greed

English

Back-formation from greedy.

greed (countable and uncountable, plural greeds)

A selfish or excessive desire for more than is needed or deserved, especially of money, wealth, food, or other possessions.
His greed was his undoing.

What drove them was their ambition, their greed for power.

(selfish desire for more than is needed): avarice, covetousness, greediness, rapacity
See also Thesaurus:greed
(desire for food): gluttony

selfish desire for more than is needed

Albanian: lakmi (sq)
Arabic: جَشَع‎‎ m (jašaʿ), طَمَع‎‎ (ar) m (ṭamaʿ)
Armenian: ագահություն (hy) (agahutʿyun)
Bulgarian: алчност (bg) f (alčnost)
Catalan: avarícia f, cobdícia f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 貪心 (zh), 贪心 (zh) (tānxīn), 貪欲 (zh), 贪欲 (zh) (tānyù), 貪婪 (zh), 贪婪 (zh) (tānlán)
Czech: chamtivost f
Dutch: hebzucht (nl) f, gulzigheid (nl) f, schraapzucht f, hebgierigheid f, hebgier f
Estonian: ahnus, aplus
Faroese: gírni n, grammleiki m
Finnish: ahneus (fi)
French: avidité (fr) f
Georgian: სიხარბე (sixarbe), გაუმაძღრობა (gaumaʒɣroba)
German: Gier (de) f, Habsucht (de) f, Habgier (de) f, Raffgier (de) f, Raffsucht (de) f
Greek: απληστία (el) (aplistía)
Hindi: लालच (hi) m (lālac)
Hungarian: kapzsiság (hu), mohóság (hu)
Icelandic: græðgi f
Indonesian: rakus (id)
Irish: antlás m, gionach f, saint (ga) f
Italian: avidità (it) f, ingordigia (it) f
Japanese: 貪 (ja) (とん, ton), 欲 (ja) (よく, yoku), 貪欲 (ja) (とんよく, ton'yoku, たんよく, tan'yoku)
Khmer: លោភ (km) (loop), លោភលន់ (loŭphlôn), មហាលោភ (mɔɔhaaloop)
Korean: 탐욕 (tamyok), 욕심 (ko) (yoksim)
Kurdish: çavirçîtî‎‎ f

Latin: avaritia f
Lun Bawang: angaa
Navajo: áchxą́hwíídéeniʼ
Nepali: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: griskhet (no) m, f, grådighet (no) m, f

Nynorsk: griskheit f, grådigheit f
Persian: حرص‎‎ (fa) (hers)
Polish: chciwość (pl) f
Portuguese: ganância (pt) f, cobiça (pt) f, avareza (pt) f
Romanian: aviditate (ro) f, lăcomie (ro) f, avariție (ro) f
Russian: а́лчность (ru) f (álčnostʹ), жа́дность (ru) f (žádnostʹ)
Scottish Gaelic: sannt m, sanntachd f
Serbo-Croatian: pohlepa (sh), gramžljivost, grabežljivost (sh), halapljivost (sh), srebroljublje, škrtost (sh), požuda (sh)
Slovene: pohlep m
Spanish: codicia (es) f, avaricia f, gula (es) f (for food), glotonería (es) f (for food)
Swahili: tamaa (sw)
Swedish: girighet (sv) c
Tamil: பேராசை (ta) (pērācai)
Telugu: దురాశ (te) (durāśa)
Thai: โลภะ (loo-pá)
Tibetan: ཧར་པོ (har po), འདོད་རྔམ ('dod rngam)
Urdu: طمع‎‎ m (tam'a), لالچ‎‎ m (lālac)
Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
Welsh: bâr m, barau m pl

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