj) — needing to drink
• Unami: katusëmwi — needing to drink
• Urdu: پیاسا (pyāsā) — needing to drink
• Uyghur: ئۇسسىغان (ussighan) — needing to drink
• Uyghur: ئۇسسىماق (ussimaq) — needing to drink
• Uyghur: چاڭقىماق (changqimaq) — needing to drink
• Uzbek: chanqagan — needing to drink
• Uzbek: tashna — needing to drink
• Vietnamese: khát — needing to drink
• Welsh: sychedig — needing to drink
• Yiddish: דאָרשטיק (dorshtik) — needing to drink
• Zhuang: hozhawq — needing to drink
• Zhuang: hozgan — needing to drink