hambre.
hunger
Meaning & usage
hunger
¿Qué te parece si comemos ahorita? – No tengo mucha hambre.
Sí, me muero de hambre.
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Old Spanish fambre, fanbre, famne (whence also Ladino ambre), from Vulgar Latin *faminem (the accusative of a nominative *famen or *famis), variant of Latin famēs, see there for more. For other examples of Latin /mVn/ > Old Spanish /mn/ > /mɾ/ > /mbɾ/ see hombre, nombre, muchedumbre, cumbre, lumbre, alambre, hembra, costumbre, enjambre, -dumbre, -umbre. Compare also Latin /mn/ > Old Spanish /ɲ/ ⟨mn > nn > ñ⟩ in dueño, sueño, daño, otoño, etc. Compare Portuguese fome, Galician fame, French faim, dialectal Occitan hame, Italian fame, Sardinian fámine, famen, Romanian foame. Cognate with English famine, famish. Doublet of fame.
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