hunger - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhʌŋɡə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhʌŋɡɚ/
• Rhymes: -ʌŋɡə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: hun‧ger

From Middle English hunger, from Old English hungor (“hunger, desire; famine”), from Proto-West Germanic *hungr, from Proto-Germanic *hungruz, *hunhruz (“hunger”), from Proto-Indo-European *kenk- (“to burn, smart, desire, hunger, thirst”).

Cognate with West Frisian honger, hûnger (“hunger”), Dutch honger (“hunger”), German Low German Hunger (“hunger”), German Hunger (“hunger”), Swedish hunger (“hunger”), Icelandic hungur (“hunger”).

hunger (countable and uncountable, plural hungers)

1. A need or compelling desire for food.
2. (by extension) Any strong desire or need.

   I have a hunger to win.

   • 2003, “What Up Gangsta”, in Curtis Jackson, Rob Tewlow (lyrics), Reef Tewlow (music), Get Rich or Die Tryin', performed by 50 Cent, New York City: Shady Records:

     When gangsters bump my shit, can they feel my hunger?

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

• satiety
• satiation

• thirst

From Middle English hungren, from Old English hyngran, hyngrian, ġehyngrian (“to be hungry”), from Proto-West Germanic *hungrijan, from Proto-Germanic *hungrijaną.

hunger (third-person singular simple present hungers, present participle hungering, simple past and past participle hungered)

1. (intransitive) To be in need of food.
2. (figuratively, intransitive, usually with 'for' or 'after') To have a desire (for); to long; to yearn.

   I hungered for your love.
3. (archaic, transitive) To make hungry; to famish.

• ahungered/anhungered
• forhungered

• “hunger”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• rehung

From Old Norse hungr.

hunger c (singular definite hungeren, not used in plural form)

1. (dated, occasionally humorous) hunger

   Synonym: sult

   1. (figurative) a strong urge; a longing (for something)

• hungersnød
• hungerkatastrofe
• hungerramt
• livshunger
• ulvehunger
• hungersnødsramt

• hungre
• hungrig

• “hunger” in Den Danske Ordbog

hunger

1. inflection of hungern:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative

• hunguer, honguer, honger, hungre, hongre, hungere, hongur, hounger, hounguer, hungir, hungyr, hungur
• hungær, hungor, hunnꟑerr (Early Middle English)

From Old English hungor, from Proto-West Germanic *hungr, from Proto-Germanic *hungruz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhunɡər/, [ˈhuŋɡər]

hunger (uncountable)

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.

   • a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “2 Paralipomenon 6:28”, in Wycliffe's Bible:

     If hungur riſiþ in þe lond and peſtilence and ruſt and wynd diſtriynge cornes and a locuste and bꝛuke comeþ and if enemyes biſegen þe ȝatis of þe citee aftir þat þe cuntreis ben diſtried and al veniaunce and ſikenesse oppꝛeſſiþ […]

     If hunger rises in the land, and pestilence, rust, wind, destroying grain, and locusts and their young come, and if enemies besiege a city's gates after the city's surrounds are ruined, and when any destruction and disease oppresses (people) […]

4. Hunger as a metaphorical individual; the force of hunger.
5. (rare) Any strong drive or compulsion.

• hungren
• hungry
• hungrylych

• English: hunger
• Scots: hounger, hunger

• “hunger, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-19.

From Old High German hungar, from Proto-West Germanic *hungr, from Proto-Germanic *hungruz, from Proto-Indo-European *kenk-.

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈhuŋɡər/

hunger m

1. famine
2. hunger (need for food)
3. (figurative) hunger (strong desire)

• Central Franconian:
  • Hunsrik: Hunger
  • Luxembourgish: Honger
• Cimbrian: hungar, hummar (Luserna)
• German: Hunger
• Yiddish: הונגער (hunger)

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “hunger”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel
• "hunger" in Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)

• honger (Föhr-Amrum)
• Hunger (Sylt)

from Old Frisian hunger, from Proto-West Germanic *hungr, from Proto-Germanic *hungruz.

hunger m

1. (Mooring) hunger

From Old Norse hungr, from Proto-Germanic *hunhruz.

hunger m (definite singular hungeren, uncountable)

1. hunger

• sult

• hungersnød (“famine”)

• hungrig

• “hunger” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse hungr.

hunger m (definite singular hungeren) (uncountable)

1. hunger

• svolt

• hungersnaud, hungersnød

• hungrig

• “hunger” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Norse hungr, from Proto-Germanic *hunhruz.

hunger c (uncountable)

1. hunger

   att känna hunger

   to feel hunger

• lufthunger

• hungrig (“hungry”)
• hungra (“to hunger”)

• törst (“thirst”)

• hunger in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• hunger in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• hunger in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)