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, figurative) to desire strongly, to hunger [with 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-West Germanic *hungr, from Proto-Germanic *hungruz.

honger m (uncountable)

1. hunger

   Mijn buik rammelt van de honger. ― My stomach is growling of hunger.

• 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. inflection of hongeren:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

From Old Dutch hunger, from Proto-West Germanic *hungr.

honger m

1. hunger
2. famine

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

See onger.

honger m

1. alternative form of onger

• “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

• hunger (Mooring)
• Hunger (Sylt)

from Old Frisian hunger, from Proto-West Germanic *hungr, from Proto-Germanic *hungruz.

honger m

1. (Föhr-Amrum) hunger