honger

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦɔ.ŋər/

From Dutch honger, from Middle Dutch honger, from Old Dutch hunger, from Proto-Germanic *hungruz.

honger (uncountable)

1. hunger

honger (attributive honger, not comparable)

1. hungry

From Dutch hongeren (“to (suffer) hunger; to desire strongly”), from Middle Dutch hongeren, from Old Dutch hungeren.

honger (present honger, present participle hongerende, past participle gehonger)

1. (intransitive, figuratively) to desire strongly, to hunger [+ na (for/after)]

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦɔ.ŋər/

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• Hyphenation: hon‧ger
• Rhymes: -ɔŋər

From Middle Dutch honger, from Old Dutch hunger, from Proto-Germanic *hungruz.

honger m (uncountable)

1. hunger

• hongerhormoon
• hongerig
• hongerloon

• Afrikaans: honger
• Berbice Creole Dutch: hungru
• Skepi Creole Dutch: hunger
• →? Sranan Tongo: angri, hangri
  • → Saramaccan: hángi, ángi

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

honger

1. first-person singular present indicative of hongeren
2. imperative of hongeren

From Old Dutch hunger, from Proto-Germanic *hungruz.

honger m

1. hunger
2. famine

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: honger
  • Afrikaans: honger
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: hungru
  • Skepi Creole Dutch: hunger
  • →? Sranan Tongo: angri, hangri
    • → Saramaccan: hángi, ángi
• Limburgish: hónger

• “honger”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “honger (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

honger

1. Alternative form of hunger

From Old Norse hungr, from Proto-Germanic *hungruz.

honger m

1. Hunger.

   ję hæ da lidi a hongråm

   I have suffered from hunger

honger

1. To hunger.

• hongru
• hångrøt

• säugänes
• sujen
• sylt