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
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