Hungry - Wiktionary

English

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Etymology

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From Middle English hungry, from Old English hungriġ, from Proto-West Germanic *hungrug, from Proto-Germanic *hungrugaz (“hungry”); equivalent to hunger +‎ -y. Cognate with West Frisian hongerich (“hungry”), Dutch hongerig (“hungry”), German hungrig (“hungry”), Swedish hungrig (“hungry”), Icelandic hungraður (“hungry”).

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/

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• Rhymes: -ʌŋɡɹi
• Hyphenation: hun‧gry
• Homophone: Hungary (in some accents)

Adjective

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hungry (comparative hungrier, superlative hungriest)

1. Affected by hunger; having the physical need for food. Synonyms: famished, peckish, starving My kids go to bed hungry every night because I haven’t got much money for food. He was so hungry he could eat two burgers. I woke up very hungry and made some toast.
2. Causing hunger. All this gardening is hungry work.
3. (figuratively) Eager; having an avid desire or appetite for something. young and hungry the students are hungry to learn
   • 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
   • 1850, [Charles Kingsley], chapter V, in Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet. […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 5:They rowed her in across the rolling foam, / The cruel, crawling foam, / The cruel, hungry foam, / To her grave beside the sea:
   • 2022 November 23, Hadley Freeman, “Like a cinema virgin: how Madonna went stratospheric making Desperately Seeking Susan”, in The Guardian‎[1]:It’s an astonishing roll call of future talent from when they were still young and hungry in Manhattan.
4. Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved. a hungry soil
   • c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:[…] What is this? / Your knees to me? to your corrected son? / Then let the pebbles on the hungry beach / Fillip the stars […]

Derived terms

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• ahungry
• a hungry man is an angry man
• anhungry
• bloodhungry
• cumhungry
• drungry
• go hungry
• hangry
• horngry
• hungries
• hungrify
• hungrily
• hungriness
• hungrisome
• hungry as a hog
• hungry gap
• hungry ghost
• Hungry Ghost Festival
• hungry like the wolf
• hungry rice
• I'm hungry
• money-hungry
• nonhungry
• overhungry
• power-hungry
• stay hungry
• superhungry
• thungry
• unhungrily
• unhungry
• warhungry

Translations

[edit] affected by hunger; desirous of food — see also starving,‎ famished,‎ ravenous

Abkhaz: амлага (amlaga) Albanian: i uritur (sq) Arabic: جَائِع (jāʔiʕ), جَوْعَان (jawʕān) Egyptian Arabic: جعان m (gaʕān) Gulf Arabic: جعان (yuʕān) Hijazi Arabic: جيعان (jīʕān), جايع (jāyiʕ), جوعان (jūʕān) Iraqi Arabic: جيعان (jīʕān) Moroccan Arabic: جيعان m (jīʕān) South Levantine Arabic: جوعان (jūʕān) Yemeni Arabic: جايع (jāyaʕ) (Sanaa) Armenian: սոված (hy) (sovac), քաղցել (hy) (kʻaġcʻel) Ashkun: abót Asturian: afamiáu, esfamiáu, famiáu, famientu Avar: вакъарав (waqxʼaraw) Azerbaijani: ac (az) Bajau: West Coast Bajau: lingantu Bashkir: ас (as) Basque: gosebera, gose Belarusian: гало́дны (be) (halódny) Bengali: ক্ষুধার্ত (bn) (khudharto) Bhojpuri: भूखा (bhūkhā) Bikol: Central Bikol: gutom (bcl) Bislama: hanggre Bulgarian: гла́ден (bg) (gláden) Burmese: ဆာ (my) (hca) Catalan: afamat (ca), (to be hungry): tenir fam Chechen: меца (meca) Chickasaw: hopoba Chinese: Cantonese: 肚餓 / 肚饿 (tou5 ngo6), 餓 / 饿 (ngo6), 飢餓 / 饥饿 (gei1 ngo6) Dungan: вә (və) Hakka: 肚枵 (tú-yâu), 肚飢 / 肚饥 (tú-kî) Hokkien: 飢 / 饥 (zh-min-nan) (ki), 枵 (zh-min-nan) (iau) Mandarin: 飢餓 / 饥饿 (zh) (jī'è), 餓 / 饿 (zh) (è), 飢 / 饥 (zh) (jī) Chinook Jargon: ulu Chuvash: выҫӑ (vyś̬ă) Czech: hladový (cs) m Danish: sulten (da) Dolgan: аччык Dutch: hongerig (nl) (see usage notes on that page), (to be hungry) honger hebben Esperanto: malsata Estonian: näljane (et) Finnish: nälkäinen (fi) French: affamé (fr), (to be hungry): avoir faim (fr) Galician: famento (gl) m, esfameado m, (to be hungry): ter fame Gallurese: famitu Georgian: მშიერი (mšieri), დამშეული (damšeuli) German: hungrig (de); (to be hungry): Hunger haben Gothic: 𐌲𐍂𐌴𐌳𐌰𐌲𐍃 (grēdags) Greek: πεινασμένος (el) (peinasménos), νηστικός (el) (nistikós) Guarani: Paraguayan Guarani: (please verify) vare'a Hadza: please add this translation if you can Haitian Creole: grangou Halkomelem: kw'à:y Hebrew: רָעֵב (he) (ra'év) Hindi: भूखा (hi) (bhūkhā) Hmong: White Hmong: tshaib Hungarian: éhes (hu) Icelandic: svangur (is) m Ido: hungroza (io) Indonesian: lapar (id) Ingush: меца (meca) Irish: ocrach; (to be hungry) ocras a bheith ort Italian: affamato (it), (to be hungry): avere fame Japanese: 空腹な (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 (おなかがすいている, onaka ga suite iru), 腹が減っている (ja) (はらがへっている, hara ga hette iru), 饑い (hidarui) Jarai: rơmŏn Javanese: luwé Old Javanese: lapa Jeju: 베고프다 (begopeuda) Kamkata-vari: Kamviri: ṓtë Kata-vari: avtë́ Kazakh: аш (aş) Khakas: ас (as) Khalaj: âç Khmer: ឃ្លាន (km) (khliən) Korean: 배고프다 (ko) (baegopeuda), 굶주리다 (ko) (gumjurida) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: بِرسی (birsî) Laki: ڤِرسێ (virsê), ڤِرِسنێ (virisnê) Northern Kurdish: birçî (ku), birsî (ku) Southern Kurdish: وِرسێ (wirsê) Kyrgyz: ач (ky) (ac) Ladino: ambyerto Lao: ຫິວ (hiu) Latin: ēsuriēns, iēiūnus Latvian: izsalcis Lithuanian: alkanas (lt) m, alkana (lt) f, išbadėjęs m, išbadėjusi f Louisiana Creole: fim Luxembourgish: hongereg Macedonian: гладен (gladen) Malagasy: noana (mg) Malay: lapar (ms) Maltese: bil-ġuħ, jħoss ġuħ Middle English: hungry Mizo: rilṭam Mongolian: өлөн (mn) (ölön), өлсгөлөн (mn) (ölsgölön) Nauruan: metur (na) Norman: affanmé Norwegian: Bokmål: sulten (no), hungrig Nynorsk: svolten, hungrig Occitan: afamat (oc), (to be hungry): (please verify) aver fam Odia: ଭୋକିଲା (bhokilā) Old English: hungriġ, (to be hungry) hyngran Old Prussian: alkīns Old Turkic: 𐰀𐰲 (āč) Ossetian: стонг (stong) Persian: گرسنه (fa) (gorosne) Polish: głodny (pl) m Portuguese: faminto (pt), com fome, esfomeado (pt) Prasuni: vutá Romani: bokhalo Romanian: flămând (ro), (to be hungry): i fi foame Romansh: fomentà, (to be hungry): avair fom Russian: голо́дный (ru) (golódnyj) Samoan: fia 'ai Sardinian: Campidanese: famìu Logudorese: famìdu, afframicosau Sassarese: famiddu Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: гладан Latin: gladan (sh) Sikkimese: བཀྲེས་པོ (bkres po) Slovak: hladný (sk) Slovene: lačen (sl) Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: głodny Upper Sorbian: hłódny Spanish: hambriento (es), tener hambre (to be hungry), hambroso (Venezuela), con hambre Swedish: hungrig (sv) Tajik: гурусна (tg) (gurusna) Tamil: பசி (ta) (paci) Tat: kisnə Tatar: ач (aç) Tausug: mahapdi' Tetum: lahak Thai: หิว (th) (hǐu), ท้องเลว (tóng leo) Tibetan: ལྟོགས་པ (ltogs pa) Tocharian B: keścye Tok Pisin: hanggre, hangre Tongan: fiekaia Turkish: aç (tr) Ottoman Turkish: آج (ac) Turkmen: aç (tk) Tuvan: аш (aş) Ukrainian: голо́дний (holódnyj) Unami: katupwi, kahtupwi Urdu: بھوکا (bhūkā) Uyghur: ئاچ (ach) Uzbek: och (uz) Venetan: famadìn Vietnamese: đói (vi) Waigali: atë Walloon: (to be hungry) aveur fwin (wa) Welsh: newynog (cy), newynllyd Yakut: аччык (aččïk) Yiddish: הונגעריק (hungerik) Yoruba: ebi pa (followed by direct object) Yucatec Maya: wiʼij

eager, having a desire for something

Bulgarian: жадуващ (bg) (žaduvašt) Dutch: hongerend (nl), hongerig (nl), begerig (nl), lustend (nl), snakkend (nl) Estonian: ihkav Finnish: nälkäinen (fi) Galician: degoxón m, debecido m, gotroñón m, debuón m, degoirado m, arelante m German: gierig (de) Greek: πεινασμένος (el) m (peinasménos) Irish: amplach, amplúil Norwegian: Bokmål: hungrig Nynorsk: hungrig Polish: spragniony (pl) m Portuguese: faminto (pt) Russian: а́лчущий (ru) (álčuščij), жа́ждущий (ru) (žážduščij) Spanish: hambriento (es) Swedish: hungrig (sv) Tamil: பசி (ta) (paci), ஆர்வம் (ta) (ārvam), ஆவல் (ta) (āval) Thai: กระหาย (th) (gràhăai) Turkish: Ottoman Turkish: آج (ac)

Not rich or fertile

Bulgarian: изтощен (bg) (iztošten) French: désolé (fr), infertile (fr) Turkish: Ottoman Turkish: آج (ac)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations. Translations to be checked

Indonesian: (please verify) lapar (id) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: (please verify) birsî (ku), (please verify) birçî (ku) Marshallese: (please verify) kwule Woiwurrung: (please verify) nyiRepurtin

See also

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• thirsty
• I am hungry

Middle English

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Alternative forms

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• hongry, hungery, hungri, hungrie, hungrye, hungury
• houngrie, hungrig (Early Middle English); hunnꟑriȝ (Ormulum)
• hungre, hungorie (Late Middle English)

Etymology

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From Old English hungriġ, from Proto-Germanic *hungragaz; equivalent to hunger +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /ˈhunɡriː/, [ˈhuŋɡriː]

Adjective

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hungry

1. Hungry or starving; needing food:
   1. Malnourished: shriveled from or like from hunger.
   2. Voracious, ravenous; wanting to eat.
2. (rare, religion) Spiritually desirous.
3. (rare, of soil) Unproductive, barren.

Derived terms

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• hungryly

Descendants

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• English: hungry
• Scots: hungry
• Yola: hungree

References

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• “hungrī(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Noun

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hungry

1. Those who are hungry or impoverished.

References

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• “hungrī(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 19 September 2018.