I of the greatest pleasures of learning a new language is discovering its unsuspected peculiarities. And while linguistic communication learners tin exercise with less-detailed grammar and conjugation, they certainly enjoy new, unusual vocabulary and cute-sounding words. The following words do just that — some sound so lovely they could be repeated over and over for a hefty dose of ASMR goodness while others have such a poetic definition they're heartwarming. Expand your vocabulary with the following 23 cool words, which are, in our stance, some of the almost beautiful words in the globe.

1. Spookasem (Afrikaans)

While the term translates directly every bit "ghost'due south jiff" (spook means "ghost" and asem ways "breath") spookasem is used by Afrikaans speakers to refer to cotton fiber candy. It's much more beautiful than what the spun carbohydrate confection that will rot your teeth deserves.

ii. Kaamos (Finnish)

Kaamos is the Finnish word for "polar night," a period of darkness that lasts more than 24 hours and a phenomenon that happens inside the polar circles. Only kaamos as well holds a more than emotional significant as it is used to describe a feeling of longing for sunshine and a lack of enthusiasm that comes with little daylight.

3. Hiraeth (Welsh)

Hiraeth is a Welsh word that not only sounds beautiful but likewise has an elegant and poetic meaning. According to BBC Travel, "it combines elements of homesickness, nostalgia and longing. Interlaced, nevertheless, is the subtle acknowledgment of an irretrievable loss — a unique alloy of place, time and people that can never be recreated."

4. Hanyauku (Rukwangali)

Rukwangali, a Bantu linguistic communication centered primarily in Namibia, has this word for "tiptoeing across hot sand."

5. Mellifluous (English language)

The shine, flowy "mellifluous" might have one of the about apt definitions of whatever English word: It ways "a sound that is pleasing to hear." Honorable mention to the similarly onomatopoeic words "euphonic," "symphonious," and "sonorous."

6. Nakakapagpabagabag (Tagalog)

Nakakapagpabagabag is the coolest word. It cures what it defines: It translates to "something that creates anxiety or uneasiness," but there's no fashion anyone can try maxim information technology without feeling anything but delight and amusement afterward.

7. Kæreste (Danish)

The lovely sounding Danish word for "dear" or, more unremarkably, "girlfriend/beau."

8. Cryptoscopophilia (English)

The want to wait into the windows of homes as you walk past them.

9. Rimjhim (Hindi)

A cool word that described the gentle audio of rain tapping confronting a surface.

x. Komorebi (Japanese)

Komorebi is a beautiful word, merely its definition is fifty-fifty better: "The lite filtering through the trees."

11. Fernweh (German)

Fernweh is a German discussion that is used to draw the feeling of missing a place you've never been. If you take never experienced this, you might later on looking at the almost breathtaking rental homes in Northern Norway near fjords and mountains.

12. Ubuntu (Zulu)

A Zulu term that, aside from sounding beautiful, represents a philosophy of mutual humanity and conveys the thought that customs is essential to society. Information technology'southward part of the phrase "umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu," which literally translates as "I am because we are." The term was used past United states President Barack Obama in 2018 in a speech in South Africa in commemoration of Nelson Mandela's 100th birthday.

13. Mångata (Swedish)

The reflection of the moon on the water.

xiv. Dauwtrappen (Dutch)

Dauwtrappen literally translates as "dew treading" and refers to the feeling of walking barefoot on dew-covered forenoon grass.

15. Acaronar (Catalan)

In Catalan, the word acaronar means to gently pull someone closer to you lot.

xvi. Abendrot (German)

In German, abendrot directly translates to "evening red" and refers to the sunset.

17. Torpe (Filipino)

In Tagalog, torpe means to adore someone only exist too shy to pursue them romantically. This meaning of torpe is a modern evolution of the term, which initially merely meant "shy." Annotation that torpe tin can also mean "stupid," so be careful of the context in which you hear or use this word.

18. Chuchoter (French)

The French word for "whisper," chuchoter manages to be beautiful and onomatopoetic. Information technology'south the perfect word if yous're into the tingling sensations of ASMR.

19. Gjensynsglede (Swedish)

While gjensynsglede is a hard-to-pronounce Swedish word, its delightful meaning makes upward for its overload of consonants. Co-ordinate to the hilariously intellectual British panel prove Quite Interesting, gjensynsglede means "the joy of meeting up with someone yous haven't seen a while." And in 2021, it's fair to say that we all crave gjensynsglede.

xx. Mono-no aware (Japanese)

According to BBC Culture and Mari Fujimoto in her book Ikigai and Other Japanese Words to Live by, mono-no aware describes the impermanent nature of dazzler and "the quietly elated, bittersweet feeling of having been witness to the dazzling circus of life — knowing that none of it can final."

21. Tu'burni (Arabic)

Tu'burni literally translates as "coffin me." Information technology refers to the desire to die earlier the person you honey so yous never have to live without them.

22. Tárvotur (Icelandic)

"Wet with tears."

23. Mir (Russian)

Mir is a short and beautiful give-and-take that holds two very different, still equally important, meanings in mod Russian: "World" and "Peace."

The ii meanings become very significant in the context of the Soviet/Russian Mir Space Station, which launched in 1986 in the middle of the Cold State of war and orbited the Earth for about 15 years. Some also believe that the ii identical words may have led to the mistranslation of the title of Tolstoy'south famous novel "War and Peace," which supposedly could simply too take been "State of war and the World."

Collins Lexicon explains that it was also the term used to describe "a village district of peasant farmers in pre-revolutionary Russia," which is at present obsolete.

A version of this article well-nigh the most beautiful words was previously published on Dec 4, 2015, and was updated on February xix, 2021, with more information.

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