Poor

//pʊɚ//

Synonyms for "poor" (524 found)

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Noun(2 words)
Verb(1 words)

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505 translations across 149 languages.

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Afrikaans

4 entries
  • arm adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • arm adj (deficient in a specified way)
  • arme adj (used to express pity)
  • arme noun (Translations)

Aghwan

1 entries
  • 𐕄𐔼𐕎𐕒𐕡𐔸 adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Albanian

4 entries
  • mjerë adj (used to express pity)
  • ngratë adj (used to express pity)
  • varfër adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • bercul noun (the poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society)

Ancient Greek

4 entries
  • πένης adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • πτωχός adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • φαῦλος adj (of low quality)
  • πτωχοί noun (the poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society)

Arabic

4 entries
  • غَلْبَان adj (used to express pity)
  • فقير adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • فقير adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • فَقِير adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Armenian

4 entries
  • աղքատ adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • խեղճ adj (used to express pity)
  • ողորմելի adj (used to express pity)
  • չքավոր adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Aromanian

4 entries
  • aruptu adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • caimen adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • discultsu adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • ftoh adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Asturian

2 entries
  • probe adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • probe adj (used to express pity)

Azerbaijani

4 entries
  • fağır adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • fağır-füqarə adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • füqəra adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • imkansız adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Bashkir

1 entries
  • ярлы adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Basque

1 entries
  • behartsu adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Belarusian

1 entries
  • бе́дны adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Bengali

4 entries
  • গরীব adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • দরিদ্র adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • বেচারা adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • মিসকিন adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Bhojpuri

1 entries
  • गरीब adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Bikol Central

2 entries
  • mahidap adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • pobre adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Breton

2 entries
  • paour adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • peorien noun (the poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society)

Bulgarian

4 entries
  • бе́ден adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • бе́ден adj (deficient in a specified way)
  • жалък adj (used to express pity)
  • жалък adj (inadequate, insufficient)

Burmese

1 entries
  • ဆင်းရဲ adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Catalan

4 entries
  • pobre adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • pobre adj (of low quality)
  • pobre adj (used to express pity)
  • pobres noun (the poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society)

Central Kurdish

4 entries
  • بێ قیمەت adj (of low quality)
  • خەراپ adj (of low quality)
  • دەست کورت adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • فەقیر adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Chamicuro

1 entries
  • pople adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Chinese Cantonese

1 entries
  • 窮 /穷 adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries
  • 不足 adj (inadequate, insufficient)
  • 可憐 /可怜 adj (used to express pity)
  • 窮 /穷 adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • 窮困 /穷困 adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Czech

4 entries
  • chudý adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • nebohý adj (used to express pity)
  • nevalný adj (of low quality)
  • chudí noun (the poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society)

Dalmatian

1 entries
  • pauper adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Danish

4 entries
  • fattig adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • stakkels adj (used to express pity)
  • fattige noun (the poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society)
  • fattigfolk noun (the poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society)

Dutch

4 entries
  • arm adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • arm adj (used to express pity)
  • arme adj (used to express pity)
  • armoedig adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Eastern Min Chinese

1 entries
  • 窮 /穷 adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Elfdalian

1 entries
  • fattin adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Emilian

1 entries
  • pôver adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Esperanto

3 entries
  • bedaŭrinda adj (used to express pity)
  • kompatinda adj (used to express pity)
  • malriĉa adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Estonian

1 entries
  • vaene adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Faroese

1 entries
  • fátækur adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Finnish

4 entries
  • heikkolaatuinen adj (of low quality)
  • huono adj (of low quality)
  • kehno adj (of low quality)
  • köyhä adj (with few or no possessions or money)

French

4 entries
  • pauvre adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • pauvre adj (used to express pity)
  • pitoyable adj (used to express pity)
  • piètre adj (of low quality)

Friulian

2 entries
  • puar adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • pùar adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Galician

4 entries
  • pobre adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • pobre adj (of low quality)
  • pobre adj (used to express pity)
  • pobres noun (the poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society)

Georgian

2 entries
  • საწყალი adj (used to express pity)
  • ღარიბი adj (with few or no possessions or money)

German

4 entries
  • arm adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • arm adj (used to express pity)
  • armselig adj (of low quality)
  • àrm adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Gothic

2 entries
  • 𐌰𐍂𐌼𐍃 adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • 𐌿𐌽𐌻𐌴𐌸𐍃 adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Greek

4 entries
  • καημένος adj (used to express pity)
  • κακομοίρης adj (used to express pity)
  • ταλαίπωρος adj (used to express pity)
  • φτωχός adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Greenlandic

1 entries
  • piitsoq adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Gujarati

3 entries
  • ગરીબ adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • બિચારું adj (used to express pity)
  • રાંકું adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Hawaiian

2 entries
  • hoʻohune adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • hoʻoʻilihune adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Hebrew

4 entries
  • אומלל \ אֻמְלַל adj (used to express pity)
  • דלת העם adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • מִסְכֵּן adj (used to express pity)
  • עָנִי adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Hindi

4 entries
  • गरीब adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • ग़रीब adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • दीन adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • फकीर adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Hittite

1 entries
  • 𒀀𒅆𒉿𒀭𒍝 adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Hungarian

4 entries
  • alázatos adj (free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant)
  • gyatra adj (of low quality)
  • lelki/lélekben szegény adj (free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant)
  • silány adj (of low quality)

Icelandic

1 entries
  • fátækur adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Ido

2 entries
  • nebona adj (of low quality)
  • povra adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Indonesian

3 entries
  • buruk adj (of low quality)
  • malang adj (used to express pity)
  • miskin adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Ingrian

1 entries
  • poloin adj (used to express pity)

Ingush

2 entries
  • къе adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • миска adj (used to express pity)

Interlingua

2 entries
  • povre adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • povre adj (used to express pity)

Irish

4 entries
  • bocht adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • bocht adj (of low quality)
  • bocht adj (used to express pity)
  • daibhir adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Italian

4 entries
  • misero adj (of low quality)
  • povero adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • povero adj (used to express pity)
  • poveri noun (the poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society)

Japanese

4 entries
  • かわいそうな adj (used to express pity)
  • 下手な adj (of low quality)
  • 劣る adj (of low quality)
  • 哀れな adj (used to express pity)

Javanese

1 entries
  • mlarat adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Kazakh

2 entries
  • жарлы adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • кедей adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Khiamniungan Naga

2 entries
  • āngtsō adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • ūmhìe adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Khmer

1 entries
  • ក្រ adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Korean

2 entries
  • 가난하다 adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • 빈곤하다 adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Kumyk

1 entries
  • пакъыр adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Kyrgyz

2 entries
  • жарды adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • кедей adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Ladin

1 entries
  • puere adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Ladino

1 entries
  • prove adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Lao

2 entries
  • ຈົນ adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • ທຸກຈົນ adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Latin

4 entries
  • egens adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • miser adj (used to express pity)
  • pauper adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • pauperēs noun (the poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society)

Latvian

2 entries
  • nabags adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • nabags adj (used to express pity)

Ligurian

2 entries
  • poveru adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • pöveo adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Limburgish

1 entries
  • erm adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Lithuanian

2 entries
  • skurdus adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • vargingas adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Livonian

1 entries
  • joutõm adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Lombard

2 entries
  • por adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • pover adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Lower Sorbian

1 entries
  • chudy adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Luxembourgish

4 entries
  • aarm adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • aarm adj (used to express pity)
  • aarmséileg adj (of low quality)
  • Aarm noun (the poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society)

1 entries
  • ᦷᦑᧅᦕᦱᧃ adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Macedonian

2 entries
  • лош adj (of low quality)
  • сиромашен adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Malay

2 entries
  • miskin adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • teruk adj (of low quality)

Maltese

1 entries
  • fqir adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Maranao

1 entries
  • miskin adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Marathi

3 entries
  • गरीब adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • दीन adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • गरीब noun (the poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society)

Mirandese

1 entries
  • probe adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Mizo

1 entries
  • rethei adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Mongolian

1 entries
  • ядуу adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Māori

1 entries
  • pōhara adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Navajo

1 entries
  • doo atʼį́į da adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Ngazidja Comorian

1 entries
  • mafukara noun (the poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society)

Norman

3 entries
  • pauvre adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • pauvre adj (used to express pity)
  • pouôrre adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Northern Kurdish

2 entries
  • feqîr adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • xizan adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Northern Sami

1 entries
  • geafi adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Norwegian

3 entries
  • dårlig adj (of low quality)
  • elendig adj (of low quality)
  • stakkars adj (used to express pity)

Norwegian Bokmål

2 entries
  • blakk adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • fattig adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Occitan

1 entries
  • paure adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Old English

3 entries
  • earm adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • earm adj (of low quality)
  • earm adj (used to express pity)

Old Slovak

1 entries
  • holota noun (the poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society)

Ottoman Turkish

4 entries
  • فقیر adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • فقیر adj (used to express pity)
  • یوقسول adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • درویش noun (the poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society)

Pashto

3 entries
  • بېچاره adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • غريب adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • فقير adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Pennsylvania German

2 entries
  • aarem adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • arm adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Persian

4 entries
  • بدبخت adj (used to express pity)
  • بیچاره adj (used to express pity)
  • ضعیف adj (of low quality)
  • طفلک adj (used to express pity)

Piedmontese

1 entries
  • pòver adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Plautdietsch

2 entries
  • oam adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • Oame noun (the poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society)

Polish

4 entries
  • biedny adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • biedny adj (used to express pity)
  • nędzny adj (of low quality)
  • ubogi adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Portuguese

4 entries
  • coitado adj (used to express pity)
  • empobrecido adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • fraco adj (of low quality)
  • humilde adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Quechua

1 entries
  • wakcha adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Romani

1 entries
  • ćorro adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Romanian

4 entries
  • amărât adj (used to express pity)
  • biet adj (used to express pity)
  • mizer adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • nevoiaș adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Romansch

2 entries
  • pauper adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • pover adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Russian

4 entries
  • бе́дный adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • бе́дный adj (used to express pity)
  • вызыва́ющий жа́лость adj (used to express pity)
  • жа́лкий adj (used to express pity)

Sanskrit

2 entries
  • दीन adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • ध्रिगु adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Sardinian

3 entries
  • poaru adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • pobaru adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • poberu adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Scots

1 entries
  • puir adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Scottish Gaelic

4 entries
  • bochd adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • bochd adj (of low quality)
  • truagh adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • truagh adj (used to express pity)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries
  • bijȇdan adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • bȇdan adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • siròmašan adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • ȕbog adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Sicilian

4 entries
  • povru adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • pòviru adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • pòvuru adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • mischini noun (the poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society)

Slovak

2 entries
  • biedny adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • chudobný adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Slovene

3 entries
  • reven adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • slàb adj (of low quality)
  • ubog adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Somali

1 entries
  • sabool adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Southern Altai

3 entries
  • бакыр adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • јоксус adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • јокту adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Spanish

4 entries
  • cutre adj (of low quality)
  • mishio adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • misio adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • pobre adj (of low quality)

Swahili

3 entries
  • maskini adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • maskini adj (used to express pity)
  • maskini noun (the poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society)

Swedish

4 entries
  • dålig adj (of low quality)
  • eländig adj (of low quality)
  • fattig adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • miserabel adj (of low quality)

Tagalog

3 entries
  • dukha adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • mahirap adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • maralita adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Tajik

3 entries
  • бечора adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • камбағал adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • фақир adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Tamil

4 entries
  • ஏழை adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • ஏழ்மையான adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • பாவம் adj (used to express pity)
  • வறுமையான adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Tatar

2 entries
  • фәкыйрь adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • ярлы adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Telugu

4 entries
  • నాసి adj (of low quality)
  • నాసి రకం adj (of low quality)
  • పాపం adj (used to express pity)
  • పేద adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Thai

2 entries
  • จน adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • ยากจน adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Tibetan

1 entries
  • སྐྱོ་པོ adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Tocharian B

1 entries
  • snaitstse adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Turkish

4 entries
  • az adj (inadequate, insufficient)
  • berbat adj (of low quality)
  • fakir adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • fukara adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Turkmen

2 entries
  • biçäre adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • garyp adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Udi

1 entries
  • касиб adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Udmurt

1 entries
  • куанер adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Ugaritic

1 entries
  • 𐎀𐎁𐎊𐎐 adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Ukrainian

4 entries
  • бі́дний adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • бі́дний adj (used to express pity)
  • жалюгі́дний adj (used to express pity)
  • пога́ний adj (of low quality)

Unami

1 entries
  • tashuku adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Upper Sorbian

1 entries
  • chudy adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Urdu

2 entries
  • دین adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • غریب adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Uyghur

3 entries
  • بىچارە adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • كەمبەغەل adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • پېقىر adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Uzbek

4 entries
  • bechora adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • faqir adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • gʻarib adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • kambagʻal adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Venetan

4 entries
  • poaro adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • pore adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • poro adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • povaro adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Vietnamese

4 entries
  • khó adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • nghèo adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • tội adj (used to express pity)
  • tội nghiệp adj (used to express pity)

Volapük

1 entries
  • pöfik adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Walloon

4 entries
  • fayé adj (of low quality)
  • målureus adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • målureus adj (used to express pity)
  • pitieus adj (used to express pity)

Welsh

3 entries
  • llwm adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • tlawd adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • truenus adj (used to express pity)

West-Frisian

2 entries
  • earm adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • earm adj (used to express pity)

White Hmong

1 entries
  • kob huam adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Yiddish

4 entries
  • אָרעם adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • בדלות adj (with few or no possessions or money)
  • בידנע adj (used to express pity)
  • דלותדיק adj (with few or no possessions or money)

Sample sentences

44 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Poor is not the one who has too little, but the one who wants too much.

Source: tatoeba (1583)

Blindness is responsible for a staggering toll of poor health, suffering, and loss of dignity and diminution in the quality of lives of people worldwide.

Source: tatoeba (1904)

Your poor memory is due to poor listening habits.

Source: tatoeba (17274)

The rich have trouble as well as the poor.

Source: tatoeba (18511)

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.