Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: swak
- Amharic: ቀጥል
- Arabic: الفقراء
- Azerbaijani: yazıq
- Bashkir: ярлы
- Belarusian: бедны
- Bulgarian: беден
- Bengali: দরিদ্র
- Bosnian: jadni
- Catalan: pobres
- Cebuano: kabus
- Czech: špatná
- Welsh: gwael
- Danish: dårlig
- German: Armen
- Greek: κακή
- Esperanto: malriĉa
- Spanish: pobre
- Estonian: vaene
- Basque: pobrea
- Persian: فقیر
- Finnish: huono
- French: pauvres
- Irish: bocht
- Scottish Gaelic: bochd
- Galician: pobres
- Gujarati: ગરીબ
- Hebrew: המסכן.
- Hindi: गरीब
- Croatian: siromašni
- Haitian: pòv
- Hungarian: szegény
- Armenian: աղքատ
- Indonesian: miskin
- Icelandic: léleg
- Italian: poveri
- Japanese: 貧しい
- Javanese: miskin
- Georgian: ცუდი
- Kazakh: кедей
- Khmer: ក្រីក្រ
- Kannada: ಕಳಪೆ
- Korean: 가난한
- Kyrgyz: бедный
- Latin: pauper
- Luxembourgish: Äerm
- Lao: ທຸກຍາກ
- Lithuanian: prastas
- Latvian: slikts
- Malagasy: mahantra
- Mari: йорло
- Maori: te rawakore
- Macedonian: сиромашните
- Malayalam: പാവം
- Mongolian: ядуу
- Marathi: गरीब
- Hill Mari: нуж
- Malay: miskin
- Maltese: foqra
- Burmese: ဆင်းရဲသောသူ
- Nepali: गरिब
- Dutch: slecht
- Norwegian: dårlig
- Punjabi: ਗਰੀਬ
- Papiamento: pober
- Polish: biedny
- Portuguese: pobres
- Romanian: săraci
- Russian: бедный
- Sinhalese: දුප්පත්
- Slovak: chudobný
- Slovenian: slabo
- Albanian: dobët
- Serbian: сиромашни
- Sundanese: miskin
- Swedish: dålig
- Swahili: maskini
- Tamil: ஏழை
- Telugu: పేద
- Tajik: бедный
- Thai: น่าสงสาร
- Tagalog: mahihirap
- Turkish: zavallı
- Tatar: бедный
- Udmurt: куанер
- Ukrainian: бідний
- Urdu: غریب
- Uzbek: bechora
- Vietnamese: nghèo
- Xhosa: amahlwempu
- Yiddish: נעבעך
- Chinese: 可怜
Synonyms, close and similar words for poor
- the poor
- impoverished
- underprivileged
- poor soul
- poor fellow
- poor creature
- wretch
- poor beggar
- bastard
- unhappy
- squalid
- beggarly
- wretched
- miserable
- terrible
- desolate
- ill
- bad
- needy
- indigent
- deprived
- penniless
- impecunious
- beggar
- begger
- bum
- low
- pathetic
- sorry
- pitiable
- pitiful
- piteous
- weak
- skimpy
- meagre
- feeble
- meager
- scant
- scarce
- scanty
- paltry
- not rich
- unimportant
- cheap
- substandard
- shabby
- threadbare
- insufficient
- deficient
- shoddy
- poor woman
- poor girl
- inferior
- defective
- mediocre
- hapless
- rueful
- pauper
- destitute
- unfortunate
- of modest means
- of poor quality
- lousy
- rotten
- unsatisfactory
- inadequate
- dissatisfactory
- wrong
- crappy
- cheesy
- sleazy
- trashy
- sparing
- stingy
- niggardly
- sparse
- broke
- crummy
- unproductive
- infertile
- lame
- spare
- barren
- slim
- slender
- suboptimal
- short