hungry

The Hebrew, Ge’ez, Latin, and Greek that is translated in English as «hungry» (or: «famished») is translated in a number of ways:

  • Noongar: «without stomach» (koborl-wirt) (source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Kölsch translation (Boch 2017): nix zo Käue han or «have nothing to chew on» and singe Mage hät geknottert wie ne Hungk or «his stomach growled like a dog» (source: Jost Zetzsche)
  • German New Testament translation by Berger / Nord (publ. 1999): Hunger überfiel ihn or «Hunger overtook (lit.: «attacked») him» (in Matthew 4:2)
  • Kupsabiny: «hunger ate him» (source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Mairasi: «feeling tuber pains» (tubers are the main staple) (source Enggavoter 2004)
  • Chechen: «blinded by hunger» (Source: David Clark in The Bible Translator 2015, p. 117ff. )