hunger

See also: Hunger

Contents

EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhʌŋɡɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhʌŋɡə/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ʌŋɡə(ɹ)

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle English hunger, from Old English hungor (“hunger, desire; famine”), from Proto-Germanic *hungruz, *hunhruz (“hunger”), from Proto-Indo-European *kenk- (“to burn, smart, desire, hunger, thirst”). Compare Dutch honger, German and Low German Hunger, Swedish hunger.

NounEdit

hunger (countable and uncountable, plural hungers)

1. A need or compelling desire for food.
2. (by extension) Any strong desire.

   I have a hunger to win.

   • Spenser

     O sacred hunger of ambitious minds!

Usage notesEdit

The phrase be hungry is more common than have hunger to express a need for food.

AntonymsEdit

• satiety
• satiation

Derived termsEdit

• hunger is the best spice

TranslationsEdit

need for food

• Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: جُوع‎ m (jūʿ)
• Armenian: քաղց (hy) (kʿałcʿ), սով (hy) (sov)
• Aromanian: foami f
• Asturian: fame f
• Avar: please add this translation if you can
• Azeri: aclıq (az)
• Bashkir: аслыҡ (aslïq)
• Belarusian: го́лад (be) m (hólad)
• Bengali: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: глад (bg) m (glad)
• Catalan: gana (ca) f, fam (ca) m
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵍⴰⵥ (laẓ)
• Chechen: please add this translation if you can
• Chichewa: njala
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 飢餓 (zh), 饥饿 (zh) (jī'è)

• Chuvash: выҫӑ (vyśă), выҫлӑх (vyślăh)
• Czech: hlad (cs) m
• Dalmatian: fum m
• Danish: sult (da)
• Dutch: honger (nl) m, trek (nl)
• Esperanto: malsato
• Faroese: hungur m, n, svongd f, svultur m
• Finnish: nälkä (fi)
• French: faim (fr) f
• Friulian: fan f
• Georgian: შიმშილი (šimšili)
• German: Hunger (de) m
• Greek:

  Daily/ordinary need of food: πείνα (pína) f

  Desperate need of food: λιγούρα (liɣúra) f

  Scarcity of food due to natural disaster: σιτοδεία (sitoðía) f, ασιτία (asitía) f

  Scarcity of food due to war: λιμός (limós) m

• Haitian Creole: grangou
• Hebrew: רָעָב‎ (he) m (ra'áv)
• Hindi: भूख (hi) f (bhūkh)
• Hungarian: éhség (hu)
• Icelandic: hungur (is) n, sultur (is) m
• Ingrian: nälkä
• Interlingua: fame
• Irish: ocras (ga) m
• Istriot: fan
• Istro-Romanian: fome
• Italian: fame (it) f
• Japanese: 飢え (うえ, ue), 空腹 (ja) (くうふく, kūfuku), 飢餓 (ja) (きが, kiga)
• Kazakh: аштық (kk) (aştıq)
• Khakas: ас (as)
• Korean: 굶주림 (gumjurim), 배고픔 (ko) (baegopeum)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: برسێتی‎ (ku)

• Kyrgyz: ачтык (ky) (açtık)
• Latgalian: olkonums, bods
• Latin: fames f
• Latvian: bads m

• Lithuanian: alkis (lt) m
• Macedonian: глад m (glad)
• Manx: accrys m
• Marathi: भूख (bhūkh)
• Mongolian: өлсгөлөн (mn) (ölsgölön)
• Navajo: dichin
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sult (no) m, hunger (no) m

  Nynorsk: svolt m, hunger m

• Occitan: fam (oc)
• Old English: hungor m
• Old High German: hungar m
• Old Norse: hungr n
• Old Turkic: 𐰀𐰲𐰾𐰴‎ (āčsïq)
• Ossetian: please add this translation if you can
• Ottoman Turkish: آجلق‎ (aclık)
• Persian: گرسنگی‎ (fa) (gorosnegi)
• Polish: głód (pl) m
• Portuguese: fome (pt) f
• Quechua: yarqay
• Rohingya: búk
• Romani: bok
• Romanian: foame (ro) f
• Romansch: fom
• Russian: го́лод (ru) m (gólod)
• Sanskrit: बुभुक्षा (sa) (bubhuksha)
• Sardinian: fàmene
• Scottish Gaelic: acras m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: глад m

  Roman: glad (sh) m

• Sicilian: fami (scn)
• Slovak: hlad (sk) m
• Slovene: glad m
• Southern Altai: ач (ać)
• Spanish: hambre (es) f
• Swahili: njaa (sw), unenge (sw)
• Swedish: hunger (sv)
• Tajik: гуруснагӣ (tg) (gurusnagī)
• Tatar: ачлык (tt) (açlıq)
• Telugu: ఆకలి (te) (ākali)
• Thai: ความหิว (th) (kwaam hĭw)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: açlık (tr), aç (tr)
• Turkmen: açlyk (tk), aaçlyk
• Tuvan: аш (aš)
• Ukrainian: го́лод m (hólod)
• Urdu: بھوک‎ f (bhūk)
• Uyghur: ئاچلىق‎ (achliq)
• Uzbek: ochlik (uz)
• Venetian: fan f
• Vietnamese: đói (vi)
• Votic: ńältšä
• Welsh: newyn m
• Yakut: аас (aas)

strong desire

• Arabic: رَغْبَة‎ f (raḡba)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 渴望 (zh) (kě'wàng)

• Finnish: himo (fi), nälkä (fi)
• French: soif (fr) f
• Greek: λαχτάρα (el) f (lachtára), πόθος (el) m (póthos), πείνα (el) f (peína)
• Irish: ocras (ga) m, anrachán m

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hunger (no) m

  Nynorsk: hunger m

• Portuguese: sede (pt) f
• Russian: жа́жда (ru) f (žážda)
• Spanish: sed (es) f
• Swahili: njaa (sw), unenge (sw)

See alsoEdit

• thirst

Etymology 2Edit

From Old English hyngran.

VerbEdit

hunger (third-person singular simple present hungers, present participle hungering, simple past and past participle hungered)

1. To be in need of food.
2. (figuratively) To have a desire (for); to long; to yearn.

   I hungered for your love.

   • Bible, Matthew v. 6

     Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness.

3. (archaic) To make hungry; to famish.

TranslationsEdit

need food

• Asturian: tener fame, tar esfamiáu
• Czech: hladovět (cs)
• Dutch: honger hebben, hongeren (nl)
• Esperanto: malsati
• Finnish: nähdä nälkää
• French: avoir faim
• German: hungern (de), Hunger haben
• Greek: πεινώ (el) (peinó)
• Ido: hungrar (io)
• Irish: ocras (ga)
• Italian: avere fame
• Japanese: 飢える (ja) (ueru)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: برسی‎ (ku)

• Norman: fôim f (Guernsey)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sulte (no)

  Nynorsk: svelte

• Old Church Slavonic: алкати (alkati)
• Old Turkic: 𐰀𐰲‎ (āč-)
• Portuguese: ter fome
• Romanian: fie foame (ro) (with dative)
• Russian: проголода́ться (ru) (progolodátʹsja), голода́ть (ru) (golodátʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гладо̀вати

  Roman: gladòvati (sh)

• Spanish: tener hambre
• Swahili: njaa (sw), unenge (sw)
• Turkish: acıkmak (tr)
• Yakut: аас (aas)

desire

• Finnish: himoita (fi), isota (fi) (archaic)
• French: avoir soif
• Greek: ποθώ (el) (pothó), λαχταρώ (el) (lachtaró)
• Japanese: 飢える (ja) (ueru)
• Norwegian: hungre

• Old Church Slavonic: алкати (alkati)
• Portuguese: desejar (pt)
• Russian: жа́ждать (ru) impf (žáždatʹ)
• Spanish: tener sed
• Swahili: njaa (sw), unenge (sw)

ReferencesEdit

• hunger in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

AnagramsEdit

• rehung

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GermanEdit

VerbEdit

hunger

1. First-person singular present of hungern.
2. Imperative singular of hungern.

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Norwegian BokmålEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Norse hungr, from Proto-Germanic *hunhruz.

NounEdit

hunger m (definite singular hungeren, uncountable)

1. hunger

SynonymsEdit

• sult

Related termsEdit

• hungrig

Derived termsEdit

• hungersnød

ReferencesEdit

• “hunger” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian NynorskEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Norse hungr

NounEdit

hunger m (definite singular hungeren) (uncountable)

1. hunger

SynonymsEdit

• svolt

Related termsEdit

• hungrig

Derived termsEdit

• hungersnaud, hungersnød

ReferencesEdit

• “hunger” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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SwedishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Norse hungr, from Proto-Germanic *hunhruz.

PronunciationEdit

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NounEdit

hunger c (uncountable)

1. hunger

DeclensionEdit

Declension of hunger

	uncountable		uncountable
Common	indefinite	definite
nominative	hunger	hungern
genitive	hungers	hungerns

See alsoEdit

• hungrig
• hungra