In Turkish and Azerbaijani sevda (from Arabian سَوْدَاء‎ (sawdāʾ) 'black bile, melancholy') the meaning shifted to 'love' under the influence of originally unrelated Azerbaijani sevmək, Turkish sevmek 'to love' (from Proto-Turkic *seb- 'to love, like').

Portuguese paixão 'intense and usually violent feeling (of affection, hatred, joy, etc.) that makes it difficult to exercise an impartial logic', 'great grief; intense suffering', 'passion of Jesus Christ', Spanish pasión 'suffering', 'inclination or preference to other person', 'appetite for something or vehement fondness for it', 'passion of Jesus Christ', Italian passione 'physical suffering', 'passion of Jesus Christ', 'feeling, impression, sensation that acts on the soul, to which the soul is subject', 'in common use, intense and violent feeling (mostly of attraction or repulsion towards an object or a person), which can disturb the psychic balance and the ability to discern and control', French passion 'great suffering (usually bodily), torment', 'violent and exclusive love inspired by one person and sometimes degenerating into obsession', 'passion of Jesus Christ', Romanian pasiune 'love manifested as a strong and lasting inclination towards a person of the opposite sex', 'particularly intense and stable affective and intellectual state, manifested as a tendency that polarizes the psychic processes of man, dominating him by the intensity of the effects or by the permanence of their action', all are from Late Latin passiōnem. Russian страсть 'strong feeling, difficult to control by the mind', 'strong love with a predominance of sensual, carnal attraction', 'horror, fear', страсти Господни 'passion of Jesus Christ'.