hunger

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from , , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) A need or compelling desire for food.
 * 2)  Any strong desire.

Usage notes
The phrase be hungry is more common than have hunger to express a need for food.

Translations

 * Abkhaz: амла
 * Afar: luwa
 * Aghwan: 𐔱𐕒𐕡𐕚
 * Akan: ɔkɔm
 * Albanian:
 * Andi: моко
 * Arabic: جُوع
 * Egyptian Arabic: جوع
 * Gulf Arabic: يوع
 * Aragonese:
 * Armenian: ,
 * Aromanian: foami
 * Assamese: ভোক
 * Asturian: fame
 * Avar: ракъи
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: аслыҡ
 * Basque: gose
 * Belarusian:
 * Bengali: খিদা,, , ভুক
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ,
 * Carpathian Rusyn: го́лод
 * Catalan: ,
 * Cebuano: gutom
 * Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵍⴰⵥ
 * Chechen: мацалла
 * Chichewa: njala
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Chukchi: гытъатгыргын
 * Chuvash: выҫӑ, выҫлӑх
 * Coptic: ϩⲕⲟ
 * Cornish: nown
 * Czech:
 * Dalmatian: fum
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto: malsato
 * Estonian: nälg
 * Even: дьэмкэн
 * Evenki: дему
 * Faroese: hungur, svongd, svultur
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: fan
 * Galician:, , larota, gatuza, larica, garula, farca, carpulla, garita
 * Georgian: შიმშილი
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐌷𐌿𐌷𐍂𐌿𐍃
 * Greek:, λιγούρα , σιτοδεία, ασιτία , λιμός
 * Ancient: πεῖνα, λιμός
 * Greenlandic:
 * Hadza: házze
 * Haitian Creole: grangou
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: nälkä
 * Ingush: мецавалар
 * Interlingua:
 * Irish:
 * Istriot: fan
 * Istro-Romanian: fome
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Kabuverdianu: fómi
 * Kapampangan: danup, keranupan
 * Kazakh: аштық
 * Khakas: ас
 * Khalaj: âç
 * Kikuyu: ng'aragu
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: برسێتی
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latgalian: olkonums, bods
 * Latin: famēs
 * Latvian: bads
 * Lingala: nzala
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lombard:
 * Louisiana Creole French: fim, gran-gou
 * Luxembourgish: Honger
 * Macedonian: глад
 * Malay:
 * Maltese:
 * Manx: accrys
 * Maranao: gotem
 * Marathi: भूख
 * Mongolian:
 * Navajo: dichin
 * Nepali: भोक
 * Norman: fôim
 * Northern Sami: nealgi
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ,
 * Nynorsk: svolt, hunger
 * Occitan:
 * Odia:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: гладъ
 * Old East Slavic: голодъ
 * Old English: hungor
 * Old High German: hungar
 * Old Norse: hungr
 * Old Turkic: 𐰀𐰲𐰾𐰴
 * Ossetian: стонг
 * Ottoman Turkish: آجلق
 * Papiamentu: hamber
 * Pashto: لوږه
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Hunga
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: yarqay
 * Rohingya: búk
 * Romagnol: fâm
 * Romani: bok
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: fom
 * Russian:
 * Saho: luwa
 * Sango:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Sardinian: fàmene
 * Scottish Gaelic: acras
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: глад
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian:
 * Sindhi:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Somali: gaajo
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: głod
 * Upper Sorbian: hłód
 * Southern Altai: ач
 * Spanish:, ,  , gusa
 * Sranan Tongo: angri
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu:
 * Tetum: laha, hamlaha
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan:
 * Tocharian B: kest
 * Tumbuka: njala
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen:, aaçlyk
 * Tuvan: аш
 * Ugaritic: 𐎗𐎙𐎁𐎐
 * Ukrainian: го́лод
 * Urdu: بھوک
 * Uyghur: ئاچلىق
 * Uzbek:
 * Venetian: fan
 * Vietnamese:
 * Votic: ńältše
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh: newyn
 * West Frisian: honger, hûnger
 * Yakut: аас
 * Yiddish: הונגער


 * Arabic: رَغْبَة, تَعَطُّش
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician: debezo, prango,, , puxo, , , gorromela, enrónica, engolemia, anguria
 * Greek:, ,
 * Irish:, anrachán
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: hunger
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish:

Etymology 2
From, from , , , from , from.

Verb

 * 1)  To be in need of food.
 * 2)  To have a desire (for); to long; to yearn.
 * 3)  To make hungry; to famish.
 * 1)  To make hungry; to famish.
 * 1)  To make hungry; to famish.
 * 1)  To make hungry; to famish.
 * 1)  To make hungry; to famish.

Translations

 * Arabic: جَاعَ
 * Asturian: tener fame, tar esfamiáu
 * Bulgarian:
 * Cherokee: ᎤᏲᏏᎭ
 * Coptic: ϩⲕⲟ
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: malsati
 * Finnish: nähdä nälkää
 * French: avoir faim
 * German:, Hunger haben, hungrig sein
 * Gothic: 𐌷𐌿𐌲𐌲𐍂𐌾𐌰𐌽
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: πεινάω
 * Ido:
 * Irish:
 * Italian: avere fame
 * Japanese:
 * Karakhanid: ااجْماقْ
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: برسی
 * Latin:
 * Louisiana Creole French: fim
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: svelte
 * Old Church Slavonic: алкати
 * Old Prussian: alkautwei
 * Old Turkic: 𐰀𐰲
 * Plautdietsch: hungrich
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ter fome
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: гладо̀вати
 * Roman:
 * Spanish: tener hambre
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese: bị đói
 * Yakut: аас


 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch: verlangen
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: avoir soif
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: πεινάω
 * Japanese:
 * Norwegian: hungre
 * Old Church Slavonic: алкати
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: tener sed
 * Swedish:
 * Vietnamese:

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  hunger

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Noun

 * 1) Hungriness; the feeling of being hungry or requiring satiation.
 * 2) Hunger; a great lack or death of food or nutrition.
 * 3) A shortage of food in a region or country; widespread hunger.
 * 4) Hunger as a metaphorical individual; the force of hunger.
 * 5)  Any strong drive or compulsion.
 * 1) Hunger as a metaphorical individual; the force of hunger.
 * 2)  Any strong drive or compulsion.

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