heart-shaped

See also: heartshaped

English

heart-shaped (comparative more heart-shaped, superlative most heart-shaped)

Having the traditional shape of a heart (♥), that is pointed at one end and indented at the opposite side.
- 1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:
  […] Passing, I leave thee lilac with heart-shaped leaves, / I leave thee there in the door-yard, blooming, returning with spring.

having the supposed shape of a heart

Azerbaijani: ürəkvari, ürəyəoxşar
Danish: hjerteformet
Dutch: hartvormig (nl)
Finnish: sydämen muotoinen
French: en forme de cœur, en cœur, cordiforme (fr)
Galician: con forma de corazón
German: herzförmig (de)
Greek: καρδιόσχημος (el) (kardióschimos), καρδιοειδής (el) (kardioeidís)
Irish: croíchruthach
Italian: in forma di cuore, cuoriforme (it)
Japanese: ハート型 (hātogata)
Navajo: yaago heeneez, ajéí díshjool nahalingo yaago heeneez
Norwegian:
Bokmål: hjerteformet, hjerteforma

Nynorsk: hjarteforma
Polish: sercowaty (pl)
Portuguese: cordiforme (pt)
Russian: сердцеви́дный (ru) (serdcevídnyj), сердцеобра́зный (ru) (serdceobráznyj)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: срцо̀лик, ср̏цаст

Roman: srcòlik (sh), sȑcast (sh)
Swedish: hjärtformad (sv)

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