malnutrition

English

A 1922 photograph by Fridtjof Nansen of two boys suffering from malnutrition

Etymology

mal- +‎ nutrition

Noun

malnutrition (usually uncountable, plural malnutritions)

A lack of adequate nourishment.

Translations

lack of adequate nourishment

Armenian: թերասնում (hy) (tʿerasnum)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 營養不良 (zh), 营养不良 (zh) (yíngyǎng bùliáng)
Czech: podvýživa (cs) f
Danish: fejlernæring c, underernæring c
Dutch: ondervoeding (nl)
Finnish: aliravitsemus (fi), virheravitsemus
French: malnutrition (fr) f
German: Unterernährung (de) f, Mangelernährung (de) f
Greek: υποσιτισμός (el) m (ypositismós)
Hungarian: alultápláltság (hu)

Italian: denutrizione (it) f
Japanese: 栄養失調 (えいようしっちょう, eiyō shitchō)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: underernæring m or f, feilernæring (no) m or f

Nynorsk: underernæring f
Polish: niedożywienie (pl) n
Portuguese: desnutrição (pt) f
Russian: недоеда́ние (ru) n (nedojedánije)
Spanish: desnutrición (es) f
Swedish: undernäring c

French

Etymology

mal- +‎ nutrition

Pronunciation

Audio (file)

Noun

malnutrition f (plural malnutritions)

malnutrition

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