مرگ خواهی و مرگ طلبی

English translation: Death wish

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Persian (Farsi) term or phrase:مرگ خواهی و مرگ طلبی
English translation:Death wish
Entered by: Morteza Gholami

20:17 Nov 21, 2017
Persian (Farsi) to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature / Biography
Persian (Farsi) term or phrase: مرگ خواهی و مرگ طلبی
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
Amin Zanganeh Inaloo
Belgium
Local time: 03:41
Death wish
Explanation:

a desire for one's own death.

https://www.google.com/search?client=tablet-android-samsung&...

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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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Morteza Gholami
Iran
Local time: 05:11
Grading comment
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Summary of answers provided
5 +1Death Seekingness
Morad Seif
5Death wish
Morteza Gholami
4Thanatomania
Mohammad Ghaffari


  

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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
Death wish


Explanation:

a desire for one's own death.

https://www.google.com/search?client=tablet-android-samsung&...

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Note added at 8 mins (2017-11-21 20:26:10 GMT)
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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/

Morteza Gholami
Iran
Local time: 05:11
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in Persian (Farsi)Persian (Farsi)
PRO pts in category: 52
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Thanks!
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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Thanatomania


Explanation:
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.

Mohammad Ghaffari
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in Persian (Farsi)Persian (Farsi)
PRO pts in category: 24
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42 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Death Seekingness


Explanation:
خود طلبی (خواهی= self seekingness
زندگی طلبی= Life seekingness
ریسک طلبی= Risk seekingness
خداخواهی= god seekingness


Example sentence(s):
  • 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
Morad Seif
Türkiye
Local time: 04:41
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Persian (Farsi)
PRO pts in category: 12

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
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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