Perhaps the process of falling in love and finding your partner are so indescribable because the English language is missing a lot of words. How do you sum up the giddiness you feel when you meet your crush? People who speak Tagalog have a word for that: kilig. Or the way you lose your appetite as you’re falling in love? That’s called manabamate in Rapa Nui.
British jeweler Vashi combed the globe more untranslatable words of love, the commissioned illustrator Emma Block to turn the words into pictures. Here are 18 of our favorites.
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