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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English cravinge, from Old English crafing (“claim, demand”); equivalent to crave + -ing.
Noun
craving (plural cravings)
- A strong desire; yearning.
Descendants
Translations
strong desire; yearning
- Arabic: تَوْق m (tawq), تَشَوُّق m (tašawwuq), شَبَق m (šabaq) , غُلْمَة m (ḡulma)
- Belarusian: цяга f (cjaha), прага f (praha), імкненне n (imknjennje)
- Bulgarian: копнеж (bg) m (kopnež), жажда (bg) f (žažda)
- Catalan: ànsia (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 渴望 (zh) (kěwàng), 癖好 (zh) (pǐhào)
- Czech: choutky f pl
- Finnish: jano (fi), halu (fi), tarve (fi), hinku (fi)
- French: désir ardent m
- German: Gelüst (de) n, Begierde (de) f, Sehnsucht (de) f, Heißhunger (de) m (referring to food)
- Greek: λαχτάρα (el) f (lachtára), πόθος (el) m (póthos), δίψα (el) f (dípsa)
- Ancient: ὄρεξις f (órexis)
- Hungarian: sóvárgás (hu), epekedés (hu), vágyakozás (hu), vágyódás (hu), mohó/gyötrő/kínzó/heves vágy, (by a pregnant woman, for specific food) kívánósság, kívánás (hu)
- Ingrian: kaiho
- Irish: áilíos m, aimirne f (for food), andúil f, anrachán m, dúil f, gabhair f, mearadh m, miangas m, ocras (ga) m, tart (ga) m, tothlaíocht f, tothlú m
- Italian: brama (it) f
- Japanese: 渇望 (ja) (かつぼう, katsubō), 切望 (ja) (せつぼう, setsubō), 熱望 (ja) (ねつぼう, netsubō)
- Ladin: gola f
- Latgalian: tveiksme, tveikys, olka, steigsme
- Latvian: alkas f pl, kāre f
- Malayalam: വ്യാക്ക് (ml) (vyākkŭ)
- Polish: zachcianka (pl) f, żądza (pl) f
- Portuguese: ânsia (pt) f, anelo (pt) m, sofreguidão (pt) f
- Romanian: poftă (ro) f, sete (ro) f, râvnă (ro) f, ardoare (ro) f
- Russian: влече́ние (ru) n (vlečénije), жа́жда (ru) f (žážda), тя́га (ru) f (tjága), стремле́ние (ru) n (stremlénije), пристра́стие (ru) n (pristrástije)
- Sicilian: disìu (scn) m
- Spanish: ansia (es) f
- Swedish: begär (sv) n, längtan (sv) c
- Tocharian B: kāwalyñe
- Welsh: chwant m
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Etymology 2
From crave.
Verb
craving
- present participle and gerund of crave
Further reading
- “craving”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “craving”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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