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
• Ido: hungro (io)
• 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) (intransitive)

1. To be in need of food.
2. (figuratively, usually with 'for' or 'after') 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

• Arabic: جَاعَ‏‎ (jāʿa)
• 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)
• Karakhanid: ااجْماقْ‏‎ (āčmaq)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: برسی‏‎ (ku)

• Norman: fôim f (Guernsey)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sulte (no)

  Nynorsk: svelte

• Old Church Slavonic: алкати (alkati)
• Old Prussian: alkautwei
• 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