HUNGERとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 hunger, from 古期英語 hungor (“hunger, desire; famine”), from Proto-West Germanic *hungr, from Proto-Germanic *hungruz, *hunhruz (“hunger”), from Proto-Indo-European *kenk- (“to burn, smart, desire, hunger, thirst”).

Cognate with West Frisian honger, hûnger (“hunger”), Dutch honger (“hunger”), German Low German Hunger (“hunger”), German Hunger (“hunger”), Swedish hunger (“hunger”), Icelandic hungur (“hunger”).

名詞

hunger (countable and uncountable, plural hungers)

1. A need or compelling desire for food.
2. (by extension) Any strong desire or need.

   I have a hunger to win.

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 1:

     O sacred hunger of ambitious minds!

   • 2003, “What Up Gangsta”, in Curtis Jackson, Rob Tewlow (lyrics), Reef Tewlow (music), Get Rich or Die Tryin', performed by 50 Cent, New York City: Shady Records:

     When gangsters bump my shit, can they feel my hunger?

   • 2025 February 6, Angelica Evans, “Ukraine’s Kursk Incursion: Six Month Assessment”, in Ukraine Project, Institute for the Study of War:

     Putin's unwillingness to declare another partial reserve call up has created a wider manpower hunger in the Russian military and border service, and Putin alone maintains the ability to remedy this issue.

使用する際の注意点

The phrase be hungry is more common than have hunger to express a need for food.

反意語

• satiety
• satiation

派生語

参考

• thirst

語源 2

From 中期英語 hungren, from 古期英語 hyngran, hyngrian, ġehyngrian (“to be hungry”), from Proto-West Germanic *hungrijan, from Proto-Germanic *hungrijaną.

動詞

hunger (third-person singular simple present hungers, present participle hungering, simple past and past participle hungered)

1. (intransitive) To be in need of food.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 12:20:

     Therefore if thine enemie hunger, feed him: if he thirst, giue him drink. For in so doing thou shalt heape coales of fire on his head.

2. (figuratively, intransitive, usually with 'for' or 'after') To have a desire (for); to long; to yearn.

   I hungered for your love.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 5:6:

     Blessed are they which doe hunger and thirst after righteousnesse: for they shall be filled.

   • 1993, The The, Love Is Stronger Than Death:

     In our lives we hunger for those we cannot touch.

3. (archaic, transitive) To make hungry; to famish.

派生語

• ahungered/anhungered
• forhungered

参照

• “hunger”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• rehung

語源

From 古期英語 hungor, from Proto-West Germanic *hungr, from Proto-Germanic *hungruz.

発音

• IPA: /ˈhunɡər/, [ˈhuŋɡər]

名詞

hunger (uncountable)

1. Hungriness; the feeling of being hungry or requiring satiation.
2. Hunger; a great lack or death of food or nutrition.
   • p. 1154, “AD 1137”, in Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (MS. Laud Misc. 636, continuation), Peterborough, folio 89, verso; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 8 February 2018:

     Mani þusen hi drapen mid hungær.

     Many thousands they overcame with hunger.

3. A shortage of food in a region or country; widespread hunger.
   • a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “2 Paralipomenon 6:28”, in Wycliffe's Bible:

     If hungur riſiþ in þe lond and peſtilence and ruſt and wynd diſtriynge cornes and a locuste and bꝛuke comeþ and if enemyes biſegen þe ȝatis of þe citee aftir þat þe cuntreis ben diſtried and al veniaunce and ſikenesse oppꝛeſſiþ […]

     If hunger rises in the land, and pestilence, rust, wind, destroying grain, and locusts and their young come, and if enemies besiege a city's gates after the city's surrounds are ruined, and when any destruction and disease oppresses (people) […]

4. Hunger as a metaphorical individual; the force of hunger.
5. (rare) Any strong drive or compulsion.

派生語

• hungren
• hungry
• hungrylych

派生した語

• English: hunger
• Scots: hounger, hunger

参照

• “hunger, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 19 September 2018.