Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: armoede
- Amharic: ድህነት
- Arabic: الفقر
- Azerbaijani: yoxsulluq
- Bashkir: ярлылыҡ
- Belarusian: галеча
- Bulgarian: мизерия
- Bengali: দারিদ্র্য
- Bosnian: siromaštva
- Catalan: la pobresa
- Cebuano: kakabus
- Czech: chudoba
- Welsh: tlodi
- Danish: fattigdom
- German: Armut
- Greek: φτώχεια
- Esperanto: malriĉeco
- Spanish: la pobreza
- Estonian: vaesus
- Basque: pobrezia
- Persian: فقر
- Finnish: köyhyys
- French: la pauvreté
- Irish: bochtaineacht
- Scottish Gaelic: bochdainn
- Galician: a pobreza
- Gujarati: ગરીબી
- Hebrew: עוני
- Hindi: गरीबी
- Croatian: siromaštvo
- Haitian: povrete
- Hungarian: szegénység
- Armenian: աղքատությունը
- Indonesian: kemiskinan
- Icelandic: fátækt
- Italian: la povertà
- Japanese: 貧困
- Javanese: mlarat
- Georgian: სიღარიბის
- Kazakh: қайыршылық
- Khmer: ក្រីក្រ
- Kannada: ಬಡತನ
- Korean: 빈곤
- Kyrgyz: нищета
- Latin: egestas
- Luxembourgish: Däitsch
- Lao: ທຸກຍາກ
- Lithuanian: skurdas
- Latvian: nabadzība
- Malagasy: ny fahantrana
- Mari: кӱчызылык
- Maori: te rawakore
- Macedonian: сиромаштијата
- Malayalam: ദാരിദ്ര്യം
- Mongolian: ядуурлын
- Marathi: गरिबी
- Hill Mari: чӹдӹрӓк
- Malay: kemiskinan
- Maltese: l-faqar
- Burmese: ဆင်းရဲနွမ်း
- Nepali: गरिबी
- Dutch: armoede
- Norwegian: fattigdom
- Punjabi: ਗਰੀਬੀ
- Papiamento: di pobresa
- Polish: bieda
- Portuguese: a pobreza
- Romanian: sărăcia
- Russian: нищета
- Sinhalese: දුප්පත්කම
- Slovak: chudoba
- Slovenian: revščine
- Albanian: varfëria
- Serbian: сиромаштво
- Sundanese: kamiskinan
- Swedish: fattigdom
- Swahili: umaskini
- Tamil: வறுமை
- Telugu: పేదరికం
- Tajik: бадбахт
- Thai: ความยากจ
- Tagalog: kahirapan
- Turkish: yoksulluk
- Tatar: хәерчелек
- Udmurt: куанер улон
- Ukrainian: злидні
- Urdu: غربت
- Uzbek: kambag'allik
- Vietnamese: nghèo đói
- Xhosa: intlupheko
- Yiddish: אָרעמקייַט
- Chinese: 贫穷
Synonyms, close and similar words for poverty
- squalor
- misery
- beggary
- penury
- pauperism
- destitution
- impoverishment
- poorness
- wretchedness
- scarcity
- paucity
- scantiness
- meagreness
- dearth
- lack
- shortage
- indigence
- need
- necessity
- neediness
- want