poor

Etymology
Inherited from, , from (and ) , , from , from , from. .

Displaced native, , (from 🇨🇬), 🇨🇬 (from  + ).

Adjective

 * 1) With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
 * 2) Of low quality.
 * 3)  Worthy of pity.
 * 4) Deficient in a specified way.
 * 5) Inadequate, insufficient.
 * 6) Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
 * 1)  Worthy of pity.
 * 2) Deficient in a specified way.
 * 3) Inadequate, insufficient.
 * 4) Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
 * 1)  Worthy of pity.
 * 2) Deficient in a specified way.
 * 3) Inadequate, insufficient.
 * 4) Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
 * 1) Deficient in a specified way.
 * 2) Inadequate, insufficient.
 * 3) Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
 * 1) Deficient in a specified way.
 * 2) Inadequate, insufficient.
 * 3) Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
 * 1) Inadequate, insufficient.
 * 2) Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
 * 1) Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
 * 1) Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
 * 1) Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
 * 1) Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Aghwan: 𐕄𐔼𐕎𐕒𐕡𐔸
 * Albanian:
 * Alemannic German: àrm
 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic: فقير
 * Hijazi Arabic: فقير
 * Armenian:, ,
 * Aromanian: aruptu, discultsu, caimen, ftoh, ftohu, oarfãn, fucãrã
 * Asturian: probe
 * Azerbaijani:, , fağır, füqəra , fağır-füqarə , kasıb-kusub , imkansız
 * Bashkir: ярлы
 * Basque: behartsu
 * Belarusian: бе́дны
 * Bengali:, , ,
 * Bikol Central:, mahidap
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chamicuro: pople
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 窮
 * Eastern Min: 窮
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Dalmatian: pauper
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Elfdalian: fattin
 * Emilian: pôver
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: vaene
 * Faroese: fátækur
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: puar, pùar
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Pennsylvania German: arm, aarem
 * Gothic: 𐌿𐌽𐌻𐌴𐌸𐍃, 𐌰𐍂𐌼𐍃
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: πένης, πτωχός
 * Greenlandic: piitsoq
 * Hawaiian: hoʻohune, hoʻoʻilihune
 * Hebrew:, דלת העם
 * Hindi: ग़रीब,, फ़क़ीर, , , ,
 * Hittite: 𒀀𒅆𒉿𒀭𒍝
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingush: къе
 * Interlingua: povre
 * Inuktitut:
 * Inuttut: ajutsak, annguvik
 * Irish: bocht, daibhir, dearóil
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Javanese:
 * Kazakh: кедей, жарлы
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: ,
 * Kumyk: пакъыр
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: دەست کورت, ھەژار,
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Ladin: puere
 * Ladino:
 * Latin: prove
 * Lao: ຈົນ, ທຸກຈົນ
 * Latin:, egens
 * Latvian:
 * Ligurian: pöveo, poveru
 * Limburgish:
 * Lithuanian: skurdus, vargingas
 * Livonian: joutõm
 * Lombard:, por
 * Lü: ᦷᦑᧅᦕᦱᧃ
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian: сиромашен
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: fqir
 * Maori: pōhara
 * Maranao: miskin
 * Marathi: गरीब, दीन
 * Mirandese: probe
 * Mizo: rethei
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Navajo: doo atʼį́į da
 * Norman: pauvre, pouôrre
 * Northern Sami: geafi
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ,
 * Occitan:
 * Old English: earm
 * Pashto:, ,
 * Persian: ,
 * Piedmontese: pòver
 * Plautdietsch: oam
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, , ,
 * Quechua: wakcha
 * Romani: ćorro
 * Romanian:, , , ,
 * Romansch: pauper, pover
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit:, ध्रिगु
 * Sardinian: poaru, pobaru, poberu
 * Scottish Gaelic: truagh, bochd
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: сиро̀машан, у̏бог, бе̑дан, бије̑дан
 * Roman:, , ,
 * Sicilian:, , povru
 * Slovak: ,
 * Slovene:, ubog
 * Somali:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: chudy
 * Upper Sorbian: chudy
 * Southern Altai: бакыр, јоксус, јокту
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: mahirap, dukha, maralita
 * Tajik: камбағал,, фақир
 * Tatar: ярлы, фәкыйрь
 * Telugu: ,
 * Thai: ,
 * Tibetan: སྐྱོ་པོ
 * Tocharian B: snaitstse
 * Turkish:, , , ,
 * Turkmen: garyp,
 * Udi: касиб
 * Udmurt: куанер
 * Ugaritic: 𐎀𐎁𐎊𐎐
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu:, دین
 * Uyghur: كەمبەغەل, پېقىر, بىچارە
 * Uzbek:, , ,
 * Venetian: poro, poaro, povaro, pore
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon: ,
 * Welsh: ,
 * West Frisian: earm
 * White Hmong: kob huam
 * Yiddish: אָרעם, דלותדיק, בדלות


 * Armenian: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: φαῦλος
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: bocht
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, , ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: خەراپ, بێ قیمەت
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian: лош
 * Malay:
 * Norwegian:, elendig
 * Old English: earm
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: bochd
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:, , , ,
 * Telugu:, నాసి రకం
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Ukrainian:
 * Walloon:, ,


 * Afrikaans: arme
 * Albanian: ,
 * Arabic: مِسْكِين
 * Egyptian Arabic: مسكين
 * Hijazi Arabic: مَسْكين, غَلْبَان
 * Armenian: ,
 * Asturian: probe
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: stakkels
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: bedaŭrinda, kompatinda
 * Finnish:, , rassu, , poloinen
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: საწყალი
 * German:
 * Greek:, ,
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi:, ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: poloin
 * Ingush: миска
 * Interlingua: povre
 * Irish: bocht
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: گوناح
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Norman: pauvre
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English: earm
 * Persian:, , ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, , , вызыва́ющий жа́лость
 * Scottish Gaelic: truagh
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu:
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Ukrainian:, жалюгі́дний
 * Walloon:, ,
 * Welsh: truenus
 * West Frisian: earm
 * Yiddish: בידנע


 * Afrikaans:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:
 * Persian: کم داشتن


 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian: vajmi kevés
 * Turkish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:, ;
 * Hungarian: lelki/lélekben szegény, ,


 * Fijian:
 * Georgian: ,
 * Indonesian:, , ,
 * Tuvan:, , ,

Noun

 * 1)  The poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society.
 * 2) * 1972, Anonymous translation of as "Draft of a Communist Confession of Faith", International Publishers:
 * Then there have not always been proletarians? No. There have always been poor and working classes; and those who worked were almost always the poor. But there have not always been proletarians, just as competition has not always been free.
 * 1) * 2010 Jan. 27,, "Populism: Just Like Racism!", True/Slant:
 * This is the same Randian bullshit that we've been hearing from people like for ages and its entire premise is really revolting and insulting&mdash;this idea that the way society works is that the productive "rich" feed the needy "poor," and that any attempt by the latter to punish the former for "excesses" might inspire  his way out of town and leave the helpless poor on their own to starve. That's basically 's entire argument here. Yes, the rich and powerful do rig the game in their own favor, and yes, they are guilty of "excesses"&mdash;but fucking deal with it, if you want to eat.
 * 1) * 2010 Jan. 27,, "Populism: Just Like Racism!", True/Slant:
 * This is the same Randian bullshit that we've been hearing from people like for ages and its entire premise is really revolting and insulting&mdash;this idea that the way society works is that the productive "rich" feed the needy "poor," and that any attempt by the latter to punish the former for "excesses" might inspire  his way out of town and leave the helpless poor on their own to starve. That's basically 's entire argument here. Yes, the rich and powerful do rig the game in their own favor, and yes, they are guilty of "excesses"&mdash;but fucking deal with it, if you want to eat.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: armes
 * Albanian: bercul,
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: աղքատները
 * Bengali:, ,
 * Breton:
 * Catalan:
 * Czech: chudí
 * Danish: fattige, fattigfolk
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: köyhät
 * French:
 * Galician: pobres
 * German: Arme
 * Greek:
 * Ancient Greek: πτωχοί
 * Hindi: फ़क़ीर,
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: bocht
 * Italian:
 * Latin:
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Marathi: गरीब
 * Ngazidja Comorian: fukara
 * Old Slovak: holota
 * Plautdietsch: Oame
 * Polish: biedacy, nędznicy
 * Portuguese: pobres
 * Romanian: săraci, nevoiași
 * Russian:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Walloon:, ,

Noun

 * 1)   A poor person.

Usage notes
The countable sense of poor, despite having a long history and continuing existence in some Scottish dialects, is now generally parsed as nonstandard slang and frequently employed with ironic condescension as a critique of supposed upper-class views towards the poor.

Derived terms

 * deserving poor
 * undeserving poor
 * Europoor

Translations

 * Afrikaans: arme
 * German:

Verb

 * , to make poor.
 * 1) * 2003 August 10, Dallas News, p. 3:
 * It is very evident that Americans are being ‘poored down’ to suit the world socialist agenda, and to maximize profits for the international corporations.
 * 1)  To become poor.
 * 2) * 1467, Acts of the Parliament of Scotland, Vol. II, p. 88:
 * The mone of this realme is born out in gret quantite and the realme puryt of the sammyn.
 * 1)  To call poor.

Usage notes
Although having a long and chiefly Scottish history, verbal use of poor is now generally parsed as a nonstandard innovation and employed within quotes.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) leek

Noun

 * 1) fear