29 Untranslatable Love Words From Around The World

Wrong! The sense of longing that wives felt for their shepherd men, when these were away. It's a very specific feeling, and it also has a special kind of song/folk ballad attached to it called "doina". The only thing close to it is some Norwegian word that wives of fishermen used for the same feeling.

Saudade in Portuguese

Será a nossa Saudade???

In Portuguese, we have the word SAUDADE, it is interesting because DOR in portuguese means pain, since Romanian is a latin language (as also portuguese, spanish, french and italian; dor, dolor, douleur, dolore, respectively, all meaning pain). Saudade means the same as DOR in Romanian = nostalgia... longing, missing someone or something you love (from latin solitate: solitude, isolation). You should add that to your list ;).

In Bangla, that feeling is called "বিরহ (biroh)"= intense feeling of missing someone. There should be an equivalent word in English, as it is a very common human emotion.

The origin of the word is not in question here people, pay more attention. To be more precise, the meaning of the word 'Merak' in Serbian actually does mean what it says here it means. And the point is that the meaning of that one word in Serbian is not 'translatable' with one word from the English language. Again, pay attention, or walk away. Bow out.

Merak means curiosity or interest in Turkish

Actually, it is it is neither :) Origin of Merak - Medieval Latin from Arabic marāqq (al-dubb al-'akbar) the loins (of the Great Bear) from marāqq tender areas of the lower abdomen, loins from raqqa to be thin, tender rqq Read more at http://www.yourdictionary.com/merak#7u7azSm3wuudIRSZ.99

You lost me here. Merak is a Turkish word and it doesn't remotely mean what you said it means. Now I'm questioning your entire list.

merak is in turkish and means u worrie about smth bad happens

This one is actually one of the most common you will hear in Israel and describes a huge part in our culture. It is usually not about used when you talk about one's love interest, though, we mostly use it when we talk about our friends and family. You will expect the people close to you to "lefargen", to be happy for you when something goog happens to you.

learning hebrew today...

It means to run fingers in the head, this is a way to caress someone. Cafuné come to Brazilian Portuguese from Quicongo (an African language) as /Kafunile/.

Portuguese is misspelled. "Cafuné" is Portuguese from Brazil and the most iconic word (from Portuguese from Portugal) would be "saudade".

It's not used in Portugal's Portuguese, only in Brazilian Portuguese. Saudade it's considered the most portuguese word. It's the feeling of missing someone.

Nice one. a bit like the Estonian "pai", I think.

Not only lover's, any loved ones' such as a sibling or friend

Aka "love at first sight" except this definition seems more romantic

Your are?

How is this in here? It's a phrase translated into another language. Like everything else...

It's not a word, and it seem to have been translated just fine.

Rob Simons

Ok, there are NO vowels in that word!

correction: It's not about the feeling of **joy (not love, whatever)

Its Sanskrit, which is the mother of most Indian languages and therefore can be placed under Hindi

HOW DO YOU EVEN SAY THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Slovenian word for this is: spogledovanje

Ha

And cosiness then? Thats exactly the same meaning...