English
Etymology
Back-formation from homesickness, equivalent to home + sick.
Pronunciation
Adjective
homesick (comparative more homesick, superlative most homesick)
- (often with for) Missing one's home and family very much when away; nostalgic.
Derived terms
Translations
missing one's home or family
- Bulgarian: носталгичен (nostalgičen)
- Catalan: enyorat (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 思鄉 / 思乡 (zh) (sīxiāng), (colloquial) 想家 (zh) (xiǎngjiā), (literary) 鄉愁 / 乡愁 (zh) (xiāngchóu), (dated) 懷鄉 / 怀乡 (zh) (huáixiāng)
- Czech: tesknící po domově
- Dutch: heemziek, heimwee (nl) m or f or n
- Finnish: koti-ikävä (fi) (noun, check usage at fi entry)
- German: heimwehkrank
- Greek: νοσταλγός (el) m or f (nostalgós)
- Icelandic: vera með heimþrá, vera haldinn heimþrá
- Ilocano: iliw
- Indonesian: rindu rumah (literally “to miss home”)
- Italian: nostalgico (it)
- Japanese: ホームシック (ja) (hōmushikku)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: بیری ماڵەوە (bîrî mallewe)
- Maori: manatu
- Mongolian: нутгаа санах (nutgaa sanax), үгүйлэх (mn) (ügüjlex), гэрээ санах (geree sanax)
- Polish: nostalgiczny (pl)
- Russian: тоску́ющий (toskújuščij) по (po) дому (domu) (toskújuščij po dómu)
- Tagalog: sabik sa pag-uwi, nahihidlaw
- Tongan: taʻelata
- Turkish: yurduna özlemli
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