lust

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See also: Lust and lušť

English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Middle English lust, from Old English lust (“lust, pleasure, longing”), from Proto-West Germanic *lustu, from Proto-Germanic *lustuz.

Akin to Old Saxon, Dutch lust, Old Frisian, Old High German, German Lust, Swedish lust, Danish lyst, Icelandic lyst, Old Norse losti, Gothic 𐌻𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌿𐍃 (lustus), and perhaps to Sanskrit लष् (laṣ), लषति (laṣati, “to desire”) and Albanian lushë (“bitch, savage dog, promiscuous woman”), or to English loose. Compare list (“to please”), listless.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /lʌst/
  • Rhymes: -ʌst
  • Audio (UK)(file)

Noun[edit]

lust (countable and uncountable, plural lusts)

  1. A feeling of strong desire, especially such a feeling driven by sexual arousal.
    Seeing Leslie fills me with a passionate lust.
  2. (archaic) A general want or longing, not necessarily sexual.
    The boarders hide their lust to go home.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 21:
      For little lust had she to talk of ought.
    • 1608, Joseph Hall, “Epistle I. To Sr. Robert Darcy. The Estate of a True, but Weake Christian.”, in Epistles […], volume I, London: […] H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Samuel Macham & E[leazar] Edgar […], →OCLC, 2nd decade, page 108:
      [T]he vvorld thruſts it ſelfe betvvixt me and heauen; and, by his darke and indigeſted parts, eclipſeth that light vvhich ſhined to my ſoule. Novv, a ſenſeleſſe dulneſſe ouer-takes mee, and beſots mee; my luſt to deuotion is little, my ioy none at all: Gods face is hid, and I am troubled.
  3. (archaic) A delightful cause of joy, pleasure.
    An ideal son is his father's lasting lust.
    • c. 1521, John Skelton, Speke Parott:
      Pompe, pryde, honour, ryches & worldly luſt
      Parrot ſayth playnly, ſhall tourne all to duſt
  4. (obsolete) virility; vigour; active power
    • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
      Trees will grow greater, and bear better fruit, if you put salt, or lees of wine, or blood, to the root: the cause may be the increasing the lust or spirit of the root.

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Verb[edit]

lust (third-person singular simple present lusts, present participle lusting, simple past and past participle lusted)

  1. (intransitive, usually in the phrase "lust after") To look at or watch with a strong desire, especially of a sexual nature.
    He was lusting after the woman in the tight leather miniskirt.

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Dutch[edit]

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Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle Dutch lust, from Old Dutch *lust, from Proto-West Germanic *lustu, from Proto-Germanic *lustuz.

Noun[edit]

lust m (plural lusten, diminutive lustje n)

  1. lust, desire (especially sexual, but also more generally)
  2. object of desire
  3. pleasure, joy
    Het was een lust om naar hem te kijken en te luisteren.
    It was a pleasure watching and listening to him.
  4. (usually in the plural) benefit, advantage
  5. a taste for, strong tendency to
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Descendants[edit]
  • Afrikaans: lus
  • Negerhollands: lyst

Etymology 2[edit]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb[edit]

lust

  1. inflection of lusten:
    1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

Estonian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Low German lust. Cognate to German Lust and Finnish lusti.

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Noun[edit]

lust (genitive lusti, partitive lusti)

  1. pleasure, fun, joy, lust (non-sexual)
    Nad teevad seda niisama lusti pärast.
    They're doing it just for fun.

Declension[edit]

Declension of lust (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation)
singular plural
nominative lust lustid
accusative nom.
gen. lusti
genitive lustide
partitive lusti luste
lustisid
illative lusti
lustisse 		lustidesse
lustesse
inessive lustis lustides
lustes
elative lustist lustidest
lustest
allative lustile lustidele
lustele
adessive lustil lustidel
lustel
ablative lustilt lustidelt
lustelt
translative lustiks lustideks
lusteks
terminative lustini lustideni
essive lustina lustidena
abessive lustita lustideta
comitative lustiga lustidega

Descendants[edit]

  • → Ingrian: lusti (“beautiful, funny”)
  • → Votic: lusti (“beautiful”)

Middle Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Dutch *lust, from Proto-West Germanic *lustu, from Proto-Germanic *lustuz.

Noun[edit]

lust m or f

  1. enjoyment, pleasure
  2. lust, desire
  3. hunger, desire to eat

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Old English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-West Germanic *lustu, from Proto-Germanic *lustuz.

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lust m

  1. desire, pleasure, appetite, lust
    • Him wæs metes micel lust ― he had a craving for food. (Ælfric's Homilies)

Declension[edit]

Declension of lust (strong a-stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative lust lustas
accusative lust lustas
genitive lustes lusta
dative luste lustum

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Swedish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse losti (late Old Norse lyst), from Middle Low German lust lüst, lyst, from Old Saxon lust, from Proto-West Germanic *lustu.

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lust c

  1. desire to do something
    känna en stark lust att göra något
    feel a strong desire to do something
    Det är trevligt att ha ett land man kan påta i när lusten faller på
    It's nice to have a garden plot that you can potter around in when the desire strikes
    • 1986, Lasse Holm (lyrics and music), “Cannelloni, macaroni”:
      Campagnola, fiuggirola, quattro stagioni, marinara, capricciosa, kan inte låta bli. Jag blir fascinerad. Känner hunger, känner törst. Det gör mig passionerad. Det gör mig fylld av lust. Pescatore, vesuvio, la bussola, pompei. Vad ni frestar mig. Siciliana, al tonne [sic], vegetariano. Jag får aldrig nog.
      Campagnola, fiuggirola, quattro stagioni, marinara, capricciosa, can't help myself. I am [become] fascinated. Feeling hunger, feeling thirst. It makes me passionate. It makes me filled [sic] with desire. Pescatore, vesuvio, la bussola, pompei. How you tempt me. Siciliana, al tonne [sic], vegetariano. I never get enough.
    1. (in "ha lust") to feel like, to want (to do something)
      Jag har lust att spela krocket
      I feel like playing croquet
      Jag har ingen/inte lust att städa idag
      I don't feel like cleaning today
      Har du lust att hänga med oss till bensinstationen?
      Want to join us to the gas station?
      Vi frågade om han kunde hjälpa oss, men han sa att han inte hade lust
      We asked if he could help us, but he said he didn't feel like it
      Den som har tid och lust får gärna komma och hjälpa oss
      Anyone who has the time and inclination is welcome to come and help us
    2. (in "tappa lusten") to lose one's desire to do something, to lose one's enthusiasm for something
      tappa lusten att träna
      lose the desire to work out
  2. sexual desire
    sexlust
    sex drive
    djuriska lustar
    animalistic desires
    inte känna lust till någon
    have no desire for someone
    Synonym: (often) lusta
  3. (somewhat dated) joy, delight
    Hon tyckte det var en lust att leva
    She thought it was a joy to be alive

Usage notes[edit]

The tone in "ha lust" and "tappa lusten" matches "feel like doing" or "want" rather than "desire" or "lust for" or the like. Thought of as a separate, non-literary-sounding sense of "lust" by native speakers.

Declension[edit]

Declension of lust 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative lust lusten lustar lustarna
Genitive lusts lustens lustars lustarnas

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West Frisian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Frisian lust, from Proto-West Germanic *lustu.

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lust c (plural lusten)

  1. desire, appetite
  2. lust, sexual desire

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Further reading[edit]

  • “lust”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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