Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Persian (Farsi) term or phrase:
مرگ خواهی و مرگ طلبی
English translation:
Death wish
Added to glossary by
Morteza Gholami
Nov 21, 2017 20:17
6 yrs ago
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Persian (Farsi) term
مرگ خواهی و مرگ طلبی
Persian (Farsi) to English
Art/Literary
Poetry & Literature
Biography
بافت کامل عبارت: و به همين دليل ما به درون مايه ى ديگرى از آثار او مى رسيم و آن بحث مرگ است، مرگ خواهى و مرگ طلبى
Proposed translations
(English)
5 | Death wish | Morteza Gholami |
5 +1 | Death Seekingness | Morad Seif |
4 | Thanatomania | Mohammad Ghaffari |
Change log
Nov 23, 2017 07:48: Morteza Gholami Created KOG entry
Proposed translations
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Death wish
a desire for one's own death.
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when I was more in the grip of my own death wish, I never really considered what it leaves the other people with.
https://corpus.byu.edu/coca/
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Comment: "Thanks!"
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Thanatomania
http://www.iricss.org/fa/Pages/T.aspx
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https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/thanatomani...
thanatomania
[than′ətōmā′nē·ə]
Etymology: Gk, thanatos, death, mania, frenzy
an obsession with death, dying, or suicide.
Mosby's Medical Dictionary, 9th edition. © 2009, Elsevier.
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https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/thanatomani...
thanatomania
[than′ətōmā′nē·ə]
Etymology: Gk, thanatos, death, mania, frenzy
an obsession with death, dying, or suicide.
Mosby's Medical Dictionary, 9th edition. © 2009, Elsevier.
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Death Seekingness
خود طلبی (خواهی= self seekingness
زندگی طلبی= Life seekingness
ریسک طلبی= Risk seekingness
خداخواهی= god seekingness
زندگی طلبی= Life seekingness
ریسک طلبی= Risk seekingness
خداخواهی= god seekingness
Example sentence:
https://books.google.com/books?id=CU7S4ojsZ3wC&pg=PA180&lpg=PA180&dq=life+seekingness&source=bl&ots=7GgI7fJzfZ&sig=6r7fbE_i9f8fixDciHkweA7aX60&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwizpKGvx9DXAhVM34MKHfzLAq4Q6AEILDAB#v=onepage&q=life%20seekingness&f=false
https://books.google.com/books?id=cKYLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA347&lpg=PA347&dq=life+seekingness&source=bl&ots=plvEHf6h7J&sig=GwswAokZURsHVHy_H-MUUgI8qUQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwizpKGvx9DXAhVM34MKHfzLAq4Q6AEIPjAG#v=onepage&q=life%20seekingness&f=false
Peer comment(s):
agree |
Kourosh Abdi
: death seeking is better
47 mins
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Seekingness is certainly correct in literary terms and texts, as I have referenced my answer. Thanks Kurosh
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