Thirst

//θɝst//

Synonyms for "thirst" (96 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (20)

crave craving desire hunger longing ache ambition an universal wolf anxiety appetence appetency appetite appetition aridity aridness avidity be ravenous canine appetite corkiness

Noun(1 words)

aquaphilia

Strong matches (28)

covet coveting dream drink up drought dryness eagerness emptiness empty stomach enthusiasm eye hungrily fancy feel hungry hanker hanker after hankering have a tapeworm hollow hunger hunger after hunger for

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hungriness itch itching

Verb(2 words)

crave hunger

Noun(3 words)

craving hunger hungriness

Related words (48)

Related word relations

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12 relation types

More general

7 entries

ache desire drive hurt smart want

Synonyms

5 entries

crave craving desire hunger longing

Related terms

1 entries

hunger

causes

1 entries

dehydration

causes desire

2 entries

buy beer drink

derived

6 entries

bloodthirst thirst snake thirst trap thirst-buster thirst-quenching thirsty

has context

1 entries

slang

has property

1 entries

uncomfortable

is a

2 entries

drive internal sensory attribute

manner of

1 entries

ache

receives action

1 entries

unquenched

related to

11 entries

be craving desire dryness hunger longing lust pharyngeal sensation sexual thirsty

Translations

298 translations across 157 languages.

Abkhaz

1 entries

ашабара noun (dryness)

Afrikaans

1 entries

dors noun (dryness)

Albanian

2 entries

et noun (dryness)
etje noun (dryness)

Amharic

2 entries

ጥማት noun (dryness)
ጥም noun (dryness)

Ancient Greek

2 entries

δίψα noun (dryness)
διψάω verb (to be thirsty)

Arabic

4 entries

ظَمَأ noun (dryness)
عطش noun (dryness)
عَطَش noun (dryness)
ظَمِئَ verb (to be thirsty)

Aragonese

1 entries

set noun (dryness)

Armenian

3 entries

ծարավ noun (dryness)
ծարավություն noun (dryness)
ծարավել verb (to be thirsty)

Aromanian

2 entries

seate noun (dryness)
nsitedz verb (to be thirsty)

Assamese

1 entries

পিয়াহ noun (dryness)

Asturian

2 entries

sede noun (dryness)
sede noun (figuratively)

Azerbaijani

3 entries

susuzluq noun (dryness)
susamaq verb (to be thirsty)
susamaq verb (to desire)

Bashkir

1 entries

һыуһау verb (to be thirsty)

Basque

1 entries

egarria noun (dryness)

Belarusian

2 entries

пра́га noun (dryness)
сма́га noun (dryness)

Bengali

2 entries

তৃষ্ণা noun (dryness)
পিয়াস noun (dryness)

Bhojpuri

1 entries

प्यास noun (dryness)

Bikol Central

1 entries

paha noun (dryness)

Breton

1 entries

sehed noun (dryness)

Bulgarian

3 entries

жа́жда noun (dryness)
жаден съм verb (to be thirsty)
жадувам verb (to desire)

Burmese

1 entries

အငတ် noun (dryness)

Buryat

1 entries

ангалга noun (dryness)

Catalan

4 entries

ambició noun (figuratively)
set noun (dryness)
set noun (figuratively)
sedegar verb (to desire)

Cebuano

1 entries

kauhaw noun (dryness)

Central Atlas Tamazight

1 entries

ⴼⴰⴷ noun (dryness)

Central Kurdish

1 entries

تینوویی noun (dryness)

Chechen

1 entries

хьогалла noun (dryness)

Cherokee

2 entries

ᎣᏔᏕᎩᏍᎩ noun (dryness)
ᎤᏔᏕᎩᎠ verb (to be thirsty)

Chichewa

1 entries

ludzu noun (dryness)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries

口渴 noun (dryness)
渴 verb (to be thirsty)

Church Slavic

1 entries

жѧжда noun (dryness)

Coptic

4 entries

ⲉⲓⲃⲉ noun (dryness)
ⲓⲃⲓ noun (dryness)
ⲉⲓⲃⲉ verb (to be thirsty)
ⲓⲃⲓ verb (to be thirsty)

Corsican

1 entries

sete noun (dryness)

Czech

3 entries

žízeň noun (dryness)
žízeň noun (figuratively)
žíznit verb (to be thirsty)

Dalmatian

1 entries

sait noun (dryness)

Danish

2 entries

tørst noun (dryness)
tørste verb (to be thirsty)

Dutch

1 entries

dorst noun (dryness)

Egyptian

2 entries

i-b-t-E8-mw noun (dryness)
i-b-E8-mw-A2 verb (to be thirsty)

Esperanto

1 entries

soifo noun (dryness)

Estonian

1 entries

janu noun (dryness)

Extremaduran

1 entries

sedi noun (dryness)

Faroese

2 entries

tosti noun (dryness)
tysta verb (to be thirsty)

Finnish

3 entries

himo noun (figuratively)
jano noun (dryness)
jano noun (figuratively)

French

4 entries

soif noun (dryness)
soif noun (figuratively)
avoir soif verb (to be thirsty)
désirer verb (to desire)

Friulian

1 entries

sêt noun (dryness)

Galician

2 entries

sede noun (dryness)
sede noun (figuratively)

Ge'ez

2 entries

ጽምእ noun (dryness)
ጸምአ verb (to be thirsty)

Georgian

1 entries

წყურვილი noun (dryness)

German

4 entries

Durst noun (dryness)
Durst noun (figuratively)
Durst haben verb (to be thirsty)
dursten verb (to be thirsty)

Gothic

2 entries

𐌸𐌰𐌿𐍂𐍃𐍄𐌴𐌹 noun (dryness)
𐌸𐌰𐌿𐍂𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽 verb (to be thirsty)

Greek

4 entries

δίψα noun (dryness)
δίψα noun (figuratively)
διψάω verb (to be thirsty)
διψάω verb (to desire)

Greenlandic

1 entries

imerusunneq noun (dryness)

Gujarati

2 entries

તરસ noun (dryness)
પ્યાસ noun (dryness)

Haitian Creole

1 entries

swaf dlo noun (dryness)

Hausa

1 entries

ƙishi noun (dryness)

Hawaiian

1 entries

make wai noun (dryness)

Hebrew

3 entries

צָמָא noun (dryness)
צימאון noun (dryness)
צָמֵא verb (to be thirsty)

Hiligaynon

1 entries

uhaw noun (dryness)

Hindi

4 entries

उदन्या noun (dryness)
तृषा noun (dryness)
तृष्णा noun (dryness)
पिपासा noun (dryness)

Hungarian

2 entries

szomj noun (dryness)
szomjúság noun (dryness)

Icelandic

1 entries

þorsti noun (dryness)

Ido

3 entries

dursto noun (dryness)
durstar verb (to be thirsty)
durstar verb (to desire)

Igbo

1 entries

agu mmiṛi noun (dryness)

Indonesian

1 entries

haus noun (dryness)

Ingush

1 entries

хьогал noun (dryness)

Interlingua

1 entries

sete noun (dryness)

Irish

2 entries

tart noun (dryness)
íota noun (dryness)

Italian

4 entries

avidità noun (figuratively)
sete noun (dryness)
sete noun (figuratively)
avere sete verb (to be thirsty)

Japanese

4 entries

口渇 noun (dryness)
喉の渇き noun (dryness)
渇 noun (dryness)
渇き noun (dryness)

Kannada

2 entries

ಡಿಸೈರ್ noun (figuratively)
ಬಾಯಾರಿಕೆ noun (dryness)

Kapampangan

2 entries

kau noun (dryness)
mau noun (dryness)

Kazakh

4 entries

аңсау noun (dryness)
сусау noun (dryness)
шөл noun (dryness)
шөлдеу noun (dryness)

Khmer

1 entries

សម្រេក noun (dryness)

Korean

2 entries

갈증 noun (dryness)
목마름 noun (dryness)

Kyrgyz

2 entries

суусоо noun (dryness)
суусун verb (to be thirsty)

Latin

3 entries

sitis noun (dryness)
sitio verb (to desire)
sitiō verb (to be thirsty)

Latvian

1 entries

slāpes noun (dryness)

Lithuanian

4 entries

troškimas noun (figuratively)
troškulys noun (dryness)
troškulys noun (figuratively)
trokšti verb (to be thirsty)

Livonian

2 entries

jūomiznǟlga noun (dryness)
viednǟlga noun (dryness)

Lombard

1 entries

set noun (dryness)

Luganda

1 entries

ennyonta noun (dryness)

Luxembourgish

1 entries

Duuscht noun (dryness)

Macedonian

1 entries

жед noun (dryness)

Maguindanao

2 entries

kawaw noun (dryness)
waw noun (dryness)

Malagasy

1 entries

hetaheta noun (dryness)

Malay

2 entries

kedahagaan noun (dryness)
kehausan noun (dryness)

Malayalam

1 entries

ദാഹം noun (dryness)

Maltese

1 entries

għatx noun (dryness)

Manx

1 entries

paays noun (dryness)

Maranao

2 entries

kawaw noun (dryness)
waw noun (dryness)

Marathi

1 entries

तहान noun (dryness)

Mewati

1 entries

पिस noun (dryness)

Mongolian

2 entries

цангаа noun (dryness)
цангах verb (to be thirsty)

Nepali

1 entries

तिर्खा noun (dryness)

Norwegian

1 entries

tørste verb (to be thirsty)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries

tørste noun (dryness)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries

tørste noun (dryness)

Occitan

1 entries

set noun (dryness)

Odia

2 entries

ତୃଷା noun (dryness)
ଶୋଷ noun (dryness)

Old East Slavic

1 entries

жажа noun (dryness)

Old Norse

1 entries

þorsti noun (dryness)

Ottoman Turkish

2 entries

صوسزلق noun (dryness)
صوسامق verb (to be thirsty)

Paiwan

1 entries

qusau noun (dryness)

Pali

1 entries

pipāsā noun (dryness)

Papiamentu

1 entries

set noun (dryness)

Pashto

1 entries

تشنک noun (dryness)

Persian

1 entries

تشنگی noun (dryness)

Piedmontese

1 entries

sè noun (dryness)

Plautdietsch

1 entries

Darscht noun (dryness)

Polish

4 entries

pragnienie noun (dryness)
pragnienie noun (figuratively)
być spragnionym verb (to be thirsty)
być spragnionym verb (to desire)

Portuguese

4 entries

sede noun (dryness)
sede noun (figuratively)
estar com sede verb (to be thirsty)
ter sede verb (to be thirsty)

Prakrit

4 entries

𑀇𑀡𑁆𑀳𑀸 noun (dryness)
𑀉𑀤𑀡𑁆𑀡𑀸 noun (dryness)
𑀉𑀤𑀦𑁆𑀦𑀸 noun (dryness)
𑀢𑀡𑁆𑀳𑀸 noun (dryness)

Quechua

2 entries

ch'akichikuy verb (to be thirsty)
ch'akiy verb (to be thirsty)

Romanian

4 entries

sete noun (dryness)
dori verb (to desire)
fie sete verb (to be thirsty)
înseta verb (to be thirsty)

Romansch

2 entries

said noun (dryness)
set noun (dryness)

Russian

4 entries

жа́жда noun (dryness)
жа́жда noun (figuratively)
сма́га noun (dryness)
жа́ждать verb (to desire)

Sanskrit

3 entries

see Thesaurus:तृष्णा noun (dryness)
तृष्णा noun (figuratively)
तृष्यति verb (to be thirsty)

Sardinian

2 entries

side noun (dryness)
sidi noun (dryness)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries

pathadh noun (dryness)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

žeda noun (dryness)
žȇđ noun (dryness)
же̑ђ noun (dryness)
жеда noun (dryness)

Sicilian

2 entries

siti noun (dryness)
siti noun (dryness)

Sikkimese

1 entries

སྐོམ verb (to be thirsty)

Slovak

1 entries

smäd noun (dryness)

Slovene

1 entries

žeja noun (dryness)

Somali

1 entries

harraad noun (dryness)

Southern Altai

1 entries

суузу noun (dryness)

Spanish

4 entries

ambición noun (figuratively)
ansias noun (figuratively)
hambre noun (figuratively)
sed noun (dryness)

Sranan Tongo

1 entries

dreiwatra noun (dryness)

Swahili

1 entries

kiu noun (dryness)

Swedish

4 entries

törst noun (dryness)
törst noun (figuratively)
törsta verb (to be thirsty)
törsta verb (to desire)

Tagalog

1 entries

uhaw noun (dryness)

Tajik

1 entries

ташнагӣ noun (dryness)

Tamil

1 entries

தாகம் noun (dryness)

Tausug

1 entries

uhaw noun (dryness)

Telugu

1 entries

దాహం noun (dryness)

Thai

1 entries

ความกระหาย noun (dryness)

Tigre

1 entries

ጸምኣ verb (to be thirsty)

Tigrinya

3 entries

ጽምኢ noun (dryness)
ጽምኣት noun (dryness)
ጸምኤ verb (to be thirsty)

Turkish

4 entries

açlık noun (figuratively)
susuzluk noun (dryness)
susuzluk noun (figuratively)
susamak verb (to be thirsty)

Turkmen

1 entries

teşnelik noun (dryness)

Ukrainian

3 entries

жа́га noun (dryness)
сма́га noun (dryness)
спра́га noun (dryness)

Unami

2 entries

kahtusëmëwakàn noun (dryness)
katusëmwi verb (to be thirsty)

Urdu

2 entries

پیاس noun (dryness)
پیاس noun (figuratively)

Uyghur

1 entries

تەشنالىق noun (dryness)

Uzbek

2 entries

chanqoqlik noun (dryness)
tashnalik noun (dryness)

Venetan

4 entries

sef noun (dryness)
sen noun (dryness)
sé noun (dryness)
sée noun (dryness)

Vietnamese

1 entries

khát noun (dryness)

Volapük

1 entries

soaf noun (dryness)

Walloon

1 entries

soe noun (dryness)

Welsh

2 entries

syched noun (dryness)
syched noun (figuratively)

West-Frisian

1 entries

toarst noun (dryness)

Wolof

1 entries

mahre noun (dryness)

Xhosa

1 entries

unxano noun (dryness)

Yiddish

1 entries

דאָרשט noun (dryness)

Yoruba

1 entries

oungbẹ noun (dryness)

Zulu

1 entries

ukoma noun (dryness)

ǃXóõ

1 entries

ǁʻân noun (dryness)

Sample sentences

21 total sentences available.

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Our people thirst for independence.

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I'm dying of thirst.

Source: tatoeba (35763)

The man died of thirst in a dry country.

Source: tatoeba (45369)

I had a glass of beer to quench my thirst.

Source: tatoeba (61458)

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