penury

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpɛnjʊɹi/
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• General-American: /ˈpɛnjəɹi/
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• CMU ARPABET: P EH1 N Y UH0 R IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Late Middle English penuri, penurie (“destitution, need, poverty; dearth, lack, scarcity”), borrowed from Latin pēnūria (“need, scarcity, want”) + Middle English -i, -ie (suffix forming abstract and collective nouns); further etymology uncertain, possibly related to paene (“almost, nearly; barely, hardly, scarcely”, adverb), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *peh1- (“to hate; to hurt”).

30 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: сиромашия (siromašija) — extreme need or want — see also destitution, poverty
• Czech: bída — extreme need or want — see also destitution, poverty
• Czech: chudoba — extreme need or want — see also destitution, poverty
• Czech: nouze — extreme need or want — see also destitution, poverty
• Esperanto: malriĉeco — extreme need or want — see also destitution, poverty
• Esperanto: senhaveco — extreme need or want — see also destitution, poverty
• Finnish: köyhyys — extreme need or want — see also destitution, poverty
• Greek: πενία (penía) — extreme need or want — see also destitution, poverty
• Greek: ανέχεια (anécheia) — extreme need or want — see also destitution, poverty
• Greek: ένδεια (éndeia) — extreme need or want — see also destitution, poverty
• Russian: нищета́ (niščetá) — extreme need or want — see also destitution, poverty
• Russian: нужда́ (nuždá) — extreme need or want — see also destitution, poverty
• Serbo-Croatian: neimaština — extreme need or want — see also destitution, poverty
• Spanish: pauperismo — extreme need or want — see also destitution, poverty
• Spanish: pobreza — extreme need or want — see also destitution, poverty
• Spanish: pobrisimo — extreme need or want — see also destitution, poverty
• Turkish: yoksulluk — extreme need or want — see also destitution, poverty
• Ottoman Turkish: یوقسوللق (yoksulluk) — extreme need or want — see also destitution, poverty
• Ukrainian: біднота́ (bidnotá) — extreme need or want — see also destitution, poverty
• Bulgarian: липса (lipsa) — lack of something — see also dearth, scarcity
• Bulgarian: недостиг (nedostig) — lack of something — see also dearth, scarcity
• Czech: nedostatek — lack of something — see also dearth, scarcity
• Czech: nouze — lack of something — see also dearth, scarcity
• Finnish: puute — lack of something — see also dearth, scarcity
• French: pénurie — lack of something — see also dearth, scarcity
• Greek: ανέχεια (anécheia) — lack of something — see also dearth, scarcity
• Greek: ανεπάρκεια (anepárkeia) — lack of something — see also dearth, scarcity
• Russian: недоста́ток (nedostátok) — lack of something — see also dearth, scarcity
• Turkish: yokluk — lack of something — see also dearth, scarcity
• Turkish: yoksunluk — lack of something — see also dearth, scarcity