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[edit] Etymology
Old English hungrig, from hungor 'hunger' (from the same).
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Adjective
hungry (comparative hungrier, superlative hungriest)
- affected by hunger; desirous of food; having a physical need for food.
- (figuratively) eager, having an avid desire ('appetite') for something.
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[edit] Translations
affected by hunger; desirous of food
- Albanian: i uritur
- Arabic: جائع (ar) (jāʾiʿ), جوعان (ar) (jawʿān)
- Armenian: սոված (hy) (sovac)
- Azeri: ac (az)
- Basque: gosebera
- Belarusian: галодны (be) (halódny)
- Bulgarian: гладен (bg) (gladen)
- Burmese: ဆာ (my) (hsa)
- Catalan: afamat (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 飢餓 (cmn), 饥饿 (cmn) (jī'è), 餓 (cmn), 饿 (cmn) (è), 飢 (cmn), 饥 (cmn) (jī)
- Min Nan: 飢 (ki), 枵 (iau)
- Czech: hladový (cs) m.
- Danish: sulten (da) (to be hungry: at være sulten)
- Dutch: hongerig (nl) (see usage notes on that page)
- Esperanto: malsata (eo)
- Estonian: näljane (et)
- Finnish: nälkäinen (fi)
- French: avoir faim (fr), affamé (fr)
- Georgian: მშიერი (ka) (mšieri), დამშეული (ka) (damšeuli)
- German: hungrig (de)
- Greek: πεινασμένος (el) (peinasménos)
- Haitian Creole: grangou
- Hebrew: רעב (he) (ra'év)
- Hindi: भूखा (hi) (bhūkhā)
- Hungarian: éhes (hu)
- Icelandic: svangur (is) m., hungraður (is) m., soltinn (is) m.
- Ido: hungroza (io)
- Indonesian: lapar (id)
- Irish: ocrach (ga); (attributive) expressed by phrase using the noun ocras (ga) m. "hunger"
- Italian: affamato (it)
- Japanese: 空腹な (ja) (くうふくな, kūfuku-na), 飢えた (ja) (うえた, ueta, かつえた, katsueta), お腹が空いている (ja) (おなかがすいている, onaka ga suite iru)
- Kazakh: аш (kk) (aş)
- Khmer: ឃ្លាន (km) (klīən)
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eager, having a desire for something
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