[Lexicog] Equivalents for German "Heimat"

[mohd hans]

Hello dear LEXICOGRAPHERS:
The German word Heimat reminds me of the word Kheimat or Khema "tent".  For a desert dweller, this means his home, homeland, beloved home... etc.
A more nationalistic word used nowadays is watan. ( t , here, is an emphatic consonant).
A more sentimenal word is: balad.
Regards
Muhammadmh2002 at yahoo.com

apa mapa <apamag at yahoo.com> wrote:
I have lived in Thailand. My language for "hometown" is "ºéÒ¹à¡Ô´"(ba:n-kert) or "ºéÒ¹à¡Ô´àÁ×ͧ¹Í¹" (ba:n-kert-muang-no:n). If you would like to say "home", you have to say "ºéÒ¹" (ba:n)

Regards,
Phornpimon

Fritz Goerling <Fritz_Goerling at sil.org> wrote:
I am looking for equivalents in other languages for German
"Heimat" in its sentimental sense.  "Heimat" in German can
mean one's home country, one's "fatherland, homeland"
(speakers of other languages refer to their "motherland").
In its sentimental sense one can paraphrase the concept as
a safe haven, a familiar, comfortable, tranquil place,
a place where one feels loved."
English "home" comes the closest to German "Heimat" in
expressions like "home is where the heart hurts." Or
"Wo ist deine Heimat?" can be translated into English
by "Where is home for you?" (although German "Heim" and
English "home" are also equivalents in a more concrete
sense).

Fritz Goerling


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