touching

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• /ˈtʌt͡ʃɪŋ/
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From Middle English touchynge, equivalent to touch + -ing.

From Middle English touching, touchinge, touchynge, equivalent to touch + -ing.

51 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: مُؤَثِّر (muʔaṯṯir) — provoking sadness and pity
• Armenian: հուզիչ (huzičʻ) — provoking sadness and pity
• Belarusian: жа́ласлівы (žálaslivy) — provoking sadness and pity
• Belarusian: крана́льны (kranálʹny) — provoking sadness and pity
• Belarusian: замілава́льны (zamilaválʹny) — provoking sadness and pity
• Bulgarian: трога́телен (trogátelen) — provoking sadness and pity
• Chinese Mandarin: 感人 (gǎnrén) — provoking sadness and pity
• Chinese Mandarin: 使......感動 /使......感动 (shǐ ... gǎndòng) — provoking sadness and pity
• Czech: dojemný — provoking sadness and pity
• Danish: rørende — provoking sadness and pity
• Dutch: roerend — provoking sadness and pity
• Finnish: liikuttava — provoking sadness and pity
• Finnish: koskettava — provoking sadness and pity
• French: touchant — provoking sadness and pity
• German: rührend — provoking sadness and pity
• German: anrührend — provoking sadness and pity
• German: ergreifend — provoking sadness and pity
• Greek: συγκινητικός (sygkinitikós) — provoking sadness and pity
• Hungarian: megható — provoking sadness and pity
• Hungarian: megindító — provoking sadness and pity
• Irish: corraitheach — provoking sadness and pity
• Italian: commovente — provoking sadness and pity
• Italian: toccante — provoking sadness and pity
• Japanese: 感動的な (kandōteki na) — provoking sadness and pity
• Korean: 감동적 (gamdongjeok) — provoking sadness and pity
• Latin: flexanimus — provoking sadness and pity
• Macedonian: трогателен (trogatelen) — provoking sadness and pity
• Māori: whakaaroharoha — provoking sadness and pity
• Māori: whakaaroha — provoking sadness and pity
• Norwegian Bokmål: rørende — provoking sadness and pity
• Polish: wzruszający — provoking sadness and pity
• Portuguese: tocante — provoking sadness and pity
• Russian: тро́гательный (trógatelʹnyj) — provoking sadness and pity
• Serbo-Croatian: дѝрљив — provoking sadness and pity
• Serbo-Croatian: dìrljiv — provoking sadness and pity
• Slovak: dojímavý — provoking sadness and pity
• Slovak: dojemný — provoking sadness and pity
• Slovene: ganljiv — provoking sadness and pity
• Spanish: enternecedor — provoking sadness and pity
• Spanish: conmovedor — provoking sadness and pity
• Spanish: emotivo — provoking sadness and pity
• Swedish: rörande — provoking sadness and pity
• Swedish: känslosam — provoking sadness and pity
• Turkish: hüzünlü — provoking sadness and pity
• Turkish: hazin — provoking sadness and pity
• Turkish: dokunaklı — provoking sadness and pity
• Ukrainian: звору́шливий (zvorúšlyvyj) — provoking sadness and pity
• Vietnamese: cảm động — provoking sadness and pity
• Arabic: لَمْس (lams) — The act by which something is touched
• Bulgarian: докосване (dokosvane) — The act by which something is touched
• Turkish: dokunuş — The act by which something is touched