hambre

• fambre (obsolete)

From Old Spanish fambre, fanbre, famne (compare Ladino ambre), from Vulgar Latin *faminem (possibly the accusative of a variant nominative form *famen or *famis)[1], from Classical Latin famēs, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰH- (“to disappear”). Compare also Portuguese fome, Galician fame, French faim, dialectal Occitan hame, Sardinian fámine, famen, Romanian foame. Cognate with English famine, famish.

• IPA^(key): /ˈambɾe/ [ˈãm.bɾe]

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• Rhymes: -ambɾe
• Syllabification: ham‧bre

hambre f (plural hambres)

1. hunger

   ¿Qué te parece si comemos ahorita? – No tengo mucha hambre.

   What do you think if we eat right now? – I'm not very hungry.

   Sí, me muero de hambre.

   Yes, I'm starving.

   (literally, “dying of hunger”)

• The feminine noun hambre is like other feminine nouns starting with a stressed /a/ sound in that it takes the articles el and un (normally reserved for masculine nouns) in the singular when there is no intervening adjective:

el hambre

un hambre

• However, if an adjective, even one that begins with stressed /a/ such as alta or ancha, intervenes between the article and the noun, the article reverts to la or una.

• hambriento
• hambruna

• “hambre”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014