hambre

• fambre (obsolete)

From Old Spanish fambre, fanbre, famne (compare Ladino ambre), from Vulgar Latin *fam(i)ne(m) (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, dialectal Occitan hame, Sardinian fámine, famen. Cognate with English famish.

• IPA^(key): /ˈambɾe/, [ˈãmbɾe]
• Rhymes: -ambɾe
• Hyphenation: ham‧bre

hambre f (plural hambres)

1. hunger

   ¿Qué te parece si comemos? - No tengo hambre.

   What do you think if we eat now? - I'm not 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 definite article el (normally reserved for masculine nouns) in the singular when there is no intervening adjective:

el hambre

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

• hambre calagurritana
• hambre canina
• más listo que el hambre
• morirse de hambre
• muerto de hambre

• hambriento
• hambruna

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