How Lovers Call Each Other Around The World

How lovers call each other around the world

What makes lovers bloom in the most beautiful colors of their deepest inner feelings is a grave insult for 99% of all people around them.

Disclaimer: This is not a comprehensive list. I chose the weirdest/funniest terms.

Afrikaans: klein bokkie (little buck)

Arabic: بصري [basari] (my eyesight)

Catalan: colomí/colometa (pidgeon)

Dutch: dropje (little licorice), mopje (little joke)

English: “pumpkin”, “sweet pea”

Finnish: kulta (gold), muru (breadcrumb)

French: ma puce (my flea), mon chou (my cabbage)

German: Hase (bunny), Maus (mouse)

Indonesian: jantung hatiku (my heart and liver)

Irish: a leanbh (my child), mo chuisle (my pulse)

Italian: biscottino (little biscuit), microbino mio (my little microbe)

Japanese: 卵方の顔 [tamago hō no kao] (egg with eyes)

Korean: 우리강아지 [u-ri gang-a-ji] (my puppy)

Mandarin: 沉鱼落雁 (chényú luòyàn) ([beautiful enough to] make fish sink and birds alight), 心肝 [xīngān] (heart-liver)

Persian: باشد که یک موش شما را بخورد [bashed keh ak mewsh shema ra bekhewred] (May a mouse eat you)

Polish: misiu (little bear), okruszku (breadcrumb), rybko (little fish)

(Brazilian) Portuguese: chuchuzinho (little pumpkin)

Russian: лапочка [lapochka] (paw), рыбка [rybka] (little fish), голубчик/голубушка [golubchik/golubushka] (little pidgeon)

Spanish: cielo (sky), gordo/a (fat boy/girl)

Swedish: söt kanin (cute bunny)

Thai: ช้างน้อย [cĥāngn̂x/chang noi] (elephant)

Tibetan: སྙིང་སྡུག་ལགས། [nyingdu-la] (most honored poison of my heart)

Turkish: patlıcanım (my eggplant)