starvation

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• General-American: /stɑɹˈveɪʃən/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /stɑːˈveɪʃən/
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• rhymes with -eɪʃən
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• CMU ARPABET: S T AA0 R V EY1 SH AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree English starve Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English starvation From starve + -ation.

55 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Ahtna: tsen — condition
• Ahtna: detsen — condition
• Arabic: جُوع شَدِيد (jūʕ šadīd) — condition
• Armenian: սով (sov) — condition
• Armenian: սովամահություն (sovamahutʻyun) — condition
• Bulgarian: глад (glad) — condition
• Catalan: inanició — condition
• Chinese Mandarin: 飢餓 /饥饿 (jī'è) — condition
• Chinese Mandarin: 糧荒 /粮荒 (liánghuāng) — condition
• Chinese Mandarin: 餓死 /饿死 (èsǐ) — condition
• Danish: sult — condition
• Danish: hunger — condition
• Dutch: uithongering — condition
• Esperanto: malsatego — condition
• Finnish: nälkiintyminen — condition
• Finnish: nälkään nääntyminen — condition
• Finnish: nääntyminen — condition
• French: inanition — condition
• French: famine — condition
• French: faim — condition
• Galician: inanición — condition
• German: Verhungern — condition
• German: Hunger — condition
• Hungarian: éhezés — condition
• Hungarian: koplalás — condition
• Irish: gorta — condition
• Italian: fame — condition
• Japanese: 飢餓 (kiga) — condition
• Korean: 기근 (gigeun) — condition
• Korean: 굶주림 (gumjurim) — condition
• Latin: inēdia — condition
• Lithuanian: badas — condition
• Lower Tanana: detsenh — condition
• Navajo: dichin — condition
• Norwegian Bokmål: sult — condition
• Norwegian Nynorsk: svolt — condition
• Plautdietsch: Hungaschnoot — condition
• Polish: wygłodzenie — condition
• Portuguese: inanição — condition
• Romanian: foamete — condition
• Russian: го́лод (gólod) — condition
• Russian: голода́ние (golodánije) — condition
• Spanish: inanición — condition
• Spanish: hambreada — condition
• Spanish: hambrazón — condition
• Spanish: hambrina — condition
• Spanish: marceada — condition
• Spanish: carpanta — condition
• Spanish: hambrusia — condition
• Swedish: svält — condition
• Turkish: açlık — condition
• Ukrainian: го́лод (hólod) — condition
• Ukrainian: голодува́ння (holoduvánnja) — condition
• Uzbek: ochlik — condition
• Welsh: newyn — condition