hambre
Spanish
Alternative forms
- fambre (obsolete)
Etymology
From Old Spanish fambre, fanbre, famne (compare Ladino ambre), from Vulgar Latin *faminem (possibly the accusative of a variant nominative form *famen or *famis)[1], from Classical Latin famēs, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰH- (“to disappear”). Compare also Portuguese fome, Galician fame, dialectal Occitan hame, Sardinian fámine, famen. Cognate with English famine, famish.
Pronunciation
Noun
hambre f (plural hambres)
- hunger
- ¿Qué te parece si comemos? – No tengo hambre.
- What do you think if we eat now? – I'm not hungry.
- Sí, me muero de hambre.
- Yes, I'm starving.
- (literally, “dying of hunger”)
Usage notes
- Feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like this one regularly take the singular articles el and un, usually reserved for masculine nouns.
- el hambre, un hambre
- They maintain the usual feminine singular articles la and una if an adjective intervenes between the article and the noun.
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