Glossary entry

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
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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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Thanatomania

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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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42 mins

Death Seekingness

خود طلبی (خواهی= self 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
Seekingness is certainly correct in literary terms and texts, as I have referenced my answer. Thanks Kurosh
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