tânji

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic тѫжити (tǫžiti), from тѫга (tǫga, “sadness, melancholy”), from Proto-Slavic *tǫga.

Not related to tânjală.

• IPA^(key): /tɨnˈʒi/
• Rhymes: -i
• Hyphenation: tân‧ji

a tânji (third-person singular present tânjește, past participle tânjit) 4th conjugation

1. (intransitive or catenative) to yearn, long [with după or la ‘for’]

   Synonyms: jindui, râvni

2. (intransitive, now rare) to sorrow
3. (intransitive, now rare) to languish (be sickly)
4. (intransitive, of plants, figurative, now rare) to wilt

   Synonyms: se ofili, se veșteji

5. (intransitive, figurative, now rare) to stagnate
6. (intransitive, obsolete) to complain

   Synonym: se plânge

• tânjeală
• tânjire
• tânjit
• tânjitor

• tângă
• tângui

• “tânji”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025
• Iorgu Iordan, Alexandru Graur, Ion Coteanu, editors (1982), Dicționarul Limbii Române‎^[1], volume 11, part 2, Bucharest: Academy of the Socialist Republic of Romania, pages 329–330