famine

Significado (Inglés)

1. (uncountable) Extreme shortage of food in a region.
2. (countable) A period of extreme shortage of food in a region.
3. (countable, dated, uncountable) Starvation or malnutrition.
4. (countable, uncountable) Severe shortage or lack of something.

Conceptos

hambre

hambruna

escasez de alimentos

carestía

escasez

epidemia de hambre

Sinónimos

hunger

scarcity

starvation

dearth

shortage

drought

hungriness

food shortage

die of hunger

destitution

shortage of food

lack

pula

poor crops

waste

extreme dearth

hership

acute shortage

great famine

crop failure

deep water

deficiency

desert

🏜️

distress

hole

🕳️

hungry

insufficient

lacking

want

hunger-strike

Traducciones

famine

Hungersnot

fome

carestia

disette

hongersnood

λιμός

fame

açlık

fames

kıtlık

faim

xela

πείνα

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈfæmɪn/

Etimología (Inglés)

Cognado con español: hambruna

In summary

Borrowed from Middle French famine, itself from the root of Latin fames. Cognate with Spanish hambruna (“famine”).