GC: n
S: WFP – https://www.wfp.org/stories/hunger-famine-and-starvation-750000-people-are-front-line-un-study-says (last access: 9 August 2024); FAO – https://www.fao.org/interactive/state-of-food-security-nutrition/2021/en/ (last access: 9 August 2024); UN – https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/food (last access: 9 August 2024).
N: 1. Old English hunger, hungor “unease or pain caused by lack of food, debility from lack of food, craving appetite,” also “famine, scarcity of food in a place,” from Proto-Germanic *hungruz (cognates: Old Frisian hunger, Old Saxon hungar, Old High German hungar, Old Norse hungr, German hunger, Dutch honger, Gothic huhrus), probably from PIE root *kenk- (2) “to suffer hunger or thirst.” From c. 1200 as “a strong or eager desire” (originally spiritual). Hunger strike attested from 1885; earliest references are to prisoners in Russia.
2. A craving or urgent need for food or a specific nutrient.
An uneasy sensation occasioned by the lack of food.
A weakened condition brought about by prolonged lack of food.
3. Undernourishment means that a person is not able to acquire enough food to meet the daily minimum dietary energy requirements, over a period of one year. FAO defines hunger as being synonymous with chronic undernourishment.
4. Cultural Interrelation: We can mention the novel Hunger (Norwegian: Sult) by the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) published in 1890 by P.G. Philipsens Forlag.
S: 1. Etymonline – http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=hunger (last access: 15 September 2015). 2. MW – http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hunger (last access: 15 September 2015). 3. FAO – http://www.fao.org/hunger/en/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social%20media&utm_campaign=faoknowledge (last access: 15 September 2015). 4. GR – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32585.Hunger (last access: 9 August 2024).
SYN: starvation (context)
S: Cosnautas/Libro rojo (last access: 15 September 2015)
CR: acute undernutrition, cachexia, chronic hunger, famine, fast, inanition, kwashiorkor, malnutrition, marasmus, nutritional edema, undernourishment, undernutrition.
