Love

Today, I was listening to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “A knock at midnight” sound tape at my work.
There are six tapes in the package and I finished only four tapes today. I have to listen to the rest part tomorrow.
In one of the speeches, he explained about “love.” In English, we have only one word “Love” about the love.
For me, I also know in Arakanese, Burmese and Thai languages about “Love,” and those languages also have only one word - “Love.”
Since then, when we have to split about the meanings of love, we have to say specifically, such as ‘love for romantic of man and woman,’ ‘love for friends,’ and ‘love for things.’
Dr. King explained that in Greek language, there are three different words for love;
- Romantic Love: between man and woman
- Friendship Love: Love between/among friends, colleagues, teammates etc.
- Great Love (or) God’s Love: Love anybody, anything on any situation, without any pre-judgment.
(I am sorry I could not be available to write the Greek words.)
Then, I googled about ‘love’ in Greek-English online dictionaries.
One of the dictionaries expressed as below:

love
(Lex**) αγάπη love (for/to a thing)
(Lex*) αγάπη (για/σε ένα πράγμα) love (of/for/to/towards a person)
(Lex*) αγάπη (***of/for/to/towards ένα πρόσωπο)

Just sharing with my readers. Sometimes, if we explore different languages, it makes us to understand the concepts of the words better.
Have a lovely day!


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