Yearn

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from.

Verb

 * 1)  To long, have a strong desire (for something).
 * All I yearn for is a simple life.
 * 1) * 1897,, , Chapter 10,
 * What his soul yearned after was control of his father’s newly purchased sailing-ships.
 * 1) * 1911,, “Just Meat” in When God Laughs, and Other Stories, New York: Macmillan, p. 125,
 * And Jim supported his twitching body by holding on to the sink, the while he yearned toward the yellowish concoction that stood for life.
 * 1) * 1915,, , Chapter 5,
 * “ Anne, please tell me over again that you like me a little bit. I yearn to hear it.”
 * 1) * 1971,, , Penguin, 1972, Chapter 40, p.181,
 * all that night his body yearned for Alec’s, despite him.
 * 1)  To long for something in the past with melancholy, nostalgically.
 * 2) * 1971,, , New York: Viking, 1972, p. 420,
 * If I don’t go now, thought Charlotte, I shall have lost a chance which I shall eternally regret and yearn after.
 * 1) * 2002,, , London: Vintage, Chapter 17, p. 137,
 * Having shaken the dust of the ugly new South Africa from his feet, is he yearning for the South Africa of the old days, when Eden was still possible?
 * 1)  To have strong feelings of love, sympathy, affection, etc. (toward someone).
 * 2) * 1611,  of the , 43.30,
 * And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there.
 * 1) * 1873,, A Simpleton, Chapter 12,
 * Oh, it was a pretty sight to see this modest young creature, little more than a child herself, anticipating maternity, but blushing every now and then, and looking askant at her lord and master. How his very bowels yearned over her!
 * 1) * 1880,, , New York: Henry Holt, Chapter 3, p. 52,
 * Mr. Ratcliffe’s heart yearned toward the charming girl quite with the sensations of a father, or even of an elder brother.
 * 1) * 1883,, , Chapter 2.V,
 * But supper had cheered Tant Sannie, who found it impossible longer to maintain that decorous silence, and whose heart yearned over the youth.
 * 1)  To be pained or distressed; to grieve; to mourn.
 * 2) * c. 1598, , Act II, Scene 3,
 * Falstaff he is dead,
 * And we must yearn therefore.
 * 1) * 1760,, , London: R. & J. Dodsley, Volume 2, Chapter 17, p. 144,
 * My father’s and my uncle Toby’s hearts yearn’d with sympathy for the poor fellow’s distress
 * 1)  To pain; to grieve; to vex.
 * 2) * c. 1598, , Act IV, Scene 3,
 * It yearns me not if men my garments wear;
 * 1) * c. 1600, , Act III, Scene 5,
 * Well, she laments, sir, for it, that it would yearn your heart to see it.
 * 1) * 1833,, The Field Book: Or, Sports and Pastimes of the United Kingdom, London: Effingham Wilson, “Badger-Hunting,” p. 31,
 * When the badger finds that the terriers yearn him in his burrow, he will stop the hole between him and the terriers
 * 1) * 1835,, “A Pinch of Snuff,” Leigh Hunt’s London Journal, Volume I, No. 13, p. 98, 25 June, 1834,
 * Wants to sneeze and cannot do it!
 * Now it yearns me, thrills me, stings me,
 * Now with rapturous torment wrings me,
 * Now says “Sneeze, you fool; get through it.”

Derived terms




Translations

 * Arabic: اِشْتَاقَ
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Cebuano: hidlaw
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Danish: længte til, længte efter
 * Dutch:, , (naar)
 * Esperanto: sopiri
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: ლტოლვა, სწრაფვა, მისწრაფება
 * German: sich sehnen, ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: ὁμείρομαι, ποθέω
 * Hebrew: השתוקק,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:


 * Japanese:, 恋い慕う, 切望する
 * Latin: dēsīderō
 * Maori: kohekohe
 * Occitan: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: че̏знути; жу́дјети (Ijekavian), жу́дети (Ekavian)
 * Roman: ; (Ijekavian),  (Ekavian)
 * Spanish:, , , ,
 * Swedish: längta till, längta tillbaka till, längta efter
 * Turkish: ,
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: בענקען


 * Armenian:
 * Cebuano: hidlaw
 * Dutch: terugverlangen (naar)
 * Esperanto: sopiri


 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ნაღვლობა, დარდი
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ποθέω
 * Occitan: se laguiar, se lanhar


 * : a tânji (după) (does the Romanian entry here include the equivalent of the English particle "to"? Shouldn't it just be tânji?)

Etymology 2
See.

Verb

 * 1)  To curdle, as milk.

Etymology 3
Conflation of and.

Noun

 * 1)  Yearning;.
 * 2) * 1917 August 12, "A YEARN FOR PEACE; Pan-Germanism Denounced" Sunday Times (Perth, WA) p.1
 * 3) * 1979 Norman Mailer, The Executioner's Song
 * Gibbs now said he wasn't going to pull any punches with Gary when he knew how jealous a man could get, so he also wanted to tell him that Phil Hansen was reputed to have a yearn for attractive ladies.
 * 1) * 2010 Frank Buchmann-Moller Someone to Watch Over Me: The Life and Music of Ben Webster (University of Michigan Press) ISBN 0472025988 p.57
 * "After he had made a record date with us in 1935, I always had a yearn for Ben," he said years later.
 * 1) * 2014 February 13, AFP, "Why internet adultery numbers are soaring" New Zealand Herald
 * "My guess, however, is that it has because there are many people who have a yearn for sex outside their relationship but wouldn't have the slightest idea about how to do it or do it safely," Prof Schwartz added.