flămând

Probably ultimately from Latin famelicus, through a Vulgar Latin root *flamenicus, or alternatively from a root *famulentus, from famēs (compare Portuguese famulento), through an intermediate form *flamuentus. A less likely origin is flammabundus. Compare Megleno-Romanian flămund.

• IPA^(key): /flə.ˈmɨnd/

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• Rhymes: -ɨnd
• Hyphenation: flă‧mând

flămând m or n (feminine singular flămândă, masculine plural flămânzi, feminine and neuter plural flămânde)

1. starving, famished, hungry

   Synonym: înfometat

Adjectives meaning “hungry” are less common in Romanian than they are in English, as the usual translation for the English construction “to be hungry” is a îi fi foame (literally “for hunger to be upon someone”).

• foame

• “flămând”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025