hunger

Pronunciation: /ˈhʌŋɡə/

The English word “hunger” has 5 meanings listed here.

noun

A need or compelling desire for food.
Any strong desire or need.

verb

To be in need of food.
To have a desire (for); to long; to yearn.
To make hungry; to famish.

Etymology

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”), Danish, Norwegian…

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