English artist/illustrator Emma Block has produced gorgeous illustrations of untranslatable words of love from around the world. They are beautiful words for which sadly, no equivalent single word exists in English. Enjoy!
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Spanish "flechazo" could bebtrabslated to "stung". As in "I was stung by Cupid's arrow".
Japanese: aishtero
In Gaelic, it's "a chuisle mo chroí" not "mo chuisle".
"Merak" is a Turkish word, meaning "wonder".
😍😍love this اهدي فتحي
Betuttad in Swedish means when you just in the beginning of falling in love like you been just put on fire. We also say förälskad like the Danish.
Does anyone know it in Japanese ?
Love isn't "naz" in Urdu 😕
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Mitikiwostky:Spanish "flechazo" could bebtrabslated to "stung". As in "I was stung by Cupid's arrow".
Nozomi:Japanese: aishtero
Katie:In Gaelic, it's "a chuisle mo chroí" not "mo chuisle".
im_mil:"Merak" is a Turkish word, meaning "wonder".
liiina:😍😍love this اهدي فتحي
Lena:Betuttad in Swedish means when you just in the beginning of falling in love like you been just put on fire. We also say förälskad like the Danish.
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