Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: hongersnood
- Amharic: ረሀብ
- Arabic: المجاعة
- Azerbaijani: aclıq
- Bashkir: аслыҡ
- Belarusian: голад
- Bulgarian: глад
- Bengali: দুর্ভিক্ষ
- Bosnian: glad
- Catalan: la fam
- Cebuano: gutom
- Czech: hladomor
- Welsh: newyn
- Danish: hungersnød
- German: Hungersnot
- Greek: πείνα
- Esperanto: malsato
- Spanish: el hambre
- Estonian: näljahäda
- Basque: gosea
- Persian: قحطی
- Finnish: nälänhätä
- French: la famine
- Irish: gorta
- Scottish Gaelic: famine
- Galician: fame
- Gujarati: દુષ્કાળ
- Hebrew: רעב
- Hindi: अकाल
- Croatian: glad
- Haitian: grangou
- Hungarian: éhínség
- Armenian: սով
- Indonesian: kelaparan
- Icelandic: hungursneyð
- Italian: carestia
- Japanese: 飢餓
- Javanese: paceklik
- Georgian: შიმშილობა
- Kazakh: аштық
- Khmer: ទុរ្ភិក្ស
- Kannada: ಬರಗಾಲದ
- Korean: 기근
- Kyrgyz: эле
- Latin: fames
- Luxembourgish: Hongersnout
- Lao: ອຶ
- Lithuanian: badas
- Latvian: bads
- Malagasy: ny mosary
- Mari: шужышо
- Maori: i te hemokai
- Macedonian: глад
- Malayalam: famine
- Mongolian: өлсгөлөн
- Marathi: दुष्काळ
- Hill Mari: шужен
- Malay: kelaparan
- Maltese: - ġuħ
- Burmese: ခေါင်း
- Nepali: अनिकाल
- Dutch: honger
- Norwegian: hungersnød
- Punjabi: ਕਾਲ
- Papiamento: di hamber
- Polish: głód
- Portuguese: fome
- Romanian: foamete
- Russian: голод
- Sinhalese: සාගතය
- Slovak: hladomor
- Slovenian: lakota
- Albanian: uria
- Serbian: глад
- Sundanese: kalaparan
- Swedish: svält
- Swahili: njaa
- Tamil: பஞ்சம்
- Telugu: కరువు
- Tajik: гуруснагӣ
- Thai: ความอดอยาก
- Tagalog: gutom
- Turkish: kıtlık
- Tatar: ачлык
- Udmurt: сютэм улон
- Ukrainian: голод
- Urdu: قحط
- Uzbek: ochlik
- Vietnamese: đói
- Xhosa: indlala
- Yiddish: הונגער
- Chinese: 饥荒
Synonyms, close and similar words for famine
- starvation
- hunger
- dearth
- scarcity
- shortage
- crunch
- lack
- drought
- deficit
- hungry