hambre

Meaning

hunger

Hyphenated as

ham‧bre

Gender

♀️ Feminine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈambɾe/

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish fambre, fanbre, famne (compare Ladino ambre), from Vulgar Latin *faminem (possibly the accusative of a variant nominative form *famen or *famis), from Classical Latin famēs, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰH- (“to disappear”). Compare also Portuguese fome, Galician fame, French faim, dialectal Occitan hame, Italian fame, Sardinian fámine, famen, Romanian foame. Cognate with English famine, famish. Doublet of fame.

Sentences

Tengo más sueño que hambre .

I'm more sleepy than hungry.