Affectionate Nicknames?

Question

Terms of affection for someone you're dating?

What are some terms of affection AND what do they mean/ how to say them in:

1. Castillian Spanish (only from Spain please, preferably Malaga)

2. Farsi

Thanks! :)

Answer 1

Hi!!

I totally agree with Santiago, and will only add some terms, but remember that not everybody use or like all of them:

- cari: (abreviation of cariño), is a little cursi, but depending on the situation can be funny too.

- Chiqui:  little

Both can be use on men or women.

Answer 2

Spanish.

Sorry but poor old Santiago has forgotten that you are a girl.

If you are addressing a boy, the words end in an 'o'.

Try

Querido = dear / darling. (Ke-reedo)

Corazon = Heart. (Mi corazon) (accent on second 0) ( kora-thon)

Guapo = handsome. Que guapo = Hi handsome!/ how handsome! (pron waaap-oh)

Amor = love, as in 'mi amor'.(ah-mor)

In Malaga, they used to go in for 'pirropos', outrageous compliments. This is always a good chat up topic with Malagueno/as.

Women from Malaga do not usually use such words unless they are 'promoitidos' or partners.

The men ......well Latin lovers.

Answer 3

Hi, I can tell you some we use in Madrid, but I believe they are used in Malaga too. Depends of the person who uses them that are more popular than other. I usually call my wife

mi amor - my love

mi vida - my life

vida mia - my life

amor/ amorcito - love or little love

cariño - affectionate, cariño mio - my affectionate

guapa - beauty guapo if its a male

cielo/cielito - heaven, little heaven

ther are many more but I find them too exagerated and hence more open to missunderstanding

reina, mi reina - queen, my queen, rey, mi rey if its to a male

corazón - heart

mi gordita - my chubby, mi gordito even if she/he is not

gordi - chubby

And many more

Hope it helps

Santiago

PS: Most of the above are used the same for both man and women yet thanks to lain S anyway for reminding me that you might be a women, however his statement, about what I guess must be "prometidos/as" ,  is a pure cliché and not true that women in Spain do not use these with their beloved ones, other men, family and woman too. This cliche, is so old and untrue....just name more countries where the woman maintains here last name after marriage...and for information sake... the term señora de- is a Galicism imported frim france during Bourbon era, and is used in general only by cursis - pretentious or horteras - tacky people or very stiff and protocolary events. About the latin lovers, well, maybe Lain can indulge us all informing us of what he means.