famine

Etymology
Borrowed from, itself from the root of. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  Extreme shortage of food in a region.
 * 2)  A period of extreme shortage of food in a region.
 * 3) * 1986, United States Congress, House Select Committee on Hunger, Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Africa, Famine and Recovery in Africa
 * The root causes of the current famine are known: poverty, low health standards....
 * 1)  Starvation or malnutrition.
 * 2) * 1871 (orig. 426), Augustine, The City of God, transl. Marcus Dods:
 * His own flesh, however, which he lost by famine, shall be restored to him by Him who can recover even what has evaporated.
 * 1) Severe shortage or lack of something.
 * 2) * the Lancashire Cotton Famine
 * 1) Severe shortage or lack of something.
 * 2) * the Lancashire Cotton Famine

Translations

 * Afar: qulul
 * Afrikaans: hongersnood
 * Ainu: ケㇺ
 * Arabic: مَجَاعَة
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: foamitã
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: аслыҡ, йот
 * Basque: gosete
 * Belarusian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Cherokee: ᎠᎪᎾ
 * Chichewa: njala
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Coptic: ϩⲕⲟ
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: hungersnød
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: malsatego
 * Estonian: näljahäda
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician:, langrina, lambrina, gambrina, gatuza, garula
 * Georgian: შიმშილი, შიმშილობა
 * German: ,
 * Gothic: 𐌷𐌿𐌷𐍂𐌿𐍃
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: λιμός
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kabuverdianu: fómi
 * Kazakh: ашаршылық, аштық
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latin: famēs
 * Latvian: bads
 * Lithuanian: badmetis, ,
 * Macedonian: глад
 * Malayalam:
 * Mansaka: gutum
 * Maori: matekaitanga
 * Maranao: kanggotma
 * Mauritian Creole: lafaminn
 * Mongolian:
 * Navajo: hodichin, dichin
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: hungersnød
 * Nynorsk: hungersnaud, hungersnød
 * Occitan: famina
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: гладъ
 * Old English: hungor
 * Persian: ,
 * Plautdietsch: Hungaschnoot
 * Polish:, klęska głodu
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Saho: culul
 * Scottish Gaelic: gort
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: глад
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: hladomor,
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: głod
 * Upper Sorbian: hłód
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: taggutom
 * Tajik:
 * Tatar:
 * Thai: ,
 * Tibetan: མུ་གེ
 * Turkish:, , ,
 * Ukrainian: го́лод
 * Urdu: اکال
 * Vietnamese: nạn đói
 * Welsh: newyn
 * West Frisian: hongersneed, breakrapte
 * Yiddish: הונגער


 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Chinese:
 * Literary Chinese: 饑饉
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Gothic: 𐌷𐌿𐌷𐍂𐌿𐍃
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: λιμός
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Kabuverdianu: fómi
 * Maori: matekaitanga, tau tukuroa, tau nihoroa
 * Old English: hungor
 * Plautdietsch: Hungaschnoot
 * Polish:, klęska głodu
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: hladomor,
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: głod
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: taggutom
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: го́лод, голодомо́р
 * Welsh: newyn

Etymology
and, formed from the root of with the suffix.

Noun

 * 1) famine

Etymology
Formed from the root of, with the suffix.