tarve — meaning in English

English meaning

• call verb To contact someone by phone, or to cry out or shout to get attention.
• craving noun A strong, persistent desire for something.
• demand noun In economics, people's desire and ability to buy a particular good or service at a given price.
• necessity noun The state of being required or unavoidable.
• need noun A requirement for something essential or important.
• occasion noun A particular time when something happens, especially something notable.

Senses

tarve is used for these senses in English:

• call (in negative constructions) Need; necessity.
• craving A strong desire; yearning.
• necessity The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.
• necessity The condition of being needy; desperate need; lack.
• necessity Something necessary; a requisite; something indispensable.
• necessity Something which makes an act or an event unavoidable; an irresistible force; overruling power.
• necessity The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.
• need (countable, and, uncountable) A requirement for something; something needed.

call — full definition

1. verb To contact someone by phone, or to cry out or shout to get attention.
2. verb To give someone or something a name; to refer to something in a particular way.
3. verb To pay a brief visit, or to stop at a place, especially a ship stopping at a port.
4. verb To predict or officially declare an outcome.
5. noun An act of speaking to someone on the phone.

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