Re: Untranslatable words

From: "Peter Bleackley" <Peter.Bleackley@...>

> A survey of linguists has concluded that the following are the most
> untranslatable words in English.
> The most untranslatable words from other languages
> altahmam Arabic for a kind of deep sadness
As in melancholia? That seems to be a difficult word to translate precisely;
it's commonly used to refer to a type of severe clinical depression. Of
course it comes from the Greek word for 'black bile', one of Hippocrates'
four humors.