hunger

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈhʌŋɡə/
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• Received-Pronunciation: [ˈhʌŋɡə]
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• Northern-England: /ˈhʊŋɡə/
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈhɐŋɡə/
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• Australian, New-Zealand: [ˈhɐ̞ŋɡə]
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• General-American: /ˈhʌŋɡɚ/
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• General-American: [ˈhʌŋɡɚ] ~ [ˈhʌŋɡɹ̩]
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• General-American: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• Scotland: /ˈhʌŋɡəɾ/
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• rhymes with -ʌŋɡə(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: HH AH1 NG G ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English hunger, from Old English hungor (“hunger, desire; famine”), from Proto-West Germanic *hungr, from Proto-Germanic *hungruz, *hunhruz (“hunger”), from Proto-Indo-European *kenk- (“to burn, smart, desire, hunger, thirst”). Cognate with West Frisian honger, hûnger (“hunger”), Dutch honger (“hunger”), German Low German Hunger (“hunger”), German Hunger (“hunger”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish hunger (“hunger”), Faroese and Icelandic hungur (“hunger”).

From Middle English hungren, from Old English hyngran, hyngrian, ġehyngrian (“to be hungry”), from Proto-West Germanic *hungrijan, from Proto-Germanic *hungrijaną.

323 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abkhaz: амла (amla) — need for food
• Afar: luwa — need for food
• Aghwan: 𐔱𐕒𐕡𐕚 (bus) — need for food
• Akan: ɔkɔm — need for food
• Albanian: uri — need for food
• Southern Altai: ач (ač) — need for food
• Andi: моко (moko) — need for food
• Arabic: جُوع (jūʕ) — need for food
• Arabic: جوع (ḡūʕ) — need for food
• Arabic: يوع (yūʕ) — need for food
• Aragonese: fambre — need for food
• Armenian: քաղց (kʻaġcʻ) — need for food
• Armenian: սով (sov) — need for food
• Aromanian: foami — need for food
• Assamese: ভোক (bhük) — need for food
• Asturian: fame — need for food
• Avar: ракъи (raqxʼi) — need for food
• Azerbaijani: aclıq — need for food
• Bangi: nzala — need for food
• Bashkir: аслыҡ (aslıq) — need for food
• Basque: gose — need for food
• Belarusian: го́лад (hólad) — need for food
• Bengali: খিদা (khida) — need for food
• Bengali: ভুখ (bhukh) — need for food
• Bengali: ক্ষুধা (khudha) — need for food
• Bengali: ভুক (bhuk) — need for food
• Breton: naon — need for food
• Bulgarian: глад (glad) — need for food
• Burmese: အငတ် (a.ngat) — need for food
• Burmese: အဆာ (a.hca) — need for food
• Carpathian Rusyn: го́лод (hólod) — need for food
• Catalan: gana — need for food
• Catalan: fam — need for food
• Cebuano: gutom — need for food
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵍⴰⵥ (laẓ) — need for food
• Chechen: мацалла (macalla) — need for food
• Chichewa: njala — need for food
• Chinese Mandarin: 飢餓 /饥饿 (jī'è) — need for food
• Chukchi: гытъатгыргын (gytʺatgyrgyn) — need for food
• Chuvash: выҫӑ (vyś̬ă) — need for food
• Chuvash: выҫлӑх (vyślăh) — need for food
• Coptic: ϩⲕⲟ (hko) — need for food
• Cornish: nown — need for food
• Czech: hlad — need for food
• Dalmatian: fum — need for food
• Danish: sult — need for food
• Dutch: honger — need for food
• Dutch: trek — need for food
• Egyptian: H-q:r-A2 (ḥqr) — need for food
• Esperanto: malsato — need for food
• Estonian: nälg — need for food
• Even: дьэмкэн (ʒəmkən) — need for food
• Evenki: дему (ʒemu) — need for food
• Faroese: hungur — need for food
• Faroese: svongd — need for food
• Faroese: svultur — need for food
• Finnish: nälkä — need for food
• French: faim — need for food
• West-Frisian: honger — need for food
• West-Frisian: hûnger — need for food
• Friulian: fan — need for food
• Galician: fame — need for food
• Galician: fame negra — need for food
• Galician: larota — need for food
• Galician: gatuza — need for food
• Galician: larica — need for food
• Galician: garula — need for food
• Galician: farca — need for food
• Galician: carpulla — need for food
• Galician: garita — need for food
• Georgian: შიმშილი (šimšili) — need for food
• German: Hunger — need for food
• Old High German: hungar — need for food
• Gothic: 𐌷𐌿𐌷𐍂𐌿𐍃 (hūhrus) — need for food
• Greek: πείνα (peína) — need for food
• Greek: λιγούρα (ligoúra) — need for food
• Greek: ασιτία (asitía) — need for food
• Greek: λιμός (limós) — need for food
• Ancient Greek: πεῖνα (peîna) — need for food
• Ancient Greek: λιμός (limós) — need for food
• Ancient Greek: σιτοδεία (sitodeía) — need for food
• Hadza: házze — need for food
• Haitian Creole: grangou — need for food
• Hebrew: רָעָב (ra'áv) — need for food
• Hindi: भूख (bhūkh) — need for food
• Hungarian: éhség — need for food
• Icelandic: hungur — need for food
• Icelandic: sultur — need for food
• Ido: hungro — need for food
• Indonesian: lapar — need for food
• Ingrian: nälkä — need for food
• Ingush: мецавалар (mecavalar) — need for food
• Interlingua: fame — need for food
• Irish: ocras — need for food
• Istriot: fan — need for food
• Istro-Romanian: fome — need for food
• Italian: fame — need for food
• Japanese: 飢え (ue) — need for food
• Japanese: 空腹 (kūfuku) — need for food
• Japanese: 飢餓 (kiga) — need for food
• Kabuverdianu: fómi — need for food
• Kapampangan: danup — need for food
• Kapampangan: keranupan — need for food
• Kazakh: аштық (aştyq) — need for food
• Khakas: ас (as) — need for food
• Khalaj: âç — need for food
• Kikuyu: ng'aragu — need for food
• Kongo: nzala — need for food
• Korean: 굶주림 (gumjurim) — need for food
• Korean: 배고픔 (baegopeum) — need for food
• Central Kurdish: برس (birs) — need for food
• Central Kurdish: برسێتی (birsêtî) — need for food
• Northern Kurdish: birçîtî — need for food
• Kyrgyz: ачтык (actık) — need for food
• Latgalian: olkonums — need for food
• Latgalian: bods — need for food
• Latin: famēs — need for food
• Latvian: bads — need for food
• Lingala: nzala — need for food
• Lithuanian: alkis — need for food
• Lombard: famm — need for food
• Louisiana Creole: fim — need for food
• Louisiana Creole: gran-gou — need for food
• Luba-Kasai: nzala — need for food
• Luba-Katanga: nzala — need for food
• Luxembourgish: Honger — need for food
• Macedonian: глад (glad) — need for food
• Malay: lapar — need for food
• Maltese: ġuħ — need for food
• Manx: accrys — need for food
• Maranao: gotem — need for food
• Marathi: भूख (bhūkh) — need for food
• Mauritian Creole: fin — need for food
• Mauritian Creole: lafin — need for food
• Mongolian: өлсгөлөн (ölsgölön) — need for food
• Navajo: dichin — need for food
• Nepali: भोक (bhok) — need for food
• Norman: fôim — need for food
• Norwegian Bokmål: sult — need for food
• Norwegian Bokmål: hunger — need for food
• Norwegian Nynorsk: svolt — need for food
• Norwegian Nynorsk: hunger — need for food
• Occitan: fam — need for food
• Odia: ଭୋକ (bhoka) — need for food
• Church Slavic: гладъ (gladŭ) — need for food
• Old East Slavic: голодъ (golodŭ) — need for food
• Old English: hungor — need for food
• Old Norse: hungr — need for food
• Old Turkic: 𐰀𐰲𐰾𐰴 (āčsïq) — need for food
• Ossetian: стонг (stong) — need for food
• Papiamentu: hamber — need for food
• Pashto: لوږه (lwᶕɀa) — need for food
• Persian: گرسنگی (gorosnegi) — need for food
• Plautdietsch: Hunga — need for food
• Polish: głód — need for food
• Portuguese: fome — need for food
• Quechua: yarqay — need for food
• Rohingya: búk — need for food
• Romagnol: fâm — need for food
• Romani: bokh — need for food
• Romanian: foame — need for food
• Romansh: fom — need for food
• Russian: го́лод (gólod) — need for food
• Saho: luwa — need for food
• Northern Sami: nealgi — need for food
• Sango: nzala — need for food
• Sanskrit: बुभुक्षा (bubhukṣā) — need for food
• Sardinian: fàmene — need for food
• Scottish Gaelic: acras — need for food
• Serbo-Croatian: глад — need for food
• Serbo-Croatian: glad — need for food
• Sicilian: fami — need for food
• Sindhi: بک (bkh) — need for food
• Slovak: hlad — need for food
• Slovene: lakota — need for food
• Somali: gaajo — need for food
• Lower Sorbian: głod — need for food
• Upper Sorbian: hłód — need for food
• Spanish: hambre — need for food
• Spanish: gazuza — need for food
• Spanish: gusa — need for food
• Spanish: fambre (desus.) — need for food
• Spanish: fiaca — need for food
• Spanish: hambrosio — need for food
• Sranan Tongo: angri — need for food
• Swahili: njaa — need for food
• Swahili: unenge — need for food
• Swedish: hunger — need for food
• Tajik: гуруснагӣ (gurusnagi) — need for food
• Tamil: பசி (paci) — need for food
• Tatar: ачлык (açlıq) — need for food
• Telugu: ఆకలి (ākali) — need for food
• Tetum: laha — need for food
• Tetum: hamlaha — need for food
• Thai: ความหิว (kwaam-hǐu) — need for food
• Tocharian B: kest — need for food
• Tumbuka: njala — need for food
• Turkish: açlık — need for food
• Turkish: aç — need for food
• Ottoman Turkish: آجلق (aclık) — need for food
• Turkmen: açlyk — need for food
• Turkmen: aaçlyk — need for food
• Tuvan: аш (aş) — need for food
• Ugaritic: 𐎗𐎙𐎁𐎐 (rġbn) — need for food
• Ukrainian: го́лод (hólod) — need for food
• Unami: kahtupuwakàn — need for food
• Urdu: بھوک (bhūk) — need for food
• Uyghur: ئاچلىق (achliq) — need for food
• Uzbek: ochlik — need for food
• Venetan: fan — need for food
• Vietnamese: đói — need for food
• Vili: nzala — need for food
• Votic: nälče — need for food
• Walloon: fwin — need for food
• Welsh: newyn — need for food
• Yakut: аас (aas) — need for food
• Yiddish: הונגער (hunger) — need for food
• Zhuang: iek — need for food
• Arabic: رَغْبَة (raḡba) — strong desire
• Arabic: تَعَطُّش (taʕaṭṭuš) — strong desire
• Bulgarian: жа́жда (žážda) — strong desire
• Catalan: set — strong desire
• Chinese Mandarin: 渴望 (kěwàng) — strong desire
• Finnish: himo — strong desire
• Finnish: nälkä — strong desire
• French: soif — strong desire
• Galician: debezo — strong desire
• Galician: prango — strong desire
• Galician: degoro — strong desire
• Galician: sede — strong desire
• Galician: puxo — strong desire
• Galician: degoxo — strong desire
• Galician: arela — strong desire
• Galician: gorromela — strong desire
• Galician: enrónica — strong desire
• Galician: engolemia — strong desire
• Galician: anguria — strong desire
• Greek: λαχτάρα (lachtára) — strong desire
• Greek: πόθος (póthos) — strong desire
• Greek: πείνα (peína) — strong desire
• Irish: ocras — strong desire
• Irish: anrachán — strong desire
• Norwegian Bokmål: hunger — strong desire
• Norwegian Nynorsk: hunger — strong desire
• Polish: żądza — strong desire
• Portuguese: sede — strong desire
• Russian: жа́жда (žážda) — strong desire
• Spanish: sed — strong desire
• Spanish: anhelo — strong desire
• Spanish: acucia — strong desire
• Swahili: njaa — strong desire
• Swahili: unenge — strong desire
• Swedish: hunger — strong desire
• Arabic: جَاعَ (jāʕa) — need food
• Asturian: tener fame — need food
• Asturian: tar esfamiáu — need food
• Bulgarian: гладувам (gladuvam) — need food
• Cherokee: ᎤᏲᏏᎭ (uyosiha) — need food
• Coptic: ϩⲕⲟ (hko) — need food
• Czech: hladovět — need food
• Dutch: honger hebben — need food
• Dutch: hongeren — need food
• Esperanto: malsati — need food
• Finnish: nähdä nälkää — need food
• French: avoir faim — need food
• German: hungern — need food
• German: Hunger haben — need food
• German: hungrig sein — need food
• Gothic: 𐌷𐌿𐌲𐌲𐍂𐌾𐌰𐌽 (huggrjan) — need food
• Greek: πεινώ (peinó) — need food
• Ancient Greek: πεινάω (peináō) — need food
• Ido: hungrar — need food
• Irish: ocras — need food
• Italian: avere fame — need food
• Japanese: 飢える (ueru) — need food
• Karakhanid: ااجْماقْ (āčmaq) — need food
• Central Kurdish: برسی (birsî) — need food
• Latin: ēsuriō — need food
• Louisiana Creole: fim — need food
• Norwegian Bokmål: sulte — need food
• Norwegian Nynorsk: svelte — need food
• Old Church Slavonic: алкати (alkati) — need food
• Old Prussian: alkautwei — need food
• Old Turkic: 𐰀𐰲 (āč-) — need food
• Plautdietsch: hungrich sennen — need food
• Polish: łaknąć — need food
• Polish: głodować — need food
• Portuguese: ter fome — need food
• Romanian: fie foame — need food
• Russian: проголода́ться (progolodátʹsja) — need food
• Russian: голода́ть (golodátʹ) — need food
• Serbo-Croatian: гладо̀вати — need food
• Serbo-Croatian: gladòvati — need food
• Spanish: tener hambre — need food
• Spanish: hambrear — need food
• Swahili: kuwa na njaa — need food
• Swedish: hungra — need food
• Turkish: acıkmak — need food
• Vietnamese: bị đói — need food
• Yakut: аас (aas) — need food
• Bulgarian: жадувам (žaduvam) — desire
• Dutch: verlangen — desire
• Finnish: himoita — desire
• Finnish: isota — desire
• French: avoir soif — desire
• Greek: ποθώ (pothó) — desire
• Greek: λαχταρώ (lachtaró) — desire
• Ancient Greek: πεινάω (peináō) — desire
• Japanese: 飢える (ueru) — desire
• Norwegian: hungre — desire
• Old Church Slavonic: алкати (alkati) — desire
• Polish: łaknąć — desire
• Polish: pożądać — desire
• Polish: pragnąć — desire
• Portuguese: desejar — desire
• Russian: жа́ждать (žáždatʹ) — desire
• Russian: алкать (alkatʹ) — desire
• Spanish: tener sed — desire
• Spanish: amalayar — desire
• Spanish: anhelar — desire
• Spanish: ambicionar — desire
• Swedish: hungra — desire
• Vietnamese: thèm — desire