malnutrition

English

A 1922 photograph by Fridtjof Nansen of two boys suffering from malnutrition

Etymology

mal- +‎ nutrition

Noun

malnutrition (usually uncountable, plural malnutritions)

1. A lack of adequate nourishment.

Derived terms

• muesli belt malnutrition

Translations

lack of adequate nourishment

• Arabic: سُوء تَغْذِيَة (sūʔ taḡḏiya)
• Armenian: թերասնում (hy) (tʻerasnum)
• Bulgarian: недохранване (bg) n (nedohranvane)
• Burmese: အာဟာရချို့တဲ့ခြင်း (ahara.hkyui.tai.hkrang:)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 營養不良／营养不良 (zh) (yíngyǎng bùliáng)

• Czech: podvýživa (cs) f
• Danish: fejlernæring c, underernæring c
• Dutch: ondervoeding (nl)
• Finnish: aliravitsemus (fi), virheravitsemus
• French: malnutrition (fr) f
• Georgian: კვების უკმარისობა (ḳvebis uḳmarisoba)
• German: Unterernährung (de) f, Mangelernährung (de) f
• Greek: υποσιτισμός (el) m (ypositismós)
• Hungarian: alultápláltság (hu)
• Italian: denutrizione (it) f
• Japanese: 栄養失調 (ja) (えいようしっちょう, eiyō shitchō)
• Korean: 영양실조 (yeong'yangsiljo)
• Malagasy: tsifanjariantsakafo (mg)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: underernæring m or f, feilernæring (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: underernæring f

• Polish: niedożywienie (pl) n
• Portuguese: desnutrição (pt) f
• Russian: недоеда́ние (ru) n (nedojedánije)
• Spanish: desnutrición (es) f, malnutrición (es) f
• Swedish: undernäring (sv) c
• Turkish: yetersiz beslenme (tr)
• Ukrainian: недоїда́ння n (nedojidánnja)

French

Etymology

From mal- +‎ nutrition.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mal.ny.tʁi.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

malnutrition f (plural malnutritions)

1. malnutrition

Further reading

• “malnutrition”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.